RoboHelp 7 and JavaHelp

Does anyone know whether RoboHelp 7 will support JavaHelp?
Also, does anybody know an expected release date for RoboHelp
7?

RH7 will support JavaHelp. It's release date is not known to
anyone outside Adobe HQ but it is expected in the Autumn. You may
also have noticed that the Adobe site has started taking pre-orders
so make your own conclusions.

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Robohelp 10 - Javahelp aborts while generating

I just upgraded a project from Robohelp 7 to Robohelp 10, both HTML. This project works with two different outputs: Microsoft HTML Help and JavaHelp. I was able to successfully generate the HTML Help output without issue, however, the JavaHelp consistently aborts at the same point in the generation process each time. Once it reaches the point where it indicates that it is "Generating JavaHelp system," it gets through all of the topics, the TOC, and then Robohelp aborts when the Output View indicates that it is Processing the Index. If it is relevant, the Robohelp 7 version of this project was maintained from a virtual machine, and the JavaHelp output was done to a local folder on that machine before being checked into Source Control. The Robohelp 10 version is now on my local machine, so we had to setup the appropriate location to set the output to a local folder on my machine. We were able to successfully do this, but now the generate function will not complete. All source files are maintained in a network folder, and the HTML help has its output in that network folder. Only the JavaHelp output is local, but I never had an issue with it when it had a local output on the aforementioned virtual machine. If any other setup/configuration information is necessary, please let me know.

I just upgraded a project from Robohelp 7 to Robohelp 10, both HTML. This project works with two different outputs: Microsoft HTML Help and JavaHelp. I was able to successfully generate the HTML Help output without issue, however, the JavaHelp consistently aborts at the same point in the generation process each time. Once it reaches the point where it indicates that it is "Generating JavaHelp system," it gets through all of the topics, the TOC, and then Robohelp aborts when the Output View indicates that it is Processing the Index. If it is relevant, the Robohelp 7 version of this project was maintained from a virtual machine, and the JavaHelp output was done to a local folder on that machine before being checked into Source Control. The Robohelp 10 version is now on my local machine, so we had to setup the appropriate location to set the output to a local folder on my machine. We were able to successfully do this, but now the generate function will not complete. All source files are maintained in a network folder, and the HTML help has its output in that network folder. Only the JavaHelp output is local, but I never had an issue with it when it had a local output on the aforementioned virtual machine. If any other setup/configuration information is necessary, please let me know.

Looking for documentation regarding RoboHelp and VSS (SourceSafe)

We are considering using VSS (SourceSafe) as our source control for RoboHelp - has anyone had any success with
RoboHelp and this tool?

The config.xml has a schema - see the config.xml for the location. There is not much documentation in it since it is generated.
Each of the elements is also accessible via a JMX MBean - there is a reference manual that describes the MBean values,
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12840_01/wls/docs103/wlsmbeanref/core/index.html
You can use that to understand the config.xml elements - you will have to map from MBean name to element name - i.e. DomainMBean to domain (in config.xml)

RoboHelp and Across

Our company uses RoboHelp with the
Across
Language Server for our help file localization. We have some
very large help projects (largest is approx 2800 topics) and are
experiencing a lot of overhead with the files in the Across system.
We generate the help file as a .CHM help file and then decompile it
and send the decompiled .htm files for translation and then
recompile them when we get them back.
Originally when we submitted our ~2800 .htm files for
localization, Across would crash while trying to import our files.
So the Across people built a custom merge tool to combine several
hundreds of topics together into a single file to get around this
problem. So now, translators work on translating 20 or so merged
files. These are then split into their respective .htm topics and
then sent back to me for recompilation as the target language help
file.
Now we're running into overhead problems where there's an
update to our help project. Rather than just sending them the .htm
topic. We have to find what merged file contains the topic and
merge those files together and then resubmit it. It's turning out
to be a lot of work.
I'm wondering if anyone else uses Across with RoboHelp and if
you have any best practices for improvements? Or if there's a
better authoring tool for localization in Across?

