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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

RoboHelp 6 Arrives; Puts Death Rumors To Rest

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Well, the “RoboHelp is Dead” crowd will be disappointed to learn that their predictions were wrong. Alas, Adobe Systems today announced the availability of RoboHelp 6, “a complete, flexible and user-friendly system to create, manage and publish software help systems, ...

Filed under: Help Authoring : RoboHelp : Technical Writing

Microsoft Late To Online Help Space; Lacks Basic Survey Design Skills

Monday, December 25, 2006

Microsoft may have lots of money, but they’re not going to give any of it to you—not even if you provide them with feedback that helps them develop what the company says will be the “next-generation Help platform”. A survey being spread across technical communication ...

Filed under: Help Authoring

Structured Blogging Plus DITA - Authoring Online Help Without A HAT

Monday, April 10, 2006

I’ve been thinking about the many ways that Structured Blogging might be employed to help technical writers and other content creators do what they do better, faster, and cheaper. Structured Blogging is a new concept in the technical communication and content ...

Filed under: Blogs & Blogging : Structured Blogging : DITA : Help Authoring

Microsoft Manual of Style For Technical Publications 3.0: Free Download

Friday, December 05, 2003

Did you know that you can download a free copy of the Microsoft Manual Of Style For Technical Publications 3.0? To get your copy, visit the download page. The file provided is a CHM file that runs on Microsoft 95 and above. No Macintosh version is available at this ...

Filed under: Help Authoring : Technical Writing