I am in the process of considering whether to upgrade to the
latest version of my current help tool (WebWorks/ePublisher), or
switch to a new product.
My understanding is that there are really only two mainstream
help generation possibilities: RoboHelp and ePublisher. Although
there is also the excellent Mif2Go, the company I am contracting
with wants me to stick with mainstream solutions. (Sorry, Jeremy,
if you are on this list!)
With ePublisher, I can maintain my source files in FrameMaker
and then generate PDFs, Help, etc. as desired using Adoboe Acrobat
or ePublisher. Once I've created a help template, if I need to make
any changes to the books, I make those changes in FrameMaker and
then regenerate the help. Basically, with FrameMaker, Adobe Acrobat
Professional, and WebWorks, I have a true single-source solution.
I rejected RoboHelp as a help solution long ago because at
that time, I would have had to import my FrameMaker source files
into RH in order to generate the help. Any changes that needed to
be made after that initial import would then have had to be made in
two places: in the original FrameMaker files, and in RoboHelp. Is
that still the case?