Adobe Captivate

  Adobe Captivate

•   What is Captivate?
•   What is new in Captivate?
•   Key Features and typical areas of application
•   The Work Environment in Captivate
•   Branching View
•   The Size and Position Tab
•   The Filmstrip
•   Toolbars and Menus
•   Working Colors with the Color Picker 
•   Movie Preferences
•   Object Properties Management
•   Branching Management 
•   Editing & Exporting Branching Views 
•   Recording Options and related Tips
•  Recording Modes
•   Setting the Recording Capture Area
•   Full Motion Recording
•   Recording New Application Movies
•   Adding Slide Notes
•   Adding Text Captions
•   Creating Rollover Captions
•   Converting Tooltips to Rollover Captions
•   Importing & Exporting Captions
•   Adding Audio
•   Audio Recording Options
•   Using Audio with Slide Objects
•   Advanced Audio Management
•   Adding Multimedia
•   Adding Images
•   Adding Rollover Images
•   Adding Animations
•   Adding Animated Text
•   Adding Animation Slides
•   Preparing Video for Captivate
•   Progressively Downloading FLV Files
•   Streaming FLV Content
•   Adding Interactive Elements
•   Adding Highlight Boxes
•   Adding Click Boxes
•   Adding Text Entry Boxes
•   Adding Buttons
•   Adding Interactivity
•   Creating Branching Movies
•   Scenario Simulations with the Project Wizard
•   Scenario Simulations Using Templates
•   Creating Question Slides
•   Creating a True/False Question Slide
•   Creating Fill-in the Blank Slides
•   Creating Matching Question Slides
•   Creating Multiple Choice Question Slides
•   The Quiz Manager
•   Adding Zoom Areas
•   Editing Zoom Areas
•   The Advanced Interaction Dialog
•   Linking Movies With the Menu Builder
•   Creating a MenuBuilder Project
•   Modifying a MenuBuilder Project
•   Adding Interactivity to Your Menus
•   Exporting MenuBuilder Projects
•   Publishing Movies
•  Publishing EXE Files
• Publishing Flash Files
• Publishing Movies as Handouts
• Publishing to the Web Using FTP

 The Author is working for KBufferIndia, one of the premier Institutes in the field of Technical Writing.

XML, DITA and Structured Authoring using FrameMaker

Course Description

The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an end-to-end, XML-based architecture for authoring, managing, and publishing your organization's technical content. DITA was designed to meet the evolving needs of organizations in the face of today's business requirements — for managing and publishing content for multiple products, multiple audiences, and multiple output formats... Larger organizations increasingly prefer DITA to proprietary document storage formats, as DITA offers significant efficiency and usability advantages. But DITA is not limited to large organizations; it makes good sense for projects of any size to be moved to the DITA architecture. This course provides an overview of DITA, its capabilities, and its possibilities for transforming your technical publishing processes.

