WHITEPAPER
Using the
Open Toolkit plug-in
for FrameMaker
With the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) emerging as the de facto stan-
dard for creating topic-based content, Adobe® FrameMaker® 9 provides extensive support
for authoring DITA content. In addition, you can use the DITA Open Toolkit with
FrameMaker to obtain deliverable outputs. This document describes how to use the DITA
Open Toolkit with FrameMaker 9.
You are expected to know how to use DITA in FrameMaker. For information on installing
DITA Open Toolkit, see “
Appendix 1: Installing the DITA Open Toolkit
” on page 9, and
“
Appendix 2: Installing the Open Toolkit plug-in for FrameMaker
” on page 13.
Overview of DITA Open Toolkit
DITA Open Toolkit is a set of software tools, originally developed by IBM®, for publishing
DITA to various formats, including HTML, Microsoft HTML Help (.CHM) and Java™
Help. If your content conforms to the DITA structure, you can use the DITA Open Toolkit
to generate a wide variety of outputs.
The DITA Open Toolkit—an Open Source tool chain for multichannel publishing
DITA Open Toolkit is available for free distribution on the Organization for the Advance-
ment of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) website at
http://www.oasis-open.org/
committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=dita
. OASIS maintains the DITA specification.
Working with the Open Toolkit plug-in for FrameMaker
The Open Toolkit plug-in for FrameMaker lets you manage publishing through the
FrameMaker user interface. The plug-in provides a DITA menu for publishing multiple
outputs through the DITA Open Toolkit, using the default options or your customized
builds.
HTML
Compiled Help
Java Help
XML conforming to
DITA Structure
DITA Open
ToolKit
XML
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1
Overview of DITA Open Toolkit
1
Working with the Open Toolkit plug-in for
FrameMaker
3
Advanced features
9
Appendix 1: Installing the DITA Open Toolkit
13 Appendix 2: Installing the Open Toolkit plug-
in for FrameMaker
14 Next steps
14 Resources
