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Need pointers on getting started with RoboHelp 7 HTML
Hi all,
I would like to hear important pointers on getting started with RoboHelp 7 HTML (RH7H). After a number of false starts and a holiday in the middle, I am now ready to get started, but I don't have time to do a course or even much of a tutorial. I recall a couple of gotchas that the first time around I learned the longer way, namely:
- You have to develop your RH7H help on a disk drive, e.g., C:, otherwise RH7H can't find linked graphics, as far as I remember.
- RH7H has no Save Project As operation, so if you want to backup up your project on the file server (always a good idea…) or create a new version for a new day's work or whatever, then all you can do is just copy your whole project directory (zipped or not) into the backup area.
- First create the topics in the Project Manager, but then you have to create the TOCs in the Layout Designer.
- The built-in HTML Design mode editor is not rich enough for doing high speed formatting, in the opinion of a lot of people, incl. little me, so if you need/want formatted WYSIWYM you had better to look at an external HTML editor.*
- If you use a different editor from RH7H's built-in Design mode editor, then you will be limited in the way you can insert RH7H's special features, e.g., snippets. So what do you do if you are using the RH7H HTML editor? And what do you do if you are typing HTML straight into Notepad, as apparently many HTML experts do, so I heard?
(Btw, how do you do bullets with this forum editor?)
Others?
Any time-saving pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Tia,
- avi
* Actually, I asked about the editor on this forum. Great thanks to the guy who suggested MS Visual Studio Web Developer. I had initially only looked at Vis Express 2005, which is what I have installed at my client, and it was not good enough, but at some point it dawned on me to have a look at MS Visual Express 2008, and I saw it was great; it includes lots of features that MS included in their Expression Web.
I would like to hear important pointers on getting started with RoboHelp 7 HTML (RH7H). After a number of false starts and a holiday in the middle, I am now ready to get started, but I don't have time to do a course or even much of a tutorial. I recall a couple of gotchas that the first time around I learned the longer way, namely:
- You have to develop your RH7H help on a disk drive, e.g., C:, otherwise RH7H can't find linked graphics, as far as I remember.
- RH7H has no Save Project As operation, so if you want to backup up your project on the file server (always a good idea…) or create a new version for a new day's work or whatever, then all you can do is just copy your whole project directory (zipped or not) into the backup area.
- First create the topics in the Project Manager, but then you have to create the TOCs in the Layout Designer.
- The built-in HTML Design mode editor is not rich enough for doing high speed formatting, in the opinion of a lot of people, incl. little me, so if you need/want formatted WYSIWYM you had better to look at an external HTML editor.*
- If you use a different editor from RH7H's built-in Design mode editor, then you will be limited in the way you can insert RH7H's special features, e.g., snippets. So what do you do if you are using the RH7H HTML editor? And what do you do if you are typing HTML straight into Notepad, as apparently many HTML experts do, so I heard?
(Btw, how do you do bullets with this forum editor?)
Others?
Any time-saving pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Tia,
- avi
* Actually, I asked about the editor on this forum. Great thanks to the guy who suggested MS Visual Studio Web Developer. I had initially only looked at Vis Express 2005, which is what I have installed at my client, and it was not good enough, but at some point it dawned on me to have a look at MS Visual Express 2008, and I saw it was great; it includes lots of features that MS included in their Expression Web.
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