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DGR2
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September 1, 2009
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Printing Out Individual Topics in RoboHelp8

  • September 1, 2009
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Dear Forum,

I'm using RBH8 and would like to publish individual topics in PDF format to give out to users.

What is the easiest way to do this? And is there anything fancy that I can add to the publishing process to output a professionally looking document?

Thanks in advance,

DGR

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Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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September 1, 2009

You could try printing each topic to PDF from the browser but I doubt you will get the appearance you want.

You can add something to your topics that changes the CSS used when the user prints a single topic. I'll have to dig that out later.

Otherwise you are into using the printed documentation layouts and one topic per layout would get tedious. Could you not produced a PDF of a section of the help to reduce the number of docs? Topics would have a link to the PDF.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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Willam van Weelden
Willam van Weelden
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September 1, 2009

Hi,

"You can add something to your topics that changes the CSS used when the user prints a single topic." What you're looking for is a print style sheet. Instead of just attaching a style sheet, you add media="print" to the style sheet. The browser will use this style sheet for printing, instead of your normal style sheet. If you haven't defined a media for your other style sheet, the print style sheet should overwrite your normal style sheet.

Greet,

Willam

Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
September 1, 2009

Thanks W I L L A M 

Folks, please not the correct spelling of Willam's name. I got it wrong as well to start with but as he is giving a lot of valuable advice, let's try harder to get his name right.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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