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Article #26426Re: Context Sensitive Help: RoboHelp 2000 vs. WebWorks Publisher pro
From: Tom Geschwender
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 16:15
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 16:15
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Thanks Tim, but I was looking for the link to the web page, which I believe has a street address or P.O. box to send money to. Kind of hard to e-mail twenty bucks. Sean, That 6 hours was everything, including running the plug-in to get the graphics, locating and importing the graphics it didn't find, setting up my style sheet for typeface sizes, line spacing, etc. (which I assume you had already done because with WWP that takes hours!), and deciding how, exactly, I wanted my books and topics to appear in the final format (previous help files had each chapter and heading 1 levels as books and heading levels 2 and 3 as topics, while this book was smaller, so I figured I could get away with just the chapters as books, and heading levels 1, 2, and 3 as topics). You also have to remember that I did not write this book, so I had to explore the heading levels to determine what was where. The actual conversion time from FM to MIF to HTML Help was less than a minute. As for pop-up graphics and/or text, I can make them any size I desire, in order to show detail. I am limited only by the size of the viewing screen. I also found a very handy addition to RoboHelp 2002: You can put a Related Topics button at the end of a topic and it will open a list of related topics, hyperlinked. Much neater than the old hyperlinked related topics list at the end. I also guarantee that I will accomplish WTF is This? Help creation ten times faster than you will! All I need is a little cooperation from the software weenies. My intermediate assessment: If you have ever used RoboHelp before, but not WWP, then RoboHelp is definitely the way to go simply because you have much less to learn before you can start converting a FrameMaker file into an HTML Help file. If you are required to do Follow Along and/or What's This! Help, then WWP isn't in the ballpark. Hell, it's not even in the right city! Now, if I could just get the company to spriong for the 14 hundred bucks so I can take the three day certification course in La Jolla!
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