D. Export

The ultimately decisive step is of course exporting your project. This means transforming the text from the editor into a fully formatted, layouted publication. 

This of course will likely be not only your last step in preparing your publication, but also a step to double check, whether all your settings in the template work as intended. Also to double check hyphenation, exporting the publication in its intended format is crucial.

If you briefly want to check, whether a change you just made has led to major shifts in the layout, the hyphenation in the following lines, etc. or you want to briefly check, whether e.g. a css-class formatting is working as intended, "Render Preview" (on the right, purple arrow) is the ideal option. 

You simply click on "Render Preview" and will see that first a green banner ("Started preview rendering.") appears and after a couple of seconds a panel next to the editor text appears, where you can scroll through the rendered document. You can also increase the zoom in the panel, as well as adjusting the screen division. 

The time it takes until the preview appears depends on the length of your project.

If you want to export your project as pdf or in other formats, simply click on the "Download" Symbold (on the left, yellow arrow).

What export formats are available to you depends on the output formats you have previously set up for your template. You can create different file formats as outputs (e.g. PDF, epub, xml), but also diverging versions, e.g. a PDF with and without bleed, for print and the digital version.

You can also choose to not export the entire project but only selected chapters. Simply select "Only Selected Chapters" and another menu opens up, where you can tick all chapters out of the current export format that should be exported.

Note: If you export only selected chapters, they will nevertheless have page numbers starting from 1. Hence, if you export your second chapter (that normally starts with p. 20), it will now begin with p. 1.

 

When your files are ready, you can see the following panel:

 

Simply click on "Download Files" - the download of a zip-file then starts automatically. You will find the zip-file in your downloads, simply open it and there you go: your publication with Publish Goods!