Prevent inline styles when importing from FrameMaker

[AndrewMcFarlandCampbell]

I'm using Adobe Technical Communication Suite 3.5 (FrameMaker 10, RoboHelp 9).

I'm importing FrameMaker books into RoboHelp HTML (via File > New > Project > Import). Unfortunately, the tables in the book end up as HTML tables that use a lot of inline styles (style attributes on individual elements), which I'm finding difficult to override with CSS.

Is it possible to import FrameMaker books so that inline styles are never used?

[Matt S - Tech Comm Tools]

Have you mapped your FM table style to a style in RH (a css style)?

-Matt

@mattrsullivan

[AndrewMcFarlandCampbell]

I've mapped the table to a CSS style of "mytable". I get the following HTML.

<table class="mystyle" cellspacing="0" width="454">

<tr style="height: 19.50pt;">

  <td style="vertical-align: top; padding-left: 6.00pt; padding-top: 3.00pt;

    padding-right: 6.00pt; padding-bottom: 3.00pt;" width="101"><p

    class="FM_TableHeading">Col1</p></td>

  <td style="vertical-align: top; padding-left: 6.00pt; padding-top: 3.00pt;

    padding-right: 6.00pt; padding-bottom: 3.00pt;" width="101"><p

    class="FM_TableHeading">Col2</p></td>

etc.

I want to get rid of the style attributes on the tr and td elements as well as the table element.

If I leave the table mapping as [source] I get a lot more inline styles.

<table style="padding-left: 6.00pt; padding-top: 7.50pt; padding-right: 3.00pt;

   padding-bottom: 3.50pt; margin-left: 34.02pt;" cellspacing="0"

   width="454">

<tr style="height: 19.50pt;" bgcolor="#D9D9D9">

  <th style="border-bottom: solid 1px #ffffff; vertical-align: top;

    padding-left: 6.00pt; padding-top: 3.00pt; padding-right: 6.00pt;

    padding-bottom: 3.00pt;" bgcolor="#D9D9D9" width="101"><p

    class="FM_TableHeading">Col1</p></th>

  <th style="border-bottom: solid 1px #ffffff; vertical-align: top;

    padding-left: 6.00pt; padding-top: 3.00pt; padding-right: 6.00pt;

    padding-bottom: 3.00pt;" bgcolor="#D9D9D9" width="101"><p

    class="FM_TableHeading">Col2</p></th>

[Matt S - Tech Comm Tools]

OK, so we're on the right track...

Try setting your Customize Cell Borders and Shading back to From Table

[AndrewMcFarlandCampbell]

Where do I set that?

[Matt S - Tech Comm Tools]

Select your entire table in FM, Choose Table > Format > Custom Cell Borders and Shading (or Fill...)

Make sure the checkboxes are all selected, and that any choices for From Table are selected, then hit Apply

Then update your RH project

[AndrewMcFarlandCampbell]

Is there a way of doing it without updating each table in FrameMaker? I have several hundred tables across eight languages to import.

[Matt S - Tech Comm Tools]

One step at a time…I don't know yet that this is your problem…

[AndrewMcFarlandCampbell]

OK, I selected the table, then Table > Format > Custom Ruling and Shading... All Checkboxes were select, all dropdowns set to From Table. I clicked Apply.

Then I imported the FrameMaker book into RoboHelp as described in the first post. I'm still getting inline styles on the tr and td elements.

[Matt S - Tech Comm Tools]

Sorry to hear…wish I could help more, but will be offline til next week.

-Matt

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Try giving Adobe Support a call - they might have some suggestions. I've never really looked at how my tables have come across in my TCS 3 imported projects with respect to the css/html. They looked fine when I imported them & haven't had any reason to change them in RH (yet).

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

As Matt says, what are your Conversion Settings like?