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USING ROBOHELP HTML 10
Projects
Character formats
Table formats
Lists
Page layouts
Page layout, size, and Word
pagination
Headers/footers
Images
Images
Drawings
Importing FrameMaker documents
FrameMaker and RoboHelp together provide an end-to-end authoring and publishing workflow. This integration lets
you exchange content and publish a variety of output formats such as PDF, online Help, and Help based on Adobe AIR.
Note: If you are using Adobe Technical Communication Suite, you can link FrameMaker documents to your RoboHelp
projects. For more information, see Using FrameMaker with RoboHelp.
Optimizing for online output before conversion
If your authoring process in FrameMaker is optimized for print output, consider the following before linking or
importing FrameMaker documents into RoboHelp projects.
Determine the best mapping of FrameMaker heading formats to RoboHelp styles. FrameMaker
Heading formats
documents define various heading formats specifically for print documentation. Among these formats are side heads
and heading styles that start on a new page. These formats don't apply to online formats. You generally map these
heading styles to a few standard styles in the RoboHelp project.
Often FrameMaker chapter templates specify an even number of pages so that new chapters
Page layout settings
begin on a recto (right) page. For online Help, ignore these pagination considerations.
RoboHelp ignores headers and footers during conversion, including legal text such as
Headers and footers
"Confidential" and copyright lines. Include such text in the headers and footers in a separate step, after conversion.
Similarly, in RoboHelp, re-create watermark text or images that you used in the printed documentation. Use the
master page feature in RoboHelp to make these changes.
In print, cross-references specify page numbers which are irrelevant in Help. You can map cross-reference
Navigation
formats in FrameMaker to a format without the chapter and page number. Converting to online Help removes chapter
and section titles in headers and footers. You can enhance navigability by using breadcrumbs, back and next buttons,
and a defined browse sequence instead.
To provide context in different sections of a printed document, writers generally add redundant
Redundant content
information such as brief summaries of concepts covered previously. Because online Help is a random-access,
Converted. You can map Microsoft Word character formats to RoboHelp styles or import the source
formatting. See
"Convert Word character styles to RoboHelp
Converted. You can map Microsoft Word table formats to RoboHelp styles or import the source formatting.
See
"Convert Word table styles to RoboHelp table
Converted according to the settings you define. See
Ignored. These elements are not applicable to online Help.
Converted. See
"Convert headers and footers in Word
Converted. PNG images are imported as is if the Allow PNG as a graphicsformat option is selected in
Microsoft Word Web Options. All other images are converted to gif or jpg.
Converted to images.
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styles" on page 54.
styles" on page 55.
"List
mapping" on page 55.
documents" on page 53.
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