Publishing DITA Documents to PDF with Antenna House XSL Formatter

DITA documents are published with DITA Open Toolkit V1.4 that requires installation of Java not older than J2SE v 1.4.2_08. For instructions, see Installing Java on Windows and Installing Java on Linux.

  1. Install Antenna House XSL Formatter.
    Note:

    By default, Serna is integrated with Antenna House XSL Formatter V4 for DITA documents. If you have a version of Antenna House XSL Formatter other than V4, follow these instructions.

  2. Call up the Publish Dialog.

    In Serna, choose Document > Publish .

  3. Specify the output format.

    In the Publish Dialog, select PDF(with AH) from the Publishing output drop-down list.

  4. Publish the document.

    Click the Generate button.



  5. View the published document.

    When the script ends, click the View button to view the published document.

Related tasks
Installing Java on Windows
Installing Java on Linux