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Now, get
college credit for Adobe Technical Communications training!
Denver, Colorado - The Department of Technical Communications and Media Production at Metro State College of Denver is offering Adobe RoboHelp, Adobe FrameMaker and Adobe Captivate courses for Fall 2009. Enrolled students make take the courses for credit or adult learners may audit the course without credit. This "tech writer toolbox" collection is especially timely for those who want to improve their skills in this tight job market. John Daigle will teach Adobe RoboHelp and Adobe Captivate at the Metro South campus (DTC area) and Linda Gallagher of TechCom Plus will teach Adobe FrameMaker at the Auraria campus in downtown Denver.
The cost to take these courses for no credit is $350 per course. If you register for two or more courses, or if two or more employees from the same organization enroll in at least one of these courses, your cost for each course will be reduced to $325 per course. For more info, email John Daigle and download Professional "Toolbox" Classes (PDF). Adobe RoboHelp 8 and the Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 are released! |
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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 |
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
Adobe RoboHelp 8 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.
Cleaner code (die <kadov> die!) and more robust HTML Editor
Unicode support for 35 languages
Snippets and improved User Defined Variables for easy reuse of content
Windows Vista and Office 2007 support
Synonym Search, Search Highlighting and Breadcrumb Navigation
Much greater integration with FrameMaker and Adobe Captivate
Stay tuned in the coming days for many more screenshots and Adobe Captivate movies!
Adobe RoboHelp costars with Adobe Captivate - My new article on the Adobe Developer Center
Adobe Training Classes Scheduled:
Contact John Daigle for Certified Instruction in Adobe Captivate, Acrobat Connect Pro and RoboHelp.
Flash Video Interview with Silke Fleischer at MAX 2006 View (Flash Player 8)
The Content Wrangler has a great interview with RJ Jacquez, Senior Adobe Framemaker and RoboHelp evangelist.
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
Adobe Captivate 4 is officially released Read more
Macromedia Breeze Meeting is now Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional Read more
Captivate Users Group - Seattle Check out Mark Chrisman's new site
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.
Adobe RoboHelp Resources |
Adobe Captivate Resources |
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