RH 2015. All updates installed.Due to the nature of the product, the Help includes many very long tables. When you Create a PDF for Review, the tables look worse than they do in the online Help. Table headers don't continue to the next 'page' and the last row of a table on a PDF page ends up with no border.Is there any way in RoboHelp to force table headers to continue to the next "page" (as they do in Word), or is this unreasonable because online Help doesn't distinguish "pages"?Do any of you know of any ways to edit tables in the PDF? I've researched this and mostly seen comments that you can't do it, that's not what PDF was designed to do.Thank you.Carol

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Problems with tables generated by Create PDF for Review

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March 31, 2016
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RH 2015. All updates installed.

Due to the nature of the product, the Help includes many very long tables. When you Create a PDF for Review, the tables look worse than they do in the online Help. Table headers don't continue to the next 'page' and the last row of a table on a PDF page ends up with no border.

Is there any way in RoboHelp to force table headers to continue to the next "page" (as they do in Word), or is this unreasonable because online Help doesn't distinguish "pages"?
Do any of you know of any ways to edit tables in the PDF? I've researched this and mostly seen comments that you can't do it, that's not what PDF was designed to do.

Thank you.

Carol

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Peter Grainge

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The way to get table headers to go to the next page is to generate to Word first. There you can run a macro to apply that setting to all tables, then you generate to PDF.

Borders can be tricky. Does it fail in Word or is it at the Word to PDF stage?

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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Hi, Peter.

We're now going through Create PDF for Review instead of going through a Printed Documentation SSL because of the internal errors we get with Printed Documentation SSLs (Adobe TCS is supposed to be looking at this problem.) Basically, the output is generated but the process fails to create the TOC, and we do get Word errors. We can use F9 to generate the TOC, but the output from our project isn't great. (We've not yet tried mapping styles, etc.)

When we use Create PDF for Review, we get a pretty decent looking PDF, much better than the output of the Printed Documentation SSL, and there are no errors. The only problem we have in the PDF created using Create PDF for Review is with the lack of table continuation.

Adobe TCS suggested that the problem with Printed Documentation might be related to the fact that we work out of Source Control and there might be a communication problem between TFS and RoboHelp. (We're also unable to import or create skins.)

Thanks again!

Carol

Peter Grainge

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Is this print problem one that I have looked at for you? If not would you like to send me project with some instructions? See the Contact page on my site.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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