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. Each output format has different constraints and considerations (discussion of which is gradually being added to the Using Author-it Guide).

These are the output formats Author-it can publish to:

• 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

There are three main groupings of these output formats, which we will refer to throughout Author-it's Product Documentation:

Printed (Document tab)

• Printable MS Word
• PDF

Help (Windows Help tab)

• Windows Help
• HTML Help
• JavaHelp
• Oracle Help

Web (HTML tab)

• HTML
• XHTML
• HTML Help
• JavaHelp
• Oracle Help for Java
• DITA
• Author-it XML