Duration: 3 Days
Maybe you're part of a documentation services team and would like to enhance the appearance and functionality of help systems using advanced techniques. In this course, you will learn to use Adobe RoboHelp 10, the authoring tool with advanced features that assists you in creating such projects. You will work with RoboHelp to create an advanced help system. You will also use advanced options in RoboHelp to create a structured and dynamic help file in multiple formats.
What You Will Learn
- Help system and the RoboHelp environment
- Create a new RoboHelp HTML project and add content to it
- Import external files
- Format the help content with CSS
- Add multimedia elements to a help project
- Add hyperlinks and bookmarks to a project
- Add navigational aids to a project using Adobe RoboHelp
- Customize the appearance
- Finalize an HTML help project in Adobe RoboHelp
- Publish to Adobe AIR and HTML5
- Publish to an eBook format
Audience
Professionals seeking to create or enhance help systems using Adobe RoboHelp
Prerequistes
Basic knowledge of HTML. Knowledge of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is recommended
Course Outline
1. Introduction to Adobe RoboHelp 10
- Exploring the RoboHelp Workspace
- Pods and Toolbars
- Workspaces
- Topics
- TOCs and Indexes
- Microsoft HTML Help
- WebHelp
- FlashHelp
- Compliance
2. New Projects and Adding
Content
- Creating New Projects
- Creating Topics
- Importing HTML Files
- Microsoft Word Content
- FrameMaker Content
- PDF Content
3. Project Structure and CSS
- Project Structure
- Table
of Contents (TOC)
- Automatic TOC
- Cascading Style Sheets
- Custom Style Sheets
- Font Sets
- Character Styles
4.
Editing Content
- Spell Check
- AutoCorrect
- Thesaurus
- Finding and Replacing Content
- PDF Review
5.
Links
- Linking to Content
- Hyperlinks
- Bookmarks
- Popup Hyperlinks
- Custom-Sized Popups
- Link View
- Broken Links
6.
Images and Multimedia
- Working with Images
- Background Images
- Image Maps
- eLearning Integration
- Dynamic HTML
7.
Build Tags, Variables, and Snippets
- Building Tags
- Content Categories
- User
Defined Variables
- Snippets
8.
Tables and Lists
- Working with Tables
- Lines, Symbols, and Lists
9. Indexes,
Search, and Glossaries
- Indexes
- Subkeywords
- Relating Topics
- Search
- External Content Search
- Glossaries
10. Skins and Master Pages
- Skins
- Master Pages
- Breadcrumbs
- Topic TOCs
11.
Windows, Browsing and CSH
- Custom Windows
- Browsing Sequences
- Application Help
- Publishing
- Context Sensitive Help
12.
Docs, eBooks, and Scripts
- Printed Documents
- eBooks
- Scripts
13. Adobe AIR
and Multiscreen HTML5
- Adobe AIR
- Multiscreen HTML5
14. Forms and Frames
- Forms
- HTML Editing
- Check Boxes and Menus
- Submitting and Resetting
Buttons
- Forming Properties
- Frames
Course Labs