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Anonymous
November 17, 2008
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30-day Trial

  • November 17, 2008
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I just downloaded the 30-day trial for Robohelp 7. I've never used Robohelp before and am a little confused...

It opens a project of ours from 1999 (great). I've made some edits to various places (e.g. T.O.C., Word documents) and then was hoping to see these changes in the Online Help GUI. The Robohelp Online Help says:

1. Save your project
2. Generate Primary Layout.
3. View Primary Layout.

I did the above and nothing happens (i.e. no GUI appears)...

Am I missing something?

Jim
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Anonymous
November 17, 2008
Is there any "real" difference between Win 4 and Win 2000?

Jim
RoboWizard
RoboWizard
Inspiring
November 17, 2008
Hi Jim

It's been eons ago for me since I used RoboHelp for Word and those formats. So I'll do my best to pull from distant memory.

WinHelp initially existed as a simple .HLP file. When you constructed it, you had to create links from your opening topic that allowed the user to navigate to other topics. If you didn't do that, the only way they were able to navigate was using the Index and Search.

Winhelp 4 changed that playing field by offering the CNT file. This was a separate file that presented a Table of Contents along with Index and Search. This was presented in a floating window separate from the main help file.

WinHelp 2000 is a RoboHelp specific output view. Basically it takes the separate CNT file and embeds the content of that into the main window of the help. So instead of having one window presenting the TOC/Index/Search and another displaying the help content, you now have a unified window. Contents/Index/Search on the left side and topics on the right.

This is pretty much the same way that .CHM files operate today.

Hopefully that helps explain it.

Cheers... Rick
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Anonymous
November 17, 2008
Yet when I create a new project (test) it brings up the Online Help GUI.

Actually, now that I switched to Win 2000 format it appears to be working...

Thx,

Jim
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