Technical Communication

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Acrobat 3D Version 8 is available now. Over the past few months, more than 10,000 users participated in the beta and public preview programs for Acrobat 3D Version 8.

With Acrobat 3D Version 8, CAD, CAM, CAE, and technical publishing professionals in the aerospace, automotive, consumer electronics, heavy machinery, life sciences, and AEC industries can convert virtually any 3D CAD file -- including large assemblies of more than 500 megabytes -- into a single PDF document. The PDF file can maintain precise geometry or be compressed several times smaller than the original file.

One of the wow features, we demonstrated in the Technology Sneak Peek of FrameMaker at the STC Conference in Minneapolis, was support for including 3D models in FrameMaker. Once 3D models are combined with other documents in PDF, Acrobat 3D Version 8 users can enable extended teams of colleagues, suppliers, partners, and customers to participate in an efficient document review process leveraging the free, ubiquitous Adobe Reader® software. Adobe Reader users can view detailed product structure and, when enabled by Acrobat 3D Version 8, have the ability to use commenting, measurement and cross-section tools directly on 3D objects in PDF files.

Acrobat 3D Version 8 supports conversion to 3D PDF from over 40 formats, including those for Autodesk Inventor, Dassault Systemes CATIA, PTC Pro/ENGINEER, SolidWorks, and UGS NX and I-deas (see full list at www.adobe.com/go/a3d_supportedformats).

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One of the most interesting requests from customers at the STC Conference Minneapolis was for a migration path from Flare to RoboHelp.  Clearly, some of the customers, who had migrated from RoboHelp to Flare, want to come back to RoboHelp. We understand that they are attracted by the quality of Adobe products and the direction in which RoboHelp is moving. Any doubts they had were set to rest with the sneak peek of the features under development for RoboHelp.  Customers also recognize an accelerated pace of innovation from Adobe in technical communication with three products (FrameMaker, Captivate and Acrobat 3D) in different stages of the pre-release program.

We continue to evaluate the business case for offering migration utilities to Flare customers. If you are considering a migration from Flare to RoboHelp, please let us know. Your inputs are valuable.

Update - John Daigle (www.hypertexas.com, www.showmethedemo.com) has posted a free Flare to RoboHelp converter. The converter is a free download from John Daigle's site and source code is also available under Common Public License.

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STC 54th Annual Conference in Minneapolis was a great success. From Adobe perspective, we had a strong presence with eight sessions on FrameMaker, RoboHelp and Captivate.  Each of the sessions included technology sneak peeks for the corresponding Adobe product.  The feedback from the sneak peeks has been very positive. We also had a constant stream of visitors coming over at the Adobe booth seeking more information about these products. More importantly, we had an opportunity to meet a large number of customers, experts and partners.  We also had several 1:1 customer meetings to understand their requirements and collect feedback on our products.

You have most probably seen the discussion on forums and blogs on the sneak peeks. If you have any comments or suggestions, please do let me know.

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[2 July 2007 - Adobe is not accepting any more volunteers for FrameMaker Beta Program]

Finally the day lot of us have been waiting for... I am happy to share with you that the FrameMaker Beta 1 is already under testing by a select group of FrameMaker experts. And, their initial reviews are very encouraging.

The FrameMaker product team is looking for volunteers to participate in FrameMaker Prerelease Beta 2. Please click here to apply by filling up the FrameMaker Prerelease participation form. If your application is approved, you would soon be able to download the prerelease build. We would inform you once Beta 2 is available for testing.

Please Note: During the application process, please use the "Existing Users" section if you have an existing Adobe Prerelease system (https://prerelease.adobe.com) account. If you are participating in prerelease programs for the first time and do not possess a prior account, then use the "New Users" section and provide your email address. A mail containing a link to the Prerelease program will be sent to the specified email address as verification. Use this link in that mail to continue with the registration process to join the Prerelease program.

We look forward to your participation.

Thank you

Aseem - FrameMaker Product Manager

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Recording of the Adobe on-demand seminars is available online. Please use the go url to access them :http://www.adobe.com/go/techcom_eseminars

Current ondemand seminars recorded from a past live sessions include:

1) What's new in Adobe RoboHelp 6?
2) Intro to Adobe RoboHelp Server 6 and Adobe FlashHelp Pro
3) Benefits of Structured Authoring and Migrating in Preparation for XML
4) FrameMaker and DITA
5) Have You Looked At FrameMaker Lately?
6) Adobe FrameMaker 7.2: Writing for Global Audiences
7) Increase ROI when migrating from Word to Adobe FrameMaker

Also, a live eseminar "Adobe RoboSource Control" is planned for broadcast in May.

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