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ANNOUNCE: BOSTON-BASED WORKSHOPS FOR TECHNICAL COMMUNICATORS
nSight--founded in 1982 by Nan Fritz, an STC Associate Fellow--is
the leading provider of communications workshops in the Boston
area, offering the broadest selection of writing, editing, design,
and production classes for print and interactive media. Below are
upcoming workshops for documentation specialists:
DATE WORKSHOP
8/28-29 RoboHELP Classic 2000, Version 9.0
9/5-6 Indexing Technical Documentation - Key Wording
9/7 Editing for Technical Writers
9/11 XML Introduction
9/12 Advanced XML
9/18-19 FrameMaker 6.0
9/20-21 Advanced FrameMaker
10-2 Single-Sourcing w/ FrameMaker & WebWorks Pub. Prof'l
10/25-26 Technical Writing Fundamentals
All nSight workshops are conducted by subject-matter experts and
are limited to 12 students so you receive personalized attention.
For workshop descriptions, instructor bios, and to register please
visit http://www.nSightWorks.com/training, or call 781-273-6400.
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A new book outlining a sequential indexing method is now available
from William Andrew Publishing.
INDEXING: A Nuts-and-Bolts Guide for Technical Writers, guides you
through the process of sequential indexing in an easy-to-follow
format. You will succeed as an indexer using this new guide. The
book is based on real-world success and the method was tested in
high-pressure publishing organizations over the space of a decade.
ANNOUNCE: MAKE YOUR ACROBAT BOOKMARKS MORE USABLE!
Bookmarks are a great navigation device for PDFs. They display the
structure of the document in an intuitive manner and enable users
to link directly to the desired location. However, authoring applications
such as Word/PDFMaker and FrameMaker are limited in their ability
to control the way in which Acrobat bookmarks are generated.
SP Bookmark Controller (US$80) automatically controls structure, content
and properties during distilling, regardless of the authoring tool used:
* STRUCTURE: - Auto-collapse initial display to 1st or 2nd level
- Extract Figure and Table bookmarks
* CONTENT:
- Remove heading numbering
- Remove/change redundant text and merge bookmarks
- Handle boxes displayed in Acrobat/Reader 5 (FrameMaker)
- Map accented letters and other special characters to Unicode
* PROPERTIES: - Add color and font style to your bookmarks (Acrobat 5)
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ANNOUNCE: Upcoming INDEXING SKILLS WORKSHOPS FOR TECHNICAL COMMUNICATORS
presented by Lori Lathrop
"An index is as important to your documentation as your documentation is
to the product."
(Lori Lathrop)
The one-day workshop is for writers and editors who need to create usable
indexes for either printed or online documents. Writers will learn to
apply several productivity tips and techniques in indexing technical
documentation.
U.S. DATES AND LOCATIONS:
August 31 - Ann Arbor, MI
September 28 - St. Louis, MO
November 16 - Seattle, WA
To request a brochure for any of these workshops, contact
LoriLathrop -at- compuserve -dot- com or call 704-531-0021. You may also download a
brochure as a PDF file from the IndexingSkills Web site
(http://www.indexingskills.com).
DOWN UNDER DATES AND LOCATIONS:
October 18 & 19 - Brisbane, Australia
To be announced - Melbourne, Australia
If you are interested in attending a workshop in Brisbane or Melbourne,
send an e-mail message to LoriLathrop -at- compuserve -dot- com
INSTRUCTOR QUALIFICATIONS:
Lori Lathrop is a Past President of the American Society of Indexers (ASI)
and a Senior Member of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). The
second edition of her book, An Indexer's Guide to the Internet, was
published by Information Today Inc. in 1999, and she is currently writing
Indexing Skills for Technical Communicators, which is based on her
workshops.
ANNOUNCE: SnagIt & Camtasia to capture, edit, present
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