Not sure what happened to RH for FM but FM and RH are fairly integrated in the TCS. I should get around to really using it to see how it compares to WWeP.
Atlantis? I think it's in the Bahamas, but I hear it's overrated. On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Hedley Finger <hfinger at handholding.com.au> wrote: > > BlueSky turned into eHelp and developed RoboHelp for FrameMaker, an > intuitive GUI oriented converter to generate RoboHelp from original > FrameMaker files. Then MacroMedia bought eHelp to get their hands on > Captivate, preserved RoboHelp (sort of) and dumped RoboHelp for > FrameMaker. Then Adobe bought Macromedia and resurrected RoboHelp > (sort of) and strapped a bunch of incompatible and barely integrated > apps together into Adobe Technical Communications Suite. > > So who finished up with the RoboHelp for FrameMaker source code and > why wasn't it resurrected for Adobe Technical Communications > Suite? RoboHelp for FrameMaker was far better than the FM binary --> > MIF --> RoboHelp --> CHM, etc. as it allowed round tripping in a > fashion, i.e. if you saw something wrong in the help, you could > quickly fix it in FM and regenerate the help. > > Did the Madcap people take the code for RoboHelp for FrameMaker with > them? Did Adobe accidentally throw the master CD into the dump > bin? Who knows, who can speculate baselessly, who can start a > paranoid hare running? > > Next week: Where is the location of Atlantis? -- Bill Swallow HATT List Owner WWP-Users List Owner Senior Member STC, TechValley Chapter STC Single-Sourcing SIG Manager http://techcommdood.blogspot.com