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<p class=MsoNormal>Kevin Brown at RenderX asked me to post this solution, also
posted to DITA-USERS at Yahoo.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>My company uses oXygen and the DITA-OT to produce
documentation in XHTML and PDF. We're starting to use Flash on the XHTML side.
One of the content producers I work with asked if we could use Flash in PDF,
which seemed reasonable, since PDF supports Flash. The DITA-OT, however, was
having none of it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I spoke with Radu Coravu at SyncRO Soft (oXygen,
oxygenxml.com) about this, and he came up with a neat solution. Here is his
message, followed by some additional tweaking I did.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>---------------<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Oxygen uses the DITA Open Toolkit to process DITA Maps and Topics
to different output formats.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>You are using an older version of Oxygen which is bundled
with DITA OT 1.4.3. [EDIT: I had replaced that version with 1.5, but Radu
didn't know that. -DG] This older version of Oxygen also has the particularity
that the topic to PDF transformation is not performed using the DITA OT ANT
scripts but by applying a stylesheet. So for example if in your topic you have
content references they will not show up correctly if the topic gets
transformed directly to PDF. But if you transform a DITA Map in the DITA Maps
Manager view which links to this topic, the output should be correct.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>But from what I see (not even in the newest DITA OT version)
the DITA to PDF output does not treat <object> elements at all when
building the FO file.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>For example open in Oxygen the following file:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR/frameworks/dita/DITA-OT/demo/fo/xsl/fo/commons.xsl<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>It has a template which matches objects:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><xsl:template match="*[contains(@class,'
topic/object ')]"> <fo:inline xsl:use-attribute-sets="object"
id="{@id}"> </fo:inline> </xsl:template><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>but which does not output anything from them. You can try
changing this template to something like:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><xsl:template match="*[contains(@class,'
topic/object ')]"> <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="object"
id="{@id}"> <rx:media-object
xmlns:rx="http://www.renderx.com/XSL/Extensions"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
src="{@data}"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
embed="true"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
content-width="{@width}px"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
content-height="{@height}px"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
content-type="auto"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> show-controls="true"/><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal></fo:block><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal></xsl:template><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The transformation should then produce a FO output which
contains the extension object specified correctly.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Radu Coravu<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and
XSLT Editor/Debugger<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>http://www.oxygenxml.com<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>---------------<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I made that change ran the transformation through XEP to
produce a PDF. It worked perfectly.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Here is the code I used in the XML source file:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
data="url(file:///c:\pdf2\movie1.swf)"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
height="800"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
width="1000"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
id="movie1"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
<desc>A description of the task</desc><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <param
name="movie" value="c:\pdf2\movie1.swf"/><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <param
name="quality" value="high"/><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <param
name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"/><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> </object><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The problem I found was that the Flash content dimensions
the content producers preferred for the Web were too wide for our default PDF
pages. I added attributes to the <object> element ("pdfheight"
and "pdfwidth") in commonelementsmod.xsd and commonelements.mod, and
changed Radu's code in commons.xsl to output those values instead of the regular
height and width values. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> content-width="{@pdfwidth}px"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> content-height="{@pdfheight}px"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I added these attributes to the <object> element
above:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> pdfheight="650"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> pdfwidth="800"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>That worked perfectly, too. The DITA source files validate
correctly in oXygen and ANT, and the FO file that is produced works seamlessly
with XEP.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I suspect a more elegant solution would be to scale the
height and width values in the XSLT, and I'll probably try that next. Ideas and
feedback welcome, of course.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The PDFs look beautiful through XEP, and the multimedia
elements (screen shots with mouseovers, mostly) are getting raves from everyone
who sees them.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>-Dave Gibbons<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Fiserv<span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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