Gem Doc is great propriety software which can be used to publish a single text file into various other formats. At times, there are some text files that need to be converted into other formats, and Word is not the best choice for this task. This combined with the fact that as a source for documents, it consumes a lot of space. Now, with Gem Doc, you can easily convert your SGML, XML or HTML files into CSS styled HTML files, PDF, RTF, CHM, PS, Text and SGML file.

Conversion Features
We have taken an in-depth look at what GemDoc has to offer to the CHIP reader. XMl: XML files (Extensible Markup Language), a subset of SGML files (Standard Generalized Markup Language) can have extra elements in them and they are primarily used to share documents and serialized data across systems, but they do not tell the browser how to display it. So, you can easily create a text document with tags, save it as an XML file, and then use GemDoc to publish it to formats like HTML, PDF and even text. While this may seem like extra work to write your source files in XML format, it actually is a good idea, since it can be easily published to, for instance, RTF format. Gem Doc creates appropriate text formatting, page numbers and even the table of contents with reference links, thus making it easy for the end user to navigate through a help file or an instruction manual. To aid the conversion process 'Select' the source file to be published; it can be a single file or multiple files of three format types, HTML, XML or SGML.

Check the document formats you want to publish to; a list of choices are available-Single HTML, Multiple HTML, RTF, PDF, Text, PostScript and SGML. Then switch to the tab of the corresponding document format to set the text properties. In the HTML properties tab you can opt to tidy up the HTML coding using the encoding options like Latinl, ASCII, IS02022, UTF8 and RAW, with XHTML output, set the type of CSS style sheet you want the application to employ, and whether to delete the original file after the conversion process.

PDF: The PDF properties tab has additional options available, where you can set the background, font and link colors, title page and logo images, set the display mode
of the resulting PDF documents, specify and customize the page size, margins, headers and footers, as well as document orientation, add in security features
to guard your PDF file with specific permissions, for instance, to annotate, copy, modify or print, and you can set the compression levels and standards, and
set the table of contents options such as links, levels and title page. CHM (Microsoft Complied HTML Help) files are a great way to create context sensitive help files, and with Gem Doc you can specify your own title page, opt to show the context IDs in the footer, and keep the source HTML and CHM build files.

POSTSCRIPT: PS (PostScript) files are based on the same page description language and are useful since there is a standard way to define page images, and they
can be used on any brand of printers to position high quality images and text on the same page, there are many applications which convert documents into PS file before sending them to a printer. As such they also provide a uniform display across platforms too. With Gem Doc, you can publish your source file to PS format, specifying characteristics like compression level and quality standards, margins, page sizes, font colors and images.

FOR: Wide range of publishing formats to choose from.

AGAINST: It has an unpolished look which will dissuade beginners from using it.