Adobe to breathe life into RoboHelp?

There are signs that Adobe is planning to breathe life into RoboHelp. They are said to be planning to set up a new development team in India (the former developers were laid off by previous owners Macromedia). Karl Matthews is now Adobe’s Product Manager for RoboHelp, and he is arranging a meeting at the upcoming WritersUA conference with interested parties to determine the future direction for the product.

The questions are:

Is this just talk to stop users migrating to new tools?
If they do plan to act, have they left it too late?

3 Comments

stevenjs

Thanks for the heads up. I think they’d be crazy not to continue development.

Doubt it’s too late with their market penetration, though talk alone will not suffice for long.

Steve, Vancouver

I agree with the WinWriters article: RH needs a HUGE revamp to bring it up to modern standards. We are currently migrating our custom-XML help to AuthorIT. Using AIT made me realize how much I appreciated the ease of use of editing in RoboHelp, it’s a main advantage.

It’s still a great program to create tri-pane help but…as the article stated, that may no longer be the best way to deliver useful information to users.

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