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Bug in the search database of Javahelp

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 11:19:39 GMT

Hi all,

in this project I am importing from Framemaker and generating Javahelp output. The Javahelp does not work when there are non-ASCII characters in the topic filenames (such as accents or umlauts). Therefore I have to adjust the file naming in the imort settings to "<$filename_no_ext>-<n>". As a result I get topics with numbered filenames and all seems well.

BUT with this setting the Javahelp displays the totally cryptic filenames of the topics as search results. Why does Robohelp not create a search database with the topic titles as search results?

How do you handle Javahelp projects for non-english languages?

Robert

Javahelp - the bad HTML output of Robohelp creates huge problems with lists and indentions

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 14:56:10 GMT

Hi all,

I have benn previously using the Open Toolkit to generate Javahelp from DITA content. This worked fine but process changes force me to try out Robohelp.

The main problem is that Robohelp creates awfully structured HTML output and relies on CSS to streighten the formatting. Particularly with lists this does not work in Javahelp. For example, if you have a list in 2nd order (within another lists) then Robohelp creates two flat lists and simply increases the margins of what is intended to be the list bullets in 2nd order.

It seems that any margin-left attributes do not work in Javahelp. Does anybody have experiences with getting the Robohelp output to work in the Javahelp viewer?

Robert

Javahelp - how to get styles to work properly

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 18:25:02 GMT

Hello all,

Does anyone here generate Javahelp 1.1.3? I'm quite familiar with creating Webhelp and epub using Robohelp. However, we have some javahelp projects i need to upgrade and the style mapping just seems random when displayed in the Javahelp viewer (ie, mix of serif and sans serif fonts, even though my CSS has only sans serif fonts, fonts really tiny, etc).

Webworks created Javahelp beautifully but it would be good to use one product for our conversions.

Any tips on how to get my stylesheet to work for producing Javahelp?

Thanks.

Eclipse help Search field contains wingdings around the text box

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:21:06 GMT

I am using RH 10 to generate Eclipse help. After reviewing the discussions re: RH 8 and downloading the .jsx file, I continue to have gobbledygook/wingding display issues. Can anyone help?

Thanks

Susan

Broken Links in IE 8 Help!

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:46:40 GMT

Output file is SSL and there are no broken links, however when putting it on the web all the hyperlinks are broken. It's working fine in Firefox! Please help!! Very new/beginner user here.

"Failed to generate eBook (eBook). See compilation message for more details."

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:14:38 GMT

Hi!

I'm trying to output my Help system into an eBook format using RH v10, but I keep getting the error message, "Failed to generate eBook (eBook). See compilation message for more details."

I check the Output View, and all that is listed is:

"Generating EPUB 3 output...

EPUB 3 output generation failed.

Internal error encountered, Failed to generate eBook."

This message tells me nothing. So what gives? Do I have too many topics? Too many conditional tags? Not enough rain in the area? Too much pressure on the keyboard keys?

Help, please?

Oracle Help search feature doesn't work with RoboHelp generated output

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:22:42 GMT

I am using RoboHelp HTML, Version 10 on Windows 7. I am able to generate Oracle Help output and integrate it with my Java application. When I do this, the Content and Index tabs work fine, but the Search feature does not. Regardless of what search term I try, I get no search results. In generating the Oracle Help output, I used the default options throughout.

Any suggestions as to what is causing this problem?

Thanks.

Cannot view Oracle Help output in rh10

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:08:24 GMT

I am using RoboHelp HTML on Windows 7. I am able to generate Oracle Help output, but I when I click on "View Result",

the following window pops up:

I have the 1.6 and 1.7 JDK and JRE's installed as well as the Oracle Help JDK.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

Is there any way of creating a layout which is SCORM compliant?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 07:39:47 GMT

I have Robohelp 10. Is there any way to use the content already captured in Robohelp to make a SCORM compliant layout?

RoboHelp 10 fails to build JavaHelp Search

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:43:44 GMT

When I generate JavaHelp with RoboHelp 10 I have the error below in the console:

java.io.FileNotFoundException: myProject_JavaHelpSearch\POSITIONS (...)

at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)

at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)

at com.sun.java.help.search.DocumentLists.<init>(DocumentLists.java:161)

at com.sun.java.help.search.DocumentLists.invert(DocumentLists.java:243)

at com.sun.java.help.search.DefaultIndexBuilder.close(DefaultIndexBuilder.java:103)

at com.sun.java.help.search.Indexer.compile(Indexer.java:228)

at com.sun.java.help.search.Indexer.main(Indexer.java:76)

In the working directoty used for JavaHelp, the "myProject_JavaHelpSearch" sub-directory contains:

DOCS
OFFSETS
TMAP

The error is not fatal and RoboHelp do generate the JavaHelp file. The JavaHelps displays TOC, Index, and the project pages as expected, but when I try using the "Search" tab in the generated JavaHelp, it does not work.

