A Guide to Publishing User Manuals - Couverture souple

Whitaker, Ken

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 047111846X ISBN 13 : 9780471118466

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1995

Synopsis

User manuals are instruction guides that accompany many high tech products. The main purpose of such texts is to teach the user how to operate a particular software package easily and effectively. This guide explains how to create and publish technical manuals in a corporate environment. It is aimed at those with little technical writing, layout or design experience. Special emphasis is placed on organizing the document, administering the documentation process, style guidelines, desktop publishing techniques, graphics, drawing and screen shots.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Technical Communication

A Total A–to–Z guide to creating professional–quality user manuals on time, on budget on your PC

You don′t need to pay an outside specialist a small fortune to produce your user manuals for you. Let leading technical communications expert Ken Whitaker show you how you can create your own professional–quality user manuals at a fraction of the cost on your PC.

Writing for readers with little or no desktop publishing experience, Ken guides you through the entire process, from organizing the material and writing the documentation to designing and printing the manual. Chapter–by–chapter, step–by–step, he creates a sample user manual, using the leading Windows–based desktop publishing applications FrameMaker and Corel Ventura. Along the way, he supplies you with loads of insider tips and tricks for producing the most readable, attractive manuals possible, on time and on budget. You′ll learn how to:

• Research the product, organize the material, and plan the manual in a layered, object–oriented approach
• Write very readable, user–friendly copy
• Use fonts, templates, graphic formats, and page layout techniques
• Take professional screenshots to complement your text
• Produce professional drawings and images even if you′re not an artist
• Use sophisticated techniques like sideheads and table numbering
• And much more

Let A Guide to Publishing User Manuals show you how to write, design, and produce professional–quality user manuals without the professional fees.

Biographie de l'auteur

KEN WHITAKER is Vice President of Development and Operations at USDATA, in charge of engineering, quality assurance, documentation, customer support, and training. He is also a member of Frame Technology′s corporate advisory board. Over the course of his more than twenty years in software development, Ken has held top management positions at Nielsen Marketing Research, Software Publishing Corporation, and Data General Corporation. He is the author of Managing Software Maniacs (Wiley).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 047111846X
• ISBN 13: 9780471118466
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible