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Adobe RoboHelp 7

Easily create professional help systems and knowledge bases

Adobe RoboHelp 7 software provides the fastest and easiest way for technical communicators, help authoring professionals, and web developers to build, manage, and publish engaging content for help systems and standalone knowledge bases. Quickly single-source help content in a range of popular output formats, edit and create content in multiple languages, and customise content for different formats and purposes.

Adobe RoboHelp 7 software enables authors and technical communicators to author, manage, and publish compelling content for embedded help systems and standalone
knowledge bases in multiple languages and formats.

• Adobe RoboHelp 7 Comparison Chart
• Adobe RoboHelp 7 FAQ
• Adobe RoboHelp 7 System Requirements
• Adobe RoboHelp 7 Datasheet (pdf)
• Adobe RoboHelp 7 Reviewer's Guide (pdf)
• Adobe RoboHelp Server 7

Create engaging help content with ease
With RoboHelp 7 software, you don’t have to start from scratch. Leverage existing help projects or import content from HTML, XML, Adobe PDF, Adobe FrameMaker® software, and
Microsoft Word documents—RoboHelp splits properly tagged information into help topics and
keeps existing tables of contents, indexes, and glossaries. Author, edit, and spell-check content in multiple languages with new Unicode support. Work with automated wizards and topic templates to quickly build professional help systems and knowledge bases that incorporate standard and advanced help features, including
tables of contents, indexes, glossaries, graphics, sound, video, simulations, and breadcrumb navigation. Use the built-in screen capture and image editing tool to capture screens, edit screen shots, and export images to over 20 image file formats. Easily create context-sensitive help by linking your help system to your application.

Author once, publish many times
RoboHelp 7 supports powerful single-sourcing output. Generate multiple tables of contents and apply conditional tags to tables of contents, index items, folders, and topics to tailor output for specific formats or purposes. Then use batch processing to generate multiple online formats—including WebHelp, Adobe FlashHelp,® HTML, Compiled HTML Help, JavaHelp, Oracle Help for Java,™ and WinHelp—from the same source project.

Collaborate with other contributors
With RoboHelp 7, you don’t have to go it alone. Facilitate collaboration among multiple help authors with powerful content management features. Restrict file access to one user at a time to prevent overwrites. Stay organised and track document evolution with time and date stamps, file-editing histories, and automated file comparisons. At any time, roll back a document to a previous version with Adobe RoboSource Control.

Take your help online
Don’t just publish and forget about your web-based help systems and knowledge bases. Upgrade to Adobe RoboHelp Server 7 to extend and support the capabilities of RoboHelp 7. Deploy server-based WebHelp and FlashHelp projects. Develop help systems for use with the Microsoft .NET Framework, deploy and manage up-to-date online content, and control and monitor the use of web-based help systems and knowledge bases in real time through a web interface. View detailed usage reports that identify areas of your help system where users have difficulties—such as unanswered question reports—and then update your web-based help on the fly to resolve those issues, even after the release of your application.

Top features

• Unicode and translation workflow support (New)
• Customised workspace (New)
• Engaging user experiences (New)
• Support for FrameMaker 8 (New)
• True code HTML editor with no Kadov tags (Enhanced)
• Single sourcing (Enhanced)
• Snippets (New)
• User-defined variables (New)
• Microsoft Word 2007 and Microsoft® Windows Vista® support (New)
• Integration with Captivate (Enhanced)

RoboHelp FAQ

Q:What is Adobe RoboHelp?
A: Adobe RoboHelp 7 software provides a fast and easy way for technical communicators to build, manage, and publish professional help systems and knowledge bases. Create powerful, searchable help systems and knowledge bases for desktop and web-based applications that incorporate standard and advanced help features, including tables of contents, indexes, glossaries, context-sensitive help, graphics, Adobe Captivate® simulations, Adobe Flash® animations, sound, and more.

Q: What are the new features in RoboHelp 7?
A: RoboHelp 7 includes Unicode support, which enables you to edit and create content in many different languages; cleaner HTML handling, which eliminates the use of the Kadov tags required in earlier versions; MDI support so you can open multiple RoboHelp topics simultaneously during editing and easily drag and drop and copy and paste content between topics; improved MIF import, which enables you to import Adobe FrameMaker® 8 MIF files with default style mapping, conditional tags, user-defined variables, and Captivate content intact; an enhanced search feature that highlights search terms; breadcrumb navigation; multiple tables of contents; enhanced user-defined variables; improved integration with Captivate and RoboScreen Capture; updated true code editor for improved undo and redo operations; an updated user interface; and Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista® support.

Q: What are the new features in Adobe RoboHelp Server 7?
A: Adobe RoboHelp Server 7 software includes deployment improvements that make it easier to install and set up server-based features, Unicode support so you can publish help systems and knowledge bases in multiple languages for global audiences, and IPv6 support.

Q: What is the difference between Adobe FlashHelp® and FlashHelp Pro?
A: FlashHelp is a revolutionary help format that combines Flash and XML technologies to provide consistency across popular browsers and platforms. FlashHelp can easily be generated with RoboHelp 7 software, without any knowledge of the Flash authoring tool. FlashHelp Pro is the server-based version of FlashHelp available in RoboHelp 7. FlashHelp Pro enables authors to publish a help system based on Flash technology to RoboHelp Server 7.

Q: Does RoboHelp have international language support?
A: Yes, RoboHelp 7 supports Unicode, which enables you to author and edit help topics in many different languages. RoboHelp 7 can publish help systems in many languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Canadian French, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss German, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, and Vietnamese. RoboHelp 7 checks spelling, auto-corrects words, and creates a keyword index in any of these languages. The generated help system, including navigation, appears in the selected language. Full text search is also operational in any of the languages.

Q: Which authoring environment does RoboHelp 7 support other than the built-in HTML editor?
A: RoboHelp 7 supports Adobe Dreamweaver® CS3; Macromedia® Dreamweaver 8 from Adobe; Microsoft FrontPage 2003; HomeSite 5.5; and Microsoft Word 2007, Word 2003, Word 2002, and Word 2000.

Q: Does RoboHelp 7 integrate with FrameMaker?
A: You can import FrameMaker 8 MIF and FM files with style mapping, conditional tags, user-defined variables, and Captivate content intact. Additional RoboHelp 7 and FrameMaker integration can be experienced through new Adobe Technical Communication Suite software, which includes RoboHelp 7, FrameMaker 8, Captivate 3, and Adobe Acrobat® 3D Version 8 software.

Q: Can I import a project created in other help authoring tools (for example, AuthorIT, Component One, and Flare)?
A: You can import the final help system output but you cannot import the proprietary file formats from third-party authoring tools.

Q: I own an older version of RoboHelp. What is the upgrade policy?
A: If you own a license to any previous version of RoboHelp, RoboHelp Office, RoboHelp Office Pro, RoboHelp Office Pro for .NET, or RoboInfo, you can upgrade to Adobe RoboHelp 7. If you require the server functionality of RoboHelp Office Pro, RoboHelp Office Pro for .NET, or RoboEngine Connectivity Pack and own a license for any of these products, you can upgrade to RoboHelp Server 7. Alternatively you may can upgrade to Doc-To-Help for about half the cost.

System Requirements

Windows

• Intel® Pentium® 4 processor
• Microsoft® Windows Vista®, Windows® XP, or Windows 2000
• 256MB of RAM
• 800MB of available hard-disk space

Supported authoring environments

• Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3
• Macromedia® Dreamweaver 8 from Adobe
• Microsoft FrontPage 2003
• HomeSite 5.5
• Microsoft Word 2007, Word 2003, Word 2002, and Word 2000

Adobe® RoboHelp® Server 7

Enhance and extend online help systems and knowledge bases

Top Features in RoboHelp 7

• Unicode support (New)
• Synonym support (New)
• Report generation (Enhanced)
• Microsoft® Windows Vista™ support (New)
• Improved setup (Enhanced)
• IPv6 support (New)
• Synchronised publishing (Enhanced)
• Adobe FlashHelp® Pro and WebHelp Pro
• Remote administration
• Improved .NET support