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Robohelp

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  1. RoboHelp User Guide
  2. What’s new
    1. What’s new in Adobe RoboHelp (2026 release)
    2. Adobe RoboHelp release notes (2026 release) 
    3. What’s new in Adobe RoboHelp (2022 release)   
  3. Introduction
    1. Get to know RoboHelp workspace
    2. RoboHelp System Requirements
    3. Download RoboHelp on Windows and macOS
    4. Download and install Adobe app
    5. RoboHelp FAQs
  4. Projects
    1. Plan your RoboHelp project
    2. Create a project
    3. Manage projects
    4. Work with topics and folders
    5. Generate reports
    6. Work with context-sensitive help
    7. Manage References
    8. Set preferences in RoboHelp
    9. Supported file formats
  5. Collaborate with authors
    1. Collaborate using Git
    2. Collaborate using SharePoint Online
    3. Collaborate using Azure DevOps (Team Foundation Server)
  6. PDF Layout
    1. PDF templates
    2. Design a page layout
    3. Publish PDF output
    4. Work with the common content styles
    5. Components of a PDF template
    6. Support for language variables
    7. Customize PDFs
    8. Work with master pages
  7. Editing and formatting
    1. Format your content
    2. Create and manage cross-references
    3. Create and manage links
    4. Single-source with snippets
    5. Work with images and multimedia
    6. Create and use variables for easy updates
    7. Work with Variable Sets
    8. Use Find and Replace
    9. Auto save your content
    10. Side-by-side editing in Split View
    11. Use the Spell Check feature
    12. Create and Edit Bookmarks
    13. Insert and update fields
    14. Switch between multiple views
    15. Autonumbering in CSS
    16. Insert a watermark in RoboHelp project
  8. Import and linking
    1. Import Markdown files into a project
    2. Import Word documents into a project
    3. Import FrameMaker documents into a project
  9. TOCs, indexes, glossaries, and citations
    1. Create and manage a Table of Contents
    2. Create and manage an index
    3. Create and manage a glossary
    4. Create and manage citations
    5. Create and manage browse sequences
    6. Work with See Also and Related Topics
  10. Conditional content
    1. What is conditional content
    2. Create and apply condition tags
    3. Configure output presets for conditional content
    4. Optimize and manage conditional content
  11. Microcontent
    1. Microcontent
  12. Review and Collaboration
    1. Review and Collaboration
  13. Translation
    1. Translating content to multiple languages
    2. Configure a translation framework for a service provider
  14. Generating output
    1. Generate output
    2. Generate Frameless output
    3. Generate Knowledge Base output
    4. Generate PDF output
    5. Generate Responsive HTML5 output
    6. Generate Word Document output
    7. Generate Content Only output
    8. Generate eBook output
    9. Generate Microsoft HTML Help output
    10. Generate Mobile App output
  15. Publish output
    1. Publish to a RoboHelp Server
    2. Publish to an FTP server, a Secure FTP server, or a File System
    3. Publish to SharePoint Online
    4. Publish to Zendesk Help Center
    5. Publish to Salesforce Knowledge Base
    6. Publish to ServiceNow Knowledge Base
    7. Publish to Zoho Knowledge Base
    8. Publish to Adobe Experience Manager
    9. Publish to Atlassian Confluence Knowledge Base
  16. Appendix
    1. Adobe RoboHelp Scripting Reference
    2. RoboHelp keyboard shortcuts
    3. Introduction to Frameless skin editor
    4. Troubleshooting command-line preset output generation failure
    5. Foreign languages supported by RoboHelp
    6. Installing JavaHelp and Oracle Help Components
Robohelp

