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.
1 Correct answer
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
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Peter,
Your SHIFT+ENTER works like a charm in the design screen, but I still think there is an issue with the internals of how RH is processing the line breaks for numbered lists:
- I created a new project and a single topic, NOT linked to a master sheet and set to use NONE for the Style Sheet.
- I clicked the number list icon in the tool bar
- I get my first numbered line item, I type some words and hit SHIFT + ENTER at the end of the line.
- I get to the next line without a new number, then I hit ENTER, get to the next line with the number 2, type some more words and hit SHIFT + ENTER at the end of that line.
- I get to the next line without a new number, then I hit ENTER, get to the next line with the number 3, type some more words and stop there as I'm done typing.
- The RH editor now looks like this:
- I generate WebHelp and it looks like this:
- I generate a PDF and it looks like this:
- I generate Word and it looks like this:
- The three different outputs look the same, they do NOT look like the source I just edited.
- The raw HTML looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="generator" content="Adobe RoboHelp 8" />
<title>One</title>
<style type="text/css">/*<![CDATA[*/
li.Style1 {
list-style: inside decimal;
}
/*]]>*/</style>
</head>
<body>
<ol type="1">
<li>Line one<br />
</li>
<li>Line Two<br />
</li>
<li>Line Three</li>
</ol>
<p> </p>
</body>
</html>
- Seems to me the editor should have inserted a couple of more <BR /> in the code like this:
<body>
<ol type="1">
<li>Line one<br />
<br />
</li>
<li>Line Two<br />
<br />
</li>
<li>Line Three</li>
</ol>
</body>
If I change the source HTML to the above and regenerate the output it all looks like it should. The source screen now looks like this:
My supposition is that RH doesn't correctly code the HTML for the SHIFT + ENTER key and it should be fixed. How does one go about getting this to Adobe's attention?
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