Specifying output formats

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.
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 New 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 New PDF driver, see the Aspose documentation.
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 Word HTML PDF New PDF XSL-FO
Master pages X   X X  
Style sheets X X      
Footnotes X X   X X
Comments X X X   X
Table with unrestricted width   X X   X
Table cells combined by span element X X   X X
Table cells containing bookmarks X X   X X
Table borders X X X* X* X
Cell spacing in tables X X X   X
Ordered lists with character spacing X X X   X
Ordered lists with lowercase letters or Roman numerals X X   X X
Ordered lists with capitalized letters X X     X
Table of Contents/Table of Tables/Table of Figures X X X X X
Large images X X X* X* X
Generates a document with more than 4000 pages X X X   X
Note: *You must specify values for the output to render correctly.

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