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Adobe 65030083 - Technical Communication Suite Manual

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ADOBE® TECHNICAL
COMMUNICATION SUITE 4
Extend the frontiers of technical content creation and
consumption
Contents:
Suite 4? ........................... 8
Publishing Capabilities
with Best-in-Class Tools13
to Mobile Devices....... 18
Publish Native Mobile
Applications ................ 22
Author and Publish
Standards-Compliant
Content ........................ 10
Enjoy Flexible and
Powerful Graphics
Workflows ................... 23
Content ........................ 25
Cloud-Based
Collaborative Reviews 26
Improve Efficiency
Through Scripting
Automation ................. 27
28
Version Comparison
Chart ............................ 29
Pricing.......................... 32
July 10, 2012
Technical communicators have always been
tasked with providing documentation,
instructions, and eLearning that is usable,
accurate, and complete. Quality technical
documentation is an important component of
any product or service that requires
instructions for use. These products and
services pervade modern life - software,
hardware, medical devices, transportation
systems, consumer products, to name a few.
Many organizations depend on
well-documented policies and procedures that
must be consistently followed and
enforced.
Now technical communicators are in a
world of rapidly-changing options for content delivery and consumption . Tablet
computers and mobile devices are exploding in
popularity. eBook readers continue to gain market
share. A mobile revolution is making a fundamental
shift in the way content is consumed. Customers
expect to access technical communication and
eLearning content in the right format, on any device.
Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 is
designed for this new world of content: provides a
complete authoring and publishing solution to
multiple channels, file formats, and devices with
best-in-class applications for all your needs.
Reviewer's Guide
Adobe Technical
Communication Suite 4
combines the full new
versions of:
• Adobe FrameMaker® 11
• Adobe RoboHelp® 10
• Adobe Captivate® 6
• Adobe Illustrator® CS6
• Adobe Acrobat® X Pro
• Adobe® Presenter 8
Plus:
• RoboScreen Capture
• RoboSource Control
• Adobe Bridge CS6

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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    Through Scripting • Adobe Captivate® 6 Automation ....27 • Adobe Illustrator® CS6 Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 is Other Learning Resources • Adobe Acrobat® X Pro designed for this new world of content: provides a • Adobe® Presenter 8 complete authoring and publishing solution to System Requirements.
  • Page 2 If you are new to the Adobe® Technical Communication Suite 4, you will discover a powerful, integrated toolkit with single-source authoring, rich multimedia integration, and multichannel, Multiscreen HTML5 publishing capabilities. Create standards-compliant XML/DITA content natively with Adobe FrameMaker® 11. Publish virtually anywhere using Adobe RoboHelp® 10. Deliver engaging, interactive content with graphics, demos, and more using Adobe Illustrator®...
  • Page 3 PowerPoint content. The quizzing, skinning, and publishing features in Presenter are so similar to what I know in Adobe Captivate, I didn’t even need help getting started. ” Matt Sullivan, Independent Adobe Certified Instructor Adobe Technical Communication Suite Reviewer’s Guide...
  • Page 4 Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 Customer Testimonials “I have clients requiring both PDF and online Help output. Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 allows them to single-source the content and automatically update all necessary role-based outputs from one place. Now that Adobe Technical Communication Suite creates HTML5 output, my clients can expand their reach to push content to all mobile devices.
  • Page 5 • Create and manage graphics with annotations and call-outs. • Publish 3D and Adobe Flash® Player compatible content in PDF and online formats. • Improve workgroup efficiency by sharing publishing configuration settings among multiple authors. • Improve the efficiency of the review and approval process. Import PDF comments into FrameMaker or RoboHelp.
  • Page 6 Adobe Captivate 6: Adobe Captivate 6 software helps you rapidly author a wide New! range of interactive eLearning and HTML5-based mobile learning content. Easily create product demos in HD, application simulations, and soft skill and compliance training. Add quizzes, and deliver content to virtually any device.

  • Page 7: About This Guide

    Adobe® Bridge CS6: Adobe® Bridge CS6 is a powerful media manager. Available in all Adobe Creative Suite® 6 software editions and in most of Adobe’s professional creative products, Adobe Bridge provides centralized access to all your creative assets.

