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July 29, 2009
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Printing from a Help File

  • July 29, 2009
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Hello everyone!

I've been searching these forums and clicking on links for a couple hours now and haven't been able to find what I'm looking for. If this topic already exists, my apologies for the duplicate! Also, I'm a new-ish user to RoboHelp. Have never really received any training, I just usually figure things out by trial and error and by looking through the forums here. So if I give you useless information, hang in there! I just want to make sure that I give all the information that is required for this issue. Also...and most exciting...I just got the rest of the week off!! Five Day Weekend here I come! So I won't be able to add anything or answer questions till Tuesday!

I'm working in RoboHelp HTML 6. (I think version 099, if that matters.) I've created a Helpfile that we have loaded to our company website. When creating the file to upload to the website, I used WebHelp under Single Source Layouts. It all works wonderfully, but now some clients want to be able to print each module individually. I have created Print Documents for each module under Single Source Layouts and I've read about buttons to link to that so clients can print them but I can't figure out how to put the "button" in the main page of each module so the client can print it. Or if they use the Print button on their browser, how I link the Print Documentation to that page. (The print documentation is in PDF format.)

So what am I missing? How do I link the print documentation to the page in the online help document for clients to use?

Have a fabulous weekend!!

Cheryl

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Correct answer Captiv8r

Hi there

Here is how you do it. First, you add your print documents to the list of Baggage files. Just right-click the Baggage pseudo folder and add the file. After you do that, you are able to create links from topics to the baggage file. Just insert some text or an image, then select it and drag the baggage file from the Baggage files area to the selected text.

It really can't be much simpler than that, eh?

Cheers... Rick

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July 29, 2009

Hi there

Here is how you do it. First, you add your print documents to the list of Baggage files. Just right-click the Baggage pseudo folder and add the file. After you do that, you are able to create links from topics to the baggage file. Just insert some text or an image, then select it and drag the baggage file from the Baggage files area to the selected text.

It really can't be much simpler than that, eh?

Cheers... Rick

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