Font is too small when compiling webhelp

[Flyingzard]

I really hope someone can help as this is bugging me!!

recently upgraded from RH7 to RH8 and everytime I compile my help into Webhelp the font is really small - far too small to be able to read easily.

I have checked everything that i know of regarding the output settings to see if there is something that can be causing this but to no avail. Compiling as a CHM looks fine by the way.

I still have RH7 installed and i am trying to compare settings but I cannot find anything differnet really between the 2 (RH7 compiles fine in Webhelp format)

I have copied the compiled help and viewed it on other computers just to make sure that it is not just something i see but it still looks the same.

So far not been impressed with RH8 and am wondering why i bothered upgrading - especially as for some stupid reason when converting the help all my conditional text formatting got screwed up whereby it has placed rogue spacing before and after any conditional text. I now have the dull task of going over all my topics to delete the spaces!!

[Willam_van_Weelden]

The font size is probably a css problem. Which text is displayed too small? In the TOC/Index/Buttons/Topics?

Greet,

Willam

[Flyingzard]

Thanks for your quick reply.

All the text is smaller within the topic itself. Everything else looks fine.

I think you are correct about the css being at fault - I have a background colour for all topics which for some reason has not updated on all topics. For quite a few of my topics it is white.

Is there a simple fix for this? I was wondering about copying the CSS file from a backup version and replacing this one....

[RoboColum_n_]

If you have topics with different backgrounds, check that they all have the same CSS file applied to them. Are there Master Pages on your topics? You could try copying in a backup CSS file but I doubt this would make any difference if it is exactly the same. Could you look inside the HTML for one of the topics and see if anything is amiss there.

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Colum McAndrew

[Flyingzard]

I have partially fixed it by changing the normal text size from x-small to small.

However this makes the designer taxt appear far to large and results in larger paragraph spacing in the compiled HTM which i guess i can fix but is not the desired solution. This has never happened during all the previous upgrades i have performed so it seems a bit odd that moving to RH8 has been such an issue.

I am using IE8 to view the compiled HTML - would this be an issue?

[Willam_van_Weelden]

Hi,

Does your style sheet specify a standard font size? The value x-small is a relative value: measured by the font-size of the parent. If you have no standard font size, the browser will take it's own standard size. Can you share your style sheet so we can have a look?

Greet,

Willam