How should you save in RoboHelp?
Today I thought I’d focus on one the slightly confusing areas of recent RoboHelp versions…..Saving! Saving used to be very simple. In earlier versions there was just the one Save toolbar icon and menu item. It’s use saved the project in its entirety. It didn’t matter if you had unsaved changes in a topic, your index, map file or all of the aforementioned files. They were all saved. RoboHelp 7 changed all that with the addition of another Save function. So what gives?
Our Adobe RoboHelp Server legacy
Something strange has started happening recently. People are interested in how our users use our help. What’s more, we’ve been able to answer most of their queries! What’s going on?
A useful RoboHelp option? Yes but…
There is no feeling quite like it. A new version of your favorite application has been released. When you open it for the first time, a shiver of excitement is sent through your body. You’ve a hunger to see what is inside the cover and an anticipation to discover whether all that marketing hype is warranted. The trouble is if you are like me, before long you’ve messed around with the settings so much that it bares little resemblance to its pre-RoboColumned state. Thank goodness for that “Restore Factory Settings” option. Right?
In search of the right topic
Earlier today one of my team came to me with a problem. It wasn’t a show stopper but it was slowing his productivity. He is currently working on a set of RoboHelp project source files for a product he is unfamiliar with. The product uses a merged output approach across six RoboHelp projects. His problem was that he had a set of updates to make to certain topics but he had no idea in which project they were. How on earth could he determine where to look for them?
Capturing Images in RoboHelp
Way, way back in the days when RoboHelp was under the Blue Sky Software brand, a separate application called RoboScreenCapture could be purchased from the same stable. As the name suggests, it is essentially a screen capture tool, but it also had some useful editing facilities thrown in.
