| Rubicon - An XQuery-based Framework for Intelligent Help Systems |
Titash Neogi - Symantec |
As companies move from the traditional model of engineering products to delivering solutions, where multiple "products" are clubbed together to form solutions, the challenges of user documentation become increasingly unique. A solution is created by clubbing two or more products together. Consequently, users often have to refer to multiple sets of user guides, each several hundred pages in size. For obtaining help on any feature in the solution, the customer has to refer to multiple documentations sets. For Symantec's customers, this was a pain point, and the technical publications group eventually had to find to way resolve this issue. In this demo, Titash Neogi from Symantec demonstrates how his organization addressed this customer concerns by using an XQuery-based framework for intelligent Help systems. |
| Automating FrameMaker Tasks using FrameScript |
Surbhi Singhal - ST Microelectronics |
FrameScript is a high-level scripting language that enables users to automate repetitive tasks such as transforming documents, automating book pagination, updating document tags, and so on. In this demo, Surbhi Singhal shows how FrameScript can make life simpler for technical publications personnel by writing scripts to automate their publishing tasks. she also gives an overview of FDK, and demonstrates the difference between FDK and FrameScript. |
| Designing Tables & Skins That Conform To Corporate Standards
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Shalini Thakkur - Manhattan Associates |
Madcap Flare offers tremendous granularity for designing custom tables and skins. In this interactive demo, Shalini Thakkur demonstrates how, using the flexible tables and skins in Madcap Flare, you can create Web pages that are pleasing to the eye and, yet, are low on resources. |
| Using Frame 7.2+DITA to publish CHM, JavaHelp, HTMLHelp, Eclipse Help, and PDF with one click—without any further investment in tools
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Gyaneshwar Talwar – Persistent Systems |
Adobe provides a freeware utility called Adobe FrameMaker 7.2 Application Pack for DITA that can be integrated with FrameMaker; this integration allows FrameMaker to become a DITA editor. Once this integration is done and you content is migrated to DITA, multi-channel publishing is as simple as clicking Generate Output, and your content can be published to any of the following formats: CHM, JavaHelp, HTML Help, EclipseHelp, or PDF. In his engaging demo, Gyanesh Talwar from Persistent systems demonstrates how you can do all this and then some with the help of Adobe FrameMaker 7.2 Application Pack for DITA. |
