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USING ROBOHELP HTML 9
Projects
Last updated 12/14/2011
Context-sensitive Help markers
Converted if you select this option in the project conversion settings. Use Context Sensitive Help Makers in
FrameMaker to specify text in FrameMaker document for generating Context Sensitive Help. See “
Pagination
for Help
” on page
75.
Custom markers
Converted. You can use these markers for delineating topics from FrameMaker source, or to pass processing
instructions to RoboHelp for images and tables.
Formats
Paragraph formats
Converted. You can map FrameMaker paragraph formats to RoboHelp styles or import the source
formatting. See “
Convert FrameMaker paragraph formats to RoboHelp styles
” on page
77
Character formats
Converted. You can map FrameMaker character formats to RoboHelp styles or import the source formatting.
See “
Convert FrameMaker character formats to RoboHelp styles
” on page
77.
Table formats
Converted. You can map FrameMaker table formats to RoboHelp styles or import the source formatting. See
“
Convert FrameMaker table formats to RoboHelp table styles
” on page
80.
Footnote properties and table
footnotes
Converted. Because table title and table footnotes are paragraph formats in FrameMaker, you specify
conversion settings for these paragraph formats separately.
Lists
Converted according to the settings you define. See “
List-mapping scenarios
” on page
79
Page layouts
Master pages
FrameMaker master pages are ignored. Master pages are used for layout, borders, and page numbers in
FrameMaker, so they are not applicable to online Help. RoboHelp provides master page support for
breadcrumbs, mini-TOCs, and headers and footers that can be selected when you publish a single source
layout.
Reference pages
Ignored. However, you can use the advanced scripting support in RoboHelp to convert images and graphics
placed in the reference pages that are associated with paragraph formats.
Page layout, size, and
pagination
Ignored. These elements are not applicable to online Help. See “
Pagination for Help
” on page
75.
Headers/footers
Ignored. Headers and footers in FrameMaker usually contain chapter names, chapter numbers, and page
numbers, which are not applicable in online formats. After you generate topics in RoboHelp, you can create
headers and footers in RoboHelp that allow you to place information at the top and bottom of topics.
Rotated text
Converted to text, such as in table cells. (Rotated text is not supported in HTML).
Images and anchored frames
Images
Only converted if they are inside anchored frames. If the images are not in anchored frames, reinsert them
after you have imported the FrameMaker files. By default, FrameMaker places the imported and linked
images in anchored frames, so they are converted. However, images placed in graphic frames are not
converted. If images contained in anchored frames are missing, RoboHelp creates blank images with the
filename in a sequential manner. See “
Image conversion settings
” on page
80.
Drawings
Drawings created within anchored frames are converted to images. You can define the image conversion
settings. See “
Image conversion settings
” on page
80.
Anchored frames
Converted to images. See “
Image conversion settings
” on page
80.
ALT text on images and
anchored frames
Converted. If no ALT text is provided in the FrameMaker document for images RoboHelp applies the
filename of the converted images as the ALT text. See “
Create alternate text for images
” on page
82.
Text frames, graphic frames,
and images inside anchored
frames
Anchored frames and their content convert to images. All content within an anchored frame, including text
frames, multiple images, and callouts convert to a single image. RoboHelp inserts the filename of the created
image as the ALT text if no ALT text is defined for the anchored frame.
Equations
Enclose equations in anchored frames so that they are converted to images when RoboHelp converts them.
See
FrameMaker Help
.