Posts Tagged ‘AuthorIT’

Author-it and MadCap Flare comparison

{ Posted on Feb 10 2009 by annegentle }
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I've had more than a few questions asking for a review of Author-it or MadCap Flare or a comparison of both. So I decided to do some homework. Initially, I wasn't sure why they are categorized together. Is it due ...Read More »

Author-it Table Of Contents expansion

{ Posted on Jan 15 2009 by annegentle }
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My co-worker Melissa Burpo (yep, I interviewed her before she was my co-worker) has solved a nagging problem with the HTML output from Author-it. The Table of Contents would always lose your place when you expanded one of the TOC ...Read More »

Understanding the database implementation of Author-it

{ Posted on Jul 21 2008 by annegentle }
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Author-it uses a SQL Server database to house all of the source material that make up your deliverables. You can export that database content to XML and publish to Word or HTML and other outputs, but the source is stored ...Read More »

Publish a Word outline using Author-it

{ Posted on Jul 17 2008 by annegentle }
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At ASI, we're working on book skeletons while we do task analysis for new documentation or feature updates that may change the way users do their work with iMIS. So, to get early feedback, we wanted a way to publish ...Read More »

Adding Google Analytics to your Author-it generated HTML pages

{ Posted on Jan 24 2008 by annegentle }
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I'm learning about Author-it's HTML templates today, and how to insert Google Analytics code (or any other code, really, such as adding an automatically updating variable for "Last modified by" with user or date information.) But my task today was to ...Read More »

Author-it and converting UTF-16 to UTF-8

{ Posted on Dec 04 2007 by annegentle }
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In trying to modify multiple Author-it topics (okay, 5,119 topics) with variable assignments, I have had to work with the XML output that Author-it exports. To export to XML, you select a topic or multi-select topics, then right-click on the selection ...Read More »

Author-it webinar on version 5.0

{ Posted on Oct 08 2007 by annegentle }
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Our team is so excited for the new Author-it version 5.0 that we invited other Austin techpubs teams over to our office to watch the US & Canada webinar. It was like a movie premiere. Okay, we're not really that ...Read More »

Author IT – boldly climbing the learning curve

{ Posted on Sep 25 2007 by annegentle }
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I thought I'd continue posting about my experience with Author IT since my initial review of AuthorIT. This past month I've been exploring ways to help out with the Author IT nuts and bolts, doing maintenance-type and infrastructure tasks such ...Read More »

Initial review of AuthorIT

{ Posted on Jul 17 2007 by annegentle }
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I'm now writing in an AuthorIT environment. My first learning task is to find out the proper pronunciation, is it Author Eye Tee? Or Author It? Let's see what wikipedia has to say about AuthorIT. In their article, they consistently ...Read More »