If I generate a Microsoft HTML Help or WebHelp, the "Search" tab works fine.

My project is a former RoboHelp 9.1 project converted to RoboHelp 10. It was working fine on Windows XP Pro Us (32 bits) + RH 9.1, I'm running now RH 10 on Windows 8 Pro French 64 bits.

Thanks in advance for any help.

suppress CSS & scripts from XHTML output?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 25 May 2012 20:08:05 GMT

Is there some way to suppress the following in RoboHelp 9's XHTML output?

/*<![CDATA[*/

body {

background-color: #ffffff;

}

A:visited {

color: #006699;

}

A:active {

color: #FFCC00;

}

A:link {

color: #006699;

}

/*]]>*/

</style>

/*<![CDATA[*/

table.whs1 {

width: 500px;

}

tr.whs2 {

vertical-align: top;

text-align: left;

}

th.whs3 {

vertical-align: top;

text-align: left;

width: 30%;

padding-left: 1px;

padding-top: 1px;

padding-right: 1px;

padding-bottom: 1px;

}

th.whs4 {

width: 70%;

padding-left: 1px;

padding-top: 1px;

padding-right: 1px;

padding-bottom: 1px;

}

td.whs5 {

padding-left: 1px;

padding-top: 1px;

padding-right: 1px;

padding-bottom: 1px;

}

/*]]>*/

</style>

/*<![CDATA[*/

div.WebHelpPopupMenu {

position: absolute;

left: 0px;

top: 0px;

z-index: 4;

visibility: hidden;

}

/*]]>*/

</style>

//<![CDATA[

<!--

if (navigator.appName !="Netscape")

{ document.write("<link rel='stylesheet' href='SentrionStyle.css'>");}

//-->

//]]>

</script>

//<![CDATA[

<!--

function reDo() {

if (innerWidth != origWidth || innerHeight != origHeight)

location.reload();

}

if ((parseInt(navigator.appVersion) == 4) && (navigator.appName == "Netscape")) {

origWidth = innerWidth;

origHeight = innerHeight;

onresize = reDo;

}

onerror = null;

//-->

//]]>

</script>

generate single-page XHTML?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 25 May 2012 19:46:38 GMT

Is it possible to configure RoboHelp to generate a single XHTML file for all topics instead of splitting them?

Modifying DocBook XML Output?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:18:33 GMT

Howdy.,

I know very little about XML, so my questions may be a bit bewildering as my old friend Davy Crockett used to say.

I am wondering how to modify what Single Source XML spits out. As far as I understand at this point, it uses DocBook (not sure of version).

Looking for it to generate something like this:

<value><![CDATA[

<p class="helpheader"><b>Topic H1 Header</b></p>

<p class="helpcontent">Topic contend would go here.</p>

]]>

</value>

</data>

Thanks

Lyle

ePub output - bulleted lists mangled RH9

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:11:22 GMT

I was pleasantly surprised when doing an investigation in to outputting to ePub format, that everything seemed to be transformed quite nicely, even my tables, which according to what I read don't get handled too well by the ePub output.

But (there's always a but!), as seems invevitable, bulleted lists don't work, with the bullet appearing in the text, as below.

All lists in my project are affected. As this is a linked FrameMaker project which normally outputs to WebHelp, is there anything I can to to change this?

Mark

I thought it was aligned...

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:14:43 GMT

I just published this site for a friend of mine:

www.paintingbydarlene.com and it looks fine in all browers on my laptop as well as my iPhone, but when my friend looks at it on his computer, the aligning is

off. When I look at it in my computer at work, the aligning is off as well. I assume it's because of the bigger screens, but how do I fix this issue so that everything shows up in the grey box in all browers, regardless of the screen size? I added a "center" tag at the top of the coding and "/center" at the bottom, but obviously that didn't work. Any suggestions?

Support for Oracle Help for Java 5

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:09:34 GMT

When will RoboHelp HTML 8 support Oracle Help for Java 5?

