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USING ROBOHELP HTML 9
Generating Help and printed documents
Organize and customize content
Design a printed document based on only part of the project or the entire project. Determine where topics go in the
document by arranging the pages and books during generation. Base printed document structure on the project TOC
or select topics from custom folders in the Project Manager.
Map project styles to Word
Control how styles are used in printed documents with style mapping. Copy project styles directly to a Word
document. Any applied project style retains the style in Word. You can alternatively skip style mapping and use topic
styles.
Types of Word documents to create
Separate Word files for the title page, table of contents, glossary, and index. A separate
Individual documents
document is also created for each root-level book (chapter) and page in the printed table of contents.
An optional document that links to the individual documents. Familiarity with master documents
Master document
in Word is recommended. Do not edit this file; it contains only field codes referencing the documents. Do not use a
master document for large manuals.
One Word file containing the title page, TOC, chapters, glossary, and index.
Single document
Printed document structure
• Books and pages at the root level of the printed document begin a new chapter.
• Subbooks and pages that are not at the root level of the printed document continue uninterrupted.
• For books that link to pages, the link destination is placed directly after the book in the printed document.
• Pages that link to a destination other than a topic are not available to use in the printed document.
• Organize sections of the printed documentation output in the Section Layout dialog box.
Conversion of online features
RoboHelp converts many common project features. It removes others, including ActiveX controls, borders, Dynamic
HTML, headers and footers, JavaScript, link controls, and topic borders. The following table provides conversion
details for specific features.
Feature
Bullets and numbering
Conditional build tags
Drop-down hotspots and expanding hotspots
Expanding glossary hotspots
Font sets
Forms
Conversion notes
Converted (except image bullets).
Topics and topic content that are excluded with conditional build tags
and expressions are removed.
If specified, expanding text and drop-down text appears inline. Map a
style to hotspots so that they look different from the other text.
Selecting expanding text and drop-down text in the printed output
converts and displays inline. Map a style to hotspots so that they look
different from the other text.
Word uses the first font. If the first font does not exist, Word creates a
default font.
Converted to HTML in Word. Third-party forms are removed from
documents.
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