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USING ROBOHELP HTML 9
Generating Help and printed documents
Set options for generating FlashHelp
In addition to the standard generate options, set the following FlashHelp options, as necessary:
Set the following options, and then click Next.
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Specify the title you want to display in the title bar.
Title Bar
Specify an icon to associate with the Help system. The icon appears in the browser tab.
Favicon
Output Folder And Start Page
output folder, click the folder button
using the .htm extension. The start page is a frameset for Help content to which file developers link when calling
the Help system from an application.
Use Lowercase File Names
recommended for UNIX users.
Note: Don't select this option for merged projects. Links to topics in other projects will convert to lowercase, whereas
the topic filenames will remain the same. The mixed cases create broken links on UNIX.
Conditional Build Expression
expressions.
Choose from the skins in the project, or click Gallery to select one from the Skins Gallery. Skins let you
Skin
customize the output by changing the colors, buttons, text, fonts, and icons. A skin is required for FlashHelp output.
Note: The Skin option is disabled if you select the Section 508 Compliant Output option. Use the Traditional Style -
No Skin option.
Select a table of contents to display in the generated Help.
Table Of Contents
Select an index to display in the generated Help.
Index
Select a glossary to display in the generated Help.
Glossary
Select a variable set to override the default variable set values in the generated Help.
Variables
Specify the output language for the layout if the language is different from the language of the project.
Language
RoboHelp uses this language setting for the UI strings and language-related UI elements in the preview and
generated output.
Specify the character encoding format if the web server to which you're publishing has character
Encoding
encoding different from UTF-8.
The topic that appears when Help opens. Click Select to specify a topic. By default, the first topic in
Default Topic
the table of contents is the default topic.
Exclude Unreferenced Topics From Output
not the default topic in the layout or is not referenced from the selected TOC, index, or browse sequence, or any
referenced topic.
Note: RoboHelp displays the unreferenced topics that are excluded from the output in the Output View pod.
Exclude Unreferenced Baggage Files From Search
but is not referenced from the selected TOC or any referenced topic (if Exclude Unreferenced Topics From Output
is selected). If Exclude Unreferenced Topics From Output is deselected, RoboHelp excludes baggage files that are
unreferenced from any topic in the project.
For W3C-compliant topics, this option passes the topics through an HTML validator.
W3C Compliant Topics
Note: Dynamic effects in styles aren't supported in W3C-compliant output.
Specifies a location and start page for the Help files. To choose a location for the
. To select a start page other than the default for the Help project, enter it
Select if you want to create filenames that use only lowercase letters. This option is
If you have conditional tags in the project, click Define to specify conditional build
Select this option to exclude any topic that exists in the project but is
Select this option to exclude any topic that exists in the project
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