eSeminars on the Technical Communication Suite

From the 20th-31st of July, Adobe will be presenting a series of eSeminars on TCS 2. Dieter Gust, Head of R&D and Ute Mitschke, itl consultant, will present their expert knowledge on "FrameMaker 9/InDesign CS4 – a comparison for technical writers" and "FrameMaker 9 and barrier-free PDF documents".

Adobe eSeminars are free online events that last approx. 45 minutes and are broadcast via a web browser. In order to participate, you only need your web browser and the link to the event that will be forwarded to you via email once you have completed registration.

An overview of the eSeminars on the TCS is provided on the Adobe website in the eSeminars section. You can also register to participate here.

Ute Mitschke, eSeminar date: 29.07.09, 3:30pm-4:30pm

• Products: FrameMaker 9, Adobe Reader 9
• Target audience: technical writers who need to create barrier-free documents

Description:

• Requirements of documents so that they are barrier-free
• Formatting a sample document
• Incorporating alternative image descriptions and information from diagrams
• Configuring PDF output in FrameMaker, displaying the tag structure in Acrobat and handling in Adobe Reader
• Additional FrameMaker output formats for barrier-free access to the following content: audio books in the digital DAISY format, barrier-free HTML and XML as a precursor to Braille
• Additional sources of information on barrier-free access

Registration:

http://www.adobe-eseminars.de/signup-345.htm

Dieter Gust, eSeminar date: 30.07.09, 2:00pm-3:00pm

• Products: FrameMaker 9, InDesign CS4
• Target audience: technical writers

Description:

• Positioning FrameMaker with regard to InDesign
• The use of tools in technical documentation and the role of the editor
• DTP and/or XML?
• Use cases and document editing paradigms
• Text flow-oriented editing
• Comparison of individual functional groups in FrameMaker and InDesign
• A particular challenge – "One World Publishing": editing documents for all languages on one computer

Registration:

www.adobe-eseminars.de/signup-346.htm