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 […]
Trials now available
Adobe,RoboHelp,RoboHelp Server,HAT,Technical Communication Suite I am slightly late in sharing this important piece of information with you all – trial builds of Adobe RoboHelp 7, Adobe RoboHelp Server 7 and Technical Communication Suite are now available on the Adobe.com. The specific URL’s are: Adobe RoboHelp 7 www.adobe.com/go/tryrobohelp Adobe RoboHelp Server 7 www.adobe.com/go/tryrobohelpserver Adobe Technical Communication […]
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. […]
Adobe RoboHelp 7: New UI – Part 2
Adobe,RoboHelp,UI,Technical Communication,HAT,Help Authoring As the title suggests, this is the second part of the blog post that I posted on 3rd October. Now that we you are aware about the new User Interface elements, let’s see how can you benefit from them in Adobe RoboHelp 7. Adobe RoboHelp 7’s Personalized Environment See Larger Image The […]
Adobe Technical Communication Suite is Not a Bundle
Technical Communication,Suite,RoboHelp,FrameMaker,HAT,help authoring,3D,Acrobat,Captivate When we announced Adobe Technical Communication Suite last month, it was a culmination of 2 years of planning and execution. Adobe Technical Communication Suite is a single product, with a single installer and a single serial number. FrameMaker and RoboHelp versions in the Suite are special versions with additional features. The goal […]
Adobe RoboHelp 7: New UI – Part 1
Adobe,RoboHelp,UI One of the mjor advancements in Adobe RoboHelp 7 is the new Highly Customizable UI. Today, I shall dive deep into this and talk about finer features that we have implemented in RoboHelp 7. RoboHelp has always been known for its author-friendly usability and we didn’t want to compromise on the same. So it […]
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 […]
Acrobat 3D Enables Collabration Across Teams
Technical Communication,Suite,Acrobat 3D,Collaboration Almost every project involves multiple reviews of technical documentation – content review, technical review, legal review and editorial review to name a few. As I was planning to post around review and collaboration in Acrobat 3D, I discovered an interesting post from my colleague Doug Halliday. He very effectively summarizes the value […]