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Vanguard
Jan 15th, '04, 02:29 PM
Dan,

I'm trying to rearrange some of the layout and have been having a problem with trying to get things to align properly in the Characterstic box. How would I make something appear under the "Notes" column?

Thanks in advance!

Simon
Jan 15th, '04, 04:35 PM
Depends on what you're talking about. You can't alter the notes column on the characteristics tab.....if you're talking about the export template, then it depends entirely on the export format that you're using and the structure of the template itself.

Vanguard
Jan 16th, '04, 12:12 AM
It's the export template. I'm trying to alter were the things like running and such are to condense things a bit.

Simon
Jan 16th, '04, 03:46 AM
It's entirely dependent on the type of export template (HTML, RTF, plaintext, etc) and on the specific structur of the template in question. If you don't know the language that the template is writtten in, then you probably won't be able to change much.....

dirkdougherty
Jan 16th, '04, 09:22 AM
Vanguard,
I'm assuming you are using the default HTML template in the file DefaultPrintTemplate.hde.

This template has nested HTML tables. The characteristics table starts on line 78. If you are to line things up, you'll have to put them in the same table.
You _can_ mess with table and cell width percentages to line things up, but in my experience you'll spend a lot of time and get poor results.

Dan's correct that if you don't know HTML well enough, you may have to settle for what comes with the product.

P.S. Don't forget to save the original file in case you want to go back to it.

Vanguard
Jan 16th, '04, 02:12 PM
I don't know which of the orginial templates I'm using but I've already modified it a bit.

It is the HTML one and both of you are correct in that I don't know that language well at all so far I'm limiting myself to just modifying what's there and that's about it. So far I've gotten what I've wanted by continuing to play around with it.

In any case, thanks for the help/advice. It's appreciated.