Knowledge base software,help authoring tool,RoboHelp,FrameMaker,Technical Communication Suite,Single Sourcing Adobe RoboHelp 7 has one of the most innovative and powerful feature of single sourcing, support for hierarchical TOC and hierarchical Index. When you bring content from several sources in RoboHelp, RoboHelp enables you to add that content in a specific folder. For example, for a FrameMaker […]
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Preserve Changes in RoboHelp for a Linked FrameMaker Book
FrameMaker,RoboHelp,Adobe Technical Communication Suite,Help Authoring Tool,HAT,HTML publishing,knowledge base,knowledge base software Adobe Technical Communication Suite enables a single sourcing workflow from FrameMaker to RoboHelp for HTML publishing. While it is ideal to maintain all the content in FrameMaker, there are special situations which may require the RoboHelp content to be out of sync from FrameMaker documents […]
FrameMaker 8.0.1 Available!
FrameMaker 8.0.1 patch is live now. This patch has fixes for several reported problems. The key areas include: PDF: Text going behind tables, tag structure not correct as per accessibility standards etc. XML / DITA: Fixes for crashers, handling invalid input, bugs related to Unicode etc. Apart from this, two functionality workflows that we have […]
Editing Style Information in RoboHelp for a Linked FrameMaker Book
RoboHelp,FrameMaker,Technical Communication Suite,HAT,Help Authoring Tool,Single Source,HTML publishing Adobe Technical Communication Suite enables a HTML publishing workflow from FrameMaker to RoboHelp. While adding FrameMaker files as live links in RoboHelp, you can map FrameMaker styles to RoboHelp styles. RoboHelp uses a specific style sheet fmstyles.css which can be modified for custom needs. 1. The style information […]
Updating linked FrameMaker files
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 […]
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. […]