Captivate Simulation of FrameMaker Utility Available

by admin on March 9, 2010

Check out  http://blogs.roundpeg.com/2010/03/fm-char-palette-util/ for a writeup of the easy-to-use FrameMaker Character Palette utility, complete with an interactive simulation. For Frame users, WAY easier than the Windows Character Map utility

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Free icons for web links

by admin on February 26, 2010

Excellent free web artwork

I found a great list of free icons like these at http://websitetips.com/graphics/webicons/. 165 Icons in green jpeg

This is only one set of  the free icons available there, and I found it at /www.gosquared.com/liquidicity/archives/122

Social Media and others

Socialize Part 2 Preview Image 1I also found great stuff at http://dryicons.com/free-icons/page/2/

Shareware Solicitation

I also like what gosquared did with their PayPal Tip Jar…subtle, and well-designed.

Twitter Logos

A fantastic collection of twitter art is at

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/100-remarkably-beautiful-twitter-icons-and-buttons/

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grafixtraining.com home page is now our blog

February 18, 2010

Matt Sullivan (Founder and CEO of GRAFIX Training, Inc.) is now the director of training for roundpeg, inc.
If you are looking for content previously contained on grafixtraining.com, please leave a comment below and I will respond as soon as possible.

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OCSTC Presentation

February 16, 2010

 
If the above slidedeck is not available, you may download the .ppt at
https://acrobat.com/#d=-Uds53klKV5hCyYsiAhOsA

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Embedding content from Acrobat.com

February 16, 2010

This page is to describe the process of embedding acrobat.com content on a website…
Unfortunately, I’ve had no luck with the embedding code from acrobat.com. I’ll update when I get a solution!

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Hot tip: Adding PDF links to RoboHelp project from Frame files

February 11, 2010

Borrowed from http://forums.adobe.com/message/2584446#2584446. Thanks to Adriana Harper and Stefan4321 for their posts! 
Scenario: 

Using FrameMaker to single source print, pdf and online docs

Inserting markers to link to external PDF resources

Linking files with RoboHelp using Technical Communication Suite 2

Issue: 

Print and PDF are handled properly, but RoboHelp project links are broken

Solution: 
Since the hypertext marker has the following syntax: “message URL [...]

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TCS Integration Training Topics

February 5, 2010

Workflow and integration feature overview

Output of content from FrameMaker into RoboHelp
Placing Captivate movies (.swf) in FrameMaker
Placing Captivate movies (.swf) in RoboHelp
Support of video and 3d in output of PDF from FrameMaker

Linking FrameMaker files in RoboHelp projects

Adding FrameMaker books and files

Mapping formats and structures from FrameMaker into RoboHelp

Paragraph formats
Topic pagination options
Topic numbering options
Topic list optons
Character formats
Mapping cross [...]

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FrameMaker Template Design Training Topics

February 4, 2010

Introduction
Understand a typical FrameMaker workflow
Review the FrameMaker interface
Review of the elements that make up a template
Basic document setup
Set up a new blank document

Pagination and page size
Sidehead area

Import text with stylesheet
Create and modify paragraph formats
Control simple autonumbering
Create and apply custom colors
Create and modify character formats
Styling and applying master pages
Understanding text frame types
Custom page numbers
Inserting running headers and [...]

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Reasons for Structured Authoring

February 2, 2010

In the past few weeks we’ve been helping a few clients navigate to a decision on structured (DITA, XML) or “normal” unstructured authoring.
**See the end of this post for a list of some popular structured authoring tools
I have plenty of colleagues that heavily favor structured authoring, and I agree that there are huge advantages to moving in [...]

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FrameMaker 5.5 Templates and other FM Downloads

February 2, 2010

Thanks to Art Campbell (@ArtC1209) for posting this link http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=22&platform=Windows to the FrameMaker downloads page. (Posted on frameusers.com)
You’ll also find links to the current version’s downloads and other good stuff there.
Shlomo Perets (@ShlomoPerets) also shared the link to his site at http://www.microtype.com/FrameMakerTemplates.html
Anyone know of others to add to this list?

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