Building and Viewing PDF Output

Now let's build the PDF output.

How to Build PDF Output

1. In the Project Organizer, expand the Targets folder.
2. Double-click the All-About-San-Diego-PDF target.
3. In the local toolbar of the Target Editor, click . The Builds window pane opens at the bottom of the Flare interface, and the target begins to build.

How to View PDF Output

After you have built your output, you can view it. In the Builds window pane, you can double-click the row. Alternatively, in local toolbar of the Target Editor, you can click . PDF output opens in your default PDF viewer.

Review the San Diego Project in PDF Output

Following is a list of things you might want to look at in the PDF output. When you build your HTML5 output (see Building and Viewing HTML5 Output), compare the two and see how these items differ.

• Snippets and Condition Tags Open the Introduction chapter, and notice the content at the top that is contained in a snippet. It looks just like the rest of the content in the topic. Also notice that the condition was applied correctly in the snippet so that the paragraph mentioning the PDF guide displays, but not the paragraph talking about a website.
• Cross-References Look at the context-sensitive cross-references in the Cuisine chapter. Notice the page number and reference to "the next page" instead of just providing the names of the headings.

• Drop-Down Text and Images In the Attractions chapter, notice that the drop-down effects display as regular text. You'll also see some light gray horizontal lines. These are associated with the drop-down style in the stylesheet. So they might be more appropriate for online output but not such much for print output. If you want to get rid of them in the PDF output, you can use the Print medium in your stylesheet to remove the bottom border from the MadCap|dropDown style (see Mediums).

  Also, notice that the images on these pages are full size, not thumbnails.

  And finally, if you notice a heading at the bottom of a page that you want to push to the next page, you can do this easily with page breaks. See Breaks.