Posts Tagged ‘robohelp’

Customizing TOC icons in Indigo layouts

Both RoboHelp and FrameMaker output options contain a frameless responsive HTML5 layout, named Indigo. Indigo is a frameless HTML5 layout, as opposed to “traditional” 3-pane help with a familiar nav pane on the left side. Frameless output is more easily indexed by search engines (both internal and external) and results in more concise URLs than…

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RoboHelp 2019 merged help: Adding new projects

RoboHelp has long been able to produce merged help, which combines any number of different RoboHelp projects into a single output. I recently updated, upgraded, and merged an 18-project system for a client, and wrote a version of the following for when new projects need to be added. If you have to upgrade and add…

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Sharing resources with TCS5

FrameMaker 12 and RoboHelp 11 take advantage of nifty cloud and mobile device options which greatly enhance collaboration and review tools. My Adobe webinar on 11/6/2014 covered these options, and the recording is available at http://adobe.ly/1ya8T9i In the webinar I discussed: FrameMaker 12 Dropbox functionality Setting up Dropbox integration Enabling folder structure for uploaded projects Saving a project…

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Editing the RoboHelp ISF

When linking content into RoboHelp from MS Word and Adobe FrameMaker, you have the ability to map your source content styles to a CSS in your project. That’s great, but the interface to do so in RoboHelp requires lots of clicks, and generally is an iterative task that can take a number of hours. However, there’s…

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