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Is RH8 able to generate pdfs? I tried this: opened a project, then File>Generate>PDF (greyed out). See pic:
Hang on, you don't have to have Acrobat Pro. The PDF Add-on that ships with RoboHelp is sufficient.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
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RH has to go through an intermediary - Word, then you create the PDF from within Word
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Hi Jeff,
so I've published in Word. Now how to get a PDF from it, as you say??
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Either there will be an Acrobat menu/ribbon in Word or go to File / Print and pick the PDF printer there.
When you generated from RoboHelp you should also have seen a PDF check box. You could have produced it from there. However, producing in Word first and then generating the PDF gives you the chance to tidy up the document. It's unlikely page breaks would be quite where you want them and suchlike.
You should keep a test project for experimenting. That way you could try out the things that give you all these problems without risking damage to your real project. Being smaller it would also make things more obvious.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
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You have Acrobat Pro installed, right?
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is there a version of APro that's compatible with RH8?
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Not sure - the latest versions probably all would work. How were you expecting to produce a PDF if you didn't have Acrobat?
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Hang on, you don't have to have Acrobat Pro. The PDF Add-on that ships with RoboHelp is sufficient.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
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thank you, Peter. didn't know the PDF add on was included.
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I wasn't aware the standalone version of RH had the "headless" version included either (I knew FM does & nobody particularly likes it)