RE: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey
Hi Alan, In the paragraph above it says: We will be announcing the winners during the week of 7th October 2013. The Winners will be notified by email. If a potential Winner cannot be contacted, is contacted and does not respond as directed within the time allotted following attempted notification, refuses the prize or is ineligible to accept the prize, or if the attempted prize notification is returned as undeliverable, the prize may be forfeited and awarded to an alternate Winner to be chosen by another random draw. So the winners are contacted. Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers- boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Alan Litchfield Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 10:38 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey Done: Some interesting and leading questions. I note that the company will not notify competition winners directly, but that the participants must remember to contact the contact from 1 October. Bit dodgy really. The Winner's details will be published on our blog https://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/ and also on the following public forums for a period of one month. Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/AdobeTCS Facebook URL: https://www.facebook.com/adobetcs LinkedIn URL: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Adobe-Technical- Communications-Professionals-Group-2381149/about Alan Dr Alan Litchfield AlphaByte PO Box 1941 Auckland, New Zealand 1140 On 19/07/2013, at 8:26 PM, Reng, Dr. Winfried wr...@tycoint.com wrote: Hi, Adobe conducts a Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey. The link is below. If you want to vote for/against any specific licensing models, then here is the place to tell directly to Adobe. Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: frameusers...@googlegroups.com [mailto:frameusers- d...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Stephan Will Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 10:07 PM To: frameusers...@googlegroups.com Subject: [frameusers-de] Adobe TCS Umfrage Hallo in die Runde, das Adobe TCS Team hat eine Umfrage ins Netz gestellt (auf Englisch). Siehe http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2013/07/adobe-tech-comm-content- strategy-and-tools-survey-launched.html Eine Frage bezieht sich auch auf die Akzeptanz des Abo-Modells für zukünftige TCS-Versionen. Gruß Stephan This e-mail contains privileged and confidential information intended for the use of the addressees named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in respect of any information contained in it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail and immediately destroy this e-mail and its attachments. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
Re: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey
At 08:26 + 19/7/13, Reng, Dr. Winfried wrote: Adobe conducts a Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey. The link is below. If you want to vote for/against any specific licensing models, then here is the place to tell directly to Adobe. I have now tried to complete this survey twice, and both times it's crashed near the end. A big time-waster. Nice to see that one of the questions was about FrameMaker on Mac, though ;-) -- Steve [Trim e-mails: use less disk, use less power, use less planet] ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
RE: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey
It has also crashed for me on both of my attempts. But at least for me it crashed after less than 3 or 4 minutes. -Fred Ridder Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:17:43 +0100 To: wr...@tycoint.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com From: srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey At 08:26 + 19/7/13, Reng, Dr. Winfried wrote: Adobe conducts a Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey. The link is below. If you want to vote for/against any specific licensing models, then here is the place to tell directly to Adobe. I have now tried to complete this survey twice, and both times it's crashed near the end. A big time-waster. Nice to see that one of the questions was about FrameMaker on Mac, though ;-) -- Steve [Trim e-mails: use less disk, use less power, use less planet] ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
vendor ANN July 25 webinar Designing Templates in FrameMaker with Barb Binder
Designing Templates in FrameMaker 11 25July 10AM Pacific Time, Register at: http://adobe.ly/131zIx0 Template design in FrameMaker is intuitive, easy-to-grasp, yet produces potent results, even in the early stages of a project. Whether you are working with unstructured FrameMaker, or you plan to use existing paragraph and character styles to incorporate into a structured DITA project, you can benefit from this session. Watch seasoned FrameMaker maven Barb Binder explain concepts like: == Planning for logical paragraph, character, table and graphic object styles == Time-saving steps in page layout (replicating and modifying master pages) == Internal document content re-use from Reference Pages == Advanced template extras like user variables, cross-references and more == Tips for managing externally referenced graphics for logos and similar data After this session you will have a good grounding in the fundamentals for planning a template, and also borrowing design elements from existing documents. About our Presenter: Barb Binder is an Adobe Certified Instructor and the owner of Rocky Mountain Training. When she's not teaching grown-ups how to use Adobe software, she's at Winter Park teaching kids how to ski. -- She has been an Adobe Certified Instructor since 1997, and is currently certified on FrameMaker, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InCopy and the Digital Publishing Suite. Her company, Rocky Mountain Training was one of the early adopters of online, interactive training delivery. Students attend classes from locations in North America, South America, Europe and even Australia. Maxwell Hoffmann | Product Evangelist | Adobe | p. 503.336.5952 | mhoff...@adobe.commailto:mhoff...@adobe.com http://twitter.com/maxwellhoffmann - http://www.linkedin.com/in/maxwellhoffmann blogs.adobe.com/techcomm Upcoming webinars http://adobe.ly/Pbz6xIRecorded webinars: http://adobe.ly/Pbdp0J ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
