Applying CSS and styles to imported project

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May 20, 2011
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Hi,

I hope someone can help me here - I have documents in FrameMaker that I need to use to build a Help system - I have imported the files into Robo but I can't get the css style sheets I need applied. It creates new style sheets for each topic and completely disregards the css that I apply.

I am used to building sites for online assistance programs in DreamWeaver and I can't seem to find the tools that I would use in DW to build the site in Robo. I have several formatting elements that I require for this project.

Do I need to make adjustments to the HTML reference mapping table in Frame before converting? Do I need to manually apply the styles in the css and update from there? I have the files in HTML in Robo logically displaying but none of the formatting I require is there.

I am very stuck!

Thanks,

Ryukhin

HTML

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Jeff_Coatsworth

Community Expert

You can always have your css applied to all topics when you generate your WebHelp. It's one of the options in the Single Source Layouts (SSL) recipes.

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Anonymous

Thanks Jeff,

I appreciate you taking the time to answer my post.

I have the css mapped but I am having to manually apply the styles in each topic and it's killing my productivity. It seems like you are saying the styles will be applied when I generate the project but that seems counterintuitive - I have worked in Adobe products long enough to know that counterintuitive can be the name of the game - but I am dealing with some tight deadlines and files that were originally in Author-IT that I converted into Frame and am now trying to create the help system.

I think I bit off more than I can chew here! Because there is no conversion from Author-IT into Robo because Author-IT doesn't generate a project file of any kind, just flat HTML files.

-R

Captiv8r

Legend

ryukhin wrote:
...I think I bit off more than I can chew here! Because there is no conversion from Author-IT into Robo because Author-IT doesn't generate a project file of any kind, just flat HTML files.

One thought would be to create a CHM file from Author-It and decompile it for inclusion in a RoboHelp project.

Also, CSS files are simply text files. One could easily open both in Windows Notepad, select all the rules from the referenced CSS and paste to append them into the linked CSS. Then the styles should appear in the selection panel.

Cheers... Rick