FrameMaker,RoboHelp,Technical Communication,DITA,Suite,Help Authoring Tool,HAT I have been talking about various features and settings for linking FrameMaker documents in RoboHelp. Today, I’ll take you through the functionality offered when the linking of files is already done. Yes, let’s see how you can update these files. If you want to change some of the settings you specified […]
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How to convert FrameMaker TOC in RoboHelp
FrameMaker,RoboHelp,Technical Communication,DITA,Suite,Help Authoring Tool,HAT Table of Contents (TOC) is an important part of FrameMaker books. RoboHelp recognizes this importance and allows the conversion of your source FrameMaker TOC to the corresponding TOC in RoboHelp. I’ll explain the steps with an example. At the time of importing/linking FrameMaker book, 1. Place a check in the ‘ConvertFrameMaker […]
FrameMaker and RoboHelp Style Mappings
FrameMaker,RoboHelp,Technical Communication,DITA,Suite,Help Authoring Tool,HAT Perhaps the most important, and most powerful, feature of the FrameMaker import process is the style mappings. You can map FrameMaker paragraph and character styles to RoboHelp styles, which will automatically reformat your FrameMaker content for publication in RoboHelp. In addition, you can also specify: New definitions for FrameMaker cross-reference formats […]
DITA support in Adobe Technical Communication Suite
FrameMaker,RoboHelp,Technical Communication,DITA,Suite,Help Authoring Tool Adobe Technical Communication Suite comprises of Adobe FrameMaker 8, Adobe RoboHelp 7, Adobe Captivate 3 and Adobe Acrobat 3D ver 8. FrameMaker 8 extends the structured authoring functionality of FrameMaker to enable authors to work efficiently with DITA. With Captivate and Acrobat 3D, you can add Flash demo files and 3D models […]
Upgrading to Adobe Technical Communication Suite
RoboHelp,Captivate,Acrobat,3D,FrameMaker,HAT,Help Authoring Tool,Technical Communication,Suite Adobe Technical Communication Suite provides an attractive opportunity to upgrade for existing customers of FrameMaker, RoboHelp and Captivate. You can upgrade from any previous version of these products at a special discount. As a general rule of thumb, if you are currently using or plan to use more than one of the […]
Generating Context Sensitive Help in RoboHelp from FrameMaker Files
Technical Communication,Suite,HAT,Help Authoring,Knowledge Base,Policies and Procedures When you import or add FrameMaker files (.book, .fm and .mif) in Adobe RoboHelp 7, you can also generate Context Sensitive Map IDs from FrameMaker source files. RoboHelp can convert custom markers defined in FrameMaker to map IDs and create bookmarks in HTML topics created during the import. […]
Content Aggregation Workflow in RoboHelp
Technical Communication,Suite,HAT,Help Authoring,Knowledge Base,Policies and Procedures RoboHelp can import content from Microsoft Word, Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe Dreamweaver and also enables HTML authoring in RoboHTML. In Adobe RoboHelp 7, a project can have multiple TOCs, multiple indexes and multiple glossaries. In addition to creating multiple TOCs and indexes, RoboHelp also provides an ability to create a […]
FrameMaker 8 is available
RoboHelp,FrameMaker,Captivate,Acrobat 3D,Technical Communication,FrameMaker 8,RoboHelp 7,Technical Communication Suite Adobe FrameMaker 8 is available now. The year 2007 is turning out be an exciting one for Adobe in technical communication. We already had four product releases – Adobe RoboHelp 6, Adobe Acrobat 3D ver 8, Adobe FrameMaker 8 and Adobe Captivate 3, and we have another 5 […]
FrameMaker 8 will ship by July end
FrameMaker,FrameMaker 8 I feel happy to inform you that FrameMaker 8 has been announced and is expected to ship worldwide by the end of July 2007. (Press Release, FrameMaker 8) FrameMaker 8 has been designed to help its users take advantage of emerging technologies in technical communication and to meet the new challenges thrown up […]
STC Minneapolis – Great conference and valuable feedback
Technical,Communication,RoboHelp,FrameMaker,Captivate,Acrobat 3D,Sneak Peek,new release 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 […]