DITA Open Toolkit Training: Recorded Webinar Series - Making it Work for You
Suite Solutions is now offering a series of recorded training webinars on working with the DITA Open Source Toolkit. This series, recorded during our live public webinar, is geared for those who are familiar with DITA and need to go the next step to publish their DITA content into production-ready high-quality PDF or online Help using their own look and feel and meeting their own publishing and localization requirements.
The webinars were given by experienced consultants who have slogged through the trenches on real projects. They are intensive, technical and useful with real examples.
The webinars are appropriate for all levels of familiarity, from beginner to advanced user. Please note the technical prerequisite:
Participants should already be familiar with DITA and XML.
Each webinar is about 60 minutes. You may choose to view any number or combination of webinars. Contact Us for instructions on how to view the webinars.
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: $40, Presented By: Adena Frazer
Presented on: June 23, 2010 Duration: 60 min Contact UsOverview 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: $40, Presented By: Adena Frazer
Presented on: June 30, 2010 Duration: 60 min Contact UsUnderstanding 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: $40, Presented By: Adena Frazer
Presented on: July 6, 2010 Duration: 60 min Contact UsUnderstanding 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: $40, Presented By: Adena Frazer
Presented on: July 7, 2010 Duration: 60 min Contact UsMoving 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
Strategies for Using Metadata
Understand strategies for using metadata to customize cover pages, headers/footers and more
Cost: $40, Presented By: Reuven Weiser
Presented on: July 14, 2010 Duration: 60 min Contact UsCustomizing 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: Aliza Merzel
Presented on: July 21, 2010 Duration: 60 min Contact UsDeveloping 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: Adena Frazer
Understanding the File Process of the DITA Open Toolkit
Gain a good understanding of the different stages of processing starting from preprocessing 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: Aryeh Sanders
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: Leora Betesh
Presented on: Aug 3, 2010 Duration: 60 min Contact UsOverview of Dost.jar and FO.jar
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
Optimizing your Toolkit Customizations: 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
Presented on: Aug 10, 2010 Duration: 60 min Contact UsImplementing 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
Presented on: Aug 11, 2010 Duration: 60 min Contact UsAdvanced XPath
Achieve more complex customizations by understanding more advanced experience with XPath
Cost: $40, Presented By: Reuven Weiser
Presented on: Aug 17, 2010 Duration: 60 min Contact UsLocalizing 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
Presented on: Aug 18, 2010 Duration: 60 min Contact UsLocalizing 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: Aliza Merzel
Presented on: Aug 24, 2010 Duration: 60 min Contact UsIntroduction 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
|
