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The newsletter of Scriptorium Publishing
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Volume
8, Issue 3
June/July 2005
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In this issue:
Now Offering Acrobat and InDesign Classes!
Solution Brief: Minimizing Author Disruption
in Implementing Structured Publishing
Taming the Big, Bad XSL Beast: New Class on
XSL for Publishing
Conferences, Past and Future
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Now
Offering Acrobat and InDesign Classes!
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This summer, we're expanding our Adode-certified class offerings
to include courses on Acrobat and InDesign. Claudia
McCue of Practicalia will teach the following classes at our
office in Cary, NC:
- Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional
(August 8–9): Learn how to create PDF files from popular
applications and how to modify and enhance PDFs with Acrobat’s
extensive tool set. Add navigational aids, sounds, and movies
to create a compelling presentation medium.
- Adobe InDesign CS2
(August 10–11): Learn about the extensive and flexible features
of InDesign, including elegant typography and unequaled design
capabilities. Prerequisite: a solid working knowledge of a desktop
publishing application (such as PageMaker or Quark XPress) or
an illustration application (such as Illustrator).
Claudia is an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in Acrobat and InDesign,
and she is a CTT+ Certified Professional.
Priced at $699 each, both classes include instruction and hands-on
exercises. Register soon!
In addition to these classes on Acrobat and InDesign, we're offering
on a new course on Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) and classes
on FrameMaker 7 and XML. More on those classes in a later
story...
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Solution
Brief: Minimizing Author Disruption in Implementing Structured Publishing
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Last month, we introduced our new series of solution briefs, which
explain a client's requirements and how we addressed those requirements.
Our latest solution brief, Minimizing
author disruption in implementing structured publishing (310KB,
PDF), gives an overview of how we helped a client update its documentation
workflow to use structured FrameMaker but still allow authors to
create unstructured content in Microsoft Word
in the short term.
To reduce the costs of creating a structured workflow, we used
our DocFrame solution as a
starting point and revised the DocFrame templates to match the client's
requirements. In the updated workflow, authors continue to create
content in Word, and the production team uses a series of scripts
to convert the Word files into structured FrameMaker. To ensure
that the production team fully understood the new process, we provided
onsite training based on documentation developed specifically for
the client.
In the future, authors will transition to authoring in a tool that
supports structure, so the publication process will become more
efficient. For now, however, authors continue to create content
in Word, and the significant changes to the production process have
little effect on their work.
If you have more questions about our work on this project, contact
info@scriptorium.com.
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Taming the Big, Bad XSL Beast: New Class
on XSL for Publishing
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Many content developers need to use Extensible Stylesheet Language
(XSL) to transform their XML content into online formats, but they
may be a bit fearful of diving into XSL because they don't have
programming backgrounds.
Well, fear no more! Scriptorium Publishing will offer its new Transforming
XML Content with XSL class on September 13–15. During this
hands-on class, students will create XSL templates that transform
publishing-specific items such as cross-references, indexes, tables
of contents, and so on.
A thorough understanding of XML is necessary to take this class,
but programming knowledge isn't. (We won't lie, though: a little
programming experience wouldn't hurt.) Register
today!
We're also offering our classes on XML and FrameMaker this summer:
To see all of our public training dates for 2005, check out our
schedule. For more information
about our training, contact training@scriptorium.com.
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Conferences, Past and Future
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Many of you attended Sarah O'Keefe's two presentations at the STC
Conference in Seattle in May. If you didn't attend "A Gentle
Introduction to XSL" or "Managing Implementation of Structured
Authoring" but would like a copy of her presentation slides
in PDF format, contact info@scriptorium.com.
Sarah will offer two presentations at LavaCon
in Honolulu, Hawaii, on September 28:
- Building a Business Case for XML
- Creating User-Specific Online Documentation Using XML
Stay tuned for more information about LavaCon in future newsletters!
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