All entries for DITA

Martin Fiebig finished his studies of Technical Information Design and Technical Editing with a bachelor's thesis on the conversion of HTML or DITA XML files into PDF files. He wrote his thesis with a practical focus at parson. In the recently published knowledge article, he summarizes his findings. read more

There are several ways and tools you can use to create a PDF from a technical documentation in DITA-XML or a website in HTML. In the first part of this knowledge article, I look at the advantages and disadvantages of the languages commonly used in this process: XSL-FO and CSS Paged Media. In the second part I compare programs for rendering HTML files to PDF files via CSS and compare their functions.  read more

We are happy to announce our new partnership with Fonto. The Dutch technology company provides user-friendly and highly customizable solutions for editing and reviewing XML content that can be integrated into a number of CMS. read more

parson supports students with their studies and career start, for example through an internship, traineeship or the supervision of a bachelor's or master's thesis. We spoke to Mette about her experiences as an intern at parson. She now writes her master's thesis with us on chatbots and metadata. read more

The technical writing team of Ansys® wanted to get a better understanding of the advanced DITA 1.3 reuse mechanisms and their applications. read more