Installing the DITA Open Toolkit

The DITA Open Toolkit is downloaded from the SourceForge web site. For this installation, you will access the web sites for each of the required installation items, including Ant, Java Development Toolkit, JavaHelp, Apache FOP, SAXON XSLT Processor, and Microsoft HTML Help.

  1. Enter the URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot
  2. On the SourceForge.net page, find dita-ot 1.1.2.1
  3. Select dita-ot 1.1.2.1. The Dita-ot table displays.
  4. Select DITA-OT1.1.2.1_bin.zip The SourceForge.net page opens with a list of download options.
  5. Select any of the images to start the download. If the DITA Open Toolkit does not appear to be downloading, wait a few minutes before selecting another image. You may have to select more than one images until you find one that works.
    Note: If you are an Internet Explorer user and a yellow bar appears at the top of the screen with the message, "To help protect your security, Internet Explorer blocked this site from downloading files to your computer. Click here for options...,"click on the bar and select "Download File."
  6. Click Save to unzip the DITA-OT1.1.2.1_bin.zip file and save it to your C:\ directory as ditaot.