Understanding Your Document's Different Output Formats

Author-it is a program that you use to author, manage, and publish documents in a variety of output formats, all from a single-source database.This means you can change the document in one place, and your changes will be contained in each output format when you next publish them.

Author-it uses Publishing Profiles to determine several things, including:

• which outputs a book can be published to
• which users can publish using that profile
• the release states content must be in for it to be included

These profiles are fully customizable, and you can create as many additional profiles as you need to suit your requirements and your deliverables. More details on Publishing Profiles can be found in the Using Author-it Guide.

The available output formats Author-it can publish to are:

• Printed Word document
• PDF document
• Windows Help system
• Pure cross-platform HTML pages with integrated navigation tree
• XHTML transitional pages with integrated navigation tree
• HTML Help system
• Java Help system
• Oracle Help for Java system
• DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture)
• Author-it XML
• Author-it Website Manager

Each output format has different constraints and considerations.