Removing Topics for a review

[Guest]

Hello,

I was wondering if there was any way to have certain topics not build to the pdf review process. I can't seem to find any options on it and was wondering if any one knew a way to do this.

I am trying out using conditional tags but am not having any luck on the pdf output with this.

Thanks for any help.

[Captiv8r · Accepted solution]

Hi there

To my knowledge, the PDF output uses the same Conditional Build process other outputs use. So you should be able to tag the undesired topics, then generate the PDF by specifying a conditional build expression that excludes the tagged information.

Cheers... Rick

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply.

I have tried that, unfortunately, the File | Convert to Adobe PDF and Send for Review doesn't give me the option to define a conditional build process.

I am using RoboHelp 7, and I can't find any way to get the File | Generate PDF or File | Convert to Adobe PDF and Send for Review to do this.

Do you know of any?

[Guest]

You could try running a Printed Documentation output to Word (using a conditional build to exclude topics) and generate a PDF from the Word file, provided you have a tool for going from Word to PDF. It's an extra step, and you may have to deal with the styles and formatting, but in the end it should get you what you want.

--Ben

[Peter Grainge]

Just create a new print layout and only include the topics you want.

[Guest]

Thanks everyone, I am still very new to RoboHelp and just found the Single Source Layout Pod that allowed me to generate a PDF using the Conditional Build Tags.

Thanks alot!!!!!!!

[Guest]

Ok, so the conditional tags are not working, but...I can choose to output only the topics that I want.

This is exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks again to everyone.