Illuminations

Volume 5, Issue 2
April 2002

In this issue:

FrameMaker 7: The Complete Reference is Coming Soon!

Welcome to Matt Arnold, Vice President of Business Development

Training in the Classroom and on Your Own

Conferences: Local and National

FrameMaker 7: The Complete Reference is Coming Soon!

Many of you have already heard Adobe's announcement about the release of FrameMaker 7. Important new features include:

• A dual interface that merges the capabilities of "normal," unstructured FrameMaker and FrameMaker+SGML ("structured FrameMaker") into one application. When you create a document, you specify whether it is unstructured or structured.
• Ability to import, export, and roundtrip XML files.
• Automatic assignment of master pages based on paragraph tags.

For more information, check out Adobe's new features list.

To help you learn all about what Frame 7 can do in the structured and unstructured environments, Sarah O'Keefe and Sheila Loring are now writing FrameMaker 7: The Complete Reference (published by Osborne/McGraw Hill). The Complete Reference will be 950 pages long and will be available in June through bookstores (online and otherwise) and our web site. If you'd like to be notified when the book is available, please send email to books@scriptorium.com.

To further improve your FrameMaker 7 learning experience, we're also developing training materials for both unstructured and structured FrameMaker. Companions to The Complete Reference, these materials will be used in our classes and as self-study materials. Contact books@scriptorium.com if you'd like to be notified when our training materials are available. For information about upcoming classes on Frame 7, see the story on training later in this newsletter.

If you're an instructor and would like information about licensing our Frame 7 materials, send email to sales@scriptorium.com.

Welcome to Matt Arnold, Vice President of Business Development

We're happy to announce that Matt Arnold has joined Scriptorium Publishing as Vice President of Business Development. Matt's experiences in software development, XML, and FrameMaker are great assets for us and our clients. Matt's past projects include supervising the integration of FrameMaker with document management tools, and the production of middleware products for FrameMaker+SGML.

If you'd like to say hello to Matt or find out about how we can help you with documentation, training, or publishing processes, please contact him at mca@scriptorium.com.

Training in the Classroom and on Your Own

Our spring training schedule includes the following classes:

• Mastering WebWorks Publisher Professional 7: June 12-13

• Technical Writing 101: June 26-28

You can register online for these courses.

With the release of FrameMaker 7, we're updating our FrameMaker offerings and are developing new courses. We will be offering five FrameMaker classes:

• Accelerated Introduction to FrameMaker 7 (unstructured): Similar to our current Accelerated Introduction to FrameMaker 6 class, this class provides an introduction to the unstructured environment in FrameMaker 7.
• Advanced FrameMaker 7: Template Building (unstructured). Shows users with basic FrameMaker experience how to build templates.
• Authoring in Structured FrameMaker 7: Shows authors how to create content in the structured FrameMaker environment. There will be two versions of this course: one is for authors who are new to Frame, and the other is for current users who haven't worked with structured FrameMaker documents.
• Advanced Structured FrameMaker 7: Explains how to create an element definition document (EDD), the template for the structured environment.

We've already scheduled two FrameMaker 7 classes for July. The Accelerated Introduction to FrameMaker 7 (unstructured) will be on July 15-16, and the Authoring in Structured FrameMaker 7 will be July 29-30. We will add these classes to the registration form later this spring. If you'd like to be notified when we post information about the Frame 7 classes to our web site, please send email to training@scriptorium.com.

If you'd still like training in FrameMaker 6 and WebWorks Publisher 6, consider self study with our FrameMaker Workbook and Coursebook and WebWorks Publisher Workbook.

We sell our self-study materials through our online ordering form, and we now sell them through Amazon.com zShops. At our zShop, we accept Amazon Payments, which offers you the choice of paying by VISA, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, Diners Club, and JCB.

Conferences: Local and National

The STC Carolina Chapter TRIDOC Conference in Research Triangle Park, NC, is just days away on April 26-27. Some excellent presentations have been scheduled, and the keynote speaker will be Mark Hanigan, Immediate Past President of STC. Sheila Loring will copresent "Top FrameMaker Template Tricks," and Sarah O'Keefe will offer an overview of using FrameMaker 7's structured capabilities for single sourcing.

Register now or at the door on the day of the conference. We look forward to seeing you there.

Sarah will be presenting at the national STC conference in Nashville, TN, on May 7. During her presentation, Single Sourcing with FrameMaker and SGML, Sarah will give a demo on using FrameMaker 7's structured interface to single source documentation. Sarah was ranked among the top 25 percent of speakers at last year's conference, so you don't want to miss her presentation this year.

The 2002 FrameUsers Workshop will be September 25-27, 2002, in Durham, NC. The workshop will feature presentations organized into tracks, vendor exhibits, and pre-workshop sessions. For more information, check out the workshop web page.

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