Twice in a week, now, the tips at LanceLHoff.com have come to my rescue.
I was just banging my head against some Apache2 configuration issues with the (really cool) virtualappliances.net Ubuntu-based LAMP stack VM… Permalinks support in Wordpress 2.6 was broken and nothing I tried in my httpd.conf or .htaccess files would make it work. […]
Sooner or later you need to put your structured Framemaker/XML content on the Web. WebWorks is certainly one path people have taken to get there… Here’s an overview of the different versions of the product, from Quadralay.
http://www.webworks.com/Introduction/What_is_ePublisher.shtml
ePublisher is a powerful online conversion platform that transforms FrameMaker, Word, and DITA content into Web and online help […]
http://charlesjeter.com/2007/08/10/backlash-grows-from-high-cost-poor-quality-adobe-technical-support/
Seems there’s a groundswell of anger at Adobe over recent tech support policy changes, poor support etc.. Robohelp is the primary target of complaints in the recent diatribes, but frankly, Adobe’s always seemed a bit arrogant as a company and more interested in milking profit from customers than in helping them. (Witness the user-hostile […]
The always-readworthy MonkeyPi has started an in-depth series of articles on the promising newcomer, Madcap Flare, which over the last several months his team has been ridden hard and put away wet:
My project team has just completed our first “major” user assistance (UA) deliverable created with MadCap Flare. Actually, it was a set of […]
Carmen Publishing makes available a number of small but quite useful FDK-based plugins for Framemaker on Windows:
TableCleaner 1.8
TableCleaner is a plugin that gives you more control over FrameMaker tables.
PageLabeler 2.2.1
PageLabeler transfers your FrameMaker page numbering to Acrobat PDF files.
ImportFormatsSpecial 1.0.4
Allows you to determine which properties are imported.
FindChangeSpecial 2.1
FindChangeSpecial allows you to find formats in […]
HAT-Matrix offers a dynamic comparison matrix where you can pick the features of several help authoring products and dynamically generate comparisons, subject to some caveats:
Search for all tools with selected feature(s)
Search for any tools with selected features
Compare up to four tools side-by-side
NOTE: Only vendors who have paid a fee are included in the database. Vendors […]
