Configure publish settings

Understand how you can configure various publish settings for variety of output options in Adobe FrameMaker, understand style mapping and output settings.

When you publish content, the style settings such as heading and body, are defined by the Adobe FrameMaker template that is associated with the published document. Also, the output format settings such as the favicon and the search options are defined for each output format. However, the publishing solution provides a number of options to customize the style mapping and output format settings for the publish output.

You can customize the output settings from the Publish dialog, which is accessible from the main menu (File > Publish).

To customize the output settings:

1. Choose File > Publish to open the Publish dialog. Click Settings.

   In the Settings drop-down button, choose:

2. Select Edit.

   In the Publish Settings dialog, the Style Mapping tab provides the options to customize the mapping of source FrameMaker styles and the styles for the selected output. By default, the style mapping is obtained from the associated FrameMaker template.

   In the Style Mapping tab, you can customize:

   • Paragraph Styles

   • Character Styles

   • Table Styles

   • Cross Reference styles

   • Image Settings

   • General Settings

   Important: The Style Mappings options are available only for unstructured documents. For the structured documents, the style are mapped from the CSS file.

3. For unstructured documents: The FrameMaker template for the selected document defines the default styles for the publish output.

   To use the styles from any other FrameMaker template, click the Select button adjacent to the Use Template label.

   Important: Ensure that the template is currently selected.

   In the Manage Publish Settings Template dialog, select the alternate FrameMaker template.

   Tip: If you print a book that contains multiple documents, choose the template in this option to ensure that all the documents use the same style mapping.
   Note: The template that you select is used by the publish process. This means that the styles and settings of the FrameMaker source remains unchanged. The FrameMaker source continues to use the previously assigned template.

4. For unstructured documents: Use the options in the Manage CSS drop-down list to export or import the styles used for style mapping to or from an external style sheet (.css file).

   The file defines a set of CSS styles that map to the output styles as defined in the Styles option in the Publish Settings dialog.

   Important: The styles that you have customized in the Publish Settings dialog are defined as overriding styles at the end of the .css file. Each overriding style is defined with a FM_ prefix. The Output Style displayed is appended with an asterisk (*) to indicate a customization to the selected style.

5. To configure Output settings, go to the Outputs tab. This tab provides options to customize settings for the following output formats:

   • Responsive HTML5

   • Mobile App

   • EPUB

   • Kindle

   • Microsoft HTML Help

   • Basic HTML

6. After you complete the style mapping and output setting customizations, save the updated settings to a STS Settings File (.sts).

   Important: The settings file is a FrameMaker-specific file. This means that you cannot edit this file in any other program.