ePublisher Platform

ePublisher 2010 Highlights:

• Per target designer settings that allow for even greater flexibility in single projects with multiple output formats.
• Updates to FrameMaker and DITA-XML input adapters.
• Improvements to MediaWiki output deployment.
• Further development of ePublisher's PDF XSL-FO capability.
• Upgrade protection and backwards compatibility.
• Easy installation with reduced footprint.

ePublisher 2009 Improvements

All

• Flexible, network-enabled licensing technology
• Quick access to Format and Target customization folders
• Improved performance when working with projects over network shares
• Stationery now preserves user customizations separate from base files

FrameMaker

• Text inset processing now correctly handles invalid XREFs returned from FrameMaker 8

Word

• PDF bookmarks properly nested in all cases
• Resolved invalid link issue for group level/merged PDFs

DITA

• Improved style name mappings for DITA bookmaps
• Lists within table cells now report correct level information

Formats:

• All - By-reference image handling corrections related to scaling and translation
• WebWorks Help 5.0 - Keeping pace with current browser security restrictions
• Wiki - MediaWiki now correctly escapes all output (except for pass-through code, of course). MoinMoin deployment improvements to handle secure wiki configurations

ePublisher Platform: Create, Organize, Share Knowledge...Automatically

Key Features:

• Easily convert and publish content between popular formats
• Control the look and feel of your published content
• Automatically publish large volumes of content

Key Benefits:

• Reduces need for expensive conversion/publishing resources
• Enables content publishing throughout your organization
• Enforces brand/layout standards set by your organization

Solves challenges across the organization
The ePublisher platform allows individuals from any department to solve their information and publishing challenges. Whether creating policy manuals, technical documentation or reference material, ePublisher allows you to create your content in any format and publish it anyway you like.

Ideal for professionals in:

• Technical Communication
• Agile Development
• Software Development
• Human Resources/Operations
• Marketing

The ePublisher platform:

ePublisher Pro - Design your deliverables
The ePublisher Pro component is used for designing, configuring, and maintaining the style and behavior of all your online formats at once within a single master project that systematically handles the deployment of your organization's shared stationery. As your business needs grow, this component makes it easy to propagate changes and updates throughout your entire organization. This component is only recommended for users involved with the creation and maintenance of your organization's shared stationery and who have received proper training in the use of the ePublisher platform.

Key Benefits

• Multi-Channel Publishing - Create multiple format targets from within a single stationery to meet all your channel publishing needs (i.e., Web sites, help systems, printing, XML processing). In the future add additional formats as your needs evolve without restyling your stationery.
• Full Styling Control - Selectively inherit or override every single layout and/or style property of your source authoring template using the built-in GUI, which is based on CSS2 standards.
• Modify Existing Style and Behavior Control - Using the hierarchically organized built-in XSL files that constitute the complete publishing engine for each format, special requirements can be implemented in XSL or other standard scripting languages without creating complex migration and product upgrade challenges in the future.
• Enable/Disable Online Features - Online features such as breadcrumbs, related topics, mini-TOCs, drop-down text, integrated PDF links, popup entries, and more can easily be specified using the built-in GUI.
• Advanced Table Styling - Tables can inherit the styling and layout of your existing source documents or they can be easily modified to meet the special needs of your online publishing requirements.
• Advanced Graphic Handling - Automatic scaling, resizing, maximum sizing, thumbnailing, and transforming of all your graphics can be easily enabled or disabled using the built-in GUI. All the graphic formats supported by your native authoring environment will be supported with the ability to transform them into any Web-ready graphic, including JPEG, GIF, and PNG.
• Translation & Localization - Full multilingual text encoding and locale support can be enabled to target all your online readers throughout the world. This also includes full support for double-byte languages (such as Japanese, Korean, Simplified and Traditional Chinese).

ePublisher Express - On demand publishing on your desktop
The ePublisher Express component is used for creating and deploying online publications directly from a user's desktop computer. This component is packaged with out-of-the-box integration for both Adobe FrameMaker and Microsoft Word authoring environments to allow users to easily proof their publications and identify invalid style formatting, 508 compliance issues, broken hyperlinking, and other document irregularities. Using your organization's shared stationery, style and format behavior updates can be automatically synchronized to a user's existing publication projects. This component is recommended for all users who need to either generate or proof their online publications directly from their computer, and requires only limited training for effective use.

Key Benefits

• Ease of Use - ePublisher Express is very easy to use, allowing writers to continue writing in their editor of choice rather than learning new tools. In many cases, it's as simple as choosing to generate output from the WebWorks menu integrated into your editor.
• Reporting - Reports inform writers about potential errors or other relevant information useful for increasing accuracy. Writers are informed of errors and can correct mistakes early in the process, eliminating the need for tedious reviews. Built-in reports include illegal style usage, hyperlinks, filenames, topic aliases, and accessibility compliance violations.
• Stationery - ePublisher Express uses the same stationery created by ePublisher Pro, allowing reuse of all presentation work created by a designer. This further frees up writers to write and not be concerned with presentation issues.
• Table Support - Supports advanced table styling properties.
• Configurable UI - At installation time, the UI is configurable to either enable or disable condition, variable, and cross-reference panels. This provides managers the added flexibility of allowing writers to modify this information or to restrict the values to those specified in the stationery.

ePublisher AutoMap - Automap your publishing process
The ePublisher AutoMap component is used for creating and deploying online publications either from a dedicated server or a user's desktop computer. This component is ideal for creating lengthy publications that require the full processing power of a computer system and an e-mail notification to indicate when the publication is ready for use. In addition, this component can be used to extend the publishing capabilities of existing content management or version control systems. This component is recommended for users who need to schedule conversions to occur at times when they are not using their computer, or when creating server-based solutions that automatically create publications to meet specific organizational workflows.

Key Benefits

• Scheduler - Built-in scheduler allows conversions to run any time or at repeated intervals. The scheduler works with the built-in Windows Task Scheduler so all login and permission issues are handled properly and securely.
• Version Control Integration - Works with virtually any version control or content management system, enabling ePublisher AutoMap to adapt to your existing process.
• E-mail Notification - Automatic e-mail notification alerts users when the job is complete or possible problems have occurred.
• Deployment - Automatic deployment to Internet, intranet, file system, software build system, or any other location.
• Publish all Targets at Once - Generate all or select targets from your stationery in a single job instance. Also, control and modify the deployment options, conditions, variables, and format settings on a per-target basis.
• Scripting - Built-in script editor with environment variables allows for the creation of pre-generation and post-generation scripts for advanced document retrieval and deployment requirements.
• Batch Operations - Create your own scripts and facilitate batch conversion operations using the feature-complete command line interface.

ePublisher is available in Designer, Non-designer and AutoMap licenses

ePublisher Designer includes:

• License of ePublisher Pro
• License of ePublisher Express
• License for all Input Adapters (FrameMaker, Word, DITA-XML)

ePublisher Non-designer includes: (you must own at least one ePublisher Designer License in order to purhcase Non-designer Licenses)

• License of ePublisher Express
• License for all Input Adapters (FrameMaker, Word, DITA-XML)

ePublisher AutoMap Server includes:

• License of ePublisher Pro
• License of ePublisher Express
• License of ePublisher AutoMap
• License for all Input Adapters (FrameMaker, Word, DITA-XML)

ePublisher Platform includes:

• Free Unlimited Technical Support for 12 months
• Free Products for 12 months

Product updates and Technical Support can be extended another 12 months at the Renewal pricing.