Extra bold text?

Apr 10, 2012 7:29 AM

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  15. DannyH.,

  

  May 10, 2012 2:31 AM   in reply to Peter Grainge

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  If those additional <b> tags in the output would not be there, everything would be ok. And those tags are definitely added by RH. I do nothing else than writing the content in RH and when finished I press the button for webhelp generation. I think, I write a bug report.

   

  Of course I could delete all <b> tags from the output files  - hoping that there are no other <b> tags that are necessary somewhere. This workaround takes time: I have ca. 50 files, 6 languages and 3 variations for each language.

   

  Which machines are mentioned by google? I'm working with Windows 7. Last year I was working with Windows XP and there I did not have this problem.

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  16. Peter Grainge,

  

  May 10, 2012 2:41 AM   in reply to DannyH.

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  I am not arguing that you are doing anything with the code or denying that RoboHelp is adding the <b> tag. You are saying "If those additional <b> tags in the output would not be there, everything would be ok." My point was to edit those tags out of the output file to see if all is then OK. From what I am reading you are saying they are the cause but I am not clear whether that is theory on your part or that you have proved it.

   

  Enter "Direct2D/DirectWrite hardware acceleration" into Google and see the first link. That suggests to me the setting will only affect machines with certain hardware.

   

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  17. DannyH.,

  

  May 10, 2012 2:52 AM   in reply to Peter Grainge

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  Ah, now I understand - this is sometimes difficult when communicating in a foreign language.

   

  I have checked this. When I delete the <b> tags from the output files then everything looks great.

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  18. Peter Grainge,

  

  May 10, 2012 3:25 AM   in reply to DannyH.

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  You are doing better than I would in whatever your first language is.

   

  In Design View I created two paragraphs to start with and applied Bold to the first sentence and a single word, the to the whole second paragraph.

   

  Where there are closing span tags, in the output you will get the extra <b> tags that are causing your problem. You will note there is no closing span tag in the second paragraph and no <b> tag gets written in the output.

   

  <p><span style="font-weight: bold;">This is some sample text.</span> This

  is some sample text. This is some sample text. This is some sample text.

  This is some sample text. This is some sample text. This is some sample

  text. This is some sample text. This is some sample text. This is some

  sample text. This is some sample <span style="font-weight: bold;">text</span>.</p>

  <p style="font-weight: bold;">This is some sample text. This is some sample

  text. This is some sample text. This is some sample text. This is some

  sample text. This is some sample text. This is some sample text. This

  is some sample text. This is some sample text. This is some sample text.

  This is some sample text.</p>

   

   

  Then I hit Enter and clicked the bold icon to return to normal weight and got this crazy HTML.

   

  <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Sample

  text added later.</span></p>

   

  I have reported this as a bug.

   

  Meantime try this. In Tools > Options there is an option Convert RoboHelp edited topics to HTML. Tick that and see if it makes a difference. It will apply to all projects.

   

  Does that help?

   

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  19. DannyH.,

  

  May 10, 2012 4:26 AM   in reply to Peter Grainge

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  I remember that I have already seen this font-weight thing in my files. This is crazy.

   

  Activating the Convert RoboHelp edited topics to HTML option does not change anything. Anyway, it was a good idea.

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  20. Peter Grainge,

  

  May 10, 2012 4:49 AM   in reply to DannyH.

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  In that case the only option I see for now is Willam's script suggestion.

   

  Sorry.

   

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  21. DannyH.,

  

  May 10, 2012 11:48 PM   in reply to Peter Grainge

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  I also think that this is the only option for the moment. Anyway, I add this to the bug list.

   

  Thank you for your detailed analysis.

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  22. robopenguin,

  

  May 22, 2012 2:38 PM   in reply to DannyH.

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  Another option might be to use a character style for bold text. That would probably be more work that using a script on the output files though.

   

  Dave

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  23. The Real Mike73,

  

  May 29, 2012 3:25 AM   in reply to DannyH.

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  I added this to my CSS and it fixed it right up:

   

  b{

  font-weight:bold;

  }

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  24. Peter Grainge,

  

  May 29, 2012 3:38 AM   in reply to The Real Mike73

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  Interesting, so Danny wasn't the only one with this problem.

   

  Thanks for posting a solution Mike.

   

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  25. The Real Mike73,

  

  May 29, 2012 4:26 AM   in reply to The Real Mike73

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  P.S. I'm using RH 8, so it must be a change in FF, but it's also annoying that RH adds the extra tags.

   

  If my solution above doesn't work for you, try this:

   

  b{

  font-weight:bold !important;

  }

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  26. Peter Grainge,

  

  May 29, 2012 5:37 AM   in reply to The Real Mike73

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  Please anyone affected by this bug, submit a bug report.

   

  The more people who report a bug or request a feature, the more likely it is to be actioned. Please follow this link.

   

  http://www.Adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&product=38

   

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  27. DannyH.,

  

  May 30, 2012 1:33 AM   in reply to Peter Grainge

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       b {

            font-weight:bold;

       }

   

  This workaround is working for me. Great!

   

  But please submit a bug report and help to get this solved directly in RH and not by workarounds. I already added a bug report, but one doesn't attract much attention.

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  28. Authorgirl,

  

  Aug 9, 2012 1:57 AM   in reply to DannyH.

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  I have this issue too so am using the workaround for now and have submitted a bug report.

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  29. Praful_Jain,

  

  Aug 9, 2012 2:13 AM   in reply to Authorgirl

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  hi,

  Please try the RoboHelp 10, this issue has been fixed in the new release of RoboHelp 10.

  thanks

  Praful Jain

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  30. DannyH.,

  

  Aug 19, 2012 11:19 PM   in reply to Praful_Jain

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  Hi Praful Jain,

  thanks for this information. I am not allowed to buy new versions every year. I have to live with RH9 at least for the next 2 years.

  Regards DannyH

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