Re: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey
It crashed near the end for me, too, but signing back in let me take up where I left off. Mike Wickham I have now tried to complete this survey twice, and both times it's crashed near the end. A big time-waster. Nice to see that one of the questions was about FrameMaker on Mac, though ;-) ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11
Dear Framers: I am stuck once more. I am printing a single file to pdf via the .ps route. However, I am finding that each and every graphic (all jpgs below 250kb) is surrounded by a thin white INDELIBLE HAIRLINE. No hairlines are visible in FM 11 I cannot find the answer in the manual or the lists. A few Google hits suggest that it occurs in the flattening process but not specific to FM I am quite certain it is in the print settings, but I have become dizzy changing them. I am printing using the Smallest File Size option Rob PC 8 Gbyte 3 terrabyte drives Windows 7 64 bit TCS 4 Creative suite CS4 Flash Professional ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
RE: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey
Glad to see question about FrameMaker on Macintosh. But -- spelling errors in the survey? Misleading layout? Not impressed, Adobe. Pat ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
RE: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey
The lack of quality control in general has plagued the FrameMaker team over the last few years. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-283-5045 r...@frameexpert.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Christenson, Pat Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 1:46 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey Glad to see question about FrameMaker on Macintosh. But -- spelling errors in the survey? Misleading layout? Not impressed, Adobe. Pat ___ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
RE: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey
I like the part where you have to create an account, including password and give up info about your company. #Fail sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 www.sharonburton.com Twitter: sharonburton Author of 8 Steps to Amazing Webinars, available on Amazon and bn.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Christenson, Pat Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 10:46 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey Glad to see question about FrameMaker on Macintosh. But -- spelling errors in the survey? Misleading layout? Not impressed, Adobe. Pat ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as sha...@anthrobytes.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.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 framers@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.
Re: ANN: Thinking about migrating to DITA? FM2DITA can help.
On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 10:07:47 -0700, Scott Prentice s...@leximation.com wrote: Leximation will soon be releasing a plugin called FM2DITA. This is basically a collection of tools that make it much easier to convert from unstructured FM to DITA. If you're using the FrameMaker conversion table method for converting, this will save you lots of time. Here's the current docs .. http://docs.leximation.com/fm2dita/0.11/ You might want to mention the price you have in mind. We don't even look at tools that don't have prices on their Web site. Red flag. g If you're interested in giving this a test drive, contact me off-list. This is not yet available for purchase, but I hope to have it ready in the coming weeks. Or, if you want to use the tool chosen by 26% of FrameMaker users for this (per a recent impartial poll), check out Mif2Go: http://mif2go.com We've always recommended Scott's DITA-FMx for those who plan to continue editing in Frame. However, for the conversion itself, we've been fine-tuning for several years, with the help of DITA-TC members who are using it for major conversion projects at their Fortune 50 companies... ;-) So we're a tad ahead in this area. Check out both, and decide for yourself. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. jer...@omsys.comhttp://mif2go.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
RE: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey
The company information section was actually the part where the survey kept failing for me. I took it as a sign and deleted the message announcing the survey so that I wouldn't be tempted to waste any more time. -FR From: sha...@anthrobytes.com To: pchristen...@ftportfolios.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:10:58 -0700 I like the part where you have to create an account, including password and give up info about your company. #Fail sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 www.sharonburton.com Twitter: sharonburton Author of 8 Steps to Amazing Webinars, available on Amazon and bn.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Christenson, Pat Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 10:46 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey Glad to see question about FrameMaker on Macintosh. But -- spelling errors in the survey? Misleading layout? Not impressed, Adobe. Pat ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as sha...@anthrobytes.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.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 docu...@hotmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/docudoc%40hotmail.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 framers@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.
