•Topic content:
When you publish to PDF the entire content of your topic files is exported to PDF with all its formatting and layout as you define it in the Help+Manual editor. Only the margins are set in the print manual template because there are no margins in the H+M editor, which is designed primarily for electronic documentation formats.

•Topic headings:
The text of your topic headings are exported from your project as plain, unformatted text. No other content from the header box is imported (i.e. no graphics, hyperlinks etc). The formatting, positioning, spacing and layout of the topic headings are defined in the print manual template. You can use either the topic caption from the Table of Contents (TOC) or the topic header from the header box above the H+M editor for your topic headings. This is useful because it allows you to use longer (heading) or shorter (caption) versions of the heading texts as necessary.

Your topic heading texts are inserted in the Table of Contents and Topics sections of your print manual templates using variables. The <%HEADING1%> ... <%HEADING6%> variables insert the headings from the TOC captions for topics in the TOC levels 1-6, the <%HEADINGLONG1%> ... <%HEADINGLONG1%> variables (Topics section only) insert the headings from the heading box above the H+M editor.

For more details see the help of the Print Manual Designer program.

PDF is a special case because only topics with TOC entries can be included in PDF documents. If your project contains "invisible" topics that are normally only displayed with hyperlinks from other topics you must add TOC entries for them to be able to include them in the PDF version of your output. This is very simple to do with the knowledge you now have:

1.Create TOC entries for the "invisible" topics: Either drag the topic file into the TOC or create a "new" topic and select the topic ID of the invisible topic with the browse button in the Topic ID: field of the new topic dialog. You might want to organize these TOC entries as one or more special chapters in your TOC.

2.Apply build options to the new TOC entries so that they are only included in the PDF version of your output. See See Including and excluding TOC entries above for instructions.