How are DITA child topics output to PDF?

[PencyJohn]

How it works with dita and dita map files in framemaker?, dita map includes multible dita files, when published as pdf, each dita topic will start from new page?

[LinSims]

@Matt S - Tech Comm Tools or one of the other DITA experts would be able to answer better. I'm just getting back into learning about DITA and it's been years since I actually used it.

My recollection is that yes, using a DITA map and XML files will start each new topic/module on the same page as the previous (until the page end is reached, of course). You might also want to look at Leximation's DITA-FMx plugin. 

[Matt S - Tech Comm Tools]

Normal behavior in DITA is to concatonate the child topics that are 2nd level or lower.

I haven't looked at the options for Fm 2022, but in previous versions you can control the output using the Publish options and/or the DITA init file.

So, basically, you can set up Fm to paginate the PDF as you like.

-Matt