Hello,
Is there any provision to view only one topic or child topic after making some changes instead of publishing the whole help.
We would like to immediately like to view how the page looks after making the changes,
Regards,
Prajakta Narkar
Viewing each page
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Re: Viewing each page
Hi Prajakta,
Welcome to the forum!
Although the formatting of your text will be pretty close to the final result, a direct view of how the resulting layout will look in your output is not possible. This is one of the restrictions of a tool like Help & Manual that edits source code that can be rendered into multiple output formats at any time. The actual layout of the page does not exist until the source code is combined with the template, and this is different for every output format.
With the exception of page breaks you can generate previews very quickly, however, using the following methods:.
You can publish individual topics by selecting the topics in the table of contents in Help & Manual with Shift+Click and Ctrl+Click. Then in the Publish screen select the "Publish selected TOC items only" option displayed in the Table of Contents dropdown when one or more topics are selected.
Note that if the selected item is a chapter its sub-topics will also be published. This cannot be prevented.
When previewing PDF you can produce a more compact PDF that will be generated more quickly with a minimal template: Make a copy of your .mnl PDF template with all sections turned off except the "Topics" section. Then no additional pages will be generated other than the topics. To turn off sections, deselect the option "Print this section" in the Pages > Page Options dialog in Print Manual Designer when editing the .mnl template file.
You can get an even faster preview with the Print Preview option in File > Print Manual, also with selected topics. Since printing uses PDF templates as well (the PDF is created, printed and then deleted) you can use the same template for this as well.
Welcome to the forum!
Although the formatting of your text will be pretty close to the final result, a direct view of how the resulting layout will look in your output is not possible. This is one of the restrictions of a tool like Help & Manual that edits source code that can be rendered into multiple output formats at any time. The actual layout of the page does not exist until the source code is combined with the template, and this is different for every output format.
With the exception of page breaks you can generate previews very quickly, however, using the following methods:.
You can publish individual topics by selecting the topics in the table of contents in Help & Manual with Shift+Click and Ctrl+Click. Then in the Publish screen select the "Publish selected TOC items only" option displayed in the Table of Contents dropdown when one or more topics are selected.
Note that if the selected item is a chapter its sub-topics will also be published. This cannot be prevented.
When previewing PDF you can produce a more compact PDF that will be generated more quickly with a minimal template: Make a copy of your .mnl PDF template with all sections turned off except the "Topics" section. Then no additional pages will be generated other than the topics. To turn off sections, deselect the option "Print this section" in the Pages > Page Options dialog in Print Manual Designer when editing the .mnl template file.
You can get an even faster preview with the Print Preview option in File > Print Manual, also with selected topics. Since printing uses PDF templates as well (the PDF is created, printed and then deleted) you can use the same template for this as well.
Regards,
Tim (EC Software Documentation & User Support)
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Prajakta Narkar
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Re: Viewing each page
Hi,
ok, Thank you for the information.
Regards,
Prajakta
ok, Thank you for the information.
Regards,
Prajakta