Sketch Up Pro

Sketch Up is useful from the earliest stages of design to the end of construction. Programming, diagramming, design development, detailing, documentation, RFIs—wherever you need drawings, you need Sketch Up Pro.

1. Introduction and Interface

2. Manipulating Object

3. Drawing

4. Measuring and Labeling

5. Working with Components

6. Organizing Scenes

7. Creating Textures and Materials

8. Rendering and Animating

9. Creating Terrain Using Sandbox

10. Using Photo Match and Google Earth

11. Sketch Up Pro: Creating Dynamic Components

12. Sketch Up Pro: Working with the Solid Tools

13. Sketch Up Pro: Importing and Exporting

The Author is Working for KBufferIndia , one of the premium Institutes in the field of 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.

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 FrameMaker

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 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.

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.

Sketch Up Pro

Sketch Up is useful from the earliest stages of design to the end of construction. Programming, diagramming, design development, detailing, documentation, RFIs—wherever you need drawings, you need Sketch Up Pro.

1. Introduction and Interface

2. Manipulating Object

3. Drawing

4. Measuring and Labeling

5. Working with Components

6. Organizing Scenes

7. Creating Textures and Materials

8. Rendering and Animating

9. Creating Terrain Using Sandbox

10. Using Photo Match and Google Earth

11. Sketch Up Pro: Creating Dynamic Components

12. Sketch Up Pro: Working with the Solid Tools

13. Sketch Up Pro: Importing and Exporting

The Author is Working for KBufferIndia , one of the premium Institutes in the field of 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.

Post Graduate Diploma Course in Technical Writing

Post Graduate Diploma Course in Technical Writing

This course is designed to suit people who are already into Technical Writing and want to enhance or fine-tune their skills and acquire a cutting edge over others. Those who have already completed the Diploma Course in Technical Writing from KBuffer and those who are looking at Career options as a Professional Technical Writer can also take this. In short, those who have a mission and a vision in pursuit of Technical Writing career is suggested this course.

PG Diploma in Technical Writing

Method of Instruction:

·        Direct from our centre

·        Online through our Instructor-led Virtual Classroom

·        Self-Paced Learning through our Web Interface

·        Blended (A mix of the methods mentioned above)

Course Curriculum

Types of Writing

·         Introduction to the Writing Process

·         Introduction to Technical Writing

·         DDLC

·         Types of Technical Writing

o   Procedural Writing

o   Paragraph Writing

o   Report Writing

o   Writing for Electronic Media

Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publication

1.    General Topics

2.    Content Formatting and Layout

3.    Global Content

4.    Content for Software Developers

5.    Web Content

6.    Grammatical Elements

7.    Punctuation

8.    List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

Various Types of Documents Created by Technical Writers

1.    Proposal

2.    User Guide

3.    White Paper

4.    Fact Sheets

Publishing Concepts

1.    Variable Headers and Footers

2.    Using Em Dash, En Dash, and so on

3.    Using White Space

4.    Color Theory

5.    Font Theory

6.    Printing Basics

Advanced Concepts of Technical Writing

·         Introduction to Structured Authoring

·         DITA – Theory and Practice

·         XML – taking documentation to next level

·         Different Manual of Stylesheets which explain usage of appropriate Terminology, Tone, and Language

Tools

·         Advanced Microsoft Word

·         Adobe Technical Communication Suite which includes:

o   Adobe FrameMaker (including Structured Authoring)

o   Adobe RoboHelp

o   Adobe Captivate

o   Adobe Photoshop

o   Adobe Acrobat

·         Adobe InDesign

·         Microsoft Visio

·         Techsmith Snagit

Regular Assignments

Two Tests

Final Exam

Project

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