ePublisher Platform Standard by Quadralay Corporation

Online and desktop publishing suite. ePublisher Platform is a multiple component product that enables cost-effective processes for efficiently writing, presenting, and deploying online and print publications. Through the use of its two components, organizations can leverage existing authoring tools and content management systems and meet organization-wide publishing needs without incurring expensive training or software deployment initiatives. Its open system architecture, based on industry-standard XSL, enables a large degree of flexibility, customizability, and migration investment protection.

ePublisher Standard Version

The Standard Version is for writing groups that manually convert and deliver their online content. The Standard Version includes ePublisher Pro and ePublisher Express. Pro will be used to create, maintain, and deploy your ePublisher Stationery; Express will be used by your writers to run reports, proof online output and deliver final online content.

ePublisher Platform contains three components:

ePublisher Pro is used for designing, configuring and maintaining the style and behavior of all your online formats at once within a single master project that systematically handles the deployment of your organization's shared stationery. As your business needs grow, this component makes it easy to propagate changes and updates throughout your entire organization. This component is only recommended for users involved with the creation and maintenance of your organization's shared stationery and who have received proper training in the use of the ePublisher platform.

ePublisher Pro Key Benefits:

Multi-Channel Publishing - Create multiple format targets from within a single stationery to meet all your channel publishing needs (i.e., Web sites, help systems, printing, XML processing). In the future add additional formats as your needs evolve without restyling your stationery

Full Styling Control - Selectively inherit or override every single layout and/or style property of your source authoring template using the built-in GUI, which is based on CSS2 standards

Modify Existing Style and Behavior Control - Using the hierarchically organized built-in XSL files that constitute the complete publishing engine for each format, special requirements can be implemented in XSL or other standard scripting languages without creating complex migration and product upgrade challenges in the future

Enable/Disable Online Features - Online features such as breadcrumbs, related topics, mini-TOCs, drop-down text, integrated PDF links, popup entries, and more can easily be specified using the built-in GUI

Advanced Table Styling - Tables can inherit the styling and layout of your existing source documents or they can be easily modified to meet the special needs of your online publishing requirements

Advanced Graphic Handling - Automatic scaling, resizing, maximum sizing, thumbnailing, and transforming of all your graphics can be easily enabled or disabled using the built-in GUI. All the graphic formats supported by your native authoring environment will be supported with the ability to transform them into any Web-ready graphic, including JPEG, GIF, and PNG

Translation & Localization - Full multilingual text encoding and locale support can be enabled to target all your online readers throughout the world. This also includes full support for double-byte languages (such as Japanese, Korean, Simplified and Traditional Chinese)

ePublisher Express is used for creating and deploying online publications directly from a user's desktop computer. This component is packaged with out-of-the-box integration for both Adobe FrameMaker and Microsoft Word authoring environments to allow users to easily proof their publications and identify invalid style formatting, 508 compliance issues, broken hyperlinking, and other document irregularities. Using your organization's shared stationery, style and format behavior updates can be automatically synchronized to a user's existing publication projects. This component is recommended for all users who need to either generate or proof their online publications directly from their computer, and requires only limited training for effective use.

ePublisher Express Key Benefits:

Ease of use - ePublisher Express is very easy to use, allowing writers to continue writing in their editor of choice rather than learning new tools. In many cases, it's as simple as choosing to generate output from the WebWorks menu integrated into your editor

Reporting - Reports inform writers about potential errors or other relevant information useful for increasing accuracy. Writers are informed of errors and can correct mistakes early in the process, eliminating the need for tedious reviews. Built-in reports include illegal style usage, hyperlinks, filenames, topic aliases, and accessibility compliance violations

Stationery - ePublisher Express uses the same stationery created by ePublisher Pro, allowing reuse of all presentation work created by a designer. This further frees up writers to write and not be concerned with presentation issues

Table Support - Supports advanced table styling properties

Configurable UI - At installation time, the UI is configurable to either enable or disable condition, variable, and cross-reference panels. This provides managers the added flexibility of allowing writers to modify this information or to restrict the values to those specified in the stationery

ePublisher Platform Output Formats:

Online Help - WebWorks Help 5.0 comes ready out-of-the-box with complete online help features such as left-hand navigation pane, search, table of contents, favorites, index, breadcrumbs, related topics, popup windows, PDF integration, and more. This format is XHTML 1.0 compliant and since it relies only on JavaScript and CSS2 for functional and styling features it can be further customized to meet your most demanding help and Web site application requirements for most any platform and/or browser

HTML - Generates XHTML 1.0 compliant files with full CSS2 formatting and JavaScript integration. Can be easily adapted to meet your most challenging style and behavioral requirements

HTML 3.2 - Generates clean HTML markup tagging that meets all your display needs without relying on CSS or JavaScript

Microsoft HTML Help & Microsoft WinHelp - Full support for these Windows-specific help formats.

JavaHelp - Support for the most popular formats for Java applications, including Sun JavaHelp 1.1.3/2.0, and Oracle Help

PDF - Generate professional-quality PDFs for direct deployment from your project by themselves or as part of another output format. Automatically performs all variable, conditional-text, and generated-file processing

Custom XML - Create your own XML output format with DTD or Schema support to migrate unstructured content to XML. A starting point XML-based format is provided

Palm Reader & Microsoft Reader - Easily create output for the most popular portable device formats

Accessibility & 508 Compliance - Compliance enforcement is built into all HTML and help-based formats

Next Generation - New output formats will soon be available to support up-and-coming technologies, such as HTML Help 2.0 and Vista Help

Active Web Pages - Generate files for automatic deployment to Web servers that support dynamic Web pages such as ASP.Net, PHP, JSP, and others

Online and desktop publishing suite.

PartNumbers: PC-517870-190110 517870-190110 PC-517870-190116 517870-190116 PC-517870-207737 517870-207737 PC-517870-207739 517870-207739 PC-517870-190112 517870-190112 PC-517870-190114 517870-190114 PC-517870-207738 517870-207738 PC-517870-207740 517870-207740

Publisher PartNumbers: PLFD-WIN-REN-000 PLWD-WIN-REN-000

PurchaseOptions: ePublisher for FrameMaker Standard License 2008.4 1 User License without maintenance, ePublisher for FrameMaker Standard License 2008.4 1 Additional User License without maintenance, ePublisher for FrameMaker Standard License 2008.4 1 User Maintenance License, ePublisher for FrameMaker Standard License 2008.4 1 Additional User Maintenance License, ePublisher for Word Standard License 2008.4 1 User License without maintenance, ePublisher for Word Standard License 2008.4 1 Additional User License without maintenance, ePublisher for Word Standard License 2008.4 1 User Maintenance License, ePublisher for Word Standard License 2008.4 1 Additional User Maintenance License

Resources: Read the ePublisher Platform Overview, Read the ePublisher Pro Overview, Read the ePublisher Express Overview, Read the ePublisher Pro User Guide, Read the ePublisher Express User Guide, Read the ePublisher Support Policy Web page, Read the ePublisher Full Maintenance Program Web page, Read the ePublisher End User License Agreement

Operating System for Deployment: Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000

Architecture of Product: 32Bit

Product Type: Application

Keywords: Help Authoring ForeFront Documentation documenting document author Professional Partner

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