The #1 Guide to Excellence in Technical Communication—Fully Updated for Embedded Assistance, Mobile, Search, Multimedia, and MoreDirect from IBM’s own content design experts, this guide shows you how to design product interfaces and technical information that always place users front and center. This edition has been fully revised to help you consistently deliver the right content at the right time.You’ll master today’s best practices to apply nin...

The IBM Style Guide distills IBM wisdom for developing superior content: information that is consistent, clear, concise, and easy to translate. The IBM Style Guide can help any organization improve and standardize content across authors, delivery mechanisms, and geographic locations.This expert guide contains practical guidance on topic-based writing, writing content for different media types, and writing for global audiences.Throughout, the authors illust...

The Start-to-Finish, Best-Practice Guide to Implementing and Using DITADarwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is today’s most powerful toolbox for constructing information. By implementing DITA, organizations can gain more value from their technical documentation than ever before. Now, three DITA pioneers offer the first complete roadmap for successful DITA adoption, implementation, and usage.Drawing on years of experience helping large organizations adopt DITA, the ...

You know how to produce an eBook manuscript using Microsoft Word to do it. Now, can you produce an ePub suitable for Kindle and non-Kindle e-readers.Do you want to give up control over how your eBook is formatted? I suspect, you don’t want that. You want to control how the book is formatted.In my previous book in this series I suggested Draft2Digital and Reedsy as the better Word to eBook converters. Of the two, Reedsy only supports the fiction style of eBo...

Everything for writers who sell ebooks. Desktop publishing (or e-publishing) enables indie authors to keep the bulk of the royalties. Discover the best ways to:use social media—build author platformformat and upload for Amazon, Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, Apple, Google and othersconvert documents to any format (epub, mobi, pdf and more)sell books onlinecreate a websitemake a blogdesign ebook coversrise with...

How To Publish eBooks For Apple iPad, iPhone, iPod, Nook & Kobo There are expensive software tools available to automatically create ePub books or free conversion tools to convert from Microsoft Word, PDF, etc. But why hassle with them when their resulting eBook is sub-optimal and you spend more time later trying to fix the output files? What we will show you is a way to manually create an ePub publication from scratch using our proven ePub template.

Includes• Online Workshops• Online Adobe Certified Exam (ACE) Resources• More than 500 of the most essential InDesign CC tasksNeed answers quickly? Adobe InDesign CC on Demand provides those answers in a visual step-by-step format. We will show you exactly what to do through lots of full color illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions.Inside the Book• Improved publishing and productivity with Adobe Creative Cloud• Create ...

Adobe Acrobat X Classroom in a Book is the most thorough and comprehensive way for creative professionals and business users to learn how to deliver high-impact communications with next-generation Adobe Acrobat X. Each chapter in this step-by-step, project-based guide contains a project that builds on your growing knowledge of the program, while end-of-chapter review questions reinforce each lesson. This cross-platform (Mac and Windows) book shows you how to create high-quality PDF documen...

  Make your book professional For self publishers the conversion from Word to InDesign is a huge leap. The goal is a professional look to their book designs, but immediately the problems of typography raise their head. In Word that is not so much of an issue because the typography controls in Word are well hidden and quite limited. But now you can do all the things necessary to communicate clearly, effectively,and beautifully with type....

This is a United States War Department manual that was written to assist Allied Forces with the operation, maintenance, and repair or captured Wehrmacht Volkswagen Kübelwagen vehicles during the occupation.This manual is a "must have" for any VW enthusiast! Material has excellent practical and historical value.

Build exciting, scalable web applications quickly and confidently using Google App Engine and this book, even if you have little or no experience in programming or web development.App Engine is perhaps the most appealing web technology to appear in the last year, providing an easy-to-use application framework with basic web tools. While Google's own tutorial assumes significant experience, Using Google App Engine will help anyone get started with this platform. By the end ...

This is the eBook version of the printed book.World-renowned presentation coach Jerry Weissman has spent 20 years helping top executives succeed in the most important business presentations of their lives. Here’s what he’s learned: the best way to get his message across is to show his techniques in action. Weissman does just that: he teaches how to make spectacularly successful presentations by showing exactly how great presenters have done it. Weissman dives into his library of ou...