Adobe RoboHelp 6 HTML: PDF’ed About Adding PDF’s to Your TOC? Read On!

You can easily create hyperlinks to just about anything in your RoboHelp project by selecting some topic text (or an image) and choosing Insert > Hyperlink. But what if you want to link to an external file, such as a PDF. And what if you also want to add a link to the PDF directly to your TOC? There doesn’t seem to be an easy way to do that–until you read on…

Linking to external files

1. Open a topic and highlight the text or image you want to use for the hyperlink
2. Choose Insert > Hyperlink

The Hyperlink dialog opens.

3. Select File from the Link to drop down menu



4. Browse for the file you want to link to and click Open
5. Click OK
6. Click Yes when prompted and the file will be copied to your project’s Baggage Files folder.

Adding Links to Baggage Files to the TOC

1. Select the TOC Pane
2. Add a New Page to the TOC by choose File > New > Page
3. Give the new page an appropriate Page Title (in the example below, the new page has been given the name Link to a PDF)



4. Select Baggage file from the Link to drop down menu



5. Select the file you want to link to from the Baggage File drop down menu



6. Click OK

The page you created appears on the TOC.



When you Generate and View the project, the file you selected from Step 5 above will open if the TOC page is clicked.

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