Publishing overview

Publishing is a tool that allows you to create a replica of a document. The replica, known as the publication document, can have its own security and property settings, as well as a different format than the source document, such as HTML or PDF.

The publication document:

You can also choose to publish a document many times, and set different options on each of the generated publication documents.

Limitations

Before publishing source documents, consider the following limitations:

Publishing components

Publishing consists of the following components:

Publishing Style Template Manager
The Publishing Style Template Manager is installed along with Enterprise Manager and is used to manage publish style templates.
Publishing Designer
A Workplace applet responsible for designing publish templates.
Publish Document Wizard
A Workplace wizard that opens when the Publish action is made on a document
Publishing Handler
The Content Engine Publishing code contains the Publishing Handler, which is used to process publish requests in the publishing queue.
Rendition Engine
Two types of rendition engines are supported, the Rendition Engine that uses the Liquent® Enterprise Services for rendering and the DITA Rendition Engine that uses the DITA Open Toolkit for rendering.