Re: [doc] DITA files PDF output

For anyone who is inclined to fiddle, can you include some basic 
instructions on how to produce a pdf, let's say for just the Getting 
Started guide, using saxon and the default DITA xslt stylesheets as a 
starting point? Are these style sheets included in any of the downloads 
from http://incubator.apache.org/derby/manuals?  Also, maybe it would 
help to post a pdf that exhibits the issues you and Scott discussed.

-jean


Jeff Levitt wrote:

> Another issue I was hoping to discuss is the PDF
> output of the DITA files.  Scott Hutinger and I spent
> some time using saxon and fop to create pdf's from the
> dita, and we found that some of the issues we are
> having with it can be worked around (for example, a
> solution Scott found for the lack of a generated
> index), but also some that we need more knowledge of
> XSL to fix.  For example, when one page links to
> another page, the link doesnt show the title of the
> new page, it instead displays an id for the page,
> which is jibberish.  Is there anyone out there that
> knows XSL enough to be able to modify the DITA XSL
> files so that they display information correctly? 
> There are currently three books available on the Derby
> Manuals page that are already in DITA, so if anyone
> wants to work with them, they are already available.
>