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dlengland
Inspiring
July 16, 2015
Question

Image quality when re-sizing graphics in RH 11 project

  • July 16, 2015
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Good morning all,

I've added PNG images to my project using the Insert Image function but they're too large (1081 x 1922) and need to be re-sized. When I edit the size in the Image Properties box, the image loses so much quality they almost can't be used.  The original images were taken from a Word document where I believe the images were simply screen captures that were pasted into Word without being saved as an image file first.  The resulting images in Word were then saved as pictures and then added to the RH project.  (Hope I've explained this clearly.)

Any help with what's wrong with this process and how I might use these images from the Word doc would be greatly appreciated.  Re-creating the images that were the original screen shots in Word would be a monumental task so I'm hoping that's not the problem.

Thanks as always.

Diane

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KimberlyO
KimberlyO
Inspiring
July 16, 2015

Hi Diane,

Have you checked the image quality in your output format? The reason I am asking this is because in RoboHelp 10 editor, for me, the image quality looks fuzzy and basically unreadable but when I create my Word user guide and .chm files, the images look "normal".  (However, if the images were crap to start with, like the images in my inherited FrameMaker projects, they stay crap. No amount of Harry Potter wizardry will help.)

Kimberly

Captiv8r
Captiv8r
Legend
July 16, 2015

Hi all

When using images, you never Ever EVER want to just insert them and use the dialog to "size" them to fit the area you want. You should always open the image in an image editing tool such as Gimp, Photoshop or SnagIt and rescale the image to the desired size and use it in RoboHelp projects that way. If you really need the image to be much larger, make a copy of it, then link from the smaller scaled down image to the larger one.

Cheers... Rick

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dlenglandAuthor
Inspiring
July 16, 2015

Thanks for that lesson, Rick.  So is it a stupid question to ask what the re-size functionality is for...when you WOULD use it?

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