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Is there documentation from Adobe, or from some enterprising soul, for the code used in the Publish to Print Doc templates (Handouts, Lesson, Step by Step, Storyboard)?
Since the templates that ship with CP are so lousy, I'd need to either modify or create my own. I can get into them, but don't really know what to do except brute force, one-var-at-a-time modification/testing.
I see that some folks are just living with it and others have completely given up and developed workarounds, but are there others who have conquered this?

Hello Jeff,
Thanks for the quick response. Your idea for subdiagram lables does indeed provide a good method to add a description to the diagram, and I will be using it. Still would be nice to have a description "outside" of the diagram, as it would stand out better in the html file, but this will suffice. Any other suggestions are still welcome.
Thanks again,
GSinMN

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