Comments on: Review of Adobe RoboHelp 8: Improvements http://www.gryphonmountain.net/2009/03/review-of-adobe-robohelp-8-improvements/ Technical Communication and Other Writing Topics (by Ben Minson) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:26:49 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ben http://www.gryphonmountain.net/2009/03/review-of-adobe-robohelp-8-improvements/comment-page-1/#comment-21238 Ben Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:02:31 +0000 http://www.gryphonmountain.net/?p=352#comment-21238 Troy, good point. Dreamweaver does seem more current in HTML authoring standards. In RH, you can specify an external HTML editor, and I know that some people do use Dreamweaver. Perhaps the fact that Adobe hasn't more closely integrated the two is due partly to the fact that they picked up a bunch of products from Macromedia and are gradually settling into what they want to do with any redundancies. Troy, good point. Dreamweaver does seem more current in HTML authoring standards. In RH, you can specify an external HTML editor, and I know that some people do use Dreamweaver. Perhaps the fact that Adobe hasn’t more closely integrated the two is due partly to the fact that they picked up a bunch of products from Macromedia and are gradually settling into what they want to do with any redundancies.

]]> By: Troy http://www.gryphonmountain.net/2009/03/review-of-adobe-robohelp-8-improvements/comment-page-1/#comment-21207 Troy Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:27:46 +0000 http://www.gryphonmountain.net/?p=352#comment-21207 Since Macromedia and then Adobe became responsible for RoboHelp, I've wondered why RH doesn't become a Dreamweaver extension. It seems to me that DW and RH share many of the same features, so why couldn't Adobe simply use DW as their web authoring product, and then offer RH as a paid extension for DW? RoboHelp is so frustrating at times, I'd rather use DW for all coding and then use RH for single-source output, indexing, localization, etc. -- all the things that makes RH great. RH still seems like an after-though for Adobe. Since Macromedia and then Adobe became responsible for RoboHelp, I’ve wondered why RH doesn’t become a Dreamweaver extension. It seems to me that DW and RH share many of the same features, so why couldn’t Adobe simply use DW as their web authoring product, and then offer RH as a paid extension for DW?

RoboHelp is so frustrating at times, I’d rather use DW for all coding and then use RH for single-source output, indexing, localization, etc. — all the things that makes RH great. RH still seems like an after-though for Adobe.

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