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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Twitter Updates for 2010-01-30

January 30, 2010

RT @mattrsullivan: #framemaker to #robohelp prob: why do my links put the </a> at end of para instead of at end of char tag? # Captivate 2-day eLearning class on Monday. 30% Twitter Discount Code CLS7794. #

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Overview of FrameMaker training classes from roundpeg

January 29, 2010

Click here for a PDF version of the info below: FrameMaker Training Options from roundpeg FrameMaker has 2 different workflows… It’s important to know which you are likely to use before jumping in with both feet. Unstructured, or “regular” FrameMaker is paragraph based, and is similar to editing in MS Word or Adobe InDesign. There [...]

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RoboHelp 8.02 inserts underscores at random into topic titles

January 29, 2010

When processing linked FrameMaker 9 files, RH 8.02 seems to put underscores under some, but not all of the topic titles generated from the headings in a FrameMaker file. This isn’t a huge problem, until you use the Search capability in your Help output. Since the Topic Title is what is displayed in the search [...]

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