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RoboHelp is a help authoring tool (HAT) created by eHelp Corporation (formerly named Blue Sky Software), acquired by Macromedia, which itself was then acquired by Adobe Systems.

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Any free alternative to Robohelp?

Any free alternative to Robohelp? Prefer open source Need some sort of online help authoring tool for an open source project.
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Looping through XML with jQuery

I've got some basic code that can loop through some XML that's generated from Adobe RoboHelp (for our help documentation). This works fine, but since a topic could be nested as many time as the writer wants, i need a better way to loop through this…
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Cannot get .NET winforms app to open to help topic in a CHM file

I have a vb.net Winforms application. I also have a compiled help file (chm) file that I created using RoboHelp 6.0. I want to open to a specific help topic and so to do that I am using the following code. System.Windows.Forms.Help.ShowHelp(Me,…
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Which help authoring tool is better - Robohelp or MadCap Flare?

We need a help publishing tool that can generate web files as its main output and can publish to other formats as well. Both tools cost US$ 999.99, and MadCap Flare marketing is very aggressive. The application for which the help is being developed…
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"Unable to find a javac compiler" - while trying to generate an android app with RoboHelp 10

I am exploring a trial version of Adobe's Technical Communication Suite. Following this video, I am trying to generate an Android app using a sample document. I've tried changing the file paths for the JDK and apache.ant files, but keep receiving…
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RoboHelp is missing ouput preset for CHM generation

Adobe RoboHelp 2020 Trial Version: The list of available output presets is also missing Responsive HTML5, and Mobile App. I did have a problem with the PDF output geneation. Error message advised to install Java runtime, as it was missing. After…
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Is there a workaround to make Robohelp 2019 work with Windows 10 ssh-agent?

I am new to Robohelp. One of the announced feature of the current new Robohelp 2019 release (NOT Robohelp Classic 2019) is using GIT for source control. In Adobe Robohelp manual is requirement to have installed Git for Windows with Unix tools…
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Robohelp: How to reference a .chm file rather than copy it into a merged project?

I am assigning new .CHM files to existing merged projects. You may recognize this dialog: When I go to assign a (in my case) an existing merged project a new .CHM file, I am presented with this dialog. However, I do not want the .CHM file to be…
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Local html (RoboHelp) index online help file under MFC is not opened

I followed all the instructions that is referred here : http://help.adobe.com/en_US/robohelp/robohtml/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d11aff59c571-7f43.html My CMainFrame::HtmlHelp overiden handler looks like this : void CMainFrame::HtmlHelp(DWORD_PTR…
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Is there a limited number of merge levels html help can retain index/search items for?

I created a RoboHelp html help project that merges three projects into a master project. Indexes and search terms work fine in the Master.chm. However, this Master.chm gets merged into another "Super-Master" application that my application is a…
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How can I get Visual Studio to include all excluded files in a project

I am working with a program called RoboHelp which auto generates a help documentation website. We use Visual Studio to check-in the generated files to TFS. RoboHelp will add/edit/delete files. Visual Studio needs to pick up the changes before…
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TFS and RoboHelp 10 ImageSize.Width Error and "Cannot find file" when Adding New Topic

We have integrated RoboHelp 10 with TFS. Authoring environment: Windows 7 Enterprise, SP1). There are two authors. One of us has no trouble checking in files and creating new files. Problem 1: The second author can check in one file (per RoboHelp…
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How to link the URL in Robo Help using Java?

I have an application which has lots of UI screens.Each screen will have 'help' button. When I press help button ,It should link with corresponding help file(Created hel file by robohelp). for example: I have created robo help file..in tat, the file…
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Adobe RoboHelp 9: What's the best way to make more than one conditional build available to the same application?

I am creating a WebHelp help system with RoboHelp 9. This will be context-sensitive, online help. The software product that the system is written for has three user "contexts" that are mostly similar, but have slight differences. My goal is to…
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RoboHelp 2019 and 2 Users

How do we setup RH Version 2019 Classic for 2 users to create and maintain multiple Help projects? We don't need both users to be in the same Help project at the same time, but we do need for each of them to make changes to the various projects as…
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