How does Frame 2015 relate to RoboHelp 2015?

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April 25, 2016
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We have an online help system of no more than 100 topics. They were written in Word and put into a homegrown help system.

Now we can go to a webhelp output of some kind, and I've shown my manager some DHTML effects like drop-down text.

I see that FrameMaker 2015 outputs to HTML5, but I haven't found a way to insert expanding text or drop-down text . . . Is there a way?

I briefly thought may be we could do without RH, but that seems so unlikely from a business sense, I must be wrong. What is the relationship between the two tools?

Thanks

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abhi_AdobeTC

Adobe Employee

Hi,

You can do this in FrameMaker.

Menu option: Special --> Publish Options --> Dynamic HTML Effects.

~Abhishek

nancy33534756Author

Inspiring

Thanks, Abhishek! That solves that mystery ...

I'm thinking that, even if FM and RH have overlapping capabilities, RH must still have far more capabilities than FM.

For example, if your book file contains 8 .fm files, each containing multiple H1 and H2 sections, it takse RH to split that into smaller .htm files, right? There's no way to do that in FM short of manually copying and pasting the content into separate .fm files and then saving them to HTML. Is there?

If there is, why would anyone use RoboHelp?

Thanks, everyone and anyone!

Jeff_Coatsworth

Community Expert

That’s called “pagination” & FM does do it. Currently, there’s a little bit more fine control over your output if you use the FM to RH workflow. This “gap” will probably continue to narrow until FM runs everything. However, there are lots of people authoring entirely in RH, so it will not cease to exist ;>)

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