From the monthly archives: February 2011

I Came, I Saw, I Learned…: Adobe FrameMaker 10: Auto Spell Check: “I can’t tell you how many times my Adobe FrameMaker students ask where the ‘red squiggles’ are when we start the lessons on text editing.   In my humble opinion, there’s not a whole lot to like about Microsoft Word, but I have [...]

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8 Ways Unstructured FrameMaker 10 helps Translation: “Any one of over 25 new features in FrameMaker 10 could tempt existing or potential users to move up to this new release. In this blog we focus on a handful of features that will have significant impact on multilingual projects and unstructured FrameMaker documents destined for translation. [...]

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Adobe In Technical Communication Plus » How To Publish To An IPad From FrameMaker 10: “Today’s video will show you how easy it is to publish your FrameMaker books / files (or DITAMAP’s) to epub format for import to your tablet and smart devices. That is correct. You can use the Technical Communication Suite 3 to [...]

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Installing FrameMaker 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 in Windows 7 It is possible to installed earlier versions of FrameMaker in Windows 7.  The following procedure will help you to install FrameMaker 6.0, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, or 8.0 in Windows Vista or Windows 7. 1. After you insert the FrameMaker install disk, do not run the autoplay.  The [...]

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Designing templates in FrameMaker (Part 5) « Technical Communication Suite: “In this short blog post, we will discuss ‘Headings with Text.’ Well, I am aware that (almost) all headings have text, but here we are talking about headings that have some specific text added to them automatically, without you having to type that text. For [...]

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Designing templates in FrameMaker (Part 4) « Technical Communication Suite: “In this post, we will discuss numbered lists. Numbered lists are typically used for steps. Something like: Open the ‘other program’ Try to work with numbered lists. Control your anger. Switch to FrameMaker. Live happily ever after. You see, numbered lists in FrameMaker really work. You [...]

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Designing templates in FrameMaker (Part 3) « Technical Communication Suite: “Yesterday’s blog post in this series talked about bulleted lists, tabs, sub-bullets, and related things. Now, let us want more. For example, my sensibilities dictate that the bullets should be square and not round—I hate going around in circles. Or, you want the sub-bullets to [...]

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Designing templates in FrameMaker (Part 2) « Technical Communication Suite: “I heard from people asking me to me to explain auto-numbering in detail, with real-world examples. Your wish being my command, that is what we will do in this post: look at examples of numbered and bulleted lists, and more. A quick recap: Use the [...]

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Designing templates in FrameMaker (Part 1) « Technical Communication Suite: “Think of a FrameMaker template as the foundation of the structure and appearance of your documents. An analogy might be to consider the template as the house plan of the document – while you will construct the actual house later (that is, create the content [...]

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Latest Release of WebWorks ePublisher Introduces Reverb Help, the First Help Authoring Tool Format Designed Exclusively for Internet Users – Yahoo! Finance: “AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — WebWorks, a leading enterprise digital content conversion and publishing software company based in Austin, today announced the release of its newest version of ePublisher that includes [...]

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