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RoboHelp Office
By James Crowley, published on 14 Jul 2001
James first started this website when learning Visual Basic back in 1999 whilst studying his GCSEs. The site grew steadily over the years while being run as a hobby - to a regular monthly audience of over half a million unique developers. In July '08 James left his job as Head of Development at a digital agency in London to focus his energies on developerFusion full-time.
James first started this website when learning Visual Basic back in 1999 whilst studying his GCSEs. The site grew steadily over the years while being run as a hobby - to a regular monthly audience of over half a million unique developers. In July '08 James left his job as Head of Development at a digital agency in London to focus his energies on developerFusion full-time.
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- Introduction
- RoboHelp HTML
- RoboHelp Classic
- RoboHelp
- Conclusion
Introduction
The job of documenting your products an be a tedious process. RoboHelp Office is one product that aims to make this job far easier, but does it live up to its claims?
With the release of Version 9, RoboHelp Office should be an extensive an mature product, and I was not disappointed. RoboHelp comes with two main programs, RoboHelp HTML and RoboHelp Classic, and a host of useful tools.
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I don't know about version 9, but I have now worked with X5 for a while and I can't say I'm completely happy with it.
RoboHelps internal wysiwyg HTML editor is a real pain in the *ss. I was amused when I found a thread in Macromedias own discussion forum where the official techsupport refered to it as "infernal editor".
If you like to keep your HTML clean and prefer to declare the styles only in the CSS file then I suggest that you are prepared to use an external HTML editor. RoboHelps wysiwyg editor fills your HTML with garbage style definitions and in addition it inserts tons of proprietary tags (kadov tags) to both HTML and CSS files. Apparently these kadov tags are used by the wysiwyg editor. So, management of styles becomes quite hard if you decide work with the internal editor.
Luckily it seems that Macromedia acknowledges the problems in the editor and usage of external HTML editors is made quite easy.
Other functionality, like building the index and so on, is much more usable if you compare to HTML Help Workshop. Another positive thing I'd like to mention is than RoboHelp integrates nicely to MS SourceSafe.
Still, with those licence fees you would expect get a bit more. After all, MS HTML Help Worshop is free.
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