Generating help in multiple locales using Adobe RoboHelp 10


Using RoboHelp 10

  • To personalize and optimize content for relevance and search.
  • Easy development of context-sensitive help with usability enhancements.

Adobe RoboHelp 10 supports output formats as shown in graphic below:




How to change default Language setting?





















Users can change this default language to following 36 languages:



Going a step further -> Editing LNG strings for customized needs






How to create multilingual WebHelp from RoboHelp? 

  1. Create a project in RoboHelp.
  2. Create separate topics for each language.
  4. Also create separate index and glossary for each language
  8. 8Now generate WebHelp and open it in browser.
  9. Select any particular language from the category dropdown.




Authors :-
Sumer Singh – Lead Quality Engineer
Vinay Krishan Sharma – Program Manager

 Adobe RoboHelp homepage

4 thoughts on “Generating help in multiple locales using Adobe RoboHelp 10”

  1. How do you get the application to choose the right topic or help file based on language?

    For example, I am a tech writer for a software application that can switch its UI to support English, Spanish, and Chinese. I wrote the help in English, and have had it tranlsated into Spanish and Chinese. My RoboHelp project is set up to hold all these translations. We output to HTML 5 uncompiled help. How do I tell my application to use the Chinese help files if the application’s UI language is Chinese?

    1. Hi Susan,

      Hope you are doing good.

      As far as I understand the issue here, there are two workarounds to get the required output :
      – Either Embed Code in the application i.e. write a code in the backend of the application for which the help system is being written such that whenever user switches the UI of the application to some other language, the system should point to the help files of that particular locale and pick accordingly. This won’t take much of a time and would solve the issue provided that we have separate help files generated for each locale.
      – Or generate Context Sensitive Help(CSH) i.e. author a single project which has all the files and text in all the locales supported, and apply Conditional tags to respective text corresponding to the locale. Write some code so that whenever user switches the UI to other locale, corresponding filters are applied to show the relevant text and hide the rest. For this you can refer to :

      Hope this helps. Please let us know, if more information is required.

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