Compare Help Authoring Tools with HAT-Matrix
© 2010 Ugur Akinci Here is an interesting web site to compare your favorite HATs (Help Authoring Tools): HAT-Matrix The site has 2 drawbacks: 1) Only those vendors who paid to be on the site are represented (WebWorks, for example, is missing). 2) The owners of the site rely on the vendors’ own product descriptions…
Read MoreDuke University offers Technical Communication Certificate
Duke University needs no introduction. It’s one of the premiere learning institutions of the nation. Not only Duke has a great technical communication certificate program but it also turns out that one of our regular readers and contributors, Larry Kunz is on the Duke faculty teaching tech comm. Larry holds a Masters Certificate in Project…
Read MoreFrameMaker – How to Easily Update the Page Header and Footer Information in all Chapters of a Book
Say you have a FrameMaker book consisting of 100 chapters. Your client has asked you to update the book and insert a “New Edition 2010” notice to every page footer. How would you do it? As usual, there’s a hard way and a relatively easier way. The hard way is no secret: you open every…
Read MoreThe Logical Steps to follow to Create an Adobe FrameMaker Book
© Ugur Akinci To create an Adobe FrameMaker book from scratch you need to follow a logical sequence of steps, each of which is fairly easy to perform once you get the hang of it. Here is a brief outline and a diagram to make the process clearer: 1) First create a TEMPLATE for the…
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