Re: ANN: Thinking about migrating to DITA? FM2DITA can help.
Ah, the MadCap approach to marketing…not sure I like it so much.Scott makes great stuff, and if you want to help him make more great stuff, by all means, check out what he's doing! -MattMatt R. Sullivanco-authorPublishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 11P:714.798.7596 |C:714.585.2335 |m...@mattrsullivan.com@mattrsullivanLinkedInfacebookmattrsullivan.com On Jul 22, 2013, at 11:06 AM, "Jeremy H. Griffith" jer...@omsys.com wrote:On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 10:07:47 -0700, Scott Prentice s...@leximation.com wrote:Leximation will soon be releasing a plugin called FM2DITA. This is basically a collection of tools that make it much easier to convert from unstructured FM to DITA. If you're using the FrameMaker conversion table method for converting, this will save you lots of time. Here's the current docs .. http://docs.leximation.com/fm2dita/0.11/You might want to mention the price you have in mind. We don't even look at tools that don'thave prices on their Web site. Red flag. gIf you're interested in giving this a test drive, contact me off-list.This is not yet available for purchase, but I hope to have it ready in the coming weeks.Or, if you want to use the tool chosen by 26% ofFrameMaker users for this (per a recent impartial poll), check out Mif2Go: http://mif2go.comWe've always recommended Scott's DITA-FMx for thosewho plan to continue editing in Frame. However,for the conversion itself, we've been fine-tuning for several years, with the help of DITA-TC memberswho are using it for major conversion projects at their Fortune 50 companies... ;-) So we're a tadahead in this area. Check out both, and decide for yourself.-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. jer...@omsys.com http://mif2go.com/___You are currently subscribed to framers as m...@mattrsullivan.com.Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com.To unsubscribe send a blank email toframers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.comor visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/matt%40mattrsullivan.comSend administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visithttp://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
Re: ANN: Thinking about migrating to DITA? FM2DITA can help.
Hi Jeremy! The price will be available when it's actually available .. hopefully soon. MIF2Go is definitely a good option, and is cheaper than this plugin will be. These tools are a collection of utilities that I've developed over the years to handle various situations, for preconversion cleanup, post-conversion-table cleanup, and then the actual topic/map shredding process. The main reason I'm making this available is that I've recently had a number of clients who wanted me to set up a conversion table based conversion process for them to use to convert their own content. I've needed to take these tools and wrap them up into something that could be used by someone other than myself, so I figured that I'd make it available as a retail product. If you're comfortable with using MIF2Go, then this plugin isn't likely to be of much use (although the preconversion tools may be useful for that as well), but if you want to go the conversion table route .. the tools in this plugin will probably save you lots of time. As Jeremy says .. check out both options (and others), before heading down one path. Cheers, ...scott On 7/22/13 11:06 AM, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 10:07:47 -0700, Scott Prentice s...@leximation.com wrote: Leximation will soon be releasing a plugin called FM2DITA. This is basically a collection of tools that make it much easier to convert from unstructured FM to DITA. If you're using the FrameMaker conversion table method for converting, this will save you lots of time. Here's the current docs .. http://docs.leximation.com/fm2dita/0.11/ You might want to mention the price you have in mind. We don't even look at tools that don't have prices on their Web site. Red flag. g If you're interested in giving this a test drive, contact me off-list. This is not yet available for purchase, but I hope to have it ready in the coming weeks. Or, if you want to use the tool chosen by 26% of FrameMaker users for this (per a recent impartial poll), check out Mif2Go: http://mif2go.com We've always recommended Scott's DITA-FMx for those who plan to continue editing in Frame. However, for the conversion itself, we've been fine-tuning for several years, with the help of DITA-TC members who are using it for major conversion projects at their Fortune 50 companies... ;-) So we're a tad ahead in this area. Check out both, and decide for yourself. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. jer...@omsys.comhttp://mif2go.com/ ___ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
Re: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey
And did you notice the repeated questions? Obviously, someone copied and pasted into the template and changed the questions. Alan On 23/07/13 5:46 AM, Christenson, Pat wrote: Glad to see question about FrameMaker on Macintosh. But -- spelling errors in the survey? Misleading layout? Not impressed, Adobe. Pat ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as a...@alphabyte.co.nz. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/alan%40alphabyte.co.nz Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- -- Dr Alan Litchfield AlphaByte PO Box 1941 Auckland, New Zealand 1140 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
Re: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey
At 06:38 +1200 23/7/13, Alan Litchfield wrote:
And did you notice the repeated questions? Obviously, someone copied and
pasted into the template and changed the questions.