1. Unstructured Documentation

1.1. Fundamental Activities in documentation (Merging Documents, Maintenance, updations and Translation)

1.2. Drawbacks in terms of reusability, interoperability, and maintenance

2. What is structured documentation?

2.1. Comparative study of structured and unstructured documentation

2.2. Early History of Literacy Key Concepts of IBM Information Design" Discussion of Document Reuse

3. Introduction to XML

3.1. Introduction to XML

3.2. What is XML?

3.3. HTML Vs XML

3.4. XML elements and attributes

3.5. XML documentation

3.6. Hierarchy of XML elements

3.7. Introduction to XML Information Modeling

3.8. An overview of DTD

3.9. Expressing your document model as an XML document type definition (DTD)

3.10. Learning XML terminology and syntax

3.11. Introduction to XSLT for XML Publishing

3.12. Formatting output using CSS and XSLT

4. Introduction to DITA

4.1. What is DITA?

4.2. Principles and Architecture

4.3. Introduction to DITA Topics

4.4. Defining Concept

4.5. Defining Task

4.6. Defining Reference

4.7. DITA Maps and Domains

4.8. Specialization in DITA

4.9. Information Modeling for DITA

4.10. Minimalist Documentation Strategies

5. Migration of legacy content to DITA

5.1. Steps and procedure

5.2. Implementation

6. New DITA projects

6.1. Steps and procedure

6.2. Implementation

7. Structured FrameMaker

7.1. Choosing a workflow

7.2. Understanding the interaction of DITA and FrameMaker

7.3. Opening DITA files

7.4. Saving DITA files

7.5. Authoring DITA topics

7.6. Managing elements ID

7.7. Creating cross-references

7.8. Creating content references

7.9. Graphics

7.10. Tables Indexing Conditional content

7.11. Organizing topics with DITA maps

7.12. Creating PDF files

7.13. Working with DITA open Toolkit

7.14. FrameMaker’s fm elements

7.15. Changing formatting of DITA content

7.16. Modifying DITA structure

7.17. DITA options

7.18. Additional resources

8. DITA proof-of-concept prototypes using customer content

9. DITA project designs implementation and reviews

10. Publishing system implementation

10.1. Structured input published to multiple output targets

11. Content management system integration

12. Localization and translation

 The Author is working for KBufferIndia, one of the premier Institutes in Technical Writing.

Adobe InDesign in Technical Writing

Adobe InDesign in Technical Writing

Adobe InDesign

This Course in meant for people who are highly focused in learning and mastering Adobe InDesign. People in Technical Writing, E-Publishing, Printing, Desktop Publishing, Traditional Publishing, Data Conversion, and Content Development can join this course.

SESSION 1          

Introduction to Adobe InDesign

SESSION 2          

Working with Text Frames

SESSION 3          

Working with Characters

SESSION 4          

Understanding Vector images

SESSION 5          

Working with Images

SESSION 6          

Working with Objects

SESSION 7          

Working with Pages

SESSION 8          

Stories

SESSION 9          

The Document Interface

SESSION 10        

Output

SESSION 11        

Smart way out!

SESSION 12        

Collaborating Concepts

Assignment, Test, and Certification

 The Author is working for KBufferIndia, one of the premier Institutes in Technical Writing.

E-Publishing

Introduction of E-Publishing

E-publishing (or) ePub (short for electronic publication) is a free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). Electronic publishing (also referred to as e-publishing or digital publishing) includes the digital publication of e-books, EPUBs, digital magazines, and the development of digital libraries and catalogues.
EPub is a format for digital books. ePub books are text files that are structured according to the ePub DTD, as defined by the IDPF. Files have the extension. epub. Valid. epub files can then be used on any platform or device that supports ePub.ePub can be generated in two different modes

Modes in ePub

·         Standard ePub

·         Fixed Layout ePub

Standard epub

What is Standard epub?

Standard ePub has “reflowable text”, meaning it allows the text to adapt to the size of the display screen. As the user increases the font size in the device the text will flow according to the display in the devices.

Text Extraction

Text from the PDF is extracted by using Adobe Acrobat or from the indesign file if any.

Editors and Pre-editing / Xhtml Conversion

Editors (Epsilon, Edit Plus, Notepad++, etc.) generally provide the features working with element tags. Syntax highlighting is a basic standard of any editor; that is, they color element text differently from regular text. Element and attribute completion based on a DTD. Displaying line numbers is also a common and useful feature, as is providing the ability to reformat a document to follow to a particular style of indenture.

What is CSS?

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the look and formatting of a document written in a markup language.CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts.

Image Cropping

Cropping of the images from the supplied source PDF using Adobe Photoshop.

ePub Conversion

ePub files are generated through WinZip with the help of OPF, html, NCX, and CSS files.

Adobe Digital Editions and Device View

The generated ePub file will be viewed in Adobe Digital Editions version 2.0 and devices to verify formatting and links.

Fixed Layout epub

What is Fixed Layout epub?

Fixed Layout epub has “Fixed text”, meaning the text will gets fixed on the background image. If the user increases the font size in the device the text will not flow to the next page in the devices.

Text Extraction

Text from the PDF is extracted by using Adobe Acrobat or from the indesign file if any.

Editors and Pre-editing / Xhtml Conversion

Editors (Epsilon, Edit Plus, Notepad++, etc.) generally provides the features working with element tags. Syntax highlighting is a basic standard of any editor; that is, they color element text differently from regular text. Element and attribute completion based on a DTD. Displaying line numbers is also a common and useful feature, as is providing the ability to reformat a document to follow to a particular style of indenture.

