Electropubs

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Electropubs offers an extensive range of services that can be tailored to your needs:

Technical authoring

Integration and tools

Document conversion

Online help system development

Training

English language services

 

Technical Authoring

Project management

Recruiting native English-speaking technical authors

Creating or updating technical documents (reference guides, user guides, overviews, and so on) in English using FrameMaker 6 or 7

Editing of documents, including those written by non-native English speakers

Specialists in highly technical software documents (application programming interface (API) descriptions, programmer's guides, developing client applications, and so on)

Conformance to corporate style guides, proprietary or industry-standard guidelines (for example, Simplified English)

Output as interactive PDF, paper/Postscript, HTML, or other formats

Integration and Tools

Auditing of current authoring environment to determine needs

Document analysis and creating or customizing of Document Type Definition (DTD) or XML Schemas

Creating structured FrameMaker applications (EDD stylesheets, templates, read/write rules, custom plugins, round-tripping XML/SGML))

Creating corporate templates for unstructured FrameMaker

Acrobat development, for example, creating full-text search catalogs, setting up WebDav-based document review workflows

Dynamic web site and web application development ( PHP + mySQL, XSLT, CSS,JavaScript + DOM, XHTML)

Document Conversion

Developing FrameMaker conversion tables to convert unstructured (FrameMaker) to structured (XML or SGML) formats

Converting legacy documents (MS-Word, PageMaker, QuarkXpress) to Framemaker, XML, HTML, PDF, or any other format

Converting FrameMaker documents to HTML/XML, using WebWorks Publisher, XSLT, or custom Perl scripts

Creating interactive PDF files from any source

Online Help System Development

Javadoc (you can trust us with your precious source code!)

JavaHelp

WinHelp

HTMLHelp

HTML+CSS

XML+XSLT+CSS

Training

Customized training courses in FrameMaker and FrameMaker+SGML in English or French, by Adobe Certified Experts. Modular courses based on specific customer requirements (authoring, document import and export, conditional text, graphics handling, the equation editor, structured authoring

Creating JavaHelp without a HAT. Targeted at technical authors or developers needing to developing online help for Java software. Although a number of HATs are available for creating JavaHelp (RoboHelp, HelpBreeze), we believe you can achieve better results using a text editor, Sun's developer tools, and a little knowledge of XML

Developing FrameMaker Plugins Using the FDK. Targeted at programmers wishing to develop plugins for unstructured or structured FrameMaker

Learning WinHelp without a HAT. Refresher course targeted at technical authors needing to create or update online help in this ever-popular format. Designed to be independent of any particular help authoring tool (HAT)

English Language Services

Editing of documents

Creation of terminology glossaries and corporate styleguides