Technical Communication

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• Acrobat 9: You Might Need an Acrobat Class, The Sequel

  
  I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority: 123
  by David R. Mankin, the Acrobat Czar My first " You might need an Acrobat class " column went viral on Twitter. I had so much fun writing it and seeing it tweeted and re-tweeted, I decided to come up with a second installment. Enjoy--and please do sign up for an Acrobat class if this strikes a tone of ...
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• Five Skills for Managing Documentation Projects in an Agile Environment

  
  Gryphon Mountain Journals — Authority: 408
  Sometimes, the Agile software development methodology seems like it could be renamed the “Fly by the Seat of Your Pants” methodology. But really, it means that you need a somewhat different set of project management skills for your documentation. I could certainly improve in these skills, but here are a few I rely ...
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• New eSeminar: Adobe AIR 101 for Technical Communicators

  
  Adobe Blogs — Authority: 611
  When : Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 9:00am Pacific Time Registration : Click HERE to Register Duration : 90 minutes to accommodate for questions   ...
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• Adobe FrameMaker: Automatically Assigning Custom Master Pages

  
  I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority: 123
  by Barbara Binder   We talked last week about custom master pages. I use them in my FrameMaker documents to suppress page numbers on the opening page of a chapter or anytime I need a layout that differs from those of the default left and right master pages. Once you have set up your master pages, you can ...
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• A few posts you may have missed

  
  Communications from DMN — Authority: 462
  Or might just want to read again: How much prior knowledge should we expect or assume? The Twitter Book and tech comm Why FAQs are the tech writer’s secret weapons Can you switch niches? Mentoring another writer Can lightweight markup languages be used for documentation? Usability and taking ...
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• Why I Wasn’t Sold on Single Sourcing (and Why I’m Changing My Mind)

  
  Gryphon Mountain Journals — Authority: 408
  I mentioned in my last post that one of my technical writing colleagues showed the user education team a spreadsheet where he had taken types of information, such as concepts, tasks, and frequently asked questions and indicated what types of deliverables it made sense to use them in. Historically, I haven’t been ...
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• Acrobat 9: Need a Quick PDF? What a Drag!

  
  I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority: 123
  by David R. Mankin, the Acrobat Czar You have a file that needs to be converted to PDF format. Youre in a hurry, and the thought of waiting for your documents native application to load and convert the file to PDF is making you crazy under your rushed deadline. Heres a very cool trick that is extremely handy. ...
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• Reviewing Projects and Deliverables as a User Education Team

  
  Gryphon Mountain Journals — Authority: 408
  Tom Johnson and Paul Pehrson posted recently about our team design reviews . These have started to turn into what we might call project reviews . In our team meetings, we usually brief each other on what we’re working on. In these project reviews, a couple of team members will go into more detail about their ...
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• Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 Review

  
  Tech Ticker — Authority: 622
    Adobe had introduced the Technical Communication Suite long back to fill the void gap and provide a complete suite for people who are into Technical Communication, Training Professionals, Help Authors and Instructional Designers. This latest release of Adobe Technical Communication Suite includes the following ...
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• Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 Review

  
  TOYS and GADGETs | News | Reviews | Videos — Authority: 170
    Adobe had introduced the Technical Communication Suite long back to fill the void gap and provide a complete suite for people who are into Technical Communication, Training Professionals, Help Authors and Instructional Designers. This latest release of Adobe Technical Communication Suite includes the following ...
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• Making change bars invisible in interim PDFs

  
  Adobe Blogs — Authority: 611
  If you want to preserve change bars in interim PDFs, you can set their color to white in the Change Bar Properties dialog box ( Format > Document > Change Bars in FrameMaker 9), so that they are not visible in the PDFs. See this article for more information about this dialog box. Later, if required, you ...
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• Exploring the power of RoboScreenCapture!

  
  Adobe Blogs — Authority: 611
  FrameMaker , XML , Technical Communication , DITA authoring , PDF , DITA , Image , UI , ScreenCapture Dear Framers I hope that you are enjoying working with the RoboScreenCapture software. If you are not much familiar with this tool, then let me explain about it briefly. It is a lightweight screen-capture and ...
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• Adobe FrameMaker: Custom Master Pages

  
  I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority: 123
  by Barbara Binder   New FrameMaker documents have default Master Pages. Single-sided documents have one, called "Right," and double-sided documents have two, called "Left" and "Right." We use these pages to place the objects we want to repeat on all the Body Pages, things like our running heads, page numbers and ...
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• Top Open Source technical writers on the Web

  
  Communications from DMN — Authority: 462
  A while back, Ivan Walsh put together a list of the top 50 tech writers on the Web. That list was an interesting mix of people we’d heard of and regularly read and a few new names. Then, Jim Campbell pointed out that no Open Source technical writers were mentioned. This is our attempt at rectifying the ...
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• TCS2 Reviewers Guide

  
  Technical Communication — Authority: 104
  Technical Communication Suite , XML , Technical Documentation , Topic , PDF , DITA , Publishing , UI , Reviewers Guide Dear Technical Communicators I met some of you during Tekom conference and it was wonderful interacting with you. I must thank you all for the great positive feedback you shared for TCS2 and ...
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• Order in the Sentence: Introductions

  
  I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority: 123
  by Jennie Ruby The basic sentence in English is noun-verb-object: The player hit the ball . But we seldom leave it at that. We add things on the front. We add things on the back. We interrupt the sentence to say something else, and then come back to the sentence. We vary the basic sentence structure. And, in ...
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• Post on STC’s Dues Increase at Intermountain-STC.org

  
  Gryphon Mountain Journals — Authority: 408
  Over the weekend, I posted my thoughts on the STC dues increase that was announced in October. On a related note, Tom Johnson posted the results to date of a brief survey we’ve done with the chapter. If our chapter is a microcosm as Tom wonders in this post, then more challenges await STC in 2010. No related ...
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• Adobe Captivate 5: Sneak Peek!

  
  I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority: 123
  by Kevin Siegel Im attending Adobes Learning Summit in San Jose right now. RJ Jacquez, Senior Product Evangelist just wowedthe crowd with a sneak preview of the upcoming Adobe Captivate 5 forthe Macintosh. Here are some of the highlights: Captivateis being recreated from the ground-up. The new software ...
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  Rhetoric & Rockets — Authority: 119
  Potpourri CXINot too much today, but here are a couple of sites for your reference...From Kraft and Triscuits, my favorite cracker for the last 30 years or so, a site called "Why Snackrifice?" The point of said site is to show how Kraft cheese/cracker combinations wont break the bank. Ive got a cousin working ...
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• Clear, Common Language Leads to User Success

  
  Gryphon Mountain Journals — Authority: 408
  A huge problem for projects is the lack of a common language between the developers and the users. When my colleague and I were preparing a presentation for an internal conference on this subject, he said something that has stuck with me. He said, “The goal of the project is to make the user successful.” I added ...
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