Re: How to extract text from FM files...without us...

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Oct 24, 2025

FM to Word file translation service?? @cfoley519 what are you referring to? What @Be.eM was talking about was to offer to open the FM docs and save as MIFs for the OP. Nothing to do with Word.

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Oct 23, 2025

Maybe send it all to Word and edit in there before PDFing it? Just a suggestion as I don't do any PDF work out of RH.

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Oct 23, 2025

For a clean sweep like that, I would follow up with Revo Uninstaller to winkle out the remaining bits left over (as you proved by creating a new Windows User profile).

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Oct 22, 2025

Are you following this page - https://www.grainge.org/RoboHelp_Tour/rh2022/toc_index_glossary/index.htm

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Oct 17, 2025

I wonder if that was the procedure in the past - generate the LOx files, update the text insets, then kill off the LOx files, update without refreshing the text insets?

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Oct 16, 2025

So is it doing a List of Tables (if that's such a thing - don't have FM open to check & have never done it) and then putting that in as a Text Inset in the chapter content?

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Oct 16, 2025

Looking at your prior posts @MaradrX I think you've posted in the wrong forum - all your other questions were over in the InDesign forum, not here in RoboHelp-land 😊

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Oct 16, 2025

Are you using InDesign or RoboHelp? There's a lot of difference between the two products!

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Oct 15, 2025

Ok, I'm confused - can you mock up a screenshot of what you're getting?

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Oct 15, 2025

Just a WAG, but have you tried the sample project to see if it behaves the same?

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Oct 10, 2025

No, you'd need a version control system to achieve that - if you're editing a topic and then generating help with that topic included (assuming you haven't used conditional build tags or excluded it from the TOC) then your changes are going to end up in the output. A version control system prevents that from happening; while you've got a topic checked out for editing, the original topic still resides in the repo and any output generated would use that content, not the changed topic you still have checked out.

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Oct 10, 2025

I take it that you're not using the Publishing function - that would handle your objective of only uploading files that changed to the server site. With just Generating, you're performing the uploading portion of the workflow manually. In that case, the recommended action is to clear the target location on the server and upload all the output files again each time.

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Oct 08, 2025

Few things going on here - are you trying to view the output locally? Because you picked SharePoint output, so that would create .aspx pages I think, not .htm. I don't think your default topic should be same as the Start page.

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Oct 08, 2025

What version of FM are you running? Are you all patched up? Are your docs going to be running Structured FM or Unstructured? (since you mention S1000d, I suspect Structured).

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Oct 07, 2025

Ah, it might be that old activation server issue - see https://helpx.adobe.com/tech-comm-suite/kb/deprecated-internet-explorer-10-with-ims.html

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Oct 07, 2025

You may need to contact the FM folks for this one - see https://helpx.adobe.com/contact/enterprise-support.other.html#framemaker for your Adobe Support options. I'd recommend using the tcssup@adobe.com e-mail address as it reaches a team dedicated to Technical Communication Suite products including FrameMaker.

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Oct 07, 2025

@Winfried Reng I think your post lost its link - there's nothing to click on in it. 😁

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Oct 06, 2025

Are you running it as an Admin? Does the machine have access to the internet?

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Oct 03, 2025

I recall Stefan posting something along those lines early on in FM2022's release. A search of the forum might turn it up.

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Oct 02, 2025

I don't know if the "book of books" concept would work for you in this sort of thing.

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Oct 01, 2025

You've probably got your home page and the default topic page set to the same thing. See the other recent discussion about this. Edit - see https://community.adobe.com/t5/robohelp-discussions/studio-home-page-in-frameless-output-does-not-work-propper/td-p/15515982

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Oct 01, 2025

Was RH2019 bought as a subscription? If so, I think the installers and patches are accessible via your account. If it's just the HTMLHelp installer, DM me - I think I have a copy of the htmlhelp.exe installer kicking around.

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Sep 30, 2025

Ah, so it would be tagged as conditional and hidden in the output; normal generation of the index would take place just the same. Unfortunate that they didn't better label the condition so as to avoid the OP's confusion.

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Sep 29, 2025

I don't see the condition tag you talk about in the Marker Text - are you referring to the text in blue - e.g. .i.applications:courses;

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Sep 29, 2025

Yes, that is the latest version. Help > About shows you the internal point version. Latest version is 17.0.7.842.

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Sep 26, 2025

I suspect that the skin encoding is messed up in that older version - see https://community.adobe.com/t5/robohelp-discussions/%C3%A2-character-auto-added-to-random-topics-during-frameless-orange-generation/m-p/10645514#M126611 for Stefan's fix.

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Sep 26, 2025

Are you looking at this output on a webserver or locally? Does it make any difference what browser you're using?

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Sep 26, 2025

I usually put the title of the topic at the top of the container topic and then add the snippet after it. That way I can make the TOC either read the same in each location of change it to match whatever is going on in that part of the TOC. In one of my projects I produce 2 flavours of help that have about 95% the same content. In one flavour, one of the modules' programs (and thus their help topics) are located right off the main menu in another, tucked in as a sub-module to another. I use the container approach and conditional tags to make them appear or not in each flavour produced.

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Sep 25, 2025

Are you following Peter's guide on doing PDF output?

Jeff_Coatsworth · ‎Sep 25, 2025

"And then if the title changes for that content, now it has to be changed in each of the empty topics as well?" - no, of course not, that's the whole point of snippets - you edit the snippet & the changes appear everywhere that snippet is used.

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