Publishing RoboHelp output to MOSS

I'd like to develop policies and procedures with RoboHelp HTML 7.
Presently, the plan is to author these documents in RH, generate the PDF files and upload the PDF files into a MOSS library.
Ideally, I'd rather publish in WebHelp (or FlashHelp) and upload into MOSS. Is this realistic?
Thank you.

Hi Mark
I have a request if you are able.
Can you perhaps chat with those involved and see if you are able to derive any fairly generic instructions for doing this? It seems to surface from time to time and it would be ever helpful if we had something we could steer users to in order to provide some form of assistance.
Thanks... Rick
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Does anyone know why I continually get an invalid SharePoint path when trying to publish from "Robo into SharePoint? Do I need to choose a particular workspace template when I am in SharePoint?
Any help would be appreciated.

Don't copy the URL from the web window that you open to access the intended SharePoint directory - seeing as that has a bunch of view information in the URL:
For example - here's a URL NOT to use:
http://foo.abc.com/teams/infrastructure/Doc%20Pipeline%20and%20Edit/Forms/AllItems.aspx?Ro otFolder=%2fteams%2finfrastructure%2fDoc%20Pipeline%20and%20Edit%2fRoboHelp%2fVPN&FolderCT ID=&View=%7bA1B4DCFF%2d9FC9%2d4565%2d8779%2dB0F10BAFFA30%7d
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http://foo.abc.com/teams/infrastructure/Doc%20Pipeline%20and%20Edit/RoboHelp/VPN/
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//foo.abc.com/teams/infrastructure/Doc Pipeline and Edit/RoboHelp/VPN/
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I've created a Framemaker doc using the DITA Open Toolkit and linked it to Robohelp to produce Webhelp. I use Adobe Tech Comms Suite v2 by the way.
When publishing in Robohelp though the spacing between words is really wide, about double or triple the norm. I've looked at the paragragh designer in Frame and cant see anything obviously wrong and the stylesheets in Robohelp arent showing anything odd either. Anyone got any ideas where I should be looking?
Help apprecicated - I've been looking into this on and off for a couple of weeks now.
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I had this as well; I changed the word spacing in the CSS to 0 em for all
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Nima
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I am using RoboHelp HTML 6 using WebHelp for a Single Source
Layout. I know that the layout has to be converted to WebHelp Pro
in order for it to be a webpage, but my IS department is trying to
publish this file to the server and are saying that they are unable
to do so.
They contacted Adobe and they were told that they needed to
buy additional software to publish the Help File. However, when
they called back they were told that what we had is sufficient.
Can someone please tell me if additional software is needed
to publish the Help File to our server? If what we have is enough,
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Thank You

You are not "dense" mtricomi. We were all in your shoes at
some point in the past so that is one word you won't find in there
here parts.
If you have set your single source layout to Webhelp, you
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can be a server location. The webhelp output contains a file
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As an aside, can you tell your IS Department the next time
they want something from you that you have no time for their
"little" affairs. Better still, kick butt. Just a thought!

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J41 wrote:
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