Adobe FrameMaker for Unstructured Layout (compared to Word & InDesign)
- May 21, 2013
Are a technical writer, trying to determine which software will work best to lay out your specific projects? If so, this seminar is for you.
Join us for a 50-minute overview of unstructured layout using Adobe FrameMaker 11. Your host and Adobe Certified Instructor, Barb Binder, will help you to understand the strengths (and weaknesses) of Adobe FrameMaker, and help you determine how Word will fit into your workflow, and if you should be considering Adobe InDesign. There will be a brief Q&A at the end of the webinar, so bring your questions!
About our Presenter: Barb Binder is an Adobe Certified Instructor and the owner of Rocky Mountain Training. When she’s not teaching grown-ups how to use Adobe software, she’s at Winter Park teaching kids how to ski. -- She has been an Adobe Certified Instructor since 1997, and is currently certified on FrameMaker, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InCopy and the Digital Publishing Suite. Her company, Rocky Mountain Training was one of the early adopters of online, interactive training delivery. Students attend classes from locations in North America, South America, Europe and even Australia.
FrameMaker 11 for Word Users: Sess 7) FrameMaker for Word Users: "Bullet-proof" autonumbered lists and headings
- May 22, 2013
One long-standing complaint amongst Word users has been fragile auto-numbers. This feature is one of FrameMaker's greatest strengths. Join this webinar to discover how (a) simple building blocks will create "bullet-proof" numbering schemes, (b) how you can easily "borrow" existing numbering schemes from existing templates and (c) how you can use the paragraph "numbering" feature for other purposes (e.g. "prefix" text for CAUTIONs or WARNINGs.)
About the Presenter: Maxwell Hoffmann, Adobe's Global Product Evangelist for Tech Comm Suite, has extensive tech comm publishing experience, having worked for a variety of publishing vendors and translation agencies before coming on board with Adobe. He is a former FrameMaker product marketing manager with Frame Technology (before Adobe acquired the product), and has trained over 1,200 people in scalable publishing solutions over the years.
Beyond Help: Aggregating content with RoboHelp
- May 23, 2013
RoboHelp 10 is an ideal solultion for publishing to multiple devices: HTML5 output expands publishing to a variety of tablets with "device aware" layouts. But RoboHelp is also an ideal authoring tool for collecting and aggregating content from a variety of common file formats.
In the webinar see how to:
- import or link files from Word
- import or link files from FrameMaker
- import legacy files from formats like PDF
Many people producing policies and procedures or help desk sites must capture critical information from many legacy files. This brief webinar will show you examples of just how easy it is to bring files in from multiple formats into a simple RoboHelp project.
Join our special guest, RoboHelp expert Willam van Weelden, for this dynamic presentation, which will be filled with many short, simple, live examples. Willam van Weelden is from Amsterdam and expert in CSS3 design and the new HTML5 standards. (www.wvanweelden.eu)
HYPERWRITE Sess 4) 10 Acronyms Changing the World of Technical Communication
- May 23, 2013
In order to WOOO, technical communicators must shift from a WYSIWYG to a WYSIOO philosophy. And in a globalised world, XLIFF is becoming a lynchpin for L10N, but sometimes I18N can be accomplished through STE. RSS is proving to be useful for purposes other than textual content, but technical communicators may find developments in SWF creation more fun. For technical illustrations, SVG offers advantages not only for creators of diagrams, but for users of documentation. While initially XUL and XAML may seem to be something for programmers to dream about, technical communicators will find that these technologies will cause screen capture techniques to change from raster to vector. And we haven’t even touched on ISO 26514, S1000D and DITA yet! Time to STOP! In this Webinar, the bewildering acronyms that have an immediate and specific relevance to the technical communication world will be explained, and the significance of the ideas, methodologies, technologies and standards behind them revealed.
About the Presenter: Based in Melbourne, Australia, Dr Tony Self (@hyperwrite) has over 30 years of experience as a technical communicator. For over 20 years, Tony has worked in the areas of online help systems, computer-based training, and XML documents. In 1993, he founded HyperWrite, a company providing training and consultancy in structured authoring, Help systems, DITA, and technology strategy. Tony completed his PhD in semantic mark-up languages in 2011, and his book The DITA Style Guide was published in the same year. He is a member of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee (and chair of the DITA Help Subcommittee), is an adjunct teaching fellow at Swinburne University, and is the Director of Training for TCTrainNet, a training initiative of tekom, the German professional association for technical communicators.
HYPERWRITE Sess 5) Thoughts on the future of Help systems
- June 06, 2013
Help systems have evolved dramatically since their invention in the 1980s, and continue to morph into an array of user assistance deliverables. In this Webinar, we will take a book back at the history and future of Help in software user interfaces, before looking ahead to what user assistance may look like in the next decade. Will online Help systems, perhaps delivered with eInk, be commonly found in consumer goods such as fridges, lawn mowers and food mixers? Will augmented reality result in engineering drawings and documentation becoming closely inter-related? Will video usurp text as the primary medium for Help delivery? Will software tools write their own manuals? These interesting questions will be explored and many of our assumptions will be challenged.
About the Presenter: Based in Melbourne, Australia, Dr Tony Self (@hyperwrite) has over 30 years of experience as a technical communicator. For over 20 years, Tony has worked in the areas of online help systems, computer-based training, and XML documents. In 1993, he founded HyperWrite, a company providing training and consultancy in structured authoring, Help systems, DITA, and technology strategy. Tony completed his PhD in semantic mark-up languages in 2011, and his book The DITA Style Guide was published in the same year. He is a member of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee (and chair of the DITA Help Subcommittee), is an adjunct teaching fellow at Swinburne University, and is the Director of Training for TCTrainNet, a training initiative of tekom, the German professional association for technical communicators.
