IBM® Rational® Publishing Engine can
produce Microsoft Word,
HTML, PDF, and XSL-FO documents. No additional software is required
to generate the documents, though you might require additional software
to view the generated results or to perform postprocessing operations.
Output types
- Microsoft Word: Creates Microsoft Word 1997-2003 (.doc)
or Microsoft Word 2007,
2010, or 2013 (.docx) output.
- HTML: Creates HTML (.html)
or HTM (.htm) output.
- PDF: Creates PDF (.pdf)
output.
- Legacy PDF: Creates PDF (.pdf)
output by using the Legacy PDF driver. This driver is provided for
compatibility with templates that were created in Rational Publishing Engine 1.1.2.1
and earlier.
- XSL-FO: Creates XSL-FO (.fo)
or XML (.xml) output, both of which can be used
in XML editors.
Note: - IBM Rational Publishing Engine supports
Unicode data only. If the data source includes Non-Unicode data the
document generation might fail or produce incorrect results.
- For PDF and Legacy PDF, the output extension is the same, however,
the drivers used to generate the documents is different. The PDF output
is structured differently depending on which driver you select. For
a list of fields supported by the PDF driver, see Supported fields in PDF documents.
Selecting an output type
Table 1. Selecting an output type based on the
template contents. If your template includes
these elements or items, consider using these selected output types.
Template element/consideration |
Microsoft Word |
HTML |
Legacy PDF |
PDF |
XSL-FO |
Master pages |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Style sheets |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Footnotes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Paragraph borders |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes* |
Yes* |
Yes |
Table with unrestricted width |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Table cells combined by span element |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Table cells containing bookmarks |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Table borders |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes* |
Yes* |
Yes |
Cell spacing in tables |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Ordered lists with character spacing |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Ordered lists with lowercase letters or Roman
numerals |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Ordered lists with capitalized letters |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Table of Contents/Table of Tables/Table of Figures |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Large images |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes* |
Yes* |
Yes |
Generates a document with more than 4000 pages |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Note: *For these output types, you must
specify values for the output to render correctly.