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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

If your project is likely to become extremely large, you can simply output to more than one Word file.

When you click on Printed Documentation in the Single Source Layouts pod and go to the Printed Documents Content page of the dialog you can choose which topics to include as chapters in your document. I just run through this process 3 times, choosing the relevant topics for each output.

These docs are then supplied as Parts 1, 2 and 3.

As Peter said, the larger the document, the longer it takes to generate, especially if your PC/laptop does not have a massive amount of memory.

Word can also be a bit flaky when dealing with really massive files (repeatedly repaginating or just hanging), so that's another reason to maybe split out extremely large projects into multiple documents.

Just for reference, I checked my largest project to see the size of the files that I output.

The largest number of pages in a single Word file is 862, and it doesn't take too long to generate.

The largest file size I generate is 6.8MB and contains 784 pages (with lots of graphics) and that also only takes a few minutes to generate.

Regards,

Feebeegeebee


Hi Feebeegeebee,

thanks a lot for your answer!

Well, I tried to generate individual documents by using the flag "individual documents" in the printing config... but then the TOC is printed separately and therefore doesn't contain anything at all...

If you're generating those separate documents, then how do you get a suitable TOC? (Especially if you don't intend to make different books and therefore the pages should be numbered as if they would all belong to the same document). And what about the links... do they still work if one part of it is generated in a different document?

Regards

Gr33bo

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