Generate output using the default publish settings

Understand how you can generate output using the default publishing settings, know the Publish dialog box in Adobe FrameMaker.

The FrameMaker publishing solution allows you to publish content (.ditamap, .xml, .book, .fm, .mif) to any of the available output formats.

Choose File > Publish to display the Publish panel. The Publish panel allows you to publish FrameMaker content to one or more of the available output formats.

When you open the Publish panel, the drop-down list defaults to the currently active document or the book/ditamap file.

You can publish the content to a single output format or multiple output formats.

Publish content to a single output format

To publish content to a single output format, do the following:

  1. Select the format in the list. Click Generate Selected Output.

    Alternatively, double-click the required output format.

    When the publish process is complete, the Publish Result dialog displays the location of the output.

  2. You can view the output in the default application (Adobe Acrobat for PDF, a web browser for Responsive HTML5, or an eBook reader) or you can view the log details of the process.

You can also directly open your eBook in Kindle Previewer. Click View Output in the Publish Result dialog box to directly open your eBook in Kindle Previewer.

Suppose you see an error while opening a .mobi file directly in Kindle using this feature. In that case, you may need to modify your system’s registry to map .mobi files with the Kindle Previewer application.

For doing so, please refer to Register an Application to Handle Arbitrary File Types

in Microsoft documentation.

Publish content to multiple output formats

To publish content to multiple output formats, do the following:

  1. Click Generate Multiple Outputs.

    In the Generate Multiple Outputs dialog:

    • The Last Generated column displays the last generated date of the specific format

    • The Status column displays whether or not the specific format has been published

  2. Select the output format to publish. Click Generate.

    As soon as the Progress dialog closes, notice that the Status column of the selected formats is now set to Generated.

  3. To view the output in the default applications (for example HTML in a browser) for the selected formats, click View.