Workaround: Prevent text and image overlap in exported PDF documents

Brandon Nalls
Last Updated: October 9, 2012
Build Basis: Rational Quality Manager V3.0 – V4.0.X

Summary

In certain situations, when you export PDF documents from Rational Quality Manager text and images can overlap. This is typically caused when both richtext and an image are selected, and then visual attributes are changed, such as font or text color.

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Problem

This issue is caused by the Rich Text Editor placing both text and an image inside an html “span” or “cite” tag. This only happens if a text-based editor option is clicked while an image and text are selected. The “Remove Format” option should remove the surrounding span tag from the image. The PDF rendering engine cannot reliably allocate enough space for the image if it is inside an inline “span” element.

Workaround

To fix overlap occurances you should try either of the following methods:

• Remove the formatting method.
  1. Select the image, then click the Remove Format button.
     
  2. Save the artifact.
  
  
• Delete the image method.
  1. Save the image to your computer; then delete it from the editor.
  2. Right-click the previous location of the image, select Insert Image, and then browse to the location of the file you saved on your local machine.
  3. Save the artifact.

Related Information

The following links point to related information:

• 53872: Span elements in PDF print cause overlapping images
• 71701: Text overlaps image when wrapped in the same span