#26110
Creating and Using Master Documents in OOoWriter 1.1
This page is an excerpt from Taming OpenOffice.org Writer (no longer available). A variation of this material is in OpenOffice.org Writer: The Free Alternative to Microsoft Word. Yes, master documents do work in OpenOffice.org Writer. However, you need to have a very disciplined approach to make sure they work correctly and reliably.
OpenOffice.org (2004). Articles>Word Processing>Software>OpenOffice
#22987
Creating Captions Using MAGpie 2.0
MAGpie allows the captioning of Web audio and video content for use in QuickTime, RealPlayer, and Windows Media Player.
WebAIM (2004). Resources>Software>Accessibility>Video
#26107
Creating Cross-References Between Documents
I've now discovered that you can indeed do cross-references between documents, if they are both subdocuments of a master document. The method is obscure, and the help file (although giving a clue) wasn't much help.
OpenOffice.org (2004). Articles>Word Processing>Software>OpenOffice
#22592
Dynamic stamps consist of the PDF image of the stamp and a text form field that contains JavaScript to make your stamp dynamic. For example, the Dynamic Stamp 'Approved' contains a form field that generates user name, time and date.
DeFurio, Lori. PlanetPDF (2003). Design>Information Design>Software>Adobe Acrobat
#14864
Starting with a scan is honestly not the very best. The new forms designer from Amgraf is a power tool and gives you many good features. If you have to edit the base scan, your best bet is indeed to recreate it. You might try Adobe Illustrator, or Deneba's Canvas 8 helping you. Another possibility might be OmniForm by ScanSoft. You also might look at the new tool from Adobe's Capture suite, also known as Tea Party, which might help a bit as well.
PDFzone (2000). Design>Web Design>Software>Adobe Acrobat
#25034
Creating Interactive Documents for PDF 
Learn how to add movies, sound clips, and interactive buttons to an Adobe InDesign CS document. When you export the document to Adobe PDF, readers can view movies, play sound clips, and activate buttons in Adobe Acrobat. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to add a movie and buttons that play, pause, resume, and stop the movie in the exported PDF document.
Adobe (2004). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
#24250
Creating Multimedia Hardware Procedures with ShowMe How
Learning the correct steps to install or remove a computer component, such as a memory module, can involve, at best, hands-on instruction or, at worst, only written instructions. To increase the likelihood that customers and service personnel will be able to perform correctly the hardware service procedure for each fieldreplaceable component, Sun MicrosystemsTM now ships high-quality multimedia of removal and replacement procedures, called ShowMeTM How, on CD with each UltraTM Workstation and Enterprise Workgroup Server.
Barron, Rick, Steve Hix, Paul Lorence and Jenny R. Redfern. STC Proceedings (1999). Articles>Documentation>Software
#20763
Creating Online Acrobat Documents with Word
This demonstration illustrates approaches to designing and implementing tools and procedures that have been used successfully at Unisys Corporation to deliver documentation to customers on CD-ROM and the Web. These include release management and production tools, program suites to organize and restructure documents so that they can be accessed and displayed effectively online, and tools to integrate and access multiple document types. Will describe several special techniques to generate links and set parameters directly in Word. Will demonstrate linking from other file types into PDF documents and dynamically attaching updates to legacy documents.
Teague, Tommy K. STC Proceedings (1999). Articles>Writing>Software>Microsoft Word
#22357
Creating PDF Documents from HTML Documents
In this topic, you will create PDF documents from HTML documents.
#26315
Creating Presentations with OperaShow
An article discussing how to use the Opera Web browser as a presentation tool.
Nesbitt, Scott. InformIT (2004). Articles>Presentations>Software
#31097
Tables make information easy to find and understand and are often used for illustrating comparisons among similar data. A table usually consists of a heading row and one or more body rows and may also contain a title.
McMurrey, David A., Jana Owens, Jacqueline J. Pulido and Thomas A. Moore. Illuminati Online (2004). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe FrameMaker
#26366
Creating Text Equivalents for Images
This article is for developers and content editors seeking to supplement the visual elements of a user interface with text equivalents. This article describes what text equivalents are, why they are required, how to create them, and the best approach to writing and editing them.
Microsoft (2002). Articles>Accessibility>Software
#20170
Creating Time-Triggered Events
In this column, we'll show you how to add GoLive Actions to the Timeline, enabling things to happen at specified intervals within the Scene's playback.
Shadovitz, Deborah. Mac Design Magazine. Design>Web Design>Software>Adobe GoLive
#27951
Creating XML Trees with the XmlTextWriter and XmlDocument Objects
So you know all about reading and parsing XML files, and even checking if they're well-formed and valid. Now, take a step into more advanced territory with this expose of two objects that let you dynamically create well-formed XML documents in your ASP.NET scripts.
