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  • Adding screenshots in help topics


    HelpScribe — Authority Authority: 403
    Here are a few tips for adding screenshots to your help topics. Use contrast Use a high-contrast color for callouts, arrows, and other elements that reference screenshots. Avoid any color that is heavily used in the screenshot. I often see black callouts over screenshots with black interface elements. Such visual ...
    4 days ago

  • Question of the Week: Adobe RoboHelp Projects... How Big is Too Big?


    I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority Authority: 122
    Question: My team and I are preparing to work on projects in RoboHelp 8 and are looking into how to best publish the files. Were very interested in FTPing because it would give us the flexibility to publish on our own without depending on IT for deploying the !SSL files to the intranet (I have used FTP before, and ...
    1 week ago

  • A Few Surprises in Using a Wiki for Documentation


    I'd Rather Be Writing - Tom Johnson — Authority Authority: 493
    Recently I’ve been working on a simple calendar project that uses a wiki for documentation. Although I’ve heard a lot about using wikis for documentation, and have even used them in the past, I ran into a few surprises this time. 1. Authoring directly on a wiki screws up the history of updates. The way wikis ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Adobe RoboHelp 8: Start Page, Project Title and Default Topic... Lets Get Them Straight Once and For All!


    I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority Authority: 122
    by Kevin Siegel As Ive continued to teach my online RoboHelp class to students who attend from all over the world, one recurring issue has been confusion over the following three RoboHelp features: the start page, the project title and the default topic. The three files/names are totally different, having nothing ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Adobe RoboHelp 8: User Defined Variables


    I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority Authority: 122
    by Kevin Siegel RoboHelp allows you to quickly create and use variables. What are variables and how can they help you? Variables can contain information that occurs frequently in your project, such as a product name, company name or copyright notice. After creating the variable, you can insert it into any RoboHelp ...
    4 weeks ago

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