The Print Manual Designer is a separate program used for editing the .mnl print manual template files that define the layout and appearance of your published PDF files and printed manuals.
In addition to defining the layout of your PDF pages, you can also add additional pages and content not included in your project, including cover and back cover pages, an introduction, a formatted table of contents, title pages for individual chapters, headers and footers, a formatted index and multiple endnotes pages. You can also add your own custom pages and insert topics from your project and external Help+Manual XML files.
The Print Manual Designer has its own help so this topic only describes the basic procedures for opening templates for editing and selecting them in your projects. Print manual template files have the extension .mnl.
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If a PDF template has already been used with the current project you can select it directly in the menu and load it into Manual Designer.
If you have not yet used a PDF template you should start with one of the standard templates included with Help+Manual. It is generally easier to edit an existing template, because all the necessary objects have already been added and you just need to modify them. The standard templates can be found in the \Templates\pdf folder in the Help+Manual program directory, which is normally C:\Program Files\EC Software\HelpAndManual8.
You will need to make a copy of any standard template you load from the Help+Manual program directory storage to be able to edit it. To do this, select Save As... in the menu and save it in your project folder.
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If PDF templates have already been used with the current project they are listed in the Templates & Skins menu. You can select one of the templates directly in the menu and it will be opened with Manual Designer.
Note that you can use different templates for PDF and print manual output.
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You select the template to be used with your project in the Publish settings when you are publishing your project. Once you have made a selection there Help+Manual will remember the setting the next time you publish your project to PDF.
Selecting a template for Adobe PDF output:
1.Select Publish in the File menu and then select PDF as your publishing format.
2.Select the PDF template you want to use by clicking on the drop-down area shown above.
Selecting a template for printed manuals:
1.Open your project, click on the File menu and select Print Manual.
2.Select the PDF template you want to use by clicking on the drop-down area shown above. |
See also:
PDF and Printed Manuals
PDF and print manual templates
Adobe PDF
Printed manuals