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Adobe Product Management team for technical communication will be attending the STC Conference at Minneapolis. We will like to take this opportunity to meet our customers and partners. If you are available for a meeting, please leave a comment and we will contact you.
If you are planning to attend the Conference, you now have added incentive. We will be providing technology sneak peeks of the features of the next versions of FrameMaker, RoboHelp and Captivate. Please plan to attend the following sessions for a chance to catch the technology sneak peeks.
Monday May 14
Tips and Tricks for
Adobe® RoboHelp® Users
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Developing Non-Software-Based
eLearning with Adobe Captivate®
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Making sense of the FrameMaker
and XML Alphabet Soup
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Adobe RoboHelp 6 goes to the movies
with Adobe Captivate animations
3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Tuesday May 15
Adobe FrameMaker® Advanced
Template Features
8:30 am – 10:00 am
Adobe FrameMaker: Migrating from
Unstructured to Structured Content
10:30 am to 12:00 pm
Adobe RoboHelp Server 6 for user
feedback and Adobe RoboSource
Control 3 for team authoring
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Increase ROI when migrating from
Word to Adobe FrameMaker
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
See you at STC Minneapolis.
This is the first time that I am posting to the team blog. To begin with, let me introduce myself.
Hello, I am Akshay Madan, Product Manager for Adobe RoboHelp and Adobe RoboHelp Server. I have been with Adobe for around seven years now. I worked for Acrobat team before taking up this responsibility.
Adobe RoboHelp 6 was released in January 2007 and we are working on the next release. This should put to rest all the fears of RoboHelp being dead and that it has got a very bright future. In Adobe RoboHelp 6, we implemented a number of new features (please refer http://www.adobe.com/products/robohelp/productinfo/features/ for a complete list of new features).
Surprisingly, even after a release, I still get mails and hear comments, like, RoboHelp is a legacy tool; Adobe won’t be able to support latest platforms like Microsoft Vista and blah blah. Give me a break –RoboHelp has been around for a long time and has a history. Is this what they mean by legacy? RoboHelp continues to be the market leader and has very loyal customers. It is the preferred tool for creating Help Systems and Knowledge bases. And Adobe has publicly committed to a Vista compliant release.
If you have any doubts about Adobe RoboHelp’s future or any queries around the product, I request you to write directly to me at amadan(at)adobe(dot)com.
We thank our user community for their continued support. We had a great time at WritersUA seeing familiar faces and making new friends. We have so much to share with all of you in the coming year! Below is the list of our prize winners at the WritersUA. They will be contacted shortly to receive their prizes.
Adobe RoboHelp 6 - Linda Schoenhoff, Melissa G. Steiner, Rebecca Stevenson
Adobe FrameMaker 7.2 - Roger A. Sharp, Patricia F. Olsen, Diane S. Marcus
Adobe Captivate 2- Cheryl Blackford, Stephanie R. Marshall, Arlyn Lee
Thanks,
Vivek Jain
There have been some questions on Windows Vista support. Adobe FrameMaker 7.2 and Adobe RoboHelp 6 do not support Windows Vista. However, the next versions currently under development for both FrameMaker and RoboHelp will support Windows Vista.
Update - Adobe FrameMaker 8, Adobe RoboHelp 7 and Adobe Technical Communication Suite support Windows Vista and Office 2007. If you are publishing online help or HTML help and looking at a cross platform solution, you can download RoboHelp Packager for Adobe AIR . RoboHelp Packager for Adobe AIR generates cross-platform online help and provides two additional skins - Multi Tab Accordion and Unipane .