If you are a Stationery designer, your first step when you work with ePublisher will be to identify which input formats will be used to author source documents, which types of output need to be generated, and which online features should be included in generated output.

After you identify your input and output formats and the features you want to include in your online content, your next step is to either create source document templates or prepare your existing source document templates for output generation. Stationery designers use source document templates to configure settings and create Stationery for writers to use when generating output. Writers use the source document templates to create content and prepare source documents for output generation. If writers already use source document templates, Stationery designers can simply prepare the existing source document templates for output generation. If writers are not currently using source document templates, the Stationery designer creates a source document template for each content authoring tool used by the authors in the organization. Writers then use the styles and standards defined in the template to prepare their source files for output generation.

For example, if all writers use Adobe FrameMaker and Adobe FrameMaker templates when authoring content, the Stationery designer can take the existing Adobe FrameMaker templates, modify the templates as needed to support online content, and then use the existing templates to create Stationery. If writers use both Adobe FrameMaker and Microsoft Word but are not yet consistently using templates, the Stationery designer creates a new standard set of both Adobe FrameMaker and Microsoft Word templates for writers to use when authoring content.

After the Stationery designer prepares source document templates for the content authoring tools writers use, the Stationery designer uses ePublisher Designer to perform the following tasks:

After the Stationery designer creates the Stationery, the Stationery designer places the ePublisher Stationery and source document template files on a shared network folder for writers to use as they author their content, prepare their source documents for output generation, and generate output.