SDL AuthorAssistant for FrameMaker

SDL AuthorAssistant Client for Adobe FrameMaker

Consistency and Quality in Technical Information

SDL AuthorAssistant is the client software component of SDL Global Authoring Management System. If you use Adobe® FrameMaker®, you can now download SDL AuthorAssistant for free, so you can immediately start improving the consistency and quality of your technical documentation.

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SDL AuthorAssistant

SDL AuthorAssistant enables consistency of terminology, style and linguistic best practices, as well as ensuring the reuse of previously written and translated content.

SDL AuthorAssistant empowers technical authors to improve the quality of their content, ensure adherence to style guide rules and maintain consistency of terminology
Out-of-the-box, SDL AuthorAssistant automates many of the quality-checking processes that normally require human resources, resulting in greater productivity, higher quality and lower costs
SDL AuthorAssistant checks against previously translated content, so that companies with global audiences can improve content reuse and reduce the downstream costs of localizing content
SDL AuthorAssistant is the client software component of SDL Global Authoring Management System (SDL Global AMS) and is fully functional for desktop deployment

SDL AuthorAssistant for Adobe FrameMaker

If you use Adobe FrameMaker, you can immediately benefit from the industry-leading functionality in SDL AuthorAssistant. Follow these simple steps to get started:

Download SDL AuthorAssistant for Adobe FrameMaker
Install the software (it will appear as a new menu in Adobe FrameMaker)
Load the default configuration
Start checking your documentation

More information on getting started can be found in the SDL knowledge base article Quick Start for SDL AuthorAssistant 2008.

SDL MultiTerm Client

If you plan to work with terminology in a local SDL MultiTerm database when using SDL AuthorAssistant, you will also need to download the SDL MultiTerm client software.

Webinar

Download the SDL and Adobe webinar titled "Bring your Style Guide to Life and Create High-Quality Content within FrameMaker 9"

White Papers

Global Ideas and Global Information - How Adobe Systems and SDL Help You Create Content for a Worldwide Audience

Together, SDL and Adobe Systems are revolutionizing how the world engages with global ideas and global information. This SDL and Adobe White Paper examines how organizations can rapidly author, manage, and publish high-quality, consistent technical content for multilingual audiences, using the Adobe Technical Communications Suite integrated seamlessly with SDL Global Authoring Management System.

New Authoring Strategies Increase Reuse and Consistency

Technical authors ranked reuse and consistency as their most important challenges in a recent survey.

Product Brief

SDL Global Authoring Management System

Global organizations need to provide consistent corporate communications, across all the markets and languages they address. A global authoring strategy must integrate global information assets into the content creation process to improve the consistency and quality of global communications.