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The Production page

Awaiting review. Converted from the retired kotahi.community documentation and not yet checked against a current Kotahi release.

Introduction to the Production page

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The Kotahi Production interface is designed to radically reduce the cost and time for producing various formats such as HTML, PDF and JATS (XML). It can also be used for author proofing.

Kotahi Production page with an editable manuscript, a formatting toolbar, a left structure panel listing ‘Front Matter’, ‘Abstract’ and ‘Funding Group’ JATS tagging tools, a ‘Download’ button, and a footer reading ‘0 comments and suggestions’.

The interface is simple but powerful. In the production editor, you will see the manuscript displayed. This is entirely editable. On the right we see a download dropdown menu.

Detail of the Production page with everything dimmed except the ‘Download’ button and its dropdown arrow in the top right corner, highlighting where export formats are chosen.

From this dropdown menu, you can select PDF, JATS and HTML. PDF is generated using Paged.js (see documentation). JATS is created automatically by Kotahi and validated. HTML comes straight from the content displayed in the editor.

If you wish to improve the granularity of the JATS files you produce, you can use the tools on the left menu (see JATS documentation in this manual).

You can also access the PDF (Paged.js) editor, which can be used to alter the CSS or template before exporting to PDF. Although accessed at the manuscript level, changes here will reflect all manuscripts exported as a PDF.

Where the rest of this is documented

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