What is CSS?

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the look and formatting of a document written in a markup language. CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts.

Image Cropping

Remove text from the background image and capture the single-page as images from supplied source PDF using Adobe Photoshop.

ePub Conversion

ePub files are generated through WinZip with the help of OPF, Xhtml, NCX, and CSS files.

Device View

The generated ePub file will be viewed in devices to verify formatting and links.

The Author is working for KBufferIndia, one of the premium Institutes in E-Publishing.

E-Learning

About the Course

The course is designed to make the candidate a thorough-bred professional in E Learning. The course covers all aspects related to E Learning including Learning Management System (LMS) and industry-standard tools such as Adobe Captivate and Adobe Flash.

Instructional Designing concepts and various learning theories that are in vogue in the industry are also covered in depth.

Introduction to E-Learning

• What is E-Learning?
• Demo of E-Learning course
• Scope of E-Learning
• Applications of E-Learning

Types of E-Learning

• Media Based
• Audience Based

Approaches to E-Learning

• Topic based
• Game based
• Simulation Based

The Writing Process

• Self-Discovery exercise on the writing process
• Instructional Designing

The Creative part in E-Learning

• Importance of Interactions
• Screen Limitations
• Different Interactive Ideas
• Graphics and Animation

Writing for E-Learning

• General
• The Language Part Diction Transition - Importance and a few pointers
• Writing for Specific Audience
• Reinforcements/Feedbacks

Storyboarding

• What is Storyboarding?
• Are you a Director?
• Exercises on Storyboarding

For Kids

For Graduates

For Corporates

Tools Used for Creating E-Learning Courses

• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Captivate
• Adobe Flash

The Author is working for KBufferIndia, one of the premium Institutes in the field of E-Learning.

Adobe FrameMaker Training

Adobe FrameMaker

Adobe FrameMaker is a document processor designed for writing and editing large or complex documents, including structured documents.

1              Introduction to FrameMaker

2              About Tags

3              Entering and editing Text

4              Tables

5              Anchoring Frames

6              Graphics

7              Using Wildcards

8              Master Pages

9              Table of Contents

10           Books

11           Cross-references

12           Conditional Text

13           Converting Files to FrameMaker

14           Single-sided and Double-sided Documents

15           Single Sourcing An Introduction

16           Working with Index Entries

17           Online Documents

The Author is working for KBufferIndia, one of the premium Institutes in the fields of Technical Writing.

Adobe Illustrator in Technical Writing

Adobe Illustrator

This Course in meant for people who are highly focused in learning and mastering Adobe Photoshop.  Anyone with basic creativity and interest in Graphics, Art, or any related field can take up this course. Also, People in Technical Writing, E-Publishing, Printing, Traditional Publishing, Data Conversion, and Content Development can join this course.

SESSION 1          

Module 1: What's New in Illustrator CS5?

SESSION 2          

Module 2: Understanding Illustrator's Desktop

Module 3: Working with Illustrator Documents

SESSION 3          

Module 4: Understanding Drawing and Painting Techniques

Module 5: Creating Objects, Graphs, and Symbols

Module 6: Learning How to Select and Edit

SESSION 4          

Module 7: Understanding Colour, Gradients, and Mesh

Module 8: Using Illustrator to Organize Objects

SESSION 5          

Module 9: Working with Type

Module 10: Using Creative Strokes and Fills with Patterns

SESSION 6          

Module 11: Applying Transformations and Distortions

Module 12: Using Path Blends, Compound Paths, and Masks

SESSION 7          

Module 13: Using Live Trace

Module 14: Using Live Paint

Module 15: Working with Graphic Styles and Effects

SESSION 8          

Module 16: Creating 3-D in Illustrator

Module 17: Understanding PostScript and Printing

SESSION 9          

Module 18: Customizing and Automating Illustrator

SESSION 10        

Module 19: Creating Web Graphics

Module 20: Illustrator Workflow

SESSION 11        

Shortcuts in Adobe Illustrator

SESSION 12        

Assignment, Test, and Certification

               

 The Author is working for KBufferIndia, one of the premier Institutes in Technical Writing.