As we turn over into a new year (and decade!), it’s time to look back at 2019 from start to finish. From developing new features in the IXIASOFT CCMS to launching a freshly branded user conference to making waves in the DITA community with...
As content creators, and even as CCMS vendors, we easily find ourselves heads-down in our own little worlds, solving our own problems, finding our own way. Wouldn’t it be great to learn about how others are solving the same problems? Or even better, that...
PDF forms are a useful way to gather information. Generally, PDF forms are designed in a GUI editor and form functionality is added using Adobe Acrobat, Foxit, or another PDF form creation tool. This is a bit of work, but if the forms don’t change very...
MONTREAL (PRWEB) October 7, 2019 Users can now generate a PDF output using a fully featured GUI template designer. IXIASOFT, a global leader in technical documentation solutions based on DITA, has today made their new add-on—MiramoPDF for IXIASOFT CCMS—publicly available. The add-on allows users to generate a...
MONTREAL - October 8, 2019 IXIASOFT is proud to announce it has recently signed four new clients: Panasonic Industrial Devices SUNX Co Ltd and Roland DG of Japan, Outotec of Finland, and DocuSign of the United States.This division of Panasonic designs, manufactures, and markets wire-saving...
The default mode for technical communications is basic, narrative-style unstructured content. It is easy to understand why, since most technical writing groups start out small in terms of members and products to document. A non-structured approach is the easiest way to start. As a...
For roughly six years, I have been keeping track of the number of technical writer job postings on indeed.com—the largest job aggregator website in the United States. With the exception of a brief surge in technical writing job postings in late 2015/early 2016, there...
In my book DITA For Print, I explain how to create a custom PDF plugin. The method I outline there is to first add stylesheets with the templates and attribute sets you want to override to the custom plugin; then import each of those...
Watch Webinar Topic The Path to Information 4.0 Date and Time Date: May 9, 2019 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT Here's what you'll learn during the webinar: What if you could get highly personalized and contextualized information tailored to your situation, location, and even mood?As the informational response to...
Are you a competent technical communicator? The creation of information for use shall be assigned to competent persons (*)(*) ISO 82079 -article 10.1 Are you a competent person?Sure you are… because you love writing. That’s why you decided to move to technical writing.If you excel at...