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HiI am using RoboHelp 2019 version 8.What is the best way of ensuring that images are displayed as thumbnails in the Online Help (HTML5) and are resized to fit the page in the PDF format?Thanks in advanceMichelle

Peter,Does RoboHelp 2019 accept Wingdings 3 characters?  We've noticed that our blue triangles aren't importing when I try to import our large file.Also I've noticed that all our tables have borders when the large file is imported into RoboHelp 2019, even though the borders are not in the Word file. What do I need to do to fix this?  I've played around with the import settings and haven't been able to get it import correctly.  Thanks,Michelle

Hi,I'm using Robohelp's 2019 Indigo layout, and when I generate Responsive HTML5 output, the index does not load a TOC, though I've generated a default TOC in the Author tab and have not selected to hide any output. Could someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong?Thanks!Christina

HiI am trying to add a footer that expands across the screen rather than limited to the iframe class="topic" area when using the Indigo skin.For example:I want to add a branded footer to the following area and I cannot find a way of customising the area apart from adding the code post Help build.<div class="topicpage-footer footer" role="contentinfo" data-html="@11361180_LNG.Copyright"></div>Can anyone help please?ThanksMichelle

How do I create incrementing Heading numbers? Currently, I have resorted to adding the Heading numbers manually and then conditionally tagging them as print_only.This is a laborious workaround, and when I add a new topic, I have to go in and increment the numbers manually.In Madcap Flare, there are autonumbers for styles that automatically increment when the PDFs are built. Does RoboHelp have something similar?

Hi. I'm using RoboHelp Classic 2019, version 14.0.7. I need some help with using conditional texts with snippets. Here's the scenario:My RoboHelp project is published as a single output to provide screen-level help within an application. I have two topics that use a snippet in which the content is the same except for one word. I'd like to use conditional text to toggle between the two different words in the snippet based on the topic in the project. I've been able to conditionalize the words, but I don't know how to write the conditional expression to have the correct word appear in my published output.For example, I have two topics: Creating Purple Widgets and Creating Turquoise Widgets. In the snippet, the words that are conditionalized are Purple and Turquoise:The word Purple is tagged with the condition 'Purple' while the word Turquoise is tagged with the condition 'Turquoise'. I added the snippet to each of my topics and applied the corresponding conditions to the snippet (content

We upgraded multiple RH10 Webhelp projects to RH2017 WebHelp with little to now problems.  However, there is one project that will not cooperate.  When the upgrade completes, the topics do not display in the topic list as expected.  So I go to the Project folder and DON'T I see them there.  When I go to the Broken Links folder they ARE there!  I am restoring them one-by-one.   Anyone else had this problem or know of a patch/fix?

Hello,I was wondering if it was possible to have the glossary display certain words for different topics. For example, If I have topics 1, 2, and 3 down below:I want to be able to separate the glossary terms based on the topic I am looking at. So right now all of the terms display for each topic, but what I would like to see for example. If a user clicks on topic 1, they only see the term for FTP, if the user clicks on topic 2, they only see the term for Javascript, etc. Now the only way I know how to do this is to create separate TOC's and glossaries for each topic, but let's say I have 100 topics that would mean I would need 100 glossaries and 100 TOC's. So is there any way to achieve this with 1 TOC and 1 Glossary? This is all done in Robohelp 2017.

I have a conditional tag called DialogHelp in my project.I've tried to build a version of the help that includes only the topics with this tag. However, when I compile, the resulting help has all of my topics in it.According to the RoboHelp help, creating a build condition with this tag in it should generate help with only the tagged topics, yet this is not happening.How can you generate a version of the help that includes only tagged topics?Thank you!Cindy

Hello,I am using RH Classic 2019 (14.0.7.004) with RoboHelp Server 10. We moved away from WebHelp Pro and began publishing successfully, however, sometimes intermittently, to Responsive Layout several months ago. Now the intermittent success seems ellusive- can't publish at all to Responsive Layout.I get the dreaded Runtime Error and application crash when trying to publish to the RH Server. Seems to get hung on a.SWF captivate file but I can only see that briefly before the RH Classic 2019 application crashes.  Event Viewer points to the followingLog Name:      ApplicationSource:        Application ErrorDate:          7/19/2019 10:08:20 AMEvent ID:      1000Task Category: (100)Level:         ErrorKeywords:      ClassicUser:          N/ADescript

I have the 2015 Tech suite on my computer and it was working fine.  I added Robohelp 2019 stand-alone to the same computer.  When I did that it made me re-enter my Tech Suite key.  When I did that the RoboHelp 2019 won't work??  

Generally, we use PDF review for smaller topics and there were no issues with the process until now. However, I did create a PDF for review recently and when I opened the PDF document, it throws the error message "The font 'FEQTRJ+Roboto,Bold' contain bad / Widths."Also, the Heading styles and other Styles (except the Normal style) all the other content seems to be messed up with unknown content.Has anyone faced a similar issue? If yes, I request you guys to help e out with this issue.We are using Robohelp 2017 (version 13.0.0.257)Thanks and RegardsSanjaiMessage was edited by: Sanjai Kumar

I am planning to upgrade from RoboHelp 2017 to RoboHelp 2019 so that the upgraded version supports GIT. Wanted to know if GIT works with RoboHelp 2019?

