Customizing PDF Output
ScreenSteps allows you to customize PDF output using PDF templates. A PDF template controls how your individual lessons or manuals look when you export to PDF.
Open Preferences
Create A PDF Template
Click on the PDF Templates icon in the toolbar (1). Now click on the + button (2) to create a new template. A new entry will appear in the Templates list (3). At this point you can enter a name for your template.
Configure Document Settings
Use the Document tab to change page size, orientation, font and other document specific settings.
Configure Title Page for Manuals
If you are using ScreenSteps Pro you can customize the title page that appears at the front of each manual. On the Manual Title Page tab you can do things like add a company logo, add a footer and customize the text size and color.
When entering footer text you can use HTML markup to customize text styling. For example, if you wanted to have a link to a web page that was bold and italicized you could enter the following text in the Footer Text field:
<b><i><a href="http://www.screensteps.com">Go to our website</a></i></b>
Note that if you want to have multiple paragraphs in the footer you must surround each paragraph with "<p>" tags.
<p>Paragraph 1</p>
<p>Paragraph 2</p>
Configure Lesson Instruction Settings
The Lesson tab allows you to customize the look and feel of your lessons. As you experiment with the step title settings the preview (1) will update.
Configuring Header & Footer
The Header & Footer allows you to customize the header and footer that will appear on each lesson page. In addition to selecting a logo for the header you can enter text that will appear in the bottom-right corner of the page. This screenshot demonstrates how you can use HTML markup to add hyperlinks in the footer. This example links to the screensteps.com home page.
Does anyone know if it's possible to insert a linebreak into the title text (on Manual Title Page)?
@magnus: There isn't a way to add line breaks to the manual title right now.
Is it possible to add the date of the PDF generation to the footer?
That would be great for ISO document control.
@andrew: Not currently.
Magnus, I have Adobe Acrobat Pro and I was able to create a PDF from a file where I had set up my manual title page in Word. I then combined my manual and my title page. You can delete the title page in the manual when you combine them. Worked perfectly.
Does anyone know if it is possible to customize the table of contents page in a PDF export? I want to add a title/header, the text "Table of Contents", above the generated toc.
Thanks, Sean
@sean: not currently. You would need to either a) export to Word, make any changes in your word processing app and then export to PDF from there or b) use a program that can modify PDF files to add the text to the PDF file that ScreenSteps generates.
Hi, is there any way how to configure/change text encodding while exporting into PDF? The thing is that some of Czech language letters are substituted with wrong symbols in final PDFs. Using UTF-8 usually does the trick. Can this be modified somehow? Thanks
@gorq: Are you on Windows? There are some issues with text input on Windows for some languages (I believe Czech is among them). The issue is that the characters are not being encoded properly when typed into ScreenSteps. We are trying to get this issue addressed but I don't have a timeline for when it will be fixed.
Is there any way to change the Font from Times New Roman?
@Sean -
Look on the Document tab in the first image of this lesson. There is a font setting there for PDF documents
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