ePublisher · Designer

ePublisher Designer.

The full authoring and design environment for the ePublisher pipeline. Stationery, target configuration, conditional content, variables, and cross-reference behavior are defined in Designer — and travel with the project file every other seat on the team publishes against.


Introducing · 01

Introducing ePublisher Designer.

Designer is where the WebWorks ePublisher publishing pipeline is defined. Style mappings, output targets, page templates, conditional content, variables, cross-references, and Reverb 2.0 Knowledge Base settings are authored in Designer's project Stationery. Once defined, the same Stationery drives every subsequent build — from the Designer seat that authored it, from Express seats, and from ePublisher AutoMap.

Why Designer · 02

Why ePublisher Designer?

01 · The pipeline definition lives here

Stationery, target configuration, conditional content, variables, and cross-reference behavior are authored in Designer and travel with the project file. The pipeline is defined once; every subsequent build runs it.

02 · One seat designs; many seats publish

A Designer seat is the seat that designs and ships the help. One per documentation team is the typical adoption pattern; additional team members publishing from existing Stationery use Express seats.

03 · CSS-aligned style control

Layout and style properties are managed through a GUI aligned with CSS2 standards — selective inheritance or override of source template properties, with the project Stationery as the central source of truth.

04 · Online experience customization

Breadcrumbs, related topics, mini-TOCs, integrated PDF links, search behavior, and Reverb 2.0 Knowledge Base settings are configured in the same project Stationery the rest of the team publishes against.

Key features · 03

Key features.

01 · Advanced table styling

Tables can mirror the style of source documents or be custom-tailored per output target — the same source publishes to web, print, ePUB, and the rest of the format set.

02 · Graphic handling

Automatic scaling, resizing, and conversion to web-ready formats — JPEG, GIF, PNG — applied per output target as part of the build.

03 · Translation and localization

Full multilingual text encoding and locale support, including double-byte languages, applied uniformly across every output target the project ships.

Get started · 04

Author the pipeline once.

Designer is the seat for the team member who designs and ships the help. Define the project Stationery once; every Express seat and every AutoMap-driven build runs against the same definition.

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