Which RoboHelp 7 files need to be translated?

[blukshaw]

I have been transferred to a different division in my company and I am now responsible for the Online help that is created using Robohelp 7. I am completely new to Robohelp and what little I know I learned through a tutorial that I found. I have just been told that I need to provide RoboHelp files to be translated to French. I am pretty much lost. The application that has Help has two components (and therefore two types of Help): a desktop component that uses HTML Help and generates a ",chm" file and a web component that uses WebHelp that generates ".htm" files.

My problem is that I do not know which files in each type of Help that I need to have translated.

For the HTML Help I assume that I need to have the source files translated. But if I do this, do I need to recreate the entire project including recreating the topics, TOC, and index in French? What about map files?

For the WebHelp, do I just need to translate the ".htm" files along with the TOC and Index files?

I am using RoboHelp 7 on Windows XP

I would appreciate any help on this that anyone could provide. TIA

Bill

[Captiv8r]

Hi Bill

See if the article linked below helps.

Click here to view

Cheers... Rick

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[blukshaw]

Rick,

Thanks for the link. It is an excellent article. I now have a better idea of what I need to do about getting my WebHelp files translated.

Concerning my HTML Help files: I assume that I would have the source Word (Word 2007) docs translated in addition to the TOC, index, glossary, snippets, and variable files.

Unfortunately, since I did not create the original Help system, I cannot implement the complete file structure as recommended by the author and I am not experienced enough in RoboHelp (yet) to recreate the project using the recommended file structure in the time frame allowed. However, I can use it for the French translations.

Also, I am not sure what the author is doing with the condition build tag, but that is probably because I have not worked with RoboHelp enough yet.

Thanks again,

Bill

[Guest]

Hi Bill,

I'm in the same boat you found yourself in when you worte this, although I use RoboHelp for Word.

A French partner is here in the office these next two days and wants to localize our documentation, but I haven't been able to find definitive specific instructions anywhere.  I'd love to talk with you about what you learned as you went through the process.  Please email at carignanj at axiod.com

I will also read the resource you were directed to when you posed the question.

Thanks,

Julie