Adobe 65030083 - Technical Communication Suite Manual page 15

Scenario: Configuring PDF, Multiscreen HTML5 and eBook publishing
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Adobe Technical Communication Suite Reviewer's Guide
July 10, 2012
Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 gives you the simplicity of publishing
from a single application, the automation efficiency of turnkey publishing,
capabilities for rich control of automated publishing, and ability to create local
style overrides in output.
Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 was designed for the age of mobile
devices. Tablets. eBooks. Technical Communication and eLearning professionals
are expected to create and publish content on these devices, which have exploded
in popularity in just a few years. TCS4 leverages technologies like HTML5 and
thez EPUB file format to make this possible, while maintaining full support for
other file formats customers still expect, like PDF and Webhelp.
FrameMaker and RoboHelp have always been strong template-driven applications.
Authors apply styles as they write. These styles are the key to publishing your
content, legacy and new, to your choice of 17 different file formats, from either
Adobe FrameMaker or RoboHelp. We just need to do some configuration work
first.
The key to single-sourcing success is to map FrameMaker paragraph formats and
other objects to RoboHelp styles. This allows us to adjust and control our online
formatting and behaviors. For example, we may want to break up our online
output into topic chunks based on FrameMaker heading formats. We may want
different text formatting for online viewing. And we may want to remove page
numbers from online cross-references.
Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 uses Adobe Acrobat Distiller for
converting images from print to online formats. This ensures that any embedded
text in graphics is sharp and legible.
Here we have a RoboHelp project. Let's import a FrameMaker book. We will link
the book to the project, so that the RoboHelp project will automatically update to
reflect changes in the FrameMaker book.
When we link the FrameMaker book, RoboHelp scans the FrameMaker files and
creates an internal list of paragraph, character, table, and cross-reference formats.
We can link each of these formats to the appropriate RoboHelp style.
Now lets create our mappings. This process has become much simpler and more
efficient in Adobe Technical Suite 4. TCS4 provides the option of automatically
mapping equivalent paragraph, character, and table style names in FrameMaker
and RoboHelp. Let's first let RoboHelp do an auto-mapping.
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