Taubman
06-16-2004, 10:53 AM
Hi, I have searched the iSiloX manual and this Forum for the answer to this, but I cannot find anything quite right. (Perhaps I am just not understanding what I am reading.)
I am creating an iSilo document from several (approx. 30) root html documents of varying lengths that were first created in MS Word. They mostly convert just fine, but one of the places I am having problems is in the option to choose whether or not users can scroll across page boundaries. I have chosen the "soft" option, but maybe I do not understand what this option provides me. It is my understanding that when this is chosen, the user can start at the top of first page, and holding the down arrow, scroll and scroll continually from the start of the document all the way to the end, progressing through each page along the way. Am I wrong? Because this is not what happens.
I can only scroll from the top of each page to the bottom of the same page end stop. I actually have to move to another page using the forward/back arrows, or by typing in the page number or hitting next/previous page, and then I can begin to scroll again on the new page. This is confusing, esp. b/c I have a title page in my document that appears before the Table of Contents. If it were scrollable, it wouldn't seem quite so much like that title page is disconnected from the rest of the document, which is how it seems now to outsiders (re: people who are not me and who will eventually end up using this document) who encounter it for the first time.
I have tried to see a difference in how the converted document behaves by converting with the exact same settings, changing only the settings concerning "rigid" page boundaries and "hard" page boundaries, and I can't discern any difference. All three choices seem to behave exactly the same.
Sorry if I am using the words 'page' and 'document' imprecisely here; I am fairly new to this and not sure I entirely apprehend the distinction. I am trying my best to explain it well enough so that someone understands what I want and can tell me if it's possible.
If it means anything, I am using the most recent version of iSiloX for Windows, on a machine running XP, and iSilo 4.01 on a Tungsten C.
Thanks very much for any clue,
Rebecca @ Taubman
I am creating an iSilo document from several (approx. 30) root html documents of varying lengths that were first created in MS Word. They mostly convert just fine, but one of the places I am having problems is in the option to choose whether or not users can scroll across page boundaries. I have chosen the "soft" option, but maybe I do not understand what this option provides me. It is my understanding that when this is chosen, the user can start at the top of first page, and holding the down arrow, scroll and scroll continually from the start of the document all the way to the end, progressing through each page along the way. Am I wrong? Because this is not what happens.
I can only scroll from the top of each page to the bottom of the same page end stop. I actually have to move to another page using the forward/back arrows, or by typing in the page number or hitting next/previous page, and then I can begin to scroll again on the new page. This is confusing, esp. b/c I have a title page in my document that appears before the Table of Contents. If it were scrollable, it wouldn't seem quite so much like that title page is disconnected from the rest of the document, which is how it seems now to outsiders (re: people who are not me and who will eventually end up using this document) who encounter it for the first time.
I have tried to see a difference in how the converted document behaves by converting with the exact same settings, changing only the settings concerning "rigid" page boundaries and "hard" page boundaries, and I can't discern any difference. All three choices seem to behave exactly the same.
Sorry if I am using the words 'page' and 'document' imprecisely here; I am fairly new to this and not sure I entirely apprehend the distinction. I am trying my best to explain it well enough so that someone understands what I want and can tell me if it's possible.
If it means anything, I am using the most recent version of iSiloX for Windows, on a machine running XP, and iSilo 4.01 on a Tungsten C.
Thanks very much for any clue,
Rebecca @ Taubman