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In my (previous) career as technical writer, I was an authority on Adobe RoboHelp. I have been an Adobe Community Professional for many years. This title is an acknowlegdement of my expertise by Adobe. My specialties in RoboHelp were scripting and HTML5. Rodrigo Juan Raval. Due to career choices, I no longer keep up to date with Adobe RoboHelp and I do not offer training an consultancy at this time.
Oct 02, 2018 Adobe RoboHelp is a program used for publishing help, policy, and knowledge base content. It is used by technical writers to create help files for a variety of applications. Unlike many Adobe products, RoboHelp is not part of the Creative Cloud. Adobe RoboHelp is a help authoring tool (HAT) developed and published by Adobe Inc. RoboHelp was created by Gen Kiyooka, and Blue Sky Software released version 1.0 in January 1992. Blue Sky Software was founded in 1990 and changed its name to eHelp Corporation on 4 April 2000.
Adobe RoboHelp is a help authoring tool (HAT) developed and published by Adobe Inc. RoboHelp was created by Gen Kiyooka, and Blue Sky Software released version 1.0 in January 1992. Blue Sky Software was founded in 1990 and changed its name to eHelp Corporation on 4 April 2000. New Features of Adobe RoboHelp - Introducing Adobe RoboHelp on Mac. Create future-ready content with micro content authoring and much more.
I used to be a regular contributer to different blogs. To keep my content available, I have moved my original content to Help Essentials. For a good overview, this pages offers a list of all my contributions:
- Adobe RoboHelp Development Center: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/robohelp.html
- HelpEssentials blog: https://www.helpessentials.com/author/willam/
- HelpEssentials overview of Webinars: https://www.helpessentials.com/2017/08/08/webinar-overview/
- IconLogic blog: http://iconlogic.blogs.com/weblog/adobe-robohelp/
- TechWhirl: https://techwhirl.com/author/willamvanweelden/
Robohelp Demo
Adobe RoboHelp Development Center
Posts and Articles on HelpEssentials
- Source Control in RoboHelp (overview of options and benefits of different source/version control systems)
Posts on the Logical Blog by IconLogic
Previous versions of RoboHelp have all had a specific name, RoboHelp 2015, RoboHelp 2017 and RoboHelp 2019 in recent years.
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Adobe introduced a new user interface in Adobe RoboHelp 2019. From this version onward, it will be known only as Adobe RoboHelp.
There will, of course, still be major releases and new features with updates in between but these will be identified by their version number rather than by their name. Going forward Adobe RoboHelp will be licensed on a subscription only model and the subscription will include all updates as they are released.
These topics will be updated from time to time but may not always be in sync with the latest product update. It is currently synced with 2020.2
What's In Adobe RoboHelp?
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The new and changed features in Adobe RoboHelp are highlighted in What's in Adobe RoboHelp and explained in this tour.
Users upgrading from a Classic version, you should also see the 2019 pages here.
Upgrading from 2019 to 2020
If you are upgrading from Adobe RoboHelp 2019 New UI to 2020, before you start work note the Import Settings option on the Starter Page. It allows you to import your settings into 2020.