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December 4, 2014
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Images are Blurry in FM 12 CHM and WebHelp Output.

  • December 4, 2014
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Hello,

I am using the Trial version of FM 12 and attempting to export to both WebHelp and CHM.

We would like to use the original images, but the Publish process is resizing them. I read that setting Maximum Dimensions, Width and Height to 0 will cause the program not to resize the image. However, when I set W/H to 0, the images are deleted from my project output.

When I generate WebHelp I noticed that the HTML has a set style, but I haven't selected any of the options in the Image style.

<p class="FM_Figure"><img alt="UserRoles04NewRole.png" style="width : 306.319pt; height : 96.559pt; margin-bottom : 0.000pt; " id="image3" src="UserRoles04NewRole.png" /> </p>

I'm glad that the HTML is referencing the original graphic, I was thinking that for sure that the graphics were converted during the Publish process. But how do I configure my .sts so that the images are not resized?

Thanks!

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    Correct answer riteshksriv

    I think you're right!  Yesterday,  I did try changing the DPI to 96 and the image quality was much better, but then I don't want all the images in the PDF output to be at 96 DPI. Maybe there's a way to tag the image, one for print output and one for online use, but I would much rather not do that.


    Hi sosammsi,

    Setting Maximum Width and Height to 0pt will set the inline max-width and height property in output to 0pt which will hide the image .

    Please try setting Preferred Width and Height to 0pt. This should generate better quality images without the inline styles.

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    Bob_Niland
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    Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
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    December 4, 2014

    > .. both WebHelp and CHM.

    Not my workflow, but anyone who can help might want to know what the image graphics file formats are, or were if imported by Copy or pasted in (this would be for example .bmp, .eps, .svg, .pcx, .png, .tif, etc., and if .pdf, what originally).

    And if raster color images, what bit depth, and by are they contone or indexed color.

    Jeff_Coatsworth
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    Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
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    December 4, 2014

    Are your images inside anchored frames?

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    sosammsiAuthor
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    December 4, 2014

    Oops, sorry for the lack of details.

    The images are pngs imported by reference, set at 150dpi into anchored frames. I'm not sure if they are contone or indexed.

    Thank you.

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    riteshksrivCorrect answer
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    December 8, 2014

    I think you're right!  Yesterday,  I did try changing the DPI to 96 and the image quality was much better, but then I don't want all the images in the PDF output to be at 96 DPI. Maybe there's a way to tag the image, one for print output and one for online use, but I would much rather not do that.


    Hi sosammsi,

    Setting Maximum Width and Height to 0pt will set the inline max-width and height property in output to 0pt which will hide the image .

    Please try setting Preferred Width and Height to 0pt. This should generate better quality images without the inline styles.

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