The New RoboHelp’s Gotten a Major Face Lift
This is not your father’s RoboHelp. If you’re a veteran RoboHelp user, prepare yourself… the new RoboHelp looks nothing like the old RoboHelp.
Upon starting RoboHelp 7, one of the first things you’ll notice is the pods–panes–that can float anywhere in the application window.
Here’s a list of the RoboHelp 7 Pods:
- Project Manager
- Table of Contents
- Index
- Glossary
- Conditional Build Tags
- User Defined Variables
- Single Source Layouts
- Project Set-up
- Output View
- Toolbox
- Bug Hunter
- RoboHelp Server
- Link View
- Topic List
- File Status
- Starter
And here’s a look at some of those pods:
The Project Pod
The Snippet Pod
You Know What They Say About First Impressions…
While I loved the simplicity of the old RoboHelp interface, it hadn’t changed all that much for years and was much in need of a face-lift.
My first impression of the new RoboHelp 7 was… WOW! I was shocked–in a good way–by how different the interface was from Adobe RoboHelp 6, which wasn’t released all that long ago.
As I played with the features in RoboHelp 7 (I’ll be writing about all the cool new stuff right here in the coming weeks), my first favorite new feature, besides the pods mentioned above, is the fact that you can now open more than one topic at a time! Yeee hahh! Think I’m teasing you? Look at the screen capture below:
Two topics open at one time.
My next favorite thing in RoboHelp 7? The TrueCode pane is gone and has been replaced by an HTML Editor. Veteran RoboHelp users will be happy to see that the Kadov tags are gone!
A new HTML Editor.
Next week: RoboHelp 7’s New Environments
Click here to learn more about Adobe RoboHelp 7.