SOPERA’s Customized DITA OT Project
Publish Documentation without Proprietary DTP Software
The DITA Open Toolkit, can create and transform DITA XML files into various useful, readable text formats. It’s been around for a while, but as you may know, it’s a lot of work to customize and efficiently use this toolkit. We’d like to announce our customized version of the toolkit: the SOPERA DITA Framework for processing and publishing user documentation. It’s a really nifty little framework that generates neat PDFs, Eclipse Helps, and HTML files from DITA maps and topic files without recourse to any commercial, proprietary DTP software applications. That’s right, for free!
Try it, Test it and Send us Feedback
Go ahead and try it out if you want to by checking it out of googlecode from here: sopera-dita-framework. Before you start, please do read the readme.txt file and the accompanying project wiki pages. Granted the content is sparse but we’ve busy been trying, testing and playing with our framework so that we’ve fallen behind in documenting its usage and utility but we’re working on it. We’d also appreciate your feedback.