How to configure PDF output

[ehsansadeghi]

Is it possible to change the style and look of a generated PDF file from RoboHelp?

[Willam van Weelden]

Hi,

You can style it any way you want:

     1. Create a custom style mapping.dot, add the styles from your style sheet and modify the standard word styles.

     2. Output a word document and do some post processing. (Peter Grainge's site has some usefull macro's).

     3. Create a PDF from the word document.

Greets,

Willam

[ehsansadeghi]

thanks for the reply, but is it possible to do it RoboHelp HTML not Word? Becouse I have DITA map files that I have imported into RoboHelp and want to be able to configure the PDF output as well.

ehsan

[Willam van Weelden · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I'm not using DITA maps, but I create printed documentation (pdf) from RoboHelp HTML. My previous post had nothing to do with RoboHelp for Word, sorry for the misconception. You create a word document or a pdf whenever you output printed documentation.

To create a pdf, I output printed documentation. As far as I know, RoboHelp always makes a Word document which it then converts to pdf. I just don't let RoboHelp generate the PDF so I can still change the Word document. In the printed documentation screen, deselect Generate Adobe PDF and select Generate Word doc. Just modify the word document and then create a pdf out of that.

Greets,

Willam

[ehsansadeghi]

thank you.