How to rid yourself of the "Powered By RoboHelp" banner

[Sean Hower <hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com>]

I'm posting this because a few people asked if I could forward the information about customizing the "Powered By RoboHelp" banner and About window. These tips work for RH 2002. This isn't the exact information, but a summary/rewriting of what I got and adds some extra info based on the couple of experiments I've done so far.



--Logo in main window--
Use the skin editor to change the banner graphic in your compiled project. Select the Toolbar tab > Select Logo under Main > Click the pencil icon.
You can specify the graphic and what text appears for "Authored by." But that's it. The graphic is either wht_logo1.gif or wht_logo2.gif in the WebHelp folder of your compiled project. If just you save these files as your corporate logo, RoboHelp replaces them with the "Powered By" graphic each time you compile (that's because it's building the project from a template).



--Content of About window--
When you click the "Powered By RoboHelp" banner, an About window appears. This is the offending window that has a link EHelp's web site and other "free" advertising for RoboHelp. 
The About window is an html file called "whskin_banner.htm" You need to know HTML, and some JavaScript would be helpful to change it. It's located in the WebHelp folder of your compiled project. It's also located in the

RoboHelp Office\RoboHTML\WebHelp5Ext\template_skin

folder.

You have two options for changing this file. You can either change the template file (in which case you need to take all of the appropriate measures to ensure that you have an original copy of the file), or you can change it in your compiled help file (in which you have to have a copy of the altered file saved somewhere outside of the project because RoboHelp overwrites the file each time you compile the project). The compiled file looks like any other html page. The file in the template has JavaScript references that automatically generate some content when you compile your project. The logo graphics are located in the same template folder.

I opted to change stuff in the template. I simply deleted the content from whskin_banner.htm that I didn't want and included the content I did want. I also saved our corporate logo as the logo files. At first, I didn't think the changes had taken affect, but I just compiled a new WebHelp project this morning and they seem to have taken, so maybe you have to either shutdown RoboHelp or reboot your comp. I don't know. Anyway it works fine now, I don't have the "Powered By RoboHelp" graphic and the popup is completely customized. Woo Hoo!!!!

ANyway, that's what I've learned so far. If anyone has anything to add, let me know. :-)



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