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Alchemex
Inspiring
September 28, 2012
Question

Resizing images in printed documentation

  • September 28, 2012
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I have Robohelp 10.  Is there a way to resize all images to 80% when creating a word and pdf document.  If I create an image style to 80%, it is ignored when creating printed documentation but works for online HTML help.

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Captiv8r
Captiv8r
Legend
September 28, 2012

Hi there

From what I'm reading, it would seem that you are using CSS to present images at 80%, no?

If that's the case, it would seem you want your images presented at 80% of original size regardless of whether they are presented on the screen or whether you are creating printed output. And if that's the case, I'll ask the obvious question.

Why don't you simply scale them to 80% before inserting them into the project? Wouldn't that solve the issue and eliminate any need to create a CSS rule to scale the image?

Additionally, by scaling in the browser you are likely causing horrible loss of quality. And causing the page to take longer to load because the larger image is being loaded when the page is viewed.

Cheers... Rick

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AlchemexAuthor
Inspiring
September 28, 2012

Hi Rick

Thanks.  Your answer would be the obvious choice except I am using the same images for multiple projects (training materials, help files and documentation) and in my other project the images need to be at different sizes according to a css rule already set in those projects.

That is why I was hoping there was a way to scale the images only when creating printed documentation.  At the moment, when exporting to word the css image size is ignored.  I either need to get the css image size of this particular project to be retained in the printed documentation or else a blanket rule of 80% reduction of original size to be executed.  I tried using a word macro but then images already scaled by Word to less than 80% to fit the page are then enlarged by word to 80% and are cut off, which is why I am of the opinion that the images need to be scaled to 80% during the generation of the word doc.

Regards

Debbie

RoboColum_n_
RoboColum_n_
Legend
September 28, 2012

If you can create a style in Word that can resize images then it should be possible to map it to your RH style. However I don't think this can be done in Word.

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