From the monthly archives: September 2007
Integrated Toolkit for Technical Writers Includes Major Upgrade to RoboHelp
SAN JOSE, Calif. — September 25, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® Technical Communication Suite software, a first-of-a-kind, integrated solution for authoring, managing, and publishing technical information and training content across multiple formats and languages. Using the Adobe Technical Communication Suite, technical communicators and instructional designers can create powerful documentation, eLearning courses and user assistance programs containing both traditional text and graphics along with rich media, including Adobe Flash® Player compatible video and 3D.
The suite includes Adobe RoboHelp® 7, a major upgrade to Adobe’s help system and knowledge base authoring tool, as well as Adobe FrameMaker® 8, Adobe Captivate® 3 and Adobe Acrobat® 3D Version 8 software. Product and workflow integration and support for rich media formats — including Adobe Flash Player compatible video, SWF, MP3 and AVI files as well as industry standards, such as Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), XML and Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) — empower authors to deliver compelling information, save time and reduce discrepancies in content.
Continue Reading →FrameMaker 8 DOES make PDFs of Books, with or without cross-references.
What you need to do is to create the Acrobat settings to Generate Tagged PDF.
Until Adobe issues a patch to the first release of FrameMaker 8, use this technique to print a PDF version of a Frame book:
In the File > Print Book window, check Yes in the Generate Acrobat Data > PDF Setup… > Links > Generate Tagged PDF section.
Continue Reading →Sep. 10, 2007 – On August 24, 2007, I submitted an article to this forum that described problems encountered with Adobe’s technical support staff while trying to use RoboHelp 6 as a single source conversion tool. Specifically, I was using RoboHelp 6 to convert a Framemaker 7.2 book, and associated files, to FlashHelp/html. I still think Adobe’s technical support staff has serious problems, which in my opinion must be resolved at Adobe’s executive management level.
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