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Creating Style Sheet Mediums

A few mediums are already provided in your style sheet (i.e., default, print, non-print), but you can add as many new ones as you need.

How to create a style sheet medium

1. Open a topic style sheet.

2. In the local toolbar of the Stylesheet Editor, click and select Add Medium.
3. In the Rename Medium dialog, type a new name for the medium (without spaces).
4. Click OK.
5. Press CTRL+S or click to save your work.

Note: Although the application provides a medium called "print," you might find it useful to create a custom medium for print output, rather than using the "print" medium provided. There are benefits to using the print medium provided by the application, and there are other benefits to creating a custom medium. For example, if you want page breaks before a particular heading for print output, but not when users send online topics to the printer, it is a good idea to create a custom print medium. The reason for this is that browsers respect the settings in the "print" medium provided by the application. Therefore, even though your online output style medium does not have page breaks set before that heading, the application will see that you DO have a page break specified in the print medium. And when a user tries to print a topic from your online Help, the printer will start a new page at that heading. The solution is to create a custom print medium (perhaps calling it "PDF" or "XPS"), specifying page breaks in that medium, and using it for your print output (instead of using the "print" medium provided by the application).

WHAT'S NEXT?

After you create a medium and set property values for it, you need to associate it with a target. See Associating a Medium with a Target.

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