RoboHelp Archives - WritePoint

Introducing Adobe’s Technical Communication Suite 2017

A new software release is always exciting. It comes with a promise that features you've been wanting might have been included. Problems (okay bugs) have hopefully been fixed. Sometimes, it even comes with more than you imagined. Today, Adobe announced the release of its latest Technical Communication Suite - Release 2017 (TCS 2017). TCS 2017 is especially exciting for us because it will have its premier debut at MEGAComm, Israel's annual conference for technical writers and marcom professionals!…

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January 31, 2017

Technical Writing

Enabling Users Dynamically

As a long-time RoboHelp user, I have to say one of the best features for end-users that Adobe has rolled out in recent years is the Dynamic Content Filters option. In many ways, past versions of RoboHelp and most help authoring products have focused on helping the help author rather than the help user. Great features have been added over the years - enhanced reviewing capabilities, improved help-to-print output, exciting new deliverables for mobile and HTML5 outputs, and much…

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September 5, 2016

Help Authoring / Technical Writing

Happy Birthday, RoboHelp!

You may not be aware of this and you certainly will be forgiven if you didn't know, but - Adobe is celebrating RoboHelp's 20th year in existence. I know. Really, I do - it isn't nearly as earth-shattering an anniversary as a child's birthday or a 20th wedding anniversary, but still, it is an important moment for many of us. My first experience with RoboHelp was in 1993, as a new immigrant to Israel. I was asked if…

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December 6, 2011

Tools

Looking at Software We Use

I want to try to start a regular addition to the blog - evaluating software that we technical writers use. I'd like to invite you to write a guest post on a tool you find to be especially useful. I've been using Flare as an option for creating online help for many versions. WritePoint remains relatively vendor-neutral. What that means is that we evaluate a lot of tools (not all, but quite a few) on a regular basis…

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June 16, 2011