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Re: RoboHelp, RoboDemo, and Procedural Movies - Please Help
Subject:Re: RoboHelp, RoboDemo, and Procedural Movies - Please Help From:"Surag R" <suragtechwriter -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Anthony <italian_scribbles -at- yahoo -dot- com> Date:Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:07:34 +0530
Hi Tony,
The new version of RoboDemo is called Captivate. It was a Macromedia product
and now since Adobe has taken over Macromedia, it is an Adobe product. It
does a pretty good job among the "screen casting tools". There is an option
for simulation too where the users can actually do what they have seen.
There are advanced features like "quizzes" too.
There are competitors for Captivate like Camtasia, TurboDemo, Viewlet
Builder, and so on. However, they don't have some of the"rich features" of
Captivate.
If you don't want to have many such rich features, but just an ordinary
screen capture video, then you may go for freely available "Wink".
The best output format that could go embedded in online help files created
from RoboHelp will be the .swf flash format.
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