Many forms of tech doc still require CAUTIONs and WARNINGs, which are delineated by special artwork. Most Word users employ artwork that is copied and pasted to achieve the desired look. FrameMaker 11 offers a powerful feature: Reference Pages which contain one instance of the desired CAUTION artwork that is duplicated many times via paragraph read more…
Ellis Pratt of Cherryleaf in the UK made a very compelling presentation on the Changing Nature of Content in a recent webinar with Adobe. There is a webinar recording, and a detailed white paper (authored by Pratt) which you can download on this subject. NOTE: both of the links in the previous sentence will take read more…
Hello everyone! At the last STC Summit last year in Chicago, we had several people come up to us and say they were sad they missed the amazing lineup of speakers we had at Adobe Day just one day prior to the Summit opening. To ensure no one misses the great opportunity this time, we’ve read more…
Long time FrameMaker maven and trainer, Barb Binder of Rocky Mountain Training, was our recent webinar guest in a lively session entitled “FrameMaker 11 Classroom in a Book: meet the author, see it on iPad!” In this engaging interview, Barb revealed what led her to write the book in the first place, and the reception read more…
Our third “video blog” on FrameMaker 11 for Word users focuses on the dynamics of page layout. This is possibly one of the areas in “basic” FrameMaker where feature advantages over Word are most pronounced. Since Word was originally developed as a personal, productivity word processor on a platform (PC with DOS) that did not read more…
Did you know that more people on the planet use mobile phones than toothbrushes? Did you know that there are 5x as many cellphones on the planet as there are PCs? In 2013 mobile devices will overtake PCs as the most common means of access to the Web. Val Swisher of Content Rules delivered a read more…
[Updated Blog: webinar recording links and additional information added] — Our goal at Adobe Tech Comm is not only to provide meaningful “how to” demos on our product line, but also to share vision and strategy from experienced thought leaders and practitioners from our field. In the month of November, we had 3 especially interesting read more…
Adobe Tech Comm recently hosted visionary content strategist Joe Gollner on the topic of “Content Strategies for the Real World.” This blog summarizes key concepts covered in the webinar. You may view a recording of the entire webinar by clicking here. Joe started his discussion with his definition of “The Intelligent Content Imperative”: A Global read more…
I am sure if you had a look at FrameMaker 11, the newly changed Quick Catalogs i.e. Smart Insert (also called as Control Shortcuts, F8/F9) wouldn’t have gone amiss! With this feature, we can use keyboard shortcuts to bring up element catalog at the insertion point – a great productivity enhancement! The catalog also supports read more…
Read the entire whitepaper Executive Summary: The era of Technical Communications 2.0 is here, presenting technical communicators with unprecedented opportunities to expand their roles, increase their internal visibility, and grow the value and reach of every publication they work on. To do this, they must become aware of three top trends that are currently driving read more…
