[dita-users] examples of documentation developed with DITA?

[Yves Barbion]

Hi Jiri,

I've been told that the Adobe CS2 documentation (a.k.a. "the Adobe Help 
Center") has been written with the DITA model. If you want to see this, 
you can download a trial version of, say, Adobe InDesign CS2. If you 
install Adobe InDesign CS2, you will also have the Adobe Help Center. 
You can download a trial version of InDesign CS2 here:

http://www.adobe.com/products/tryadobe/main.jsp#product=31

In the Adobe Help Center, you will clearly see the topic structure, and 
this "chunking mechanism" is what I like about this Help. What I miss, 
however, is "See also" or "Related Topics" links. For example, you can 
read a concept topic, but it would have been nice if there had been some 
links to related task topics. It has been done in some topics, but not 
enough.

In the Adobe Help Center, each topic is a new (HTML) page. In Help 
written according to the Information Mapping (IMAP) model, you would 
have a couple of topics ("blocks") collected into a "map" and a map is a 
new HTML page. You can see an example of this here:

http://www.certifiedpdf.net/gotohelp



Best regards

Yves Barbion 
Technical Writer
Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor
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