Include content from wiki in pdf output

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John Johann
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Include content from wiki in pdf output

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The info on embedding html objects in the online help seems to rule it out, but I'll ask anyway as I can't test at the moment. :-)

How can I include contents from an intranet wiki page when publishing to pdf?
Formatting is a secondary issue, I'd just like to be able to include certain info automatically on publishing.
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Hi John,

The #MERGE command only inserts HTML directly into the page without any conversion, and it is only exported to HTML formats. That rules out PDF and Word, since they are not HTML. :?
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Hi Tim,
Thanks -- any workarounds?
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John Johann wrote: Thu Nov 19, 2020 12:23 pm Thanks -- any workarounds?
Not if you want the content to be merged on publishing. You can import HTML pages into your topics directly, of course, but that then becomes part of the topic page and doesn't update after that. I would suggest just including a hyperlink to the URL of the wiki page. 8)

PS: I'm still not sure whether your first name is John or Johann -- the name works both ways round in English, just like Henry James... :)
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