Help and print styles

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You can define two different sets of attributes for every style: One for electronic help formats (HTML Help, WebHelp, Visual Studio Help and eBooks) and one for print-style output (PDF, printed manuals and Word RTF).

Click to expand/collapseHow to use different fonts for electronic and print output

1.Select Styles > Edit Styles in the Write tab.

2.Select Normal, as most other styles are usually based on this style. You will need to edit any styles not based on Normal separately).

3.Change the font settings in the Print View and Help View tabs. Deselect Same options as help view in the Print View tab to edit the print style settings.

4.Repeat for any styles not based on Normal these are styles that are not shown as "sub-branches" of Normal in the style tree.

Click to expand/collapseCompletely different style attributes for electronic and print output

You can also create completely different layouts for electronic and print output, with a completely different appearance for all your styles in each format. However remember that you can only redefine the attributes of existing styles for each output format. You cannot have different styles for each format because the styles are attached to your text by name. There is only one list of styles, but each style can have two different definitions.

Proceed as described above and edit all the style attributes you want to change for each output format – you can define separate font, paragraph, border and background settings for each view.

Click to expand/collapsePrint styles are strongly recommended for iBooks/ePub

If you define print view style attributes they will be used in iBooks®/ePub output. For technical reasons, ePub files work better when they have their own styles and fonts defined for them specifically. Among other things, it may be necessary to define special font names for use in your iBooks®/ePub eBooks. Please see Managing Fonts in ePub for more details.

Click to expand/collapsePreview mode for screen/print styles and font sizes

You can switch the editor display to show the styles definitions for screen output (electronic help files) and print output (PDF, RTF and printed manuals). You can also switch the editor's basic font sizes to emulate Windows' "large fonts" and "small fonts" settings to check how your help will look on users' systems with these settings.

Note that different styles will only be displayed if you have actually defined different style settings for screen and print output!

Display buttons in the status bar:

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See Help and print styles for more information on using different style sets for different output formats.

See also:

About inheritance in styles

Defining styles

Editing styles

The Format Menu (Reference)