diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/index.adoc b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/index.adoc
index 461d3a31145..e9e41e1aca8 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/index.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/index.adoc
@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@ include::authors.adoc[]
 v{spring-boot-version}
 include::attributes.adoc[]
 
-This document is also available as {spring-boot-docs}/html/[Multi-page HTML], {spring-boot-docs}/htmlsingle/[Single page HTML] and {spring-boot-docs}/pdf/spring-boot-reference.pdf[PDF].
-
+This document is also available as {spring-boot-docs}/htmlsingle/[a single HTML page] and as {spring-boot-docs}/pdf/spring-boot-reference.pdf[a PDF].
 
 The reference documentation consists of the following sections:
 
diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/index.singleadoc b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/index.singleadoc
index 3763f21d43a..64cb4b83fc4 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/index.singleadoc
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/index.singleadoc
@@ -4,8 +4,12 @@ include::authors.adoc[]
 v{spring-boot-version}
 include::attributes.adoc[]
 
-This document is also available as {spring-boot-docs}/html/[Multi-page HTML], {spring-boot-docs}/htmlsingle/[Single page HTML] and {spring-boot-docs}/pdf/spring-boot-reference.pdf[PDF].
-
+ifdef::backend-spring-html[]
+This document is also available as {spring-boot-docs}/html/[multiple HTML pages] and as {spring-boot-docs}/pdf/spring-boot-reference.pdf[a PDF].
+endif::[]
+ifdef::backend-spring-pdf[]
+This document is also available as {spring-boot-docs}/html/[multiple HTML pages] and as {spring-boot-docs}/htmlsingle/[a single HTML page].
+endif::[]
 
 include::legal.adoc[leveloffset=+1]