RE: Changing Font size in chm files generated by RoboHelp

["Paul Neshamkin" <pauln -at- helpauthors -dot- com>]

Bonnie,

What you said was news to me, so I tested it with various IE installations.
I found that changing View | Text Size in various versions of IE had no
impact on font size in any of the .chms tested. 

As far as I know, the font size the author specifies (and I think it's very
rare that an author wouldn't specify font and size) is what you get. Going
to Options |Internet Options from within the .chm, only allows the user to
change font (not size) and then only for text that is not already specified
as a particular font.

WinHelp, of course, had a menu item for choosing font size (Options | Font |
Small, Normal, Large), but I know of no setting in HTML Help to enable that.

Let me know if I'm missing something.


Regards,
 
Paul Neshamkin
pauln -at- helpauthors -dot- com
 
MS Help MVP
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WexTech MVP, and Certified Trainer
 
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Of Bonnie Granat
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 12:28 PM
To: 'Gurpreet Singh'; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: Changing Font size in chm files generated by RoboHelp

All of the .chm files I run on my computer depend on IE's text-size setting
for the font size. I think it's a bad way of doing it, personally. So, your
users can control the font size in .chm by adjusting their browser's font
size. Unfortunately for me, I read IE in "smallest" text size, so I always
have to change it if I want to read help files, because it ends up minuscule
(and yes, that's the correct spelling of the word).


Bonnie Granat
http://www.GranatEdit.com
 
> Is it possible to create chm files with Robohelp that have the 
> capability to let user change the font size?
> 
> Gurpreet Singh


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