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Program Titles
A Short Introduction to MadCap Flare
Adobe Technical Communication Suite - Integration
Adobe Technical Communication Suite in an XML Workflow
Are DITA and Component Content Management Right For My Organization?
Authoring and Publishing with XMetaL and DITA
Blogzilla: Why Blogs Are The Monster In The Business Closet
Building your Author-it Project
Case Study: DITA Cost and Reuse Metrics
Case Study: How DITA Helped One Documentation Team Work 5 Times Faster
Case Study: Nuclear Power, DITA and FrameMaker
Challenges of Creating Documentation for Mobile Devices
Choosing the English That’s Right for You
Comparing DITA Support in XMetaL and FrameMaker
Content Oriented Architectures
Creating Quality Content with Open Source Tools
Creating Visual Training Using MadCap Mimic
Creativity or Confusion Factor
Demystifying DITA to PDF Publishing
Designing and Implementing Embedded, Dynamic User Assistance
Developing a Content Management Strategy
Developing Quality Content in a Global World
DITA + Wiki = The Open-Source DITA2Wiki Project
DITA 101 - DITA… What’s up with that?
DITA and Global Information Management (GIM)
DITA and The Metadata Maturity Model
DITA and XML Authoring the Natural Way
Featured Presentation - Sustainable XML for Publishing Applications
Four Features That Matter When Choosing a Help Authoring Tool
Games to Explain Human Factors
Getting Up-to-Speed on Eclipse User Assistance
Global Sales in Local Languages
Globalizing a CMS-based Website from the Ground Up
How to Get the Most Out of Content Migration to DITA
How To Leverage More When Writing For A Global Audience
Improving User Assistance Using Journalistic Principles
In With Wiki, Out With Structure (Hint: It’s not what you think it means!)
It’s What’s Between the TAGS that Counts!
Keynote: The Next Generation Home Digital Experience
Lean Instructional Design for Today’s Competitive Environment
Learn How To Use a Wiki At Work
Leveraging Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing with Adobe Software
Localization Makes Strange Bedfellows
MadCap Flare - An Introduction to Topic Based Authoring
MadCap Flare - Content Control and Publishing Techniques
MadCap Flare - Controlling Document Look and Feel with CSS
MadCap Software - Product Demonstration and DITA Suport Announcement
Managing the Move to Structured Content
Metadata, Taxonomies, and Information Architecture: Putting the Pieces Together
Migrating to DITA and Component Content Management for Global Customers
Moving from Unstructured Documents to Structured XML
Principles of Web Operations Management
Process Modeling for a DITA Environment
Producing Quality Documentation In An Agile Development Environment
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Comparing DITA Support in XMetaL and FrameMaker
Speaker:Time: 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Date: October 30
Track: User Assistance DocTrain East 2008
Experience level: All levels
Room: Salon I - J
When your organization transitions from “traditional” publication methodologies to XML and DITA, it’s a good time to consider the tool that your authors use to create content. There are two competing schools of thought on XML authoring: use a more familiar WYSIWYG tool (such as Adobe FrameMaker) or use a newer tool that is much closer to XML (such as XMetaL from Just Systems). Both FrameMaker and XMetaL provide some level of integration with DITA, which makes them both viable candidates. This presentation uses live demonstrations to illustrate the advantages and disadvantages of both FrameMaker and XMetaL when working with DITA. The presentation shows the highlights of both tools, the authoring experience, generating output, conditional processing, working with conrefs, map files, and specialization. The presentation concludes with a series of guidelines to help you assess your situation and which tool might be best for you.
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