From the yearly archives: 2004
Revolutionize Your Career!
If you’re involved with technical communications-as a writer, editor, content developer, graphic artist, or manager-you should plan to be in Williamsburg on January 15, 2005.
Information Design and Management 2005!
Join us for the Conference on January 15th. Learn new techniques and tools of our trade, network with your colleagues from the region, review your portfolio, and meet with recruiters from staffing firms. Enjoy the food, the company, and the ambience of Colonial Williamsburg at prices you can afford, even in these days and following the holidays! Join your colleagues in Williamsburg for this event.
Continue Reading →The ISTC documentation competition 2005 is an opportunity for anyone is the field of Scientific and Technical Communication to show off their hard work and get some recognition for their achievements.
Plenty of time to think ahead and make sure that you can get your entries in on time. Submissions must be at the ISTC office by the end of July at the latest.
For more details, see the ISTC website at http://www.istc.org.uk/pages/awards.php
- FrameMaker Template Design
- Single Sourcing with FrameMaker
- FrameMaker-to-Acrobat Advanced Techniques
- Structured FrameMaker: Authoring
- Structured FrameMaker: Developing EDDs
- Technical Indexing with FrameMakerand more
Locations: San Francisco Bay Area (Seaport Center, Redwood City), CA; Kfar Yona, Israel; Boston, MA; Minneapolis, MN; London, England Continue Reading →
Position Summary:
We’re building a cutting-edge publishing solution for Adobe’s worldwide instructional documentation, and we need a skilled technical production specialist to help us. As a key member of the production team within Instructional Communications, you will create help and printed output for Adobe applications using a new XML-based publishing system. You must enjoy technical challenges, as you test the system, trouble-shoot problems, and document the results. You will support other production artists and writers using the system, and work with an internal engineering team to define new production workflows. You must understand localization issues, and support our translation vendors.
Knowledge & Skills:
- BA/BS or equivalent experience.
- Extensive use of FrameMaker in a production environment.
- Experience converting document libraries from unstructured to structured FrameMaker.
- EDD and DTD development and maintenance.
- Extensive use of XML. Strong technical problem solving abilities.
- Experience logging and regressing bugs against software.
- XSLT or Java programming a plus.
Location:
Adobe Systems, Incorporated. San Jose, CA.
Working on your budget for 2005? Now’s the time to request funds for training, particularly if you’re evaluating XML and structured FrameMaker for your documentation workflow. Scriptorium Publishing’s courses provide useful information about implementing structure and offer practical, real-world experience on all aspects of structured and unstructured FrameMaker 7 and 7.1.
Our 2005 schedule for public classes is as follows:
Continue Reading →The RSS News Viewer plugin from Zenserve allows you to view RSS feeds from inside the structured version of FrameMaker 7. You can store up to five RSS channels, and the viewer window provides page reload, hyperlink, and navigational functionality.
Continue Reading →Do you need to improve your Adobe FrameMaker skill set? If so, consider attending these upcoming training events offered by Bright Path Solutions.
Both classes are made possible through the STC Hoosier chapter, and are at special rates for this STC offering. The classes and rates were organized by Scott Abel.
The first class, “What You Need to Know about Structured FrameMaker”, is designed to help technical writers and other content creators begin creating and managing structured, reusable content using Adobe FrameMaker.
The second class, “Using Adobe FrameMaker with WebWorks Publisher”, is designed to teach writers how to create HTML information products (e.g. online help, web content, user information centers) from Adobe FrameMaker files using Web Works Publisher.
Continue Reading →Considering XML and structured FrameMaker for your documentation workflow? Sign up for training at Scriptorium Publishing to get useful information about implementing structure and to gain practical, real-world experience on all aspects of structured FrameMaker 7.
Our fall schedule is as follows:
October 25-26 XML and Structured Authoring
November 16 Structured FrameMaker 7: Introduction to Authoring
November 17-18 Advanced Structured FrameMaker 7: Building EDDs
November 19 Advanced Structured FrameMaker 7: Structured Applications
PT freelance contract opportunity for PC typesetter in the Creative Services department at Prisma International, a global communications company, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Candidates do not need to be located in MN. Previous PC experience required in:
- FM
- Word
Technical Writer II
Job Type: Permanent
Location:Charleston, SC
Experience: 5 – 0
Compensation:$40,000.00-$50,000.00
Candidate will support the effort to research, write, edit, and proofread technical data for use in documents such as technical manuals, user guides, and training guides. Candidate is responsible for ensuring the accurate and, timely completion of a complete technical manual package for complex electronic systems. Ensures documents are accurate, complete, meet editorial and government specifications and adheres to standards for quality, coverage, format and style.
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