Hi James. You are right to be weary. I don't know this site but I'd be very surprised if you end up getting RHS9 for the advetised price. I know that Adobe do offer academic licences at reduced cost but not that reduced. Sorry I can't be more help.

Differences between Robohelp and Robohelp Server

I am in the process of evaluatinf Robohelp. I have found out
there are 2 versions: Robohelp and Rohohelp Server. can someone
list the differences in these products or direct me to a
link/document where I can find this information?
Thanks in Advance
Rodman Veney

Hi, Rodman
You may find this article in the Adobe Developer Center
helpful as well. It refers to RoboHelp Server 6, but virtually all
information remains relevant for v7. As Rick says, "Pro" is simply
the same as WebHelp or FlashHelp, but the content is published to
the RoboHelp Server so that you can get the benefit of user
feedback reports and the other features described here:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/robohelp/articles/rhserver.html
Thanx
John

Problems with RoboHelp 8 HTM and JavaHelp

Hello,
I was working with RoboHelp 7 and created help. Now I import
my files in RoboHelp 8 and have some problems:
1. In design view files look just fine, but when I generate
javaHelp i have some unwanted characters. At the begining of all
pages and after all images in page I have ">" symbol. What
should I do to lose this unwanted characters.
2. When I generate JavaHelp in Output view I get exception :
"Building Full-Text-Search data...
java.io.IOException: Can't store Document
at
com.sun.java.help.search.DefaultIndexerKit.storeToken(DefaultIndexerKit.java:164)
at
com.sun.java.help.search.DefaultIndexerKit.parseIntoTokens(DefaultIndexerKit.java:117)
at
com.sun.java.help.search.HTMLIndexerKit$HTMLParserCallback.addContent(HTMLIndexerKit.java :1092)
at
com.sun.java.help.search.HTMLIndexerKit$HTMLParserCallback.addContent(HTMLIndexerKit.java :1064)
at
com.sun.java.help.search.HTMLIndexerKit$HTMLParserCallback.handleText(HTMLIndexerKit.java :411)
at
javax.swing.text.html.parser.DocumentParser.handleText(Unknown
Source)
at javax.swing.text.html.parser.Parser.handleText(Unknown
Source)
at javax.swing.text.html.parser.Parser.startTag(Unknown
Source)
at javax.swing.text.html.parser.Parser.parseTag(Unknown
Source)
at javax.swing.text.html.parser.Parser.parseContent(Unknown
Source)
at javax.swing.text.html.parser.Parser.parse(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.text.html.parser.DocumentParser.parse(Unknown
Source)
at
javax.swing.text.html.parser.ParserDelegator.parse(Unknown Source)
at
com.sun.java.help.search.HTMLIndexerKit.parse(HTMLIndexerKit.java:116)
at
com.sun.java.help.search.Indexer.parseFile(Indexer.java:259)
at
com.sun.java.help.search.Indexer.parseFile(Indexer.java:271)
at
com.sun.java.help.search.Indexer.compile(Indexer.java:219)
at com.sun.java.help.search.Indexer.main(Indexer.java:87)"
When I import my help in application search doesn't work. How
to generate help without any exceptions?

Hi!
I'm still having the same problem I was hoping to find some solution, because it is really annoying.
I've noticed that this exception occurs after some minor modification in topic text (e.g. correcting a grammar mistake). Also, after generating JAVA help and viewing the results, the topics which have "?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ? at the beginning, won’t be displayed correctly and won’t be found in the search results.
So, I was not able to find the problem, although my colleague can modify the same help projects, and won’t get the same exception. So, my PC was changed, Robo Help installed freshly, but this problem still remains .
Well, any clues?

Robohelp 8 JavaHelp and Oracle Help

It is said that JavaHelp Help and Oracle Help can be the output format of RoboHelp project in the help of RoboHelp. But I can not find a way to generate JavaHelp or Oracle Help. Could you tell me does RoboHelp 8 support it?
Generate and publish output from the command prompt. I use the command as below:
"e:\test_RoboHelp\robotest\robotest.xpj -l WebHelp -o E:\test_RoboHelp\a"
"e:\test_RoboHelp\robotest\robotest.xpj" is a project which does exist. But Why the output folder is not "E:\test_RoboHelp\a" as I have set?
by the way, Does RoboHelp have a plan to support HTML Help 2.x?

