Adobe Technical Communication Suite 5

Hi world,

So after a 2 year hiatus and a slight change in my academic path I have decided to return here to post a review.

The last time I posted I was embarking on the challenge of learning C++. Well,  two years later I have completed a 16 months internship in the exciting field of Information development and decided to make a career switch. Which brings me to this application called the Adobe Technical Communication Suite.

Okay truth be told I love working with new software, I enjoy playing with new tools and exploring their functionality especially after having seen the "belly of the beast" so to speak while learning programming. This technical Communication Suite - well in particular the FrameMaker and the RoboHelp programs - gave me all the challenge and "wow" moments that I require from a program.

The challenges:

• Okay first up FrameMaker is not Microsoft Word, so being an expert at MS Word (which I am not) will not give you much of an edge.
• The tools are not the most intuitive, but no worries we live in the digital data era where the answer is at your finger tips.
• You need a Windows PC - sorry Mactards

The "wow" moments:

• The ability to create an entire book, with chapters, table of content, index and glossary in the correct order, and get this the numbering can be done in your sleep. 
• After working in a topic based writing environment and seeing the benefits of developing individual standalone topics, I find FrameMaker a great tool to work with. The FrameMaker environment allows for the modular development of information and then 'magically' seams them all together to give the finished product - what more could you want from a book publishing application.
• Within FrameMaker I really liked the conditional tagging and see this as a great tool to support version control and content reuse.
• Robohelp is a lot more intuitive than FrameMaker and makes for a great multi-format online help authoring tool. The topic list section has got to be one of the best things ever invented and is like a personal assistant for topic development and is also a great tool for use in a collaborative environment.

Overall, the Adobe Technical Communication Suite 5  is a great application for writers, editors and information architects to develop content. It really delivers well and can improve your productivity while reducing your effort once you have a good understanding of the available functionalities - and trust me there are lots of those!!

Until next time.

Shawnique

My strcat using variadic function

#include <iostream>

#include <cstdarg>

#include <string.h>

using namespace std;

char* strcat(char* des, ...);

int main() {

  char str[500] = "Fred";

  strcat(str, "Soly", "Moly", 0);

  cout << str << endl;

  return 0;

}

char* strcat(char* des,...) {

  va_list parptr;

  va_start(parptr, des);

  char* i = va_arg(parptr, char*);

  while(i) {

while(*des)

 *des++;

 strcpy(des, i);

      i = va_arg(parptr, char*); 

  }

  va_end(parptr);

  return des;

}

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