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March 27, 2017
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Link .CHM to .CHM using FrameMaker/Robohelp

  • March 27, 2017
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I'm using the Adobe Technical Communication Suite 5. I've got two FrameMaker 12 books, each linked to its own RoboHelp HTML 11 project, and I'm generating two separate .CHM files.

I'm trying to figure out how to create a hyperlink from one .CHM file to a specific topic in the other .CHM file. The two .CHM files are going to be in the same directory, but customers have the option of installing both .CHM files in any directory they choose, so I need to use a relative path name.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Captiv8r
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March 27, 2017

Are you hoping for a solution that is handled in Frame that sails on into Robohelp? Or are you open to using RoboHelp to create the links?

Cheers... Rick

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    jillk17440102Author
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    March 27, 2017

    Hi, Rick,

    Thanks for your reply.

    I was hoping to add something in FrameMaker (a hypertext marker of some kind maybe?) that would get converted to a working link in RoboHelp.

    Any ideas?

    Jill

    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
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    March 28, 2017

    Sorry, no ideas for thing done in frame. I have zero clues as to how it really works. I only know RoboHelp.

    Perhaps it will help to outline what I would do in RoboHelp to accomplish the goal and it will spawn a thought of what you might do to achieve it in frame.

    In RoboHelp, you would use an HTML Help Shortcut control. The program to open would be HH.exe. And the parameters should read ms.its:Helpfile.chm::/TopicName.htm.

    Of course, you would replace Helpfile.chm with the actual file name of the desired CHM file and the bit reading /TopicName.htm is the path and file name of the topic inside the CHM you are opening. If that topic is inside one or more levels of folders, you will need to factor that in. So perhaps it's in Folder1, then it should read: ms.its:Helpfile.chm::/Folder1/TopicName.htm

    Given that you will be in frame, I'd be super surprised if this is remotely possible to mark up so it just flows into RoboHelp. So I'm thinking this will be a total RoboHelp thing.

    Cheers... Rick

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