The Confluence wiki is a great tool to collaboratively write technical documentation, training materials, reports, requirements specs, ... But hey, wouldn't it be nice to use that content for manuals, hand-outs, books, brochures, etc.? The Scroll Wiki Exporter lets you do this - it turns your Confluence wiki into the source for single source publishing. In contrast to Confluence's built-in export functionality, Scroll builds a semantic model from the wiki pages. From there it produces various output formats (currently DocBook and PDF). Also, it separates content from representation. That way an export can be themed in many ways. Scroll 1.1 comes with two exciting new features:

• Pluggable and Configurable Themes: Space administrators can now configure their own themes - for example they can define TOC generation, header and title page images, and many more with a few clicks. If more customization is needed Scroll supports so-called theme plugins, which are based on the DocBook XSL stylesheets.
• RenderX XEP is now embedded as PDF Rendering Engine: XEP is one of the world's leading rendering engines for PDF, Postscript and other formats. With RenderX XEP Scroll will be capable of rendering high-quality output for printing books, brochures, etc. Given that fact, we are happy that Scroll with XEP embedded still comes at a very reasonable price.

Scroll 1.1 is available through the plugin repository (as a Confluence Admin go to Confluence Admin > Configuration > Plugin Repository and search for Scroll). For manual download and installation it is available at the Atlassian Plugin Exchange. The complete list of feature and improvements can be found in the Scroll 1.1 release notes. For more information about Scroll please visit our website (http://www.k15t.com/scroll) or watch the recorded webinar from November 5 at the Atlassian News Site (http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2009/11/video_scroll_wiki_exporter_plugin_for_confluence.html). About K15t Software K15t Software develops single source publishing and documentation solutions based on new, collaborative technologies (also known as "Web 2.0"). Its flagship product is the Scroll Wiki Exporter for Confluence a single source publishing solution for Atlassian Confluence.

In case you have missed the Scroll webinar help by Tobias Anstett you can now watch the recorded video. (In case you cannot watch this video due to firewall issues let us know, we can provide a downloadable version.) Also, this is a good time to follow us on Twitter.

Tobias Anstett, co-founder of K15t Software will be showing of the new features of Scroll at a Atlassian-hosted webinar on Wednesday. From the announcement:

Next week we are hosting a webinar with K15t Software who are presenting the Scroll Wiki Exporter Plugin for Confluence. This plugin allows you to create professional documentation from Confluence pages. This is a an absolute must-see webinar for anyone who likes to export documents or print from the content within Confluence. I can imagine anyone writing a book, students, technical documentation writers, or trainers would greatly benefit from this type of functionality. REGISTER NOW: Thu, Nov 5, 2009 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PST

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