Re: FM10 released

2011-01-13 Thread Georg Eck
Sorry, NO. Please order maintenance or SQUIDDS PREMIUM Support for 2 years: + more cheaper as upgrades + anytime up-to-date - Georg We purchased FM 9 on Nov. 10 or 11. Anyone know if there's a window of free upgrade, such as MS has on new versions of Office? I know...I know. But one can

Ann: FINALYSER = TOOLBOX + Scripts

2011-01-13 Thread Georg Eck
Now, we had combine Plug-ins and Scripts in FINALYSER. The FINALYSER optimize the workflow for technical writers. FINALYSER integrate all Adobe Products like FrameMaker 10, Photoshop CS5, Bridge CS5, Illustrator CS5, ... see the video: http://bit.ly/helaoE All TOOLBOX 9 users can upgrade to

Looking for WWP 2003 for sale

2011-01-13 Thread Anton David
Hello all, It looks like I need a WWP 2003 to open a .wfp project file. Is there anyone willing to sell it? Thank you Anton David Localisation Project Manager Xlated ltd ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as

RE: Flare vs Frame

2011-01-13 Thread Veronica Kutt
Here are answers to the software purchasing questions... Front Runner is also an Adobe Software Reseller... To answer Jim Pinkham's question... If your company purchased a Maintenance package with FrameMaker you would get updates/upgrades as they become available, provided the Maintenance is

Frame/InDesign

2011-01-13 Thread Martin Ley
Fellow Framers, I have a conundrum... I have a huge body of work for one client done in FrameMaker. They want me to do more work than I can handle alone. I have two colleagues who work with InDesign, who might be able to help out. Would it be easier to migrate all my FrameMaker files to

Re: Frame/InDesign

2011-01-13 Thread Bill Swallow
Which program makes the most sense for the content? And, if you migrate, is that a good use of your time to do so given it's both a quick fix AND you're already overloaded? Consider a content strategy going forward. Yes, it's a client and not your own managed content, but if a repeat client,

Re: Frame/InDesign

2011-01-13 Thread Art Campbell
If you're billing by the hour and your client is loaded down with too much cash, I'd move to InDesign. It'll take a lot longer both for the conversion and on-going maintenance, assuming you started with Frame for it's long document / documentation / book-handling tools. ;- ) Art Campbell      

RE: Frame/InDesign

2011-01-13 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Martin, Since you already have a huge body of work in FrameMaker, you are probably best to stay with FrameMaker. Can any of the workload be reduced through automation? Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-659-8267 r...@frameexpert.com *** Frame Automation blog at

Re: Frame/InDesign

2011-01-13 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 14:56 + 11/1/11, Martin Ley wrote: The InDesign route: I would have to spend a lot of time getting fairly complicated Frame book files working in InDesign. Conditional builds, text insets, variables, markers, tables, etc etc. Martin: I use both too. Many of the features you list above

RE: Compiling FM into help files (wfp file)

2011-01-13 Thread Pam Reichert
I have a copy of the old WebWorks ePublisher Pro version 9.2 if you need it. It produces .chm files. People in this group were kind enough to give it to me, which was a lifesaver for a project! I needed to put that version on a new computer but WebWorks no longer supported it so they suggested I

FrameMaker9 Character Set - GTE

2011-01-13 Thread DeRosier, Edward
Hi Framers, I am haing a problem with the character set in FrameMaker 9 (TCS2). The character set document lists the same keystrokes as in previous FM sets for Greater Than or Equal To (GTE). The GTE character is created in standard font, and is then changed to Symbol font. [Ctrl][q] [3] =

RE: FrameMaker9 Character Set - GTE

2011-01-13 Thread Pinkham, Jim
Ed, I ran into something similar to this with my migration from FM 7 to FM 9 in docs I've been working on this week. All of my bulleted lists were messed up because of FM 9's translation of certain characters into different characters and the ensuing loss of the appropriate font to be applied to

Free webinar next week

2011-01-13 Thread Sharon Burton
***Vendor post*** As you know, Author-it is running a series of free webinars. Our next one is Jan 17th at 7am Pacific. If the time or date don't work for you, we record the webinars and make the recording available later. To automatically get an email with the link to the recording,

Indexing front matter

2011-01-13 Thread Nancy Allison
Hi, all. My manuals use chapter numbering, so an index entry for page 3 of chapter 5 comes out like this: Apple pie recipe, 5-3 The front matter has roman numerals with no prefixes, so a reference to Technical Support in the Preface should look like this: Technical Support, xiii However,

Re: Indexing front matter

2011-01-13 Thread Art Campbell
You can set the Chapnum variable for the Preface (in the book file) to text and the value to a space. Still need to get rid of the hyphen, but if that's manually added to the $chapnum-$pagenuum string, it's easy to remove. Art Campbell               art.campb...@gmail.com   ... In my opinion,

RE: Indexing front matter

2011-01-13 Thread Lief Erickson
You could use a different marker for the content in your preface, include that marker in your index, and use different page formatting for that marker. It would be a new marker type that you would create. You might call it IndexPreface or something like that. I have done something similar with

RE: Indexing front matter

2011-01-13 Thread Combs, Richard
Nancy Allison wrote: My manuals use chapter numbering, so an index entry for page 3 of chapter 5 comes out like this: Apple pie recipe, 5-3 The front matter has roman numerals with no prefixes, so a reference to Technical Support in the Preface should look like this: Technical

RE: Indexing front matter

2011-01-13 Thread Combs, Richard
I forgot step 6. Maybe it doesn't need to be said, but... 1) Create a new marker type named IndexFront. 2) Create a new paragraph format named IndexFrontIX that's a clone of IndexIX and add it to your pgf catalog. 3) In your ref page IX flow, add an IndexFrontIX pgf that contains only

