Graphics/arrows from FrameMaker 2022 can't display in Microsoft HTML Help output in Robohelp 2022

Are you importing or linking the FM content to your RH project? Is RH2022 up to date with the last patch (3)? As an experiment have you tried publishing to CHM in FM? 

Extendscript is no longer in RH2019 New UI and newer. Instead it's an undocumented mishmash of javascript libraries. 🙂

There is an out of date pdf of Robohelp specific javascript functions in the Appendix of the online help, in case that helps.

One process I have done in the past to make "composite" FrameMaker graphics into web images:

1. Programmatically convert each image into a PDF and substitute it into the anchored frame.
2. Use Acrobat Pro to convert each PDF image into a PNG.
3. Programmatically replace each PDF image in the FrameMaker document with the corresponding PNG.

It sounds complicated, but we used ExtendScript for steps 1 and 3 and processed hundreds of documents this way.

Is this something that worked in earlier versions of RoboHelp but not in the new UI? My guess is that it has not worked before as I suspect it is simply something the Microsoft Compiler cannot handle. Microsoft last updated it in 2004 and CHMs are now a legacy output. They only work on the user's desktop and cannot run on a network.

On Monday there will be someone else on the forum who may be able to add something but meantime the only solution I can think of is to create single images (png or jpg) and use different build tags on those and what is in your topics at the moment. A single image would work in a CHM.

Both HTML5 Responsive outputs and Frameless outputs can be installed locally if you can consider alternatives. Frameless is the recommended option as that is where future development is focussed.

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