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Anonymous
April 29, 2019
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Background images not appearing in chm output

  • April 29, 2019
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We have an icon that is used for all our desktop shortcuts.  I know I can add it in the heading of a master page,  but it's small and I thought it would work embedded as a non-repeating background image for my h1 heading tag.  It looks great while authoring and appears as expected in the responsive HTML output, but the image is just missing in the chm output.  The heading is moved to the right to accommodate the image.  It just doesn't display.  Is this supposed to work?

Jim

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Correct answer Captiv8r

That would be nice, but at least it's a work around if it's going to require a patch to the program.


I'm wondering if perhaps you could do it this way.

Just add the image to the bottom of any topic. Just one topic. Then click to focus the image, and in the properties panel on the right side, expand the Layout section and configure the Display attribute to None.

My thought is that this will trigger the image to be included when generating the CHM file, but be completely hidden in the topic where you added it.

Cheers... Rick

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Captiv8r
Captiv8r
Legend
April 29, 2019

Hi there

You don't say what version of RoboHelp you are using. But if it's 2019 (Classic) or earlier, you may find that you need to add the image to the list of Baggage Files.

Yell back if you aren't sure how to accomplish this.

Cheers... Rick

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Anonymous
April 29, 2019

We're brand new to RoboHelp and am not using the classic version.  The image is in the assets/image folder and the CSS finds it for display in authoring and output.  It just doesn't show in the chm.

Captiv8r
Captiv8r
Legend
April 29, 2019

Hmmm

Perhaps give this a try. Pick any topic you want or create a new topic. Add the image to a topic. Ensure the topic is in the TOC. Then generate the CHM file and see if it makes an appearance.

Cheers... Rick

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