FM10 released

2011-01-13 Thread Georg Eck
Sorry, NO. Please order maintenance or SQUIDDS PREMIUM Support for 2 years: + more cheaper as upgrades + anytime up-to-date - Georg > We purchased FM 9 on Nov. 10 or 11. Anyone know if there's a window of free upgrade, such as MS has on new versions of Office? >I know...I know. But one can

Ann: FINALYSER = TOOLBOX + Scripts

2011-01-13 Thread Georg Eck
Now, we had combine Plug-ins and Scripts in FINALYSER. The FINALYSER optimize the workflow for technical writers. FINALYSER integrate all Adobe Products like FrameMaker 10, Photoshop CS5, Bridge CS5, Illustrator CS5, ... see the video: http://bit.ly/helaoE All TOOLBOX 9 users can upgrade to

Looking for WWP 2003 for sale

2011-01-13 Thread Anton David
Hello all, It looks like I need a WWP 2003 to open a .wfp project file. Is there anyone willing to sell it? Thank you Anton David Localisation Project Manager Xlated ltd

Frame/InDesign

2011-01-13 Thread Bill Swallow
Which program makes the most sense for the content? And, if you migrate, is that a good use of your time to do so given it's both a quick fix AND you're already overloaded? Consider a content strategy going forward. Yes, it's a client and not your own managed content, but if a repeat client,

Frame/InDesign

2011-01-13 Thread Art Campbell
If you're billing by the hour and your client is loaded down with too much cash, I'd move to InDesign. It'll take a lot longer both for the conversion and on-going maintenance, assuming you started with Frame for it's long document / documentation / book-handling tools. ;- ) Art Campbell ? ? ?

Frame/InDesign

2011-01-13 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Martin, Since you already have a huge body of work in FrameMaker, you are probably best to stay with FrameMaker. Can any of the workload be reduced through automation? Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-659-8267 rick at frameexpert.com *** Frame Automation blog at

Frame/InDesign

2011-01-13 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 14:56 + 11/1/11, Martin Ley wrote: >The InDesign route: I would have to spend a lot of time getting fairly >complicated Frame book files working in InDesign. Conditional builds, text >insets, variables, markers, tables, etc etc. Martin: I use both too. Many of the features you list

Does anyone know of an efficient way to convert paragraph-based xrefs to element-based xrefs?

2011-01-13 Thread Mike
We are in the process of putting all of our company documentation on our corporate web site. The web site requires our documents now to be saved as XML files. We used structured Frame for our manuals, but the manuals contain a lot of cross references to a paragraph instead of a structured element.

Compiling FM into help files (wfp file)

2011-01-13 Thread Pam Reichert
I have a copy of the old WebWorks ePublisher Pro version 9.2 if you need it. It produces .chm files. People in this group were kind enough to give it to me, which was a lifesaver for a project! I needed to put that version on a new computer but WebWorks no longer supported it so they suggested I

FrameMaker9 Character Set - GTE

2011-01-13 Thread DeRosier, Edward
Hi Framers, I am haing a problem with the character set in FrameMaker 9 (TCS2). The character set document lists the same keystrokes as in previous FM sets for Greater Than or Equal To (GTE). The GTE character is created in standard font, and is then changed to "Symbol" font. [Ctrl][q] [3] =>

FrameMaker9 Character Set - GTE

2011-01-13 Thread Pinkham, Jim
Ed, I ran into something similar to this with my migration from FM 7 to FM 9 in docs I've been working on this week. All of my bulleted lists were messed up because of FM 9's "translation" of certain characters into different characters and the ensuing "loss" of the appropriate font to be applied

Free webinar next week

2011-01-13 Thread Sharon Burton
***Vendor post*** As you know, Author-it is running a series of free webinars. Our next one is Jan 17th at 7am Pacific. If the time or date don't work for you, we record the webinars and make the recording available later. To automatically get an email with the link to the recording, simply

Indexing front matter

2011-01-13 Thread Nancy Allison
Hi, all. My manuals use chapter numbering, so an index entry for page 3 of chapter 5 comes out like this: Apple pie recipe, 5-3 The front matter has roman numerals with no prefixes, so a reference to Technical Support in the Preface should look like this: Technical Support, xiii However,

Indexing front matter

2011-01-13 Thread Art Campbell
You can set the Chapnum variable for the Preface (in the book file) to text and the value to a space. Still need to get rid of the hyphen, but if that's manually added to the <$chapnum>-<$pagenuum> string, it's easy to remove. Art Campbell ? ? ? ? ? ? ? art.campbell at gmail.com ? "... In my

Indexing front matter

2011-01-13 Thread Lief Erickson
You could use a different marker for the content in your preface, include that marker in your index, and use different page formatting for that marker. It would be a new marker type that you would create. You might call it IndexPreface or something like that. I have done something similar with

Indexing front matter

2011-01-13 Thread Combs, Richard
Nancy Allison wrote: > My manuals use chapter numbering, so an index entry for page 3 of chapter 5 > comes out like this: > > Apple pie recipe, 5-3 > > The front matter has roman numerals with no prefixes, so a reference to > Technical Support in the Preface should look like this: > >

Indexing front matter

2011-01-13 Thread Combs, Richard
I forgot step 6. Maybe it doesn't need to be said, but... > 1) Create a new marker type named IndexFront. > 2) Create a new paragraph format named IndexFrontIX that's a clone of > IndexIX and add it to your pgf catalog. > 3) In your ref page IX flow, add an IndexFrontIX pgf that contains only >