Summary of Adobe DITA World

As a leading DITA ambassador, parson is happy to support the next Adobe DITAWORLD 2023 again as a Gold Sponsor. We are also looking forward to the presentation of Ulrike Parson on "Intelligent content for the manufacturing industry" and the presentation of Frank Ralf and Lukas Jetzig "From DITA to Smart Content." more...

parson creates state-of-the-start software documentation for POSSEHL Identification Solutions. more...

We are happy that we have successfully completed an information architecture project with proALPHA. To improve the usability of its technical documentation, the company introduced the content delivery platform Zoomin. parson supported the project by developing a new information architecture and providing content engineering services. more...

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. 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.  more...