This survey I think covered a lot of the same ground as a very similar one on
all the 'Creative Cloud' stuff, so maybe had a dose of cut-and-paste-itis.
('Creative Cloud'? All a creative cloud could create is more interesting rain,
and no-one needs too much of that.)
--
Steve [Trim e-mails: use less disk, use less power, use less planet]
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Hairlines cont.
Dear Craig: Thanks for replying. My FM 11 only magnifies to 400%, and there is NOTHING there. Rob -Original Message- From: Craig Ede [mailto:craig...@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 8:03 PM To: 'Robert CH Shell' Subject: RE: Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11 Just for troubleshooting: You don't see them in FM even if you set the magnification to 4800% ? Craig ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
Re: Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11
On 2013-Jul-22 1:12 PM, Robert CH Shell wrote: Dear Framers: I am stuck once more. I am printing a single file to pdf via the .ps route. However, I am finding that each and every graphic (all jpgs below 250kb) is surrounded by a thin white INDELIBLE HAIRLINE. No hairlines are visible in FM 11 I cannot find the answer in the manual or the lists. A few Google hits suggest that it occurs in the flattening process but not specific to FM I am quite certain it is in the print settings, but I have become dizzy changing them. I am printing using the Smallest File Size option Select one of the .jpg graphics and check to make sure its border is set to None (in graphics tools). Select the frame that contains the .jpg, and make sure its border is set to None. Any change in the PDF? -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited 3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3 Toronto, ON, Canada M1W 3K5 +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
Re: Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11
Robert, have you tried the Save as PDF route, with the Adobe PDF print driver selected? Same result? -Matt Matt R. Sullivan co-author Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 11 On 2013-Jul-22 1:12 PM, Robert CH Shell wrote: Dear Framers: I am stuck once more. I am printing a single file to pdf via the .ps route. However, I am finding that each and every graphic (all jpgs below 250kb) is surrounded by a thin white INDELIBLE HAIRLINE. No hairlines are visible in FM 11 I cannot find the answer in the manual or the lists. A few Google hits suggest that it occurs in the flattening process but not specific to FM I am quite certain it is in the print settings, but I have become dizzy changing them. I am printing using the Smallest File Size option Select one of the .jpg graphics and check to make sure its border is set to None (in graphics tools). Select the frame that contains the .jpg, and make sure its border is set to None. Any change in the PDF? -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited 3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3 Toronto, ON, Canada M1W 3K5 +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as m...@mattrsullivan.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/matt%40mattrsullivan.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 framers@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.
Re: Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11
Have you zoomed into the PDF to see if the hairline is still there? Acrobat sometimes creates display artifacts, depending on zoom level. They only appear on screen at low zoom levels and don't print. Presumably, they are rounding errors, where Acrobat rounds something up to display as one pixel, rather than rounding it down to zero. You might also try selecting the anchored frame that holds the graphic and setting the fill pattern to none. Mike Wickham On 7/22/2013 12:12 PM, Robert CH Shell wrote: Dear Framers: I am stuck once more. I am printing a single file to pdf via the .ps route. However, I am finding that each and every graphic (all jpgs below 250kb) is surrounded by a thin white INDELIBLE HAIRLINE. No hairlines are visible in FM 11 I cannot find the answer in the manual or the lists. A few Google hits suggest that it occurs in the flattening process but not specific to FM I am quite certain it is in the print settings, but I have become dizzy changing them. I am printing using the Smallest File Size option Rob PC 8 Gbyte 3 terrabyte drives Windows 7 64 bit TCS 4 Creative suite CS4 Flash Professional ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as i...@mikewickham.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/info%40mikewickham.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 framers@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.
