Looking for good tutorials

[Ed Hawco]

Hi. I haven't used Robohelp since about 1995, so I'm way behind. I know FrameMaker *very* well, so it's not like I'm a total nOOb with Adobe products. But when I look at the Robohelp Web Help in TCS, it boggles my mind. (I want to use FrameMaker files as the source for Web Help).

At a high level I understand what's happening. I understand about style mappings and all that. But I cannot make any connection between that high level understanding and what I see in Robohelp! What I really need is a tutorial(s) that will help me learn about things like WORKFLOW and how to do specific things like:

- Add or remove a topic.

- Fix up mappings AFTER I've imported the FrameMaker book into Robohelp.

- Optimize graphics (some of my graphics that use FrameMaker drawing tools for callouts get blown apart after importing them. Also, JPG quality is really bad.)

- Re-jig it so H2 and H3 create "topics" and not just H1.

I realize these forums are for discussion of more focused problems, so I'm not hoping to have you all coach me through this learning process. But if anyone here knows of a good tutorial or book that would help me get going, please point me to it/them!

Note that I've tried a couple of the "video" tutorials on the Adobe web site, and they were more annoying than helpful. Also, I find the "help" within Help to be excessively wordy and not very useful (this is an across the board problem with Adobe I think). Any third-party resources out there?


Thanks!

[RoboColum_n_]

Hi Ed. Try the links below:

Icon Logic's RH 7 Essentials Book.
Rick Stone's Goober Guides
Peter Grainge's website.

Beware that if you google "RoboHelp 7 Books" you will get hits for books (particularly on Amazon) that refer to a version of RoboHelp dating from the 18th century

[Ed Hawco]

Thanks, Colum, that's a great starting point. 🙂