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February 11, 2015
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Importing a RoboHelp for Word project results in carnage

  • February 11, 2015
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Hi,

Using a newly installed version of RoboHelp v11, I find that there's no 'RoboHelp for Word' any more, so I thought I'd import my 'RoboHelp for Word' projects into 'RoboHelp HTML'. I last edited these projects in 'RoboHelp for Word' v9.

Using default settings, the import completes but:

  • the first topic is preceded by page of nonsense font codes:
  • very few of the embedded, contents or index hyperlinks;

  • the 'URL' entries in the project manager are mostly garbage, and look as though there's some sort of Unicode issue.

Is there a guide somewhere for the average idiot like me as to how to reliably import old 'RoboHelp for Word' projects?

Thanks for any advice.

Trevor Cooper

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    Captiv8r
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    February 11, 2015

    Hi there

    When you used RoboHelp for Word, what was your output type? You might find you have better luck using different files. But before we can say what those files are, we need to know the output. From what I'm seeing, I'm suspecting CHM. But I'm not sure.

    Cheers... Rick

    torebaAuthor
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    February 11, 2015

    Rick!

    Yes, you're absolutely right, .chm.

    What does that suggest then?

    Cheers

    TC

    Captiv8r
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    February 11, 2015

    If you have CHM, there are a couple of ways you might try it.

    First, look at your source files. Do you see a file with an extension of HHP? If so, that's a Microsoft HTML Help file that is used to build your CHM. So I'd try again by creating a project based on the HHP. See how that goes.

    If that fails or doesn't provide satisfactory results, you might want to try reverse engineering the CHM file. (hopefully you still have a CHM handy)

    My good friend Peter Grainge offers information at the link below for reverse engineering.

    Click here to view

    Cheers... Rick