  • Page 8: Who Should Use Adobe Technical Communication

    • Enjoy greater efficiencies through application automation and scripting Who Should Use Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4? Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 provides powerful capabilities to: Technical communicators, information architects, designers, developers, web developers, and other complex documentation specialists Authors of complex, topic-based, structured (XML, DITA, S1000D) or unstructured technical documentation who want to easily write, review, and publish content for mobile, web, desktop, and print.
  • Page 9 They are looking for an authoring and publishing tool that is comprehensive but easy to use, and integrates with specialist tools like Adobe® Captivate®. They need to develop and maintain instructionally sound eLearning courses that integrate with Learning Management Systems.
  • Page 10 “all-XML” input. Unfortunately, converting legacy content to XML is typically time-consuming and expensive. With Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4, you can combine DITA and non-DITA content in your workflows. You can migrate your content at your own pace, and use your own judgment about what content to migrate and what content to leave in legacy formats.

  • Page 11: Suite 4

    DITA content. • Combine DITA and non-DITA content in FrameMaker and RoboHelp. • Publish DITA to all output formats from Adobe FrameMaker 11. • Publish DITA directly to online formats through Adobe RoboHelp. New! New! •...
  • Page 12 Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 provides a complete, flexible solution for authoring and publishing DITA content, on the desktop, leveraging existing skill sets. For an overview of DITA topic and map authoring in FrameMaker 11, see the Adobe FrameMaker Reviewer’s Guide.

  • Page 13: Use Rich Single-Source

    Live-Link, introduced with the first Adobe Technical Communication Suite, allowed authors to link to FrameMaker documents from RoboHelp projects, to benefit from the capabilities of both tools. Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 continues to improve this integration, providing FrameMaker authors with direct access to Multiscreen HTML5 and eBook formats.
  • Page 14 Let’s look at how Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 supports single-source, turnkey publishing to multiple devices. Here we have a software technical manual. In Adobe FrameMaker 11, we can generate PDF (show “Save as PDF menu”). New in Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4, we can invoke publishing to multiple devices from FrameMaker (show “File>Publish”...
  • Page 15 Scenario: Configuring PDF, Multiscreen HTML5 and eBook publishing 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.

  • Page 16: Author And Publish Rich

    We can export our settings to an ISF file. This will allow us to re-use these mappings over and over. We can share the ISF file and RoboHelp project file with other writers who are using Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4. This will allow them to generate output for other devices directly from Adobe FrameMaker, without going into RoboHelp.

  • Page 17: Multimedia Content

    3D, graphics, audio, video, multimedia, and interactive content in your publishing workflows. Rich Media Publishing Capabilities of Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 Rich media opens opportunities to provide various types of content within your documentation. You can even combine various media types to create documentation that users don’t only just read, but watch, listen to, and interact...
  • Page 18 Try It!: Exploring Multimedia Integration Let’s look at the expanded multimedia support in Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4. Setting a poster file • Choose File>Import. Select a multimedia file. • Right-click the multimedia image. • Choose Set Poster. • Play the video to find a pleasing poster frame.

  • Page 19: Publish Technical Content

    HTML5 provides the underlying technology for supporting multiple devices. Content creators need only publish one collection of HTML5 files. Based on browser detection, the device serves the appropriate cascading style sheets, Adobe Technical Communication Suite Reviewer’s Guide July 10, 2012...
  • Page 20 Responsive Design — Device-Appropriate Layout and Navigation Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 makes this process easy. Use RoboHelp 10 to define categories of devices based on device characteristics, manufacturer, and screen dimensions. Use the RoboHelp 10 Screen Layout Editor to define appropriate page layout and navigation for each device.
  • Page 21 RoboHelp 10 Screen Layout Editor Provides Graphical Interface for Designing Device-Specific Layouts With Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4, you can usher in the future of technical communication by delivering rich, interactive content virtually anywhere. Publish frameless, SEO-friendly, cross-browser, cross-platform Multiscreen HTML5 output to a wide range of channels (such as mobile, web, desktops, and print) and screens (including tablets and smartphones).
  • Page 22 Publish to multiple screens using HTML5. All new, with Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4. Multiscreen HTML5 Viewed on Desktop Browser Adobe Technical Communication Suite Reviewer’s Guide July 10, 2012...
  • Page 23 You may also want to distribute and potentially monetize content in Apple iTunes App Store or Android Marketplace. Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 leverages the same workflow for native mobile application development. Reusing the same configuration and workflows from HTML5, the Suite supports direct deployment of native mobile applications for Android from RoboHelp or FrameMaker.

