Posts Tagged ‘Framemaker’

Author-it and MadCap Flare comparison

{ Posted on Feb 10 2009 by annegentle }
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Categories : techpubs, tools
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 »

7 things you must know about ePublisher Platform

{ Posted on Nov 13 2007 by annegentle }
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Categories : writing
Content is king. Your source content can be Word, Frame, or DITA. You can even import convert other formats such as RoboHelp to Word or Frame and go from there. Formats are separate from content and can be customized. Combining content is ...Read More »

Publish to wikitext with WebWorks – from Word or Frame

{ Posted on Nov 06 2007 by annegentle }
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Categories : DITA, tools, wiki
I'm attending as many sessions as I can at the Quadralay WebWorks User Conference - called the WebWorks RoundUp. Right now I'm listening to a great demo using WebWorks to publish Word or Frame source files to wikitext. Start with WIF The ...Read More »

Adobe’s Technical Communication Suite announced

{ Posted on Sep 26 2007 by annegentle }
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Adobe has announced a Technical Communication Suite, combining FrameMaker, RoboHelp, Captivate, Acrobat 3D, and Flash, available in October 2007 for $1599 or $999 upgrade pricing if you already own one of the tools. This price point is well below what ...Read More »

Frame 8 is here: conversion or migration from unstructured FrameMaker to DITA

{ Posted on Jul 24 2007 by annegentle }
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FrameMaker 8 was released yesterday, with DITA possibility built in, but you will need to do your homework to determine the best path to migrate legacy content from unstructured Frame to DITA. Questions such as Unstructured to DITA - Concise ...Read More »

Rob Houser’s review of the new RoboHelp, the first release by Adobe after they acquired Macromedia

{ Posted on Jun 12 2007 by annegentle }
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Categories : talk.bmc
I found this great review of RoboHelp by Rob Houser, who went to Miami of Ohio in the Master’s of Technical and Scientific Communication program two years ahead of me While on maternity leave, I read through the lengthy and informative ...Read More »

Adobe’s stepping up their tech writer toolkit?

{ Posted on Jul 11 2006 by annegentle }
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Is Adobe wooing the tech writer market? I'll speculate freely about whether Adobe's working on a tech writer workflow or toolkit, bouncing off of The Content Wrangler's prediction of a Technical Writing Suite from Adobe. (Thanks ...Read More »

Learning more about DITA

{ Posted on May 18 2006 by annegentle }
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Learning about how to get started with DITA and a trivia item for fun Jen Linton, the co-author of Introduction to DITA:Getting Started with the Darwin Information Typing Architecture is in Austin to teach the DITA Getting ...Read More »