2014: The year we moved beyond paper No doubt, 2014 will be remembered as a milestone year for Adobe TechComm for a number of reasons: FrameMaker 12 moved our flagship product beyond paper with one touch publish to 5 popular online formats A new kind of “XML only” FrameMaker (FrameMaker XML Author 12) was also read more…
Hello Framers, First of all, Wish you a very happy new year 2015! Today, I am pleased to announce that we have released an important update to the Technical Communication line of products which includes FrameMaker 12, FrameMaker XML Author 12 and RoboHelp 11. In this update, we have made several enhancements as well as addressed read more…
Hello Everyone, Hope all of you are doing well. I am happy to let you know that we have released an important update to the Technical Communication line of products which includes FrameMaker 12, FrameMaker XML Author 12 and RoboHelp 11. In this blog post, I will be talking about the RoboHelp 11 update. For read more…
Popular Adobe Tech Comm webinar guest, Russ Ward, gave a highly instructive presentation on modifying FrameMaker’s menus and user interface via ExtendScript in mid-December. You may view the recording of this webinar by clicking on the hyper-linked TITLE below: Customizing UI for FrameMaker with ExtendScript (A Beginner’s Guide!) Minute markers for key highlights in the read more…
There are many ways to easily convert unstructured data into DITA for FrameMaker. One of the most “automated” and intriguing is DITAToo. This FrameMaker partner solution (which includes a full CMS for DITA) was showcased by Alex Mayshenk. You may view the recording by clicking on the hyper-linked title below: Comprehensive DITA Pubs & CMS read more…
Adobe Tech Comm welcomed the opportunity to have Thomas Aldous of ACROLINX be our guest in an early December webinar. Tom was a former Tech Comm Product Evangelist for Adobe, and he worked closely with our current Evangelist on many projects over a 20 year span. You may view the recording of this webinar by read more…
[An update from Nandini Gupta and Peter G.A. Barraud] – Over the years, many of you from the FrameMaker community shared rich feedback on the content and structure of the FrameMaker user’s guide. We’ve been listening and we’ve spent several busy months acting on the feedback to create an improved user’s guide that meets your read more…
In early December Ray Gallon and Neus Lorenzo delivered their fourth and final episode in their “Tech Challenges: Surfing and Diving Deep” webinar series. You may view the recording of this webinar by clicking on the TITLE in the line below: Sess 4) Digital Learning : Individual Adaptive Construction or Connected Social Interaction? You may read more…
In a recent webinar, a key Adobe partner, eGloo Technologies, presented a very dynamic look at a powerful new FrameMaker solution. Don Stolee demonstrated how tekAuthor and tekReader, connected with Structured FrameMaker, can give you a radically new dynamic way to share HTML5 in a “Reader” format that is closer to a traditional page view. read more…
Recently, one of our most valued Adobe FrameMaker partners, Rick Quatro of Carmen Publishing, was a guest presenter on a lively session on how to use REGULAR EXPRESSIONS in FIND/CHANGE within FrameMaker. This potent feature was added with the release of FrameMaker 12. You may view a recording of this session by clicking on the read more…
Hello Framers, First of all, Wish you a very happy new year 2015! Today, I am pleased to announce that we have released an important update to the Technical Communication line of products which includes FrameMaker 12, FrameMaker XML Author 12 and RoboHelp 11. In this update, we have made several enhancements as well as addressed read more…
Hello Everyone, Hope all of you are doing well. I am happy to let you know that we have released an important update to the Technical Communication line of products which includes FrameMaker 12, FrameMaker XML Author 12 and RoboHelp 11. In this blog post, I will be talking about the RoboHelp 11 update. For read more…
[An update from Nandini Gupta and Peter G.A. Barraud] – Over the years, many of you from the FrameMaker community shared rich feedback on the content and structure of the FrameMaker user’s guide. We’ve been listening and we’ve spent several busy months acting on the feedback to create an improved user’s guide that meets your read more…
Hello Everyone, Hope all of you are doing well. I am happy to let you know that we have released an important update to the Technical Communication line of products which includes FrameMaker 12, FrameMaker XML Author 12 and RoboHelp 11. In this update, we have made several enhancements as well as addressed many issues, reported by read more…
Hello Framers, Hope all of you are doing well. I am pleased to announce that we have released an important update to the Technical Communication line of products which includes FrameMaker 12, FrameMaker XML Author 12 and RoboHelp 11. In this update, we have made several enhancements as well as addressed many issues, reported by our customers read more…
I am pleased to announce a new public bugbase system where you can file bugs and feature requests for FrameMaker. You can directly use the link below or FrameMaker wishform will redirect you there. https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm All you need is to login with your Adobe ID. With this new interface you can now track bugs logged by you, read more…
