Graphics linked from FM reference pages don't display

Not much help.

When designing FrameMaker templates, it is a commonly used style to link graphics to a paragraph tag (Paragraph tag designer/ Advanced tab). The graphics are linked to from the reference page, and when these graphics appear on the page (as a result of applying the paragraph tag) they do not use an anchored frame.

I hope you are working on this. It is a serious bug.

To duplicate the problem:
On a reference page, import a few icons and name them.
In Paragraph Designer, design a new paragraph tag, and in the Advanced tab, link to to one of the graphics.
On your body page, use the new paragraph tag.
Notice how the graphic shows up automatically?
FrameMaker users all over the world use this technique to add warning icons to their documents.

Now convert this FrameMaker document to a RoboHelp produced .chm file.
Notice how the graphic does not show up?

Thanks for your concern.
Mary Ann Howell
Adobe Certified Trainer, FrameMaker

Matthew Ellison- the baggage file idea was a help. Thanks!

Here is the only way I could get the reference page graphic to display in a .chm help project.
And note, this method does not use FrameMaker's graphic, this method re-introduces the same graphic into RoboHelp by including it in as a background image in a css file.

- In Robohelp Project Manager, I must link to the graphic as baggage item
- The FrameMaker para tag must be mapped in RoboHelp (Properties, Style Mappings) to a special css style that includes the graphic as a background image (see example below).
- The graphic must appear in Project Manager list of images for the project file for the framemaker chapter.
- And here's the deal killer, in order for the graphic to appear in the project file for the FM chapter,
I must use the graphic somewhere in the FrameMaker as a discrete graphic. (It's not enough to just include the graphic in the folder using windows explorer.)
So each chapter of FrameMaker must include a page displaying any icons being used in that chapter (can't refer to the reference page, must be linked to outside file)
Weird.

And there goes another day of my time...


css style definition for paragraph tag with linked icon:

P.note_elect_warn {
background-image: url(electric.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 16px 28px;
height: 100px;
width: 100px;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 20px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #0033FF;
text-align: center;
}

PS I do all my stylesheet editing in Dreamweaver, and I don't have a problem, as long as I:
- Remember to save the css file before I run RoboHelp.
- Allow Dreamweaver file to accept outside edits to the css file, and reload the css file.

PS 2
In the CSS definition, the background-image must be in the same folder. In other words, this won't work:
background-image: url(icons/electric.png);
only this:
background-image: url(electric.png);

PS3
A FrameMaker paragraph tag that consists only of autonumber text will not be picked up for mapping.
You can force RoboHelp to notice the FrameMaker paragraph tag by typing in a few letters where the tag appears on your FrameMaker page (which you can later remove, and the style will remain).

For example, if you have a paragraph tag with Autonumber text that places the word Thanks!, RoboHelp ignores it unless you add some content to the the paragraph tag on the page, like Thanks! ...for all the fish...
Later, you can remove ...all the fish...

^^&&^^,
thanks your further ideas.
But I don't consider that a reasonable single source work flow.