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I am not sure if this is what you are after, but here goes. You *can* use Robo to create an overlay using the "Positioned Text Boxes" feature. Positioned text boxes can contain text, images, tables, and any other content that you use in a topic.
1. Open the topic that has the image onto which you want to overlay another image.
2. From the Insert menu, select Positioned Text Box. A little box will be displayed.
3. Right-click inside the positioned text box and select Positioned Text Box Properties.
4. In the Position Section, enter the sizes desired.
5. Click the Borders tab. Select None for the border, since, generally when you do an overlay you don't want a border.
6. Click the Shading tab.
7. In the Color drop-down list, select Transparent from the top of the scrollable list so the background color is clear (and therefore you can do an overlay).
8. Click OK.
9. Back inside the topic, ensure that the blinking cursor resides inside the positioned text box, and then click the Insert Image icon ( looks like a little picture frame) on the toolbar.
10. In the Image dialog, click the folder icon and navigate to your other image, the one you want to overlay (or get it from wherever it is)
11. Select it and click Open.
12. Click OK to close the Image dialog.
13. Click Yes when Robo informs you that the image will be copied to the project folder.
This should work - Hope this helps!
Barbara Y.
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From: Sue Ahrenhold writes:
Remember the question:
I am importing Word documents into a RoboHelp HTML project. ...
Is there a way to layer images in an HTML file? Or do you have to perform the layering in a graphics editing program, then import the image into the HTML file?
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