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April 15, 2008
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Hyperlink color and fmstyles.css

  • April 15, 2008
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When I import my FM book in RH, I use fmstyles.css, which works fine for the heading formats etc. - But for some reason, the hyperlink text colors specified in my fmstyles.css are overruled by some other color settings. So I have to manually re-assign fmstyles.css to all the RH topics, each time I have updated my FM book.
Is this an error, or can I fix this somehow?
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April 24, 2008
In my FrameMaker document, I had assigned no special character format to the cross-reference format(s).
In RoboHelp, I had specified the colors for hyperlinks in fmstyles.css.

Anyway, I tried to assign a paragraph format to the cross-reference format in FrameMaker, and then map this character format to a character format I created for this purpose in RoboHelp. When updating in RoboHelp, the result was still the same. - I can't control the hyperlink colors via fmstyles.css when updating.

Anyway, I don't quite understand how this could be a mapping problem. When I assign the fmstyles.css to the the documents in RoboHelp manually, I get the correct colors. - This tells me that the color information in fmstyles.css is correct, and that the problem is that this hyperlink color information from fmstyles.css is not included when updating/importing in RoboHelp. ... Am I right?
Inspiring
April 16, 2008
You may want to check your mapping file. How are these hyperlinks imported from FrameMaker? Check character formats applied in FrameMaker and see if you have mapped them correctly in RoboHelp...