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RoboHelp 8 - backwards compatibility?

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March 10, 2009
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If I upgrade a RoboHelp 7 project to RoboHelp 8, can another co-worker open this project in RoboHelp 7? In other words, is RoboHelp 8 backwards compatible with RoboHelp 7?

- Jill

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John_1121

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I am using RH 8.0.0.203, but my colleague is using 8.0.2.208. I even can't open the .xpj file she

send to me. Is RH soooooo backward incompatible?

Who knows the method to save the project file in RH 8.0.2.208 so my RH 8.0.0203 can open?

Many thanks!

John

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Jitin_r

Participating Frequently

This .xpj File is project file which gets changed permanently if you open it with higher version. Suppose you have project built in RH 7. If you try to open it in RH 8 then RH 8 will ask your permission to convert RH7 project to RH 8. This is permanent conversion so once converted you can open same project in RH 7. That's the way RH behaves. Same applied to your case. Though for you it's a minor version change but Adobe's default behavior does not allow you to open lower version file. I suggest an upgrade to latest version.

Thanks.

Regards,

Jitin.

Peter Grainge

Community Expert

The thread was about RH7 and RH8 but John's post is about versions of RH8. The patches from 800 to 802 are free so why not just apply them? 802 was a critical upgrade and you risk data loss without it. Apply the patches, problem solved.

The reason John is getting upgrade differences seemingly within version is the patch made signficant changes and had to be treated as an upgrade.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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joe7654321

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First time in forum...... My question is, I have Robohelp 8 coming...... I have books on Robohelp 7. Will these books be good enough or do I need to get books on 8? In other words is the difference between 7 and 8 drastic enough to where I wont be able to figure it out with the RH7 books?

Thanks,

Joe

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Hi Joe. Welcome to the RH forums.

As with any new version of a product, there are differences. To get an idea of what has changed, I'd start with Peter Grainge's excellent tour around the new features. You can find it here and once you've seen it you'll be able to judge. The answer from where I sit is "it depends" :-)

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Captiv8r

Legend

Hi Joe

With a few exceptions you should be fine using books intended for version 7 to learn version 8.

Cheers... Rick

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Govadica

Participating Frequently

Thank you Ben.

TomTom

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Anonymous

Rick, one complication there is the difference in the ways that 7 and 8 write topic code. If the second writer were always feeding topics up to Jill and never the other way around, perhaps it could work, but 8 would probably have to rewrite the code every time.

Another thread went on recently about the differences between how the two versions handle styles, and that would probably be a concern when trying to work between 7 and 8. The style handling directly affects the topic code.

So while you may be able to make a process for working with both versions within a team, my bet is it wouldn't be pretty. Just two cents (or less).

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Anonymous

I remember seeing that too, Peter.

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vivek_k-GfmzA1

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Let me clarify that RH8 project is not backward compatible and will not open in RH7 or in any other earlier versions of RH. However you can have both RH7 and RH8 installed together on your machine and they can co-exist.

Vivek.
Engineering Manager - Adobe RoboHelp
Adobe Systems.

RoboWizard

Inspiring

Hi Vivek

So what would happen if the user performed the following action?

* Compile a CHM file using RoboHelp 8.
* Copy RoboHelp 8 project from PC A to PC B.
* Open RoboHelp 7 and attempt to open project using HHP file.

Would that work or would ill effects be observed?

Cheers... Rick

Peter Grainge

Community Expert

You can check this too. I don't have RH8 but I believe when you try to open the RH7 project in RH8 it will give you a warning that you will not be able to open it in an earlier version.

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Peter Grainge

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I would like to check that with someone first.

Meantime be very careful.

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Anonymous

Backups are already made! I'll keep you posted...

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Anonymous

uh, ok. I'm always a little wary of what sales people will say to make a deal, but if they say it works both ways, cool. just have never seen success with it in this forum. Keep us posted.

AND MAKE BACKUPS!!!!

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Anonymous

That was the original plan, though for some reason, when they bought the new license for me, they got the new version.

Our IT admin called Adobe and spoke to a sales rep. He said that both applications are completely compatible (forward and backward). They also offered free support for this issue if needed. That seems odd! I should have the new license tomorrow and will see what happens...

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