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XML Authoring and DITA: An Interesting Analogy

Saturday, March 10, 2007

From the Adobe Technical Communication blog comes this interesting and thought-provoking article, XML Authoring and DITA: An Interesting Analogy.

The analogy, provided by Aseem Dokania, Product Manager, Adobe FrameMaker: “Imagine if all countries followed the same ...

Filed under: DITA : Lessons Learned : Technical Writing : Authoring Tools : Adobe FrameMaker

Presentations, Proclamations, & Predictions: FrameMaker 8, RoboHelp & Technical Communication Tools

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Friday, February 9, 2007, we hosted a double-header Adobe product demonstration for Indianapolis-area help developers and technical publications teams. Our featured presenter was Senior Product Evangelist RJ Jacquez, whose demonstrations covered both Adobe FrameMaker ...

Filed under: DITA : Help Authoring : RoboHelp : Life Sciences : S1000D : Technical Writing : Authoring Tools : Adobe FrameMaker : Plug-ins

Tool Tip: PageLabler Synchronizes Print and PDF Page Numbers

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Susan Corcoran of Skaneateles Falls, NY writes in to tell us about one of her favorite tools, PageLabeler, an Adobe Framemaker plug-in from Carmen Publishing. PageLabeler is great, says Corcoran, because it solves a common page numbering problem experienced by ...

Filed under: Technical Writing : Authoring Tools : Adobe FrameMaker : Plug-ins

Using Wikis as Project Documentation Tools

Monday, February 05, 2007

In I’d Rather Be Writing, Tom Johnson explores Using Wikis as Project Documentation Tools. In this posting Johnson chats with technical writer Charles Arnold who explains why he’s thinking wikis might be a good idea for documentation teams.

“The model of one writer ...

Filed under: Technical Writing : Authoring Tools : Wikis

In Review: XMLMind (An “Insanely Great” XML Editor?)

Thursday, February 01, 2007

In an article for Writer’s UA, Antonio DaSilva reviews XMLMind, a user-friendly XML editor from Pixware that boasts an impressive list of features. DaSilva says XMLMind is “one of those rare software finds; an “insanely great” application singular in its ingenuity, ...

Filed under: Technical Writing : Authoring Tools : XMLMind

Tool Tip: RestoreWindows Plug-in for Adobe FrameMaker

Sunday, January 28, 2007

Thanks to Gordon McLean of Graham Technology (Scotland) for turning us on to RestoreWindows ($12 US), a handy plug-in for Adobe FrameMaker that, according to the manufacturer (Leximation), “restores the window location, zoom factor, and view settings of opened ...

Filed under: Technical Writing : Authoring Tools : Adobe FrameMaker : Plug-ins

Free XML Editor Now Supports DITA, RSS, TEI P4

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

For those with a penchant for free software tools, you might want to check out XML Copy Editor. Available for download from SourceForge, XML Copy Editor claims to support RSS, DITA and TEI P4.

Filed under: Technical Writing : Authoring Tools : XML Copy Editor