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I'm cold and tired of rain
Remember that wonderful warm weather I talked about a few weeks ago? I barely do. It’s been cold and wet for the last 10 days. OK, So Cal cold but my bones are still cold and I’m tired of … more →
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Using Windows 7’s Problem Steps Recorder to help describe and capture steps as they are made
Writer In Training wrote 2 days ago: Windows 7 comes with an interesting little tech support tool. After seeing this article, Using … more →
Using MadCap Flare and MadCap Blaze for high quality print outputs
Writer In Training wrote 3 days ago: There’s an article titled Generating Quality Print Output from MadCap Flare or Blaze on Writer … more →
Clean up Word documents before importing with Clean Up Text utility
Writer In Training wrote 1 month ago: Found this useful little Word utility that helps you clean up Word documents that have been poorly f … more →
Let your users help you – see problems and questions in training as golden opportunities for user assistance
Writer In Training wrote 1 month ago: Currently in Vietnam for a short project. Observing customers interacting with installed computer sy … more →
Promised a little update to AutoTarbat but that's delayed
Writer In Training wrote 3 months ago: I did promise to publish an update to AutoTarbat on my Codeplex projects for Flare/Blaze, but there … more →
Why you should set project language to US English - get CHM related topics menus in a popup rather than in a dialog box
Writer In Training wrote 3 months ago: If your related topics menus are always showing up in a dialog box instead of a menu, set the projec … more →
Beyond the pixel - set letter spacing for PDFs and printed manuals in ems
Writer In Training wrote 3 months ago: The default letter spacing values that you can specify in Flare/Blaze is actually measured in pixels … more →
DIY Binding: Booklets and how to bind your own Flare/Blaze technical paperbacks
Writer In Training wrote 3 months ago: Budgets for printed guides are shrinking but not disappearing just yet. Knowing how to do a perfect … more →
Guidelines for booklets that are simple, easy to use, read and look great
Writer In Training wrote 4 months ago: You don’t actually need to create a new booklet form factor in your Flare/Blaze projects. As long as … more →
Size your pictures fast with Small, Medium and Large picture types - flexible picture management for hundreds of pictures in long documents
Writer In Training wrote 4 months ago: One easy way to manage pictures is to apply a max-width or max-height property to the img tag in you … more →
How to get to know DITA in two interviews, a story and a book
Writer In Training wrote 4 months ago: There’s a mountain of information about DITA. Perhaps too much. Its not all an easy read. I present … more →
Why Analyzer is more useful than Find and Replace for large support knowledge bases and long documents
Writer In Training wrote 5 months ago: MadCap Analyzer is great for long documents because it takes away a bit of the guess work and editor … more →
8 tips for tuning Windows Vista performance for authoring in MadCap Flare/Blaze
Writer In Training wrote 5 months ago: This works on notebooks and desktops, and will prepare your system for authoring in MadCap Flare/Bla … more →
Five tips to kick-start indexing technical documentation projects
Writer In Training wrote 5 months ago: Here are some indexing ideas that I have been using for awhile for my print/online outputs. These ar … more →
New versions: Flare 5.0 and Blaze 2.0 released
Writer In Training wrote 5 months ago: New versions of MadCap Flare 5.0 and MadCap Blaze 2.0 were released today. Among the most important … more →
Part 3: How to highlight code with SHJS in MadCap Flare
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Writer In Training wrote 5 months ago: Download SHJS. Read the usage documentation. Extract the contents of to a folder, and copy the requi … more →
Part 2: How to highlight code with SyntaxHighlighter in MadCap Flare
Writer In Training wrote 5 months ago: This works in all online outputs, CHM and WebHelp. Its a full JavaScript syntax highlighter with a n … more →
When should you not use the ‘print’ medium for printed manuals and other printed deliverables (edited)
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Writer In Training wrote 5 months ago: This post has been edited. Much of the original text of this post is no longer valid. From the comme … more →
Part 1: Highlighting code snippets in topics
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Writer In Training wrote 5 months ago: Syntax highlighting in code snippets, shows your reader, special keywords, variables, values and att … more →
