Adobe RoboHelp Office 9 (Win) Upgrade from RoboHelp 8

Adobe RoboHelp 9 software is an easy-to-use solution for technical communicators to author, collaborate, personalize, and optimize content for help systems, policies and procedures, and professional knowledgebases for multichannel, multidevice publishing. Save time with collaborative reviews, reusable assets, and dynamic user-centric content. Boost participation with user-generated content and moderated or stored commenting.

• Author professional help systems and knowledgebases -- Create interactive help systems, policies and procedures, knowledgebases, and eLearning modules. Take advantage of multidevice, multichannel publishing options, including Microsoft Word 2010, WebHelp, XML, CHM/HTML Help, Print (Adobe PDF, DOCX, DOC), Adobe AIR, electronic publication (EPUB), and others, as well as online or offline publication mode, across the latest browsers and platforms. Save time and help ensure standardization with reusable resources that are simultaneously updated across projects/coauthors. Improve interactivity and user involvement with new features like Adobe AIR Help Skin Editor, topic ratings, and comments that can be stored on the web.
• Streamline your workflow -- Quickly and easily set up a peer-to-peer, author-to-user, or author-to-SME review using Adobe Acrobat software, email, shared location, or Adobe PDF collaboration features. Speed up help development with reusable assets like pristine imagery. Engage users with rich, interactive multimedia features by including external web content, enabling moderated commenting in Adobe AIR Help, and storing comments on the web. Exercise tighter control over content with increased administrative powers.
• Create personalized content -- Generate personalized help content for users with dynamic user-centric content features. Boost participation by enabling community-authored content, and interactive Web 2.0 output options. Use analytical reports to optimize your content based on frequency and usage patterns, search terms, and corresponding success rates.
• Enjoy full support for multidevice and multichannel publishing -- Make your content more easily accessible to users by publishing in multiple formats, including WebHelp, XML, CHM/HTML Help, Print (Adobe PDF, DOCX, DOC), Adobe AIR, EPUB, and others. Easily distribute your content to mobile devices, eBook readers, and tablets using ePublishing features.

TOP FEATURES

• Moderation and storage of comments: Enable topic ratings, and public and private comments. Configure and moderate comments, or store outside the network via an Adobe AIR application.
• Adobe AIR reviews: Export your Adobe RoboHelp software project as an Adobe AIR application for email-based or online reviews. Combine and manage comments from multiple reviewers into a single file.
• Live link support for Microsoft Word files: Import multiple Word files simultaneously, along with indexes, glossaries, and tables of contents. Easily map Word styles to Adobe RoboHelp styles. Repurpose Word content for HTML on import, and use markers to identify context-sensitive help topics.
• Scripting and automation support: Use new scripting features to generate custom reports, automate frequently used workflows, and even extend the functionality of Adobe RoboHelp software. Take advantage of command-line support, an easy-to-use script management interface, and script-editing and debugging tools.
• Enhanced templates: Take advantage of enhanced support for master pages as well as advanced interface features such as breadcrumbs, mini tables of contents, and "see also" references.
• Adobe Captivate integration: Easily integrate Adobe Captivate show-me demos and how-to illustrations with your help files.
• Adobe RoboScreenCapture utility: Take screen captures, edit screenshots, and export images to more than 20 image file formats with Adobe RoboScreenCapture.
• Adobe RoboSource Control: Use the built-in Adobe RoboSource Control application (or a third-party software version control application) to collaborate on projects. Restrict file access, view complete document histories, roll back to previous versions, and compare two versions of a file.
• Adobe RoboHelp Server 9: Deploy and manage the latest online content, and control and monitor the use of web-based help systems and knowledgebases in real time through a web interface. Gain valuable insight from customizable feedback reports on usage patterns, topics, search terms, and OS analytics.

NEW FEATURES

• List and Table styles: Work with a completely enhanced CSS Style Editor that allows you to define and edit List and Table styles.
• Next-generation collaboration and review workflows: Collaborate with authors, subject matter experts (SMEs), and end-users using Adobe RoboHelp advanced PDF shared reviews, live linking of shared resources, moderation-enabled commenting workflows in Adobe AIR Help, topic-rating and other multi-author environment capabilities.
• Dynamic user-centric content: Improve the end-user experience by enabling personalized filtering of content. Author content once and deliver personalized and accurate content that is dynamically filtered based on users' role, department, geography, products, operating system, or any other parameter specified by the author.
• Shared reusable resources: Save time and boost productivity by reusing assets across authors and projects. Maintain consistency and conform to organizational and industry standards using linked resources that can be up updated simultaneously.
• User-generated content: Enrich the quality of your content by adding Web 2.0 interactivity with enhanced Adobe AIR Help features that empower users to add comments and feedback, and generate relevant content independently.
• Content Curation and moderation enabled commenting: Enable topic ratings, and public and private comments. Configure and moderate comments; store them on corporate network or on web via an Adobe AIR application.
• External web/user-generated content support: Create rich, interactive help content by providing access to external web content (Google search, blogs, wikis, forums etc.) alongside the authoritative documentation --just specify or preselect search metadata while authoring.
• Adobe AIR Help skin editor: Achieve a more professional look by changing colors, styles, icons, and fonts to match company branding and other specifications with the brand new Adobe AIR Help Skin Editor.
• Browser, platform, and device support: Stay up to date with support for the latest browsers, platforms, and devices (eBook readers, mobile devices, tablet PCs, and more), and import from or output to Microsoft Word 2010 documents.
• Automated context-sensitive help (CSH) authoring: Speed up development time with automated context-sensitive help authoring, improved Map ID, and live linking--no manually matching items or programming required.
• Publish to SharePoint: Publish RoboHelp output to SharePoint site using Universal Naming Convention (UNC path).
• Multichannel and multidevice publishing: Leverage the multichannel publishing versatility of Adobe RoboHelp 9 software to distribute your output in WebHelp, XML, CHM/HTML Help, Print (Adobe PDF, .docx, .doc), Adobe AIR, electronic publication (EPUB), and others. Easily distribute your content to mobile devices, eBook readers, and tablets using ePublishing features.
• Optimize value of your content using advanced analytics: Gain valuable insight into usage patterns to better meet user needs with customizable Adobe RoboHelp Server 9 software feedback reports. Leverage advanced reporting capabilities to import usage data on topics, search terms, OS analytics, browsing patterns, and more.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Windows

• Intel Pentium 4
• Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 3, Windows Vista with Service Pack 2 or Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit)
• 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
• 1.2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on flash-based storage devices)
• DVD-ROM drive
• 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
• In Adobe RoboHelp 9, users will be required to activate the product one time via the Internet within 30 days of serialization. This is required for retail, education, and volume licensing customers worldwide. Once the product is purchased and installed, online product activation is mandatory within 30 days from installation. Activation is by internet only. Without activation, the product will be usable for up to, but not beyond, 30 days.

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