RE: Review tools

Subject: RE: Review tools
From: "Wright, Lynne" <Lynne -dot- Wright -at- Kronos -dot- com>
To: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>, "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:50:26 +0000

Ah... actually, i've been exporting confluence content to Word first (using Scroll Office), THEN generating a pdf. That way, I was able to control the page breaks.

Still couldn't get the content to export to Word without far too many formatting errors; like fonts randomly switching from regular to bold. Scroll Office claimed it was either because I'd imported pre-formatted content into Confluence, but I recreated my page from scratch, but I was still having problems.

Just wondering if anyone has found a way to export from Confluence to Word or pdf and have it come out looking the way you want it to/formatted the same way it is on the Confluence page.


-----Original Message-----
From: techwr-l-bounces+lynne -dot- wright=kronos -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com <techwr-l-bounces+lynne -dot- wright=kronos -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 12:45 PM
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Subject: Re: Review tools

Scroll Office exports Word. Scroll PDF Exporter is the plugin you need to publish professional-looking PDFs from Confluence source.

You can control page breaks, though as with any other topic-oriented tool you don' t get a preview of where they will be while editing as you would with a page-oriented tool such as FrameMaker or Word.

Since Confluence is a web application, it can't use Acrobat Pro.
Printing a Confluence topic from your browser using Acrobat Pro would not give good results.

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 9:24 AM, Wright, Lynne <Lynne -dot- Wright -at- kronos -dot- com> wrote:
> I am on Windows and have Acrobat Pro: but I was still getting conversion glitches with and without using the Scroll Office plugin.
>
> The other limitation with generating pdfs from Confluence pages is that you don't have control over where page breaks fall.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: techwr-l-bounces+lynne -dot- wright=kronos -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> <techwr-l-bounces+lynne -dot- wright=kronos -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> On
> Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 12:18 PM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: Review tools
>
> Getting PDF output from some applications is not trivial if you're on Windows and don't have Acrobat Pro.
>
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 6:49 AM, David Artman <david -at- davidartman -dot- com> wrote:
>> Well, if you can get PDF output from the tool--and that should be
>> trivial, even if only by using Print to File and Distiller ...
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RE: Review tools: From: David Artman
Re: Review tools: From: Robert Lauriston
RE: Review tools: From: Wright, Lynne
Re: Review tools: From: Robert Lauriston

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