Print Manual Template:

This selects the template to be used for formatting your project when you output to PDF. This template controls the appearance and layout of your PDF document and the elements it contains.

You can also use the template to specify which elements (index, TOC etc.) you want to include in your PDF output.

Clicking on the Design button opens the selected template for editing in the Print Manual Designer program.

Interactive PDF document:

Generates a PDF designed for interactive on-screen viewing. When you select this option you can also select active hyperlinks and an interactive Table of Contents (see below).

Similar to a printed manual:

Generates a static PDF designed for printing rather than on-screen viewing. Automatically disables all the other interactive options in this section.

Create Table of Contents:

Generates an interactive Table of Contents which is displayed in the "Bookmarks" section of Adobe Reader. Only available for interactive PDF documents.

Note that this is not the same as the Table of Contents section configured in the print manual template, which is designed for use in printed PDFs.

PDF has active hyperlinks:

Makes all the hyperlinks in your PDF output active. Topic links, Internet links and file links (without parameters) are all supported. See Links, Anchors, Macros, Scripts and HTML for more information. Only available for interactive PDF documents.

Note that the active links will only be visible if you activate the Underline topic links and paint in color option (see below).

File links - embed linked files:

Activating this option physically embeds external files in the PDF file so that you can distribute additional files with your PDF document. Only files linked to in your document with file links will be embedded.

Insert page referrers:

Inserts a small icon containing the link target page number after every hyperlink. Recommended for PDFs designed for printing.

Underline topic links and paint in color:

This allows you to choose whether the links in your PDF are visible and defines the color.

If you turn this off in a PDF document with active hyperlinks the links will still be active but they will be formatted as normal text and will not be visible!

Ignore blank pages in PDF file:

If you configure your print manual template to start chapters on odd pages you will have blank pages in your PDF file. This is fine for printing but not so good for on-screen viewing.

This option enables you to suppress the blank pages without editing the print manual template. Don't forget to turn it off after using it, however – otherwise it's easy to think that "Start on odd page" isn't working!