Oracle Help for Java V5 has been out since July 2009 and is currently the only version of Oracle Help for Java (OHJ) that is available from the Oracle web site. According to the RH8 documentation, RoboHelp only supports Oracle Help through V4.1. When I try and build an Oracle Help helpset from RH8 HTML and ask for Full Text Search, RH asks for a pointer to the OHJ installation. When I browse to the directory containing OHJ 5, it accepts the directory and beeps. No full text search database is built. If I ask to view the results, RH beeps once, then does nothing. No error message. No Oracle Help view. Although I can view the resulting helpset, full text search is not working.

If RoboHelp is no longer capable of building embedded Java Help, I don't think I need it anymore. Adobe AIR is not an option as it is not supported on Solaris.

M. Wilson

View JavaHelp (Primary Layout)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 13 May 2010 15:02:41 GMT

Hi - I'm new to this forum and a new RoboHelp 8 user...I have to figure things out for myself since my employer is not offering to provide funds for training.

I purchased RoboHelp 8 in January of this year for the purpose of creating a Help System which will contain Reference Manuals (Word Format) that are associated with my company's Java Software package. Using RoboHelp 8 for Word, I created a Java Project, imported 18 of my Reference Manuals, and Batch Generated with success (Output - Uncompressed JavaHelp with source output files). I need the output to be "Compressed JavaHelp" in order to create a .JAR file which will ultimately be delivered to the Software Development team to be incorporated into the Java code. When I choose the "Compressed JavaHelp" or "Compressed JavaHelp with source files", I receive the following:

Sun Java 2 SDK or later is required to compress the JavaHelp output. Please install the latest Java SDK or choose "Uncompressed JavaHelp" as your output option. This JavaHelp Wizard dialog box also contains an option to "Locate Sun Java SDK Install Folder" button.

I installed the following software packages in the in the C:\Program Files\Java directory on my Windows XP machine:

jdk1.6.0_20 (Latest from Sun) (SDK is now JDK)

jh2.0

jre6

After installation and rebooting machine, I repeated the steps outlined above and I still received the same error message. This time, I chose the "Locate Sun Java 2 SDK Install folder" and navigated to to the install folder. I received the following message:

"Java Software Development Kit (Java SDK) is not installed in the folder". after selecting OK, the next message is "If you want to output compressed JavaHelp, the output file path can not contain "!".

When I attempt to view the JavaHelp (Primary Layout) from the Single Source Layouts node, I receive the same "Java 2 SDK and JavaHelp are required...message

So, I gave up on this project for 3 months and now I'm receiving a deadline to have the project completed ASAP.

I spent 1/2 yesterday on the phone with Adobe Support and after uninstalling and reinstalling JDK, JH, and JRE several times, the issue is being escalted to Tier 2.

Has anyone on this forum encountered this problem? Any information would be very much appreciated!

Thanks - Rie

Help on creating an index

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:32:17 GMT

I am trying to create an index with keywords and subkeywords using FlashHelpPro as my Primary Layout.

Issue #1

When I click on a keyword in the generated index, the Topic in which the keyword resides is displayed.

I was hoping that clicking on a keyword would jump to the keyword within the topic - am I doing something wrong?

Issue #2

When I click on a subkeyword, the location is not recognized, and the first topic is displayed by default.

I appreciate any help I can get.

Thanks

Autosizing popups no sizing correctly in FireFox with RH 8.0

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:43:16 GMT

I read on http://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/browsers/browsers.htm that this was fixed in RH 7.0.2 - did the fix not make it into RH 8.0??

bullets not appearing correctly in FireFox

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:00:43 GMT

My bullets appear just fine in IE:

Text text text

bullet
bullet
- sub-bullet

But not in FireFox:

Text text text

bullet
bullet

In other words, the bullet is far separated from the text, and it indents too far to the left - past the text that it comes after.

Is there something wrong with my style, or is RH broken in FireFox?

COULDN'T CONNECT SQLDEVELOPER AND ORACLE 10G

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:07:20 GMT

I would like to connect oracle and sqldeveloper, i got this error message, can anyone help me?

Conditional tags don't include PDF

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:42:34 GMT

I am using RH8 to publish a policy manual. Half the manual is published externally the other internally. To do this we used conditional tags. Recently we noticed that all the pdf within these sections could be googled. I tried applying the tag directly to the link in the section but this didn't work. Any suggestion on how I can keep this baggage files from showing up on the public domain?

