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July 12, 2012
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  • July 12, 2012
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Hello Everybody,

I am just full of questions today. After receiving a lot of help on the Acrobat Forum, now it's RoboHelp.

I have several requests I do not know if are even possible to accomplish. First, I am using RoboHelp 8. What i was asked for: the online help shall be a webhelp as the application is web-based. But, aside from the usual web help, created with RoboHelp, I will need to create a 'smaller' help that will become pop-ups and tooltips. Basically, I would write the content in different short topics, but the output should look and act like a 'mouseover" popup, or tooltip. Is there any possibility to do that?

Thank you!

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    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
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    July 12, 2012

    HI there

    What you are describing is often known as "What's This" help. Basically, the user clicked a question mark on the dialog, then clicked the area of interest and up popped a text description of the area of interest in a tooltip.

    Unfortunately it fell out of favor a few years back so you don't see many applications that offer it. There used to be some that the Windows operating system offered. Can't find any at the moment to use as an example.

    RoboHelp does offer a What's This help tool. Click File > New > What's This Help Project to see it. I'm not sure how effective it is. I only know about its presence. I've never used it to create this type of help.

    Cheers... Rick

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    Anonymous
    July 17, 2012

    For another possible output, my managers suggested creating something similar to what facebook has. Of course, there is no way you can find out what tools they use (or at least google did not help me much). Do you happen to know if anything similar to that can be created with RoboHelp 8? The application is web-based . Thank you again!!

    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
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    July 20, 2012

    Well, sort of – PDFs can actually have a bunch of bells & whistles in them that ePUB can’t – stuff like 3D CAD drawings that you can manipulate (on screen of course; on paper they’re still just as flat as ePUB text).

    The reflow capability comes from the XML based nature of ePUBs.


    Jeff_Coatsworth wrote:

    ...The reflow capability comes from the XML based nature of ePUBs.

    LOL, I really could care less where the reflow capability comes from. For someone that has seen HTML "properly reflow" when the browser is resized, it's laughable to think it's something that would be "knock your socks off" cool, no?

    I guess it might be if all you had ever seen was PDF and struggled with trying to read one on a three inch screen.

    Meh... Rick

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