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DITA-OT: Scaling Images in PDF Output

When generating PDF output via the DITA Open Toolkit, users often stumble over image scaling issues. While smaller graphics are typically rendered without problems, large images may extend beyond the page dimensions, throw errors in the log file or not appear at all. So we need a way to downscale larger images. There are basically [...]

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Snow Leopard Services: Set ZIP File Date

One of the more popular posts on this site is an entry from October of 2007 on creating a ZIP archive and setting the modification date via an Automator workflow. As I wrote then: “…when you’re archiving older data, it’s much more useful for the ZIP file date to reflect the date of its contents, [...]

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PDF2: Removing Page Numbers from Cross References and Customizing Cover Pages

Dan Ochs of Wrycan Inc. has posted several nice tutorials on customizing the output produced by the DITA Open Toolkit PDF2 Plugin: one covers removing page numbers from cross references, and another explains how to modify PDF2 cover pages to include a company logo. Nice job Dan!

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