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September 28, 2021
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What tools does Adobe use to create and deploy the online User Guides?

  • September 28, 2021
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Hi guys, do you know what tools Adobe are using to create and deploy the online User Guides? For example, here is the Illustrator User Guide page. https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/whats-new.html

 

I'm interested in buying the tools to create and post our Online User Guides.

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    Community Manager
    September 28, 2021

    To confirm what Peter and Amebr already mentioned, we are using Adobe Experience Manger for all our websites. For many – althought not yet all as far as I know – HELPX sites, the content is managed in XML Documentation for Adobe Experience Manager, our DITA CCMS.

    John Waller
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    September 28, 2021

    Thanks. I learn something new every day.

    Peter Grainge
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    September 28, 2021

    I have learned that AEM is also used to create the content. The answer to @shufang5C51 is thus AEM. As I said, unless your organisation already uses it for other reasons, I believe it will be prohibitively expensive just to produced guides. Check it out to be sure.

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    Participant
    September 28, 2021

    Thank you! This is very helpful!

    Peter Grainge
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    September 28, 2021

    @Amebr No worries, at least we are on the same hymn sheet. 🙂

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    Community Expert
    September 28, 2021

    Oh, hi Peter, I didn't see you standing there. 😛

    Community Expert
    September 28, 2021

    I think they use Adobe Experience Manager for the help. The ability to publish to Adobe Experience Manager from Robohelp has only just been added in the most recent patch of RH2020 (update 6). I don't know how they produce the help for all their products, but I don't believe they use Robohelp.

    Peter Grainge
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    September 28, 2021

    Surprisingly they do not use RoboHelp. I don't know what they use to create the text, other than not being RoboHelp.

     

    I believe the help for RoboHelp ends up in Adobe Experience Manager along with the help created by other teams for the other products. AEM is an enterprise level product so unless your organisation is already using it, the cost will not be realistic just to output the user guides.

     

    Unfortunately for you, their is no easy Illustrator to RoboHelp path.

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    John Waller
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    September 28, 2021

    @Peter Grainge wrote:

    Surprisingly they do not use RoboHelp. 

     



    Yes, it was a surprise to me. Good to learn it's AEM.

    John Waller
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    September 28, 2021

    I assume they use RoboHelp, their own Help Authoring Tool.

    https://www.adobe.com/products/robohelp.html

    Participant
    September 28, 2021

    Thank you!

     

    My original content was created by Illustrator, and the file is getting huge and complicated over the years. Can I easily convert my Illustrator file into RoboHelp format?