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Anonymous
June 3, 2010
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Robohelp 8 HTML: Windows 7 Upgrade

  • June 3, 2010
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Hi,

Is it possible that the installation of windows 7 could have corrupted my fairly large project?  I had no issues on Tuesday with my project. I had yesterday off and when I returned to work today I upgraded to Windows 7.  I then received several emails from those who utilize my published projects on a daily basis informing me that my pop-ups are blank and the font type and size differed in various sections.  I went in to take a look at my design page and all seemed okay until I clicked the "view selected item" (i.e. eyeglasses).  I then looked at my published project and indeed my hyperlink/pop-ups are blank (though they are still in my project), text only pop-ups displays half the information, and my font sizes are x-small and small.  The only conclusion I have is that the upgrade to Windows 7 caused this?  How can I resolve this issue?  I have, upon advice from one of our "techies" in our company, went to single source layout and selected Webhelp (Primary Layout) and checked Add Mark of the Web but this did not resolve the problem.

Thank you for your assistance!

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Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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June 3, 2010

What others are looking at is the published output on a web server so how does upgrading your PC affect that?

You didn't say that since upgrading you had republished but if that is the case,please tell me that before upgrading your operating system your data including your projects was backed up to another drive.

First try opening a copy of that backup.

If that fails, then uninstall RH and reinstall it. Assuming you had the patches applied you have to first uninstall patch 2, then patch 1, then RH itself.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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Anonymous
June 4, 2010

Also, in addition to your comment of whether or not I had republished my project since the upgrade - yes.  As mentioned in my first post, I, upon advice from one of our "techies" in our company, went to Single Source layout and selected Webhelp (Primary Layout) and checked Add Mark of the Web which republished the project and did not resolve the issue.

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Anonymous
June 7, 2010

I'd just like to clarify my understanding here.

The problem is with viewing your webhelp from a server location when the help is viewed using IE7, correct.

You referred to hyperlink/popups being blank. Are you just talking about popups or are any other hyperlinked topics affected?

If it is just popups, see if any of the styles in your CSS have negative margins. If they do, then either remove those negative margins or go to Tools > Options and tick the "Convert RH edited topics to HTML" check box.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge


There were no negative margins in the styles of my CSS, however I went to Tools > Options and selected the "Convert RH edited topics to HTML" check box.  This seemed to help out with the font sizing/font types.  It did not help out with the hyperlink popups - these are still coming up as blank.

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