Publishing

The Publish menu turns your project into a finished file. Everything is generated from the same typeset document you have been watching in the preview, so what you download is what you saw.

PDF

The two settings most people care about are at the top:

• Watermark — text stamped across every page, for circulating drafts. Options opens the appearance settings for it.
• Include Cover — whether the cover image is included in the file.

Then the print-quality settings:

• Resolution — Screen, Print, or High-Res Print. Higher settings embed images at greater detail and produce larger files. Use Screen for review copies and High-Res Print for anything going to a printer.
• Color Mode — RGB (optimised for screen), Grayscale (optimised for black and white printing), or Full Color (optimised for colour printing). Choosing Grayscale converts the images rather than leaving that to the print shop, so you can see the result before you commit.
• Portion — Entire Project or just the current chapter. Exporting one chapter is much quicker when you are chasing a single layout problem.

Finish with Print, which opens the browser's print dialog, or Download, which saves the PDF.

ePub

The ePub export has a single option, Include External Links, which controls whether links out to the web are preserved in the ebook. Click Export to build and download it.

Inkwell's ePub is generated from the same source as the PDF, so the two stay in step. Page numbers are embedded, fonts are subsetted, images are compressed, and mathematics is included as SVG so it renders properly on e-readers rather than being flattened to bitmaps.

Other formats

• Html — the book as a web page.
• LaTeX — choose a LaTeX template, then either LaTeX Source for the .tex files or PDF to have Inkwell run the LaTeX toolchain for you. This is the route to take when a journal or publisher wants LaTeX sources.
• Microsoft Word — a .docx, for collaborators and publishers who work in Word.
• Markdown — plain Markdown.
• Inkwell Backup (.inkwell) — a complete archive of the project: text, images, files, and settings. This is the format to keep for your own records, and the one to use when moving a project between accounts. It can be read back in through Insert → Import from Inkwell.

Export issues

Every export runs a check first. If anything could not be carried across into the chosen format, Inkwell shows a report headed "Export finished with warnings", listing each problem. Where the problem is a piece of your manuscript, clicking the entry jumps straight to the place that caused it.

This matters most for the lossier formats: Word and Markdown cannot represent everything that PDF and ePub can, so the report is where you find out what was dropped, rather than discovering it later in the finished file.

The report covers the book's details as well as its content. An author listed in the book settings but left without a name cannot go into an ePub — the format will not accept an empty author, and shops that check the file reject it — so that author is left out and the report says so. If none of the authors has a name, the ePub lists no author at all.