Illuminations

Volume 1, Issue 3
October 1998

Greetings. In this third issue of Illuminations, the newsletter of Scriptorium Publishing, we update you about our new office (yes!), our upcoming WebWorks Publisher training, and the latest white papers we've written.

We welcome your suggestions for newsletter topics. Drop us a line at comments@scriptorium.com.

Office is now open!

Our office, which opened Oct. 1, is really shaping up. As soon as the paint fumes have cleared and our new network is up and running, we plan to have an open house. Please update your records to reflect our new addresses and phone numbers:

Mailing address:
PO Box 12761
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2761

Physical address (for overnight packages):
956 West Chatham Street, Suite 200
Cary, NC 27511

Phone: 919-481-2701

Fax: 919-481-0024

Our email and web site addresses will remain the same.

Upcoming WebWorks Publisher training

Early next year, Scriptorium Publishing will offer its first three-day course on using Quadralay's WebWorks Publisher to convert FrameMaker files into HTML and WinHelp. The course gives you hands-on experience in mapping FrameMaker formats and creating templates for your conversion projects. Each student has an individual workstation, so class enrollment is limited to 10 students.

Class is scheduled for January 27-29, 1999, in Research Triangle Park. Please see our WebWorks Publisher web page for information about pricing and the curriculum.

To register, send email to training@scriptorium.com.

New white papers posted

We've posted two new white papers to our web site:

• Planning on converting your FrameMaker files to online help but don't know what software is best for you? Read our short paper about the merits of WebWorks Publisher, RoboHelp, and MIF2RTF: What Tool Do I Use?: Converting FrameMaker Files to Help.

   

• Production work on translated technical manuals can be an expensive and nerve-wracking experience. Words in other languages are usually longer than their English counterparts, and this expansion of text makes much of the production work you do on your English manuals useless. However, you can design your FrameMaker template to minimize the effects of this expansion, as our white paper about localization explains (PDF, 150K).

Comments? Questions?

If you have comments or questions about this newsletter, send email to comments@scriptorium.com.

If you know a colleague who could benefit from our services, please let them know about us. They can also contact sales@scriptorium.com.