PDF Output and Index question

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January 4, 2007
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I know its a little unorthodox - but due to some security and search-spider constraints for a project I'm on, we need to post PDF documentation to our website rather than HTML Help or WebHelp.

My question is this - is there a way when generating a PDF from RoboHelp, to have the index that was created in the project be converted to a PDF page(s) with links in it that when clicked will take the user to the location in the PDF where the word they clicked on in the index appears.

Basically, I'm looking for the index in the PDF to function much the same as it would in HTML Help or WebHelp.

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Peter Grainge

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I suspect the changes that your security people are not willing to make are those needed to allow CHMs to work on a network. If that is the case refer them to the topic on my site about CHMs not working. That describes how they can set things up so that only your CHM can be accessed rather than any CHM. Maybe that would be acceptable to them?

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Anonymous

Hello,

Welcome to the forum.

Basically the answer is No. Robohelp can produce PDF output, but it does not have the functionality of Acrobat to do what you want. You would have to create the document in Acrobat.

I don't quite understand why you can't use WebHelp and have the developers deal with the security aspects.

Sorry I can't help further.

Brian

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idratherbearobotAuthor

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The reason for needing the PDF is a bit convoluted, but I will try to explain it to the best of my ability.

First, the content which the client is trying to post is actually not a "Help" system, but actually more of a document, a 50 page guide to be exact.

As for security, CHM files are out of the question as using them would require changes to our servers which our Information Security team refuses.

As for the WebHelp format, as the document itself is part of a larger website, all of its content need to accessible to search-engine spiders. Since Web Help utilizes frames, and frames are a roadblock for spiders, the only way around this would be a decent amount of additional development to make each section of content within the Web Help directly accessible through some indexed page of links - which isn't practical for us with this document.

Therefore we chose PDF, as it is indexible and the contents can be read by spiders. The reason the client would like to use RoboHelp to generate the PDF is in order to take advantage of the Content Managment features it provides.

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