Re: RoboHelp for Printed Documentation
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From: "Mike Jueneman" <uticormike -at- yahoo -dot- com>
I'm under a lot of pressure from above to find a way
to write Help and have it produce a Manual as well as
the actual Help. I've set Printed Documentation as my
Primary Layout but the document is hardly of Manual
quality. It's a very plain looking Word document.
I'm just wondering if any of you are able to get a
Manual-quality document out of RoboHelp's printed
documentation function.
Yeah, but not as a single-click solution. I have several different Word
templates I've created that are specifically for RH manuals. My suggestion
is to go through the RH Word doc and tweak its styles and layout so the
result is satisfactory, and then create a template from the result (as well
as creating the manual). The first time you do this is a bit of a hassle,
of course. But it reduces the effort considerably for subsequent manuals.
I'll add to this (late).
You do want your own template, which you can attach when setting your Printed Output settings. But I found on a project I did a year ago that this still leaves something to be desired. I found, however, that Most of the issues were consistent through the document, so I created a few macros that basically did some cleanup and some document-wide searches and replaces, created another macro that simply ran all the other macros in order, made sure all the macros were in the document template, then ran the main macro every time I re-created the output. I assigned a keystroke to the macro so it was easy to run the macro as soon as the document was created, and running the macros took a couple of seconds.
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