Is there a user guide for Robohelp 7?

Report · Jun 22, 2009

I've used Robohelp before, but now am faced with having to create a stylesheet. I've tried using the Help but it seems to make assumptions that I've done created .css before. For example, the kinds of things that I can find no information on:

What is the Design Editor? I can't seem to find it to be able to create an external style sheet.
In the "Create a style sheet" topic, you must first click style sheet, but the style sheet button isn't enabled.

Bottom line: I'm looking for all inclusive documentation that will give me concepts and procedures for creating a style sheet.

Thanks for your assistance.

Report · Jun 23, 2009

This is the Design Editor where you edit topics. Screenshot is RH8 but it's the same for this purpose.

Editing styles is done via the Format menu. It is fairly straightforward done that way. How are you trying to access it?

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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Report · Jun 23, 2009

Thanks for the graphic explaining the Design Editor. Would have been nice if that section of the window had been marked as such.

It appears that you can access styles by double clicking the .css. When I select Format from the main tool bar, the only option I got was Apply Conditional Build Tag.

I am importing a book file that was created in DITA. I would like to be albe to map the FM styles to Robohelp styles, but don't sesem to be able to access the Robohelp Style Mappings window. Any ideas how I get to that?

In Response To cvgs · Jun 23, 2009

I was able to finally access the Style Mappings window when I imported a book file. However, if I decide to add a new style later on, how do I access this window?

In Response To cvgs · Jun 23, 2009

We are getting off topic now. The forum works better if questions relate to the title so that the next person along with a problem find it via search. Follow up questions on the same topic should go in the same thread but it helps if new stuff goes into new threads.

If you are importing, why would you want to access the style mapping. Importing is a one off process. Linking is different and you can go into Project Settings to change things. There is some information about this for RH8 in the About RH8 article on my site. It's a bit different to RH7 but it may help.

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Report · Jul 21, 2009

Hi..

I COMPLETELY understand your frustration, because i've just gone through the same ordeal.

Its impossible to figure out how to import frame files into RH and how to use style sheets from the on-line help, because as you said, you only get bits and pieces of information out of context, and many of the descriptions of settings don't explain what they are for/do. Its the same old paradox; the only way you can understand the on-line help is if you already understand the product; in which case you wouldn't need the online help.

What finally helped me to get a basic grasp of the mysteries of style sheets, etc. was the tutorial: "Adobe Technical Communication Suite Getting Started series - Part 3: FrameMaker 8 and RoboHelp7: …" @ www.adobe.com/devnet/robohelp. (it runs about an hour and a half). It explains how to enter and apply custom style sheet settings, mapping, etc. and should probably clear up your confusion.

The only thing I STILL not certain about though, is what relationship, if any, template (.htt) files have to do with anything, and whether they relate to .css files. So i'd appreciate it if another poster can shed some enlightenment on that.

In Response To lwright18 · Jul 21, 2009

Thank you so much for sharing these resources with me. I have viewed

Adobe's tutorials on a number of topics and where their documentation

falls short of the mark, the tutorials are excellent. I can't wait to dig

into them.

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