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lcolby7867542
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February 12, 2008
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FM style DHTML effects? (RH 7.01 update)

  • February 12, 2008
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Hi - I just updated RH7 to version 7.01 (via Adobe Updater). One improvement in the readme caught my eye:
"Frame Maker style with DHTML effects when mapped to a RoboHelp style do not retain DHTML effects on mapping." (of course, this means that the update is supposed to fix this issue...)

Jain, or anyone else, can you explain in more detail how to use this feature? That is, suppose I want to map some FM text to an expanding hotspot in RH. How would that be done?

Related perhaps - is there a way to mark up FM text so that a pop-up text box in RH could be created automatically during conversion?

Thanks,
Linda
BTW, the update addresses several issues that will be of interest to members here.
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Mayank_Agrawal
Mayank_Agrawal
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February 13, 2008
Please consider the following features of RoboHelp.
RoboHelp allows a user to map styles present in source FM document to RoboHelp styles present in fmstyles.css.
Also, one can apply DHTML effects on a CSS style in RoboHelp using RoboHelp style editor. There is a set of DHTML effects which RoboHelp provides.
By combining the above two operations, one can achieve applying of DHTML effects on text imported from FM document in RoboHelp.

Here are the detailed steps to achieve this
1. Open Style Mapping dialog during Add(for Technical Suite only) or Import or from properties dialog of added FM document. (Style Mapping dialog can be invoked by clicking the Edit button for Style Mappings under "Style Settings" dialog/tab)
2. Click "Styles" button. Style Editor dialog opens.
3. Create a new style or modify an existing style.
4. Open DHTML effects dialog using the "Format" button.
5. Apply the available DHTML effects.
6. Click OK to close the DHTML effects dialog.
7. Click "Close" button to close the Style Editor dialog.
8. Map the required FrameMaker style with the newly created/edited style.
9. Click OK to close the style mapping dialog.
8. Complete the Add/Import in case of a new document or do Update in case of already added document.
9. Preview the corresponding genrated HTML topic. DHTML effect should appear.

Please note that the DHTML effect for creating an expanding hotspot is not availabe in the list of DHTML effects created thorough CSS style editor. However, there are numerous other useful DHTML effects available.

Please let us know in case you face any issue.

Mayank
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