XMetaL and DITA in the Marketing Department: Tastes Great, Less Filling
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Some say XML doesn't belong in Marketing, where design trumps structure every time. Follow along as our own JustSytems Marketing group adopts DITA to save time and money in the creation, editing and publishing of XMetaL product data sheets. We discuss the challenges faced, along with a detailed look at how we modified the DITA Open Toolkit to match the previous InDesign-produced PDFs. A recording of this presentation is available at http://tinyurl.com/29qxzuv . This presentation is part of the free "XMetaL in 37 Minutes" webinar series. For upcoming webinars, see http://na.justsystems.com/webinars.php .
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XMetaL and DITA in the Marketing Department: Tastes Great, Less Filling
- 1. XMetaL and DITA in the Marketing Department tastes great, less filling 1 © 2010 JustSystems Inc.
- 2. Challenge Publishing product data sheets • Previously: Word + InDesign • Cost: $20,000/year • 9 SKUs x 2 updates/year x $1100/update • Average turnaround: 5 days Slow and expensive 2 © 2010 JustSystems Inc.
- 3. Solution • maintain product data sheets using DITA, XMetaL and SubVersion • publish data sheets using the DITA Open Toolkit (DITA OT) • save money! save time! Yay! we're done! 3 © 2010 JustSystems Inc.
- 4. But... 4 © 2010 JustSystems Inc.
- 5. And… 5 © 2010 JustSystems Inc.
- 6. Marking up the document • DITA map • title page • callouts • company info 6 © 2010 JustSystems Inc.
- 7. DITA Open Toolkit challenges • page layouts • callout text • company info • 2-column layout, *most* of the time… • font treatment 7 © 2010 JustSystems Inc.
- 8. DITA OT Anatomy • PDF output has a specific customization architecture • catalog file • XSL template overrides • XSL attribute sets overrides • Fonts, background images • Locale files for multi-language support 8 © 2010 JustSystems Inc.
- 9. Page layouts • title page • inner pages • last page Configured via layout-masters.xml 9 © 2010 JustSystems Inc.
- 10. FO sprites are your friend • XSL:FO does not support background images on the page level • use CSS sprites technique on page regions • 1 background image per page-master • Bonus: Marketing can tweak the design without using XSL NB: no gaps between page regions! 10 © 2010 JustSystems Inc.
- 11. Title, tagline, summary • Override main topic template • create fo:markers from title, abstract • Display markers in the region-before (header) 11 © 2010 JustSystems Inc.
- 12. Callout text • <lq>, <cite> elements mark up the callout • Override default template to create an fo:marker • Display marker contents in the region- start 12 © 2010 JustSystems Inc.
- 13. 2-column to 1-column layout • Default layout is 2- column • Tables need to be in a 1-column layout • Makes use of XEP’s @span extension • To use @span, must be a child of the flow 13 © 2010 JustSystems Inc.
- 14. Company Info • A topic in the DITA map • Use of @outputclass • Override default processing to create an fo:marker • Display marker contents in the start region 14 © 2010 JustSystems Inc.
- 15. Fonts • Goal: make use of standard Windows fonts • xsl:fo attribute-sets are similar to CSS • Make use of: – font-family, font-style, font-variant – font-size, font-weight, – font-stretch, letter-spacing 15 © 2010 JustSystems Inc.
- 16. Let’s compare… ~ ~ 16 © 2010 JustSystems Inc.
- 17. Takeaways • simple markup to start, specialize later • use xsl:fo sprites; no slicing, users can update design tweaks • use page regions, fo:markers to address layout challenges • @span support in XEP allows (limited) column- switching 17 © 2010 JustSystems Inc.
- 18. Summary • Marketing can self-publish in minutes vs. days • Cost: 3 days XSL development + 1 day content migration • 100% ROI if updates are 4x more frequent than design changes Next steps: • 6 of the SKUs in XMetaL, rest to come • More re-use across SKUs • A4 variant for EMEA 18 © 2010 JustSystems Inc.
- 19. Thank you Questions? chris.johnson@justsystems.com 19 © 2010 JustSystems Inc.