making external links open in a new browser window in RoboHelp WebHelp output

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Robert,

WebHelp files are just HTML files so you should be able to post-process them
to add the _blank option. You could use Perl or some other kind of scripting
language that you could add to your build process. If you send me a sample
file or two, I will see what is possible. Thanks.

Rick

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
585-283-5045
rick at frameexpert.com



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[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 7:07 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: making external links open in a new browser window in RoboHelp
WebHelp output

I just noticed that external links in the WebHelp generated by RoboHelp 9
from my FrameMaker 10 source open in the help topic frame instead of a new
window.

I found this topic in the RoboHelp > FrameMaker integration forum:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4567603

The solution there, to avoid messing up links in PDF output, is to create
two different hypertext markers, one for PDF and one for help, and
conditionalize them.

That seems like a lot of work to set up and, worse, pretty fragile to
maintain.

Is there a more elegant solution that would just let me tell RoboHelp that
external links should have the _blank option? Post-processing would be OK,
the build is already automated.
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