Client: Naval Sea Systems Command, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery Maine
Summary: Wrycan produced complex print ready technical documentation from XML-based content.

Wrycan worked with The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine to move them to an XML authoring and publishing environment. This project involved the conversion of thousands of pages on content, creation of an editorial process, deployment of technology to support the editorial process, and development of XSLs that generate high-res, print-ready PDF documents that are compliant with Naval documentation standards.

Wrycan created and delivered a set of custom XSLs that produced compliant, print ready PDFs for the technical manuals with the following layout features:

• Support the assembly of volume, chapter and procedure document types
• Support multi-column output
• Support mixed orientation (portrait/landscape)
• Support mixed paper size (letter/ledger)
• Automatic creation of seperate TOC for tables, figures and content
• Links all cross-referencese (internal and external)
• Automatic generation of barcodes for document tracking
• Ability to publish single Procedure document or combined Procedure manual

The XSL-FO to PDF tool used is Render X and the XML Editor used is Altova's free Authentic tool.