Background image in Word Output

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alight
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Background image in Word Output

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Hi all - I have a CSS class called P.WhatNext with a background-image defined. Publishing to WebHelp, the background-image appears as expected. Publishing to Word and the background image does not. (see attached images of both outputs)

Any ideas on where I should look to troubleshoot?

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Re: Background image in Word Output

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Word doesn't support all of the standard CSS tags and attributes, such as background-image, list-style-image, DIVs, and so on. So there's nothing in Flare to help troubleshoot and make sure the images go through to Word. Lists have a workaround where you open the output in Word and modify the list style to point to the image you want. For background images you probably have to manually insert them in the Word output.

In your particular case above, what you might want to do instead is use an auto-number format on the note paragraph class. The mc-auto-number-format can automatically add the "NOTE" text, and you can create a span class and reference it in the auto-number format to make the NOTE text bold and maroon. However, you'll have to manually insert a soft line break (<br/>) to get the NOTE on one line and the main text on the next line.
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Re: Background image in Word Output

Post by alight »

Thanks for your reply Lisa. I'll give your workaround a try!
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