You can use SDL XML Professional Publisher (XPP) to format and paginate your publication and create a PDF, or you can publish a PDF using a third-party PDF publishing engine.
Before you begin
If you will use SDL XPP, it must be installed and configured. If using a third-party PDF publishing engine, you must perform additional setup (see "Configuring third-party output formats").
Before publishing a very large publication, increase the Tomcat session-timeout on the Contenta Web server to be long enough to encompass the time it takes to export all files from Contenta to the file system, and increase the Tomcat session timeout on the XPP server to be long enough to encompass the time it takes to create a PDF of the publication.
Note: The last step of the publish process (copying the PDF from the XPP server to the Contenta Web server) may not complete if the PDF is very large (larger than 100Mb). In this case, the output PDF, cas2xpp.pdf, can be found in the XPP JOB directory on the XPP server.
About this task
When you publish a PDF, you select the publication modules, applicability, format, and other options. The publishing options that are available in your publishing configuration may vary.