Adobe RoboHelp 7 and the Adobe Technical Communication Suite have just been posted

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October 26, 2007
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Hi, folks.
The long-awaited Adobe RoboHelp 7 and the Adobe Technical Communications Suite have just been posted on the Adobe website. There are 30-day Trial versions that can be downloaded here:
http://www.adobe.com/ap/products/robohelp/

Follow the link that says "Download the trial". After you sign in, you can download either the RoboHelp 7 standalone release, or the Technical Communications Suite which contains these integrated products: RoboHelp 7, FrameMaker 8, Adobe Captivate 3 and Acrobat 3D.

If you or members of your team use both RoboHelp and FrameMaker, I'd strongly advise you take a look at Tech Comm Suite. It's more than simply a "bundle:" of products. There is real integration among the apps. Here are details:
http://www.adobe.com/ap/products/technicalcommunicationsuite/

For some screenshots and information, check out Peter Grainge's website
http://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/rh7/rh7.htm

I will also be posting some Adobe Captivate movies of the new interface on my website in the next day or two.
http://www.hypertexas.com

You can also read more on the Adobe Tech Comm Blog
http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/technical_communication/

These are exciting times. Two releases in one year! I don't think there's any doubt about Adobe's committment to RoboHelp now

Thanx,
John

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RoboColum_n_

Legend

Hi Kathy. First off it is "recommended" that you do not have the trial version on your production PC. Secondly you can load a RH6 project into RH7. Just make sure you have a backup. Can you go backwards? Well technically yes, if you delete the .CPD file, but why would you want to. Just be careful of RH7 specific features which will not work in RH6.

K

kmaddox1

Inspiring

Thanks. I don't exactly have two computers (i.e., production and non-production PCs) here at work, but I suppose I could download the trial at home. The reason I don't want to convert my RH6 projects just yet is if my company doesn't spring for the upgrade. Though I suppose I if "accidentally" converted my projects, they'd be forced to pay for upgrade, wouldn't they?!

It sounds like Benjamin's solution will work, especially if the s/w warns you when you open an RH6 project in RH7.

Thanks.

A

Anonymous

Kathy,

I have just been trying this. I installed RH7 on the same machine with RH6 with no problems--it did point out that RH6 was installed, but that didn't stop the RH7 installation. I made copies of a few different projects to open in RH7. It warned me that to open in RH7, it had to upgrade the project, which would then not be compatible with earlier versions.

I actually did run RH6 and the RH7 trial simultaneously with different projects. The two versions can run simultaneously. (RH7 pointed out some broken links I didn't know about in a project, so I fixed them in my RH6 project.) I just did a right-click on the .xpj file and went to "Open With" to make sure I was opening each project with the right RH version.

--Ben

K

kmaddox1

Inspiring

Cool. That's great news. But before I download any trials, I want to make sure I'm not going to screw up the projects that I'm working on. Especially since I can't guarantee -- until I test it and come up with a valid business case -- that my company will spring for the cost of upgrading my software.

(1) If you load a current (RH6) project into RH7, can you ever go back to RH6?
(2) If not, can you run RH6 and the trial of RH7 on the same machine? (not necessarily at the same time)

Thx.

A

Amebr-ke0mH4

Inspiring

Assuming this means the NDAs have finished now, can someone tell me if you can copy and paste individual table rows now? It's one of the annoying little things that's been bugging me for years.

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