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In my company, we work in RoboHelp HTML 10. We aquired a company that uses Flare for their online help project, and now it falls to me to convert it to RoboHelp. I searched online and found the converter on the Show Me The Demo site, but the download button doesn't do anything.
Is that converter posted anywhere else? Or is there another method of converting from Flare to RoboHelp? Any help would be appreciated.
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Hi,
Please check out the following blog where you will find the download link for the utility as well as a small video tutorial of the process.
Courtesy : John Diagle for the awesome utility
Thanks,
Anjaneai
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Thanks, Anjaneai, but that's the page where the download link does not work. I have tried it in Internet explorer, Chrome, and Firefox, and clicking the download button does nothing for me. I was hoping there was somewhere else it was posted, but I have not found any mirror sites. Perhaps someone else can try it and let me know if it's something about my computer?
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There may be an issue with the link. I get past the download link which takes you to a registration page, but get a server error before I get to the actual download. I'll email John (who runs the site) and let him know.
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I've already done that Colum. I know John is giving on site training for a few days so he may not be able to fix it straight away.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
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Thanks, Colum. I can get to the registration page, and fill it out, but nothing happens when I click the Download button. No server error, no response of any kind.
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Hi folks, sorry for the glitch in the download for the Flare to Robohelp Project Converter. I have been traveling and teaching and did not notice this post.
Until I fix the link, please email me using the address in my Profile and I will send it via an email attachment right away.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
John
John Daigle
Adobe Certified RoboHelp and Captivate Instructor
Evergreen, Colorado
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Thanks, John! I have sent you a private message requestion the file.
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John will not get your email address from the Private Message. You need to email him as requested. Hover over his icon. Let me know if you cannot view the address.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
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When I hover over his icon, it says Emimal: (private).
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OK. Create another Private Message and give John your email address in that.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
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Done, but if he didn't get the first one, why would he get the second? I also emailed him from his web site last week, but I guess since he was traveling, it got lost in the shuffle.
Anyway, thanks for your help.
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He will have got your message but that will not have given him access to your email address. PMs only allow you to reply.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
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Thanks, Peter. I have been in touch with John and he sent me the converter.
In case anyone is wondering, it works very well, and has saved me days if not weeks of tedious manual conversion. The converter's output only needs a little tweaking in RoboHelp. I am a very happy tech writer!
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Hope I;m not beating a dead horse here, but I'm having a heck of a time downloading the conversion tool. I can't seem to get an email to "john@johndaigle.com" - it keeps being returned to me without delivery (?). Has the tool ever been posted elsewhere for download? Any ideas would be appreciated. I desperately need the tool!
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Send John a Private Message
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I'll nudge John. Don't worry he will pick up your request. He is often on the road at a client.
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Sorry about that broken download. Most folks have just been emailing me and I send them the converter file as an attachment with instructions. If they can't accept emails, then I send them an Acrobat.com download link.
Please email me at the address shown in my profile john @ johndaigle (dot) com
Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience. Hopefully I can get this repaired soon.
john
John Daigle
Adobe Certified RoboHelp and Captivate Instructor
Evergreen, Colorado
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Thanks very much for the quick reply! However, the problem I have is that I can't seem to get an email to you at that address. I keep getting a deivery failure notice in return. FYI, I notice the following: "Rejected by MagicSpam 1.0.5-3 " in the failure to deliver notification. I know you're not spam, so I assume that there's something goofy going on with our network...
Would it be possible to have a copy emailed to me at larry.carey@amx.com?
Thanks again
-lc
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Watch for an email from me, without the attachment to see if it gets through.
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When I run the conversion, I get about halfway through and then the program crashes.
Windows7, RoboHelp10, Flare project done with Flare v5.
I intended to attach a screencap of th error dialog, but I'm getting an error in the forum when I try to insert the file...
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Hi, Larry
Rather than taking up bandwidth here, best we take this off line. I've responded to you via email directly. Take a look at that.
Thanks
john