TechWhirl has uncovered evidence that Adobe’s documentation team is allegedly in the throes of an uprising-of-sorts due to the sensational claims made recently by an ex-employee. The very disgruntled ex-employee, who said everyone in the team called him Sloppy Joe, told TechWhirl that “all product documentation for Adobe FrameMaker is done using Word!” Sloppy Joe disclosed that Adobe had provided him and his fellow technical writers considerable freedom to choose the right tools for their job
Adobe Systems Inc. today announced a limited offer on all new purchases of the industry-leading help authoring tool, RoboHelp, which entitles buyers to a complementary ‘robot’. The robot, codenamed, HelpRobo, or HR for short, will be programmed to help RoboHelp users with many common administrative and support tasks.
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 Partners International, where he managed large content translation projects for clients using FrameMaker and other tools, and directed the translation vendor’s social media program. His background also includes serving as Adobe FrameMaker Product Marketing Manager and Director of Worldwide Sales Training for Frame Technology. He has written extensively about Adobe products including the FrameMaker 9 Reviewer’s Guide, and developed and delivered training for more than 15 years. Read about Hoffman in the Adobe in Technical Communication Plus blog.
As a technical writer, you may be exploring single-sourcing–producing multiple document outputs from a single information source–as a possible option for easing document development and production. Although solutions such as databases, SGML, and XML are available that can enable you to reuse information to produce multiple outputs, single-sourcing doesn’t have to involve such complex solutions, expenses, and learning curves. Instead, if your single-sourcing needs are relatively simple, you can effectively single-source using a tool that technical writers commonly have available: FrameMaker.
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