Client applications

Rational® Publishing Engine contains two Eclipse-based client applications: Document Studio and Launcher.

The Document Studio application

Document Studio is a stand-alone application used for designing document templates through various views and wizards. You can choose elements to create a template that can populate and format the latest data from your data source.

You can complete the following tasks in Document Studio:
  • Create a template.
  • Create master pages to define a header, a footer, and properties such as the page orientation and border styling.
  • Add data source schemas to include queries and attributes to define the data structure.
  • Create external variables for configuring values at run time.
  • Create internal variables used for calculations.
  • Create styles that can apply to specific element types.
  • Configure, preview, and generate documents as you design them.

The Launcher application

The Launcher is a stand-alone application used to create document specifications and generate output documents from these specifications. The Launcher can run from a command-line utility to schedule unattended builds for generating a set of documents. You can choose manual or wizard-driven document generation, as you are most comfortable. The Launcher is also accessible from Document Studio; when used from Document Studio, you can automatically synchronize the document specification with the current template.


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