WEBINAR | Converting RoboHelp Content to DITA XML
Wed, July 29, 2020 @ 11:00 AM EST
Our Presenter:
Helen St. Denis | Conversion Services Manager
RoboHelp projects are typically quite large. Too large for manual conversion to be feasible. But there’s also generally a lot more to your RoboHelp content than just the text. What about build tags, for example, for multi-channel publishing? Can your folder structure be maintained? What about snippets, can we retain the reuse there? These are the sorts of questions we are frequently asked. We’ll show you how we answer these and more.
Don’t worry if you can’t make the scheduled time, we’ll be sharing the recording with everyone who registers following the live broadcast.
WEBINAR | Converting FrameMaker Documents To Good, Usable DITA
Wed, June 17, 2020 @ 11:00 AM EST
Our Presenter:
Helen St. Denis | Conversion Services Manager
Whether your legacy content is in structured or unstructured FrameMaker, there’s a lot more to this content than just the words on the page. You may have conditional text, variables, or text insets, that allow you to reuse content. You may have index terms, cross references and footnotes. You want to be able to retain the usefulness of these features, and even to enrich the content in other ways, as part of your conversion process, rather than after the fact. We’ll show you how you can do just that with Stilo Migrate.
Don’t worry if you can’t make the scheduled time, we’ll be sharing the recording with everyone who registers following the live broadcast.
WEBINAR | DITA Authoring Made Easy
Wed, June 3, 2020 @ 11:00 AM EST
Our Presenter:
Patrick Baker | VP, Development & Professional Services
Webinar Description:
You are using DITA for your technical documentation and would like to streamline the involvement of your subject matter experts with regards to content creation and verification. Unfortunately, DITA makes this a challenge in many ways. It is topic-based and requires maps to pull topics into documents. It has ways of conditionalizing content to support document variants, and it pulls content from shared libraries to minimize duplication. These are all great features, but can be confusing for the SME. In this webinar, we’ll show you how AuthorBridge helps SMEs cope with this complexity, and makes the authoring experience more straightforward. We’ll also demonstrate features such as review comments and change tracking, which support collaborating with SMEs.
Don’t worry if you can’t make the scheduled time, we’ll be sharing the recording with everyone who registers following the live broadcast.
WEBINAR | Converting Word to DITA XML
Wed, April 8, 2020 @ 11:00 AM EST
Our Presenter:
Helen St. Denis | Conversion Services Manager, Stilo
Webinar Description:
One of the things authors love about Microsoft Word is that it’s easy to make your content look just the way you want it. This does not always lend itself to a straightforward conversion to XML. We’ll show you how we leverage the visual cues in the document to discern the implicit structure of the content, so that you can derive good, useful DITA.
Don’t worry if you can’t make the scheduled time, we’ll be sharing the recording with everyone who registers following the live broadcast.
WEBINAR | Converting Complex Table Structures to DITA XML
Wed, Feb 19, 2020 @ 11:00 AM EST
Our Presenters:
Helen St. Denis | Conversion Services Manager, Stilo
Webinar Description:
Converting tables to XML can be a challenge. We use tables to represent tabular information, sometimes in a complex way. But we also sometimes use them to lay out content on a page in a way that makes it easier for the reader to understand the purpose of the content. So while we often need to convert complex tables with merged cells, we also often need to convert the tables to something completely different, while still preserving the context that conveys part of the meaning of the words. Fortunately we can do these types of conversions automatically, using Stilo’s Migrate.
Don’t worry if you can’t make the scheduled time, we’ll be sharing the recording with everyone who registers following the live broadcast.
WEBINAR | Migrate—Fast-track your DITA content conversion project
Broadcast: Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Our presenters:
Bryan Tipper | VP Sales and Marketing, Stilo
Helen St. Denis | Conversion Services Manager, Stilo
Registration is required to view or download the recording.
Watch this recorded webinar to learn how you can fast-track your DITA content conversion project using Stilo’s Migrate cloud content conversion service.
Migrate enables technical authoring teams to convert content to DITA on-demand, and with immediate results, from source formats including Word, FrameMaker, RoboHelp and XML/SGML/HTML. It can be used to convert a single document, with Stilo operating the service, or by global documentation teams that need to convert tens of thousands of pages of content.
During the webinar we show you how you can…
• Get your conversion project up and running really quickly
• Save a lot of time and effort by avoiding the need to document lengthy conversion specs
• Reduce the requirement for any manual pre-conversion prep or post-conversion cleanup
• Automatically generate SVGs from FrameMaker drawings and images with callouts
• Ensure high quality standards
• Benefit from a dedicated, pay-as-you use conversion portal, available 24//7
Registration is required to view or download the recording.
