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. […]
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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 […]
FrameMaker Beta is here…
[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. […]
Windows Vista Support
Technical,communication,Adobe,Windows Vista,robohelp,FrameMaker,Captivate,Acrobat 3D 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 […]
XML Authoring and DITA: An Interesting Analogy
Very often I come across the question – Why DITA? Here is an interesting analogy to try and answer the same. The purpose is not to define DITA, but to share my perspective on what DITA may imply for the technical authoring community. In the XML authoring paradigm, the document is split into structure, content […]
Rich Content – Getting Richer …
Technical communication is moving from static documents to richer content. A Picture Speaks A Thousand Words. In the online world, it is not just limited to pictures, end users of technical documents want more – tutorials, videos, 3D objects and so on. A number of technical communicators already use Captivate, Photoshop, Acrobat 3D and related […]
Thank you for the overwhelming response
It was heartening to see the number of emails that I received in response to FrameMaker – Is and will remain to be …. The emails were both encouraging and critical. There were good suggestions as well as valid complaints. I would request you to keep the emails and the feedback coming, as it provides […]