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October 1, 2009
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Numbered and bulleted lists carriage returns not the same size with WebHelp and PDF Rendering

  • October 1, 2009
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I have RH 8.0 HTML

I have created a new project.

I have created one topic with the default style sheet applied.

I have created a numbered list with some bulleted subpoints per numbered line item.

RH Source Screen Shot

When RH generates the output for WebHelp and as Printed PDF, the distance between the carriage returns of the lines looks to be about twice as much white space between the items in the PDF document as compared to the WebHelp generated document displayed via IE 7.

WebHelp Screen Shot after Generation from above source:

PDF Screen Shot after Generation from above source:

Anybody have any idea what is causing this?  I'd be willing to believe that it had something to do with how I had some of the things in my Style Sheet configured, but this is using the default.css.

I can send the project if needed as it contains nothing of any value.

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Correct answer Peter Grainge

There will always be a difference between the way the lists display in the browser and in print, indeed different browsers may well have differences.

When you create a PDF, behind the scenes a Word document is created, then PDF'd and trashed. Word lists will be different.

The options are to accept the difference as long as both are acceptable or generate to Word first, tweak that and then PDF.

There is more about this in my printed documentation pages. Also RH8 allows you to specify a different CSS when generating printed documentation and using that may enable you to play with the definitions to achieve what you want.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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Willam van Weelden
Willam van Weelden
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October 2, 2009

Hi, can you post your style sheet, as wel as this topic so we can have a look?

Greet,

Willam

Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
October 2, 2009

There will always be a difference between the way the lists display in the browser and in print, indeed different browsers may well have differences.

When you create a PDF, behind the scenes a Word document is created, then PDF'd and trashed. Word lists will be different.

The options are to accept the difference as long as both are acceptable or generate to Word first, tweak that and then PDF.

There is more about this in my printed documentation pages. Also RH8 allows you to specify a different CSS when generating printed documentation and using that may enable you to play with the definitions to achieve what you want.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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diamondesAuthor
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October 2, 2009

Thanks for the intel.  I won't spend any time tweaking more settings then.

Do you also speak on the best way to create numbered lists.  Sometimes I like to have more than one paragraph per list item and that always mucks up the numbering to where I have to right click and set the number by hand.  I've noticed that this also, at times, has an undesired affect on the outcome of the list numbers when output is generated.

I'll probably wind up generating to the work document then creating the .PDF from there.

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