I ran into this same issue without the includeTopic tag.  I looked in my logs and it turned out there was an exception on parsing the document so it could not generate a pdf and instead gave me an html.  Make sure that exception is not in your logs.....if it is, look through and it should be complaining about some xml element(for me it complained about <describe> element not being valid html).....then I edit it in wiki mode(do not use the wyswig), and I deleted this element and the pdf feature started working again.

dean

-----Original Message-----
From: Vern Kyle [mailto:vkyle@acm.org]
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 5:17 PM
To: xwiki-users@objectweb.org
Subject: [xwiki-users] includeTopic and PDF issue

I'm working on a large document that I've split into sections using
the includeTopic tag.  However, I notice that once I use an
includeTopic tag, that PDFs can no longer be generated (it tries to
open an html page rather than a pdf.)  Is there a workaround to
prevent this behavior?

Also, is there an xwiki bugs page to see if items like this have been
submitted prior?

Thanks in advance,

Vern