Whither RoboHelp for FrameMaker, Adobe?

[Bill Swallow]

Not sure what happened to RH for FM but FM and RH are fairly
integrated in the TCS. I should get around to really using it to see
how it compares to WWeP.

Atlantis? I think it's in the Bahamas, but I hear it's overrated.

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Hedley Finger
<hfinger at handholding.com.au> wrote:
>
>  BlueSky turned into eHelp and developed RoboHelp for FrameMaker, an
>  intuitive GUI oriented converter to generate RoboHelp from original
>  FrameMaker files.  Then MacroMedia bought eHelp to get their hands on
>  Captivate, preserved RoboHelp (sort of) and dumped RoboHelp for
>  FrameMaker.  Then Adobe bought Macromedia and resurrected RoboHelp
>  (sort of) and strapped a bunch of incompatible and barely integrated
>  apps together into Adobe Technical Communications Suite.
>
>  So who finished up with the RoboHelp for FrameMaker source code and
>  why wasn't it resurrected for Adobe Technical Communications
>  Suite?  RoboHelp for FrameMaker was far better than the FM binary -->
>  MIF --> RoboHelp --> CHM, etc. as it allowed round tripping in a
>  fashion, i.e. if you saw something wrong in the help, you could
>  quickly fix it in FM and regenerate the help.
>
>  Did the Madcap people take the code for RoboHelp for FrameMaker with
>  them?  Did Adobe accidentally throw the master CD into the dump
>  bin?  Who knows, who can speculate baselessly, who can start a
>  paranoid hare running?
>
>  Next week:  Where is the location of Atlantis?

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