  • Page 24: Workflows

    Vector Graphic and mobile. Long considered the premier application for vector graphic editing, New! Editing the capabilities of Adobe Illustrator are included as part of the Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4. Adobe Technical Communication Suite Reviewer’s Guide July 10, 2012...
  • Page 25 I right-click on the image, FrameMaker gives me a menu option to edit the image in Adobe Photoshop. Now let's import an Adobe Illustrator file. I'm going to insert a Illustrator file here. I choose File>Import, and navigate to the Illustrator file.

  • Page 26: Seamlessly Combine Elearning And Technical Content

    I only needed to save the Illustrator file. Another great example of cross-application integration and authoring efficiency in Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4. Learn more about To learn more about new features, improvements, and benefits of Adobe Illustrator Adobe Illustrator CS6, see the Adobe Illustrator product page at http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator.html.
  • Page 27 Adobe RoboHelp project, I can choose New>Adobe Captivate Topic. I choose the types of assets I want to include in my RoboHelp project, from Adobe Captivate. Maybe I want a RoboHelp HTML5 topic. If I want a procedure, I can choose Step by Step, to get an automatically-generated procedure topic.

  • Page 28: Invoke And Manage

    Software-based change tracking doesn’t provide for concurrent reviews and forces authors and reviewers to work in a single application. Adobe has solved the issues of review and collaboration with PDF review workflows. Reviewers can insert PDF comments, in a stand-alone or shared environment.

  • Page 29: Automation

    Improve Efficiency Through Scripting Automation All components of the Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 software provide batch processing, scripting, and/or automation capabilities. Scripting can automate manual or tedious tasks and can greatly improve the efficiency of technical communication workflows. Using Adobe...

  • Page 30: Other Learning Resources

    Adobe provides additional learning resources for each of the point products in the Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 software. These learning resources are available on the Adobe Web site, and are also available from the Help menu of Suite component products. Product pages include product overview information, purchasing options, and links to other resources, including documentation, white papers, and tutorials.

  • Page 31: Chart

    ^This product may integrate with or allow access to certain Adobe or third-party hosted online services (“Online Services”). Online Services are available only to users 13 and older and require agreement to additional terms of use and Adobe’s online privacy policy (www.adobe.com/go/terms). Online Services are not available in all countries or languages, may require user registration, and may be discontinued or modified in whole or in part without notice.
  • Page 32 Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 Version Comparison Chart (Continued) Image conversion using distiller Enhanced     Advanced Rich Media Support Enhanced U3D support FrameMaker Ditamap and Dita Topics Linking Global CSS Support FrameMaker Style Modification in Conversion Settings FrameMaker metadata support (author, keyword)
  • Page 33 Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 Version Comparison Chart (Continued) Consolidated HTML5 content       Smart publishing with SharePoint       Authoring Structured authoring Enhanced Native XML editing view       XSL transformations       XPath queries  ...

  • Page 34: Pricing

    RoboHelp X5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 • Adobe Captivate 3, 4, 5.x, 6 Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 is the first release of Adobe Technical Communication Products to be offered on a monthly subscription basis. Subscription: Month-to-Month Plan $99/month...
  • Page 35 Any references to company names in sample templates are for demonstration purposes only and are not intended to refer to any actual organization. Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat, Acrobat Connect, Adobe PDF logo, Adobe AIR, the Adobe AIR logo, Adobe Captivate, Flash, FlashHelp, FrameMaker, Illustrator, Photoshop, Reader, RoboHelp, and "Better by Adobe”...

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