Please email John for special class dates or arrange for your own on site custom training.

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:

• Adobe Developer Network RoboHELP

• Adobe Developer Network Captivate

• Adobe Product Forums: RoboHelp and Captivate 

Other popular and useful sites:

• Peter Grainge's excellent site - www.grainge.org

• Rick Stone - www.robowizard.com

• David Locke - www.wordsmith.net

• Rob Houser - www.userassistance.com

• Char James-Tanny - www.hat-matrix.com 

• Neil Perlin - www.hyperword.com

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

• Adobe Developer Network RoboHELP Community

• Adobe Developer Network Captivate Community

Other popular and useful sites:

• Download the updated Context Sensitive WebHelp slide presentation from the Winwriters Online Help Conference.

• RoboHTML Tutorials for Merging .CHM files, adding Flash and Opening Word Docs from a CHM.

• David Liske, Rob Chandler have created shell application viewers for MS Help 2.0.

• Download David Liske's HTML Help tutorial (554KB)

• RoboHTML fixes for Internet Explorer 6 and other service releases.

• Microsoft Help 2.0 beta release postponed. :-(

• David Liske, Rob Chandler have created shell application viewers for the alpha release of MS Help 2.0.

• Download David Liske's HTML Help tutorial (554KB), with focus on use with Visual Basic.
• Proof of Bill Meisheid's stature in the Winhelp world.