Useful Articles, Blogs and Suchlike

What's covered?

How often have you seen an article or a blog or some other useful piece of information but not been able to find it when you need it? Often I see a useful piece of information but cannot locate it when someone on the Adobe RoboHelp forum needs it. This page may help in those scenarios.

Working with RoboHelp
Autonumbering in RH8	Also see my RoboHelp Tour
ePublishing from RoboHelp 8	Recording of RJ Jacquez' eLearning session.
FlashHelp Skins - Creating your own	On the Adobe Developer Connection.
Getting RoboSource Control up and running.	John Daigle posted these links. Matthew Ellison's article http://www.adobe.com/devnet/robohelp/articles/robosource_print.html Adobe TechNote http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/511/cpsid_51159.html Captivate movie http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/511/cpsid_51163.html
Multi level lists in RH8	Also see my RoboHelp Tour
RoboHelp 8 - Using Scripting for Automating Tasks: A Practical Example	Recording of RJ Jacquez' eLearning session.
RoboHelp 8 - Using for Knowledge base and Policies and Procedures Solutions	Recording of RJ Jacquez' eLearning session.
RoboHelp 8 and DITA	Neil Perlin's blog.
Using RoboScreenCapture	On the Adobe Technical Communication blog.
RoboHelp 8 Video Tutorials	Various tutorials hosted by Adobe.
RoboWizard's Scrys	A whole bunch of short tutorials. Don't be put off by the date of some of them, they're still good.
Working with Technical Communication Suite
FrameMaker to RoboHelp - TCS2- Mapping and TOC Generation	From Ashish Gupta, one of Adobe's developers.
FrameMaker 9 User Interface	Recording of RJ Jacquez' eLearning session.
Web 2.0 Documentation using Adobe AIR and RoboHelp 8	Recording of RJ Jacquez' eLearning session.
Captivate 4 for new users	Recording of RJ Jacquez' eLearning session.
Converting FrameMaker's autonumbers to RoboHelp lists	Explains the pros and cons of each method.
Test drive TCS2	No need to download the suite.
RoboHelp 8 - Linking versus Importing Word and FrameMaker documents	Recording of RJ Jacquez' eLearning session.
Linking FrameMaker 9 books to RoboHelp 8	Two part tutorial by RJ Jacquez. 2 hours total.
The Essentials of Single Sourcing with FrameMaker and RoboHelp	A shorter version of the above. 14 minutes.
Help formats
Eclipse Help	On the Adobe Technical Communication blog.
Which is better, FlashHelp or WebHelp?	On Kevin Siegel's Iconlogic blog.
AIR Help
Adobe AIR for Technical Communicators	Recording of RJ Jacquez' eLearning session.
Adobe Community Help - Create a lookalike	Recording of RJ Jacquez' eLearning session.
Miscellaneous
PDF-based Documentation Reviews for Technical Communicators	Recording of RJ Jacquez' eLearning session.
Madcap's CSS Webinars	Download the slides or access the recordings.
Captivate 5 and eLearning Suite 2	A series of one hour demos.
Should I be authoring using XML?	This article is by Sarah O'Keefe and is titled "Managing technical communicators in an XML environment". It first sets out the scenarios for considering whether XML based authoring is appropriate without the usual pitch of "this is the only way forward". This makes it a useful article in helping you understand whether or not you should be using XML. Like DITA, it is the right thing for some scenarios and not others and it's refreshing to see a balanced approach. There are many other great posts on the Scriptorium site.
Questions to ask when starting a new project	A useful list from Ben Minson.

Topic Revisions

Date	Changes to this page
16 Dec 2009	New topic. I will not be updating Revisions as I add each item.