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Training Courses

Electropubs proposes a number of training courses. Aimed at technical authors and other content developers, these courses can be taken either on your company's premises or a neutral location.

Note: All courses can be conducted in either English or French.

Course Level Duration

Expert FrameMaker

Advanced 1 day

Targeted at experienced FrameMaker users, this course goes beyond what you will find in the manuals to make you more productive using unstructured FrameMaker. For example:

  • Importing Word documents
  • Using custom lists
  • Exporting to XML and HTML
  • FrameMaker to Acrobat techniques
  • Using and managing variables.

Creating FrameMaker Structured Applications

Advanced 2 days

How to create structured applications for FrameMaker. Topics include:

  • Creating and customizing a Document Type Definition (DTD)
  • Creating the EDD and structured templates
  • Read/write rules
  • Adding structure to unstructured FrameMaker files
  • Application packaging and distribution

Authoring DITA with OxygenXML

Intermediate 2 days

How to write and publish DITA content using the OxygenXML editor. Topics include:

  • Overview of DITA
  • Creating and authoring DITA documents
  • Advanced DITA topics, including content references and key management
  • Transformation scenarios and publishing documents
  • Customizing the Author view
  • Customizing the DITA environment

Authoring DITA with FrameMaker

Intermediate 2 days

How to write and publish DITA content using structured FrameMaker. Topics include:

  • Overview of DITA
  • Creating and authoring DITA documents using native FrameMaker and the DITA-FMx plugin
  • Advanced DITA topics, including content references and key management
  • Publishing documents
  • Customizing the DITA environment
Content Development