BlueSky turned into eHelp and developed RoboHelp for FrameMaker, an intuitive GUI oriented converter to generate RoboHelp from original FrameMaker files. Then MacroMedia bought eHelp to get their hands on Captivate, preserved RoboHelp (sort of) and dumped RoboHelp for FrameMaker. Then Adobe bought Macromedia and resurrected RoboHelp (sort of) and strapped a bunch of incompatible and barely integrated apps together into Adobe Technical Communications Suite.
So who finished up with the RoboHelp for FrameMaker source code and why wasn't it resurrected for Adobe Technical Communications Suite? RoboHelp for FrameMaker was far better than the FM binary --> MIF --> RoboHelp --> CHM, etc. as it allowed round tripping in a fashion, i.e. if you saw something wrong in the help, you could quickly fix it in FM and regenerate the help. Did the Madcap people take the code for RoboHelp for FrameMaker with them? Did Adobe accidentally throw the master CD into the dump bin? Who knows, who can speculate baselessly, who can start a paranoid hare running? Next week: Where is the location of Atlantis? Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Stewart Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Mobile +61 412 461 558, E-mail <mailto:hfinger at handholding.com.au>