Editing preloaders in Aggregator projects
Posted by Smitha in Adobe Captivate, Technical Communication - General on February 16, 2011
Tweet You used a preloader in your Aggregator project and saved it on your disk (or published it). Now, you want to use a different preloader or remove it completely from the project, and are not able to figure out how? Read on… Open Adobe Captivate On the Welcome Screen, click Aggregator Project (in the [...]
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…
Dynamic User-Centric Content (DUCC) generation in RoboHelp 9
Posted by Nandini Gupta in RoboHelp, Uncategorized on February 16, 2011
Tweet If you’re a RoboHelp 8 user, you will recognize the drop-down menu highlighted in the snapshot below: The good news is that you can package your output similarly as a set of content categories with RoboHelp 9. The idea is to author content once and deliver it in such a way that users can [...]
Search enhancements in RoboHelp Server 9
Posted by Samartha Vashishtha in New feature, RoboHelp on February 11, 2011
Starting with RoboHelp Server 9, authors can continue to leverage strengths of Lucene Search Engine and also retain control over the search results. RoboHelp provides a number of constructs like Synonyms, Stop List and External Keyword Search; using which authors can controls search results for specific words. Read more…
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…
Technical illustrations in FrameMaker 10
Posted by Chandra Shekhar Puri in FrameMaker, Technical Communication - General, Tips and tricks, Uncategorized on February 9, 2011
Tweet In FrameMaker, you can import or create graphics to add illustrations in your document. You can add text boxes, circles, lines, and arrows in the graphics. You can also resize, reshape, and rotate graphics in FrameMaker. You can import a graphic into an anchored or unanchored graphic frame, into a rectangle that serves as [...]
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…
What’s new in FrameMaker 10
Posted by Nandini Gupta in FrameMaker, Uncategorized on February 8, 2011
Tweet Adobe released FrameMaker 10 on January 11, 2011. By now, enthusiastic Framers have read many reviews, checked out the trial version, and made notes of their own fav features. For those who haven’t, here’s a quick list of What’s new in FrameMaker10 articles that’s worth checking: What’s new topic in FrameMaker documentation Blog post [...]
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.
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