Cannot create chm output

Question

This is the output view showing the warning and fatal error:
Warning: The size of stop file has to be limited in 512 bytes.
C:\Documents and Settings\serboji\My Documents\BAMS\Help\BAMS UAS Help\BAMS UAS UPC Help\!SSL!\Microsoft_HTML_Help\!chm_tmp_folder_0\BAMS_UAS_UPC_Help.hhp
Microsoft HTML Help Compiler 4.74.8702
Compiling c:\Documents and Settings\serboji\My Documents\BAMS\Help\BAMS UAS Help\BAMS UAS UPC Help\!SSL!\Microsoft_HTML_Help\BAMS_UAS_UPC_Help.chm
BAMS_UAS_UPC_Help.hhc
BAMS_UAS_UPC_Help.hhk
Help Intro.htm
Overview.htm
Airfield_Editor_Status_Bar.htm
Managing_UAS_Airfields.htm
Airfield_Editor_Window.htm
Airfield_Overlay_toolbar.htm
Airfield_Editor_Toolbar.htm
System Administration Intro.htm
UAS_Airfield_Overlay.htm
Airfield_Editor.htm
Airfield_Editor_Menus.htm
UAS_Airfield_Preferences_and_Properties.htm
Fatal Error: Unexpected error from Microsoft HTML compiler.
Finished compiling HTMLHELP in 2 sec(s)
Compilation complete.
I am using TCS2 with linked Framemaker files. I have markers in Framemaker to generate topics (as opposed to RH pagination). I cannot attempt to compile againg without going to Project Settings reseting the Stop List to default then exiting and reopening Robohelp only to receive the same error.
Next, I tried reseting the Stope List, then deleting all htm files from Robohelp starting with UAS_Airfield_Preferences_and_Properties and all other htm topics derived from the same Frame file. I selected generate file on next update. I exited RH and reopened, this time my output file looks like this:
Warning: The size of stop file has to be limited in 512 bytes.
C:\Documents and Settings\serboji\My Documents\BAMS\Help\BAMS UAS Help\BAMS UAS UPC Help\!SSL!\Microsoft_HTML_Help\!chm_tmp_folder_0\BAMS_UAS_UPC_Help.hhp
Microsoft HTML Help Compiler 4.74.8702
Compiling c:\Documents and Settings\serboji\My Documents\BAMS\Help\BAMS UAS Help\BAMS UAS UPC Help\!SSL!\Microsoft_HTML_Help\BAMS_UAS_UPC_Help.chm
BAMS_UAS_UPC_Help.hhc
BAMS_UAS_UPC_Help.hhk
Overview.htm
Help Intro.htm
Airfield_Editor_Toolbar.htm
Managing_UAS_Airfields.htm
Airfield_Editor_Status_Bar.htm
Airfield_Editor_Window.htm
System Administration Intro.htm
UAS_Airfield_Overlay.htm
Airfield_Editor.htm
Airfield_Editor_Menus.htm
Airfield_Overlay_toolbar.htm
UAS_Airfield_Preferences_Properties_Editor_Tabs.htmc
HHC5003: Error:
Compilation failed while compiling BAMS_UAS_Help\System_Administration\UAS Airfield Preferences and Properties\UAS_Airfield_Preferences_Properties_Editor_Tabs.htmc.
UAS_Airfield_Preferences_Properties_Editor.htm
UAS_Airfield_Preferences_and_Properties.htm
Fatal Error: Unexpected error from Microsoft HTML compiler.
Finished compiling HTMLHELP in 2 sec(s)
Compilation complete.
Note the text I highlighted red, the file extension of the file with the compilation fail is htmc. However, in RH it displays as htm. Is this a clue to the fatal error? Has anyone seen this? Any suggestions on how to get my project to produce a chm again?
regards,
Nelle

Answer 1

Hi again
And what happens if you copy the project to C:\Projects\BAMS and compile from there?
I note that the path listed is pretty long:
c:\Documents and Settings\serboji\My Documents\BAMS\Help\BAMS UAS Help\BAMS UAS UPC Help\!SSL!\New_Microsoft_HTML_Help_Layout\BAMS_UAS_UPC_Help.chm
If you were to change to what I'm suggesting, the path would then be:
c:\Projects\BAMS\!SSL!\New_Microsoft_HTML_Help_Layout\BAMS_UAS_UPC_Help.chm
You might be surprised at the result if you try it.
Cheers... Rick
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