Graphic outlines disappear in Published .chm file

Question

I am using FM2015 in a Win 7 environment.

Sometimes a screenshot of a UI does not capture a border around the area of interest. If I put the screenshot into a document, the elements of the UI are poorly separated from the surrounding text. To set it off, I select the screenshot and the click the outline icon in the graphics toolbox. A line appears around the figure. It's usually 1.0 pt by default, and I change it to 0.5 manually.

This outline does not survive the conversion to .chm files. (I've greatly magnified the .chm and indeed there is no outline even at high magnification.)

I see that I can set a universal outline in the Settings that would apply to every graphic, but I don't want that for every image. Does anyone have a way to preserve the outlines I've put around individual graphics?

Thanks.

Arnis Gubins · Answer

The only certain way to have the border outline appear in all output formats from FM is to create it in the graphic file before importing to FM. Depending upon which screen capture program you're using, this could be a fairly trivial thing to do. However, if you have a large library of existing graphics, then it will be a bit of a PITA.

The altenative in FM is to create the outline using the rectangle drawing tool. FM will rasterize onto the image when creating the output.

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