Re: Robo "Printed Document" Graphics

["Chuck Martin" <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com>]

"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote in message news:221661 -at- techwr-l -dot-  -dot-  -dot- 
>
> One of my client companies decided to go with Robo X4 for
> their latest product's documents,

My condolences. Mine too. (Actually, I recommended X4 because they were
using 2000, and with time constraints and budgets, it was cheaperst and
easiest to simply upgrade.)

and we're finding that
> when "printed documents" are generated from the help
> project all of the figures are enlarged to full page width.
> I've been unable to identify any export setting that
> controls image size in RH printed document output (the
> HTML help file is generating correctly), and of course
> the RH help is just no help at all (am I the only one who
> finds it amusing that a major online help authoring suite
> has such lousy online help?).  Before I sit down to write
> a Word macro to reset all the image sizes to 100%, is
> there anybody who has any idea why the images are being
> enlarged and how to make it not happen in the first place?
>

Can I assume that you're authoring in HTML?

RH adds a *lot* of extra and unneeded attributes to the IMG tag. All that is
really needed it height and width. RH does this (for example)

<img src="images/HierarchyLayout.gif"
      style="width: 660px;
        height: 450px;
        border-width: 1px;
        border-style: solid;
        margin-top: 0px;
        margin-bottom: 0px;
        margin-left: 0px;
        margin-right: 0px;"
      width=660
      height=450
      border=1>

when all that is needed is this (again, for example)

<img src="images/HierarchyLayout.gif" width=660 height=450 border=1>

My question is: if you're authoring in HTML, are you adding the height and
width attributes to your images. I am (and I'm doing the actual authoring in
Dreamweaver). I make all my graphics half-size, but because there's no
percentage figures for the height and width attributes, I calculate half the
pixel height and width and enter those numbers.

When I output a Word document (embedding the .GIF graphics), when I look in
the Size tab of the Format Picture dialog box of one of the graphics in the
Word document, the Scale figures are set at 50%.

If you are using the height and width attributes in your IMG tags, then I'm
lost....

BTW, why do you need graphics at 100%?

And no, we're not surprised that a "major online authoring suite" has such
"lousy" online Help. It's been that way for years and versions; it's likely
that they are too committed to their six-month(!) new version development
cycle (gotta churn for that income) to bother improving the docs or fixing
long-standing bugs.


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Chuck Martin
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