ISTC Communicator

The Institute of Scientific and Techncial Communicator (ISTC) Communicator magazine is the award winning journal for members of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators. Published four times a year it contains industry news as well as interesting articles from fellow professionals. I have a regular column offering tips and tricks on Adobe technical communication products and have also written occasional longer articles. All are listed below.

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Issue	Article Title	Article Summary	PDF
Winter 2011	Inserting a Captivate file into a RoboHelp topic.	A look at the options available for adding a Captivate file into a RoboHelp topic so it does not start automatically when the topic opens.
Autumn 2011	Adobe ExtendScript	A look at how the Adobe ExtendScript application can be used with various Adobe technical communication products to perform repetitive tasks.
Summer 2011	RoboHelp & RoboHelp Server Licences	A definitive account of the licences required to publish output from RoboHelp to the RoboHelp Server application.
Summer 2010	A day in the life of a technical communicator.	This regualr column features a different technical communicator in each issue. It aims to show the diversity of the industry whilst dispelling myths about those in it.
Spring 2010	Standardising a Documentation Suite Pt.2	The second part of a two part article covering how at IDBS we used the various Adobe products inside the Technical Communication Suite. This part focuses largely on how we reused content and integrated the different documentation elements into a single, standard documentation set.
Winter 2009	Standardising a Documentation Suite Pt.1	The first part of a two part article covering how at IDBS we used the various Adobe products inside the Technical Communication Suite. This part focuses largely on ...