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Providing technical writers and instructional designers with Adobe Certified Training in RoboHelp® and Captivate™ and Adobe Connect (formerly Macromedia Breeze).

News for November 2007

  • Adobe RoboHelp 7 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.

  • Adobe Technical Communications Suite announced - Read more

  • 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. 

  • New versions of Adobe Captivate and Framemaker released! 

  • Adobe RoboHelp 6 costars with Adobe Captivate 2 - My new article on the Adobe Developer Center

Classes Scheduled:

  • November 10 - New York City - Adobe RoboHelp class

  • November 28 - San Francisco - Adobe Robohelp 7 class

  • December - to be announced

  • More Breaking News: 

  • 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.

  • See Silke Fleischer's Adobe Captivate blog.

  • Rob Houser - has a new website. Check it out.

  • 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 RoboHelp 6 - released! Full details here

  • 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
    Upcoming Training Classes:

    • April 27 - RoboHelp 1 Day workshop for STC New York City chapter

    • May 13 to 16 - STC National Convention - Minneapolis . I'll present at two sessions 

  • My new website is www.showmethedemo.com . The site will show demos on how to use Adobe Captivate, RoboHelp and Acrobat Connect (Breeze)

  • Adobe Captivate 2 is officially released Read more

  • Macromedia Breeze Meeting is now Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional Read more

  • 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.

A must for any user of Adobe RoboHELP or Adobe Captivate:

Other popular and useful sites:

Microsoft Documentation: Main reference for MS HTML Help (.chm) format

Trends in MS Help formats: Trends in MS Help formats as well as practical tips for HTML Help, visit Rob Chandler's essential website - www.helpware.net 

For the archives: The Winhlp-L mailing list, has been shut down. Long a watering hole for the MS Windows online help community since February 1994, the 1,900 member listserv was created by George Byrnes (thanx, George!) and run from a server hosted (gratis) at Humber College in Ontario, Canada.  

 

In Memoriam: A long-time fellow RoboHelp instructor, Greg Cone passed away over the weekend. Someone ran a stop sign and killed his whole family. I often recommended Greg's fine articles on the Adobe DevCenter and he will be greatly missed. 


About HyperTexas | RoboHelp Resources | Captivate Resources | Website Development
www.showmethedemo.com | Society for Technical Communication | www.divetripreports.com