Easily create professional help systems and knowledge bases! Adobe® RoboHelp® software empowers technical communicators, help authors, and web developers to build, manage, and publish content for help systems and standalone knowledge bases. RoboHelp is a Help authoring tool (HAT) created by the eHelp Corporation and now owned by Adobe Systems following the acquisition of Macromedia. RoboHelp gives users more choices to create and publish content. They can import content created in Microsoft Word, Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe PDF, XML, and other help formats, and then publish the content in popular help formats like FlashHelp, WebHelp, HTML help, WinHelp, HTML, JavaHelp, OracleHelp for Java, etc. Adobe® RoboHelp® is a complete, flexible, and user-friendly system for building, managing, and publishing engaging content for help systems and standalone knowledge bases. It is a core product in the Adobe portfolio for technical communicators.

Adobe FrameMaker is a desktop publishing (DTP) application that is popular for large documents. It is produced by Adobe Systems. Although FrameMaker has evolved slowly in recent years, it maintains a strong following among professional technical writers. As an all-in-one package optimized for technical writers, FrameMaker remains unrivalled (although many high-end Technical Publication departments are moving to Arbortext and other XML-based systems due to their abilities for robust content single sourcing capabilities).
FrameMaker has more or less kept up with the times in supporting new standards such as XML and WebDAV, but at heart it is a proprietary single-desktop-oriented system based on a binary file format. While problems exist in FrameMaker's XML incarnation, FrameMaker supports authoring in an XML-based workflow considerably better than Microsoft Word.