Converting Eclipse Help to PDF

These are instructions for converting Eclipse 3.3.2 help libraries to PDFs using Word 2007 and Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard.

  1. In Eclipse, open the help dialog (Help > Help Contents).
  2. On the left hand side, click the top category so it is selected.
  3. From the menu bar, select ‘Print selected topics and all subtopics.’
  4. A web page containing the help pages will open.
  5. Click ‘Cancel’ on the print dialog, as we do not actually want to print the website.
  6. Save the web page to your computer (File > Save Page As…).
  7. Open the saved web page (ie, help.htm) in Word 2007.
  8. Make any layout changes you desire (ie, page breaks, etc).
  9. Go to the ‘Acrobat’ tab and select ‘Create PDF.’
  10. Accept the default settings and click ‘Save.’
  11. The PDF will be created.  Depending on the file size this can take several minutes.  Note that although the table of contents contains links, they do not actually work in the PDF, even though bookmarks are created.

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