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What is XMLmind DITA Converter?

An industrial-strength DITA processor. A serious alternative to the DITA Open Toolkit.

XMLmind DITA Converter (ditac for short) allows to convert the most complex DITA 1.0, 1.1 or 1.2 documents to production-quality XHTML 1.0, XHTML 1.1, HTML 4.01, XHTML 5, Web Help, JavaTM Help, HTML Help, Eclipse Help, EPUB 2, EPUB 3, PDF, PostScript®, RTF (can be opened in Word 2000+), WordprocessingML (can be opened in Word 2003+), Office Open XML (.docx, can be opened in Word 2007+), OpenDocument (.odt, can be opened in OpenOffice/LibreOffice 2+).

Skeptic? Then please download the DITA 1.2 specification as converted by XMLmind DITA Converter 2.x and check that by yourself.

XMLmind DITA Converter at a glance

DITAC at a glance
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XMLmind DITA Converter has been developed in order to be integrated in the following XMLmind commercial products:

As such, XMLmind DITA Converter is professionally developed software, well tested, well documented and well supported.

XMLmind DITA Converter is free, open source, software licensed under the very liberal terms of the Mozilla Public License version 1.1.

All this makes XMLmind DITA Converter a very serious alternative to using the DITA Open Toolkit.

May 20, 2013: release of ditac v2.4.1: Minor enhancements and bug fixes.
February 18, 2013: release of ditac v2.4: New output formats: XHTML 5, Web Help containing XHTML 5, EPUB 3, possibly containing rich media.
A new chapter of the manual, Rich media content, explains how to add SVG, MathML, audio, video, Flash animations and actions (e.g. click some text to play a sound) to your DITA topics. This chapter also explains how XMLmind DITA Converter processes this rich media content depending on whether it is supported by the output format.
November 5, 2012: release of ditac v2.3.1: Bug fix release.
September 11, 2012: release of ditac v2.3: Now supports syntax highlighting inside any element specializing pre.
July 18, 2012: release of ditac v2.2.3: Now supports simple plug-ins.

Please do not upgrade if you currently use the XML_CATALOG_FILES environment variable and/or the -xslt2 command-line option and don't plan to package your DITA specialization and/or XSLT stylesheet customizations as a plug-in.

June 15, 2011: release of ditac v2.2.2: Embeds new XMLmind Web Help Compiler v1.1.3, which adds a Print button to its toolbar. Plus a minor bug fix.
April 30, 2011: release of ditac v2.2.1: Recommended upgrade: few, but important, bug fixes and enhancements.
March 13, 2012: release of ditac v2.2.0: Highlights:
  • New extended-toc XSLT stylesheet parameter allows to add frontmatter and backmatter topicrefs to the Table of Contents.
  • More powerful and more flexible specification of page headers and footers.
  • Many new XSLT stylesheet parameters and attribute-sets allowing to customize more easily and more extensively the presentation of PDF, RTF, etc, output files.
  • Support for Antenna House Formatter.