Automatically Image-Resize On Printed Documentation Output

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January 25, 2012
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Hello,

I'm again

I have one new problem.

If I generate a printed documentation as *.docx file, RoboHelp is resizing my images.

I insert screenshots in the topics und gave them new width and height values.

If I generate the output as *.docx, RoboHelp take my image, keep the width, but resets the height to the original one. So I have horrible stretched pictures

How can I solve this problem?

Does somebody maybe know it?

Cheerio,

Denis

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gjg097

Inspiring

I ran into an issue similar to this in Robohelp 11. The images looked fine in the help project in Robohelp, CHM help file, and MS Paint. However, the images were stretched too tall when viewing them in the .DOCX printed documentation in MS Word 2013 or Windows Photo Viewer. The width looked okay. After some troubleshooting we discovered that these images were probably generated by taking a print screen (e.g. ALT+PRINT SCREEN) then pasting the image from the clipboard directly into Robohelp. I pasted from the clipboard into MS Paint as well and saved the picture, then confirmed it displayed fine in Windows Photo Viewer. I noticed the resolution b/w the two was different: Robohelp-pasted 49 dpi horizontal/27 dpi vertical vs. MS Paint 96/96. Maybe that's it? Anyway, I'm going to avoid pasting directly into Robohelp from the clipboard.

Peter Grainge

Community Expert

Usually if the image is wider than 7 to 7.5 inches in the Design Editor, it is worth reducing the image size to within those parameters.

If you have SnagIt or some similar tool, you will get better results than right clicking the image and resizing in Rh. Else open the Toolbox pod and choose the Resize Tool, that works in a different way to right clicking and gives a better result.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips