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By request: FrameMaker Glossary and GlossaryTerm Markers

Background info This post is a bit on the geeky side, so you may need additional FrameMaker skills (working with markers, books, generated files, reference pages, and others) to get this to work. If you need more info, consider the Adobe FrameMaker forums (forums.adobe.com), my FrameMaker book (EPUB available now, print available on Amazon after…

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FrameMaker 2015 First Look

June 2, 2015: Today Adobe publicly announced FrameMaker 2015, part of the Adobe Technical Suite (2015 release). And for me this version is a big deal. Big enough to get me moving on an update to my FrameMaker reference book (shipping later this month) and big enough to merit a FrameMaker Electronic Publishing online course (also debuting in June…

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Mobile PDF commenting workflow in FrameMaker 12

For the 2014 STC Summit (the annual Society for Technical Communication national conference) Adobe asked me to do a presentation on the FrameMaker mobile PDF review workflow available in FrameMaker 12. I thought to myself, “Hmm, marking up a PDF on a phone/tablet, then transposing those edits back into a FrameMaker file…Even if you could do it, I’m…

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A quick guide to mobile publishing with FrameMaker 12

Do you need to get FrameMaker content to your users via phones and tablets? Are you well past the due date? Here are the steps you need to get the job done, including an introduction to custom skins and branding. For more content, view the one hour recorded Adobe webinar I gave in October, 2014.…

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