Questions about "printing" from RH8 to MS Word 2007

[V_Igel]

Hi,

Per the recommendations of Peter Grainge and an Adobe Robohelp PPT, I am generating a Word doc and then saving as PDF to create a guide version of my WebHelp OLH.

In the help, I use some numbering and bullet styles that I defined, as opposed to the styles available in RoboHelp. (I like my spacing better.) I find that my styles work fine in the help but when I generate the Word doc using the default css, I have to do a lot of manual re-formatting of lists.

The RoboHelp PPT says that I should save my Word doc as a template and use it when generating the help, but then it looks like I have to re-define my styles in the Word doc.

Any idea if that would help alleviate all my manual labor? Am I just doomed unless I use the Robohelp embedded styles?

Finally, when I generate the guide in Word, my second page (the TOC) is numbered as page 3 when I insert the footer. The footer is "First Page Footer Section 2." (Section 1 is the cover page.)

This is driving me crazy. Is it something in how I have the book set up?

Thanks,

Victoria

[Peter Grainge · Accepted solution]

PPT = Powerpoint? I don't know what presentation that is to see what they said.

Home brewed bulleted and numbered lists have always been an issue because of the way Word interprets them. Even if you go direct to PDF you will get the same problem as Word is used in the background.

There is page on my site about numbering with printed documentation but I will be pulling it later today when I update that whole section. As you will see, I gave up with trying to get it right and none of the people who told me they would come back when they had fixed it ever did. I wonder why.

What you could try now that you have RoboHelp 8 is multi-level lists as you can control those better. See Lists on my site. Beware though, if you also use build tags there is a bug that is unresolved in 8.

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@petergrainge

[V_Igel]

Thank you. I should try the multi-level lists when I have time to futz around.

The document I was referring to is entitled RoboHelp Tips & Tricks by Rob Houser, Certified Adobe Expert from the User Assistance Group.

I don't know if you saw my last question about my page numbering problem:

"Finally, when I generate the guide in Word, my second page (the TOC)  is numbered as page 3 when I insert the footer. The footer is "First  Page Footer Section 2." (Section 1 is the cover page.)"

My print document section layout looks like the following screenshot. Any ideas?

Thanks,

V.

[V_Igel]

[Peter Grainge]

My guess would be you have your print layout set to start sections on odd pages. Click the Advanced button on the first page of the print wizard.

Also see Printed Documentation on my site.

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See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

[V_Igel]

Great, thanks for the info. I would never have found that checkbox, which was indeed selected.

Will check out your website topic again as well.