I’m not a big fan of ebooks. To be honest, they’re just glorified PDFs and look terrible onscreen. So, I tend to avoid them. However, I came across this jewel in Adobe’s lab site and it’s terrific.
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Is Adobe Digital Editions the eBook reader you’ve always wanted?
October 8th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing
Tags:Acrobat·Adobe·Adobe Contribute·Adobe Digital Experience Protection Technology·Adobe Flash Player·Adobe Labs·Adobe Reader·author·Content portability·digital publications·ebook reader·eBooks·EPUB·FlashPaper·Library·Markup·Multilingual·PDF·PDF/A·publisher·RIA·Sony Reader·title·XHTML
How to Get Out of Technical Writing and into Better Paid Jobs
October 5th, 2009 · Comments · Career, India
Many IT professionals, technical writers included, have seen their salaries frozen or reduced over the past 18 months. Contractors are suffering the same fate as short-term projects dry up.
However, several of my colleagues have managed to move out of technical writing and into other, better paid lines of work. Here’s a roundup.
Tags:Adobe·Career·CMS·content management·India·Information Architecture·Jobs·microsoft·Non-governmental organization·Site Management·Technical Writing·trends·web 2.0·Web content
Why use Master Templates in Adobe FrameMaker?
October 1st, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
Master templates let you control the format and positioning of every component in your FrameMaker documents.
In plain English this means that if you setup a footer as Arial, size 10, and then apply it to the main document, all footers will appear in this font and this size. Sounds good!
Tags:Adobe·Adobe Captivate·Adobe Framemaker·Adobe FrameMaker·Adobe Technical Communication Suite·DITA Open Toolkit·Long Documents·Master Templates·Robohelp·technical communicators·Technical documentation·Technical Documents
12 MS Office features you can now get on your iPhone
June 27th, 2009 · Comments · Technical Writing
Pricing & Availability
Documents To Go and Documents To Go with Exchange Attachments are available at $4.99 and $9. from Apple’s App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/
Tags:Adobe·Adobe Acrobat·Adobe Reader·Apple·Digital·digital publishing·eBooks·iPhone·RIA
How to Synchronize Files from Microsoft Office to iPhone
June 15th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
I don’t have an iPhone but if I did this new Microsoft Office to iPhone app might be worth investing in. It lets iPhone & iPod touch customers edit Microsoft Word files, synchronize important desktop files and send & receive Exchange attachments. DataViz, who develop Microsoft Office compatibility solutions, released its mobile Office suite application, [...]
Tags:Adobe·Adobe Acrobat·Adobe Reader·Apple·Digital·digital publishing·eBooks·iPhone·RIA
Review Adobe Digital Editions
June 10th, 2009 · Comments · How To
It’s hard to keep up with all the new product releases from Adobe. This one is worth a look if you develop ebooks or want to read them offline.
Tags:Adobe·Adobe Acrobat·Adobe Reader·Digital·digital publishing·eBooks·RIA
Register with Adobe and get free gifts, training, fonts, books
June 10th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
Adobe is offering a whole bunch of gifts if you register your product with them. Some of the gifts are impressive and worth signing up for, such as free Lynda.com training, discounts on Acrobat 9 books from Peachpit Press and Free trials to Safari Books Online. My favorite is the free download of Adobe Hypatia [...]
Response to Is MadCap Flare a Better Tool than RoboHelp?
May 31st, 2009 · Comments · How To
My recent article on moving from RoboHelp to Madcap Flare seems to have generated interest in the technical writing community. Rick Stone made some excellent points that I’d like to share here. As the points raised are so detailed, I have created a new post to address each one. Again, thanks to Rick and here goes.
Tags:Adobe·Adobe Captivate·Adobe Framemaker·Adobe Technical Communication Suite·DITA Open Toolkit·Long Documents·MadCap·MadCap Flare·Robohelp·technical communicators·Technical documentation·Technical Writing
FrameMaker 9 Issues on Windows Vista
May 29th, 2009 · Comments · How To
This document shows how to resolve system errors that occur while you use Adobe FrameMaker 9.0 on Windows XP. System errors can manifest in many different ways, including (but not limited to) the following:
Tags:Adobe·Adobe Captivate·Adobe Framemaker·Adobe FrameMaker·Adobe Technical Communication Suite·DITA Open Toolkit·Long Documents·Robohelp·technical communicators·Technical documentation·Troubleshooting
Flash Security Software Secures Flash Files Against IP Theft
May 18th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
Security breaches with Adobe Flash files has been a hot topic recently. I came across the press release tonight that promises to secure Flash Files against intellectual property theft. This DRM product secures Adobe shockwave Flash (swf) files without tampering with the source code in any way.
XML Authoring Projects using Hierarchical Books
May 18th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
This week, Adobe’s Technical Communication Blog shows how technical writers can use the Hierarchical Books in Adobe FrameMaker 9 as XML Authoring Projects. They can keep structapps, EDD, Template, Read Write rules etc inside the book component hierarchy.
Tags:Adobe·Adobe Captivate·Adobe Framemaker·Adobe FrameMaker·Adobe Technical Communication Suite·DITA Open Toolkit·Long Documents·Robohelp·technical communicators·Technical documentation·XML
Sync, Play & Send to BlackBerry, PSP, iPod, iPhone
May 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
Norwegian developers have released doubleTwist, an app for syncing, playing and sending content from multiple devices. Instead of using a different browser for every web site you visit (i.e. Firefox to read the NY Times, IE to stream Hulu, Chrome to browse YouTube, etc) doubleTwist takes care of it.
