Publish Lite offers a range of formatting options, helping you to customize the general appearance of your publication using themes, improve the layout of content using the layout tools, and even calculate the best overall layout using the AI-driven Auto Layout tool.
These tools provide an opportunity for designers to ensure that their publications look professional and coherent. They can make use of styling to draw attention to important information, make sure content items are legible, and so on.
Important: Consider who will see your publication and what information they want to know; the answers to these questions will guide you in your formatting and design decisions.
Publication formatting
Themes and covers
Themes control the visual aspects of your publication, setting the fonts, colors, layout, and default styling to be used throughout your publication's pages. Using a theme ensures that your publication has a consistent style, fitting in with your corporate or other branding, and making sure that all Grids, Visuals, Slicers, and Text Fields have a shared, professional appearance.
- For more information, see Themes and Cover Pages in Publish Lite
Layout tools
You can use the layout tools to automatically "snap" items to your grid when you add them to your canvas, align and distribute items relative to the canvas or to one another, and group individual items that you want to manage as if they were a single item. These tools help you to professionalize the appearance of your pages.
- For more information, see Layout Tools in Publish Lite
Auto layout
You can select an auto layout template to optimize the layout of the content items on each page. The Auto layout feature uses an AI engine to rearrange the content items on the canvas using a selected template. This optimizes the placement of content items, while ensuring consistent spacing between items. The auto layout feature provides templates that you can choose from, based on the types and quantities of content items on the canvas.
- For more information, see Auto Layout in Publish Lite
Content item formatting
The preceding topics all talk about tools and functions that help you to apply formatting across your publication. It is, however, important to remember that design and formatting also apply at the individual content item level. You can re-size and rotate items on the canvas, change the color of one shape on one page, and set font formatting on the ribbon or from the right-click context menu when you select a text field.
- For more information, see Publish Lite Canvas
Visual Options
By default, visuals are added to the canvas in a standard sized panel with its appearance (the font size used by the grid, the legend styling, and so on) dictated by its theme. You can use the visual formatting options in the ribbon to override these defaults and control the appearance of your visuals.
- For more information, see Configuring Visual Options in Publish Lite