Introducing Adobe’s Technical Communication Suite 2017

A new software release is always exciting. It comes with a promise that features you've been wanting might have been included. Problems (okay bugs) have hopefully been fixed. Sometimes, it even comes with more than you imagined. Today, Adobe announced the release of its latest Technical Communication Suite - Release 2017 (TCS 2017). TCS 2017 is especially exciting for us because it will have its premier debut at MEGAComm, Israel's annual conference for technical writers and marcom professionals!…

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Latest Trends – Globalization

One of the greatest changes that has occurred in the field of technical writing over the last few years is the concept of globalization. This is a step beyond localization and a full two steps beyond translation. Let's begin by defining the differences between these terms: Translation Translation is what companies have been doing for decades. Taking a document or an interface and converting it to another language. The same word structure, the same concepts, the same interpretation.…

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Latest Trends – Part 1

We've been meaning to write this next series for some time now and so, here goes. Where is technical writing? Have we reached the end of the road? If not, where are we going? What are the latest frontiers for tech writers? Well, the first thing we'd like to say is that we firmly believe that so long as there are engineers speaking to end-users, the world will need technical writers. Just as engineers and users have changed,…

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Enabling Users Dynamically

As a long-time RoboHelp user, I have to say one of the best features for end-users that Adobe has rolled out in recent years is the Dynamic Content Filters option. In many ways, past versions of RoboHelp and most help authoring products have focused on helping the help author rather than the help user. Great features have been added over the years - enhanced reviewing capabilities, improved help-to-print output, exciting new deliverables for mobile and HTML5 outputs, and much…

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