The poll on the most preferred HAT has triggered this post. Robohelp grabbed the top position with a whopping 85% percent of votes! At Adobe, as the product team works diligently on making RoboHelp more robust and useful, the documentation team is also taking small and sure steps to reach out to the wide network of RoboHelp users. Adobe’s commitment to integrate the community has seen many new initiatives in 2009. A Help and Support page for different products is one.

Here is a broad comparison of some features of MadCap Flare and Adobe FrameMaker that I have come up with after attending the MadCap webinar:

With 39 TWIN members logged in at 9AM and two wonderful presenters all set to deliver the Webinar, the Madcap Webinar was truly the most informative presentation over the net, that TWIN members would have witnessed in the recent times!

Technical Writing is arguably a challenging profession. It’s a mix of creativity and technology, and a lot of intelligence. One of biggest cornerstones of professional technical writing is the use of authoring tools. RoboHelp, FrameMaker and Flare, are some of the popular (and also expensive) authoring tools.