Another novel about technical writers

[sharonelaine at juno.com]

According to Adobe's web-site, Robohelp is compatible with Word 2007. Is that not the case?

Sharon Williams


David,
We switched to Flare because RoboHelp is not compatible with Word 2007, and, from what I've read, Adobe has no plans to make it compatible. I've been trying to find the time to learn all the features in Flare. Still using RoboHelp in the interim.
 
Sue DeMar
----- Original Message ----- 
From: David A. McMurrey 
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Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 5:56 PM
Subject: [stc-austin-general] Another novel about technical writers


Still Life with Husband -- Lauren Fox (wife bored with boring tech writer
dumps him but comes to regret it)

Hey. In the Business & Technical Communication program at ACC, we are
trying to decide which online-help software tool we should standardize on.

For ten years or so, it's been RoboHelp. Should we continue with the new
release from Adobe? We can't afford more than one such application.

In the past, Robo seemed like the NAME that employers recognized and
demanded in job posts. Therefore, we wanted our students to use it for
projects in our classes to increase their employment chances.

Is that still the case?

Given our tiny budget, I'd be delighted to use a free or less-expensive
tool; however, we want students to get serious exposure and portfolio
items related to the most in-demand tool.

And, yes, I know that Mary is an advocate of AuthorIT and Leah an advocate
of Help & Manual. However, our experience with MadCap Flare at ACC has
been very bad.

Thanks!

-- David McMurrey