Learning more about DITA
Learning about how to get started with DITA and a trivia item for fun Jen Linton, the co-author of Introduction to DITA:Getting Started with the Darwin Information Typing Architecture is in Austin to...
View ArticleAdobe’s stepping up their tech writer toolkit?
Is Adobe wooing the tech writer market? I’ll speculate freely about whether Adobe’s working on a tech writer workflow or toolkit, bouncing off of The Content Wrangler‘s prediction of a Technical...
View ArticleRob Houser’s review of the new RoboHelp, the first release by Adobe after...
I found this great review of RoboHelp by Rob Houser, who went to Miami of Ohio in the Master’s of Technical and Scientific Communication program two years ahead of me While on maternity leave, I read...
View ArticleFrame 8 is here: conversion or migration from unstructured FrameMaker to DITA
FrameMaker 8 was released yesterday, with DITA possibility built in, but you will need to do your homework to determine the best path to migrate legacy content from unstructured Frame to DITA....
View ArticleAdobe’s Technical Communication Suite announced
Adobe has announced a Technical Communication Suite, combining FrameMaker, RoboHelp, Captivate, Acrobat 3D, and Flash, available in October 2007 for $1599 or $999 upgrade pricing if you already own one...
View ArticlePublish to wikitext with WebWorks – from Word or Frame
I’m attending as many sessions as I can at the Quadralay WebWorks User Conference – called the WebWorks RoundUp. Right now I’m listening to a great demo using WebWorks to publish Word or Frame source...
View Article7 things you must know about ePublisher Platform
Content is king. Your source content can be Word, Frame, or DITA. You can even import convert other formats such as RoboHelp to Word or Frame and go from there. Formats are separate from content and...
View ArticleAuthor-it and MadCap Flare comparison
I’ve had more than a few questions asking for a review of Author-it or MadCap Flare or a comparison of both. So I decided to do some homework. Initially, I wasn’t sure why they are categorized...
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