I am trying to change the styling of specific tags within the DITA 1.3 structure for PDF publishing. I'm a new FM user, and going through the publishing options, specifically the 'DITA Template' tab of the publishing settings file dialog doesn't help much. I can export, make changes and import the various listed FM files, but these edits don't seem to have a major impact on PDF publishing.

Reviewing the help / documentation, it's unclear how to actually style DITA content for PDF publishing. I WAS able to figure out that the STS file for publishing settings is a zip file, and that there's a bunch of stuff in there. I was able to modify the CSS files for HTML5 publishing, which was nice! PDF publishing isn't as transparent. It seems like generating and editing an EDD might work, but from what I've played with here, when you export the existing catalog of a DITA document, you only get the tags specific to that document that is open at the time. This isn't very practical, as I'd basically have to have a superset document with every possible DITA tag so that I can modify the style of anything in the DITA spec.

I would have thought that an EDD with every DITA spec tag would have been the 'ditabase1.3-template.fm' file listed in the DITA template options, but when I open this file, it is completely blank.