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Subject:RE: Screenshot degradation when copying from Word From:"David Knopf" <david -at- knopf -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 5 Apr 2002 10:26:57 -0800
Alan Alda wrote:
| Anyway, heres the current problem: We have to convert
| a Word doc to RoboHelp (tried using the new feature in
| RoboHelp 2002 for importing a word doc directly, but
| the results required considerable re-work). There are
| a lot of screenshots in our .doc file. The procedure I
| follow is to copy a topic from the long word doc,
| paste it in a new word doc.(as html), save that topic
| as .html. Then, I use Microsoft's HTML filter to
| convert it to "pure" HTML. This procedure works fine
| and generates considerably clean HTML. However, the
| quality of the screenshots in the resultant "pure"
| HTML degrades so much that we simply cannot use those
| screenshots (the screenshots look fine on screen, but
| they look *bad* when printed). So heres whats going
| on: when I save the file as HTML in word, it
| (apparently) uses VML to encode the screenshots (or
| any image, for that matter). However, VML is IE
| specific; so we want to remove it. When the VML is
| removed using the HTML filter, the quality of the
| image degrades.
Why can you not import the .doc file into RoboHelp 2002? What problems
did you encounter with that workflow? Seems to me it would be easier to
that than to follow the approach you describe above.
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