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Since 1993, the first website devoted to online help and hypertext development.
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www.showmethedemo.com | Society for Technical Communication

Meet you in Atlanta May 5 for Adobe Day at STC Summit

Free registration till May 1. I'll speak on Smoothing the Ride on the Mobile Documentation Highway

Sunday May 5th, 8AM to 1.30PM, Hyatt Regency Atlanta, GA (Free Networking Lunch)

Adobe Day has been a popular thought leadership and networking platform for many professionals for a while. Based on the feedback from Adobe Day at Chicago last year, we are back with another power packed half-day event where you meet, interact and also listen to some of the best known minds in the industry

So mark your calendar for an eventful day with the experts and Team Adobe! Meet with the Adobe Product Management team and share your experiences and feedback. Influence the future product roadmap.

Catch industry stalwarts like Bernard Aschwanden, Charles Corfield, John Daigle, Kevin Siegel, Mark Lewis, Rahel Baillie, Ray Gallon, Sarah O´Keefe, and Scott Abel, as they speak on trends in technical communication and content strategy. Enjoy the exclusive Adobe hospitality...while you learn, network, and grow!

My WritersUA Presentations now available as Streaming Video

In a major "first", Joe Welinske has just announced the 21st running of the WritersUA events are available for video streaming in a series of fast-paced, 30-minute sessions designed to provide you with a large amount of information in a short amount of time. Those sessions are now available as a package or individually.

These include two of my presentations:

  • Using- RoboHelp to Manage Reusable Content in a Multi-Author Environment
  • Integrating Captivate HTML5 Tutorials in RoboHelp 10 HTML5 Output

Just $5 per session or $100 for the whole set on TechTalks.tv.

Register for the Virtual Conference on TechTalks

New Adobe RoboHelp Product Manager, Vikram Verma

Vikram Verma is the new Adobe RoboHelp, RoboHelp Server and Adobe Technical Communication Suite product manager. Vikram takes over the product management responsibilities from Ankur Jain, who has moved on to another role within Adobe. I look forward to working with Vikram as he leads my favorite authoring tools through future development.

It was a pleasure to meet Vikram in person at this year's WritersUA conference. It was also good to meet Kapil Verma, Product Manager for Adobe FrameMaker and Parth Mukherjee, Product Marketing Manager for the Adobe Technical Communications Suite and Max Hoffman, Adobe Product Evangelist as well! Also joining the fray were my RoboHelp BFFs, Peter Grainge from London and Rick Stone from Kansas City.

Meanwhile, Vikram has a new blog post worth checking out regarding the HTML5 output of Adobe RoboHelp.

 

Tons of Multiscreen HTML5 support for mobile devices and tablets.

ADOBE® ROBOHELP® 10

Adobe® RoboHelp® 10 software is an easy-to-use authoring and multichannel, multiscreen HTML5 publishing solution. Deliver content to iPad# and other tablets, smartphones, and desktops using output formats such as multiscreen HTML5, WebHelp, CHM, Adobe® AIR® Help, PDF, eBook, and native mobile apps. Work in multi-author environments using next-generation collaboration and review features. Personalize and optimize content for relevance and search. Easily develop context-sensitive help with usability enhancements.

#Subject to Apple's current requirements and approval.

Publish to multiple channels, formats, and screens using multiscreen HTML5

Publish contemporary help content to virtually any device with multiscreen HTML5 and other popular formats. Make your publishing workflow highly extensible by simply specifying the screen size and layout. Optimize content display for a better reading experience, and preview it while authoring.

Easily author

Easily create and aggregate help content, ensure a consistent look-and-feel, and enjoy comprehensive support for popular industry standards. Reuse content, and benefit from authoring enhancements such as Search and Replace, multiscreen content previews, and User Defined Variables.

Read much more here:

 

Announcement:

I am "archiving" the HyperTexas website and asking my loyal visitors to go to my new sites:

I will be updating more frequently. Since 1993, I'm proud to have participated in the growth of the WWW and will devote more time to creating fresh and relevant content for both Adobe RoboHelp and Adobe Captivate at the new site. I wanted to keep this site up for archival purposes, so it will remain indefinitely.
Thanks!
John

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John Daigle offers onsite and "virtual" instructor-led classes in Adobe RoboHelp and Adobe Captivate

Students rave about our training classes! 
Here are verbatim comments from recent classes

Adobe Certified Training in:

  • Adobe RoboHelp 
  • Adobe Captivate 
  • Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional

For technical writers and instructional designers email John Daigle for special training class dates or arrange for your own onsite custom training.

Using Adobe RoboHelp Server 9 Analytics for Improving Content
Read about major improvements in latest release of Adobe RoboHelp Server 9 Reviewer's Guide.

Help Authors have long wanted to know: "Am I being helpful?" Adobe RoboHelp Server 9 helps answer that question.

Adobe RoboHelp Server is a powerful option used with the RoboHelp authoring tool. Join Adobe Partners and Experts for this interactive eSeminar to receive practical tips on how to configure and publish RoboHelp projects to the RoboHelp Server and to generate user feedback reports.

For more information contact John Daigle for an eSeminar. John is an Adobe Certified RoboHelp and Adobe Captivate instructor (Adobe Community Professional) and has consulted on Adobe RoboHelp Server since its inception.


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Adobe RoboHelp News
With thousands of authors around the world using RoboHelp in different environments, Adobe constantly gathers feedback in order to improve the way it works. Here are some items that will help you make sure your version of RoboHelp is working smoothly with the latest improvements.

RoboHelp tips and techniques are often contributed by my instructor/author colleagues. Here is a list of those resources:

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Featuring Adobe RoboHelp Sample Project

Clownfish School is a sample project that ships with Adobe RoboHelp 7. It is a demonstration of how RoboHelp can be used as an eLearning platform. Click here to view Clownfish School.
 

Check Rick Stone's new Goober Guides. Excellent Adobe RoboHelp tutorials.

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Announcing a  free Flare to RoboHelp converter

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

"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 
 

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Online user assistance info, links and references

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 Adobe® RoboHelp® 9 is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved
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About HyperTexas | RoboHelp Resources
www.showmethedemo.com | Society for Technical Communication