Liquent InSight Rendering 4.4 Administration

Configuring Content Types for Rendering

The rendering to PDF documents is accomplished using plug-ins. A plug-in is a format translator that can also contain entity identification rules. Each plug-in must be associated with a content type so that InSight Rendering can determine which plug-ins to use for processing a source document.

Every source file has a file format descriptor. File format descriptors can be either a file extension or a DMS attribute assigned to a document. For example, the file type of a Microsoft Word document in a file system is doc, while it is msw<version> in Documentum. If you are using two or more DMSs, then you must create a content type for each file format descriptor included in your publications. If a document’s file format descriptor is not associated with a plug-in, then InSight Rendering cannot render that source document.

Note: Perform this domain-level procedure on only one repository in a domain.
To configure content types:
  1. In Domain Manager, click the Configuration tab in the left pane.
  2. Expand Domain and click Content Types.
  3. In the right pane, the File Extension column shows the file extensions for which plug-ins have been associated. To change a content type settings:
    1. Right-click the content type and choose Properties.
    2. Continue to step 5.
  4. To associate a new content type with a plug-in, right-click in the right pane and choose New content type.
    The Content Type Properties dialog box opens.
  5. In the File Extension box, enter the file extension, without the period, to which the plug-in is to be associated.
    You may also associate a plug-in to a Documentum file type.
  6. In the Description box, provide a description of the content type.
  7. In the Plugin box, select the plug-in to associate with the file extension.
  8. Check Create Bookmarks if you want to use the plug-in to generate bookmarks in your rendered output.
  9. To customize the rendering or bookmark extraction settings for a content type, click either Rendering Options or Bookmark Options.
    If the content type permits customization, the button will not be greyed-out.
  10. Click OK to close the Add Content Type dialog box.
  11. Repeat steps 3 through 10 for each content type that you need to configure.
  12. Choose File > Save to save your changes.
    Note: On international operating systems, if you configure the bookmark options for the Microsoft Word content type to use template extraction, and then after rendering a document you attempt to reconfigure the bookmark options, you may receive an error. If this occurs, delete and then recreate the Microsoft Word content type to reconfigure it.