Working with Publishing Designer

Starting Publishing Designer

In the left pane of the Workplace window, click Author and then click Advanced Tools. A list of advanced tools displays in the right pane. Click on Publishing Designer.

NOTE  The Designer tools visibility preference can show or hide the Advanced Tools. Regardless of the preference setting, guest users cannot access Publishing Designer.

Selecting Publishing Designer downloads a Java™ applet to your local disk. The first time you do this, you must grant permission.

NOTE  If you ever click Deny in response to the Java applet download, you will not be able to download it until you have closed all instances of your browser.

Scroll bars

Java applets do not have scroll bars for the window. Various panels inside the window have scroll bars when applicable. If you make the window so small that some items do not appear, resize it so the items reappear.

Required data

Required entries are indicated by a red asterisk (*).

Closing Publishing Designer

Always using File > Exit when closing Publishing Designer can prevet you from losing any work. When you use Exit on the File menu to close Publishing Designer, you see a dialog that prompts you to save or cancel. If you close the window using any other means, the program terminates immediately with no opportunity to save. If you were modifying a template, this can leave it in a checked out state, and work you have done is not saved. To resume working with the template and check it in, you have to assume the checkout. See the "Assume a checkout" section of Modify a publish template for more information .

TIP Using the Exit menu option immediately releases the server's memory. If you simply close the browser window, the memory is still in use until the work session times out on the server.

A note about browsers

If you open the browser, open Publishing Designer, and then close the browser without signing out, you can continue working in Publishing Designer.

If you open the browser, open Publishing Designer, and then sign out of the browser, you cannot continue working in Publishing Designer.

Displaying double-byte characters

Publishing Designer displays double-byte characters only on client systems that are configured with a double-byte operating system. For example, if you run Publishing Designer on a system that is installed with the Japanese version of Windows 2000, Publishing Designer will be able to properly display Japanese characters.

A US-English operating system set to a Japanese client system is not sufficient to properly display Japanese characters in the Publishing Designer.