This tab appears only when selecting to generate PDF output using the IDIOM FO Plugin and
allows you to choose the FO Processor.
FO Processor configuration tab
You can choose between three processors:
- Apache FOP - This processor comes bundled with Oxygen.
- XEP - The RenderX XEP processor.
If you select XEP in the combo and XEP was already installed in Oxygen you can see the detected installation path appear under the combo.
XEP is considered as installed if it was detected from one of the following sources:
- XEP was added as an external FO Processor in the Oxygen preferences.
- The system property com.oxygenxml.xep.location was set to point to the XEP executable file for the platform (eg: xep.bat on Windows).
- XEP was installed in the frameworks/dita/DITA-OT/demo/fo/lib directory of the Oxygen installation directory.
- Antenna House - The Antenna House AH (v5) or XSL (v4) Formatter processor.
If you select Antenna House in the combo and Antenna House was already installed in Oxygen you can see the detected installation path appear under the combo.
Antenna House is considered as installed if it was detected from one of the following sources:
- Environment variable set by Antenna House installation (the newest installation version will be used, v5 being preferred over v4).
- Antenna House was added as an external FO Processor in the Oxygen preferences.
Tip: The DITA-OT contributors recommend the use of the IDIOM FO Plugin to transform
DITA Maps to PDF as opposed to using the standard PDF target in the DITA-OT framework. As
IDIOM is also bundled with Oxygen the
PDF2 - IDIOM FO Plugin output format should be your first choice in transforming your
map to PDF. If you do not have a commercial license for XEP or Antenna House you can transform
using the Apache FO Processor.