Re: Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11
Robert, be sure that your Distiller is using joboptions that have Acrobat compatibility set to Acrobat 5 or above. Acrobat 4 compatibility will produce the hairlines. That said, Mike is correct -- they do not print. Tori Muir tm...@spot-on-creative.com | 650.430.8674 www.spot-on-creative.com On 7/22/13 2:45 PM, Mike Wickham wrote: Have you zoomed into the PDF to see if the hairline is still there? Acrobat sometimes creates display artifacts, depending on zoom level. They only appear on screen at low zoom levels and don't print. Presumably, they are rounding errors, where Acrobat rounds something up to display as one pixel, rather than rounding it down to zero. You might also try selecting the anchored frame that holds the graphic and setting the fill pattern to none. Mike Wickham On 7/22/2013 12:12 PM, Robert CH Shell wrote: Dear Framers: I am stuck once more. I am printing a single file to pdf via the .ps route. However, I am finding that each and every graphic (all jpgs below 250kb) is surrounded by a thin white INDELIBLE HAIRLINE. No hairlines are visible in FM 11 I cannot find the answer in the manual or the lists. A few Google hits suggest that it occurs in the flattening process but not specific to FM I am quite certain it is in the print settings, but I have become dizzy changing them. I am printing using the Smallest File Size option Rob PC 8 Gbyte 3 terrabyte drives Windows 7 64 bit TCS 4 Creative suite CS4 Flash Professional ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as i...@mikewickham.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/info%40mikewickham.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 tm...@spot-on-creative.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/tmuir%40spot-on-creative.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 framers@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.
RE: Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11
In my experience, this has happened for one of the following reasons: 1. The JPEG has the line in there as a row (or few) of single-color pixels that are different from the rest of the image - this requires fixing in an image editing program to remove. 2. The FM instance of that image has outline on the frame - perhaps in a white color? The first has proven to be the most common reason for me. My fix is to use the Trim option available in most graphics programs. The only thing to be concerned about is that editing a JPG, making changes, and then saving it back as a JPG will cause some image quality loss if you are not careful. However, some additional questions for you too: 1. Is your background white or is it some other color? Meaning, does the thin white line matter (or show enough to matter)? 2. What is the original resolution of the JPG? Is it being shrunk or expanded when it is placed in the FM file? And is the aspect ratio of the image kept unchanged when it is shrunk or expanded? 3. Is the thin line showing around all four sides of the image when PDF'ed? Or just one side (e.g., only below the image perhaps)? If you want to send a page (or two) from the FM file original and the resulting PDF output to look at, please feel free to send it along (not to the entire list though!). Z -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert CH Shell Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 10:13 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11 Dear Framers: I am stuck once more. I am printing a single file to pdf via the .ps route. However, I am finding that each and every graphic (all jpgs below 250kb) is surrounded by a thin white INDELIBLE HAIRLINE. No hairlines are visible in FM 11 I cannot find the answer in the manual or the lists. A few Google hits suggest that it occurs in the flattening process but not specific to FM I am quite certain it is in the print settings, but I have become dizzy changing them. I am printing using the Smallest File Size option Rob PC 8 Gbyte 3 terrabyte drives Windows 7 64 bit TCS 4 Creative suite CS4 Flash Professional ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as syed.hos...@aeris.net. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/syed.hosain%40aeris.net 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 framers@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.
