The 2017 refresh of a MadBlog article originally posted in March 2015, with the modest caveat that the author is not yet familiar with the latest MacBook Pros, newly on the market as of June 2017. I often see discussions at LinkedIn or the MadCap user forums in which posters lament how they wish they could run MadCap Flare on a Mac. I immediately think, “But you can …
I’ve always been interested in exploring new technology, and one of the things has fascinated me in recent years is the concept of solar power. I’d love to implement a series of solar panels on the roof of my house, but one of my fears is that if technology that we are using today becomes obsolete in 5 years, then what? This is a common issue in today’s ever changing …
Single-sourcing refers to the concept of creating content once, but reusing this content across various outputs/media. This concept may not mean a great deal for the user, but for the writer, it is productivity defined.
According to Jacob Moses, a technical writer for Rainmaker Digital (formerly Copyblogger Media), everyone thinks technical writers are boring. “They think we lack creativity; they think we only eat tuna salad for lunch; and they think our work is reserved to instructional manuals that they don't even use,” he quips on his blog. But Jacob, who also manages a regular …
This is the final article in a five-part series written by Paul Stoecklein, who has headed up the documentation department at MadCap Software since its inception, overseeing the development and publication of all online Help systems, PDF manuals, and video tutorials for all applications in the MadCap product family. Conditions. Everybody loves them. Everybody uses them. At …
