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zeppm
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December 12, 2014
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How do I embed graphics into a RoboHelp HTML file?

  • December 12, 2014
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I am using RH 11 and generating to WebHelp.  My developers want the Release Notes to be one HTML file with the graphics embedded and not linked.  They are okay with having a cascading style sheet.

How do I get my Release Notes set up so that the graphics are embedded and not linked, such that there is one HTML file and a cascading style sheet?

Thanks!

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Captiv8r
Captiv8r
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December 12, 2014

Hi there

Are you sure your dev team isn't messing with you?

To my knowledge, there is no way to embed graphics in an HTML page. They are always linked. HTML doesn't behave like Microsoft Word does.

Cheers... Rick

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zeppmAuthor
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December 12, 2014

Yes, they are very adamant about wanting one HTML file for the Release Notes.  They want the Release Notes to show up on the Help menu as one item separate from the rest of the Help on that menu.  This is how they have always done it.  I don't know how my predecessor did it, and nobody here knows how my predecessor did it.  My manager doesn't know how he did it.

I'm thinking that I'm going to have to do the Release Notes in Word and save them as HTML rather than have them in RoboHelp.

I even tried to capture the Release Notes in SnagIt, but SnagIt does not save as HTML.

Captiv8r
Captiv8r
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December 12, 2014

What I might advise is to open the older version where it has what they are expecting. Click the link and inspect things. As you are working in RH 11, and assuming your predecessor was as well, it should be pretty easy to do. Just right-click what opens and begin to inspect.

The only way I'm aware of to create a single file containing images and everything is to create either a Microsoft Word document or an Adobe PDF. Perhaps your predecessor was doing that. Only detective work will ferret that out.

The bottom line here is that the very nature of HTML and the way it works is to link to things. Images are always separate objects that are linked to in some way. I would be happy to see an example, any example really, that has an HTML page with an image that is embedded. It's just not possible to achieve. Even if you take a Word document and save it as HTML, you will end up with any images as being separate objects.

Cheers... Rick

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