This post continues my comments on the results of my experiments using RoboHelp Packager for AIR on a WebHelp project.

General Bugs

Having Back and Forward buttons is great. However, in Classic Help, they didn’t always seem to follow my navigation path. I don’t use browse sequences (and I turned that feature off anyway in the AIR generation dialog), so I don’t think I’m misunderstanding the purpose of the buttons.

The Classic Help TOC seems a little buggy when the Favorites pane is open. Everything worked except when I had a bunch of books open and had to scroll to get to the last book. When I scrolled, I got behavior like the selected book or another book automatically closing, or the TOC would jump so I couldn’t see where the selected topic was. (If I scrolled back up, the auto-closing book would open up again.)

Where I had Captivate demos in a topic, a huge space was inserted before each Captivate demo about the size of the demo itself. The demos work fine, but that big space is an irritant.

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I had some time today for testing the RoboHelp Packager for Adobe AIR (isn’t saying “Adobe AIR” like saying “ATM machine” or “PIN number”?), so I went to town. I kept notes as I went. I would be flooding the Packager forum with threads after exercising the Packager, so I thought it would be better to not be the kind of guest who makes himself at home to the point of leaving his clothes and dirty dishes strewn all over the house. Instead, I’ll provide my critique here in my own space.

Please be aware that these are coming generally in the order that I made the notes, though there is some semblance of organization of related topics. And unless otherwise noted, I’m talking about the “Classic Help” layout, since that’s the one I tried first.

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