Equations display badly in IE

Question

I am using Robohelp X5 for Word. The Word documents contain
equations. After generating the webhelp files, the equations
display very badly in Internet Explorer. But they display just fine
in Opera. If I open the actual gif file in IE,
it opens the Windows picture viewer, and displays the
equation just fine (but quite large). So I would guess that the IE
gif-shrinking algorithm is the culprit.
Anyone else come across this? Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Hi mnicoll
Are these images larger than what will comfortably fit in IE?
I ask because I'm aware that IE typically will automatically scale
an image to fit within the window. If you hover the image, you see
a couple of odd icons. I belive one of them appears in the lower
right corner of the image and you have to click it to see the image
at its full size. I believe you get at this setting by clicking
Tools > Internet Options... > Advanced tab > Multimedia
section. There, you should see a check box labeled "Enable
Automatic Image Resizing". DE-select that and you should be set.
However, this would only change the behavior for your PC.
There is nothing I'm aware of that you can do to accommodate your
end users' PCs. Well, nothing to force a change in their browser
behavior.
What you *CAN* do is to ensure your images aren't overly
large to begin with. But that's a whole other nest of weiner dogs.
Cheers... Rick