how to display table grid in PDF - RH10

[tanborj]

I've created a new table style but the grids inside the table aren't showing when I generated a PDF file. I can't seem to find the setup to show the grids from the Styles settings below. I clicked Format > Boarders and Shading but there's no settings to make the grids visible.

Here's the actual PDF result:

I wanted the grids inside to display so the rows and columns have division lines.

Is there a way to resolve this? Thanks in advance.

[vishu_13]

Hi

You have cretaed a table in your style sheet and under style sheet you have this type of table style only. So in order to get the type of table you want, you need to create a table in the topic itself.

If you want to use the same table in multiple topics later on, you can copy and paste the same table across multiple topics.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/RoboHelp/8.0/RoboHTML/WS491ADD30-89AF-409c-9EFC-93D4EBE521EB.html

Hope it helps

Thanks

VJ

[tanborj]

ohhhh so I couldn't customize this specific table property directly in the table style that I created? I think It would be better to have this feature  (I mean customizing directly in the table style) so If we want to insert a table in a topic, just have to select the Table style that we have created from the list of table styles instead of copy-paste.

[Peter Grainge]

I don't know why VJ has suggested copying and pasting as it is not necessary. Once you have created a table style you can insert it into other topics directly. VJ's link is to a RoboHelp 8 topic whereas you are using 10 where things are different.

Also adding tables is not your problem. As I understand it you have the tables in your topics, it's just that in PDF the borders are not showing, correct?

First generate to Word and see if the borders appear in the same way as in the topic.

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@petergrainge

[tanborj]

The borders are in PDF, the grids inside the table are not displaying (the table just looks like a rectangular box). I wanted to create my own table style and not use the existing table style templates.

[Peter Grainge]

Whole Table is not what you might think. It does not mean every cell in the table, it means the outer borders of the whole table.

Try settting a colour for Bottom Right of even rows and the same for odd rows. Then set Top Left for Whole Table.

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@petergrainge

[tanborj]

Thanks for being helpful, Peter. It worked . But why can't RoboHelp have this feature of setting up the table as a whole (including the cells) so we don't have to format the cells one by one?

[tanborj]

another thing, i set up the font in the table style as Adobe Garamond, but when I generate a pdf, the font in the table becomes Arial.

[Peter Grainge]

I agree it is not intuitive but as I said, I think maybe the term Whole Table is specific in the CSS world and the borders for Whole Table are simply the outer borders. In other words Adobe are following convention.

On the font question, generate to Word and see what you get there first.

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@petergrainge

[tanborj]

about the font, I generated it to Word and it still displays Arial. I created my second table style and I set the font to Adobe Garamond, and the font on that seems okay when I converted to PDF. I just find it weird that sometimes the PDF adapts, sometimes not.