Archive for category TCS specific

The handy “Find” feature of the Adobe Community Help Client

Posted by Mallika Yelandur in Community Help, FrameMaker, RoboHelp, TCS specific on January 11, 2011

Tweet While the Search capabilities of the Adobe Community Help Client (CHC) are indeed very powerful, I also find the Find feature of the CHC very handy. You can search for a word or a phrase on a page displayed in the CHC in a keystroke. Just press Ctrl+F and enter the word or phrase that you [...]

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Search capabilities in the Adobe Community Help Client

Posted by Mallika Yelandur in Community Help, FrameMaker, RoboHelp, TCS specific on January 11, 2011

Tweet A few days ago, I wrote a post introducing the Adobe Community Help Client (CHC) for TCS 3.0. Here is the first in the series of blog posts detailing the features of the CHC. In this post, I describe the powerful search capabilities of the CHC. Search is key to the Adobe Community Help Client (CHC), and [...]

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Linking to a page within a PDF (and more!)

Posted by Samartha Vashishtha in Acrobat, How to, TCS specific, Tips and tricks on January 8, 2011

Some handy Acrobat tips…

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Making change bars ‘invisible’ in interim PDFs

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

Another tip on managing change bars efficiently…

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Clearing change bars in a FrameMaker book

Posted by Samartha Vashishtha in Best practices, FrameMaker, How to, TCS specific, Tips and tricks, Troubleshooting, Uncategorized on January 6, 2011

While generating the final PDF for publication, you must remove the change bars in a FrameMaker book. Before you remove the change bars, you should flatten any text insets that the book contains. Here’s information on how you can complete these two tasks…

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Find: Much beyond text…

Posted by Samartha Vashishtha in FrameMaker, How to, TCS specific, Tips and tricks on January 5, 2011

You can use the Find/Change feature in FrameMaker to look for many different kinds of objects across a book or in a document.

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Fix broken cross-references in PDF files

Posted by Samartha Vashishtha in FrameMaker, How to, RoboHelp, TCS specific, Tips and tricks on January 5, 2011

Tweet It can be challenging to find broken cross-references in long documents — 500 pages, for example. Resolving the cross-reference(s) in the source FrameMaker file and then generating the PDF all over again isn’t the only way out. With Acrobat, you can easily fix broken cross-references in the PDF itself. Here’s how: In Acrobat, click Tools > [...]

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Searching for ‘missing’ text in FrameMaker documents

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

Consider these important cases while searching for text in a FrameMaker document or book…

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Setting up a Table of Contents in FrameMaker

Posted by Samartha Vashishtha in FrameMaker, How to, TCS specific, Troubleshooting on January 3, 2011

Asit Pant, a veteran technical communicator and FrameMaker community-member, shares valuable tips about setting up and formatting TOCs.

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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.

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