Making PDFs in Confluence

In the mailbag this week, a reader asked if there's a way to convert a Confluence wiki into a PDF. When we get our Confluence wiki off the ground, this will be an absolute necessity for our team too since we have some customers who are not online 24/7. I've found two ways to make a PDF: 1. Make a PDF of a single Confluence page In Confluence, find the page that you want to turn into a PDF. Click Tools, then select Export to PDF. Save the PDF somewhere you'll be able to find it. 2....
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Copying a Space from one Confluence wiki instance to another

At the moment I have a Confluence wiki installed on my desktop. Next we want to install Confluence on a server to test the integration of the wiki with our Umbraco website and LDAP security. So that we can demo Confluence to others in the group quickly, I need to copy a Space from my local instance of Confluence into the new instance on the server. I've searched the Confluence documentation, and it looks like I need to export the space as a zipped XML archive, and then import the xml archive ...
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Integrating Confluence and JIRA (part 2)

Last time, I left off at the point of displaying JIRA issues on a Confluence page. I'd found a way to insert single issues. But I want to display a list of all the issues going into the release. The Atlassian documentation says to use the JIRA Issues macro, so that's what I'll try. [Confluence 3.5, JIRA 4.3] 1. Create a search in JIRA for the issues you want to display In JIRA, click Issues to open the Issues Navigator. On the Summary tab, click Create new. In the panel, select yo...
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