How to Draw with Illustrator: LAYERS
© Ugur Akinci Add the title “Technical Illustrator” to your job title in a hurry and earn more! Adobe Illustrator is a bottomless well in terms of its capabilities. But you can’t postpone drawing forever until you learn “everything” that Adobe Illustrator can do. You can take so many classes and read so many books.…
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How to Create a New Paragraph Style in a FrameMaker Document
Introduction FrameMaker Paragraph style is a paragraph formatting style that you can apply to text in FrameMaker. There are four basic paragraph styles: Heading, Body, Footnote, and Header. The purpose of paragraph styles is to make it easier for you to format your text consistently by assigning a specific style to each type of text.…
Read MoreWhat Doc Managers Look for in a Résumé?
An excerpt from “Managing Writers” blog Most hiring managers, and I am no exception, take a couple of passes when reviewing résumés. The first pass eliminates people who are clearly not what I am looking for. I try to answer two questions: first, are this person’s qualifications even in the ballpark for the job, and…
Read MoreTechnical Writing – Advantages of Using Microsoft SourceSafe While Writing Your Technical Documents
© Ugur Akinci Just like with most things in life, control is an important aspect of technical documentation. Control is even more important if you are working in an office as a part of a writing team. First, you need to make sure that your files are not lost. That’s basic. And then you need…
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