Review reference information to select a Rational® Publishing Engine output
type.
Table 1. Selecting an output
type based on the template contents. If your template
includes these elements or items, consider using these selected output
types.
| Template element/consideration |
Microsoft Word |
HTML |
Legacy PDF |
PDF |
XSL-FO |
| Master pages |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Style sheets |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Paragraph borders |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes* |
Yes* |
Yes |
| Table with unrestricted width |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Table cells combined by span element |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Table cells containing bookmarks |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Table borders |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes* |
Yes* |
Yes |
| Cell spacing in tables |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Ordered lists with character spacing |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Ordered lists with lowercase letters or Roman
numerals |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Ordered lists with capitalized letters |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Table of Contents/Table of Tables/Table of Figures |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Large images |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes* |
Yes* |
Yes |
| Generates a document with more than 4000 pages |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Note: *For these output types, you must
specify values for the output to render correctly.