ADOBE® ROBOHELP® 8
Innovative new features for online authors and their audiences
Adobe® RoboHelp® 8 software is a professional authoring tool for developing help systems, eLearning content, policies and procedures and knowledge bases.
Enhanced editing and layout capabilities - An easy to use visual editing environment makes it easy for authors to create standards-based, validated XHTML code.
Scalable Single Sourcing - From one single project, you can publish to multiple channels and audiences. Use batch processing to publish many formats including WebHelp, Adobe FlashHelp®, Compiled HTML Help, JavaHelp, Oracle Help for Java™ and WinHelp. Now, you can also publish as an Adobe AIR™ application.
Automation with built-in Scripting - Choose from provided scripts or create your own scripts with Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CS4 software (included in this release). For example, you can now add a dialog (User Interface) and add features and functions to the product which are customized to your workflow.
Multimedia eLearning platform - Include engaging interactive content such as PDF documents, FLV files, Adobe Captivate® show-me demos, and 3D models.
Robust end-user search functionality - Custom search keywords, synonyms, search context provided in results, exclude topics from search, search term highlighting, search rank, and ability to search text of MS® Office, Adobe PDF documents.
Now with support for Adobe AIR™ output format that has excited the help authoring community at international conferences such as the Society for Technical Communication, WritersUA and DocTrain as well as Tekom and the UA Conference in Europe and AOCD in Australia.
Adobe RoboHelp software’s product line includes Adobe RoboHelp 8 and Adobe RoboHelp Server 8 software (sold separately). Adobe RoboHelp 8 comes with these applications:
- Adobe RoboHelp 8 HTML
- Adobe RoboHelp 8 for Microsoft® Word
- Adobe RoboSource Control 3.1
- Adobe RoboScreenCapture 2.0
- Adobe PDF Creator Add-on 9
- Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CS4

The new user interface makes it easy to manage all of the assets typical of today's knowledge bases and online help. This includes a multiple document interface and very clean XHTML code with built-in W3C validation.
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