Adobe Thought-Leadership Event @ STC Summit Chicago

May 10, 2012 @ 7:23 AM, By Parth Mukherjee

The STC Annual Summit is just around the corner. What are you packing for your trip to Chicago? Do remember to reach in time to listen to and interact with some of the best known faces of the TechComm world. Adobe is committed towards bringing together thought-leaders in this space a day before important events read more…

Make Most of our Summer TechComm Webinar Gala

April 17, 2012 @ 4:23 PM, By Parth Mukherjee

Register for our upcoming webinars: http://adobe.ly/w3b1nars Watch our past webinar recordings on-demand: http://adobe.ly/0nd3mand ——————————————————————————————– Upcoming webinars: All webinars start at 10 AM PST Going global and mobile with Adobe FrameMaker, April 26 -  John Smart of Smart Communications, Inc, New York Enterprise Productivity Series by Tom Aldous: Enterprise Productivity Enhancements in RoboHelp 9 and RoboHelp read more…

Generate HTML Report for DITA Map Element Usage Metrics in FrameMaker

April 10, 2012 @ 7:10 PM, By Nakshatra Bhardwaj

Hello Framers, Thank you for your feedback on the survey shared along with the last post that we made around “How to run FrameMaker on Mac“. We have got ample responses that would help us take the decision going forward. Today, I’m going to share with you an ExtendScript utility that would help the DITA read more…

Move from Adobe FrameMaker 7.X to 10 and get 30% off!

April 4, 2012 @ 1:30 PM, By Parth Mukherjee

Update: Want to avail the discount and move to FrameMaker 10, click here and submit a Request for Information. Dear Framers, Do you still use FrameMaker 7.X for authoring content? Move to FrameMaker 10 – at a 30% discount! Since the 7.X versions, Adobe FrameMaker has added many features that have been remarkable strides towards read more…

#ICC12: Resizing Content for the Small Screen: Considerations

February 27, 2012 @ 5:16 PM, By Maxwell Hoffmann

Much has been written or presented on the process of converting content for mobile devices and tablets. But little has been written about how we must change the way we write for delivery to a device that displays about one ninth of web or PDF content viewed on a single laptop screen. This blog touches read more…

Extendscript of the week: Keyboard simulation in FM via Fcodes

February 27, 2012 @ 12:53 PM, By Amit Agarwal

Fcodes could be called as JIT automation for FrameMaker i.e. With minimal effort one could automate FM tasks with it. If you are a starter it could be very effective in automating some of the small tasks – in a breeze! Fcodes are small programmatic commands/constants that can automatically simulate user-input within FrameMaker. It is read more…

Beyond Pages and PDF: The changing role of Technical Communication

February 21, 2012 @ 6:33 AM, By Maxwell Hoffmann

Much has been written about how the job title “technical writer” or “technical editor” is probably out-of-date. Today’s authors and editors of mission critical technical information have taken on new, hybrid roles. This is the perfect week to reflect on this topic as the Intelligent Content Conference meets in Palm Springs February 21st through February read more…

ExtendScript of the Week : Suppressing a specific FM Alert

February 16, 2012 @ 9:08 AM, By Vikash Kumar

Continuing with the  “Extend Script of the Week”  postings, now  we will showcase an extend script which suppresses a specific FM alert which is specified by the user. The script prompts the user to enter the alert string displayed by FM Alert dialog in a text box and then subsequently suppresses the alert when it occurs. Information about the read more…

One more reason to upgrade to FrameMaker 10

February 16, 2012 @ 1:09 AM, By Maxwell Hoffmann

by Maxwell Hoffmann During my recent years consulting and managing production in the translation industry, I encountered far too many customers who stayed “stuck” on an aging version of FrameMaker. Usually it was FrameMaker 7.2. In my new role as Product Evangelist for Tech Comm Suite, I’ll be authoring several future blogs which willcover many read more…

Post 6: How to run FrameMaker on Mac?

February 13, 2012 @ 9:36 AM, By Nakshatra Bhardwaj

Hello Framers, Hope you are well. We are back after a break! This is the next post in the series, we are doing to provide accurate and complete information to our user base. Today, we will be discussing a very important topic, one which has been discussed several times in the FrameMaker user community. The topic is how read more…