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To DITA or Not To DITA (Another Take)

It’s hard to miss the hype about DITA. But what is the reality? How can you or your organization make an informed decision about whether to migrate to a DITA-based workflow? Is DITA the best choice for you? Or would…

Making ePub Work

There are lots of tools that can generate an EPUB from various source formats, but often the resulting EPUB doesn't look so hot. Things often get even worse when you view that EPUB with a desktop reader. Using the layout…

Are You Getting the Most Out of DITA Content Reuse?

DITA was built around the idea of content reuse, but many content creators are not maximizing reuse within their own documents. When DITA content is optimized for reuse, content creators can focus on writing new content, reduce localization costs, and…

Thanks to all those who joined Guru D and the Cult of DITA at Lavacon

At Lavacon last month I gave two presentations: one traditional and one…Not. We all know that I like to experiment right? TC Camp, TC Dojo, TPC Affinity Groups are my most successful and well known. This time, I decided I…

Working with DITA Maps in Arbortext

Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 3: Arbortext TC Dojo, Special S2 Recorded: October 2015 In Arbortext 7.0, creating, editing, and manipulating DITA maps is easy to do! In this TC Dojo: Arbortext Edition, we cover the basics for creating, managing, and…

Life with Guru D: Adopting a DITA Mindset and Converting Others

DITA methodology is often difficult for people to grasp. It does require a complete shift in how you view and author your content. You can’t take a book and shove it over. It doesn’t work like that. You need to…

DITA 1.3 available with Arbortext 7.0 release

Arbortext 7.0 includes support for DITA 1.3—no plugins or additional modules required. With the release of Arbortext 7.0, all DITA 1.x documents are supported by the Arbortext suite of products. Arbortext has had support for DITA since 2004, when it was…

Introduction to FrameMaker 2015

Maxwell Hoffmann, Adobe Product Evangelist, takes you on a tour of regular/unstructured document projects in the latest version of FrameMaker, FrameMaker (2015 Release.)Max is Adobe’s Global Product Evangelist for Technical Communications and a former product manager for FrameMaker at Frame…