I’d Rather Be Writing – Tom Johnson

The Case of the Stolen Documentation

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 Posted in Technical Writing | 11 Comments »

Some months ago I created a half a dozen quick reference guides for an application that would have a potential audience of thousands of users (after it cleared the beta ... Read more..

Adobe InDesign and Transparent Images on Color Backgrounds

Monday, March 30th, 2009 Posted in Technical Writing | 5 Comments »

When you insert a transparent image over a color background in Adobe InDesign, the transparent image may look good when you generate the PDF, but when you actually print ... Read more..

Quick Reference Guides: The Poetry of Technical Writing

Sunday, July 6th, 2008 Posted in Technical Writing | 27 Comments »

How many times have you written a 75+ page guide and heard the customer say, This is great, but can you give us a condensed version? After the third or fourth ... Read more..