Adobe RoboHelp 11 gets much closer to online collaboration, without leaving the RoboHelp interface, and that’s a huge step in the right direction. In reality, it’s clumsy, hard-to-manage and fraught with risk from accidental overwrites and deletions. In my perfect world, real-time online collaboration is effortless. A Step Closer to True Online Collaboration
The toolbars are familiar standards, without the new supersize options available in the other TCS tools, but that’s not a big issue for me. The default workspace layout automatically opens all the most important work pods, and you can easily change which pods display, and go from tabbed to pop-out styles to fit the way you’re most comfortable working (this isn’t new to RH 11, but the combination of a soothing color scheme and flexible desktop layout is a happy result). The new color scheme really is easier on the eyes. Yes, like the other tools in the Technical Communication Suite, the RoboHelp team made some cosmetic changes that do in fact improve usability. Whether you’re ready to take HTML5 publishing head on, or your team is working with traditional outputs, RoboHelp is more versatile than ever. Adobe has listened to the needs of help authors, and has designed a more usable tool with superior collaboration features, and some nifty ways to easily publish all kinds of outputs from the same source. Happily, with the latest release of RoboHelp 11, Adobe has provided enhancements and new features actually designed to help today’s TWs finish the race.
The complex challenges of delivering useful content across so many platforms under so many conditions grow by the day it’s a horse race that never finishes.
A Trifecta of Usability, Collaboration and Publishing Workflow: What’s New in Adobe RoboHelp 11īeing a technical writer ain’t what it used to be, and more specifically, being a help author is far from what it was even a few years ago.
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