FrameMaker Tip: How to Copy Formats Between Chapters of a Book
© 2009 Ugur Akinci Imagine you have a FrameMaker Book with 50 chapters. Just before you generate a PDF and distribute it to the client, your client (or manager) showed up with a last-minute demand: you have to change all the Document Title, Part Number and Release Date information in the FOOTER. And you have…
Read MoreARGUMENT: Why Technical Writers Shouldn't Be "Writers"
Excerpts: Technical writers love the written word. Perhaps, we love it a little too much? We need to ask ourselves is the written word the best thing for documentation? Is it the best thing for us as an industry, and is it the best thing for you as a content developer. Over the last several…
Read MoreSTC Releases 2008 Annual U.S. Salary Survey of Technical Writers
STC (Society for Technical Communication) has released its 109-page comprehensive 2008 Annual U.S. Salary Survey, available free of charge to STC members. In the email that introduced the survey, STC acknowledged the hits our profession received in 2008. But then, which profession did not suffer during the last year? So we have to place such…
Read MoreNew Cities in China = More Technical Writers
© 2010 Ugur Akinci We are living in a rapidly urbanizing world which means there’ll be more need than ever for techncial writers who can make sense of technology and who can explain technical procedures to others in plain language. United States has only 9 cities with population over a million and some, like Detroit,…
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