Installing DITA Open Toolkit
The DITA-OT distribution package can be installed on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It contains everything that you need to run the toolkit except for Java.
Before you begin
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Ensure that you have a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK).
DITA-OT 4.2 is designed to run on Java version 17 or later and built and tested with the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK). Compatible Java distributions are available from multiple sources:- You can download Oracle distributions from oracle.com/java under commercial license.
- Eclipse Temurin is the free OpenJDK distribution available from adoptium.net.
- Free OpenJDK distributions are also provided by Amazon Corretto, Azul Zulu, and Red Hat.
- Java versions are also available via package managers such as Chocolatey, Homebrew, or SDKMAN!
- If you want to generate HTML Help, ensure that you have HTML Help
Workshop installed.
You can download the Help Workshop from web.archive.org.