ANNOUNCEMENT: DITA for Print now available

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DITA for Print, authored by Leigh White and published by XML Press, is now available for ordering through amazon.com. DITA for Print is a workbook that takes you step by step through building a plugin with the customizations you’re most likely to want for print. Written by a non-programmer for non-programmers, DITA for Print will help you create great PDFs from your DITA content. See more at: http://xmlpress.net.

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In response to view the Table of Contents, here is a partial one:

DITA for Print Table of Contents
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Custom PDF plugin creation
    What is a PDF plugin and why do you need one?
    Organization of the orgditapdf2 plugin
    DITA Open Toolkit 1.5 and earlier
    Exercise: Download and install the DITA Open Toolkit
    Exercise: Create your own PDF plugin
    Exercise: Integrate your plugin into the DITA-OT
    Exercise: Add an attribute set file to your plugin
    Exercise: Add an XSLT stylesheet to your plugin
    Exercise: Add a localization variable file to your plugin
Chapter 3: DITA Open Toolkit builds
    What is an ANT build file?
    Exercise: Create an ANT build file
    Exercise: Run an ANT build file (Windows)
    Exercise: Run an ANT build file (Mac, Linux)
    Exercise: Create a batch file to launch an ANT build (Windows)
    Exercise: Create a shell file to launch an ANT build (Mac, Linux)
    Exercise: Test your plugin
    Exercise: Use a specific PDF renderer
Chapter 4: Fonts
    About fonts in the PDF plugin
    Exercise: Select basic fonts for your plugin
Chapter 5: Attribute sets
    What are attribute set files?
    How attribute set defaults work
    Special attributes for XEP, Antenna House, and FOP
    Basic-settings variables in attribute sets
    Exercise: Create a new attribute set
    Exercise: Call a new attribute set
    Exercise: Conditionalize an attribute set
Chapter 6: Localization variables
    What are localization variables?
    Literal characters and numeric character references
Chapter 7: Page masters
    Page masters and regions in the PDF plugin
    Default page masters, regions and attribute sets
    Exercise: Set up double-sided pagination
    Exercise: Set page dimensions
    Exercise: Set page margins
    Exercise: Set up body regions
    Exercise: Set up header and footer regions
    Exercise: Set margins for the front cover page
Chapter 8: Page headers and footers
    About headers and footers
    PDF plugin defaults for headers and footers
    Where does header and footer information come from?
    Metadata variables for headers and footers
    DITA element classes
    Header setup
        Exercise: Set up headers that include external files
        Exercise: Set up headers that include boilerplate text
        Exercise: Set up headers that include generated text
        Adding information from the map to headers
        Exercise: Create metadata variables for headers and footers
        Exercise: Add fallback header and footer variables to the localization variables file
        Exercise: Set up headers that include map metadata
    Footer setup
        Exercise: Set up footers
        Exercise: Create new header and footer definitions
        Exercise: Add chapter, appendix, or part numbers to page numbers
        Exercise: Restart page numbering in each chapter, appendix or part
        Header and footer formatting
        Exercise: Set top and bottom margins for headers and footers
        Exercise: Set left and right margins for headers and footers
        Exercise: Format the appearance of headers and footers
        Exercise: Justify elements of a header or footer
        Exercise: Add space around a header or footer image
Chapter 9: Cover pages
    Front cover customization
        Exercise: Add bookmap information to the front cover
        Exercise: Format information on the cover page
        Exercise: Place cover page information in a specific location
    Back cover creation and customization
        Back cover workflow steps
        Exercise: Create and call a back cover template
        Exercise: Create back cover page sequence
        Exercise: Add back cover page master attribute sets
        Exercise: Add content to the back cover
        Exercise: Format content on the back cover
Chapter 10: Titles, body text, and notes
    Title formatting
        How topic title attribute sets work
        Exercise: Format topic titles
        Exercise: Format section titles
        Exercise: Format chapter, appendix, or part titles
        Exercise: Format the chapter, appendix, or part autonumber
        Exercise: Change the chapter number label and format
        Exercise: Put the chapter, appendix or part label, number, and title on the same line
    Text formatting
        Formatting body text
        Exercise: Set body font sizes
        Exercise: Format code samples and messages
        Exercise: Set the default line height
        Exercise: Format trademark, registered trademark, service mark, and copyright symbols
    Notes formatting
        Exercise: Format note labels
        Exercise: Change the label for a note type
        Exercise: Delete the label for a note type
        Exercise: Change or delete note icons
        Exercise: Format note text
        Exercise: Add left and right borders to notes
        Exercise: Use a custom label for other-type notes
Chapter 11: Lists
    Hints on working with list-related attribute sets
    Exercise: Create multiple bullet formats for unordered lists
    Exercise: Create multiple numbering formats for ordered lists
    Exercise: Create a checklist
Chapter 12: Task topics
    Task step formatting tips
    Exercise: Change the label for optional steps
    Exercise: Change labels for task sections
    Exercise: Format task section labels and text
    Exercise: Format step and substep numbers
Chapter 13: Tables
    Table border overrides
    Exercise: Force table column widths to be respected
    Exercise: Change or delete the label for a table title
    Exercise: Format the table heading row
    Exercise: Format table cell text
    Exercise: Format table rules
    Exercise: Format the table title
    Exercise: Place titles below tables
    Exercise: Add chapter, appendix or part numbers to table titles
Chapter 14: Images
    Exercise: Change or delete the label for a figure title
    Exercise: Format figure titles
    Exercise: Add chapter, appendix or part numbers to figure titles
    Exercise: Place titles above images
    Exercise: Dynamically scale images to the page width
    Exercise: Change the default alignment for all images
Chapter 15: Related links, cross-references, and footnotes
    General links and cross-references
        Exercise: Change the format of cross-references
        Exercise: Change the on-page text for related links
    Related links
        Exercise: Include related links in a PDF
        Exercise: Change or delete the “Related Links” label
        Exercise: Add a divider above the “Related Links” section
        Exercise: Change the format of related links
    Footnotes
        Exercise: Change the appearance of footnote text and callouts
        Exercise: Change the footnote separator line
        Exercise: Add brackets around footnote callouts
Chapter 16: Table of Contents
    How TOC attribute sets interact
    Title levels in bookmaps and ditamaps
    Exercise: Add a TOC to a PDF
    Exercise: Change the title of the TOC
    Exercise: Format the TOC title
    Exercise: Add or remove entry levels from the TOC
    Exercise: Apply different formatting to different TOC entry levels
    Exercise: Format page numbers in the TOC
    Exercise: Add chapter, appendix or part number to TOC page numbers
    Exercise: Change the leader in TOC entries
    Exercise: Remove leaders from TOC entries
    Exercise: Adjust indents for TOC entries
Chapter 17: Index
    Index entry levels
    Exercise: Add an index to your PDF
    Exercise: Change the title of the index
    Exercise: Format the index title
    Exercise: Format index letter headings
    Exercise: Format index entries
    Exercise: Format index page numbers
    Exercise: Adjust indents for index entries
Chapter 18: List of Tables and List of Figures
Chapter 19: Bookmarks