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Quickly learn how to create awesome demo videos

Posted by Vikrant in Adobe Captivate, Best practices, How to, TCS specific, Tips and tricks, Troubleshooting on April 7, 2011

Tweet If you haven’t already caught the wind, Adobe Captivate Getting Started is a multimedia series of articles, tutorials, and instructional videos that put you on the path to accelerated Cp learning. The series includes: 100 short articles/tutorials that would help you get started with Adobe Captivate features 30+ videos and demonstration that explain the procedures [...]

Adobe Captivate, demonstration, Demos, GSG, multimedia, multimedia demo, record, storyboard, tutorial, Tutorials, video, videos, walk-thru

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Create your own custom menus for FrameMaker

Posted by Ashish Gupta in FrameMaker, How to on March 31, 2011

Tweet If you want to: Remove options to edit template components, from an author’s FrameMaker installation. Personalize the existing FrameMaker menus by rearranging commands on menus or moving out a sub-menu command that you use frequently. Shorten FrameMaker menus by removing distracting (for you) options. … then read on. Let’s add menus first and then [...]

customizations, FrameMaker, FrameMaker 10, FrameMaker 10 UI, Structured FrameMaker, tags, tcs, tips

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RoboHelp Server: An introduction

Posted by Samartha Vashishtha in Best practices, How to, New feature, RoboHelp, Technical Communication - General on February 16, 2011

Optimizing the value of user-assistance content is a key technical communicator responsibility. Read on to understand how RoboHelp Server lets you do that with ease…

Introduction, RoboHelp Server

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Convert files to PDF using Adobe Reader X

Posted by Samartha Vashishtha in How to, New feature, PDF, Technical Communication - General, Tips and tricks on February 10, 2011

While you, the technical communicator, can always convert documents and digital assets to PDF using the Adobe PDF Printer that ships with Technical Communication Suite; let us explore an alternate way of creating quality PDFs that your marcomm colleagues can put to good use. “What software would they need to install first?”, you ask. Only Adobe Reader X, which is a free download from Adobe.com…

CreatePDF, PDF, Reader

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Designing templates in FrameMaker (Part 5)

Posted by Samartha Vashishtha in Best practices, FrameMaker, How to, TCS specific, Tips and tricks, Troubleshooting on February 8, 2011

In this blog post, we will discuss ‘Headings with Text.’ Well, I am aware that (almost) all headings have text, but here we are talking about headings that have some specific text added to them automatically, without you having to type that text…

autotext, FrameMaker, heading, headings, text

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Designing templates in FrameMaker (Part 4)

Posted by Samartha Vashishtha in Best practices, FrameMaker, How to, TCS specific, Tips and tricks, Troubleshooting on February 7, 2011

In this detailed blog post series, Asit Pant, a veteran technical communicator and FrameMaker community-member, guides you through the main steps in the process of creating a FrameMaker template. The information in this series is targeted mainly toward creating unstructured templates, but many parts of it also apply to structured templates.

FrameMaker, numbered list, template

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Designing templates in FrameMaker (Part 3)

Posted by Samartha Vashishtha in FrameMaker, How to, TCS specific, Tips and tricks, Troubleshooting on February 4, 2011

In part 3 of this detailed blog post series, Asit Pant, a veteran technical communicator and FrameMaker community-member, explains how you can change the bullet character for your unordered lists…

bullet, FrameMaker, symbol

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