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mbalsam
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October 22, 2006
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Robohelp for html project conversion to Robohelp for word

  • October 22, 2006
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We have created our documentation using Robohelp for HTML v 5.0.1

We find that the html editor in the program is too restrictive. We would like to convert the entire project into Robohelp for word.

I cant find any way to do this. We're willing to buy a 3'rd party utility of hire someone to do it.

Can anyone provide some suggestions...


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RoboWizard
RoboWizard
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October 22, 2006
Hi mbalsam and welcome to our community

What are you finding too restrictive? Perhaps we can help. I'm certainly not trying to tell you how to operate your project, but to move from RoboHelp HTML to RoboHelp for Word would seem a quantam leap backwards. Especially if you are producing an HTML based output. The only time I'd seriously recommend it is if the desire is to produce WinHelp.

If you are dead set on using it, I'm guessing the first step would be to produce a printed document from RoboHelp HTML, This would give you a Word .DOC file to start with.

Good luck... Rick
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mbalsamAuthor
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October 23, 2006
Rick,

Thank you for your reply. I would very much like your help.

We are a small software company. Our installation manual was generated in a program called winchm. Basically it accepted html files and generated a chm file. We outgrew it and wanted to generate a web help, chm and a printed version. So we imported everything into Robohelp for html. We then set out to generate a printed manual.

Our reason for, "thinking" that Robohelp for Word might be better, is that it would let us control the format of the printed version... Don’t know if this is true.

Our biggest problem is:

How can we insert a manual page break where we want? In Word this will be trivial. If we cant easily control this then the printed version is going to really look bad.

I hope you can offer a suggestion for us...

Mitch
Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 23, 2006
After school write 100 times, I do not want to convert my project to RH for Word.

You say inserting a page break in Word will be trivial. How? RH for Word does not allow you to insert page breaks into topics any more than RH HTML does. If you put a page break in the Word source, the topic loses the content after the page break. As far as the printed document output is concerned, neither version of RH will give you that so you get much the same document either way. What do you have in mind to support the claim?

Page breaks after a topic are easy enough. Other page breaks will have to be manually created.

The HTML from RH for Word will be bloated and I can see no advantage in using RH for Word as far as getting a better quality Word document out of it is concerned.

You say "Our reason for, "thinking" that Robohelp for Word might be better, is that it would let us control the format of the printed version... Don’t know if this is true." Without an example, I cannot see how. Take a look at the topic on Printing on my site. Perhaps that will help.

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