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• Acrobat 9: Where Am I (Exactly)?

  
  I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority: 121
  by David R. Mankin     Heres a neat little trick that can help you describe a position on a PDF page to a colleague, even if they are not in the same room (or hemisphere). If you are working with a PDF page that has several similar regions on it, describing the proper object can be tricky. For example: "Look at ...
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• Why You Should Know How Consumers Use the Products You Document

  
  Gryphon Mountain Journals — Authority: 453
  People are generally bright when it comes to technology in a certain sense: You give them a product, and they may or may not use it for what it was created for. They use it to meet their needs. If the intended use and the need happen to coincide, then you’re a step ahead. Constant Reinvention I received an email ...
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• Adobe Captivate: Warning Will Robinson, Avoid Flash Player 10.1! But If You Didnt...

  
  I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority: 121
  by Kevin Siegel Adobe recently unveiled Flash Player 10.1. According to Adobe, Flash Player 10.1 "realizes the promise of a consistent, cross-platform runtime across desktop and mobile devices." Nice! Many people, excited to play with the pre-release of Flash Player 10.1, went right to Adobe Labs , downloaded and ...
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• i am stuck on band aids

  
  THE BOGGLISH HUDERON — Authority: 115
  Ive been working on a loooong-term online course for a corporate HR group. We did the whole analysis and design thing. We prototyped an instructional model with pre- and post-tests, and even got into designing a course evaluation tool. At the outset, when everyone at the site wanted a say in the product, I tried to ...
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• Adobe FrameMaker: Even Smarter Running Heads

  
  I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority: 121
  by Barbara Binder   We talked last week about creating smart running heads (using variables for "live" running heads that pull data off the page). These are great for your readers because they can tell at a glance what chapter and/or section they are in. But what if you need to pull different paragraph ...
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• Undiscovered Instructions Aren’t Much Good

  
  Gryphon Mountain Journals — Authority: 453
  It’s funny when those little everyday experiences make you think about your job in a little different light. I took the week off for the Thanksgiving holiday. My wife and I were doing some much-needed shopping in a mall at the beginning of the week and stopped at the food court for lunch. When I tried to open a ...
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• International English gives satisfactory machine translation into Norwegian

  
  TechScribe software documentation — Authority: 93
  An article in English was translated into Norwegian by Google Translate. Professional translators evaluated the machine translation for fluency and for accuracy. The quality of the machine translation is satisfactory.
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• Adobe FrameMaker: Smart Running Heads

  
  I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority: 121
  by Barbara Binder   One of the FrameMaker features I rely on heavily for my technical documents is the use of "live" headers and footers. Once I get them set up, they will automatically pull text off of my page into the running heads so that the reader can quickly see what chapter they are in, or what section, or ...
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• Musings about what’s really important

  
  Communications from DMN — Authority: 460
  … it’s not about tech writing. No one cares about tech writing. They care about service, about finding answers to problems, and about positive experiences. Scott Abel, commenting on a blog post by Ivan Walsh As he often does, Scott Abel got me thinking. At least, got me thinking a little more deeply about ...
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• Acrobat 9: Stack Those Actions!

  
  I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority: 121
  by David R. Mankin     When a PDF file is initially created, it is relatively lifeless. Its readable and printable, but there is no interactivity enabled, unless you used the PDFMaker to create bookmarks from your Word styles. Most of my time is spent enhancing PDF files into interactive documents, complete ...
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• Using Scripting in RoboHelp 8 for Automating Tasks: A Practical Example

  
  Adobe Blogs — Authority: 642
  One of the most powerful new features in RoboHelp 8 , which rarely gets mentioned, is the new Scripting engine, which Incidentally is the same scripting language also used in Photoshop, Illustrator, Bridge, Soundbooth and other CS4 products. ...
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• Adobe Captivate 4: Actions in Action

  
  I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority: 121
  by Lori Smith With the addition of variables, multiple button actions and advanced actions to Adobe Captivate 4, there is no limit to Captivates abilities. Okay, maybe the possibilities arent endless, but you can certainly do some pretty cool things with Captivate 4. Have you ever wished that you could display ...
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• Creating Multilevel Lists in Adobe RoboHelp 8

  
  I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority: 121
  One of the great new features in Adobe RoboHelp 8 is the ability to create complex multilevel lists (lists within lists), in which you can have many levels, much like those you can create in Adobe FrameMaker). Amit Jha , a member of the Adobe RoboHelp Engineering Team, has written a helpful article that will guide ...
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• What’s more important, content or process?

  
  Communications from DMN — Authority: 460
  Back when Aaron and I worked at The Company That Shall Not Be Named, I was notorious for butting heads with the technical editors at head office. The cause of those situations wasn’t ego or a misguided urge to be a troublemaker, though. My problems with the editors revolved around their attitude towards The ...
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• Talkin’ ’bout a revolution at the STC Summit 2010

  
  just write click — Authority: 116
  I don’t know if it’ll sound like a whisper, but I am excited that my proposal was accepted for the 2010 STC Summit in Dallas! Here’s what I’ll be presenting: I’m participating in a Content Strategy Progression as described on the STC Content Strategy Special Interest Group blog entry on said progression . ...
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• Acrobat 9: You Might Need an Acrobat Class, The Sequel

  
  I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority: 121
  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: 453
  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: 642
  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: 121
  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: 460
  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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