I see a lot of questions about technical difficulties but don't see anything about how to manage child projects in general. Two of us share 20 child projects (HTML5), which were originally a single giant project (CHM). We're on RH 2019 classic using TFS. At the moment, we're maintaining the giant project AND the child projects while programming finishes up doing what it needs to do to deploy HTML5 child projects instead of a single CHM project.1. We miss is being able to find ALL the topics that link to a topic (in single project: Project Manager > right click topic > Show > Topic Links). This method only finds links within the current project, so how can we find ALL the linked topics across the child projects? Do we search the topic's html file name in the source files somehow?2. While we tried to split up the single project as logically as possible, we still sometimes struggle to find where a topic is located. So far, we've been searching the source files for the topic's .ht

Hi,I cannot find the option to generate an output of my RH2019 project to odf format. It is only possible to generate an PDF output. When I just rename the file ending of this output to odf, Word is unable to read it. Can anyone help?Thanks and regardsKarin

Hi All,This might be an unusual case, but I came across some strange behavior. My project folder contained a . (dot), cause our product name contains a dot (RH reimagined.2). My project's name is "RH reimagined" (without a dot). In such cases, everything works fine most of the time. However, if you try to rename any topic or image file via the context menu (right mouse click - rename), the file is not provided with the name you enter there, but with the name of the project (i.e. RH reimagined.htm or RH reimagined.png). Also, the file is moved out of its original location into the top most level (e.g., if you are working in C:/documents/MyRHProjects/RH Reimagined/Folder1, the file will be moved to C:/documents/MyRHProjects). After this has happened once, you will not be able to rename any other file, as RH always returns the error, that the file with the name "RH reimagined" already exists.It is possible to rename the files via the edit properties of the topic in any cases.Maybe this he

Environment:Developing a new help system for a B2B software productRunning RoboHelp 2017, with all updates installedGenerating Responsive HTML5 outputOutput will be hosted in the cloud1 help project2 audiences: our customers and my company's tech support department The help project contains three types of topics:Internal: A topic that only our tech support dept. can access.External: A topic that our customers and our tech support dept. can access.Mixed: A topic that our customers can access, but also contains some (build-tagged) proprietary and confidential info only our tech support dept. can access.My plan was to use dedicated topic-level build tags and dedicated content-level build tags to generate/deliver 2 different outputs (and also support the filter tool): one for our customers (without proprietary and confidential info) and one for our tech support dept. (with everything).Our software product is cloud-based, so the customer help will be too. Our dev team is using Auth0 (auth0.

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Hi all,when I move around folders in RH 2019 to restructure my project (i.e., moving folders into a sub-folder), in many cases my links to the assets folder (css and images) are broken (they are then either missing one ../ or having it too often). However, moving folders does not always break the links, so it is not a solution to simply also move the assets folder into the sub-folder. I am not moving the folders around in the explorer, but inside RH.Does anyone else have this problem? Am I doing it somehow wrong? I am confident that restructuring files and folders worked pretty well in RH 2017. Best regardsKarin

I can´t import my files to Robohelp trial version 2019. Why? I start by open project, but it´s not possible to make an import of the files...

RoboHelp 2017 13.0.2.334Windows 10Background:When we localize a Help project, we send our Localization Department our entire Help project. They localize what they need to and send it back. At that point, we make a copy of the English project we had sent them and then copy all the localized content on top of it. Then we change the project's language and the ssl's language to the target language and regenerate. We've been doing this for years now and it typically works without a problem.The Problem:We have received some localized files for one of our larger projects (approx 2500+ topics but not many images). When I change the language in project settings the project is unresponsive for a very long time. Clicking on the project at this point crashes it. If I leave it alone, it sometimes finishes whatever process it is doing. But what is it doing? Is it modifying something in each .htm file under the hood that's causing it to seem unresponsive? If so, what exactly?

I've installed version RoboHelp 2017. It works fine with the project files.A colleague of mine is going to take over the work wtih the files.He has installed Robohelp 2019 (trial version). He's not able to open my project file.Actually we could open the file, but all pages were empty. The pages were marked a red cross.What to do? Is it because of the trial version - or are the versions not compatible??

I'm not sure when my RH updated but on version 2017 13.0.2.234 my ability to drag and drop a topic or bookmark as a hyperlink into a topic is not working. A co-worker is also using RH 2017 but her version is 13.0.0.257 and the drag and drop hyperlinking works. Does anyone know if there is patch to fix this or do I have to use the long road to create a hyperlink from the menu? Can the version update be removed and put back to the previous version?

Hi,Inside a Dropdown box, at the start and the end of the inserted text, a blue doted line appears when you scroll over the first and last line of the text. When you place your cursor over the blue box on the right side, if you click the box, a new paragraph will be created.This option is not needed and is annoying. If I need a new paragraph at the beginning or the end of the of the Dropdown text box, I will press Enter or add paragraph tags (<p> <\p>) in the source.What do you think?Cheers!Pierre

Hi everyone,I've recently upgraded to RoboHelp 2019 - which seems great so far. However, I thought I remember the ability to have topics blend across pages in previous RoboHelp versions - and not force a page break for each new topic.Right now, I have an 'all or nothing' problem: My topics are fairly short, which means I have tons of empty white space on each page after the topic has concluded. In some instances, I have merged topics where appropriate - but if that causes the page to overrun, I suddenly have three lines on the following page followed by tons of white space (due to the page break).Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions are how they manage their content in this respect?