ASP Free (2004). Articles>Information Design>Software>XML
#22522
The Creative Toolbox: Packing Up InDesign Layouts for GoLive Pages
With the Creative Suite, Adobe application integration has never been tighter, especially between InDesign CS and GoLive CS. See how you can turn an InDesign layout into a GoLive Web site in a few steps.
Penston, George. Creative Pro (2004). Design>Web Design>Software>Adobe GoLive
#29937
Cropping Pages to Highlight Areas in Acrobat
When you receive a PDF that contains, say, an image that is surrounded by text, how do you highlight the image? One way is to export the graphic to an imaging application such as Photoshop, but that involves additional applications and the associated loading times. A great 'quick and dirty' fix here is to use the 'Crop' tool to hide the content that surrounds the image, leaving you with PDF which displays only an image, just the way you wanted it. This tip explains how.
Shea, Dan. PlanetPDF (2006). Articles>Document Design>Software>Adobe Acrobat
#25081
Cross-Referencing Step Numbers in Word
If you are like most technical writers, your procedures have automatically numbered steps (whether in tables or text), Microsoft Word provides two relatively simple ways for you to cross-reference a step number.
McConnell, Gloria. Usability Interface (2004). Articles>Documentation>Software>Microsoft Word
#20206
Enter the URL of a Cascading Style Sheet, or enter your style sheet directly. CSSCheck is primarily a CSS1 checker.
#18953
Current Issues in Software Internationalisation
The trend toward globalisation of products and services has brought a strong economic imperative to the development of general methods for the localisation of software to different cultural environments. While ad hoc, bolt-on localisation may satisfy immediate commercial objectives, its extension to multiple locales is not cost-effective and an integrated strategy is needed. In this more sustainable approach, known as software internationalisation, the requirements of disparate markets are addressed during analysis and system design, with the architecture developed so that localisation to a particular environment is straightforward, and involves minimal re-engineering. Given the limited size of the Australasian market, detailed attention to the technical issues of internationalisation is of critical importance to the future of software development in the region, as is the availability of graduates adequately prepared for this environment. Thus motivated, this paper examines the state of play in a number of aspects of application level software internationalisation, with our focus the core research challenges of the next few years, and the consequences of these trends for the software engineering curriculum.
Hogan, James M., Chris Ho-Stuart and Binh Pham. Queensland University of Technology. Articles>Language>Localization>Software
#29931
While Acrobat comes pre-loaded with a selection of stamps, including 'Approved', 'Declined' and 'Accepted', users can also create custom stamps of such things as company logos for use on their PDF documents. Complex or graphically rich stamps can be created or prepared in imaging applications before being added to Acrobat's selection. This tip explains how to create a custom stamp using an existing file.
Shea, Dan. PlanetPDF (2007). Articles>Document Design>Software>Adobe Acrobat
#23459
We recently converted our documents from Word to FrameMaker. Most of the people in my department had been using Word for years and had grown accustomed to applying character formatting using key commands or buttons on the toolbar. I was afraid that they would use the same methods in FrameMaker simply out of habit, rather than using character tags.
Henkel, Rick. Docspages. Articles>Document Design>Software>Adobe FrameMaker
#20504
With Adobe InDesign® you can create and edit custom dash, dot, and stripe stroke styles, giving you more control and freedom over how strokes look in your publications. You can also save the stroke styles you create, and then use them over and over again in other InDesign publications.
Adobe (2003). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
#20813
DC dot: Dublin Core Metadata Editor
This service will retrieve a Web page and automatically generate Dublin Core metadata, either as HTML META tags or as RDF/XML, suitable for embedding in the HEAD section of the page.
University of Koln. Resources>Information Design>Software>Metadata
#27467
Review: Degunking Microsoft Office
Degunking Microsoft Office, by Christina Palaia and Wayne Palaia, addresses the problem of anything that slows down the computer, interferes with your operations, crashes applications, or loses data, and presents some ways of avoiding it.
Delwood, Robert. STC Houston (2006). Articles>Reviews>Software>Microsoft Word
#18954
Déjà Vu?—Translation Memories and Localization Tools 
Translation memory systems and software localization tools are designed to increase translation productivity by automating the linguistic transfer from source to target text. Unlike machine translation systems (see chapter 10), they do not process a source text as a whole but work instead on segments. This chapter will explain the basic concepts behind these language technologies. We will show the operating procedures of two of the market-leading products, the translation memory system Translator’s Workbench by Trados, and the localization tool Catalyst by Corel.
Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Articles>Language>Localization>Software
