The Workbench allows you to print any content object, this can be a folder (a book, a chapter, etc) or a single topic.
Printing content from the Workbench
If you popup the menu on the tree node you can see the the 'Print' menu item has a sub item per supported language. If you select one of the language sub items the web browser will open to extract the content over the web and to launch the print request.
The moment the print request is launched a page will inform you that printing is busy. HelpServer converts its content to PDF format to support printed output. So, your browser should have the Adobe Reader plugin installed to read and print the generated PDF output. The minimum required version is Acrobat Reader version 6.0.
Mozilla FireFox
To display PDF files inside the Firefox browser window, you can use the built-in PDF Viewer or the Adobe PDF reader plugin.
To change from using the built-in PDF viewer to your Adobe PDF reader plugin:
| 1. | At the top of the Firefox window, click on the Tools item (=ALT+T) in the menu bar and then select Options. |
| 2. | Select the Applications panel. |
| 3. | Find Portable Document Format (PDF) in the list and click on it to select it. |
| 4. | Click on the drop-down arrow in the Action column for the above entry and select Use Adobe Acrobat (in Firefox) . |
Google Chrome
To display PDF files inside the Google Chrome browser window, you can use the built-in PDF Viewer or the Adobe PDF reader plugin.
To change from using the built-in PDF viewer to your Adobe PDF reader plugin:
| 1. | Type chrome://plugins/ into the Address bar of Google Chrome and press Enter. |
| 2. | From the dialog that opens you can disable the default Chrome PDF Viewer and enable the Adobe Reader. |
Internet Explorer
| 1. | Open Internet Explorer, and choose Tools > Manage Add-ons. |
| 2. | Under Add-on Types, select Toolbars And Extensions. |
| 3. | In the Show menu, select All Add-ons. |
| 4. | In the list of add-ons, select Adobe PDF Reader. |
| 5. | Click the Enable or Disable button (it toggles depending on the status of the selected add-on): |
| • | Enable sets the Adobe PDF Reader add-on to open PDFs in the browser. |
| • | Disable turns off the add-on so it does not open PDFs in the browser. |
Please be patient, the print formatting process can take awhile.
Print in progress
As soon as the print process is finished the web browser engages your Acrobat Reader to open the PDF file. Then you can than read through the entire document and print the entire file or only the pages you need.
Content opened in the PDF file
Some web browsers might popup their File download window prior to opening the file so that you can choose to open or to save the resulting PDF file.
Opening the PDF file
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Should the print fail, read Step 3B Installing on a workstation without a graphical user interface |
In a book it is common practice to have page breaks at chapter level, which is usually the first level in the book's table of contents. However, a folder (I.e a chapter) that is shared by multiple documents is not guaranteed to act as ‘level one chapter’ in each of these documents. So, a system that strictly separates structure and content and that supports shareable objects may not store these kinds of page breaks in the document (I.e the topics) itself. Instead, the page breaks are defined in another HelpServer object called a ‘Print lay-out’. The print lay-out allows you to set page breaks at the nodes in your document’s structure instead of in the topics' body.
If you still would require a page break in a topic you do this by pressing CTRL + Enter. A page break tag will appear at the cursor position. But we strongly advise you to use these kinds of fixed page breaks with care. The object concept of HelpServer does not leave any room for a 'Page view' which makes it hard for you to visually inspect the effect of your page breaks.
A fixed page break in a topic
