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CathyR-Fico
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June 20, 2014
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RH11 - Cuts off tables when I generate review PDFs. How do I get it to include the entire table?

  • June 20, 2014
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We just upgraded from RH9 to Rh11. I'm using the Create PDF for Review... option on the Review menu. I have several two column tables in the topic I'm sending for review. The PDF cuts off half of the second column in the tables. We didn't have this issue with RH9. Has anyone else had this problem with the PDF review feature in RH11? Can you tell me why it's doing this & how to fix it?

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Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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July 10, 2014

Rh sets the table width as a percentage but that can be changed to a fixed width. Check it is set a a percentage.

Also create a new table in Rh11 and see if that works better.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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irina_z
irina_z
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February 24, 2015

Hi Peter and everyone else.

I started using RH 11 recently, and I am experiencing the same issue as CathyR-Fico reported: when generating the PDF output, RH keeps cropping some of my tables.

NOTE: some of my table cells contain long non-breakable text strings such as TimeoutInsightServerUpDisconnectedCheck. Can't avoid that.

I looked into the table properties and ensured that my table width is 100%, and adjusted the individual column width % to make sure that the total does not exceed 100%, but my tables are still cropped in PDF.

Here is a passage from the RH 11 User Guide, Create a PDF for review section: "Tables, images, and other elements that do not fit in a page are cropped." I keep checking my HTML preview now and then - all of my tables fit into the HTML help window. But the PDF output looks otherwise:( I tried the AutoFit feature as well - won't help:(

My question is: Is there any other way to ensure that my tables fit into any output page, be it PDF, Word or HTML?

Thanks!

Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 25, 2015

Your HTML preview is exactly that, a preview of the HTML as it would appear in a browser. When the guide refers to a page, it is referring to how Word lays out that content in a page as in a Word document.

Generate to Word to start with and see how it looks there. Maybe you can adjust the page width in the template used for mapping. Another approach might be to put such strings in a style with a smaller font and map to a similar style you create in the Word template.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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