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Hi Alan, In the paragraph above it says: We will be announcing the winners during the week of 7th October 2013. The Winners will be notified by email. If a potential Winner cannot be contacted, is contacted and does not respond as directed within the time allotted following attempted notification, refuses the prize or is ineligible to accept the prize, or if the attempted prize notification is returned as undeliverable, the prize may be forfeited and awarded to an alternate Winner to be chosen by another random draw. So the winners are contacted. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers- > bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Alan Litchfield > Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 10:38 PM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Re: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey > > Done: > > Some interesting and leading questions. > > I note that the company will not notify competition winners directly, but that > the participants must remember to contact the contact from 1 October. Bit > dodgy really. > > "The Winner's details will be published on our blog > https://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/ and also on the following public > forums for a period of one month. > > Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/AdobeTCS > > Facebook URL: https://www.facebook.com/adobetcs > > LinkedIn URL: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Adobe-Technical- > Communications-Professionals-Group-2381149/about" > > Alan > > Dr Alan Litchfield > AlphaByte > PO Box 1941 > Auckland, New Zealand 1140 > > On 19/07/2013, at 8:26 PM, "Reng, Dr. Winfried" > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Adobe conducts a "Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey". > > The link is below. > > If you want to vote for/against any specific licensing models, then here is > > the place to tell directly to Adobe. > > > > Best regards > > > > Winfried > > > > -Original Message- > > From: frameusers-de at googlegroups.com [mailto:frameusers- > de at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Stephan Will > > Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 10:07 PM > > To: frameusers-de at googlegroups.com > > Subject: [frameusers-de] Adobe TCS Umfrage > > > > Hallo in die Runde, > > > > das Adobe TCS Team hat eine Umfrage ins Netz gestellt (auf Englisch). > > Siehe > > http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2013/07/adobe-tech-comm-content- > strategy-and-tools-survey-launched.html > > > > Eine Frage bezieht sich auch auf die Akzeptanz des Abo-Modells f?r > > zuk?nftige TCS-Versionen. > > > > Gru? > > Stephan This e-mail contains privileged and confidential information intended for the use of the addressees named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in respect of any information contained in it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail and immediately destroy this e-mail and its attachments.
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At 08:26 + 19/7/13, Reng, Dr. Winfried wrote: >Adobe conducts a "Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey". >The link is below. >If you want to vote for/against any specific licensing models, then here is >the place to tell directly to Adobe. I have now tried to complete this survey twice, and both times it's crashed near the end. A big time-waster. Nice to see that one of the questions was about FrameMaker on Mac, though ;-) -- Steve [Trim e-mails: use less disk, use less power, use less planet]
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It has also crashed for me on both of my attempts. But at least for me it crashed after less than 3 or 4 minutes. -Fred Ridder > Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:17:43 +0100 > To: wreng at tycoint.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com > From: srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk > Subject: Re: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey > > At 08:26 + 19/7/13, Reng, Dr. Winfried wrote: > > >Adobe conducts a "Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey". > >The link is below. > >If you want to vote for/against any specific licensing models, then here is > >the place to tell directly to Adobe. > > I have now tried to complete this survey twice, and both times it's crashed > near the end. A big time-waster. > > Nice to see that one of the questions was about FrameMaker on Mac, though ;-) > > -- > Steve [Trim e-mails: use less disk, use less power, use less planet] -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130722/ff89c567/attachment.html>
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It crashed near the end for me, too, but signing back in let me take up where I left off. Mike Wickham > I have now tried to complete this survey twice, and both times it's crashed > near the end. A big time-waster. > > Nice to see that one of the questions was about FrameMaker on Mac, though ;-) >
ANN: Thinking about migrating to DITA? FM2DITA can help.
Leximation will soon be releasing a plugin called FM2DITA. This is basically a collection of tools that make it much easier to convert from unstructured FM to DITA. If you're using the FrameMaker conversion table method for converting, this will save you lots of time. Here's the current docs .. http://docs.leximation.com/fm2dita/0.11/ If you're interested in giving this a test drive, contact me off-list. This is not yet available for purchase, but I hope to have it ready in the coming weeks. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130722/b4f2dca0/attachment.html>
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Dear Framers: I am stuck once more. I am printing a single file to pdf via the .ps route. However, I am finding that each and every graphic (all jpgs below 250kb) is surrounded by a thin white INDELIBLE HAIRLINE. No hairlines are visible in FM 11 I cannot find the answer in the manual or the lists. A few Google hits suggest that it occurs in the flattening process but not specific to FM I am quite certain it is in the print settings, but I have become dizzy changing them. I am printing using the Smallest File Size option Rob PC 8 Gbyte 3 terrabyte drives Windows 7 64 bit TCS 4 Creative suite CS4 Flash Professional
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I just finished the survey ... without any crashes. Used Chrome. Maybe the problems were browser-dependent issues? Z Mike Wickham said: > It crashed near the end for me, too, but signing back in let me take up where > I left off.
