Printing multiple topics and creating PDFs

The IBM® Eclipse Help System (IEHS), and Eclipse Help System (EHS) provided with your Eclipse environment allow for printing a section of topics at the same time. With a local PDF distiller, you can print your topics directly to a PDF file format.
Note: To print topics to a PDF file format, you must have a PDF distiller that you can point to from the print preferences dialog. You can download a free version from the internet, or your company may have one available for your use.

To print a group of topics for hard copy or PDF in IEHS

  1. In the Contents pane, hover over the top-level topic for the section of topics you want to print and click the quick view button in IEHS quick view button.
  2. From the drop down menu, select Print this topic and subtopics. A new browser window opens displaying the topics you have selected to print.
    Note: IEHS only allows printing a maximum of 100 topics at a time.
  3. Access the printing preferences dialog for your browser to print the topics.
  4. OPTIONAL: To create a PDF from your selected topics, specify your PDF distiller as the selected printer.

To print a group of topics for hard copy or PDF in EHS

  1. In the Contents pane, select the group of topics you want to print, and click the EHS print button print button from the Contents pane toolbar.
  2. From the menu that drops down, select Print selected topic and all subtopics. A new browser window along with the browser printing preferences dialog will open allowing you to print the topics.
  3. OPTIONAL: To create a PDF from your selected topics, specify your PDF distiller as the selected printer.

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