Help importing WinHelp project into RoboHelpHTML

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December 22, 2006
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Dear All,

I am a programmer currently evaluating RoboHelp Office X5, with the intention of converting our existing WinHelp project to the more modern (and vista friendly) HTMLHelp.

I have tried using the import function (RoboHelp Starter/Import/WinHelp Project -> HTML Help.
This is a large (2000 topics) project, with a cnt file, map file (HM) and topics.rtf file.

Robohelp chugs away for a bit, then opens the new RoboHelp project.
The screen briefly flashes with the workspace, then refreshes, and the HTML Files (Topics) folder in the workspace is empty. i.e. the new project appears to contain no topics.

RoboHelp has produced HTML files (about 2000 of them), in a topics directory, but these don't appear in the project itself.

Not sure how to progress? Any ideas?

Hope someone can help,
Merry Xmas!

Robin

HTML

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Peter Grainge

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IonicRobin

Are you working with the full version or the trial version? The latter has a topic limit which your project is way beyond.

Also did you install RH with full admin rights attached to your logon?

Have you tried creating a new project and / or opening one of the supplied projects to see if your problems are limited to this import?

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Anonymous

Peter,

Many thanks for your response. I hadn't realised that there was a topic limit in the evaluation - so I'm sure it must be that.
We've now purchased the full version, so hopefully the import will work when it arrives.

Regards,

Robin

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Anonymous

Still stuck I'm afraid. We've purchased the full version of RoboHelp office and I've just installed it and tried the HPJ import again.

Same result as the evaluation version - the converted project has no topics, despite all the HTML files being created.

Hope someone can help,

Robin

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sd2528

Participant

I'm in the same boat for the same reasons. I have a very old version of robohelp that only compiles Winhelp and am currently doing a demo of Robohelp 5x because of Vista.

I didn't import anything. I just opened the .hpj file in the new version of Robohelp and it worked perfectly. Once inside I just changed the default compile to Microsoft HTML Help and I was all set. The only problem I am having is this...
HH_HELP_CONTEXT called without a [MAP}section

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