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QuarkXPress Tutorials and Training
Look for tips, tutorials product support, downloads, templates,and publications for QuarkXPress. Find formal and informal training classes and seminars both online and offline for this popular desktop publishing program.
Howard Bear, Jacci. About.com. Resources>Document Design>Software>QuarkXPress
#23455
This page is dedicated to the Adobe FrameMaker software. It includes many suggestions for customizing FrameMaker as well as a guide that my department used for converting thousands of pages from Word to FrameMaker.
Henkel, Rick. Docspages (2000). Resources>Document Design>Software>Adobe FrameMaker
#20036
Die Inanspruchnahme der Foren und das Einstellen von Beiträgen ist ohne Registrierung möglich.
Robo-Forum. (German) Resources>Documentation>Software>RoboHelp
#20032
RoboHelp is the industry's top-selling Help authoring tool. Designed for WinHelp and Microsoft HTML Help, RoboHelp can also be used to produce WinHelp 2000, WebHelp, JavaHelp, and Oracle Help for Java.
Knopf Online (2003). Resources>Documentation>Software>Adobe RoboHelp
#30298
Information on Software as a Service, ERP Technology, SaaS Software, Enterprise, CRM, Vendore, IT, SME and SaaS News.
Smith, Rizz. SaaSbiz. Resources>Software>Content Management>Blogs
#27065
Slide-By-Slide Animations: Traditional Countdown
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a simple traditional countdown animation in 5 slides (I normally call it a Slide By Slide animation). This is achievable in a single slide (Stacking animation), but to reduce the difficulty, I will show you a simple one which can be editable easily at a later time.
Tohlz, Shawn. PowerPoint Heaven (2005). Resources>Presentations>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint
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Some of the most popular tools for word processing and desktop publishing, Web publishing, graphics creation, and help authoring with links to the software Web site.
Technical Communicators Resource Site. Resources>Directories>Software
#27068
Stacking/Overlapping/Layering Animations - Blasting Effect
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a cool blasting effect on objects.
Tohlz, Shawn. PowerPoint Heaven (2005). Resources>Presentations>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint
#27066
Stacking/Overlapping/Layering Animations: Spiral Effect
I have experimented many ways to create a spiral effect on text. This requires the overlapping technique. The simplest way is to make use of Pinwheel Entrance effect to do the job, while the best way to create the most realistic impact is to have combination of different effects. The drawback on creating spiral effect is that it only works well on high-end computers, while on older computers, you may experience retrograde effect. The best solution is to keep the text small.
Tohlz, Shawn. PowerPoint Heaven (2005). Resources>Presentations>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint
#27067
Stacking/Overlapping/Layering Animations: Translucent Fading
The solution to fading in from 0% to 50% is simple, but depending on what are you fading. As far as I know, the Emphasis (Transparency) animation will never work because it makes an object translucent/transparent immediately. Even if you combine it with Entrance (Fade) or Exit (Fade) animations, the effect will not work effectively. Do take note that this tutorial does not apply to animating the text.
Tohlz, Shawn. PowerPoint Heaven (2005). Resources>Presentations>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint
#13780
Standalone Help Authoring Tools
Here you will find the world's largest collection of standalone WinHelp Authoring Tools (HATs).If you have heard about any other HAT freeware or shareware please tell me about it.
#30821
The Stomper Scrutinizer: Web Browser w/Visual Simulation 
The Stomper Scrutinizer is a webkit based browser that includes a simulation of human foveal and peripheral vision. By providing a realistic distortion of non-focused page content, the Scrutinizer reveals the perceptability of design features. It is also useful for conducting usability tests, design reviews, and has a number of features (including screenshots) for talking about design.
Andy Edmonds. StomperNet (2007). Resources>Software>Accessibility>Web Design
#20017
#28538
Interested in multimedia? Digital Cinema? Digital Storytelling? Do you want to make these things? How about story structure and digital technology? No matter, there's something here for you.
McLellan, Hilary and Roger Wyatt. McLellan Wyatt Digital (2002). Resources>Software>Ethnographies>Multimedia
#20745
Technical Communication: Multimedia
These are links for some of the training tools and tutorials online for software used by technical writers and trainers like Flash, Dreamweaver, Framemaker, and others.
#18481
Technical Writing for Desktop Publishers
Writing and book indexing help for desktop publishers. Often desktop publishers become jack-of-all-trades and need at least a basic understanding of technical writing.
Howard Bear, Jacci. About.com (2002). Resources>Document Design>Software>Technical Writing
#19593
A directory of technical communication software resources.
#27072
In this tutorial, you will learn how to teleport an object such as AutoShape and text from one position to another by making use of PowerPoint XP/2002's Motion Path animation.
PowerPoint Heaven (2005). Resources>Presentations>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint
#28962
Do you ever think about how much time you spend tackling process issues and tools issues? The tools, as advanced and automated as they are, will not fix all our problems. But we have to work with what we have, and automate as much of the production and maintenance of our content as possible.
Albing, Bill. Carolina Communique (2006). Resources>Software>Tools>XML
#14154
Unified Medical Language System
In 1986, the National Library of Medicine (NLM), began a long term research and development project to build a Unified Medical Language System ® (UMLS ® ). The purpose of the UMLS is to aid the development of systems that help health professionals and researchers retrieve and integrate electronic biomedical information from a variety of sources and to make it easy for users to link disparate information systems, including computer-based patient records, bibliographic databases, factual databases, and expert systems. The UMLS project develops 'Knowledge Sources' that can be used by a wide variety of applications programs to overcome retrieval problems caused by differences in terminology and the scattering of relevant information across many databases.
#18798
Using Table Cell Borders and Shading in WinHelp
For years, the Microsoft Help Compiler (the one for WinHelp, not HTML Help) has been telling Help authors that we can't use borders or shading or merged cells in the tables we create in our Help topics. But this is actually not true. There is a way. And you don't have to create your tables in a graphics program either. Instead, taking advantage of Word's ability to embed objects created in another application, you can keep your tables “editable” while formatting them to your heart's content with borders and shading. All of this is accomplished using the features of Microsoft Word, so this technique should work with any Word-based authoring tool. As RoboHelp specialists, we have tested the procedure only with RoboHelp versions 5, 6, 7, 2000, 9, and 2002. You can create formatted tables using Word or Excel. Use whichever you prefer.
Knopf Online (2001). Resources>Software>Help>Microsoft Windows
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Software that dynamically adapts Web pages to meet the needs of individuals with visual, motor, and print limitations.
IBM (2005). Resources>Software>Accessibility>Microsoft Windows
#18791
This is a page with links to various resources for WebWorks Publisher users. WebWorks Publisher is a 'best of breed' solution for single source publishing with Adobe FrameMaker. Using WebWorks Publisher, you can convert FrameMaker documents to a wide variety of online formats, including Web formats (HTML, HTML + CSS, XML, XML + CSS, XML + XSL), as well as online Help formats (WinHelp, HTML Help, JavaHelp, and WebWorks Help).
Knopf Online. Resources>Software>Web Design>Adobe FrameMaker
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WidemanOne Adobe FrameMaker Topics
For all that the most central concept in FrameMaker is the Frame, the existing documentation is thoroughly foggy regarding the precise nature of the Frame types and the relationships amongst them. Here is a first pass at rectifying that shortcoming.
Wideman, Graham. WidemanOne (2001). Resources>Software>Document Design>Adobe FrameMaker
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For developing HLP files you do not need so much. In fact: All absolutely needed tools are available with no charge.
