Robohelp HTML with AppleHelp

[caroltypesetting]

The programmer I'm working with to publish my RoboHelp 7 application help wants an output which will work with AppleHelp. I have given him WebHelp and HTML (.chm) output files, but he wants "unzipped files without Javascript" instead. He doesn't want to use help in a browser. Does anyone know if there is an output from RoboHelp which will work? Many thanks for any help or explanation you can offer, I don't know enough about programming to understand this. - Confused in California

[Peter Grainge]

I don't think I have seen AppleHelp mentioned on these forums before.

Any unzipped help output from a HAT such as RH is going to need a browser. You can avoid javascript using the Pure HTML option but that does not avoid the browser requirement. HTML outputs created in Dreamweaver would require a browser.

A quick google on AppleHelp suggests you need a different authoring tool.

Maybe discuss this with your developer and get some more information that may help someone here give some advice?

[Guest]

Hi -- I have the same question as you (so now you've seen two references to AppleHelp, Peter!). I'm writing webhelp for a small desktop application that has both Windows and Mac versions. For this release, we're going to live with having the Mac version display in Safari or Firefox, but for the next version we're hoping to be able to display the Help as generic Mac Help. Please let me know if you find a solution, and good luck!

[Peter Grainge]

Plus one on HATT. That's three people queueing up for AppleHelp. :-)

Try this link if you want Adobe to look at it.

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform