RH7 - Can I Insert a PDF File?

[DIChurchill]

We just purchased the Technical Communication Suite as an upgrade to RoboHelp X5. I use RoboHelp for Word (b/c quite honestly, I am clueless about html). I was wondering if there is anyway to insert a PDF file directly into my help project? I have many very complicated Word Docs that take forver to paste in and then reformat. I searched the archives but didn't see anything about this.

Also, We use tons of excel tables in our help program and in the past I have found the only way to incorporate these is to copy them and then paste them in as a picture. Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks for your help.
-Andrea

[FTBEmployee]

Hello Chrchlcci:

We've been importing PDF's from their original Adobe format into Robohelp X5 for about 3 years now.

The only problem is once you import it, the import process requires you to convert it to jpeg. So its text not searchable.

That is, suppose you have the statement "Hello Crazy Monkey" in a pdf file. You can go ahead and import it using the Robohelp "Import pdf file" option from the File--> Import menu, but then when you use the search to try finding "Hello Crazy Monkey", you won't find it. The reason being that the pdf is now an image (jpeg usually), and the text isn't treated as TEXT!

If your question is in relation to inserting pdfs directly into RH in its original pdf form, you can always create a hyperlink and put it into the local folder.

We've done this before too. That is, create a hyperlink to the filename and put that pdf file in the local folder. Local folder is the "WebHelp" folder. So every time your republish/regenerate, you would have to manually add it in the end.

Let me know if you need additional information about this.

Take Care.

FTBGuy