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Program Titles
“Wiki Roundtripping? Structured Authoring? How Do They Co-Exist?”
24 Ways to Shut Down The Application and Other Apocryphal Stories
A Comparison of Three Visual Help Authoring Tools
Beyond L10N and G11N—Communicating with Everybody
Breathing Life into your Technical Documents using Adobe AIR and the Technical Communication Suite
Bringing the Video Revolution to Technical Communication
Changing the Rules of the Game for the Benefit of the User
Document Engineering in User Experience Design
Documentation Planning and Library Design in a Web 2.0 World
Extending the Value of Content in Enterprise Systems with Web Content Management
How an Author and Editor Used a Wiki to Write a Book
Living Multiple Lives: The New Technical Communicator
Making XML Technology Accessible
Manage Your Messaging with Machine-Assisted Editing and Large Scale Sentence-level Reuse
Mapping the Entire Global Content Supply Chain
On the Road to Modular Training Content
Once Content is in XML. Now what?
Putting Everything Back Together Again
See Dynamic Publishing in Action!
Taking Our Information Assets to the Next Level
The In.vision DITA Enterprise Suite for Microsoft Word and SharePoint
Understanding and Communicating the Financial Impact of XML and DITA
Understanding Component Content Management
Using Collaborative Tools for Virtual Team Management
Using Task Modeler to Streamline DITA Content Development
What Technical Communicators Need to Know about Flash
Wikis Are Wonderful, or Are They? A Real World Story of Using Wikis For User Information
Writing Reusable Content to Support Content Models
[Workshop] Moving from Unstructured Documents to Structured XML
[Workshop] An Overview of RoboHelp 7
[Workshop] Content Engineering
[Workshop] DITA Authoring and Publishing with XMetaL
[Workshop] Introduction to XSL
[Workshop] Making DITA Work For Your Data
[Workshop] Simplified Technical English
[Workshop] Single Sourcing with the Technical Communication Suite
Session Details
[Workshop] Single Sourcing with the Technical Communication Suite: Using FrameMaker to Manage Print and Help Authoring
Speaker: Matt SullivanTime: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM Date: May 6
Track: Pre-Conference Workshops
Experience level: Intermediate
Room: Dundarave Room
This session is intended for those with help, web, and print delivery requirements. Adobe FrameMaker users or those looking to extend their help authoring capability by migrating to a FrameMaker-centric workflow will benefit most. We’ll use an existing documentation project to show development from cocktail napkin to full-featured output.
The output from a single FrameMaker book file will include:
- Free tips & tricks on the web
- Commercially available Flash demos
- Self-paced study materials
- Courseware
- Reference books
We’ll finish with a discussion of options for self-correcting systems to keep the material up-to-date.
Applications used in demo:
- Adobe FrameMaker 8
- Adobe Robohelp 7
- Adobe Captivate 3
- Adobe Photoshop CS3
- Adobe Illustrator CS3
- Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro
- Adobe Dreamweaver
- Adobe Contribute
Concepts addressed:
- Setting up content models
- Establishing style sheets
- Electronic referencing
- Conditional text
- Complex numbering
- Weblinks for print v. electronic formats
- Creating Robohelp import template
- Updating Robohelp project and output from Frame materials
- Using native Photoshop files
- Using native Illustrator files
- Placing video in FrameMaker 8 for print output v. electronic output
- Creating multiple outputs from Robohelp
- Using Dreamweaver and Contribute to update source content remotely
