DITA Open Toolkit Training: Webinar Series - Making it Work for You

Are you looking to get acquainted with DITA and structured authoring and all they have to offer? Learn the nuts and bolts of how to use the DITA Open Toolkit to transform your XML content to an array of output formats. Learn how to build your own style sheets for PDF, HTML, and others. Find out how to deal with challenging transform pitfalls, enable localization, implement specializations, and more.

The webinars include overviews, training information, real-life examples, and sample files that you can take with you. The webinars in the series focus on clearly defined topics so you can choose the sessions that best match your needs.

Each webinar is about 1 hour. You may participate in any number or combination of webinars.

Registration : To register or for more information: register@suite-sol.com

June 22, 2010
2:00p.m. EDT

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Overview of the DITA Open Toolkit (Beginner Level)

Understand the Toolkit architecture, how to run the Toolkit to generate different outputs, how to customize processing using ANT, how to filter output using DITAVAL
Cost: FREE, Presented By: Adena Frazer

June 23, 2010
2:00p.m. EDT

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Overview of XSL, XPath and XSL-FO (Beginner Level)

Gain a good understanding of the basic standards that form the foundation of DITA publishing and customization of your outputs.
Cost: FREE, Presented By: Adena Frazer

June 30, 2010
2:00p.m. EDT

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Understanding and Configuring the FO Plug-in for Generating PDF Files: Part I (Beginner Level)

Understand the basics of PDF generation via the DITA-OT, a closer look at XSL-FO, the FO plug-in architecture and file structure, and basics of customizing the FO plug-in
Cost: FREE, Presented By: Adena Frazer

July 6, 2010
2:00p.m. EDT

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Understanding and Configuring the FO Plug-in for Generating PDF Files: Part II (Beginner Level)

Understand basic PDF style sheet configuration issues; learn how to customize templates, attribute sets, document body, tables, lists and related links; learn how to configure the FO plug-in to use Antenna House and RenderX
Cost: FREE, Presented By: Adena Frazer

July 7, 2010
2:00p.m. EDT

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Moving ahead with XSL-FO Style Sheet Customizations

Learn how to implement index, glossary, multiple levels of table of contents numbering, bookmarks, changing page orientation, and more
Cost: $40, Presented By: Adena Frazer

July 13, 2010
2:00p.m. EDT

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Strategies for Using Metadata

Understand strategies for using metadata to customize cover pages, headers/footers and more
Cost: $40, Presented By: Reuven Weiser

July 14, 2010
2:00p.m. EDT

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Customizing Style Sheets for HTML outputs

Review the HTML outputs that are supported by the DITA Toolkit, understand basic HTML style sheet customization issues including CSS; understand how context sensitivity can be implemented
Cost: $40, Presented By: Adena Frazer

July 21, 2010
2:00p.m. EDT

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Developing Plug-ins and Working with FO plug-in Extension Points

Learn how to develop and deploy your toolkit customizations using plug-ins following best practices; learn how to take advantage of the new FO plug-in extension point capabilities
Cost: $40, Presented By: Aryeh Sanders

July 27, 2010
2:00p.m. EDT

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Understanding the File Process of the DITA Open Toolkit

Gain a good understanding of the different stages of processing starting with topicmerge all the way to the final PDF or HTML output. Gaining a good foundation in this is crucial to understanding where to make customizations to achieve your formatting goals
Cost: $40, Presented By: Adena Frazer

July 28, 2010
2:00p.m. EDT

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Methods of Error Handling and Debugging DITA Open Toolkit Processing

Learn strategies of how to debug the DITA-OT using xsl:message, xsl:comment, dummy labels; gain insight into interpreting error messages; review common errors and mistakes
Cost: $40, Presented By: Adena Frazer

Aug 3, 2010
2:00p.m. EDT

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Overview of Dost.jar and How to Customize It

Dive into the workings of the dost.jar; learn what processing functions are included in this component of the Toolkit and how you can go about customizing them
Cost: $60, Presented By: Aryeh Sanders

Aug 4, 2010
2:00p.m. EDT

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Optimizing the DITA Open Toolkit: Speeding up Your Processing

Benefit from expert experience on how to optimize DITA Toolkit performance using memory settings, code optimization, processing short cuts and other methods.
Cost: $60, Presented By: Aryeh Sanders

Aug 10, 2010
2:00p.m. EDT

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Implementing Change Tracking and Flagging

Learn how to display change tracking in your output based on markup inserted by common authoring tools; learn how to flag conditional text in HTML and PDF based on DITAVAL files.
Cost: $40, Presented By: Aliza Merzel

Aug 11, 2010
2:00p.m. EDT

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Advanced XPath

Achieve more complex customizations by understanding more advanced experience with XPath
Cost: $40, Presented By: Adena Frazer

Aug 17, 2010
2:00p.m. EDT

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Localizing XSL-FO Style Sheets for PDF

Learn how to set up your XSL-FO style sheets to support localized content; review challenges and strategies for languages such as Far Eastern languages, Arabic/Hebrew, Russian and other languages
Cost: $60, Presented By: Reuven Weiser

Aug 18, 2010
2:00p.m. EDT

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Localizing Style Sheets for HTML Outputs

Learn how to set up your style sheets for HTML-based outputs to support localized content; review challenges and strategies for languages such as Far Eastern languages, Arabic/Hebrew, Russian and other languages
Cost: $60, Presented By: Adena Frazer

Aug 24, 2010
2:00p.m. EDT

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Introduction to Eclipse Infocenter

Discover the potential for using Eclipse Infocenter as a powerful, customizable open-source platform for content delivery
Cost: $40, Presented By: Aliza Merzel and Joe Gelb

Aug 25, 2010
2:00p.m. EDT

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Tour of DITA-OT 1.5

Learn about the many important changes with DITA OT version 1.5.1 that you can take advantage of in addition to DITA 1.2 support
Cost: $40, Presented By: Aryeh Sanders

Aug 26, 2010
2:00p.m. EDT

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Improving Graphic Quality for PDF and Strategies for Using SVG

Review strategies for improving the overall graphic quality for your PDF output; learn how you can use SVG and discuss implications the SVG has on style sheet implementation
Cost: $60, Presented By: Aryeh Sanders

To be announced
2:00p.m. EDT

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XSL-FO versus CSS3

Review the differences between XSL-FO and CSS3 for PDF output as well as the advantages and disadvantages of each
Cost: $40, Presented By: To be announced

To be announced
2:00p.m. EDT

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Implementing the DITA Toolkit with FrameMaker

Cost: $40, Presented By: Leigh White

To be announced
2:00p.m. EDT

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Getting MS Word Output from the DITA Toolkit

Cost: $40, Presented By: Aliza Merzel

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