Category Archives: Tech Writing

Disappearing Text in PDFs – Part 2

Posted on January 13, 2012 by smurphy

Following on from a post I wrote a while back on text that was present in the source file, but mysteriously vanished on saving to PDF, here’s a similar incident I encountered with a different resolution. In this case, again … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Documents, Presentations, and Workbooks by Stephanie Krieger; O’Reilly Media

Posted on July 21, 2011 by smurphy

I recently joined the O’Reilly Blogger Review Program, and the first book I downloaded to review was this one: Documents, Presentations, and Workbooks: Using Microsoft Office to Create Content That Gets Noticed by Stephanie Krieger. For the most part, I … Continue reading →

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BookVars FrameMaker Plugin

Posted on June 2, 2011 by smurphy

One of the single sourcing features I’ve used most in FrameMaker is variables. These are nifty little placeholders you can stick into your documents to say “put the product name here”, “put the company name here” and the like, then … Continue reading →

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