News for June 2008
STC Summit Conference June
1- 4.
See
you at STC Summit in Philadelphia June 1 - 4. Come by and say,
"hello" at the Adobe exhibit booth and visit my presentations.
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| Check Rick Stone's new Goober
Guides. Excellent Adobe RoboHelp tutorials. |
Announcing a new (and free) Flare to RoboHelp
converter
| "With a tight
deadline looming, and with other people on the doc team using
RoboHelp, I was faced with having to convert my Flare project to
RoboHelp as quickly as possible. John Daigle's "Flare to
RoboHelp Converter" was a blessing in disguise. I was able to
convert the HTML files, TOC, and Index entries into RoboHelp in a
matter of minutes. Even the conditional build tags converted
(although I did have to apply them to a very complex TOC
afterward). John's excellent customer service also made the
conversion a pleasure! Highly recommended on all counts."
Denise Tyler
Author and Technical Writer for these publications:
Macmillan Publishing, Pearson Education, Sybex,
Charles River Media, Thomson Learning, eFrontier,
DAZ Productions |
A migration path for Flare authors who want to
return to RoboHelp
Last year at WritersUA and STC in Minneapolis, several folks asked me if
there is such a thing as a converter for taking a
MadCap Flare™ project and
converting it to an Adobe® RoboHelp® 7 project. Now there is a Flare
replacement for those who want to return their familiar favorite, RoboHelp. Read
more and download the Flare to RoboHelp Converter for free
To see how easy it works, here is an
Adobe Captivate Demo
See you at STC in
Philadelphia - Meanwhile, if you are at
the STC Summit in
Philadelphia, June 1-4 in the Adobe exhibit booth.
Public Beta of RoboHelp
Packager for Adobe AIR announced
You can download the free
public beta here!
The RoboHelp Packager for Adobe®
AIR™ allows you to convert your existing WebHelp files generated using
Adobe RoboHelp® to an Adobe AIR application. Help and knowledge bases
delivered as Adobe AIR application will have a consistent look and feel
across all platforms.
RoboHelp Packager for Adobe AIR packages
WebHelp files generated using Adobe RoboHelp 6 and Adobe
RoboHelp 7 and transforms them into an Adobe AIR file. A single Adobe
AIR Application file is generated which is easier to distribute and deploy.
The generated Adobe AIR file based help will have a customizable look and
feel chosen during the packaging. More
information is available regarding the output of this tool
The new Adobe RoboHelp 7
is an amazing release
and the second one within one year! It's available
for pre-order!
- $79 upgrade price! Read
more on the Adobe website. I'll be posting screenshots and Adobe
Captivate movies of the new features soon.
This screenshot (one of many to come) shows
off the new Multiple Document Interface (MDI). Two topics are open side by
side allowing for quick copy/cut/paste across topics. The new
"pods" are drag and droppable and if you want to have a less
cluttered view, you can close the pods and save your Environment for
different workflows.
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Cleaner code (die
<kadov> die!) and more robust HTML Editor
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Unicode support for 35
languages
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Snippets and improved User
Defined Variables for easy reuse of content
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Windows Vista and Office
2007 support
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Synonym Search, Search
Highlighting and Breadcrumb Navigation
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Much greater integration
with FrameMaker and Adobe Captivate
Stay tuned in the coming days
for many more screenshots and Adobe Captivate movies!
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Adobe Technical
Communications Suite announced - Read
more
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Adobe RoboHelp 7 features unveiled at STC. Sneak peeks of were done
for the next versions of RoboHelp, Adobe Captivate and Framemaker at the STC Convention in
Minneapolis, May 13-16. Adobe's 14-member team met with hundreds of
STC members to get their thoughts on the next version of RoboHelp,
Framemaker and Adobe Captivate. More details here: Read more in my
post on the Adobe Forums.
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New versions of Adobe
Captivate and Framemaker
released!
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Adobe
RoboHelp costars with Adobe Captivate - My new article on
the Adobe Developer Center
Adobe Training Classes
Scheduled:
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Contact John
Daigle for Certified Instruction in Adobe Captivate, Acrobat
Connect Pro and RoboHelp.
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From TEKOM conference:
We learn of a great new forum for RoboHelp users in Germany - Check
out http://www.robo-user.de/
the Forum is sponsored by Comet
Communication and the site is available in many languages
including English.
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See
Silke Fleischer's Adobe Captivate blog.
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Flash Video Interview with
Silke Fleischer at MAX 2006 View
(Flash Player 8)
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The
Content Wrangler has a great interview with RJ Jacquez,
Senior Adobe Framemaker and RoboHelp evangelist.
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Adobe Technical
Communications FAQ - The synergy of RoboHelp, Framemaker, Captivate
and Acrobat into a full tool suite for technical writers and eLearning
designers. Read
more
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Adobe Captivate 3 is
officially released Read
more
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Macromedia Breeze Meeting
is now Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional Read
more
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Captivate Users Group
- Seattle Check out Mark Chrisman's new
site
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Rob Houser - Adobe
Community Expert announces User Assistance Group and new
website
Must Read: New Adobe Tech
Comm FAQ posted for RoboHelp, Framemaker, Captivate and Acrobat. A
new Adobe
Technical Communications FAQ was posted on the Adobe website which
addresses questions regarding the Technical Communications products.
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