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July 2, 2010
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Help & Manual to RoboHelp

  • July 2, 2010
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I've inherited a Help & Manual project. Does anyone know if it's possible to import it into RoboHelp or convert it somehow?

Thanks

Jonathan

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    Captiv8r
    Legend
    July 2, 2010

    Hi Johnathan

    There is no avenue I'm aware of to import Help & Manual projects directly into RoboHelp. What you likely need to explore is taking one of its outputs. Probably CHM would be good, then decompile that and create a RoboHelp project using the extraction.

    You might find fellow Adobe Community Professional Peter Grainge's page to be of help with this.

    Click here to view

    Cheers... Rick

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    Jop_SmithAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 2, 2010

    I thought as much. I'll take a look at Peter's reverse engineering topic.

    Thanks

    Jonathan

    PS. I also have an AuthorIT project which may need shoehorning into RoboHelp. I guess the same goes for this as well then?

    Captiv8r
    Legend
    July 2, 2010

    Actually, indeed it will.

    The only project type I'm aware of that is capable of cleanly opening in RoboHelp is a Flare project. And even then, only after piping it through fellow Adobe Community Professional John Daigle's Flare to RoboHelp converter utility.

    Cheers and happy converting! Rick

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    July 2, 2010

    Hi Jonathan,

    Excuse my ignorance, but what do you mean by "Help & Manual", is that an online help creation tool?

    If not please can you tell us what software tool was used to create the project?

    Jop_SmithAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 2, 2010

    Hi, yes it's an authoring tool produced by EC Software. Have a look here...

    http://www.helpandmanual.com/