Can anyone compile old WinHelp projects in RoboHelp X5?

[Claudia -dot- Fugalli -at- marsh -dot- com]

Hi everyone,

I checked both the techwr-l and macromedia archives but i couldn't find
exactly this topic --

Last year we upgraded from RoboHelp 9.2 to version X5. We had been using
Office 2000 with v. 9.2, and kept using it with v. X5. Then a few months
ago we tried upgrading to Office 2003, and we found we were unable to
compile WinHelp projects that had been created in RoboHelp 9.2 (our
HTMLHelp projects compiled fine).

We tried all the tips on the Macromedia site (like these:
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=rb_47841 and
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=rb_69633), but
they didn't fix the compilation problem. So we put off upgrading to Office
2003. (Note that our OS is Windows 2000).

But now our office is doing a big upgrade for something else, and we need
to install Office 2003.

So my question is -- is anyone out there using RoboHelp X5 with Office 2003
and able to compile old WinHelp projects? If so, is there some sort of
special trick to doing this, or a decent workaround you know of? We have
relatively large projects (500+ topics), so we'd rather not have create new
versions.

I'll post a summary to the list (when my deadline is over next week ;-)
Also i'm on digest so i won't get any replies until tomorrow --

thank you !!
-claudia



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