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Item Publishing

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Item Publishing
General
The dialog window
Settings
Attributes
Options

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General

WikidPad can publish wiki pages to html pages that can be viewed with standard browsers like Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer. Publishing can be done to a single html page or a set of html pages or one wiki page at a time.

To publish all or part of a wiki you can select predefined "Wiki / Export" functions from the main menu: These functions use the default settings as described below in "Settings". To override these settings or specify a different page collection, select "Other export ..." from the menu. This will bring up the export dialog window. The functions wíll however ask you for the destination directory.

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The dialog window

Publishing pages to html is at this moment combined with "DataExchange" into one integral export function. Both functions use the same dialog window. The options relevant to html publishing are:

• What to export
Specifies what you want to publish; the possible choices are: Choosing "Custom" will bring up the page list dialog, where the subset can be defined.

• Export to
Specifies to whát the pages should be published; the possible choices are: • Compatible filenames
Specifies whether to use ASCII-only filenames for the html files, so that they can be transferred to other filesystems without compatibility issues [1].

• Shows pics as links in export
Overrides the default application setting; see "Settings" below.

• Table of contents
Overrides the default application setting; see "Settings" below.

• Destination file/directory
Specify the folder where the generated html files should be stored. Overrides the default wiki setting; see "Settings" below.

Remark:
All files in the File Store that are referenced by the exportes pages using the relative Url "rel://" are copied to a "files" directory in the destination directory. This also applies to files in subdirectories of the file store directory. If these directories don't exist, WikidPad will create them.

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[1] On Windows XP and Server 2003 platforms the AppLocale utility might also be of help with export problems; see: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/apploc.mspx.

Settings

Attributes

• [export: false]
Excludes a page from being exported to html. "false" is the only possible value for this attribute.

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Options

• Default export dir.
Set the default export directory into which exports should go.

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• Start browser after export
Starts the current web browser after exporting to XML.

• Shows pics as links in export
If this option is checked, links to image URLs (those ending with .png, .gif or .jpg) are shown like other links in the export. If it is unchecked, the images (if available) are shown.

• Table of contents
Choose if you want a table of contents in tree form, list form or not at all.
For a single HTML page, the TOC is at the beginning of the page, for a set of HTML pages, it is a separate "index.html" file. Using "As tree" is recommended when exporting the whole or nearly the whole wiki, "As list" is better for small subsets of a wiki as the tree option gives unexpected results here.

• Title of toc
Set the title of the table of contents according to your language. The default is "Table of Contents". For German it could be e.g. "Inhaltsverzeichnis".

• Single page separator lines
Set the number of separator lines to separate wiki pages in a single HTML page on export.

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• Link color

• Active link color

• Visited link color

• Text color

• Background color

• Background image

• Doctype
Sets the DOCTYPE to use in the header of an HTML file. You should only modify it if you understand what it is doing.

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