Macromedia RoboHelp - 6.0 Getting Started Guide

ADOBE®ROBOHELP®6

GETTING STARTED GUIDE

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Contents

About this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

What’s new . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Uninstalling RoboHelp Office X5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Installing Adobe RoboHelp 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Opening and closing Adobe RoboHelp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Redistributables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Contacting Adobe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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Chapter 1: Getting Started Guide

About this document

This guide describes new features and enhancements in this release and
helps you install and quickly set up and started with the latest version of
Adobe® RoboHelp® 6. You can also find information about installing Adobe
Acrobat® Elements 7 and Adobe RoboSource Control 3 simultaneously.
Adobe Acrobat Elements 7 enables you to create PDF documents from
your topics, using the improved PDF generation feature. Adobe
RoboSource Control is a document- and version-control system you can
use for your source files. You can use RoboSource Control to manage
project versions in a multi-authoring environment. You can also use a
third-party version control provider that supports the Microsoft® SCC API,
such as Microsoft® Visual SourceSafe.

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Getting Started Guide

What’s new

The latest version of Adobe RoboHelp includes new and powerful features
for both technical writers and software developers.

Conditional table of contents (TOC) You can apply Conditional Build
tags to a book, or to a specific chapter in the TOC. You can do this by using
the Format menu or the right-click menu for a TOC item. From the TOC
view, you can also apply build tags on associated topics. After a tag is
applied, the TOC appears hatched with the same color as the tag color.
Additionally, you can apply more than one tag to the TOC. When you do
this, the color of the hatch turns gray.

Conditional index You can apply Conditional Build tags to a keyword or
sub-keyword in the index. You can do this by u sin g th e Form at m enu or t he
right-click menu in the index. After the tag is applied, the index appears
hatched with the same color as that of the tag. You can also apply more
than one tag to the index. When you do this, the color of the hatch turns
gray.

The following lists the major improvements in the existing conditional
build tag functionality:

• The visual indication of the application of build tags is displayed on the

topics, topic content and topic lists to which it is applied.

• You can apply build tags on folders. After you apply a build tag on a

folder, build tags are applied on all topics within the folder. The visual
indication on the application of build tags is displayed on all the topics
under the folder.

• You can apply build tags on rows and columns within a table. If you

exclude this tag from the output, the corresponding row or column is
excluded from the help output.

• You can drag and drop conditional tags on a topic or folder from the

Conditional Build Tags folder in the Project view. You can also right-click
a folder or topic, and apply build tags.

User-defined variables You can see User Defined Variable folder in
project view. From User Defined Variable folder, you can create Variable
and drag them to WYSIWYG in order to add them to the content. Once you
drag them to WYSIWYG, you can enter a for the variable.