Join us at WritersUA in Memphis, Sunday, March 11

I'll be speaking at a special workshop at WritersUA and hope you can come say hello. There will be lots of useful info and free food, too! Meet with the Adobe Product Management team and share your experiences and feedback. Influence the future product roadmap. Catch industry stalwarts like Kevin Siegel, Alan Houser, Bernard Aschwanden, Beth Gerber, Joe Welinske, John Daigle, Matt Sullivan, Pam Harrison, Peter Grainge and, Rick Stone as they speak on trends in Help and Policy Authoring & Publishing.
Date: Sunday, March 11, 2012
Time: 8:00 am – 1:00 pm CST (with breakfast and lunch)
Venue: The Peabody Memphis, 149 Union Avenue, TN, USA

eSeminar: Best Practices for Working with Objects
in Adobe Captivate 5.5 - March 15

Description: Join John Daigle, Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn about the best practices of working with standard and interactive objects in Adobe Captivate 5.5. These objects include text captions, images, rollover images/captions/slidelets, animations, click boxes, buttons, and highlight boxes. They will also be sharing some quick tips on troubleshooting common issues you can face when working with objects in Adobe Captivate 5.5.

Free Registration Link: http://adobe.ly/zEFBGA

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.

Here is an archive of important bug fixes and updates for past versions available on the Robohelp update download page.
Have a new feature to request or a bug to report?
RoboHelp Wish Form/Bug Reporting Form

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

Peter Grainge's site, a comprehensive and well organized source for all things RoboHelp.
Rick Stone's RoboWizard site and his popular "Skinny on Skins" tips.
Colum McAndrew's blog - frequently updated with ancedotes and suggestions.
Adobe RoboHelp Forums - peer-to-peer resources operating 24/7 with answers from Adobe Community Expert volunteers. (John Daigle, Peter Grainge and Rick Stone)
Adobe Technical Communications blog - for current news from product managers and engineering staff on RoboHelp, FrameMaker and the Adobe Technical Communiation Suite.
RJ Jacquez elearning and Technical Communication Blog - Adobe's evangelist for RoboHelp, FrameMaker, Captivate and the entire eLearning Suite posts frequent tutorials. You can also Twitter him @RJacquez.
Bob Doyle who publishes the DITA Newsletter, explains the DITA features of Adobe TCS and how Adobe FrameMaker and Adobe RoboHelp are integrated to work with DITA.

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

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