Styling for printed topics from web outputs

[MadCapDanny]

Hello -- Is it possible to customize the styles and page layout for printed topics generated from HTML5 outputs? Any advice would be much appreciated!

[NorthEast]

Set up your styles in the @print medium, as that will be used when you print from a web browser.

[MadCapDanny]

It works! Thanks for the tip! BTW, do you know if it's possible to apply page layouts to printed topics?

Thanks again!

[robdocsmith]

Nope. Sorry, page layouts are just for PDF output, not printed-on-the-fly-from-a-webpage PDF output. There's only a limited amount of styling you can do with the print medium. The only way to ensure you get properly formatted and organised PDFs would be to create a PDF target and make that PDF available to your users with a button in the interface. You could create PDF targets for individual chapters and link those from the documentation, and create a batch target that builds not only your online output, but your PDF targets too.

Rob

[MadCapDanny]

Gotcha. Thanks for the advice, robdocsmith!