Hi Adriana If you are "brand new to FrameMaker, and if you want to work with Structured FM files for print and web-based output, you may want to take a look at DITA-FMx:
http://leximation.com/dita-fmx/ It will give you all the benefits of using an open, international OASIS standard for structured content and it will prevent you from reinventing the wheel: - No need to create an EDD from scratch, all EDDs and templates are included, and you can easily modify the templates to your corporate identity standards - No need for RoboHelp: you can use FrameMaker to publish your DITA content as high-quality PDFs and you can use the free DITA Open Toolkit to publish to a variety of output targets, inluding XHTML, HTMLHelp, EclipseHelp and JavaHelp - All elements and attributes you need have been defined in the DITA DTDs, and if you need more or others, you can create specializations. If you wish to see DITA-FMx at work, feel free to contact me off-list. I can give you a free web-based demo. Cheers -- Yves Barbion • Managing Director • Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor www.scripto.nu • skype: yves.barbion On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Adriana Harper <adriana.har...@solium.com>wrote: > Hello, > > > > A big thank you to everyone who responded with good ideas on how to > search the Archives. They work nicely and I am moving forward! > > > > I have a few questions that I hope this great resource can help me with: > > > > 1. I am working with Structured FM since I will be doing both print > and web based help (using RoboHelp). I made an EDD from scratch using > formatting, etc. and it seems to work very well with formatting my > ensuing structured FM files. Is this the only "file" that I need to > create? Or do I need a CSS, DTD, etc? > 2. I made a few documents to put into a structured book. I added > those files into my book. The structure view showed a NO NAME component > (at the top, which I understand is correct) but dashed red lines to all > the files, which I understand means there is problem with the document > structure. How do I fix this? I imported the EDD from my files into my > book- is this my problem? Do I need to make a separate EDD for a book > structure, and then import that? If so, is there a template I can work > off of? > 3. I added a TOC to the book. My files all have Document (as the > highest level element), with Title, Section and Head elements. The TOC > does not show sub-chapters... i.e. I can make the TOC with all the > titles, all the heads, all the sections, etc. showing up as individual > parts of the TOC, but not one that shows the Title as the head chapter, > and then a head as a sub-chapter. Help! > 4. Does anyone have any familiarity with importing into Robohelp > and creating a webhelp file based on FM? If so, question: when I import > my FM document into Robo Help the TOC is still wrong (similar to the > issues in question #3 - no sub-levels, etc). Any assistance would be > greatly appreciated. > 5. I tried to make a custom master page (with a footer and a logo > in the top-right hand corner), and I saved it, and then mapped it to > apply it to all my files in my book. When I went to apply it, it would > not. Any suggestions? I don't want to make a master page for each FM > doc in my book (for consistency's sake). > > > > Finally, I am brand new to FrameMaker. I have read the Adobe online PDF > user manual for FM, the developer reference PDF, signed up and gone > through Adobe online training, and have ordered the "Adobe FM7 Classroom > in a book" book. Any other suggestions on how to best learn how to use > this tool to its full extent? > > > > Thanks to all, > Adriana Harper > > > > > > > ADRIANA HARPER > Technical Writer > Phone: 403.515.3910 > Fax: 403.515.3919 > Email: adriana.har...@solium.com > > > > SOLIUM CAPITAL > 1.877.380.7793 > 200, 805 - 8th Avenue SW > Calgary, AB T2P 1H7 > Website: www.solium.com <http://www.solium.com/> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as yves.barb...@gmail.com. > > Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/yves.barbion%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
