RoboHelp PDF Creation adds in unnecessary indenting in the output file

[Guest]

Has anyone experienced that when you create a PDF from your RoboHelp source, on some pages of the PDF output, there is a large indent that gets added to some pages? It pushes the text on the pages to the far right. It doesn't seem to be related to any specific kind of formatting in the source file. It happens with h1s, p tags, and and ol and ul tags.

Is this something that is happening during the Word conversion, or is it something that can be controlled in the RoboHelp source project? What can be done to prevent this indenting. I have multiple outputs that I need to generate and would rather avoid having to edit each Word file.

I'm attaching a picture that shows what I'm talking about. The text is almost aligned right under the header.

[Peter Grainge]

It is all about how RoboHelp works with Word. Cut out creating a PDF while you work on getting it fixed.

What you get will depend on whether you use a CSS to create the styling or whether you map to a Word template (last page of the wizard when you create the printed output.)

You will need to work through Printed Documentation on my site, or live with it.

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[Guest]

We're using a css in our webhelp source.

[Peter Grainge]

That's not what I meant. In the last page of the wizard when you create printed documentation you can use the project's CSS, another CSS or a Word template.

When you use CSS in that page of the wizard, what you get in Word or PDF is based on what is in the CSS. When you use a Word template, what you get is based in what is in that template but you have some control over that because you map RoboHelp styles to Word styles. That said lists have always been a bit tricky.

Take a look at the topic on my site and see what you can take from that. You will find some points that are relevant. Then come back with what you are stuck on.

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[Guest · Accepted solution]

Hi Peter,

Something interesting. In my source files, I had a number of <dl> tags, which seemed to force the indentation when we generated the PDFs. Removing the <dl> tags from the source prevented the indentation occurring in the output PDF file.

[Peter Grainge]

Thanks for posting the answer.

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