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FredWBrown
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October 4, 2010
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Developing Online Help for Mobile Applications

  • October 4, 2010
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My company is just starting to develop applications for mobile devices (cell phone, iPad

, etc.). Can anyone tell me whether RoboHelp is the best Adobe application for devel

oping online help for mobile devices or if some other application should be used? Thanks.

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    Jeff_Coatsworth
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    October 4, 2010

    RH's dev team has just released a script for publishing help in the ePub format (see http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2010/04/robohelp_script_to_generate_epub_format_content_for_mobile_d.html). But I haven't heard too much about anybody really using it much.

    FredWBrown
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    October 4, 2010

    Hi Jeff,

    Yes, I just happened to find that. Unfortunately, that script was developed for RoboHelp 8 and we are still using RoboHelp 7. Do you happen to know if it works with RoboHelp 7? Thanks.

    Regards, Fred W. Brown

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    Jeff_Coatsworth
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    October 4, 2010

    I highly doubt it - RH8 is XHTML output whereas RH7 was HTML based. From what I understand, ePub depends on an XML output. Have you tried out the demo of RH8?