Technical Authors Conference in Lithuania

We've agreed to be a sponsor of the Writers UA European online Help conference this September. We'll be at the conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, and we'll be doing a short presentation at the start of one the conference days. This will probably be on the subject of dealing with chaotic projects or improving your status as a technical author.

Adobe news

Adobe has released FrameMaker 8. New features include support for: Unicode; DITA (now built-in, but you'll need to work out how best to migrate your legacy content); Flash integration. There are also enhancements to: conditional text; filter by attribute; track text edits.

Adobe has also released three patches for RoboHelp 6 and a security patch that applies to Adobe RoboHelp 6 and older versions.

The RoboHelp 6 patches fix these issues:

Error, "Internal error encountered, Failed to generate WebHelp." when you generate a merged project.

Generic Windows crash error message when you export Microsoft HTML Help from Adobe RoboHelp 6.

When you import a HTML file into RoboHelp, it automatically changes the HTML title tag to match the file name.