Will my RoboHelp X5 winhelp compile in RoboHelp 7?

I currently have a large Winhelp 4 project that I maintain on
my PC using Robohelp X5. I don't want to update to Robohelp 7 until
after my next release. However, I would like to install Robohelp 7
on our server, which does a nightly build, and use it from the
command line to compile my X5 files to an HLP file. Does anyone
know if this will work? Our server currently compiles the files
using the Winhelp compiler, but we are having the dreaded font
substitution problem. I'm hoping that using Robohelp 7 on our
server will fix the font problem. Thanks for any advice that you
can give me.

Thanks for the help Peter. I haven't installed any version of
Robohelp on a server yet. I was only considering it, as new
versions of Robohelp will install the new hpj2hlp.dll that
automatically removes new Microsoft Word RTF codes. These new RTF
codes confuse the Winhelp compiler into changing from Arial font to
the Times Roman font.
Setting up a remote access to a client machine might work
really well. Thanks for the offer to test a test project for me. I
might be able to get one of my colleagues in another division at
work to do this.
My normal work environment is to create and edit the help
project on my PC. Then at night, I push the entire project onto
R&D's server where the software project is compiled (including
the help) at midnight. I view the result in the morning. I was
hoping to run a copy of Robohelp the R&D server via command
line. Nobody would ever use this copy to create online help, except
the one daily automatic compile at midnight.
I really appreciate you thoughts. Thanks. Have a nice
holiday.
- Kent

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