Popular Tools
The following are commonly used as end-step publishing frameworks that support transformations to multiple formats.
- Apache Forrest
- Based on the earlier Cocoon, Forrest can aggregate multiple sources as well as serving multiple targets.
- Apache Cocoon
- An early example of pipelined processing and a framework for XSLT, Cocoon is still widely used.
The following are applications for designing and structuring multi-format output based on a single source.
- Technical Communication Suite
- Adobe® Technical Communication Suite 3 is a complete single-source authoring toolkit with multichannel, multidevice publishing capabilities. Develop standards-compliant content with Adobe FrameMaker® 10 software, publish in various formats with Adobe RoboHelp® 9 software and Adobe Captivate® 5 workflows, collaborate with reviewable PDF files, incorporate images using Adobe Photoshop® CS5, and add demos and simulations using Adobe Captivate 5.
- Altova StyleVision
- Graphical stylesheet designer used for creating template-based designs for XML, XBRL, and database output to HTML, RTF, PDF, Office Open XML, and Authentic e-Forms
- Arbortext dynamic information delivery system
- Graphical authoring tool, stylesheet designer, and publishing engine used for creating template-based designs for XML, SGML (and other input sources) automatically to HTML, RTF, PDF, text, or any other XML-based output format for further compilation (CHM, eBook, XSLT, etc.)]
- Alchemy Single source editing system with InDesign, MSWord and XML/text input and InDesign, XHTML, MSWord, mobile platform, PD, EPS and jpg exports. Online editing tool for InDesign that simultaneously updates all publishing channels upon editing. Used within corporate reporting, magazines, product collateral and not for profit markets. Alchemy can be used with InDesignServer or its own rendering engine.
- Author-it an end-to-end platform for single source publishing, with open APIs for customization and integration. Cloud based and On-Premise. Includes rich editor, component CMS (built on MS SQL Server), multi-channel publishing, translation management, online Review in one interface. Author-it publishing templates can be based on XSL or easily modified standard MS Office templates for Word, PDF, and PowerPoint. Outputs include Word, PDF, PowerPoint, various Help formats, online XHTML, Web CMSs, DITA, XML, Adobe Flash, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Framemaker, SharePoint sites, mobile devices, and dynamic online publishing.
- DocBook as the base language for a variety of tools such as Oxygen XML Editor or XML Mind. Although GNU Emacs has excellent support for DocBook XML syntax highlighting and is the choice editor of many.
- ComponentOne Doc-To-Help is an authoring, management, and publishing tool. It allows users to write in Microsoft Word or its own built-in editor and produce outputs for Web, desktop, mobile device, and print use. Doc-To-Help is used mostly for technical communication, policy and procedure publishing, and training materials.
- MadCap Flare Authoring tool for high-end digital print and online help
- Help authoring tool, stylesheet designer, and publishing engine used for creating user manuals, knowledge bases and online help Technical Communication.
- Scenari is an open source software suite to design XML publishing chains, with intensive transclusion management.
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