What is Adobe RoboHelp 9?

Adobe RoboHelp 9 software is an easy-to-use solution for technical communicators to author, collaborate, personalize, and optimize content for help systems, policies and procedures, and professional knowledgebases for multichannel, multidevice publishing. Save time with collaborative reviews, reusable assets, and dynamic user-centric content. Boost participation with user-generated content and moderated or stored commenting.

• Next-generation collaboration and review workflows
• Collaborate with authors, subject matter experts (SMEs), and end-users using Adobe® RoboHelp® advanced PDF shared reviews, live linking of shared resources, moderation-enabled commenting workflows in Adobe AIR® Help, topic-rating and other multi-author environment capabilities.
• Dynamic user-centric content
• Improve the end-user experience by enabling personalized filtering of content. Author content once and deliver personalized and accurate content that is dynamically filtered based on users' role, department, geography, products, operating system, or any other parameter specified by the author.
• Shared reusable resources
• Save time and boost productivity by reusing assets across authors and projects. Maintain consistency and conform to organizational and industry standards using linked resources that can be updated simultaneously.
• Community-generated content
• Enrich the quality of your content by adding Web 2.0 interactivity with enhanced Adobe® AIR® Help features that empower users to add comments and feedback, and generate relevant content independently.
• Content Curation and moderation enabled commenting
• Enable topic ratings, and public and private comments. Configure and moderate comments; store them on corporate network or on web via an Adobe® AIR® application.
• External web/Community-generated content support
• Create rich, interactive help content by providing access to external web content (Google search, blogs, wikis, forums etc.) alongside the authoritative documentation just specify or preselect search metadata while authoring.
• Adobe® AIR® Help skin editor
• Achieve a more professional look by changing colors, styles, icons, and fonts to match company branding and other specifications with the brand new Adobe® AIR® Help Skin Editor.
• Browser, platform, and device support
• Stay up to date with support for the latest browsers, platforms, and devices (eBook readers, mobile devices, tablet PCs, and more), and import from or output to Microsoft Word 2010 documents.
• Automated context-sensitive help (CSH) authoring
• Speed up development time with automated context-sensitive help authoring, improved Map ID, and live linkingno manually matching items or programming required.
• Publish to SharePoint
• Publish RoboHelp output to SharePoint site using Universal Naming Convention (UNC path).
• Multichannel and multidevice publishing
• Leverage the multichannel publishing versatility of Adobe® RoboHelp® 9 software to distribute your output in WebHelp, XML, CHM/HTML Help, Print (Adobe® PDF, .docx, .doc), Adobe® AIR®, electronic publication (EPUB), and others. Easily distribute your content to mobile devices, eBook readers, and tablets using ePublishing features.
• Optimize value of your content using advanced analytics
• Gain valuable insight into usage patterns to better meet user needs with customizable Adobe® RoboHelp® Server 9 software feedback reports. Leverage advanced reporting capabilities to import usage data on topics, search terms, OS analytics, browsing patterns, and more.

• Intel® Pentium® 4
• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3, Windows Vista® with Service Pack 2 or Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit)
• 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
• 1.2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on flash-based storage devices)
• DVD-ROM drive
• 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card