Robohelp

Open app
  1. RoboHelp User Guide
  2. What’s new
    1. What’s new in Adobe RoboHelp (2026 release)
    2. Adobe RoboHelp release notes (2026 release) 
    3. What’s new in Adobe RoboHelp (2022 release)   
  3. Introduction
    1. Get to know RoboHelp workspace
    2. RoboHelp System Requirements
    3. Download RoboHelp on Windows and macOS
    4. Download and install Adobe app
    5. RoboHelp FAQs
  4. Projects
    1. Plan your RoboHelp project
    2. Create a project
    3. Manage projects
    4. Work with topics and folders
    5. Generate reports
    6. Work with context-sensitive help
    7. Manage References
    8. Set preferences in RoboHelp
    9. Supported file formats
  5. Collaborate with authors
    1. Collaborate using Git
    2. Collaborate using SharePoint Online
    3. Collaborate using Azure DevOps (Team Foundation Server)
  6. PDF Layout
    1. PDF templates
    2. Design a page layout
    3. Publish PDF output
    4. Work with the common content styles
    5. Components of a PDF template
    6. Support for language variables
    7. Customize PDFs
    8. Work with master pages
  7. Editing and formatting
    1. Format your content
    2. Create and manage cross-references
    3. Create and manage links
    4. Single-source with snippets
    5. Work with images and multimedia
    6. Create and use variables for easy updates
    7. Work with Variable Sets
    8. Use Find and Replace
    9. Auto save your content
    10. Side-by-side editing in Split View
    11. Use the Spell Check feature
    12. Create and Edit Bookmarks
    13. Insert and update fields
    14. Switch between multiple views
    15. Autonumbering in CSS
    16. Insert a watermark in RoboHelp project
  8. Import and linking
    1. Import Markdown files into a project
    2. Import Word documents into a project
    3. Import FrameMaker documents into a project
  9. TOCs, indexes, glossaries, and citations
    1. Create and manage a Table of Contents
    2. Create and manage an index
    3. Create and manage a glossary
    4. Create and manage citations
    5. Create and manage browse sequences
    6. Work with See Also and Related Topics
  10. Conditional content
    1. What is conditional content
    2. Create and apply condition tags
    3. Configure output presets for conditional content
    4. Optimize and manage conditional content
  11. Microcontent
    1. Microcontent
  12. Review and Collaboration
    1. Review and Collaboration
  13. Translation
    1. Translating content to multiple languages
    2. Configure a translation framework for a service provider
  14. Generating output
    1. Generate output
    2. Generate Frameless output
    3. Generate Knowledge Base output
    4. Generate PDF output
    5. Generate Responsive HTML5 output
    6. Generate Word Document output
    7. Generate Content Only output
    8. Generate eBook output
    9. Generate Microsoft HTML Help output
    10. Generate Mobile App output
  15. Publish output
    1. Publish to a RoboHelp Server
    2. Publish to an FTP server, a Secure FTP server, or a File System
    3. Publish to SharePoint Online
    4. Publish to Zendesk Help Center
    5. Publish to Salesforce Knowledge Base
    6. Publish to ServiceNow Knowledge Base
    7. Publish to Zoho Knowledge Base
    8. Publish to Adobe Experience Manager
    9. Publish to Atlassian Confluence Knowledge Base
  16. Appendix
    1. Adobe RoboHelp Scripting Reference
    2. RoboHelp keyboard shortcuts
    3. Introduction to Frameless skin editor
    4. Troubleshooting command-line preset output generation failure
    5. Foreign languages supported by RoboHelp
    6. Installing JavaHelp and Oracle Help Components

The following table lists the file formats that RoboHelp can either open or import. For more information, see RoboHelp Help.

Open project file formats

File format

Filename extensions

All Help projects

HHP

WebHelp projects

XPJ, MPJ

RoboHelp HTML Help projects

XPJ, MPJ

HTML Help projects

HHP

JavaHelp projects

XPJ, MPJ

Oracle Help projects

XPJ, MPJ

FlashHelp Pro projects

XPJ, MPJ

Help File

HLP

RoboHelp WinHelp projects

HPJ

Import file formats

File formats Filename extensions
HTML/XHTML files HTM, HTML, HTX, XHTML
XML files XML
Word documents DOC, DOCX, DOCM, RTF
PDF documents PDF
FrameMaker book BOOK
FrameMaker documents MIF, FM
FrameMaker 6 books BK
FrameMaker 6 documents FRM
FrameMaker DITA map DITAMAP, DITA, XML
FrameMaker DITA topics DITA, XML
DITA map DITAMAP
DITA topics DITA, XML
External content search file XML
Map files HH, HM, H
What’s This? Help files TXT
Master page HTT
AIR Help skins AHS
Compressed AIR Help skin file AHZ
Compressed FlashHelp skin file FHZ
Compressed WebHelp skin file ZKN
FlashHelp skin file FHS
HyperText snippet files HTS
Images GIF, PNG, JPG, JPEG, JPE, BMP
Audio WAV, MP3, MID, RMI, AU
Video AVI, ASF, ASX, MPG, MPEG, MPG4, MPE, MP4, OGG, OGV, WEBM, WAX, WMA, QT, MOV, RA, RM, RPM, FLV, F4V, SWF

 

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