RoboHelp localisation: As easy as eins, zwei, drei
In the past I’ve looked upon the need to author in different languages from a distance. It was just not something we were ever very likely to do. It is not that we don’t have clients abroad. We do and they speak a wide variety of different languages. It is just that as they are mostly highly educated individuals, they speak pretty good English.
Guess what I’ll be doing this weekend?
Back in March I posted about my Single Sourcing Challenge using FrameMaker. It wasn’t rocket science. I happened to overhear our Trainers talking about updating one of their course handouts and having to ensure their edits were copied into multiple books. This sounded just plain wrong so I couldn’t help but get involved. There had to be a better way of working. Read more 
RoboHelp Server report title mapping
One of the major changes in Adobe RoboHelp 9 is in the area of reporting. All the reports have undergone a major overhaul, but not just on their look and feel. Most have also been renamed to make the titles more intuitive. Now if, like me, you occasionally find yourself getting confused between the old and new report titles, help is at hand in the form of the table below. Read more
Verifying a PDF/A file’s compatibility
Until fairly recently we and our customers have been comfortable with the production of plain old PDFs from our application. Now we have won business with a large client that requires the option of generating PDF/A compliant PDFs. No problem as our developers were on the case in a flash. With a test PDF generated the real problem was how to check its compatibility. The major issue for the developers is that compatibility cannot be checked using Acrobat Reader. Likewise the print driver inside the application. It was time to bring in the big gun, Adobe Acrobat Professional. Now guess who had a license?
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A future proof RoboHelp Server installation
One of the major pluses of Adobe RoboHelp Server is the ease with which it can be used. It is installed with everything you need to publish your Adobe RoboHelp output. This includes a “RoboHelp” context that acts as a portal for your output. Just publish and access the help via a URL. Easy!
