Style sheets

A style sheet ensures that a standard set of styling is applied to a document. Use a style sheet to add text formatting, headers, footers, cover pages, and more to incorporate company logos and legal information in reports.

Document designers do not have to specify a specific path to a style sheet in the template file. You must enter the name of the style you are using from the style sheet in the Style name property of an element. The path to the style sheet is entered for the stylesheet property when document generators are configuring the template properties in the document specification.

Rational® Publishing Engine comes with two style sheets that you can use. From the Central Management component or the %RPE_HOME%\utils\word\ directory in your installation files, you can find the style sheets rpe.dot and rpe_signed.dot. Both contain the same styles and macros, but the rpe_signed.dot version contains an electronic signature for source verification.

Table 1. Style sheet types by output type
Output Style sheet type
HTML .css
Microsoft Word .doc, .docx, .dot, dotx
PDF .doc, .docx, .dot, dotx

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