Features

Dive directly into XML code using the Code View. Exercise complete control over XML documents with a host of editing features, including customized toolbars, inline attribute editor, automated tracking of errors, Intelliprompt of attributes and elements, search using XPath, and advanced XSLT features.

Create a variety of transformation scenarios by applying pre-defined or customized XSLT to XML files. Execute these transformations using a range of JAXP-compliant processors, such as Xalan and Saxon. Define the scope of the transformation—a file, all files of a folder, DITA map or all children of a book.

Eliminate the need to browse through numerous lines of XML code. Use the XPath Pod to find your elements and automatically apply functions to them. Customize your query builder, get suggestions, define the scope of queries, use the history dropdown feature, and save search results for greater productivity.

Meet consistency and authoring needs as well as specific output requirements. Create customized information models with automatic generation of DITA 1.2 elements (such as titles, tables of content and indexes), page rounding and numbering. Easily publish DITA maps to various output formats.

Rapidly author interactive eLearning and HTML5-based mLearning content with Adobe Captivate® 6. Easily create product demos in HD, application simulations, and softskill and compliance training. Liven up courses with actors, themes, and interactive elements. Roundtrip with Microsoft PowerPoint 2010.

Utilize the advanced image-editing capabilities of Adobe Illustrator CS6 and easily design elaborate patterns. Generate vectors from images with ultimate accuracy, thanks to a new tracing engine. Create intricate, amazing art with tools that are simply and fundamentally fast.

Enhance your content with images using Adobe Photoshop*, high-impact, interactive Microsoft PowerPoint slides with Adobe Presenter, screen captures with Adobe RoboScreenCapture®, and demo videos with Adobe Captivate.

Focus on writing without bothering about page breaks and text formatting. Use the Author View to speed up content creation prior to customizing appearance and output.

Prepare your documentation for publishing and sharing with the user community. Use the WYSIWYG View to apply and modify styles, themes, and formats. Render your content as intended and see it as your users will.

Develop richer, more engaging technical content by adding a variety of high-impact multimedia features. Enjoy robust support for video content in MP4, FLV, and SWF formats. Customize videos by selecting posters and creating linksΩ with text, to play, pause, or jump.

Create a richer user experience when working with 3D graphics by linking them with relevant parts of a document. Enable users to switch between parts of 3D graphics and the associated descriptions by inserting bi-directional links. Play 3D animations by clicking on the text.

Create, save, and apply Object Styles to give your content a consistent look and feel. Apply a wide variety of predefined styles to objects such as images, anchored frames, graphic objects, text frames, text lines, and equations. Easily update properties and change the styles of multiple objects by applying Object Styles to them.

Usher in the future of publishing technical communication by delivering rich, interactive content virtually anywhere. Publish frameless, SEO-friendly, cross-browser, cross-platform multiscreen HTML5 output to a wide range of channels (such as mobile, web, desktops, and print) and screens (including tablets and smartphones).

Make your technical content available to users in the format they prefer. Publish to multiscreen HTML5, WebHelp, CHM, eBook (EPUB 3, Kindle Format 8), native mobile apps (iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows, Symbian), Adobe® AIR®, PDF, Microsoft® Word, Adobe FlashHelp®, JavaHelp, EclipseHelp, and OracleHelp for Java™.

Choose from out-of-the-box layouts for desktop, iPhone^#, iPad^#, Kindle Fire, and more, or define custom layouts and map them to screen profiles. Edit the topic style, content, and search features in each layout. Conveniently change styles using a toolbar. Preview pages to see how the layouts will appear.

Deliver content to smartphones, tablets, and eBook readers in EPUB 3, KF8 and Mobi formats. Publish to devices (such as iOS and Android™ smartphones and tablets, Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble NOOK™, Sony Reader™) and reader apps (such as Adobe® Digital Editions, Calibre, Aldiko, and iBooks)^.

Allow users to optimize each screen profile based on the size of the output screen by converting auto-size or text-only pop-ups to hyperlinks, changing absolute image and table sizes to relative sizes. Enable the pinch-to-zoom feature, and replace SWF content with Adobe Captivate HTML5 files on iOS devices.

Change the look and feel of your content depending on the output medium. Use the style pod to define and apply styles. View the media query sent to the CSS file and edit the CSS file as required. Choose the media view in your editor to view content as it will be rendered.

Optimize your multiscreen HTML5 content to render it more search-friendly. Help your users find relevant content faster by assigning a unique URL to each help page, using the metadata menu to define search keywords, linguistic synonyms, and stop lists.

See how your documentation will appear on a wide variety of devices, even as you develop it. Click just once on the toolbar to get a facsimile of the output rendered across different types of browsers and screens such as smartphones, tablets, and desktops.

Speed up XML authoring with a range of productivity features such as Intelliprompt of elements and attributes, template based structure suggestions, automatic insertion of end tags, dynamic validation, and pretty printing. Work faster with large XML/DITA files and DITA maps in multiauthoring environments.

Enable real-time collaborative content creation and increase productivity in multi-authoring environments. Experience superior performance when accessing RoboHelp projects from a shared location on enterprise networks. Manage assets across users and projects with Microsoft® SharePoint. Reuse shared assets and shrink time-to-market.

Smoothly integrate with best-of-breed CMSs like EMC Documentum and Microsoft SharePoint via built-in connectors, and others using third-party plug-ins. Get a set of APIs to connect your enterprise authoring environment with virtually any CMS. Improve searchability of content with custom metadata.

Author structured content faster. Convert unstructured content to a structured format with Smart Paste (Microsoft Word and Excel and HTML to DITA, and HTML tables to FrameMaker tables).

Use Quick Catalogs for single-click insertion of the entire linear tree hierarchy of an element and applying styles to paragraphs, characters, variables, and conditional text.

Participate in collaborative PDF-based roundtrip reviews using the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader or Acrobat Cloud. Share, aggregate and incorporate comments faster. Expand the scope of PDF-based reviews by filtering topics based on the Table of Contents, and including expanding and drop-down text.

Use a SharePoint document library to access source files for your enterprise projects and share PDF files for review. Publish a single continuous HTML page directly to SharePoint by combining SharePoint GUI features and RoboHelp topics. Teams can check files in or out and maintain history records.

Improve your review and rework experience by defining your own CBTs. Work more efficiently by filtering the content of your review PDF and importing the comments into the relevant topics, snippets, and master pages.

Easily merge and publish multiscreen HTML5 content developed across the enterprise. Efficiently integrate the content developed across the organization, infuse parent-child relationships, and create consolidated documents.

Enables rich real-time collaboration and editing in distributed multi-author multi-reviewer environments. Ensure faster time-to-market with improved capabilities to accept, reject, aggregate, sort, import, export comments during round-trip PDF reviews that make collaboration easier.