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Zaid Al Hilali
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Zaid Al HilaliCommunity Expert
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July 19, 2023
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Arabic (RTL) and video help content

  • July 19, 2023
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I searched existing Robohelp community posts for an answer, I saw @Peter Grainge and @johndaigle answered quite few posts on the same.
A military client of ours wants to create user manuals in Arabic language, they're considering Adobe FrameMaker, Captivate and Robohelp. I know Adobe Captivate well and can answer our client technically, however, I need experts help on whether Robohelp do supports Arabic in latest versions (it didn't support it for long time), and whether Robohelp can provide as our client puts it "video help"? 

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    Correct answer Peter Grainge

    See the Project Settings.

     

    Also note this bit on the page you looked at.

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    My site www.grainge.org includes many free Authoring and RoboHelp resources that may be of help.

     

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    Peter Grainge
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    Peter GraingeCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    July 21, 2023

    See the Project Settings.

     

    Also note this bit on the page you looked at.

    ________________________________________________________

    My site www.grainge.org includes many free Authoring and RoboHelp resources that may be of help.

     

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    Zaid Al Hilali
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    July 24, 2023
    quote

    Also note this bit on the page you looked at.

    By @Peter Grainge

     

    I actually saw on your website the note marked in light blue above, however, I understood that it discussed FrameMaker, not RoboHelp.

    Peter Grainge
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    Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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    July 24, 2023

    The article was written for Classic versions when, as you can see, the process was a lot more complicated in RoboHelp. The bit about Fm was for users who had the whole Tech Comm Suite as they could use Fm instead of the process described.

     

    The bit in blue is to indicate that if you have the New UI versions, right to left is supported natively in RoboHelp.

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    My site www.grainge.org includes many free Authoring and RoboHelp resources that may be of help.

     

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      Jeff_Coatsworth
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      Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
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      July 19, 2023

      According to Peter's site (https://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/right2left/right2left.htm) RTL is supported, but I wasn't finding anything mentioned in newer versions. I know that Framemaker supports it & can create HTML5 help directly or via the RH import route.

      You may want to ping the RH folks directly - see https://helpx.adobe.com/contact/enterprise-support.other.html#robohelp for your Adobe Support options. I'd recommend using the tcssup@adobe.com e-mail address as it reaches a team dedicated to Technical Communication Suite products including RoboHelp.

        Zaid Al Hilali
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        Zaid Al HilaliCommunity ExpertAuthor
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        July 19, 2023

        Thanks Jeff for sharing Peter's web page with me. I went through the top of the page so far and saw Peter's recommendation to use Adobe FrameMaker as a content editor since FM supports RTL languages.

         

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