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ANNOUNCE: FrameMaker and XML: Advanced Techniques Workshop (NEW)
July 21, 2005, 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
San Mateo, California (8 miles from San Francisco Int'l Airport)
Student Fee: $259.00
Instructor: Lynne A. Price, Ph.D., Text Structure Consulting, Inc.
Guest Speaker: Chip Gettinger, Astoria Software Inc.
Wrestling with DTD and EDD set-up? Struggling with your FrameMaker
structured application? Grappling with read/write rules?
Maintaining your documents in both FrameMaker and XML lets you
make the most of both FrameMaker, with its intuitive interface
for editing structured documents and its rich capability for
formatting long documents, and XML, with its ever-growing set of
tools. Bright Path Solutions and Text Structure Consulting, Inc.
bring you a workshop on strategies for building effective
document publishing environments in structured FrameMaker.
Unlike a course that teaches FrameMaker's native XML
capabilities, this workshop focuses on applying those capabilities
to practical situations.
You will learn:
- To apply software development techniques to build
maintainable EDDs and read/write rules
- What import/export problems can be solved with read/write
rules and when to augment your XML applications with the Frame
Developer Kit (FDK), FrameScript, XSLT, or FrameSLT
- How to write structured read/write rules
- When to define different structures in your EDD and DTD
- How to create EDD fragments to be reused in multiple EDDs
ANNOUNCE: Information Mapping, Inc. Supports TECHWR-L
as Gold Sponsor (NEW)
Join us in thanking Information Mapping, Inc., as a continuing
TECHWR-L Annual Sponsor! Information Mapping, Inc., is a Gold
sponsor, providing support for the community, the TECHWR-L
mailing list, and the TECHWR-L Web site.
Information Mapping, Inc, helps organizations create more
effective corporate information through Information Mapping
learning programs, consulting services, and technology solutions
that protect, communicate, and enhance information assets.
Information Mapping is the only company that combines a 38 year
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yield long term results for a company's people and processes.
Their unique writing method uses a scientific approach for
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Use of Information Mapping's method has helped writers:
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Information Mapping, Inc. welcomes the opportunity to further
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ANNOUNCE: BuildFire 2005 - Production Assistant
for FrameMaker (NEW)
BuildFire 2005: Automate PDF/XML production of FM documents.
PDF/XML production of FrameMaker books shouldn't hurt, but it
often does.
Automate PDF and XML production of FrameMaker deliverables using
Convivio's BuildFire 2005. Define parameters for PDF/XML outputs
once, and trigger multi-book, multi-PDF builds with a single
click (or build ALL your PDFs or XML overnight!).
With BuildFire 2005, you can:
1. Generate entire documentation sets on-demand or on-schedule
2. Automatically distribute PDFs to multiple destinations
3. Apply FM templates on-the-fly to create custom deliverables
4. Automate XML generation and round-tripping (new!)
BuildFire 2005 is a cost- effective production solution for any
writer. Try BuildFire 2005 today: http://www.convivio.com
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ANNOUNCE: New! WebWorks OnTime: On-Demand, Custom ePublishing
Service
For the first time, WebWorks Services is offering Quadralay
Corporation's content conversion expertise to work directly on
your project, to produce your online content directly from your
Word documents, FrameMaker books, or XML content. No training, no
tools, no learning curve, and you can have your documents converted
to virtually any format, customized to your specifications.*
With over 11 years of content conversion experience, we are able to
put on-demand ePublishing within reach of any organization, small
or large. Our Basic Plan for Word or FrameMaker starts at just $99
for up to 1000 pages!
Add localization to your OnTime order to make the most of your
on-demand ePublishing investment. WebWorks OnTime offers expert
translation of your content into one or multiple languages.**
For more information, visit www.webworks.com/ontime or contact an
OnTime Service Representative at 512.719.3399 ext.503
*Certain terms and conditions apply. See Web site for details.
**Translations provided by Adams Globalization.
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