Key Concept Archive
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Publish High-Quality, Print-Ready DITA in less than a day
b Post Summary Everyone says, “Publishing DITA is Hard!” But the truth is you can publish DITA content for ePub and Print output with very little work. The promise that vendors (like us) have been giving for 20 years is…
- Key Concepts: arbortext editor, arbortext layout developer (ald) (3b2), arbortext publishing engine, arbortext styler, best practices, case study, dita, html web output, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, page layout and print publishing, single-sourcing, techcomm tools
- Filed under: Blog, Liz Asks, Liz's Tech Corner
- Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive
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…
- Key Concepts: arbortext editor, arbortext layout developer (ald) (3b2), arbortext publishing engine, arbortext styler, best practices, case study, dita, html web output, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, page layout and print publishing, single-sourcing, techcomm tools
- Filed under: Blog, Liz Asks, Liz's Tech Corner
- Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive
Basic GIT Tracking for Day-to-Day Work
Everyone has heard of git, and most everyone has likely heard both good and bad things about git. And like most useful software, both are true. This 30 minute seminar will provide a quick overview of git concepts and how…
- Key Concepts: arbortext editor, arbortext layout developer (ald) (3b2), arbortext publishing engine, arbortext styler, best practices, case study, dita, html web output, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, page layout and print publishing, single-sourcing, techcomm tools
- Filed under: Blog, Liz Asks, Liz's Tech Corner
- Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive
How Do I Pick the Right Tool for Me?
So many tools to choose from! So many messages from so many vendors. Everyone saying they are the right one! One size does not fit all and one solution is not right for everyone! How could it?! How do you…
- Key Concepts: arbortext editor, arbortext layout developer (ald) (3b2), arbortext publishing engine, arbortext styler, best practices, case study, dita, html web output, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, page layout and print publishing, single-sourcing, techcomm tools
- Filed under: Blog, Liz Asks, Liz's Tech Corner
- Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive
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…
- Key Concepts: dita, news, release notes, techcomm tools
- Filed under: Blog, Release Details
- Venues:
Arbortext Styler 7.0 includes Stylesheet IDE
APP became available to anyone who wanted to do high-quality print output about midway through the 5.4 release stream. Since 6.0 we've been encouraging people creating new stylesheets to use APP as their main rendering engine over FOSI. It's new…
- Key Concepts: arbortext editor, arbortext layout developer (ald) (3b2), arbortext publishing engine, arbortext styler, best practices, case study, dita, html web output, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, page layout and print publishing, single-sourcing, techcomm tools
- Filed under: Blog, Liz Asks, Liz's Tech Corner
- Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive
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…
- Key Concepts: dita, framemaker, techcomm tools
- Filed under: Webinars
- Venues: TC Dojo
Key Referencing – The Key to Reuse
Topic based content enables organizations to piece content together to fit different customer needs. But often times this content can't be shared and reused to its full potential because it contains product names, specific values, screenshots, links, or other content…
- Key Concepts: arbortext editor, arbortext layout developer (ald) (3b2), arbortext publishing engine, arbortext styler, best practices, case study, dita, html web output, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, page layout and print publishing, single-sourcing, techcomm tools
- Filed under: Blog, Liz Asks, Liz's Tech Corner
- Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive