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Technical Writing 101 book, third edition (PDF download) Technical Writing 101 book, third edition (PDF download)
$20.00

A humorous, insightful reference about what it takes to be an effective technical writer. This updated edition includes information about multimedia content, DITA, and Web 2.0.

328 pages.

We do not offer refunds on downloaded items.

Printed book is also available.
Technical Writing 101 book, third edition (PDF download site license for up to 20 users) Technical Writing 101 book, third edition (PDF download site license for up to 20 users)
$250.00

A humorous, insightful reference about what it takes to be an effective technical writer. This updated edition includes information about multimedia content, DITA, and Web 2.0.

This site license allows you to distribute the PDF file to up to 20 users.

328 pages.

We do not offer refunds on downloaded items.

Printed book is also available.



The State of Structured Authoring in Technical Communication (PDF download) The State of Structured Authoring in Technical Communication (PDF download)
$200.00

In early 2009, Scriptorium Publishing conducted a survey to measure how and why technical communicators are adopting structured authoring. This report summarizes our findings.

56 pages.

We do not offer refunds on downloaded items.
FREE! Hacking the DITA Open Toolkit FREE! Hacking the DITA Open Toolkit
$0.00

The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) defines a set of XML elements for creating and organizing content. However, the DITA specification is silent on transforming DITA into user-readable documentation. The DITA Open Toolkit (DITA OT) fills that gap, providing a mechanism for transforming DITA content into multiple output formats, including HTML and PDF. The DITA OT formatting for both of these formats is basic, at best. This paper focuses on the changes you can make to the DITA OT HTML output to create attractive output. These modifications include changes to cascading stylesheets (CSS), headers and footers, and more advanced customizations. The paper also illustrates how you can create content-specific elements through DITA specialization.

19 pages.
FREE! FrameMaker 8 and DITA Technical Reference FREE! FrameMaker 8 and DITA Technical Reference
$0.00

FrameMaker 8 provides support for creating, editing, and publishing DITA 1.0 content. You can use FrameMaker to author and publish DITA content as high-quality print and PDF output, or you can create content elsewhere and use FrameMaker strictly for publishing print and PDF output.

This document describes FrameMaker’s DITA support and provides guidance on how you might best integrate DITA and FrameMaker.

55 pages with index.
Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 8 Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 8
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$19.99

Printed book (perfect bound) AND downloadable PDF version (zip file containing PDF file: 9.7 MB): $49.99
Closeout pricing! Print and PDF combo is now $19.99: $30 off the list price of $49.99! We do not offer refunds on downloaded books.

Downloadable PDF version only (zip file containing PDF file: 9.7 MB): $14.99 We do not offer refunds on downloaded books.

The PDF version contains no digital rights management (DRM) restrictions that prevent printing or lock the file to a particular computer.


Publishing Fundamentals: FrameMaker 7 (formerly FrameMaker 7: The Complete Reference) PDF Version Publishing Fundamentals: FrameMaker 7 (formerly FrameMaker 7: The Complete Reference) PDF Version
$14.99

Downloadable format: Download is a zip file (6.7 MB) containing a PDF file with no digital rights management (DRM) restrictions that prevent printing or lock the file to a particular computer. We do not offer refunds on downloaded books.

The must-have reference for FrameMaker 7. Includes complete coverage of structured FrameMaker. 878 pages. Formerly published as FrameMaker 7: The Complete Reference.

This PDF version contains bookmarks and internal links.

NOTE: Other than corrected errata, this book does not contain significant updates to the content of The Complete Reference.
Technical Writing 101 book, second edition Technical Writing 101 book, second edition
$11.95

A humorous, insightful reference about what it takes to be an effective technical writer. This edition includes information about structured authoring and XML.

$35.95 Closeout on 2nd edition! Now $11.95.
The Masters Series: FrameMaker 6 The Masters Series: FrameMaker 6
$51.50

A tutorial and reference guide to FrameMaker 6 by Thomas Neuburger, Twelfth Night Publishing.
WebWorks Publisher 6 Cookbook (PDF download) WebWorks Publisher 6 Cookbook (PDF download)
$34.95

The PDF version of our WebWorks Publisher Cookbook for WebWorks Publisher 6.


NOTE: At this time, we aren't planning to update the Cookbook for versions 7 and later of WebWorks Publisher, partially due to licensing restrictions from Quadralay. Users of ePublisher Pro should not buy the Cookbook.

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