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Adobe RoboHelp 7 HTML, Essentials of | 
 enlarge | Author: Kevin A. Siegel
Publisher: IconLogic, Inc.
Category: Book
Buy New: $39.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 181164
Media: Spiral-bound
Pages: 276
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.8 x 0.7
ISBN: 1932733191
EAN: 9781932733198
ASIN: 1932733191
Publication Date: November 5, 2007
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Product Description
RoboHelp is the industry standard for Help authoring. It's the preferred program if you are a Help author, technical writer, or programmer tasked with creating Help systems for desktop or Web-based applications. This easy-to-use tutorial will have you creating your own Help systems (complete with topics, books, links, tables, forms, glossaries, frames, skins, templates, DHTML, cascading style sheets and more) within three days. Lessons Include: Create a WebHelp Project | Import an HTML File | Import Word and FrameMaker Documents | Rename Topic Titles | Create Project Folders | Auto-create a TOC | Apply a Style Sheet to a Topic | Apply Styles to Selected Paragraphs | Create a New Style Sheet | Create a Font Set | Use Inline Styles | Spell Check | Use Multi-File Find and Replace | Generate 508 and W3C Compliant WebHelp That's Not All... There's Also Lessons On: Insert and Edit Hyperlinks | Import a PDF Document | Add Popups | Create Custom-Sized Popups | Use Link View | Resolve Broken Links | Add Graphics to a Help Project | Change Image Margins | Rename an Image | Add a Background Image | Add Hotspots to a Graphic | Add Sound to a Topic | Import and Format Topics | Import an Adobe Captivate Demo | Use RoboScreenCapture | Create and use Conditional Build Tags | Create and use User Defined Variables | Create and use Snippets | Insert a Table | Format a Table | Add a Horizontal Line | Insert a Symbol | Add a Bulleted List | Format a Heading with a Fade in DHTML Effect | Apply Fly in DHTML Effects | Work with Positioned Text Boxes | Create a Trigger Tired Yet? Hold on, there's more: Create Indexes | Create a See Also Keyword | Add a Link Control to a Topic | Add Glossary Terms | Generate a Report | Generate Printed Documentation | Generate a PDF | Create Forms| Create Frames | Create Skins and Templates | Publish a Project | Create Context Sensitive Help and more...
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 Another Voice to Be Heard May 9, 2008
I would like to counter the negative criticism that this book is too simple and that it was written for children.
I knew before I bought it that it was a tutorial, and I thought it was extremely effective at teaching the basics of a very complex product. Maybe my experience was so positive because I had never worked at any company that was generous enough to buy RoboHelp for its writers, so I had to buy the Technical Communication Suite myself.
If someone needs a RoboHelp reference manual -- write to Adobe and tell them to get on the stick. Don't expect this book to be something it never aspired to be.
 Don't Bother March 26, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is written for 8th graders. Granted, there's not much RoboHelp material out there, but don't bother with this one, or v6 or v5. 200+ pages, I lasted maybe 90 seconds.
It's not a users manual, it's a tutorial, and as a tutorial you're better off clicking around the product to see what a click gets you.
This is an exercise in technical writing pre-101.
Every 10th word is in bold, big case, and the smallest font size anywhere looks to be about 16 pt. And the belaboring. It will bore you. To get from Step 1 to Step 2, you've got to read through 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, and 1e replete with unnecessary screen shots with circles and ovals, like you can't find a button or a select menu by yourself. It's a children's book.
If you are comfortable with, or need, or are patient with a condesceningly if not insultingly informal tone, or instructions like "maximize the window," or "save your work," or "close the browser," or "exit" then maybe the personality of this book will work for you.
Else fire up the Robo interface, click around, and figure it out yourself. Use the built in tutorial, and there is always, of course, what you should expect, the RoboHelp Help.
To be fair, there are good instructions, informative asides, and nuggets and Easter eggs here and there.
The lasting impression, though, this book should have come with a box of crayons.
This is a great book March 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've worked with RoboHelp for years with no training; just learn as you go. I recently changed from using RoboHelp for Word to using RoboHelp HTML and this book has been such a help. It's full of information on the little things I didn't learn on my own. And I too have found Kevin Siegel to be exceedingly helpful when I've had questions.
Starting with RoboHelp made easy! March 5, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Because of a new job I started a month ago, I was confronted with RoboHelp 7 HTML. After browsing around a bit, I found this workbook by Kevin Siegel. Fortunately, I was given the time at work to work through the whole book, which I did, and, believe me, I'm glad I did. The book is very informative and also interesting. It took me about 2 1/2 days until I was through, and I was never bored. Every exercise is always described step by step, which I found particularly helpful. At one point, I got a strange error in RoboHelp and wrote a mail to Iconlogic, asking for help. About 15 minutes later, I already got an answer from Kevin himself (and I learnt, that the cause for the error was myself). So, if you are in the same position as I am, order this book and work it through. It's also a great reference book afterwards, since (in my opinion) the help in RH itself is not very helpful.
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