RE: Can RoboHelp create straight HTML without all the baggage?

["John Barrow" <John -dot- Barrow -at- foundstone -dot- com>]

Thank you David. Now I just need to find a "nice" way to export what
I've already done in RoboHelp to straight HTML. I wonder how badly Word
would mess it all up... <just kidding>. 


John Barrow
Technical Publications

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-----Original Message-----
From: David Knopf [mailto:david -at- knopf -dot- com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 7:49 AM
To: John Barrow
Cc: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Can RoboHelp create straight HTML without all the baggage?


john -dot- barrow -at- foundstone -dot- com wrote:

>Hey all you RoboHelp gurus:
>(Apologies for multiple posts...)
>
>I have a large WebHelp project, and need to produce a subset of it with

>the fewest number of files possible. This is for a series of reports 
>that are automatically generated in HTML; each report will link to its 
>own help topic (a single html page for each report).
>
>I successfully created a WebHelp version of the subset files, but the 
>resulting package contained almost 700k of Javascript baggage files. I 
>turned off all the options for DHTML & Java output, requesting only 
>straight HTML, and still ended up with all the baggage. So I turned off

>the TOC, search, index, glossary, and everything else. But I still get 
>all the baggage. It results in over 1MB of help compared to 200K of 
>reports.
>
>So, is there a way to produce straight HTML from RoboHelp? I can't even

>cut/paste into other HTML editors without major surgery. Any ideas?
>

RoboHelp doesn't support straight, standards-compliant HTML as an output

format. You'll be better off with an HTML editor like Dreamweaver for 
the requirements you describe.

Regards,


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