Import InDesign files into RoboHelp HTML

[Louley_32]

Hello,

My company is moving toward online help. We currently use InDesign to author our manuals and then export them to pdf for publication. I've been on the phone with Adobe trying to see if there's a way to easily import InDesign into RoboHelp. We're on an older version of RoboHelp, so I'm told this is possible, but I can't get any help until we buy RoboHelp9. I know that we can import our pdfs into RoboHelp--I'm just wondering if there's a way to import InDesign files directly into RoboHelp. Has anyone tried to do this? Anyone have any suggestions? It seems these two programs should play nice together, doesn't it?

Louley

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

>It seems these two programs should play nice together, doesn't it?

Nope, the Technical Communication Suite makes FrameMaker the driver of content to RH, not ID.

[Louley_32]

I was told by Adobe sales that we could open an InDesign file directly in RoboHelp. I called technical support on this, but my version of RH is no longer supported, so I couldn't confirm this with them. Makes me wonder.

[Captiv8r]

Hi there

To my knowledge it is not possible to accomplish. I've been using RoboHelp since 1992 and I've never seen it done.

The only way I can fathom it working would be if InDesign could save as an HTML page. Then import the HTML. Or possibly produce a PDF from InDesign, then import that. But even importing the PDF may not give you the results you want.

Cheers... Rick

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