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Re: Changing Font size in chm files generated by RoboHelp

Subject: Re: Changing Font size in chm files generated by RoboHelp
From: "Rick Stone" <rstone75 -at- kc -dot- rr -dot- com>
To: <pauln -at- helpauthors -dot- com>, "'Bonnie Granat'" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>, "'Gurpreet Singh'" <gurpreet2311 -at- gmail -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:16:08 -0600

Hi Paul

A simple test of this is to open the .CHM that ships with Internet Explorer. Open it up, note the text size. Close it. Adjust size in IE. Open the .CHM again.

My guess is that you aren't seeing changes in the .CHM files you are looking at because these haven't used styles specified as relative. (100%/125%) They have used styles specified in specific point sizes. I believe when styles are declared using specific point sizes, the IE setting has no effect. I also believe others in this thread have also stated this. I'm simply reiterating.

And I do believe this is a very common thing to do inside .CHM files. Specifying point sizes, that is. ;)

Cheers... Rick :)

----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Neshamkin" <pauln -at- helpauthors -dot- com>
To: "'Bonnie Granat'" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>; "'Gurpreet Singh'" <gurpreet2311 -at- gmail -dot- com>; <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:56 AM
Subject: RE: Changing Font size in chm files generated by RoboHelp


Bonnie,

What you said was news to me, so I tested it with various IE installations.
I found that changing View | Text Size in various versions of IE had no
impact on font size in any of the .chms tested.

As far as I know, the font size the author specifies (and I think it's very
rare that an author wouldn't specify font and size) is what you get. Going
to Options |Internet Options from within the .chm, only allows the user to
change font (not size) and then only for text that is not already specified
as a particular font.

WinHelp, of course, had a menu item for choosing font size (Options | Font |
Small, Normal, Large), but I know of no setting in HTML Help to enable that.

Let me know if I'm missing something.


Regards,

Paul Neshamkin
pauln -at- helpauthors -dot- com


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