Hi there
Indeed RoboHelp *CAN* produce JavaHelp and Oracle Help as advertised. However, it isn't configured out of the box to do this. I consider it to be similar to advertising that a pickup truck (errr, sorry Peter, Craig and Colum - I mean LORRY) is able to tow a Boat or a Camper to a lake. Sure, you can tow these items, but there are a few requirements!
You must have a Boat or Camper to tow
You need to install the optional towing package
In order to produce these help output types you will need to separately install the Java Development Kit. Fellow Adobe Community Expert Peter Grainge has some information on his site at the link below.
Click here to visit Peter's site
That covers JavaHelp. I'm unsure about Oracle Help, but would expect it to be similar.
Are we to assume the code referring to E:\test... is your own code?
If so, I see an issue with it. E:\ likely refers to a network location. In my many years of supporting RoboHelp via the forums I can't begin to tell you how many folks have arrived reporting issue after issue after issue that was caused by working on projects while they are stored on network locations.
HTML Help 2 never took off for public use. Mostly Microsoft used it internally. As there is no real generic public outcry for it, I'd be shocked if RoboHelp were to suddenly begin offering it. If you would like to cast your vote for it to be added as an output option, visit the Wish Form.
Hopefully this helps... Rick
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Captivate Flash and JavaHelp output

According to Adobe, I should be able to view Captivate Flash
files when using the JavaHelp single-source output. However, the
.swf files are still not playing when I generate the JavaHelp
source. I am also getting an I/O Exception error during output
generation. I am using RoboHelp 7 and I have inserted Captivate 3
.swf files.
Does anyone have a suggestion on how to make this work?
Thanks.

I'm sorry that I do not have an answer to your issue, but I
am interested on how you have created the wrapper. I am trying to
figure out how to load my captivate movies onto my SCORM 1.2
compliant LMS and I am a bit stumped. Can you share what you did?
Thanks, Fbudd

Corrupted Frame files not importing correctly to RoboHelp and can't save MIF as FM

Hi,
I have Adobe Technical Communication Suite 3.0, which has FrameMaker 10.0.2.249 in it.
I created a user guide in FrameMaker, some of the chapters for which I imported from Word, and little bits of text here and there of which I copied and pasted from Word.
a) When I created a RoboHelp project and imported the Frame files, a little bit of content disappeared. A sentence here, a bulleted item there, not all the content I copied and pasted.
b) I thought I would save the Frame files as .MIF and then reopen them in Frame to get rid of any corruption. They saved as .MIF just fine and they open again with Frame just fine. However, when I try to Save As .FM, I get the message that .MIF cannot be saved as .FM.
I checked the extension in the Save As box and it has no mention of .MIF.
What to do? Any suggestions either for a) or b)?

This is a bug in the Save As dialog. If the filename is yourfile.FM, you
can choose MIF as the filetype in the Save as Type box, FrameMaker
changes the filename to yourfile.mif and saves as mif.
But, for some reason, if you have a filename of yourfile.MIF and choose
FM in the Save as Type dialog box, you get that error message and the
save doesn't happen. The workaround is to delete the MIF extension in
the filename. Then the save works fine and the file is renamed with an
FM extension.
In other words, saving FM to MIF works as expected. FrameMaker renames
the file extension and saves in the new format. But, in a MIF to FM
save, FrameMaker refused to rename the MIF extension. (Maybe there is a
reason for this?) You have to delete the extension or the save won't happen.
I'm going to report this as a bug.
Mike Wickham

Eclipse, jnlp and javahelp interaction

I'm experiencing an odd problem that deals with the Eclipse IDE, Javahelp and Java Web Start. Java Web Start requires all resources (images, icons, help sets) to be stored in a jar file. To gain access to this, I make use of a little classloader hack that is often used to resolve this issue:
http://rachel.sourceforge.net/tutorial.html
The hack actually works fine when deploying via JNLP, however when I try to run my application from the IDE it cannot resolve the ResourceAnchor class in my resources.jar file. I know this is a long shot, but has anyone out there run into this situation? Any suggestions?

have you try to add in your Project & Run classpath the Path "/" seem to work with me..

