Archive for December, 2010

Embed a TOC in a FrameMaker document

Posted by Samartha Vashishtha in Best practices, FrameMaker, How to, TCS specific on December 31, 2010

Here’s an easy way to embed a file-level TOC in a FrameMaker document. We’ll generate a standalone TOC for the document and then import it by reference into the same document.

FrameMaker, TOC

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A curious case of broken cross-references

Posted by Samartha Vashishtha in Best practices, FrameMaker, How to, TCS specific, Troubleshooting on December 30, 2010

An interesting broken cross-reference case in FrameMaker and how to resolve it…

cross-reference, FrameMaker, troubleshoot

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Enable PDF text edits for text embedded in a screenshot

Posted by Samartha Vashishtha in Acrobat, Best practices, How to, TCS specific on December 26, 2010

Consider you have to complete a UI content review for the product you work on. Wouldn’t things be easier if you could use Acrobat text-edit-markup features to highlight the relevant content embedded in images?

PDF, review, workflow

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10 Reasons for Using AIR-Based Help

Posted by Samartha Vashishtha in AIR Help, Best practices, RoboHelp, TCS specific on December 24, 2010

Here are the top 10 reasons for using RoboHelp to generate Help as an Adobe AIR application…

Adobe, AIR, documentation, RoboHelp, User Experience

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RoboHelp: Customize the title page for printed documentation (Word and PDF output)

Posted by Nandini Gupta in RoboHelp on December 22, 2010

When you generate output using the Printed Documentation layout in RoboHelp, the title you specify in the Name field appears on the title page of the output. What if you want to display your company logo or copyright and legal information on the title page? Read on…

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