Customizing Structured FrameMaker for Localization

Description: This is the first Webinar as part of ENLASO's newly created Consulting & Training Solutions Division. “Customizing Structured FrameMaker for Localization” features Maxwell Hoffmann, Manager of Consulting and Training Solutions at ENLASO, and presents an excellent opportunity for attendees to learn about the localization process and the strengths of FrameMaker in the publishing phase of localization. Hoffmann will provide general tips for template management and will be demonstrating some project-specific FrameMaker plug-ins that ENLASO has developed to:

• single source formatting: localize a "single source" template, eliminating the need for one template per target language,
• automatically create structured book and chapter relative-Tables of Contents, with considerable time reduction (10 minutes reduced to one minute),
• find and fix orphans after text expansion,
• alphabetize translated glossaries, and
• generate correct PDF bookmarks in unsupported languages like Greek and Russian.

Nearly 75% of document content localization at ENLASO is in FrameMaker, the market leader in high volume, scalable technical documentation. Hoffmann is drawing from several years of publishing challenging, multi-lingual projects to share some highly innovative solutions that were developed to dramatically automate multi-lingual FrameMaker publishing.

Although there are many benefits to saving documents in XML format, structured FrameMaker adds a host of benefits in terms of helping automate formatting and a number of publishing steps. Several benefits of containing elements and meta-data in structured FrameMaker attributes will be covered in this complimentary Webinar.

About the presenter:
Hoffmann has trained over 1,500 customers and sales professionals in publishing solutions and localization for over 20 years. He has nine years of Localization and 19 years of FrameMaker experience, and manages consulting and training at ENLASO. Hoffmann is also a former product manager for FrameMaker at Frame Technology and also helped developed a round trip from FrameMaker to XML at ENLASO two years before the release of XML-enabled FrameMaker 7.0. "We have helped several customers migrate from Word and other formats to FrameMaker," states Hoffmann, "because even without XML, localization project costs will be substantially reduced due to FrameMaker's superior document integrity."