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I was putting together a couple small RoboHelp files yesterday, and
everything went well right up to the point at which I tried to compile the
help files. Neither file compiled, and all RH would say was the following:
"Unable to generate the [name] Help file. No errors were found in the
project, however the compile was not successful. An unknown error has
occurred. The [name] Help file could not be made, due to errors in the
project."
Details:
- RoboHelp Classic 9.2, Windows 2000, Word 97, creating WinHelp 4.
- No custom compiler switches or build tags.
- Rebooting didn't cure the problem. No problems compiling two much larger
files earlier in the day, both of which still compile today--but the two
smaller files simply won't compile.
- Nothing unusual that I can see in the project files, but then again, I
rarely go spelunking there.
- The eHelp knowledge base suggests the usual source of this problem is a
bad or missing path name, but these all seem correct in the Project
Properties Window.
Never seen this before. Any suggestions?
--Geoff Hart, ghart -at- [delete]videotron -dot- ca
Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada
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Pointe-Claire, Que., H9R 3J9 Canada
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