Best 7 Tech Writing Tools

Technical writing has been defined simply as being the written form of technical communication. Technical writing is used in a wide range of technical fields such as engineering, finance, computer software and much more.

We have put together a list of tools that technical writers would find beneficial to use.

FastStone Image Viewer

Technical writers often need to edit images or videos within their work and therefore having a great image and video editor is a valuable resource to have. FastStone Image Viewer will allow the user to crop, resize and even rotate the image as well as adding special effects and colour effects. The tool allows you to do pretty much everything you would need to do to an image.

FastStone supports the following formats: PNG, BMP, TGA, GIF, JPEG 2000, JPEG, TIFF, PCX, WMF, ICO etc.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a superb free tool to use that allows you to track traffic that is going to a particular website. While you are able to upgrade and pay for more, the free version is great and you honestly do not feel like you need to upgrade to having a premium account.

Google Analytics is able to track traffic that is coming from both desktops as well as any mobile devices. It allows you to see how many hits the website is getting in real time, a percentage of how many viewers are male and female, as well as their age range and much, much more.

Best Australian Writers

For technical writers who are needing to hire some help with their workload, they are able to use a writing service to help find a writer to create some high-quality work for them. One of the services to use is Best Australian Writers as they have reviewed most of the writing services in Australia to find out which ones are able to be trusted and produce the best work. Their reviews have been made up out of real testimonials from those who have used the writing services and have wanted to share their experience.

Adobe Framemaker

Framemaker is great tool for creating technical content. Framemaker has been designed for writing and editing complex documents which helps make the process of creating complex or large documents easier than they would be without it. MIF (Maker Interchange Format) is a markup language that functions as a companion to Framemaker. The purpose of MIF is to represent Framemaker documents in a relatively simple, ASCII-based format, which can be produced or understood by other software systems and also by humans.

By using Framemaker you are able to add and format text, add tables, cross-references and footnotes as well as customizing the page layout depending on your needs and adding in graphics.

Disqus

Disqus is an online commenting tool that enables you to add it onto your website for greater communication with your readers and audience. It is able to be used on a range of websites from blogs to software documentation and allows your readers to leave either feedback, comments on your work, give some assistance or help as well as simply discussing the content. Your readers are able to do all of this without the need of even logging in, which is always an added bonus for any reader.

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word is one of the easiest and most popular word processors out there and is able to be used on both PC and MAC computers. Microsoft Word is a word processing program that allows the user to create documents, which is the main purpose of this tool.

Microsoft Word also has a range of tools within it that allows you to create better documents. You are able to insert images, edit those images, customize the layout, insert hyperlinks, add in notes, adjust the page sizing and much, much more.

Acrobat

Adobe Acrobat is a great program that allows you to capture a document to view it in its original format. In order to view an Acrobat document, which is also called a PDF (Portable Document Format) file, you will firstly need to download the Acrobat Reader. The Acrobat Reader is easily downloaded directly from Adobe.

One of the versions of Acrobat will also allow you to capture documents that have been created with other publishing products such as Microsoft Word. And one last important fact: Acrobat, available for Microsoft Windows and macOS only.

About Author

Jennifer works as online editor at Best Australian Writers (http://bestaustralianwriters.com/). Also, she is a business developer that works in different areas of education, technology, security and various types of online marketing. Prior to business developing Jennifer was consultant at Deloitte, and managed security services provider and developer of a wide range of security solutions.