Up for a design challenge?

August 10th, 2010 Posted in Announcements, Events, General
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Win $2000 + a copy of Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 Design Premium software (MSRP US$1899) if your design is chosen the winner in the Threadless t-shirt design competition. Just use your design talents to create a tee inspired by the MAXtopia theme for Adobe MAX 2010. Contest ends August 29th, so don’t delay. Check out the rules at http://www.threadless.com/loves/maxtopia!

MAXtopia is the theme of Adobe MAX 2010: a unique opportunity to connect with thousands of designers, developers, and business leaders as we shape the future of digital media together. See max.adobe.com.

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RoboHelp tips article in Indus

June 22nd, 2010 Posted in Announcements, How to, Technical Communication Suite, Tips and Tricks, Troubleshooting
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RH-icon.jpgNandini Gupta and I recently contributed an article on our favorite RoboHelp tips to Indus, the newsletter of the India chapter of STC. Check out the article here!

The May issue of Indus carried an article on my favorite FrameMaker tips. Check that one out here!
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FrameMaker, CMS, XML, and DITA eSeminars

June 16th, 2010 Posted in Announcements, General, Technical Communication Suite
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Exciting news! Adobe is teaming up with partners to organize eSeminars on FrameMaker, CMS, XML, and DITA.

There are two eSeminars coming up in June:
  • Integrating Adobe FrameMaker 9 with Documentum to maximize content reuse with Linked2 on June 22
  • Sense out of Confusion: Streamline your Authoring by transitioning from unstructured to DITA XML on June 24
Stay tuned with RJ Jacquez’s blog for information about the contents of the eSeminars and to register.
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Updated RoboSource Control documentation is now live!

June 11th, 2010 Posted in Announcements, Community Help, Technical Communication Suite
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Over the past few months, we have been in active touch with the community and power-users to understand the areas of improvement in the RoboSource Control documentation and address them.

The updated Help is now live at this URL. Please feel free to spread the word!

Here are a few major changes in this update that you will find useful:

  • Additions to the introductory topics in the Help to make it easier for new users to adopt RoboSource Control as their source control system
  • New topics on setting up a database for use with RoboSource Control. This was the number one area of improvement that the community and users suggested.
  • Pointers to resources that will help you add your RoboHelp HTML projects to RoboSource Control and get started with using the version control features in RoboHelp
Do take a look at the updated Help. As always, your feedback is more than welcome!
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LiveCycle ES2 Service Pack 1 available!

June 1st, 2010 Posted in Announcements, Downloads, General, LiveCycle
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We recently released LiveCycle ES2 Service Pack 1 (SP1), a significant update to the LiveCycle server components, LiveCycle Workbench ES2, and LiveCycle Designer ES2. You can access the download page here. To download the service pack, you’ll need to log in using your Adobe ID and agree with the EULA.

The updated LiveCycle ES2 SP1 documentation is now live at the LiveCycle Developer Center. The SP1 ReadMe (PDF) describes how you can install the service pack for LiveCycle ES2 server, Workbench ES2, and Designer ES2. The ReadMe also lists the 80+ customer-reported issues that were addressed in this service pack.

To review the SP1 release notes for LiveCycle components, see this page. A related announcement on the LiveCycle Product Blog is here.

Follow this blog to catch more updates and announcements from the LiveCycle doc team.

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FrameMaker tips article in Indus

May 10th, 2010 Posted in Announcements, Technical Communication Suite, Tips and Tricks, Troubleshooting
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FrameMaker iconI recently contributed an article on my favorite FrameMaker tips to Indus, the newsletter of the India chapter of STC. Check out the article here!

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Mesmerizing: Content-aware fill in Photoshop CS5

March 26th, 2010 Posted in Announcements, Creative Suite, General
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RJ Jacquez has posted a mesmerizing demo of the new content-aware fill feature in Photoshop CS5 on his blog. True, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic!

Can’t wait to lay your hands on Creative Suite 5? Hold your horses for a few more days!

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LiveCycle ES2 is out!

November 23rd, 2009 Posted in Announcements, LiveCycle
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If you haven’t caught the news already, LiveCycle ES2 is out! This is a major release of the software suite that enables enterprises to improve productivity through intuitive applications and efficient processes. I spent the better part of my time over the past eight months documenting it.

Catch the Adobe press release here.

LiveCycle ES2 now integrates more tightly with the Flash Platform and PDF technologies. This enables enterprise developers to create user-centric applications that contrast with the more traditional, unwieldy system-centric applications users have had to tolerate. New Adobe application modeling technology brings higher productivity to Adobe® Flex® and LiveCycle developers and allows them to more efficiently write applications by reducing the amount of code and simplifying data and service integration. Also, a new LiveCycle ES2 plug-in for Adobe® Flash® Builder™ 4 beta lets developers more seamlessly embed LiveCycle ES2 technologies into any Flex based application. Furthermore, the new Adobe® LiveCycle® Collaboration Service (formerly Adobe Flash Collaboration Service), a hosted service, provides developers and enterprises with a scalable solution to easily build real-time, multi-user collaboration into existing or new RIAs. The powerful and flexible framework accelerates the development and deployment of user-centric applications by enterprise developers.
If you’re looking for documentation resources that could help you get started, visit these links:

A valuable addition to the LiveCycle documentation set this time is the troubleshooting guide. Read it here.
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Who am I?

October 15th, 2009 Posted in Announcements, General
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Difficult question, eh! Well, I work with Adobe Systems as a technical writer. The primary product I document is LiveCycle. I have, in the past, also contributed to the documentation of Adobe Technical Communication Suite and Adobe eLearning Suite.

Through this blog, I plan to share my experiences, “discoveries”, and tips about these products that I use extensively, both at work and at home.

Also, I tweet fairly regularly. Catch me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/samarthav.

I hope you have a pleasant time reading my musings. Keep visiting this blog often!

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