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Goal-Focused and Structured Technical Writing
© Ugur Akinci PREMISE Most of the technical documentation that exists in the world today is feature-focused. It is also unstructured: there is no well-defined hierarchy between the components of the...
View ArticleHow to Extract Text from a PDF Document: 4 Options
© Ugur Akinci PDF (Portable Document Format) is great since it allows you to read a technical document on any machine, regardless of the operating system. But if you are doing any structured authoring,...
View ArticleThings to Think About Before Converting Legacy Technical Documents to XML
© Ugur Akinci Don Bridges, Commercial Tech Docs Manager at dclab.com has good points about converting legacy documents to XML in general, or to a DITA platform in particular. During a webinar he...
View ArticleAuthorIt's New SaaS Cloud Authoring Platform for Enterprise-Level Technical...
© Ugur Akinci I’m not a regular AuthorIt user but, having sat through a webinar presented by the company Founder and CEO Paul Trotter, I have to say that I’m impressed by AuthorIt’s new SaaS (Software...
View ArticleAuthorIt SaaS Cloud Enterprise-Level Technical Writing Platform – Selected...
© Ugur Akinci Here are a few really cool AuthorIt features that caught my eye during a recent webinar demonstration by the company founder and CEO Paul Trotter. Searching for Content AuthorIt is a...
View ArticleAuthorIt SaaS Cloud Enterprise-Level Technical Writing Platform – Review...
© Ugur Akinci The review process is always a critical link in the life cycle of a technical document. The process is prone to errors and riddled with frailties. Especially when multiple reviewers are...
View ArticleWebWorks ePublisher – A General Introduction to an Integrated Document...
© Ugur Akinci To control the document output process and enforce style and content standards have always been among the top concerns of technical writers. Applications like FrameMaker, PageMaker, and...
View ArticleAdobe Getting (Even More) Serious About XML with FrameMaker XML Author 12
© Ugur Akinci Adobe FrameMaker has been at the forefront of XML-based structured authoring for quite a few years now. In 2014 they’ve notched up their focus to a new level by releasing a new product...
View ArticleWell Formed versus Valid XML Documents
© Ugur Akinci “Well formed” (or “Well-formed”) and “Valid” are two very important concepts in structured XML authoring. Well Formed Well formed means, the XML tags used in the structured document...
View ArticleGoal-Focused and Structured Technical Writing
© Ugur Akinci PREMISE Most of the technical documentation that exists in the world today is feature-focused. It is also unstructured: there is no well-defined hierarchy between the components of the...
View ArticleRetail FrameMaker Training
© Ugur Akinci Imagine you’d like to learn Adobe FrameMaker but not in a cover-to-cover “wholesale” fashion. Perhaps you’d like to go “retail” and learn one small task at a time. Perhaps you’d like to...
View ArticleTechnical Book Review – THE COMPASS: Essential Reading About XML, DITA, and...
© 2010 Ugur Akinci Here is a mighty little volume by Scriptorium.com that should be mandatory reading for all those either brand new to structured authoring or looking for technical details about DITA...
View ArticleTwo Excellent Reasons Why You Should Learn XML
© 2010 Ugur Akinci There are two excellent reasons why you should learn XML as a technical communicator, both argued well by Jabin White at his seminal post “XML is Here to Say (I Promise)“. The first...
View ArticleStructured Authoring and XML QUIZ
© 2010 Ugur Akinci (Click the Show Results button at the end to see your results…) [QUIZZIN 1] The post Structured Authoring and XML QUIZ appeared first on Technical Communication Center by Ugur Akinci
View ArticleGraphic Design & Single-Sourcing — Revitalize Your Technical Communication...
© 2010 Ugur Akinci Technical communication is a great exciting field full of material and non-material rewards. But if you’ve been in the business for 5 or over 10 years, things can start getting a bit...
View ArticleAdobe TCS3 is here with new XML and Social Media features!
© 2011 Ugur Akinci I’m excited to hear that Adobe’s Technical Communication Suite 3 is introduced with exciting built-in DITA/XML and social media/networking features. I understand both FrameMaker 10...
View ArticleThings to Avoid in Modular Component Writing for Structured Authoring and...
In true “structured authoring” the “components” you create (write, draw, etc.) are saved in the database of a Content Management System (CMS). The negative side of this type of “writing” is that you...
View ArticleA Source of Potential Component Conflict when Multiple Authors Work in...
Multiple authors writing “components” instead of “pages” is the future of technical communications (if not technical training and e-learning). When it comes to documentation, it really makes sense to...
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