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aliamm
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January 20, 2014
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RH 10: not use Master Page in Printed Docs

  • January 20, 2014
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I have a Master Page set up with a company logo and horizontal rules, which works great with the help topics. The problem occurs when I generate printed docs from the source files.

Everything else works well enough to get by (I have some tweaking to do), BUT every single topic shows up with the rules and the company logo. I don't see anywhere to NOT apply the Master Page to the printed output. Is there a secret to not using the online help layout in the printed docs?

thanks,

Alia

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Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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January 20, 2014

Master page headers and footers 100% guaranteed do not survive the trip to printed documentation. My guess is that in the master page your "headers" and "footers" have been created in the body section of the master page.

Create a new topic attaching that master page in the process. Then unlink the master page from that topic. Do you still see the header and footer? If you do, my theory is proved. If you do not, post back.

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aliammAuthor
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January 20, 2014

Thanks, Peter.

I did put the layout elements in what I THOUGHT was the header and footer (ie, outside the body text block), but yes, RH had them as part of the body tag. When I formally viewed the Headers and Footers, then RH put those elements into the Master Page and I was able to insert the layout elements into the proper sections.

For some reason, I don't remember having to go through this process before, but this is the first time I've used this feature with RH10. (I upgraded from RH8 last year.) Did this aspect change in RH10? In previous versions were the header and footer areas showing normally in the Master Page layout so users would know where to specifically place items? If not, I'd suggest that as a feature request for Adobe because the current implementation is not intuitively obvious.

Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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January 21, 2014

I don't think it changed.

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