The back issue of this journal is available to ISTC members as a PDF file (9.5MB).
Features
- Adobe Technical Communication Suite
BEN NOZ URBINA
Investigating whether this suite adds up to more than the sum of its parts - FrameMaker 8 review
BERNARD ASCHWANDEN
An overview of new features and highlights in the latest version of this popular tool for technical communicators - Review of RoboHelp 7
MATTHEW ELLISON
Looking at the Help authoring component of Adobe’s Technical Communication Suite - What makes a proposal persuasive?
HAZEL SALES
Explores the problematic process of proposal writing, and suggests how proposals can be made more convincing to customers - Justifications: objective or subjective?
RON BLICQ
Explains how your perspective affects the structure when you come to evaluating and recommending alternatives - Multimedia content rocks!
RHONDA WAINWRIGHT
How a new generation of information consumers are driving the use of multimedia in electronic publications - How knowledge becomes usable
KEES VAN MANSOM
Continuing the explanation of the knowledge-driven design of websites - PTC’s Arbortext workflow
AL DEAN
Seamless flow from design to documentation — an impossible dream or does the latest Arbortext suite have the answers? - Can you draw a can of beans?
MATTHEW JENNINGS
Describes how to create a basic but important effect of 3D illustration - Touching DITA: delivering to Eclipse Help
IAN LARNER
Explains how you can use DITA for integrated components of information delivered in the Eclipse Help system - First steps in structure: elements
STEVE RICKABY
Continues a beginner’s guide to structured working in FrameMaker by looking at different types of elements - Rock & Write!
RICHARD HODGKINSON
Reports on The Crucial Communicator Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, USA