Hello - I've been tasked with converting existing documentation (authored in unstructured Frame 9) to structured (DITA) Frame 9. Deliverables will be in pdf format, and they must match the existing manuals.
I modified the topic EDD to map DITA elements to styles in the existing corporate template, then imported the EDD into the template. All is good with that - the DITA topics automatically look like the existing docs. The problem is when I create a ditamap with the topics and save that as a pdf, either straight from the ditamap or saving it as a .book and then as a pdf. I am doing just a small sampling of topics within one chapter, and not a whole book, until I can get all the fundamentals worked out. The goal (at this early point) is to have the pdf look like a chunk of a chapter, with the chapter title at the top, correct running heads, master pages, etc.
There are many problems, but let's start with this one: each topic gets kicked onto its own page in the pdf instead of the chapter flowing together as in a standard manual. I've looked through both the map and book EDDs, modified and imported as I did for the topic EDD/template, but still cannot find anything that's telling it to insert a page break before each heading.
I suspect (and hope) that I am missing something fundamental about maps and/or books. If anyone could enlighten me, my sanity would definitely benefit. I so dread burning up another day on this issue and getting nowhere!