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robm44
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June 11, 2009
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RoboHelp 8 Issues

  • June 11, 2009
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I recently upgraded my version of RoboHelp from version X5 to version 8. Although everything seemed to work fine when i was trialling the software on a copy of my project now that i have migrated the project to RoboHelp 8 i am having a few issues. The only thing that has really changed is that i am now using Visual SourceSafe in conjunction with RoboHelp but i never had problems with this setup when using X5.

Anyway my two issues are as follows:

1. If i align an image to the centre using the justify icon, the image does what i want in the topic view but remains aligned to the left in both preview mode and once i have generated the topics. Have tried playing about with the image settings, text wrapping etc but still no joy.

2. My other issue is that i previously had a number of styles that used specific images as buullet points. However there is now no way i can add these images as bullet styles in the style editor screen. Am i able to change this for styles, as it is currently very annoying when i apply these bullet styles to text. They automatically default to using numbering.

Any advice on these issues would be much appreciated.

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    Anonymous
    July 30, 2009

    Has anyone else reported the center alignment problem?  I reported it to Adobe and have not received a reply. Does anyone have a fix besides a clever way to override it? I have a rather large project, and it is quite time consuming to have to select every image and caption and reformat them. I have already gone into my .css file and resaved the caption style. I found that assigning the caption style to the paragraph return after an image puts it in the center, but the caption style has to be selected from the drop-down menu, not the styles and formatting pod. The S&F pod doesn't seem to be working.

    If anyone has any suggestions or information, I would really appreciate it.

    Thanks.

    Laurie

    Peter Grainge
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    Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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    July 30, 2009

    Nothing else to offer. It is a bug so we have to wait for a patch.

    See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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    Anonymous
    July 30, 2009

    Bummer. Thanks for your response. I did check out your site and found it helpful. I fixed my running slow problem by adding the BaseCSS...dll file in the en.us folder. I wonder if there is a connection with the bug since "CSS" is a part of that dll name. Anyway, thanks for your help. I'll keep waiting.

    Have a good day.

    Laurie

    EuroMatt
    EuroMatt
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    June 12, 2009

    For point 2, try this:

    1. Open the 'Styles and Formatting' pod.
    2. From the drop down menu choose 'List Styles'.
    3. Create or edit a list style.  The 'Styles' dialog box will appear.
    4. Under 'Formatting', click the bullets icon.
    5. On the 'Bulleted' tab, click on the 5th bullet style (it has search icons for bullets).
    6. Under 'Bullet image', click on the search icon and find the image you want for your bullets
    7. Click OK and OK again and job done, that list style has an image.

    Hope this helps.

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    robm44Author
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    June 16, 2009

    Thanks for the advice Euromatt. I didn't realise list sytles were kept seperately and it seems i can only get the images from my exisiting styles when i select them from this menu and not when i use the all available styles menu - wierd!

    Regarding issue 1 Peter. I'm sorry if i confused you but i actually meant the align center button when i said the justify icon in my original post - even using this button the images still seem to align to the left when generated. Any other ideas?

    EuroMatt
    EuroMatt
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    June 16, 2009

    As long as you've clicked on the image before clicking on the centre icon all should be well.  If you switch from Design view to HTML view, you can check that the align attribute is within the paragraph tags.  For example:

    <p align="center"><img src="images/example_image.jpg" alt="This is an example image" style="border: none;" width="400" height="300" border="0" /></p>

    Peter Grainge
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    Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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    June 12, 2009

    On [1], try center align rather than justify.

    See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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