Review of Macromedias RoboHelp X5
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Review of Macromedia’s RoboHelp X5 by Adele Sommers, San Luis Obispo STC. April 14, 2004. 2. Why I Selected a Tutorial Project …
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Review of Macromedia’s RoboHelp X5 by Adele Sommers, San Luis Obispo STC April 14, 2004 1
Review of Macromedia’s RoboHelp X5
by Adele Sommers
San Luis Obispo Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC)
http://slostc.org
Help Authoring Systems Are Not Just for Creating Help
To evaluate RoboHelp X5, I selected a project involving a tutorial rather than a typical
Help system. I’m always looking for ways to make one tool serve multiple purposes
(perhaps another aspect of “single-sourcing”), so I was anxious to determine whether
X5 would work as well for tutorials and marketing presentations as I assumed it would
for Help systems. Since I’ve previously been able to undertake these types of projects
with Help authoring applications, I wanted to try at least one example for this review.
With any project, I prefer to have strong control over the look, feel, and navigability
of the final product. For this endeavor, the result also needed to perform well across
platforms and browsers, such as Macintosh OS 9, OS X, and Windows XP.
The tutorial I ultimately completed is called “Preparing a Project Plan,” which is now
part of the Best Practices Library…
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