Exporting pages using scroll pdf exporter

[Mary_Reader]

Is there any app on confluence or tool that gives a better look and feel for exporting confluence pages? Currently exporting documentation that is given to customers and the  look and feel is not great. Are there any templates that cater to a product catalog for a professional look and feel?

[Tomislav Tobijas · Accepted solution]

Hey @Mary_Reader ,

As you and Rajat mentioned, I'd say Scroll exporters are the most powerful ones. (although I haven't tried out that many other solutions)

We did use the Scroll Word exporter in my previous workplace, and I can say you could configure pretty much anything when it comes to content design, formatting, etc. ⚙️
We even worked with the marketing team to design a Word template and placeholders for exported content, and after the export, you would potentially need to make some minor adjustments - but I'm talking about 4 hour work max. for exporting a handbook with 100+ pages. 👀

Again, that's only my experience, and I have maybe tested 1 or 2 other apps related to exporting, but none were that versatile when it comes to use cases we had.

Cheers,
Tobi

[Peter_DevSamurai]

We use Scroll PDF Exporter for Confluence to publish our Confluence as well!

[Mary_Reader]

Thanks Tomislav, appreciate it. I didn't know that scroll word existed.  Is that a new feature? We have scroll pdf exporter.  How did you get scroll word? I've created templates in my company's brand and used them right within confluence, but I like your idea of designing a word template with placeholders. Our documentation runs about 1500 pages so is tricky with a good look and feel...especially tables with large amounts of data.

[Tomislav Tobijas]

@Mary_Reader 

I didn't know that scroll word existed.  Is that a new feature?

It's just a separate app - Scroll Word Exporter for Confluence 
If you already have the PDF exporter app, then you would need to buy this separately (or switch to this one)

@Kris Klima _K15t_ can probably give more insights on this and the benefits of one over another :)

[Mary_Reader]

Yeah, it seems we don't have the scroll word exporter...only the scroll pdf exporter. It seems like this would come in handy. Thanks!

[Kris Klima _K15t_]

@Tomislav Tobijas Thanks for the prompt :) 

@Mary_Reader - There's also an HTML exporter to complete the trinity of exporter apps - PDF, Doc, HTML :) 

It's basically to each their own, it really depends what is your use case and/or what does your target audience need and/or prefer.

Years ago, before I joined K15t, I worked for CA Technologies as a tech writer. We used the Scroll PDF exporter next to an Epub exporters.

The reason: customers of our mainframe software tools needed printable copies of entire doc sets due to compliance (and practical reasons). However, the Epub format was deemed more accessible for electornic access, more portable and usable on iPads, and more consumable in partial ad hoc exports.

Some store doc exports as individual pages in Sharepoint and that format work for them.

To me, as a natural born tech writer and content manager, aka nerd, the magic of those exporter apps is not in only in nicer look though, it's that they play well with our content management apps, so I can control which pages, heck, which lines on which pages will be exported in my PDF/Doc/HTML space exports. Or I can create unique PDF export for specific customers from a single space.

Let me know if you want to learn more or a demo.

[Mary_Reader]

Thank you for this information, Kris, good to know. Very helpful!

[Rajat Pratap Singh · Accepted solution]

I see that you have already mentioned in the title about the scroll pdf exporter app.
This does let you design and reuse custom templates with branding, fonts, headers/footers.
It also offers different templates for different document types

Ref: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/7019/scroll-pdf-exporter-for-confluence 

Regards
Rajat

[Mary_Reader]

Thanks Rajat, I'm finding the templates to be useful.