Notes

•You can't add style settings to the Default image style. This is the standard setting for images and is without additional style attributes.

• Image styles can be based on other image styles or independent. This is the same as with other style types.

Procedure

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

2.Locate the Image Styles heading and click on Add Style.

3.Enter a name and choose whether it is to be based on another style or not. Styles based on other styles inherit any settings you don't change in the parent.

4.Select Modify Layout to define the style settings.

Width or height:

You can define either the width or the height. The other setting is always automatic.

Percentage width or fixed width:
Percentage is recommended, because it makes the images responsive, adjusting in relation to the width of the current window or page. This is essential for responsive web design for both desktop and mobile devices, and it also ensures that your images won't break PDF and Word layouts.

Borders:

You can define the border style (solid, dashed etc.), width and color. Plus the radius, which creates rounded corners, and an offset, for a border offset from the image.

Rounded borders with an offset:

If you use a style with rounded borders and an offset for the border, you will want the rounded corners of the image to match those of the border as closely as possible. For this to work, you need to use a fairly high value for the border radius. In the example below, the 5px radius doesn't match the image, but the 20px radius does.

Caption alignment:

Centered, left or right. The text style for the caption is defined globally with the Image Caption style in the Text & Paragraph Styles section.

The style setting is in the Insert/Open Image dialog displayed when you insert an image. For existing images, just double-click on the image in the topic editor to display it.

Procedure

1.Insert a new image, or double-click on an existing image to display the dialog.

2.Select the style from the Image Style: dropdown list and click on Open to save.

Screen View and Print View tabs:

You can define two sets of settings for each style: Screen View is for electronic help formats (HTML Help, WebHelp and eWriter Help), Print View is for page-style formats (PDF, Print User Manual, Word DOCX and ePUB eBooks).

You can switch between the Screen and Print View style settings in the Help+Manual editor by clicking on the Screen/Print button in the status bar at the bottom of the main program window.