Technical Communication

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• My Office Setup: A Desktop and a Laptop

  
  Shanghai Tech Writer — Authority: 118
  My Office Setup: A Desktop and a Laptop is a post from: Shanghai Tech Writer On my first day of orientation at Googleplex in Mountain View, I got a Lenovo ThinkPad T61. I had a choice between a Mac Pro Book and a Lenovo ThinkPad. I considered a Mac but decided against it because I’m more familiar with the ...
  2 days ago

• Favourite posts from 2009: guest posts

  
  Communications from DMN — Authority: 119
  In the second half of 2009, we put out a call to a number of tech comm bloggers to do guest posts in this space. The results were great — interesting writing, interesting perspectives. If you missed any or all of them, here are the guest posts: Why FAQs are the tech writer’s secret weapon What makes a ...
  3 days ago

• Adobe FrameMaker: Page Navigation

  
  I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority: 122
  by Barbara Binder   Sure you know how to get from one page to another in a FrameMaker document, but are you a Page Navigation Expert? If not, you certainly should be. As Ive said many times, shaving seconds off your work here and there can quickly add up to minutes or even hours of production time in a FrameMaker ...
  5 days ago

• Acrobat 9: Making Search Easy

  
  I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority: 122
  by David R. Mankin     A few months ago, I wrote an article titled Search Is King which touted the power of Acrobats Search command. I use Search constantly, and I almost never use Find. Why drive a moped if there is a Honda Goldwing in the same garage? Adobe gives you, in both Acrobat and Reader, a Find ...
  5 days ago

• Findings from an Online Help Usability Test

  
  Gryphon Mountain Journals — Authority: 112
  I conducted some context-sensitive online help usability testing with four users of a Web application. This post discusses the results (without getting overly academic in tone, I hope). Objective I wanted to find out whether and how quickly participants could find given pieces of information and answers to specific ...
  5 days ago

• The Learning Industry: Year In Review and Trends for 2010

  
  I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority: 122
  by AJ George Congratulations for surviving another year in the learning industry! Lets wrap up some of 2009s most exciting additions to the industry and set our sights on what 2010 has in store for us. Mobile Learning Its no secret that the iPhone was king in 2009, but competitors are hot on the iPhones heels ...
  6 days ago

• Adobe Captivate 4: PDF Anyone?

  
  I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority: 122
  by Kevin Siegel One of the biggest concerns Captivate developers face when publishing Captivate projects as SWFs is this: will customers have the free Flash Player on their computer so that they can view the SWF? According to Adobe, developers shouldnt worry because the vast majority of the worlds computers have ...
  6 days ago

• Free machine translation gives satisfactory translations

  
  TechScribe software documentation — Authority: 109
  Fear about the low quality of free machine translation stops many business people from using the Internet fully in their businesses. Because sufficient data is not available, business people cannot decide whether machine translation is suitable for their websites. New evaluations show that if text is optimised, free ...
  6 days ago

• Now Author with FrameMaker 9 documents residing on Documentum CMS

  
  Adobe Blogs — Authority: 641
  Adobe FrameMaker , Documentum , Adobe Technical Communication Suite , WebDAV , DITA , Hierarchical Books FrameMaker 9 introduces tight integration with CMS Systems (Content Management Server) that supports HTTP/WebDAV protocol. FrameMaker users now have simplified access to content and services provided by EMC ...
  1 week ago

• Avoiding broken cross-references: A special case

  
  Adobe Blogs — Authority: 641
  Sometimes, when you insert a cross-reference to a paragraph, the first word in the paragraph is conditional. The cross-reference marker that FrameMaker inserts then also becomes conditional and takes the condition tag settings of the first word. This marker is hidden when you hide the conditions of the first word. As ...
  1 week ago

• Surviving the First Product Release

  
  Shanghai Tech Writer — Authority: 118
  Surviving the First Product Release is a post from: Shanghai Tech Writer In less than three months of joining Google as a technical writer, I managed to survive the first product release with a set of documentation amounting to more than 130+ pages worth of content! Whew! I’d say that’s about the same (or even ...
  1 week ago

• Acrobat 9: PDF Cover-Up=Dangerous!

  
  I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority: 122
  by David R. Mankin     Last week, a news story broke regarding a PDF file that was publically posted by the Transportation Security Administration. It contained their Screening Management Standard Operating Procedures. The PDF was filled with specifics regarding how passengers are screened at security ...
  1 week ago

• Six Things to Remember in Your Documentation Usability Testing

  
  Gryphon Mountain Journals — Authority: 112
  Documentation doesn’t need a full-blown usability test, lab with one-way mirror and all, but it should have something. That’s one thing I’ve been working on this week with a particular help system I described in my last post . When doing usability testing on documentation, keep the following things in mind. ...
  1 week ago

• Fix broken cross-references in PDF files

  
  Adobe Blogs — Authority: 641
  Isnt it frustrating to see a single broken cross-reference in a 160-page PDF? God, why me? How will I fix it now?   Resolving the cross-reference(s) in the source FrameMaker file and then generating the PDF all over again isnt the only way out. With Acrobat, you can easily fix broken cross-references in the ...
  1 week ago

• ISTC online groups, autumn 2009

  
  TechScribe software documentation — Authority: 109
  ISTC online groups. This review covers RTF output from DITA, 3D illustration software, and agile methods for technical publications.
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• Adobe FrameMaker: Aligning Punctuation in Numbered Lists

  
  I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority: 122
  by Barbara Binder   When I teach Numbering Properties to new FrameMaker users, about half of them ask me how to line up the punctuation on a numbered list. The picture on the left shows what I am supposed to teach them, the picture on the right show what they actually want. How do you do it? The trick is ...
  1 week ago

• Download the Top Ten Acrobat Tips brochure

  
  Adobe Blogs — Authority: 641
  Here we go! The Top Ten Acrobat Tips brochure is here .  Please feel free to print it and pass it on to your colleagues and friends. Your suggestions and queries are welcome! My colleague, Nandini Gupta, has shared the Top Ten RoboHelp Tips brochure at her blog .
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• Dictionaries in FM9

  
  Technical Communication — Authority: 106
  FrameMaker , Technical Communication , Adobe Technical Communication Suite , Dictionaries In this blog, we are going to describe the various kinds of dictionaries available in FrameMaker. Dictionaries in FM9 Dictionary Type Editable Scope Site   FM Installation Specific Personal ...
  1 week ago

• Dropdown Hotspots: A Solution for Cumbersome Help Topics

  
  Gryphon Mountain Journals — Authority: 112
  In one application I work on, I recently added some text to the context-sensitive help topic for a screen that allows financial secretaries to make a payment. The text described what to do with a particular control that had been added to the screen. Because of the many variables involved in making a payment in ...
  1 week ago

• Adobe RoboHelp: Which is Better, FlashHelp or WebHelp?

  
  I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority: 122
  by Kevin Siegel When generating RoboHelp projects, the two most common layouts generated by RoboHelp authors are WebHelp and FlashHelp . Both layouts are cross-platform (accessable by most operating systems including Mac and Windows) and can be used by a vast majority of the worlds computers. WebHelp is a great ...
  1 week ago

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