My name is RJ Jacquez and I’m the Product Evangelist for our new Adobe Technical Communication at Adobe and I wanted to chime in and let you know that even though we are no longer including WebWorks Publisher Standard Edition in the FrameMaker 8 box, you can still produce the same output you are accustomed to by using Quadralay’s full product called ePublisher.  Furthermore, you can also use Mif2Go from Omni Systems and of course the latest version of RoboHelp, included in the Adobe Technical Suite now handles FrameMaker documents natively, including FrameMaker books.  Hope this helps.

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone knows of and/or has links to information regarding RoboHelp Server 6. I’m particularly interested in the extent to which it handles support for Help in .NET applications. I simply can’t find any information on the subject other than simple variations on Adobe’s official product overview for RH Server 6.

I certainly hear what you are saying. I think it’s difficult to break habits, including the use of authoring tools. It’s likely a comfort factor…as moving authors from unstructured FrameMaker to structured XML authoring can be scary. Perhaps it’s the print paradigm we’re used to….perhaps it’s the WYSIWYG approach. Either way, it’s safe to say that overcoming style issues are often an impediment to moving toward—especially when there are confusing terms in the mix (DTDs vs EDDs, for instance).

Thanks for sharing your experience at the Adobe session. We appreciate it.

Scott Abel

TheContentWrangler.com

I have a certain amount of irrational resentment toward Frame already. My career-long Frame-using coworkers are so indoctrinated that I’m having a difficult time shifting their paradigm. When I talk about separating content from presentation, they look at me like I’m speaking a different language.

So, when RJ told someone in the audience that EDDs were better than DTDs because the lack of formatting rules is a deficiency of the DTD, I was ready to start chucking tomatoes. Thankfully, there weren’t any tomatoes, just some lovely deli sandwiches, and I wasn’t about to let those go to waste.