RoboHelp
 download
- customising the appearance
I have had many people ask for an easy download of RoboHelp Skins, so
here they are, 54 WebHelp skins bundled into Zip files. Each skin file
itself contains many small files.
I have included 37 small screen shots of some of the WebHelp skins - this is
not a complete set. You can quickly preview what they would look
like, without having to load each skin to see.
(Sorry, I withdrew the FlashHelp skins. None of my clients have opted for them
as they find the constantly moving icons an irritating distraction, and
they are concerned that they would be responsible for installing and maintaining
Flash on end-user systems.)
Note! The zip files are about 1.4Mb each, so I recommend a
broadband connection! If you use a modem, these downloads could take some minutes...
1. I have set this up free of charge to help RH users
like yourself.
2. Please help me in return, by providing a clickable link
from your web site to this web site. It will help other RH users to find the Skins files, and it
will help
my business a little.
3. I have virus-scanned the zip files, but I must make it
clear that you use these at your own risk. I regret that I cannot provide support. These are
standard RH skin files; I have used many of them myself, but it is up to you to
know how to use them: there are some tips below. Please don't contact me to ask questions, as I do not wish
to disappoint you by not replying.
However, 'Thank you' emails would be encouraging!
4. Enjoy!
The Skin files are split into TWO Zip files of about 1.4 Mb each.
1. RIGHT-CLICK
link to
download SkinPack1.zip
then select Save Target As...
(This contains screenshots and Skin set 1)
2. CLICK
link to
fetch SkinPack2
(on another page, Skin Set 2).
Meanwhile, how about asking Adobe to offer a similar download in bulk, instead
of just one skin at a time? (Tedious, isn't it?)
How to use 'Skins'
Customising the look of user-friendly Online Help is often important. Companies
prefer not to use the standard appearance - it looks rather bland.
For users who don’t want their Help Guides to look like every other Help Guide,
RoboHelp lets you easily “skin” your online documentation in WebHelp or
FlashHelp formats. Simply put, skinning
means replacing the current look and feel of the Help Guide with a completely
different set of colours or graphics.
If you know how, you can make your own
 that match your existing software
application or your website. Although the default skin looks acceptable, for
some people it still may look a bit too default.
If you don't know how, then you RoboHelp allows you to import
that other
users have created - provided you have access to them in the first place!
You can see some examples on this page.
There used to be a Community page where users offered their own designs free of
charge to other users. Great idea - and people enjoyed sharing their designs.
However, time has moved on and their availability is almost non-existent.
Once upon a time...
OK, so how do you get these extra '' for your RoboHelp projects, so that you can change
their appearance?
The book says, go into the Project folder, right click on
, and select
'Import from the Web'. Hmmm...
Once upon a time, you could download a number of WebHelp skins from the Help Community
website, and these were submitted by various RH users, freely available to
other RH users. You could import
using the link in RoboHelp (Project tab > Skins >
right-click > Import from Web). This used to take you to the
online RoboHTML Skins Gallery.
BUT! For a number of years, Adobe/Macromedia seem to have forgotten all their users worldwide,
and killed the link: web page not found.
So I have set this page up for you.
The RH Help Guide says:
"You can customise your WebHelp output so that it resembles your company's
Web-based or desktop application, so that you can deliver a
professional-looking product. The Help Guide tells us that if you don't know how to design your own
RoboHelp ,
you can select one from the Gallery, changing the colours, buttons, text,
fonts, icons, and more. Add colourful backgrounds and special images for TOC
icons and navigation buttons, insert your company's logo, add custom buttons,
and use other effects that can update or improve your WebHelp system's look.
There are a few pre-designed
available in the Skin Gallery for you to edit and use
in your project. Creating new
based on gallery
designs is one way to do it - if you have time to learn how. You can save the
new designs for use in other projects. When you create a skin from a gallery skin, a copy of
the gallery skin is copied into your project with any customizations you make
(the gallery skin remains unchanged).
Polish up your RoboHelp and Technical Writing skills!
I provide a number of Training Courses to help people to write better, to get their
message across first time, and help the readers to understand at the first
reading. Please select a link and see further information about the courses
available...
RoboHelp Authoring Services
On the other hand, if you need Author help to
create first-class, professional, Online Help Guides, please ask Authorgraphic.
Click here for further details:
Authorgraphic Home page
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