Is it possible to reuse the map file that was produced to map FrameMaker styles to RoboHelp when creating a PDF in RoboHelp?

[ENTRGWH]

I'm using RoboHelp 11 to produce WebHelp. The documentation was previously written in FrameMaker and posted in PDF format, however it has undergone many releases since those days. I'm now being asked to create the help in PDF and WebHelp. Not really an issue except that the help format does not look particularly good in PDF (not designed for both).

Ideally I'd like to just use the map file from the original Frame to RoboHelp conversion in reverse (with a little editing)--to convert the RoboHelp styles to the original FrameMaker formats when I create the PDF, however A) there doesn't seem to be an option for that, and B) the original FrameMaker to RoboHelp map file doesn't seem to have been preserved after that conversion.  Is it there and I'm just not seeing it?

If necessary I can just create another CSS to redefine the styles, but if I don't have to, I rather not.

[Peter Grainge · Accepted solution]

I suspect that even if you could find the mapping information (pass as to where) it would simply tell you that Style A in Fm was mapped to Style B in Rh but not give you any information about how Style A was defined in Fm.

I think your only options are to create a CSS as you suggest or, as I would, create redefine the Word Style Mapping Template to suit. By going to Word first, you can edit the output for better page breaks and other tweaking you might want.

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[ENTRGWH]

Thanks Peter.

I hadn't considered going to Word first. It does sound like the best option, though.

[ENTRGWH]

Just as a final note. I didn't get the look and feel that I wanted from the Word options. I eventually imported an old doc that used the original FrameMaker template into RoboHelp. That gave me a CSS with the styles that I wanted to use. I spent a little time editing the CSS in Notepad++ so it could be applied to the newer RoboHelp WebHelp (notepad++ allowed me to make global changes more quickly than the RoboHelp CSS editor). This actually worked quite well.