Define Export Properties

Language & Time Zone

• Language - Sets the language for the text used in placeholder content. For example, the Export date placeholder, when defined to print the month name in full text, will use this set language for the translation. 

• Time zone - Sets the time zone used in placeholder content, like the Export date. Choosing to use the time zone of the Confluence instance will default to UTC. This setting can be configured to either use the time zone of the Confluence instance, or the exporting user, or for a specific regional time zone (ie. Australia / Sydney)

Labels

• Include/Exclude - define page labels in the template that correspond with page labels on your Confluence pages to include/exclude child pages from the exported page tree (learn more)

• Index terms - if checked, page labels will be used as index terms (learn more)

Content

• Enable numbered headings - if checked, headings will use the numbering defined in the export template

• Keep multi-column page layouts - if checked, the export uses the Confluence page layout

• Enable links to external websites - if checked, web links in the PDF will be clickable

• Enable links to Confluence - if checked, links to your Confluence site will be clickable

• Repeat table header if table breaks to a new page - if checked, table headers will be repeated on all pages that the table is exported onto

• Pagebreak - if checked, selecting this option will insert a page break after every Confluence page in the PDF export

• Comala Document Management - please see our documentation for further information regarding these export options

• Attachments - if the option Embed referenced attachments is checked, the generated PDF will contain the attachments included on the exported pages

Macros

• Show 'Table Of Content' macro output - if checked, the Confluence Table of Contents macro will be included in the export

• Show 'Child pages' macro (formerly known as "Children display" macro) output - if checked, the Confluence Child pages macro (if added to the page) will be included in the export

• Convert image gallery tables to lists - if checked, images in gallery macros are displayed in a list rather than a grid

• Convert Office macros to file thumbnails - if enabled, "Office Excel", "Office Powerpoint" and "Office Word" macros will be replaced by thumbnail images of the corresponding files. Otherwise the macro output will be exported.

Captions

• Figure captions - if an image is assigned a caption using the Scroll Title macro, you can select whether to display that caption before or after the image

• Table captions - if a table is assigned a caption using the Scroll Title macro, you can select whether to display that caption before or after the table

File Options

• Export filename - define placeholders and/or text for the filename to be used in the generated PDF. Selecting the + icon provides a selection of placeholders that can be used. If this field is empty, the filename will revert to the default. i.e. Document Title-Document Revision-Export date

• Optimize links for printing - if checked, a footer section is added to the exported document displaying the full URLs of all links on the page. Further customizations can be made to suffixes that are included for links to pages, figures and tables within the exported document. The following placeholders are available for the internal page and figure/table caption links:

  • Target Page = reference to the page number for the linked page or Scroll Title macro caption

  • Target Caption = reference to the Scroll Title macro caption title

  • Target Number = reference to the Scroll Title macro caption number

• Make document PDF/A-3 compliant - if checked, a PDF/A (ISO-standardized) version of the PDF is created upon export. This file type is intended for archiving purposes and long-term preservation of electronic documents.

• Image compression - define whether images are compressed in the export. Reducing the image quality (e.g. Low quality), increases the compression for exported images and will reduce the size of the exported file. As a result, images may appear distorted.

Bookmarks

• PDF Bookmarks -  define the number of heading levels used to create PDF bookmarks in the generated PDF Export. After choosing a specific heading level, PDF bookmarks will be created for the selected and all previous heading levels. e.g. Choosing Heading 3 will create bookmarks for heading levels 1, 2 and 3.

• Expanded levels - define how many bookmark heading levels are automatically expanded in the export. Bookmarks will be expanded up until the selected heading level

• Bookmarks Panel  - if checked, the bookmark panel will automatically be displayed when the export is opened in the PDF reader (eg. Adobe)

PDF Metadata

• Title/Author/Subject/Keywords - define metadata within the available fields to include in the generated PDF export