Printed Documentaion

[tmccoysrc]

In RH7 I am trying to produce a thorough printed manual for a very large online Help project. I have 2 conditional tags: Online and Print. I need to apply these tags to multiple places within multiple topics and do not see a straight forward way to do this.

Is there a way to flag hyperlinks automatically so they get left out of the Printed Documentation? Currently the text comes out in the printed documentation, but with no link. Likewise I will need to supplement a hyperlink with its relevent information...i.e. see page # with topic name.

I just don't want to have to do this manually to 300+ pages.

Any help or suggestions to where I can find more info on this is greatly appreciated.

Tara

[Peter Grainge]

To apply a condition to just part of a topic, you have to go into it individually.

I am not clear whether you want the links out because they are not working or because you just don't want them. If it is the former, they will work if you have the option ticked in the wizard.

There is a method on my site for adding page numbers after links.

See Printed Documentation.

[tmccoysrc]

Thanks for the response. Looks like I have a lot of tedium ahead of me.

For clarification, I want the links out of the printed document because they won't work on paper. Someone reading the manual would instead need to know what page the referenced information was on. Are you saying there is an option for this, what wizard are you referring to?

The online version works like a dream... Too bad people can't shake a bad paper habit!

[Peter Grainge]

You will have to leave the links in the Word document and then run a Word macro that is on my site. After each link it will add See Page Number NN (or your own text before the number). However, the macro needs the links to run. I guess afterwards you could reformat them to not look like links but does it matter. If the first topic explains they are reading a paper version of the help, I would hope the readers are bright enough to work it out.