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 Cameo Collaborator allows you to export an open document or a part of it to PDF and HTML formats. You can generate PDF documents of 100,000 pages or more.

PDF templates are customizable and can be modified according to your needs. You can find them in the <install_root>/WebAppPlatform/shared/conf/data/collaborator/pdf directory.

By default, you can export up to 400 sections to PDF and up to 3000 sections to HTML.

To change the export to PDF/HTML limits:

  1. Open the <install_root>/WebAppPlatform/shared/conf/webappplatform.properties file.
  2. Do one or both of the following:
    • Add the export.limit.size.pdf property to the file and specify the maximum number of sections to be exported to PDF as its value (the default value is 400).
    • Add the export.limit.size.html property to the file and specify the maximum number of sections to be exported to HTML as its value (the default value is 3000).
  3. Restart Web Application Platform.


To export a Cameo Collaborator document to PDF/HTML

  1. Open the Cameo Collaborator document you want to export.
  2. Click on right side of the app bar and select an Export document to PDF or HTML.
  3. In the open wizard, click the Type drop-down box and select Document.
  4. Click the Document scope drop-down box and select one of the following scope options:
    • Active section - exports the open section of the document.
    • Active section's presentation elements - selecting this option allows you to choose which elements of the active section will be exported as displayed below.



    • Active view - exports the open view of the document selected in the app bar.
    • Whole document - exports the whole document.
  5. Click the Next button.

  6. Specify the following export properties:

    • Choose the format of the target document by selecting the PDF or HTML radio button.

    • To add a cover page, turn on the Cover page switch. A cover page contains the document name, export date, project information, and document information.

    • To add a page with the table of contents, turn on the Table of contents switch .

      Adding the table of contents works only when exporting documents to the PDF format.

    • To protect the generated file with a password, turn on the Password protected switch and enter the desired password in the Password box. 

      Enabling password protection works only when exporting documents to the PDF format.

    • If you want to use a custom template to generate a PDF or HTML, click the Template drop-down box and select the template you want to use. If the document does not have any custom templates, the drop-down box is disabled and the default template is used.
    • Click the Media numbering drop-down box and select one of the following options:
      • Generate automatically - all images in the generated document are numbered automatically while disregarding any image numbers that were changed manually.
      • Use current numbering - all images in the generated document are numbered the same way as in the Cameo Collaborator document.
    • Click the Section numbering drop-down box and select one of the following options:
      • Automatic numbering - all sections in the generated document are numbered automatically.
      • None - sections in the generated document are not numbered.
    • Click the Break page at drop-down box and select the heading after which page breaks are added in the generated document.

      You cannot add page breaks when exporting documents to the HTML format.




  7. Click the Finish button.
  8. When you get a message that the file is ready to download, click the Download button.

Note that exporting a large document may take a while, so be patient while the file is being generated. You can check the file status in the Task Manager.

Installing additional fonts

If your Cameo Collaborator document uses fonts that are different from the default font used in documents, you need to install Microsoft TrueType core fonts as described below. Otherwise, the exported PDF/HTML files may not support these fonts.

Additional fonts must be installed on the server on which the document exporter runs.


To install additional fonts

  1. In the command-line interface, execute the following commands:

    sudo yum install curl cabextract xorg-x11-font-utils fontconfig
sudo wget http://rpmfind.net/linux/epel/7/x86_64/Packages/c/cabextract-1.9-7.el7.x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh cabextract-1.9-7.el7.x86_64.rpm
sudo wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/olea.org/msttcore-fonts-2.0-6.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh msttcore-fonts-2.0-6.noarch.rpm
sudo fc-cache -fv

  2. Restart Web Application Platform.


The URLs used in the commands above are subject to change. Always make sure that you install the latest versions of fonts.