ComponentOne, makers of Doc-to-Help, today announced the first release of 2012, incorporating support for help on mobile devices and new language output options. Read more of this technical writing article »
ISTC Quarterly Journal, Communicator, Now Online
The Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators (ISTC ), the professional association for technical communications in the United Kingdom, announced that its quarterly journal, Communicator, is now available for purchase as a downloadable PDF. Read more of this technical writing article »
Apple Reveals iBooks Author – Ebooks Publishing Tool
With the much anticipated announcement of iBooks® 2 for iPad®, Apple also released iBooks Author as a free download from the Mac App Store, and a revamped iTunes® U app. iBooks Author uses drag and drop functionality to create textbooks, technical communications works, reference and other ebooks on Mac devices. Read more of this technical writing article »
Tech Writer This Week: January 19, 2012
This week includes wide-ranging commentary on smartphones, opinions on the rapidly mushrooming topic of content curation, technical communications and technical writing, 2012 trade shows, and useful tech tools for file management, user interfaces, and creating PDF files Read more of this technical writing article »
Aptara Launches PXE4.1 Publishing Platform for Technical Content
Aptara, Inc. introduced PXE4.1 Digital Publishing Platform, designed to streamline production and delivery of digital and mobile content, including technical content. The new version of the PXE web-based platform introduces support for HTML5 and EPUB 3 creation (including embedding of audio and video), as well as extended workflow capabilities. Read more of this technical writing article »
Maxwell Hoffman Joins Adobe Technical Communications Group
Maxwell Hoffman has joined the Adobe Technical Communications Group as Product Evangelist for Adobe Tech Comm Business, reporting to Tom Aldous, Director. In this role, Hoffman will work with Adobe’s engineering, sales and marketing groups to represent customers and partners and expand Adobe’s presence in the technical communications market. Hoffman comes to the Adobe team from Globalization [...] Read more of this technical writing article »
DITA: “Crossing the Chasm” Webinars Scheduled
Dr. JoAnn Hackos, president of Comtech Services, will present a free three-part webinar series on DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) entitled "Crossing the Chasm", beginning Thursday, January 19, 2012, and hosted by Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL), and Comtech Services, Inc. Read more of this technical writing article »
Lattice Releases XVL Studio 10.1b for Technical Documentation
Lattice Technology® Inc. released version 10.1b of its XVL Studio for digital mock-up, process planning, and the creation of 3D and 2D technical documentation in the manufacturing sector. Built on standards-based XVL (eXtensible Virtual world description Language) technology, the latest version of XVL studio includes enhancements to support export to HTML5, as well as new sample tool models [...] Read more of this technical writing article »
Oxygen XML Editor v13.2 Now Available
Syncro Soft SRL announced the immediate release of version 13.2 of its Oxygen XML Editor, featuring a new Syntax Highlight mechanism and several improvements to authoring support. The Syntax Highlight handles mixed content types, improves both JSON editing support and bidirectional documents rendering, and extends the XML-native database support with find/replace capabilities. Read more of this technical writing article »