How to Format Your Technical Documents Consistently With a Template

© Ugur Akinci A template is the heart, soul and backbone of any technical or business document. Consistency of documentation is what creates that subliminal sense of trust and confidence in the end-users. Someone once quipped: “it ain’t technical documentation if it ain’t boring.” This of course is not true since I always found technical…

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Google's Translation Service: How Good Is It?

© Ugur Akinci I’m fascinated by Google’s translation service since it promises to translate texts among over three dozen languages, including some quite exotic ones. So I decided to test the reliability of Google’s translation engine by performing a simple test. 1) I took two sentences in English and translated them into a foreign language…

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How to Draw with Illustrator: FILL and STROKE

© Ugur Akinci TOOL 4: Fill and Stroke Every Illustrator object is made up of 2 parts: Fill and Stroke.Or the INSIDE of a shape (Fill) and its BORDERS (Stroke). In the case of a line, there’s only stroke and no fill. If a line does have a fill, it actually becomes a very thin…

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Translation

Qualified Translators a Must for Product Localization

Introduction Money paid to qualified technical writers and translators in a localization project is money spent very well indeed. Why? Because the worst thing for a project is to have the customers or end-users switch to another product since they either cannot understand the instructions and the way an interface works, or the localized copy…

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How to Draw with Illustrator: SHAPES and ARROWS

© Ugur Akinci TOOL 3: Shapes and Arrows Click on the Shape Tool to display the various shape-drawing tools available: In the tool bar, the last-used tool is displayed. Tip: After selecting the tool, if you click on your canvas WITHOUT drawing anything, you’ll display the measurement dialog box. For example, here is the one…

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