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AOTk: The Arbortext Open Toolkit

AOTk: The Arbortext Open Toolkit Most customers abandon mixing Arbortext with the DITA OT once they realize they can get Arbortext for Small Teams The AOTk is a set of plugins that will allow you to use Arbortext products directly…

From Open Source Volunteer to Full-Time Tech Writer

In this talk, Gale describes a little bit about what open source software is and how she used her volunteer experience as an Apache Taverna committer to become a technical writer at Facebook. She describes the tangible and intangible skills…

Review: Adobe Technical Communications Suite 2017, UI, UX, and Techcomm

Updated: 29 November 2017 Last month I wrote about an article by Linn Vizard that I saw on the Adobe Creative Cloud blog about the Evolution of Buttons in UX Design. While I thoroughly enjoyed the article for personal reasons,…

Adding Custom Actions to OxygenXML Frameworks

Elizabeth Fraley will walk through one way to customize the OxygenXML environment. What you will learn: How custom actions can personalize your OxygenXML environment How custom actions work How to add menu items and toolbar buttons that will trigger your…

Harnessing the Chi of Swagger in Your API Docs

Frequently when tech writers start creating API documentation, a developer will ask, Why don't we use Swagger? Swagger, or the OpenAPI specification, is an open standard for describing your REST API. The Swagger/OpenAPI spec, which is created in YAML or…

Subscription licenses are here to stay

Updated: May 2017 The software companies of world has decided the answer to that question is yes. I first heard about subscription licenses from Adobe back in 2013. Then Microsoft followed. For good or bad, whether we like it or not, it's here…

How to find the best content management system (or any other tool)

b Post Summary In this article, I hope I can convince you to gather requirements before you buy. It's the only way to guarantee that you find the best content management system for you. Not for someone else. FOR YOU….

What is the best DITA authoring and publishing tool?

I see this question posted all the time – in newsgroups, in blog comments, in LinkedIn groups. Posting this kind of question will get you one of three classes of answer. And every time, the answers posted are wrong. Most answers come…