RoboHelp and Eclipse

Hi,
We have been generating XML Help and then with a script changing tag names so that we can incorporate the Help into Eclipse.
However, in RoboHelp 9, RoboHelp adds BOM characters to the html files and Eclipse doesn't seem to handle these characters correctly (even though they are legal).
Is there a way to prevent RH from adding these characters?
I also saw that RH9 supports Eclipse Help - it has the same BOM characters so we couldn't really try it out. Is there any details somewhere on how to integrate the Eclipse Help that RH generates with Eclipse? Wehn we just add the files it doesn't seem to work. Are there instructions anywhere?
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Rakefet

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How to uninstall/deactivate Robohelp and Robodemo

I'm planning to get rid of some old computers and my
understanding is that I somehow need to deactivate my software to
free the license so that I can reactivate on new computers.
On one computer I have Robohelp X4.1 and Robodemo 2
On another computer I have Robohelp X5 and the
Roboscreencapture utility.
I wrote to customer support, but they haven't replied. I had
hoped there might be a menu item to 'transfer license' or
'deactivate', but I can find nothing on menus. Any advice will be
appreciated. thank you,
david

I think what you are referring to is something that for
RoboHelp was only introduced properly with RH6. With that you can
activate on two PCs but any futher attempts will be rejected until
you deactivate (not uninstall) one of the existing installations.
X5 required activation but it didn't check the number of
activations so you should also be OK on X4, or at least that is my
experience.
I can't speak for RoboDemo. My guess would be that if it
isn't on the help menu, then you will be OK. Can you not try
installing a copy on another PC to see if it whinges?
Recently I spoke at the activation people about another
application with proper activation (as in RH6) and found they were
very helpful. I think the link you would require is
http://www.adobe.com/activation.

RoboHelp and SharePoint

I'm using RoboHelp HTML 10 with SharePoint as my version control.
When team members attempt to check in files, they receive the following message:
The message appears for several items to check in, so team members have to click Yes many times to actually check in. I'm not sure if this is a RH configuration issue or a SharePoint issue. Is there a way to stop the message?
I set SharePoint settings as instructed here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/robohelp/robohtml/WS1b49059a33f77726-5aab66613798e5ec9b-7ffe.h tml
I have the following Version Control settings in RH:

My first hunch would be to check whether versioning is enabled in the library or whether it somehow got unchecked.
Is the file to be checked in already available in SharePoint?
Can you also try removing the project CPD and try again?
Greet,
Willam

Robohelp and Firefox display issues

I am using Robohelp 11, generating a Webhelp output. When I display the help in Firefox, the TOC is missing. This works fine in IE and Chrome. This also worked fine back in December, I believe when I had FF v34.05 installed, now with v35.0, the TOC/Index/Search info from my help systems is missing. Either let me go back to v34.0.5 or fix this asap. I need this for hundreds of customers!

Thanks. I have had this problem in the past with IE, have been given a java script to add to my help and it solved it!

TCS 5 RoboHelp and FrameMaker links work and then stop

Hi,
I installed TCS 5 after installing a trial of RoboHelp 11. After I installed, I opened a project from TCS 4 and I was able to update an existing linked FM book and Link to new files. The FM files were converted ot FM 12 and the RoboHelp project was converted to RoboHelp 11.
Now, when I reopen the RoboHelp project, I cannot update or link to FrameMaker documents.
I am running Windows 7. I run both RH and FM as administrator and I have owner permissions to the Adobe folder.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling TCS 5 and the behavior is consistent. Is there some registry entry or something i should look for?
Lauren

First my client, then I saw the exact same thing.
One day the project worked perfectly, then the next day the linking options were all unavailable. It's as if Rh decided it was no longer associating with Fm.
Oddly, another client team member was unaffected.
I'm trying to track down the issue. Did you resolve the linking problem?

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