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Glad to see question about FrameMaker on Macintosh. But -- spelling errors in the survey? Misleading layout? Not impressed, Adobe. Pat
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The lack of quality control in general has plagued the FrameMaker team over the last few years. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-283-5045 rick at frameexpert.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Christenson, Pat Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 1:46 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey Glad to see question about FrameMaker on Macintosh. But -- spelling errors in the survey? Misleading layout? Not impressed, Adobe. Pat ___
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On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 10:07:47 -0700, Scott Prentice wrote: >Leximation will soon be releasing a plugin called FM2DITA. This is >basically a collection of tools that make it much easier to convert from >unstructured FM to DITA. If you're using the FrameMaker conversion table >method for converting, this will save you lots of time. Here's the >current docs .. > > http://docs.leximation.com/fm2dita/0.11/ You might want to mention the price you have in mind. We don't even look at tools that don't have prices on their Web site. Red flag. >If you're interested in giving this a test drive, contact me off-list. > >This is not yet available for purchase, but I hope to have it ready in >the coming weeks. Or, if you want to use the tool chosen by 26% of FrameMaker users for this (per a recent impartial poll), check out Mif2Go: http://mif2go.com We've always recommended Scott's DITA-FMx for those who plan to continue editing in Frame. However, for the conversion itself, we've been fine-tuning for several years, with the help of DITA-TC members who are using it for major conversion projects at their Fortune 50 companies... ;-) So we're a tad ahead in this area. Check out both, and decide for yourself. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/
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I like the part where you have to create an account, including password and give up info about your company. #Fail sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 www.sharonburton.com Twitter: sharonburton Author of 8 Steps to Amazing Webinars, available on Amazon and bn.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Christenson, Pat Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 10:46 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey Glad to see question about FrameMaker on Macintosh. But -- spelling errors in the survey? Misleading layout? Not impressed, Adobe. Pat ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as sharon at anthrobytes.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
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Ah, the MadCap approach to marketing?not sure I like it so much. Scott makes great stuff, and if you want to help him make more great stuff, by all means, check out what he's doing! -Matt Matt R. Sullivan co-author Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 11 P: 714.798.7596 | C: 714.585.2335 | matt at mattrsullivan.com @mattrsullivan LinkedIn facebook mattrsullivan.com On Jul 22, 2013, at 11:06 AM, "Jeremy H. Griffith" wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 10:07:47 -0700, Scott Prentice > wrote: > >> Leximation will soon be releasing a plugin called FM2DITA. This is >> basically a collection of tools that make it much easier to convert from >> unstructured FM to DITA. If you're using the FrameMaker conversion table >> method for converting, this will save you lots of time. Here's the >> current docs .. >> >>http://docs.leximation.com/fm2dita/0.11/ > > You might want to mention the price you have in > mind. We don't even look at tools that don't > have prices on their Web site. Red flag. > >> If you're interested in giving this a test drive, contact me off-list. >> >> This is not yet available for purchase, but I hope to have it ready in >> the coming weeks. > > Or, if you want to use the tool chosen by 26% of > FrameMaker users for this (per a recent impartial > poll), check out Mif2Go: > http://mif2go.com > > We've always recommended Scott's DITA-FMx for those > who plan to continue editing in Frame. However, > for the conversion itself, we've been fine-tuning > for several years, with the help of DITA-TC members > who are using it for major conversion projects at > their Fortune 50 companies... ;-) So we're a tad > ahead in this area. Check out both, and decide > for yourself. > > -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. > http://mif2go.com/ > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as matt at mattrsullivan.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/matt%40mattrsullivan.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130722/370d9893/attachment.html> -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: twitter.png Type: image/png Size: 1331 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130722/370d9893/attachment.png> -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: linkedin.png Type: image/png Size: 1380 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130722/370d9893/attachment-0001.png> -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: facebook.png Type: image/png Size: 1576 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130722/370d9893/attachment-0002.png> -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: blog.png Type: image/png Size: 1222 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130722/370d9893/attachment-0003.png>
