Review reference information to select a Rational® Publishing Engine 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.