XMetaL TopLeaf Plugin
JustSystems and Turn-Key Systems are proud to offer the XMetaL TopLeaf plugin. This product, when used in conjunction with XMetaL Author and TopLeaf Workstation allows users to easily create stylesheets for PDF output in a friendly graphical environment. Working with the DITA Open Toolkit, this solution provides powerful design and output options to users with little or no XSL / XSL:FO expertise. Images, fonts, running heads, lists, tables, pagination and many other common document elements are easily and quickly configured and the output can be created directly from XMetaL Author.
TopLeaf is an XML rendering system which allows any user to set up complex professional quality jobs using a revolutionary new point and click interface.
For the first time you can create paginated PDF output, HTML for web delivery and RTF for review/proofing, all from a single style specification!
Features of the TopLeaf Workstation System
- Typesetting from single or multiple documents.
- A variety of typesetting functions such as footnotes (page or column), sidenotes, running heads, nested lists, tables, boxes, multiple graphic formats etc.
- Automatic production of tables of contents and indexes.
- Built-in PDF generation, including bookmarks and hyperlinks (internal and to the web).
- HTML and/or RTF output with no additional setup.
- Comprehensive support for true looseleaf publishing, including auto generation of insert pages and filing instructions.
- Graphical Page Layout editor.
- Stylesheet generator creates a basic stylesheet from a sample XML document to get you started. Or you can import existing TopLeaf or CSS stylesheets.
XMetaL, TopLeaf and total cost of production
Everyone agrees that XML is the best way to future proof your content and maximize its capacity for re-use. Why then are so many people still using WYSIWYG editing systems that don't support multiple outputs? It all comes down to cost. Looking at a commonly used model for publishing XML gives us a clue to the reason.
The problem with this model is that it requires a separate XSLT script for each transformation. Such scripts are usually expensive to create and maintain, since they require skilled programmers. The end result is that XML is thought to be too expensive for some publications.
TopLeaf uses a different model to avoid this problem:
By using a single style description to produce multiple output formats, the total cost of production is brought under control. Furthermore, TopLeaf allows styles to be developed and maintained via a simple point and click interface -- no specialized skills are required!
For the first time, industrial strength single-source multiple-output publishing is available at a cost comparable to WYSIWYG publishing.
XMetaL Instructional Videos
Download the XMetaL TopLeaf Plugin datasheet to learn more.
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