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Anonymous
March 17, 2011
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printing a project with about 500 pages

  • March 17, 2011
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Hello,

the company I'm working for is currently discussing using robohelp for the technical documentation. So now I'm trying to find out, if robohelp really suits our needs or not. Currently I'm testing robohelp 9 on a windows xp system with word 2010.

In the documentation for robohelp it says, that one should not print documents with more than 100 pages. So I tried to print separate documents, but couldn't generate a suitable TOC - the result was simply a document, stating, that a TOC couldn't be generated, which won't be a acceptable output. My question is: how can I generate a TOC though printing several small chapters of the document?

Or is it possible to print a project with about 500 pages without using those single documents?

(Up till now, it was no problem for me, to generate a suitable printing documentation, but I'm not sure, if this will still work, when the project is complete and then contains about 500 pages.)

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Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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March 18, 2011

I regularly generate documents of more than 100 pages as do many others. Could you point me to the help topic that says there is a limit?

Are you trying this method just because of what the help says about that limit? If so, revert to your old method and see if you hit any problems. I doubt you will.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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Anonymous
March 18, 2011

Hello,

thank you very much for your fast answer!

Well here is the link to the topic in which it says, that one ought not generate documents over 100 pages: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/robohelp/robohtml/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d11aff59c2a0-7efa.html

I'm not sure if I understood the second part of your answer.... I tried that method - the printing of individual documents - because of the "limitation". Yet I don't have any problems generating the whole document, because the document currently contains onle about 30 pages. But later the document will contain about 500 pages.

As the company I'm working for has not yet bought Robohelp, it is my task to make sure, the whole thing will work, before they buy it.

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Anonymous
March 23, 2011

I've asked that the limit be investigated but for now all I can do is confirm I have no trouble with 200/300 page docs and Feebeegeebee is producing even larger docs. I have done so in the past and the only problem was that inevitably it took a bit longer.

Try repeating your topics in the print layout to produce a large document. A topic can be included more than once.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge


Well I tried to generate a large document just the way you suggested and it worked quite well. I am not sure, wether it will work that well, when there are more pictures and links in it, but considering Feebeegeebee's experiences with those large documents, I guess it is very likely that it will work with my document as well!

Thank you very much!

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