An HTML template is a folder that contains a template file that ScreenSteps will parse and use to format lesson and manual output when using the Export to HTML feature. In addition the folder can contain any number of supporting files or folders.
Although we use the name HTML template...
ScreenSteps allows you to customize output using templates. These templates are stored in a folder on your computer that you can access if you would like to add or modify them.
At a minimum a template folder must contain a template file. This is the file that tells ScreenSteps how to process a lesson or manual for output. This lesson describes the anatomy of a template file.
HTML templates allow you to limit the maximum height and width that an image can have when you export. This can be useful if you need your images to fit within certain dimensions to display properly on a web page.
All templates encode text as UTF-8 by default. If you are integrating output into a website or system that requires ISO-8859-1 encoding then you will need to change the text encoding property of the template.
This lesson will show you how to customize lesson navigation links when exporting manuals to HTML.
Before you begin this lesson you should familiarize yourself with the ScreenSteps HTML Template folder.
ScreenSteps 2.0.3 added a new template section that allows you to provide zoom links in your HTML output.
ScreenSteps allows you to export to PDF, HTML, ScreenSteps Live and Blogs. When exporting to HTML or a Blog, ScreenSteps uses a template system to generate text files with HTML markup. You can create and customize your own templates and export XML files which can then be imported into other co...