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PubleX Documentum Environment |
PubleX is an Open-Sourced project aimed at providing a comprehensive and cost-effective solution to electronic publishing.
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PubleX seeks to be a freely available publishing engine that is capable of fulfilling the needs of the corporate publishing world.
The goal behind PubleX is to allow a publisher to edit, create, manage, and publish a wide range of documentation from fictional, non-fictional, technical, and non-technical publications to html web sites, PDF, Microsoft Word document format, or other various format electronic books.
PubleX is aimed at customization to make the job of creating these publications as simple as possible, whether it is done on a single end-user's desktop, multiple desktops joined by a network, or over the internet using some form of CVS repository. PubleX seeks to be highly customizable by natively supporting XML UI elements and the LUA scripting language. Plug-in modifications would allow further customization making use of such scripting languages as Perl, JavaScript, VBA, and PHP. These customizations will allow PubleX to be customized to each of its users. Those users who specialize in publishing a specific type of publication will be capable of customizing the interface to be streamlined toward their own needs.
At present time, various "editor" mode formats are being considered for support within PubleX. These formats will be capable of being directly edited and saved without a change in format. These formats are mark-up languages such as SGML, XML, and HTML. Other formats being considered for "publishing" formats - requiring PDE to "publish" to these formats - are Rich Text Format (RTF), Microsoft Word Document format (DOC), PDF, Postscript, and OpenOffice.org 2.0 OpenDocument format (ODT).
Additional features scheduled for implementation include dynamic link managment, a built-in SGML and XML DTD-based editor to minimize mark-up DTD context violations, a customizable dictionary for spell-checker specific to each publication, and a modifiable document tracking process that will easily allow publication control personnel to dynamically track to position and condition of any given document within a publication. The document tracking process will also include an automatic stage and version control system that will perform dynamic backups and SVN tasks as edits are made.
PubleX DE is primarily designed to be used by corporations employing several people to manage various positions within the publication process, but can easily be configured to be used by individuals and small project alike.
Contact the project administrator on his user page or visit our Help Forum for more information.