poor graphics resolution

[Nicholas_P]

I am using FrameMaker from many years and I need sometimes to convert a user manual to the MS WinHelp format. For many years I have used Webworks Pro Software and recently I have downloaded RoboHelp evaluation version. It seems to work fine but generated graphics resolution in jpg, gif or bmp is low and lower than obtained with WW. Moreover, the arrows that I usually added from FrameMaker on a graphic become a line in a very bad resolution. Is it possible to increase the images resolution on the RoboHelp output ?
I have searched everywhere in menus, help ... and no answer.

Best regards

[dscitechwriter]

Nicholas,

I was browsing around here for other reasons, and noticed this.

I've noticed this problem in a similar (but different also) context that I'll explain later. However, if your original graphics were of decent quality/resolution and worked fine in other packages, I would just try to re-import the images before recreating them.

The reason I noticed this problem was I updated some images I was using. Thinking that hey...this is HTML and the images have pointers to them, all I have to do is update the images. (I did not rename them.)

Wrong!! When I re-opened the Robo project after updating the images, they *appeared* awful in the design view and did not print well or compile well. I deleted the image out of the Robo topic and re-inserted it. Voila! They will come back in with looking as they should. (I often need to use high-res images because of detailed process diagrams or because we have some high-res, very detailed 3D models I need pictures for.)

Now why this works, I have no clue. However, I can re-create the problem consistently and re-importing your images may do the trick.

[MergeThis]

Another possibility is that RH didn't synch the size values properly in the conversion. Right click one of these graphics and select Reset size from the context menu. Unfortunately, I know of no way that you could then perform this in batch, so you'd have to do each one individually, if it works.


Good luck,
Leon

[Guest]

This assumed that you are using RoboHelp HTML.

We had some limited success with this approach: If you need to batch-disable HTML tags (for example, we wanted to remove the ALT text from all images):

If feasible, rename the HTML tags or attributes.

For example, the ALT attritibute for the IMG tags was set to the file name of the image. Ugly. So, we search-and-replace'd all occurences of <IMG ALT=" with <IMG noALT="

Voila.

With the HEIGHT and WIDTH attributes, you may or may not run into troubles with other HTML elements that have such attributes. However, you could either just try this, and then browse your text for problems. Or you try to be smart about the search-and-replace, by looking carefully at the HTML code.