Trading Update
26 July 2018
Stilo International plc (“Stilo” or the “Company”) today provides a trading update following its half year end on 30 June 2018. The Company develops software tools and cloud services that help organisations create and process structured content in XML format so that it can be more easily stored, managed, re-used, translated and published to multiple print and digital channels.
In the Company’s AGM statement of 23 May 2018 we indicated that results for year ended 31 December 2018 would likely be impacted because of the non-repeatability of two significant contracts that were received in 2017. Unfortunately, during the first six months of 2018 the Company has not made the sales breakthroughs required to compensate for the orders shortfall and the Board can now confirm that the Company expects to report a near break-even position for the six month period ended 30 June.
Current indications are that this position is likely to continue for the second half of 2018, as the Company looks to build the sales pipeline. In the meantime, given our strong balance sheet, the Board intends to continue to make significant investments in R&D and expects to announce the payment of an interim dividend when the interim results are published in late August.
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Stilo introduces new content optimization service—DITA OptimizeR
Stilo International is pleased to announce the availability of a new content optimization service—DITA OptimizeR—that can automatically identify reuse potential across your DITA content, deduplicate topics and update your maps and conref files.
Whether you are embarking on the conversion of your content to DITA for the first time, or have existing DITA content that you would like to evaluate for additional reuse opportunities, then Stilo's DITA OptimizeR can help!
Maximizing content reuse
Content reuse is a fundamental benefit of DITA adoption, providing huge efficiency gains to authoring teams and helping to ensure the consistency of published information across an enterprise.
However, identifying potential reuse opportunities and implementing reuse strategies can be a painstaking and laborious process. As an increasing volume of content is authored in DITA across authoring teams, then invariably more content is replicated over a period of time. Keeping your content optimized for potential reuse should form part of any successful DITA implementation strategy.
With DITA OptimizeR you can
- Significantly reduce the amount of content that needs to be maintained on an ongoing basis
- Generate more focussed and rapid search engine results for customer queries
- Publish more accurate and normalized content, especially important in potentially hazardous and highly regulated environments
Try DITA OptimizeR for free!
We offer a free trial analysis with OptimizeR - simply send us a small sample set of your DITA content, and we will review the results with you. And if you don't yet have your content in DITA, no problem - you can take advantage of our free conversion offer with Migrate.
Find out more and upload sample for free analysis
Stilo announce integration of AuthorBridge with Componize CCMS
Stilo International, developers of the AuthorBridge web-based XML editor and Migrate cloud XML conversion service and Componize Software, developers of the Componize Component Content Management System are pleased to announce their partnership and product integration.
Componize is a DITA CMS that optimizes the authoring, management and publishing of high-volume product information such as product documentation or learning content. Combining enterprise-wide collaboration, ease of use, scalability and an open architecture, it provides the full range of features that organizations need today for their structured content strategy.
AuthorBridge is a low-cost, web-based XML editing tool that can be used by subject matter experts with no knowledge of DITA. It was co-developed with IBM, and is complementary to the XML editors traditionally used by technical authors. SMEs are provided with a guidance panel, hover help, in-line assisted text and writing tips to help make structured authoring as intuitive as possible. Through its unique conversion-based architecture, AuthorBridge provides a free-flowing DITA authoring experience, much the same as when authoring in Word.
Stilo and Componize Software will be showcasing this new integration at the 2018 Content Management Strategies/DITA North America Conference in Denver Colorado, April 23-25. Contact us if you would like to schedule a demonstration.
Discover more about AuthorBridge DITA
WEBINAR | How to keep the reuse you have when you move to DITA
Broadcast | Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Presented by Helen St. Denis, Conversion Services Manager
Introduced by Les Burnham, CEO
Stilo International
You are moving to DITA, but you’ve already got reuse happening in your legacy format. Reuse mechanisms don’t usually match DITA’s. How can you keep the added value of content reuse when you move the content to the new format?
You may have your reused content in text insets, common files, or snippets. Text insets and snippets can be big or small, contain any amount or type of content, from a single word or phrase to one or more entire topics, and anywhere in between.
Reuse in DITA, though, happens at the element level, whether by conref or topicref. So we've got to get your content into a form that is readily reusable as we republish the legacy information, as well as available for reuse in new publications.
Thankfully, there's a quick and easy way to do this, and we'll show you how. Join Stilo's Conversion Services Manager, Helen St. Denis, for this Stilo DITA Knowledge Series webinar to learn how to keep the reuse you already have when you move to DITA.
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This is the second in a new programme of Stilo DITA Knowledge Series webinars for 2018. Check our website for updates - new topics and dates being added soon! You can also find more Stilo DITA Knowledge Series resources at stilo.com/knowdita