Integrating Adobe’s Technical Communication Suite: Style Settings

Style Settings: Mapping Content and Controlling Pagination

by Kevin A. Siegel

1. On RoboHelp's Project Manager, right-click the reference to the FrameMaker book, and choose Properties

   The FrameMaker Document Settings dialog box opens.

2. Select the Style Settings tab
3. Click the Edit button to the right of Style Mappings

   The RoboHelp Style Mappings dialog box opens. You will use this dialog box to control which styles the FrameMaker content uses when it appears in your RoboHelp project.

4. Select a format from the FrameMaker column at the left and then select a RoboHelp style from the Available Styles at the right
5. Click the Map button

   In the image below, RoboHelp has been told to apply the Normal style to any FrameMaker content that was using the Body format; Heading1 was mapped to Heading1, Heading2 to Heading2 and Bulleted to Normal.

   

   You can exclude content from being imported by selecting the format from the FrameMaker column
   clicking the No Output button (in the image above, notice that the SideHead format has not been assigned a RoboHelp format and will not be imported into RoboHelp).

6. Click OK to return to the FrameMaker Document Settings dialog box

Pagination Settings

• On the Style Settings tab, select the formats you would like to split into new topics (in the image below, Heading1 and Heading2 were selected)

  

• Click OK
• On the Project Manager, right-click FrameMaker book reference and choose Update

  The FrameMaker content is reimported into RoboHelp. 

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