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Creating Image Captions: Best Practice?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 18:11:06 GMT

Hello-

I'm currently using RoboHelp to create an HTML-based internal user guide for a software product. This guide has many images and figures in it and each will need an accompanying caption. Each caption must appear centered directly beneath the accompanying image.

I need some guidance on two issues, please:

1. What is the best practice for inserting a caption along with an image? I currently cannot find any tool or which enables a RoboHelp user to insert an image into a document and designate a caption to be displayed with that image.

2. Each image will be uniquely numbered (Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.). It may be necessary, as the document is drafted and redrafted, to remove images from and insert other images into the document. How can the numbering of images be set up so that the removal or addition of an image will automatically reset the numbering of all affected images accordingly? I would very much like to avoid resetting dozens of image number-designations manually.

Thank you-

Michael

Syncing Between the Project Manager and Resource Manager: Best Practices?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 19:02:17 GMT

Hello-

A colleague and I have just started creating product documentation for our company via RoboHelp 11. We have created a set of topics on a network location and have connected to that location via our Resource Manager. We are making edits to topics located on our own C: drives via the Project Manager and attempting to keep our topics up to date via the syncing function by sending our topic edits to the Resource Manager topics and downloading newly edited topics from the Resource Manager to our local drives. However, we do have a couple of questions.

For example, in the diagram, if my colleague edits a few topics locally and then syncs with the Resource Manager, I see those topics with the red "x" icon (1) indicating my topics in my Project Manager (4) are out of sync. I can see the changes my colleague has made to the topic she synced with the Resource Manager (2) and I can open my own copy of the topic on my C: drive with the now out of sync text (3) but the only way we can see to sync my own Project Manager topics with the Resource Manager topics is to right-click on each individual changed topic in the Resource Manager and select the Sync option one at a time.

Question A: Is there any way to mass sync all of the out of sync topics in my Project Manager with the newly edited topics in the Resource Manager with one action so that my own local topics will be updated and in sync with our shared topics in the Resource Manager?

Question B: What does the "Auto update local project resources" setting (5) do? Is this the solution I am looking for in my Question A? We are not sure what it does at this point and could use a pointer or two.

Thank you-

Michael

Adding a SharePoint Folder as a Shared Location in RH11

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 20:00:01 GMT

Hello-

A colleague and I have recently upgraded from RH9 to RH11. We would like to use RH11 to work on the same documentation simultaneously from a shared location on our company SharePoint system but we don't know how to set that up.

Advice?

Thank you-

Michael

WebHelp Display and Refresh Issues

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:29:37 GMT

Hello All-

I am using RoboHelp 9 (9.0.2.271 specifically) to create a product WebHelp for my company. I am having a problem with the display of the actual WebHelp in a browser and I am hoping someone may have a solution for me.

When I generate my help file in MS Explorer and it opens the index page as usual (1), it has a second vertical scroll tool (2) which I don't understand:

When I attempt to move to another topic in the file (3) it always opens blank no matter which topic I choose:

If I press F5 and refresh the help file, the topic then appears (4) but so does that mysterious second scroll tool (5). Also, if I then attempt to move on to a third topic, it will also be blank and need to be refreshed to make it appear.

I have no idea how to fix these issues. Does anyone have any advice?

Thank you for your help

-Michael

MAML in RoboHelp9?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:06:37 GMT

Hello-

I am new to RoboHelp and have just begun to create an online help for my company's product using RoboHelp 9. My managers would like for me to create the online help in Microsoft Assistance Mark-up Language (MAML) to suit their needs.

Questions:

Does RoboHelp 9 allow me to create an online help in MAML?

Does RoboHelp 9 allow me to use MAML in any way at all?

Thank you-

Michael

Listing Graphics in the TOC...?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:13:34 GMT

Hello-

I am very new to FrameMaker and have only been working with it for a few weeks now.

My company is using FrameMaker 10 to create a User Manual for one of our products. This is a large PDF document with multiple chapters. We are creating each chapter as a separate FrameMaker document and then compiling the entire group of chapter documents into a book with a table of contents (TOC) when creating the final version of the PDF. We are, however, having a problem with the creation of the TOC which can be better explained via the figure below.

The first page of each chapter has a banner graphic (portable network graphic) across the top of it which has the chapter number and the subject of the chapter as text within the graphic itself. Since this information is part of the graphic itself, it is not being detected by FrameMaker when the TOC is being generated and is therefore not being included in the TOC of the User Manual PDF.

The Paragraph and Sub-Paragraph text IS detected and listed in the TOC. However, since the chapter title is only represented in the PDF with a graphic, the TOC will skip from listing the last Sub-Paragraph title of the previous chapter and then jump directly to the first Paragraph title of the next chapter.

Question:

How can we continue to represent our chapter titles with graphics (preferred by management) but somehow have the beginning of a new chapter and its title represented in the TOC when the PDF is generated?

Turning off Hyphenation of Words

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:59:13 GMT

Hello-

I am new to Framemaker and I am trying to use it to create a user manual for my company's product. I am struggling to find a way to turn off the hyphenation of words when the text wraps to the next line. For example, I would prefer the words "information" and "reference" in the figure below would just wrap around completely to the next line the way MS Word does so that the words don't need to be hyphenated.

Could someone tell me how to turn off the hyphenation of text in this way, please?

Thanks-

Michael

Creating, Positioning, and Referencing Figure Numbering (e.g. Figure 1.1, Figure 1.2, etc)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:42:42 GMT

Hello-

I am new to Framemaker. I am currently learning/working with Framemaker 10 to create a user manual for my company's product and having some difficulty with the captioning of images in the text.

I intend to number each figure in the manual according to the chapter and figure number. For example, the first figure in Chapter 1 would be labeled as Figure 1.1, etc. For Figure 1.1, I placed the image itself inside an anchored frame within the body text frame with the label centered in the text frame one line below the graphic as such:

I set the "Figure 1.1" label by creating a paragraph tag called "Figure". It is formatted as such:

Question:

How can I insert references in the body text which will be updated whenever a new figure is inserted into the document in the same way the title directly under the graphic itself is updated?

For example, I might have a sentence in the body which says "Product X comes in the color shown in Figure 1.1". How can I make sure that if a new image is inserted into the manual ahead of Figure 1.1 that the Figure 1.1 currently there will have its displayed title automatically changed to "Figure 1.2" and the example sentence above will automatically be changed to "Product X comes in the color shown in Figure 1.2" within the text body?

Thanks for the help-

Michael