Martin Fiebig is a technical communicator and has been working at parson since 2022. He studied Technical Information Design and Technical Writing at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hanover with a focus on technical writing, media informatics, and DITA-XML-based documentation.
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. more...
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