DITA Tookit distributions

Distribution overview

Starting with Release 1.3, DITA Open Toolkit is available in several distribution formats for download. They are:

Full package distributuion
Small package distribution
Source distribution

These distributions are all available for download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot.

Full package distribution

This distribution contains the Toolkit and most of the basic tools required for doing Toolkit builds. This distribution makes it easy to download and install a complete environment. Included in the full package are:

DITA Open Toolkit
Ant build processor
XML catalog resolver
FOP processor for creating PDF outputs
icu4j (ICU) globalization routines
Xalan XSLT processor
Shell scripts for setting the necessary runtime environment variables

The only other software required to do DITA processing with this package is the Java J2SE SDK. You may optionally want to install the Microsoft HTML Help compiler and the JavaHelp processor.

Small package distribution

This distribution contains only DITA Toolkit. All the required and optional processors and tools must be installed separately to create a functioning build environment. Prior releases of the Toolkit were distributed only in this way. You might want to download this distribution if you have a prior version of the Toolkit already installed, since the release 1.3 Toolkit prerequisites are still the same as those for release 1.2.2. The small distribution is also typically the one used to embed the Toolkit in other products.

Source distribution

The source distribution contains the source and executable code for the Toolkit (it also contains the source code for this document). You might download this distribution if you need to modify Toolkit Java code or if you want a detailed look at how the Toolkit works.