Accessibility

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Highly customizable user interface and environments
  3. Localized versions and full Unicode support for 35 languages
  4. Enhanced FrameMaker file import
  5. New RoboHelp HTML Editor and "coder-friendly" features
  6. Snippets and content reuse: "create once, use often"
  7. Cross-product integration with Adobe Technical Communication Suite applications
  8. Better end-user search and navigation experience
  9. Other Adobe RoboHelp 7 enhancements
  10. Office 2007 and Windows Vista Support
  11. User feedback reports with Adobe RoboHelp Server 7

What's new in Adobe RoboHelp 7

Highly customizable user interface and environments

Pods that you can doc, toolbars, menus, and keyboard shortcuts are all customizable and work the way you want. Easily copy/paste and edit across multiple topics in a tiled arrangement (see Figure 1). Then, save your workspace environment for different projects. Quickly remove the clutter of unused interface items to focus on the work at hand.

For example, when authoring, you may want fewer items showing, for a less cluttered view, whereas when you are doing a language translation or creating a table of contents, having several items open to be able to drag and drop elements from each is a more convenient workflow.

The RoboHelp user interface can tile the main elements of your project to help you drag and drop across topics, TOCs, and more.

Figure 1. The RoboHelp user interface can tile the main elements of your project to help you drag and drop across topics, TOCs, and more.

The Project Manager

RoboHelp's strength has always been its ability to help the author keep track of the many assets in a given project. The author can see a "minimalist" view of HTML topics only, or toggle to a full-width rich information view that is parallel to the information found in the Windows Explorer (see Figure 2). Project file details show:

  • HTML files (topics)
  • Images such as screen shots, drawings and photographs
  • Multimedia such as sounds and Flash animations
  • Style sheets to help manage CSS styles
  • Baggage files to store non-HTML files such as JavaScript, PDF, Word, Excel, and other files

The Project Manager now toggles to show two views to filter the amount of information you want to see. The image on the far right shows how the new view is parallel to the project's information found in Windows Explorer.

Figure 2. The Project Manager now toggles to show two views to filter the amount of information you want to see. The image on the far right shows how the new view is parallel to the project's information found in Windows Explorer.

Customizable toolbars, menus and keyboard shortcuts

New to this release is the ability to:

  • Create customized toolbars (see Figure 3)
  • Change the name of a menu and divide its options into groups
  • Assign custom keyboard shortcuts

The Customize dialog box makes it easy to create your own toolbars and keyboard shortcuts.

Figure 3. The Customize dialog box makes it easy to create your own toolbars and keyboard shortcuts.

Multiple document interface

RoboHelp 7 allows you to open up multiple topics in the Doc Pad and view each topic in either the Design Editor or HTML Editor. You can work on multiple topics without saving your work. You can copy and paste text from one topic to another or, even better, just select, drag and drop text that you want to copy.

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