Hello Framers, Hope you are well. I am happy to let you know that we have released an important update to the Technical Communication line of products which includes FrameMaker 12, FrameMaker XML Author 12 and Robohelp 11. In this update, we have made several enhancements as well as addressed many issues, reported by our customers read more…
Hello Everyone, I am pleased to announce the availability of RoboHelp 11.0.1 update. As part of this update, we have fixed several issues that were reported to us by our users and valued partners. In addition, there are some enhancements in this service update as well. Here is a summary of the enhancements in this read more…
Hello Everyone, Hope you are well. Some of you may have heard about the recent change with Creative Suite 6 being discontinued via CLP/TLP programs for commercial and government (excl. China and Japan government). Cumulative and Transnational Licensing programs (CLP/TLP) two of the volume licensing options available for our customers. For more information, please refer read more…
Hello Everyone, As many of you would know, we released RoboHelp 11 on Jan 14, 2014. In this blog, I will be covering an exciting new feature which allows you to seamlessly connect RoboHelp Resource Manager with the sync folders of popular cloud services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, or any other read more…
Hello Framers, First of all, Wish you a very happy new year 2015! Today, I am pleased to announce that we have released an important update to the Technical Communication line of products which includes FrameMaker 12, FrameMaker XML Author 12 and RoboHelp 11. In this update, we have made several enhancements as well as addressed read more…
Hello Everyone, Hope all of you are doing well. I am happy to let you know that we have released an important update to the Technical Communication line of products which includes FrameMaker 12, FrameMaker XML Author 12 and RoboHelp 11. In this blog post, I will be talking about the RoboHelp 11 update. For read more…
[An update from Nandini Gupta and Peter G.A. Barraud] – Over the years, many of you from the FrameMaker community shared rich feedback on the content and structure of the FrameMaker user’s guide. We’ve been listening and we’ve spent several busy months acting on the feedback to create an improved user’s guide that meets your read more…
Hello Tech Comm Professionals, Today, we are pleased to announce the launch of Adobe Tech Comm Survey 2014! We are always looking for ways of improving our products and make them even better for the tech comm community. For this, we love to hear your feedback and understand key developments on your side, which are changing the way you read more…
Hello Everyone, Hope all of you are doing well. I am happy to let you know that we have released an important update to the Technical Communication line of products which includes FrameMaker 12, FrameMaker XML Author 12 and RoboHelp 11. In this update, we have made several enhancements as well as addressed many issues, reported by read more…
Hello Framers, Hope all of you are doing well. I am pleased to announce that we have released an important update to the Technical Communication line of products which includes FrameMaker 12, FrameMaker XML Author 12 and RoboHelp 11. In this update, we have made several enhancements as well as addressed many issues, reported by our customers read more…
I am pleased to announce a new public bugbase system where you can file bugs and feature requests for FrameMaker. You can directly use the link below or FrameMaker wishform will redirect you there. https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm All you need is to login with your Adobe ID. With this new interface you can now track bugs logged by you, read more…
Hello Framers, Hope you are well. I am happy to let you know that we have released an important update to the Technical Communication line of products which includes FrameMaker 12, FrameMaker XML Author 12 and Robohelp 11. In this update, we have made several enhancements as well as addressed many issues, reported by our customers read more…
Hello Everyone, I am pleased to announce the availability of RoboHelp 11.0.1 update. As part of this update, we have fixed several issues that were reported to us by our users and valued partners. In addition, there are some enhancements in this service update as well. Here is a summary of the enhancements in this read more…
Hello Everyone, Hope you are well. Some of you may have heard about the recent change with Creative Suite 6 being discontinued via CLP/TLP programs for commercial and government (excl. China and Japan government). Cumulative and Transnational Licensing programs (CLP/TLP) two of the volume licensing options available for our customers. For more information, please refer read more…
Guest Bloggers
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olum McAndrew
Senior Technical Writer, IDBS
Twitter: @robocolumn
Colum is a Technical Author based in Guildford, UK. A user of Adobe RoboHelp since 1999, he can frequently be found on that product’s support forums offering advice to other users. He also writes the RoboColum(n) technical authoring blog which focuses largely on RoboHelp, RoboHelp Server and other Adobe Technical Communications Suite products.
