Photoshop for Technical Communicators
Photoshop is a great tool, and one I’ve enjoyed using since 1990. Here is a 15-minute video overview of a presentation I gave recently to the Orange County chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. As this is my home chapter for STC, I enjoyed (as always) their hospitality and warm reception! Here are the…
Read MoreDude, what’s my interaction say?!
File this under ‘Nice Surprise’ I’m quite stoked right now (so pardon the multiple instances of surfer/SoCal lingo; it’s a geographical necessity), because I just found that Adobe Captivate 6 and Adobe Presenter 8 let you create xml snippets for interaction data, and import them into the interactions themselves. Since I’m in the middle…
Read More2013 Top Influencers in #TechComm
Congratulations to the members of this year’s MindTouch Top 100 #TechComm Influencers list. I’m honored to be on the list at #15, and proud to say that Sarah O’Keefe, my co-author for the Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 11 book came in at #2! As with previous years, I’ll be going through the list looking for…
Read MoreRoboHelp 11 New Feature Requests
I’m betting this becomes more of a post later, but for now I’d like to see: Ability to specify mini-TOC’s on a master page that display below the H1 Ability to process generated FM files into RH topics with working hyperlinks If you agree, I suggest you join me in posting these to Adobe at…
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