Cannot install JavaHelp therefore cannot view JavaHelp

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:40:27 GMT

RoboHelp HTML Version 8

I am running Windows Vista Ultimate on a 64-bit operating system on a new HP HDX Premium Series machine.

When I generate JavaHelp, the files are generated correctly, however, when I click on the "Click View Result to view: aodb.hs", a dialog box is displayed:

JavaHelp- Requirement

JavaHelp 2.0 or later is required to view output correctly. Please install the latest JavaHelp or select "View Without Javahelp 2.0"

If I click "View Without JavaHelp 2.0", it displays message saying "JavaHelp 1.0 or later is required to view JavaHelp output. Please install the latest JavaHelp and locate the install folder." If I then click, "Locate JavaHelp Install Folder", it opens the "Browse For Folder" window. I can find the Java folder, but no "javahelp" file.

If I click "Locate javahelp Install Folder", it opens the "Browse For Folder" windoe and I cannot find "Javahelp". If I then click OK, a window opens with a title of "HtmSingleSourceJavaHelp" and the messages says: "JavaHelp 2.0 is not installed in the folder: C:\Users|Diane."

I did a search on my computer and it does not find any file called javahelp.

What file should I be looking for?

Is the Javahelp file the RoboHelp viewer is looking for part of the Java install that I have downloaded and installed or is there something separate that i need to download from Sun to install?

Thanks for your help.

Diane

RH5 JavaHelp Remote URL to Web Form

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:15:40 GMT

I was wondering if anyone has encountered this issue.

In order to get around the JavaHelp limitations with forms, we have been linking via a remote URL to a web form (created in FrontPage) to collect feedback through email. The form is no longer working in JavaHelp. The page loads in the JavaHelp window, but it never goes anywhere. When you click submit, the form resets and nothing is received in email. The form works fine when linked on the web or in WebHelp.

I've tried a removing the link and reinserting, changing the recipient, the confirmation page, but no luck. Any suggestions? Other than switching to something other than JavaHelp -- 'fraid I've got no control over that decision

RH8 DocBook XML > run script > font issues in html

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:53:15 GMT

Can you help with these two font problems? We're using RH8 to generate DocBook XML and a script that then generates WebHelp from DocBook. The font problems are in the resulting html.

Background - dev and tech pubs:

1. For Linux open source, the development team wants DocBook XML for their small interim deliverables (to edit & publish WebHelp themselves).

2. For major releases, tech pubs imports the updated xml files into RH8 and publishes the WebHelp.

Issues: Using RH8 to generate DocBook XML works fine, except for two font issues in the resulting html:

* no bold (DocBook doesn't automatically support bold, you have to modify the stylesheets)

* incorrect line breaks in the numbered lists

Guessing at the Fix: We think the fix is to edit the RH8 handler files. Because DocBook doesn't support bold, we understand that you must add XSL tags to the stylesheets. For bolding, I found a set of attributes. Copying them into the handler stylesheets would mean figuring out how to match the attributes with the css styles, and it would take some time, as none of us are skilled at XML. I did not find attributes to fix incorrect line breaks.

Hoping for a magic bullet: Has someone experienced and fixed these problems? Perhaps an external editor with an interface?

Thanks!

Need to Remove Auto-generated Batch File

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:56:55 GMT

I inherited a RoboHelp 7 project. When I generate the primary layout of this project, it automatically generates a folder called !SSL! with another folder inside it called franksTest. Needless to say, it doesn't look v. professional to have a folder called franksTest as part of the final project that goes with the software product. I have no use for either of these folders, but I don't know how to permanently remove them, particularly franksTest, from the generated project.

Anyone have any ideas for me? Thanks!

RoboHelp to PowerPoint

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:11:45 GMT

Can anyone suggest a way to re-use selected RoboHelp topics in a Powerpoint presentation? So far I've tried producing some Word output and sending it to PowerPoint but this feature seems to be intended more for outlining so I can get headings and text into slides but no graphics.

Generating Web Help and missing RH help

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 02 May 2007 14:45:21 GMT

I have been using RoboHelp for many years now and have had problems generating help before. We just installed Windows 2007 on our laptops a couple weeks' ago and I'm wondering if this might be part of the issue. I am able to generate and view MS HTML help fine, but am unable to generate and run Web Help for the same system. I checked the project settings and Web Help is the primary view.

Also, along w/ this, my RoboHelp help is not working. It worked fine up until I generated and ran HTML and Web help.

Has ANYone had any of these problems? Thanks!
Marnie

XML Output

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:13:09 GMT

Could you explain in simple words what is XML output used for? We don't use it now, but we have to decide whether we need it or not.

Running JavaHelp Outside of RoboHelp

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:06:31 GMT

I am not new to RoboHelp, but normally I only generate web help and printed documents. I am now trying to generate JavaHelp for the first time. I can generate it and when it asks if I want to view what was generated, it comes up fine.

If I need to send this to someone, however, I need to be able to view it by double-click an executible jar file, or the like. However, when I try to click on what appears to be the executible jar file, I get the message:

Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from (path)\(filename).jar

What is the proper way for me to open the javahelp outside of RoboHelp?

Thanks!!
Troy

JavaHelp 2.0 - Styles not applied

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:22:37 GMT

Using RoboHelp X5, JavaHelp 2.0, Java SDK 1.4.2_08 (on Win XP-SP2)

I am aware of the font-size and bullet point issues in JavaHelp and have created a second CSS to address these deficiencies.

My problem now is that any class-level style in my CSS is not being applied at all (both at the "paragraph" level and at the "character/span" level).

According to the JavaHelp limitations in the RoboHelp online help, I think the versions of JavaHelp and JDK I am using should enable my styles to render properly. It says I need SDK 1.2.2 or higher.

Am I out of luck?
Thanks

Winhelp support in a Java program

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:52:25 GMT

Hello,

Of the several products we develop, one, a Java program, uses the Java Help help system (logically). The others use a standard Winhelp help system (developed in Robohelp). Our current workflow for developing a help system for the Java program is to batch convert the Winhelp RTF files into HTML files. The problem is, most of our Winhelp formatting is either dropped or incorrectly represented in the Java help file. Also, I prefer the look and feel of a Winhelp system over Java.

Is it possible for a Java program to be modified so that it supports a Winhelp help system and not a Java Help system? If so, how is this done, and where can one find information on the process?

If not, what options do we have to "pretty up" the Java output from the conversion?

Thanks!

Todd

Figure numbering?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:48:00 GMT

Hi there,

I have a RoboHelp HTML project (generating to WebHelp) that I single-source to a Microsoft Word user manual.

I have many figures in the project, which I've tagged to appear in the user manual.

Each figure has a caption and a spot for a figure number.

Each figure is referenced in text.

I could write a Word macro that applies Word's automatic figure numbering code to each instance of the figure caption, but there's no good way to address the references in text. I'd far rather create a means in RoboHelp that results in single-sourced content with automatic figure numbering, but I'm not sure whether that's possible or how it would be done. Ideas?

--Kathy

Adobe Community : Unanswered Discussions - Other Single Source Layouts

Bug in the search database of Javahelp

Javahelp - the bad HTML output of Robohelp creates huge problems with lists and indentions

Javahelp - how to get styles to work properly

Eclipse help Search field contains wingdings around the text box

Broken Links in IE 8 Help!

"Failed to generate eBook (eBook). See compilation message for more details."

Oracle Help search feature doesn't work with RoboHelp generated output

Cannot view Oracle Help output in rh10

Is there any way of creating a layout which is SCORM compliant?

RoboHelp 10 fails to build JavaHelp Search

suppress CSS & scripts from XHTML output?

generate single-page XHTML?

Modifying DocBook XML Output?

ePub output - bulleted lists mangled RH9

I thought it was aligned...

Support for Oracle Help for Java 5

View JavaHelp (Primary Layout)

Help on creating an index

Autosizing popups no sizing correctly in FireFox with RH 8.0

bullets not appearing correctly in FireFox

COULDN'T CONNECT SQLDEVELOPER AND ORACLE 10G

Conditional tags don't include PDF

Cannot install JavaHelp therefore cannot view JavaHelp

RH5 JavaHelp Remote URL to Web Form

RH8 DocBook XML > run script > font issues in html

Related Topic Popups Worked in RH6 but now do not in RH8

Need to Remove Auto-generated Batch File

RoboHelp to PowerPoint

Generating Web Help and missing RH help

XML Output

Running JavaHelp Outside of RoboHelp

JavaHelp 2.0 - Styles not applied

Winhelp support in a Java program

Figure numbering?