DITA Open Toolkit

Understand what the DITA Open Toolkit is, and how you can generate output using DITA Open Toolkit in FrameMaker.

The DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) is a set of Java-based, open source tools that provide processing for DITA maps and topic content. FrameMaker has out-of-the-box support for DITA Open Toolkit 3.3 (default), 3.0, and 2.3. DITA-OT transforms DITA content (maps and topics) into deliverable formats.

By default, FrameMaker allows you to publish your DITA content into the following output formats:

  1. PDF2

  2. XHTML

  3. CHM (Install HTML Help Workshop to generate CHM)

  4. Custom

You can also generate output for formats such as Docbook, Java help, and RTF. To enable other output formats, see Customize available DITA Open Toolkit output types.