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March 31, 2014
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TCS3: Autofit tables to content

  • March 31, 2014
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Hi,

I'm an occasional user of Framemaker  10 and RoboHelp 9, which I use to generate AirHelp.
In the Framemaker source documents  I have  a large number of 'Note:' and 'Caution:' paragraphs that I want to stand out from the rest of the text.

I investigated doing this using the Framemaker reference pages to insert a suitable graphic in front of each Note or Caution paragraph; this works fine in Framemaker, but is then no good in RoboHelp (as importing from reference pages is not supported).

I don't want to get involved in writing scripts as I feel this would be beyond my level of experience (which is very basic!) so I thought the best way to proceed would be to put all the relevant paragraphs into single row tables instead - the graphic would be in a fixed width column and the text in a second column that autofits to the width of the AirHelp window. 

The problem that I'm struggling to resolve is: once the FrameMaker files are imported into RoboHelp, the tables are always a fixed width - how can I make them autofit without having to select each one individually and click Table > Autofit > Autofit to Window?

I guess I'm missing something simple, but I can't figure it out.

Thanks for any suggestions.

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Jeff_Coatsworth
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Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
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March 31, 2014

Can you show us an example of what’s not working? Use the camera icon in the web interface to add screenshots.

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pr_cscAuthor
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April 1, 2014

As a test I created several tables in FrameMaker and then linked it to RoboHelp - The RoboHelp WebHelp output is shown below:

When the browser window is resized, as shown below, the table text does not wrap:

In RoboHelp I could select each table individually and choose Table > AutoFit > AutoFit to Contents but this would be impractical as there are many instances, plus I would need to repeat the process each time the Framemaker document is updated.

Thanks

Jeff_Coatsworth
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Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
Community Expert
April 1, 2014

2 questions – (1) what happens when you create HTML5 output? Does it resize then? And (2) how are your Conversion Settings mapping the table in FM to a RH table style?

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