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Illuminations
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Volume
7, Issue 2
May/June 2004
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In this issue:
Register Soon for Discounts on FrameMaker and
Acrobat Training!
DocFrame 2.0 with JavaHelp Output Now Available
Back from Baltimore: STC Conference Roundup
New Shopping Cart Coming Soon
Say Hello to Shelli Hoyes
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Register
Soon for Discounts on FrameMaker and Acrobat Training!
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On June 17–18, Shlomo Perets of Microtype
will share his expertise with FrameMaker and Acrobat during his
FrameMaker-to-Acrobat
Advanced Techniques
seminar at our office in North Carolina. If you want to learn tips
and tricks on creating high-quality PDF documents from your FrameMaker
files, don't miss this opportunity.
To save $125 off the standard price of $1250, register by May 27.
See our pricing and discounts
page for more information on discounts for early and multiple
registrations. You can register for classes through our shopping
cart.
In the coming weeks, we're also offering training on unstructured
FrameMaker 7 and XML:
- Unstructured
FrameMaker 7: Accelerated Introduction (June 7–8)—A
fast-paced but thorough introduction to unstructured FrameMaker
7 that goes beyond the basics explained in many introductory courses.
Learn how to apply tags and how to work with tables, conditional
text, books, and generated files such as tables of contents and
indexes.
- Advanced
Unstructured FrameMaker 7: Template Design (June 9–10)—Learn
how to build a FrameMaker template with features that make document
creation easier for writers. You will implement all the components
in the template, including paragraph and character tags, cross-reference
formats, master pages, and even features for generating fully
formatted tables of contents and indexes.
- XML and Structured Authoring
(July 12–13)—In this software-independent class, you'll
learn the basics of XML, DTDs, and XML-based workflows. You'll
learn about valid and well-formed XML, and explore how you might
best use XML in your environment. This course also explains how
structure changes the publishing workflow and the advantages and
disadvantages of these changes. Don't miss this chance to think
through all the issues before you make the leap into structured
authoring!
If you're interested in other class dates or want courses on technical
writing and structured FrameMaker 7, take a look at the schedule
for the entire year.
Scriptorium Publishing is an Adobe Authorized Training Center (formerly
Adobe Certified Training Provider). Our instructors are Adobe Certified
Experts (ACEs) in FrameMaker 7 and have additional teaching credentials,
such as Certified Technical Trainer (CTT+).
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DocFrame
2.0 with JavaHelp Output Now Available
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Do you need XML output, multiple online help formats, and printed
documents from structured FrameMaker source files? If so, check
out version 2.0 of our DocFrame
single-sourcing solution.
Just released, DocFrame 2.0 offers many new features and improvements,
including:
- JavaHelp output—From DocFrame XML output, you can now generate
JavaHelp 2 helpsets along with HTML and HTML Help files.
- Modular Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) files—Because
the transformations to online formats share several functions,
we've streamlined and modularized the transformation stylesheets.
- Specification of file names in output—Use the new FileName
attribute to control the names of HTML output files.
- Compatibility with new features in FrameMaker 7.1—You can
use DocFrame 2.0 with both FrameMaker 7.0 and 7.1. The DocFrame
solution now supports the new conditional text handling in FrameMaker
7.1 files exported to XML, and it processes cross-book linking.
- Expanded, in-depth documentation—The Developer's Guide
now has 45 percent more content, with special emphasis on XSL
concepts. The Author's Guide is almost 30 pages longer
and offers thorough procedures on creating XML output from FrameMaker
files and transforming that content into HTML, HTML Help, and
JavaHelp.
If you purchased a previous version of DocFrame in the past 12
months, you will receive a free upgrade. We plan to ship those upgrades
in the next week.
For information about pricing and licensing, see the DocFrame
page, or contact sales@scriptorium.com.
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Back
from Baltimore: STC Conference Roundup
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Sarah O'Keefe and Dave Kmiec just returned from the annual Society
for Technical Communication (STC) conference
in Baltimore, MD. Sarah and Dave enjoyed meeting many of you—and
eating fish and crab cakes.
If you didn't catch their presentations, you can download Portable
Document Format (PDF) versions of their handouts:
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New Shopping Cart Coming Soon
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In the next few weeks, we will introduce
a new online shopping cart.
The cart offers more shipping options (FedEx and UPS express shipping)
for orders inside and outside of the United States. |
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Say Hello to Shelli Hoyes
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Shelli Hoyes has joined our staff as an intern. Her winding career
path includes stints as a psychology researcher, nursing student,
and technical writer.
Shelli is helping us out with our many projects (including the
new shopping cart), and she will be answering the phones, too. Say
hello to her next time you call.
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