Images comparison

RoboHELP supports a variety of image file formats. The following information explains how they work in WinHelp and HTML Help.

WinHelp

Microsoft HTML Help

Supported formats include bitmaps (.BMP), multi-resolution bitmaps (.MRB), and Windows metafiles (.WMF)

Supported formats include graphics interchange format (.GIF), joint photograph expert group (.JPG, .JPEG)

Splash screens and icons support bitmaps (.BMP), multi-resolution bitmaps (.ICO) and Windows metafiles

SHED graphics (.SHG) provide support for clickable hotspot graphics

Both .GIF and .JPEG formats support image maps

Transparent graphics (.BMP format)

Transparent images (.GIF format)

Not available

Animation (.GIF format)