Robohelp 2019 Frameless: Importing PDFs as PDFs

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• You've definitely added the pdfs to the toc, and are not just looking at the files in the Content pane? Yes. Added pdfs to the TOC under a folder. Unlike Classic, if you want a file to be included when you generate, you MUST include it in the toc. Then there's a checkbox to hide the file in the toc, if you don't want it to display there.
• You have all your topics and pdfs in a single toc, not in two different tocs? Yes. In one toc.
• You've selected the correct toc in the output presets? Yes. I have only one toc for this project.
• You haven't applied conditions that would exclude the pdfs from the output? No.

Thank you for troubleshooting. 

Random ideas, without being able to see your project:

• You've definitely added the pdfs to the toc, and are not just looking at the files in the Content pane? Unlike Classic, if you want a file to be included when you generate, you MUST include it in the toc. Then there's a checkbox to hide the file in the toc, if you don't want it to display there.
• You have all your topics and pdfs in a single toc, not in two different tocs?
• You've selected the correct toc in the output presets?
• You haven't applied conditions that would exclude the pdfs from the output?

Thank you. This worked for me somewhat.  I have two folders in my TOC - a folder with PDF imports and a folder with Word imports. The folder with PDF imports does not get included when I generate the TOC. Only the Word import folder gets included. The frameless output builds successfully with content from both folders. But when I do a search on the output, it only performs a search on the imported Word documents - not on the PDF docs at all. Why are PDF files being ignored in TOC and in Search? 

I didn't even get as far as noticing the File option in the right-click menu. 🙂

Ah I see. I overlooked it because they spell out a bunch of types. I figure I'm not alone in that. 🙂

Import > File.

In the dialog that opens the first file types appear to be limited to HTM, HTML and CSS but that's just because the list is long. There is a *.* in the dropdown but you don't need to change from the default.

Hmm, I don't have a pdf option under Import in New UI?

... or right click the folder in RoboHelp where you want the PDF and use Import.

If you want the PDFs to be found only by search, when you add them to the TOC there's a Hide In Output option. That way they don't appear in the TOC but can be found by searching.

As a test, I copied a pdf into a folder in my project using Windows File Explorer. It showed up in that folder in RH 2019 New UI. I dragged the pdf to the table of contents and generated a frameless output. The pdf showed in the table of contents and opened when I clicked on it. Then I searched for a word in the pdf and it showed up in the search.

Does that help?