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ohn Daigle
President, Evergreen Online Learning, LLC
Twitter: @hypertexas
A frequent speaker at national online help conferences, John is an Adobe Certified RoboHelp, Captivate and Acrobat Connect Professional Instructor. He has taught RoboHelp since 1992 and Adobe Captivate since it was introduced. His speaking engagements include the STC Manhattan Chapter, STC Summits in Minneapolis, Atlanta, Philadelphia, WritersUA and LavaCon conferences. John is a member of the Society for Technical Communication (Rocky Mountain Chapter) and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from the University of Houston. He began his career in broadcast news as a reporter for the NBC television affiliate in Houston, Texas.
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evin Siegel
Founder & President, IconLogic, Inc.
Twitter: @Kevin_Siegel
Kevin has written more than 100 step-by-step computer training books including Essentials of RoboDemo 5, Essentials of Adobe RoboHelp 9, Essentials of Adobe RoboHelp 8, Essentials of Adobe RoboHelp 7. Kevin spent five years in the U.S. Coast Guard as an award-winning photojournalist and has more than two decades experience as a print publisher, technical writer, instructional designer and eLearning developer. He is a certified technical trainer, has been a classroom instructor for more than 20 years and is a frequent speaker at trade shows and conventions. Kevin holds multiple certifications from companies such as Adobe and the CompTIA.
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cott Prentice
Founder & President, Leximation
Twitter: @saprentice
Scott is a specialist in online documentation development and efficient publishing processes. He has spent 19+ years as a technical publications application developer, overlapping with 8 years as a technical writer of user and developer documentation. Extensive design experience gives Scott the ability to creatively solve unique problems on short notice. His specialties include custom web application development, online document interface design, and authoring productivity enhancements. He is also adept at creating innovative solutions that facilitate content localization into many languages.
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illam van Weelden
Technical Writer, Centric IT Solutions
Twitter: @WvWeelden
William is a technical writer and a part time Philosophy student at the University of Utrecht. He creates help, demonstrations and commercial documentation using a variety of tools, including Captivate, FrameMaker and RoboHelp. You can visit him at www.wvanweelden.eu
Adobe Bloggers
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nkur Jain
Product Manager (Technical Communication Suite, RoboHelp, and RoboHelp Server )
Twitter: @ankurjain8
Ankur is responsible for Adobe’s business strategy, product roadmap, and partner and customer relationships for his Technical Communication products. He is a popular speaker at technical communication conferences around the globe. Prior to Adobe, Ankur worked as a Senior Product Manager at Trilogy, where he specialized in solving industry’s toughest problems and delivering business value through relentless innovation and technology-powered business services. Earlier in his consulting role, he served over a half dozen clients in the US and the UK on various strategic initiatives. Ankur holds an MBA and enjoys traveling.
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apil Verma
Senior Product Manager (FrameMaker, FrameMaker Server)
Twitter: @KapilVermaAdobe
Kapil is responsible for the overall FrameMaker product strategy and roadmap, partner ecosystem management, and customer relationships. Prior to Adobe, he worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co., where he served Fortune 500 technology and telecomm corporations on a variety of strategic topics. Earlier, he worked at Capital One in Virginia, where he developed and shaped marketing strategy.
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axwell Hoffmann
Product Evangelist
Twitter: @maxwellhoffmann
Maxwell has continually worked with FrameMaker software in several capacities for over 20 years. He has provided hands-on sales and customer training to over 1,200 people in North America, Europe, Australia and South America. Maxwell spent the last 15 years in the translation industry, where he managed consulting, DITA/XML migration and multilingual publishing production with FrameMaker, RoboHelp and the most common competitive products. A prolific blogger and white paper author, Maxwell has been a frequent featured speaker at conferences relating to technical communications. He was designated an Adobe Community Expert in 2007 and a 2011 inductee to the Adobe Community Professional program as a recognized expert in FrameMaker. Maxwell has also been designated one of the Top 25 Most Influential Content Strategists for 2010 by MindTouch and LavaCon.
Parth Mukherjee
Product Marketing Manager
Twitter: @parthsm
Parth manages marketing activities for the technical communication products. In his capacity he manages marketing strategy, investments, lead generation and partner relationships. Parth also manages social media and web content for the business. In this capacity, he creates as well as manages web content and technical documentation for Adobe products. Parth holds an MBA in Marketing and has been a branding expert in the consulting services space before joining Adobe.
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om Aldous
Director – Business Development and Evangelism
Twitter: @tmaldous
Tom leads the business development activities for Adobe’s technical communication tools. Before joining Adobe in January 2011, he worked for over 20 years as a managing partner and consultant at an Adobe business partner company called Integrated Technologies, Inc. (InTech). While at InTech, Tom successfully implemented large-scale XML solutions at several Fortune 500 companies.
