RE: What applications can edit HPJ files?

[kathleen -at- writefortheuser -dot- com]

Sarah,

How about downloading a trial copy of the current RH, or Flare, or one
of the other Hat programs, and using it to convert your files into
something useful? 

Just a suggestion; I haven't had to deal with the situation, so there
could easily be fine points I don't know about. But it seems like it's
worth a try.

Kathleen

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: What applications can edit HPJ files?
> From: "Sarah Blake" <Sarah -dot- Blake -at- microfocus -dot- com>
> Date: Tue, August 25, 2009 8:06 am
> To: "Bill Swallow" <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> 
> 
> > Collect the source files and produce HTML
> > Help output or later, as WinHelp support is dwindling fast. The
> > version of Word you are using doesn't matter with regard to the HPJ.
> 
> That's only true if I can find a non-RoboHelp way to open the project :)
> 
> 
> Collecting the source files and producing HTML Help output or later is
> what I'd like to do, but only if I can use a tool that will make use of
> the WinHelp-specific formatting/structural information contained in the
> RTFs will it be even remotely feasible in the time I have.
> 
> > As to your bigger problem, how did you end up with a version of
> > RoboHelp that is incompatible with your version of Word? 
> 
> Easy; all this documentation has been inherited from an acquisition.
> The previous technical writer was using RH X5 with Word 2003, which was
> fine, but when they brought me on board to replace her they gave me a
> better laptop with, of course, the latest version of Word.  (I don't
> have access to her laptop because it's on a different continent).
> 
> In the long term we intend to convert all of the acquisition's
> documentation into XML, but that ain't happening for this release!
> 
> Sarah Blake
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