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Exporting html only text displaying
Martin Crossman
asked this on January 23, 2009 12:10
I exported a lesson to html. This worked fine. If I open that file from the location I exported it looks as expected with the formatting and images. If I move that file to another location and open it there is not formatting or images. Likewise if I attach it to an email and send it to someone. Is that expected?
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Hi Martin,
HTML documents are not self-contained. The HTML file itself contains text but all images reside in a folder in the same level as the HTML file. There is also a CSS file in the same folder as the HTML file that is required. Make sure you copy all files (or ZIP them if sending an email) when moving to a new location.
Thanks.
I am new to ScreenSteps and just embarassed myself badly . Like Martin, I exported my lesson to HTML, then send the file to associates, telling them to open in their browsers.
NO images.
I then imported the .HTML file into my iWeb account, invited people to the URL created by iWeb.
Again, no images
I am embarassed.
PLEASE explain the reply given to Martin.
I don't understand about files at the same level. I see only one HTML file, which has the name of my Lesson. There is no second image file folder.
Please explain in simple steps what I must do so that i can share my Lesson. I can do .pdf but the pdf file is not pageinating properly. the HTML looks beautiful so I want to use.
What do I do to ensure the export is correctly done?
Barbara-
I don't think that there is anything going wrong with your export. What is happening is that your HTML file and your images are getting separated.
We have revised the uploading to .Mac lesson a bit. If you follow the steps outlined exactly then you should be able to post your lesson to your .mac/mobilme site and share it.
http://bmls.screenstepslive.com/spaces/screensteps/manuals/screensteps-beta/lessons/2425-Uploading-HTML-Lessons-to-Your-Mobile-Me-or-Mac-Site
Let us know if that doesn't work for you.
You have a few errors in the help,Greg which Apple asked me to share with Blue Mango
First of all, per Apple Techie with whom I just spoke advised that
the "Lesson"folder (using same name as on the help file you sent me,) must go into
iDisk/Home/Web/Sites and NOT,as it appears in the help file into iDisk/Home/Sites
Also, I am told that iDisk,dotMac,Mobileme requires an "index.html" file associated with the customized web page.The ScreenStep export into HTML did not create an index.html file associated with it.
Cah you advise, please.
I would like to be able to upload my Screensteps Lesson but it is not working
Thank you
If Screen Steps paginated properly in the PDF format I would not even bother with HTML. But the .pdf version of my Lesson separates the image from my text which should appear directly below the image. That looks bad.
( I notice that the pagination issue in PDF format was discussed middle of last year but I guess this has not yet been corrected.)
I followed the instructions in the help document
This is the URL I use.
http://web.me.com/barbpassman/Lessons/eSignature.html
Lessons = the I created containing the three files,
eSignature.html= the exported page
This is what I get , repeatedly
we can't find the iWeb page you've requested. It's possible that:
The address was entered incorrectly. Check your spelling and try again.
The .Mac member of this name has either created a page and removed it or has never published an iWeb site.
There is no .Mac member of this name. If you'd like this member name for yourself, sign up for a .Mac account right now and have your own iWeb
Does anyone know how to get a ScreeenSteps html file correctly posted onto an iDisk?
Success. finally
I started completely over.
New export of files.
Did nothing different; this worked.
Yippee...
Glad you were able to get it working Barbara. Sorry for the frustration you experienced.
As far as PDF pagination, if the image is too tall to fit on a page with text then it gets moved to the next page. ScreenSteps automatically shrinks the width of images, but not the height. If you want to make the image smaller so that it will fit on the same page as the text then you need to resize the image.
See this lesson: http://bmls.screenstepslive.com/spaces/screensteps/manuals/screensteps/lessons/178-Image-Tools
Unfortunately there still isn't a way to preview the page breaks for PDF output. We are aware of the issue but couldn't give you an ETA of when we would have a solution ready.
One additional note concerning index.html. If you have an index.html file in one of your custom web folders then that file will load automatically if someone navigates to that particular folder using their browser.
For example, if someone went to the url http://web.me.com/barbpassman/Lessons/ in their browser then http://web.me.com/barbpassman/Lessons/index.html would be displayed.
It is not required though.
Note that if you are just exporting a lesson then you can rename the lesson HTML file to whatever you would like. So you could rename one of your lesson files to index.html if you wanted it to be the default lesson that is displayed.