How to Create Technical Manuals and Help Files with Dr.Explain
How to Create Technical Manuals and Help Files with Dr.Explain I heard about Dr.Explain only recently. It’s a great layout and text editor for creating all kinds of technical manuals and help files. Especially for dedicated MS Word users, it offers a wealth of options, including the ability to capture automatically-annotated screenshots that even RoboHelp…
Read MoreHow to Import Adobe FrameMaker 11 Object Styles from one Document to Another
© Ugur Akinci Once you create your preferred Object Styles for a technical document, you do not need to re-create them for other files of the book. You can just import them from one file to all the other documents in the collection. Select File > Import > Formats to display the Import Formats dialog…
Read MoreHow to Create Object Styles in Adobe FrameMaker
One of the great new features introduced with Adobe FrameMaker is the “Object Styles” — the ability to assign styles to anchored frames, text frames, images, etc. By using Object Styles, for example, you can make sure all your anchored frames throughout a document will be of the same size, positioned to the left of…
Read MoreHow to Automatically Import Adobe Acrobat Reader Comments into an Adobe FrameMaker 11 Technical Document
© Ugur Akinci Adobe Acrobat is great for adding all kinds of notes and comments to a PDF document. You don’t even need to have the Pro version to do that. Acrobat Reader XI, which is free to download, comes with great built-in text commenting and graphic annotating tools. Yet the real works begins once…
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