Comments on: 10 Reasons for Using AIR-Based Help

By: Nandini Gupta

Nandini Gupta — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:24:28 +0000

Todd and Ed, Thanks for your comments.
Todd, the post is primarily targeted at existing and prospective users of RoboHelp, who have the choice of publishing their content in the various layouts that RoboHelp provides. In that context, the comparison is between the Adobe AIR layout (output type Adobe AIR Application) and other layouts supported by RoboHelp. If the users publish their content in the Adobe AIR layout with the output type as Adobe AIR Application, the benefits listed in the post come with no additional effort or use of software. That’s not the case with other layouts.

By: Ed Martino, PhD

Ed Martino, PhD — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 19:19:51 +0000

Excellent summary of AIRHelp advantages. I would also note that in my experience AIRHelp is a gr8 way to ramp up a help system at a departmental level. Later on after the info is well vetted and it the application is relatively stable, one can very easily migrate to browser based AirHelp or WebHelp if desired. These multiple output formats form the single source of RoboHelp makes the job of Techcomm teams much easier to perform.

By: Todd Kopriva

Todd Kopriva — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 16:58:53 +0000

Aren’t nearly all of these benefits available by delivering the Help document as HTML files on the Web that can be viewed in the user’s chosen browser?