Reflections on Writing Short Descriptions

June 18, 2013 @ 5:21 PM, By Maxwell Hoffmann

Guest blogger, thought leader Tony Self, has written a second installment in a 2-part series of thought provoking blogs on relevant trends. You will find a link to his previous blog at the end of this article. A major challenge in DITA One of the most difficult tasks when working in DITA is writing short read more…

TCWorld Roadshow wrapup: Changing the venue without stopping the show

June 18, 2013 @ 4:02 PM, By Maxwell Hoffmann

In the first 2 weeks of June, a small but devoted team travelled from Helsinki to Paris to spread the word about modern methods in technical communication. The tcworld roadshow took us from countries on the Arctic sea to a country that has beaches on the Mediterranean, from “vodka in the rocks” in a bar read more…

Adobe STC Summit Interviews 1: eBooks, Storytelling and reaching the Disabled

June 18, 2013 @ 3:13 AM, By Maxwell Hoffmann

This is the first in our series of video interviews with key thought leaders and bright attendees at the STC Annual Summit in Atlanta. Adobe installed cameras, lights and had the “Content Wrangler” himself to help gather some of the most interesting thought leaders present. We have 40 interviews to share, and will be rolling read more…

Report from Antwerp: TCWorld Roadshow with FrameMaker

June 14, 2013 @ 12:32 PM, By Maxwell Hoffmann

Traveling to Antwerp is best done by train, as traffic jams can get really crazy on the ring road and the center of town is maze of tiny streets with lots of traffic lights, trams, buses and zebra crossings with slow pedestrians dragging suitcases or holding up their cameras, oblivious of the stress that is read more…

Report from Eindhoven: TCWorld Roadshow with FrameMaker

June 13, 2013 @ 4:44 PM, By Maxwell Hoffmann

Another week, another part of Europe. Today the tcworld roadshow landed in Eindhoven. This city was a tiny town when the Philips family started a light bulb factory in 1891. The city is still known as the ‘city of lights’ in the Netherlands. Thanks to the enormous amount of educated workforce that was needed by read more…

Congratulations to the Lucky Seven! (Survey winners)

June 10, 2013 @ 4:38 PM, By Maxwell Hoffmann

The Adobe Tech Comm online survey which commenced at 12:00 am PST 22nd  May, 2013, and closed at 11:59 pm PST on 5th  June, 2013, got an overwhelming response. Your feedback was most encouraging as well as eye opening; expect to see it being incorporated in the coming days to deliver a more exciting tech read more…

“Classic” 7-Part Aldous series on “Unstructured to XML” webinar series republished

June 7, 2013 @ 1:43 PM, By Maxwell Hoffmann

In 2011, then Product Evangelist Tom Aldous produced a “deep dive”, 7-part series of webinars that covered all steps required in converting unstructured content to XML in FrameMaker. Although this series was done with FrameMaker 10, the basic steps largely remain the same, and many users frequently consulted this series as a useful references. We read more…

Report from Copenhagen: TCWorld Roadshow with FrameMaker

June 7, 2013 @ 12:43 AM, By Maxwell Hoffmann

The end of the first week in the tcworld roadshow found us in the Danish capital Copenhagen. The hotel was conveniently close to the airport but a little further away from the center of this beautiful town. I was staying in a small apartment in the North and on my way to the bus that read more…

FrameMaker 11.0.2 Patch Released

June 6, 2013 @ 3:47 PM, By Vikram Verma

Dear Framers, Over the past few months, many of our valued partners and customers had reported a few bugs in FrameMaker 11. We have been actively listening to the feedback and have fixed some of the critical bugs in FrameMaker 11. I am pleased to announce the availability of FrameMaker 11.0.2 patch. I would like read more…

Report from Stockholm: TCWorld Roadshow with FrameMaker

June 5, 2013 @ 12:26 PM, By Maxwell Hoffmann

Two days after Helsinki we landed in Stockholm for the second stage in our tour across Northern and Northwestern Europe. The venue was of a totally different style, in a modern hotel conveniently located next to the main railway station. A unique opportunity that we could not pass up was the presence of an ice read more…

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