Will my RoboHelp X5 winhelp compile in RoboHelp 7?

[calistoga hiker]

I currently have a large Winhelp 4 project that I maintain on my PC using Robohelp X5. I don't want to update to Robohelp 7 until after my next release. However, I would like to install Robohelp 7 on our server, which does a nightly build, and use it from the command line to compile my X5 files to an HLP file. Does anyone know if this will work? Our server currently compiles the files using the Winhelp compiler, but we are having the dreaded font substitution problem. I'm hoping that using Robohelp 7 on our server will fix the font problem. Thanks for any advice that you can give me.

[Peter Grainge]

Welcome to the forum.

You cannot run any version of RH on a server. It has to be installed with the users logon. I guess you have installed it with the administrator's login which is in breach of the licence.

What you can do is install it to another client machine using your logon and then remote access that.

I don't know if RH7 will fix the font problem. If you want to create a new project and check that has the problem too, then you could zip that up and send it to me to compile.

[calistoga hiker]

Thanks for the help Peter. I haven't installed any version of Robohelp on a server yet. I was only considering it, as new versions of Robohelp will install the new hpj2hlp.dll that automatically removes new Microsoft Word RTF codes. These new RTF codes confuse the Winhelp compiler into changing from Arial font to the Times Roman font.

Setting up a remote access to a client machine might work really well. Thanks for the offer to test a test project for me. I might be able to get one of my colleagues in another division at work to do this.

My normal work environment is to create and edit the help project on my PC. Then at night, I push the entire project onto R&D's server where the software project is compiled (including the help) at midnight. I view the result in the morning. I was hoping to run a copy of Robohelp the R&D server via command line. Nobody would ever use this copy to create online help, except the one daily automatic compile at midnight.

I really appreciate you thoughts. Thanks. Have a nice holiday.

- Kent