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September 12, 2013
Question

Large images are condensed in output

  • September 12, 2013
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Okay, I am moving this post to the correct forum.

I originally posted:

I recently inserted a large image (1979X1045 pixels) into my project. Aspect ratio is maintained.

When generating the project, rather than have a horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the page, the image's height and width is scaled so that it can be viewed entirely on the screen,

Any idea how I can get robohelp to maintain the image's original size?

Recently we moved from webhelp to multi-screen HTML5 help. Just out of curiousity, I inserted the image into the old webhelp and generated the project. The image came out fine, and the height and width were maintained.

Any idea, which setting in my project is responsible for this? I am using the desktop knowledge with homepage layout.

I am attaching a screenshot. Don't know how helpful it is, but the large white area to the left is the TOC pane.

Yehoshua Paul

@1356178 van weelden responded:
In the optimization settings for the screen profile, there is a setting to convert absolute images sizes to relative image sizes. I believe it is selected by default. If you uncheck that option the image should not resize anymore.


I tried this the image is displayed in actual size, but rather than adding a horizontal scroll bar, the image extends beyond the borders of the topic and is cut.
Any idea how to have a horizontal scroll bar automatically added when the image is too large to fit on the page?

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Known Participant
September 12, 2013

I did discover a work around. If I scale down the image, and then create a pop-up hyperlink to a new topic that only contains the image. The pop-up displays the full size image with the horizontal scroll bar.

This may be a better option, but I need to discuss it with other people at work, and I would still like to figure out how to display the full size image without it being cut so help is still needed.

Thanks,

Yehoshua

Peter Grainge
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Community Expert
September 12, 2013

I know that one layout at least did not have a scroll bar when Rh10 was released. It was added later. Maybe try a different layout that does have scroll bars.

Otherwise I think you would need to delve into the layout design. Perhaps Willam can confirm that?


See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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Willam van Weelden
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September 17, 2013

That's correct. If I'm not mistaken, add the following definition to the div.contentholder selector

overflow-x: visible;

Greet,

Willam