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kochga
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July 10, 2007
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Can I Use Headers/Footers in Printed Output?

  • July 10, 2007
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I use RoboHelp to create Help documentation associated with a device simulator and need to show header and footer information in every page of printed output. Although the Word window that is associated with RoboHelp indicates full header/footer capabilities (as in the usual standalone Word application), no header or footer information comes through when I print topics.

Is there something obvious that I'm overlooking? Thanks.
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kochgaAuthor
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August 8, 2007
I don't want to create "printed documentation"; what I want to do is have the headers and footers appear when the user accesses the Help file from within the application and hits the Print button. I've experimented with the topic templates and come up empty.
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Anonymous
August 8, 2007
Check this article .

Hope it helps,

Brian
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Anonymous
August 8, 2007
I'm having the same problem. The article does not help. It will put it on each "page", but if each "page" is really 5 pages when printed, it will only put the footer on the last printed page. I need it to be on all pages when printed from the html. I've never found a solution for this, since you can't set IE headers and footers from a webpage.

You could figure out where it page breaks when printed and put in the footer manually with a print stylesheet that only displays when printed. It seems too much effort for reward on my part. Good luck.
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Anonymous
July 19, 2007
Robohelp has a help button when you are creating the printed documentation. I clicked that and searched on header and came up with a bunch of info. It says you can create headers and footers in topic templates or the topics themselves. Have a look at robohelp rather than having word try to supply the headers/footers.
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