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Link .CHM to .CHM using FrameMaker/Robohelp

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March 27, 2017
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I'm using the Adobe Technical Communication Suite 5. I've got two FrameMaker 12 books, each linked to its own RoboHelp HTML 11 project, and I'm generating two separate .CHM files.

I'm trying to figure out how to create a hyperlink from one .CHM file to a specific topic in the other .CHM file. The two .CHM files are going to be in the same directory, but customers have the option of installing both .CHM files in any directory they choose, so I need to use a relative path name.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Are you hoping for a solution that is handled in Frame that sails on into Robohelp? Or are you open to using RoboHelp to create the links?

Cheers... Rick

jillk17440102Author

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Hi, Rick,

Thanks for your reply.

I was hoping to add something in FrameMaker (a hypertext marker of some kind maybe?) that would get converted to a working link in RoboHelp.

Any ideas?

Jill

Jeff_Coatsworth

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Thank you again, Rick, for your response. I don't know whether I'll be able to adapt your RoboHelp solution to FrameMaker, but I'll give it a try.

You could try the Hyperlink marker to see if it's preserved in the RH conversion, but I suspect that you'll have to code it in RH.