Publish PDF output

With RoboHelp, you can generate PDFs of individual topics or an entire map file. You can publish your content in a PDF format using the native PDF publishing workflows.

Native PDF Publishing

When authoring content, it becomes essential to ensure that the content is optimized for viewing, editing, and printing. Using standards such as the W3C CSS3 for content styling and CSS paged media standards for page definition properties such as size, margins, orientation, page breaks, headers, footers, and page numbering, you can set the view and layout for your PDF document ensuring consistency and usability. The Native PDF publishing feature uses these standards to generate a PDF.

With native PDF publishing, you can use predefined templates to ensure consistency in content layout and structure, apply stylesheets to alter the view-and-feel of your output, optimize PDF, set printer marks, allow screen reader support, set PDF conformance, embed fonts and much more.

Generating a PDF using Native PDF publishing has two aspects:

• Use templates to apply styling to content, set page layouts, and various settings to fine-tune your PDF. Authors can choose to use or modify the sample templates provided or create custom templates and set advanced configuration options used by publishers and developers.
• Create or configure a PDF output preset to control the PDF settings. Once you create a PDF output preset, you can generate the PDF.
  For more information, view Generate a PDF Output.

Create a PDF Output preset

The first step in generating a PDF output is to create a PDF output preset, which is a collection of publishing properties assigned to a map. You can create an output preset for any project which is open in the Output Preset panel or configure an existing preset to quickly generate a PDF for the same map.

From the PDF output preset you can select a template, apply conditions, set restrictions to control how a user interacts with your PDF, configure advanced settings like compression, conformance, and more.

To create a PDF preset, follow the steps below: