AEM Guides Publish - Course Description - Learn DITA Maps and Omnichannel Publishing

Nov 1, 2026

Adobe Experience Manager Guides (AEM Guides Publish) introduces a component content management approach for collaborating on modular DITA content and reusing it across multiple output channels. The course covers creating DITA topics and assembling them into DITA maps, using Adobe visual tools, and understanding map XML in Source View. It also teaches configuring and generating native PDF publishing, creating PDF presets/templates, and producing HTML, improving consistency and accuracy through omnichannel workflows.

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Adobe Experience Manager AEM Guides Publish Course description: Adobe Experience Manager Guides (AEM Guides) is the ideal tool for a Component Content Management System (CCMS). A successful CCMS enables us to collaboratively create content, easily access and reuse modular content, and publish content to multiple channels including print, PDF, and websites. AEM Guides was formerly named XML Documentation for Adobe Experience Manager or simply XML Documentation for AEM. AEM Guides extends AEM by providing a full suite of visual XML Editing tools. DITA stands for Darwin Information Typing Architecture and is an open standard managed by OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. The DITA specification enables creation and management of topic-oriented information by defining a set of document types and a set of rules. AEM Guides enables us to easily create and collaborate on DITA assets with easy-to-use WYSIWYG online web editors. You will learn how to create DITA maps and publish documents in this class. Prerequisites: None, but knowledge of AEM is helpful. Objectives: After completing this course, you will be able to: • Structure modular DITA Topics into DITA Maps. • Use Adobe’s visual tools to create maps. • Understand the XML structure of maps in Source View. • Create a PDF Preset. • Create a PDF Configuration Template. • Modify properties in the PDF Configuration Template. • Generate a PDF with Native PDF Publishing. • Support omnichannel publishing of content. • Achieve greater consistency and accuracy across channels. • Generate HTML from your DITA map. Course Materials • AEM Guides Publish Student Manual AUDIENCE • Content Authors and Designers who need to create DITA maps and publish them in various formats with Adobe AEM Guides. PRODUCT VERSIONS • AEM Guides 4.1 and higher LENGTH • 4 hours Start Learning Today [training@smartdoctech.com](training@smartdoctech.com)

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What is AEM Guides Publish used for?

It provides a CCMS-style workflow to collaboratively create, access, and reuse modular content, then publish it to formats such as print, PDF, and websites.

Which skills does the course train?

Learners create DITA maps from modular topics, use Adobe visual tools, work with map XML in Source View, and publish outputs including native PDF and HTML.

What are the prerequisites and course duration?

There are no formal prerequisites, though AEM knowledge helps. The course length is 4 hours.

Nov 1, 2026

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