IBM Rational Publishing Engine V1.3 automates document generation from Rational solutions and third-party applications. It allows you to easily create documents for:

• Ad-hoc use
• Formal and informal reviews
• Contractual obligations
• Standards compliance

Rational Publishing Engine V1.3 delivers a number of key usability improvements around existing capabilities to further enhance the practitioner experience to build templates and execute them to document delivery. Additionally, focus is given to some consumability improvements within the Document Studio function to help improve template creation with an important feature delivery around the new template debugger. Through the debugger team, users can now more easily build up a standard template and resolve and issues before going through the export process.

There are also marked improvements to the output formatting that help the systems engineer and document controller with better cross references, tables, figures, text orientation, and new template elements to make the specification output more consistent with that which is displayed on the screen.

For improved security and authentication consistency, there are stepped up features and improvements to support digitally signed templates and output documents.

This release of Rational Publishing Engine delivers advanced support for reporting and document generation on a version-aware projects. Rational Publishing Engine document specifications are enhanced with the addition of a data source property that now identifies the configuration that will be used for document generation. Rational Publishing Engine lets the user to set the value of the configuration URI through a visual wizard and quickly get the output version required for delivery from the latest project data.

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