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The company information section was actually the part where the survey kept failing for me. I took it as a sign and deleted the message announcing the survey so that I wouldn't be tempted to waste any more time. -FR > From: sharon at anthrobytes.com > To: PChristenson at ftportfolios.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: RE: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey > Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:10:58 -0700 > > I like the part where you have to create an account, including password and > give up info about your company. #Fail > > > sharon > > Sharon Burton > 951-369-8590 > www.sharonburton.com > Twitter: sharonburton > Author of 8 Steps to Amazing Webinars, > available on Amazon and bn.com > > > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Christenson, Pat > Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 10:46 AM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: RE: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey > > Glad to see question about FrameMaker on Macintosh. But -- spelling errors > in the survey? Misleading layout? > > Not impressed, Adobe. > > Pat > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as sharon at anthrobytes.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > > > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as DocuDoc at hotmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/docudoc%40hotmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130722/36fae044/attachment.html>
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Hi Jeremy! The price will be available when it's actually available .. hopefully soon. MIF2Go is definitely a good option, and is cheaper than this plugin will be. These tools are a collection of utilities that I've developed over the years to handle various situations, for preconversion cleanup, post-conversion-table cleanup, and then the actual topic/map shredding process. The main reason I'm making this available is that I've recently had a number of clients who wanted me to set up a conversion table based conversion process for them to use to convert their own content. I've needed to take these tools and wrap them up into something that could be used by someone other than myself, so I figured that I'd make it available as a retail product. If you're comfortable with using MIF2Go, then this plugin isn't likely to be of much use (although the preconversion tools may be useful for that as well), but if you want to go the conversion table route .. the tools in this plugin will probably save you lots of time. As Jeremy says .. check out both options (and others), before heading down one path. Cheers, ...scott On 7/22/13 11:06 AM, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 10:07:47 -0700, Scott Prentice > wrote: > >> Leximation will soon be releasing a plugin called FM2DITA. This is >> basically a collection of tools that make it much easier to convert from >> unstructured FM to DITA. If you're using the FrameMaker conversion table >> method for converting, this will save you lots of time. Here's the >> current docs .. >> >> http://docs.leximation.com/fm2dita/0.11/ > You might want to mention the price you have in > mind. We don't even look at tools that don't > have prices on their Web site. Red flag. > >> If you're interested in giving this a test drive, contact me off-list. >> >> This is not yet available for purchase, but I hope to have it ready in >> the coming weeks. > Or, if you want to use the tool chosen by 26% of > FrameMaker users for this (per a recent impartial > poll), check out Mif2Go: >http://mif2go.com > > We've always recommended Scott's DITA-FMx for those > who plan to continue editing in Frame. However, > for the conversion itself, we've been fine-tuning > for several years, with the help of DITA-TC members > who are using it for major conversion projects at > their Fortune 50 companies... ;-) So we're a tad > ahead in this area. Check out both, and decide > for yourself. > > -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. >http://mif2go.com/ > ___ > ------ next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130722/a2d652c4/attachment.html>
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At 06:38 +1200 23/7/13, Alan Litchfield wrote:
>And did you notice the repeated questions? Obviously, someone copied and
>pasted into the template and changed the questions.
This survey I think covered a lot of the same ground as a very similar one on
all the 'Creative Cloud' stuff, so maybe had a dose of cut-and-paste-itis.
('Creative Cloud'? All a creative cloud could create is more interesting rain,
and no-one needs too much of that.)
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Hairlines cont.
Dear Craig: Thanks for replying. My FM 11 only magnifies to 400%, and there is NOTHING there. Rob -Original Message- From: Craig Ede [mailto:craig...@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 8:03 PM To: 'Robert CH Shell' Subject: RE: Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11 Just for troubleshooting: You don't see them in FM even if you set the magnification to 4800% ? Craig
Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11
On 2013-Jul-22 1:12 PM, Robert CH Shell wrote: > Dear Framers: > I am stuck once more. > I am printing a single file to pdf via the .ps route. > However, I am finding that each and every graphic (all jpgs below 250kb) is > surrounded by a thin white INDELIBLE HAIRLINE. > No hairlines are visible in FM 11 > I cannot find the answer in the manual or the lists. > A few Google hits suggest that it occurs in the flattening process but not > specific to FM > I am quite certain it is in the print settings, but I have become dizzy > changing them. > > I am printing using the Smallest File Size option > Select one of the .jpg graphics and check to make sure its border is set to None (in graphics tools). Select the frame that contains the .jpg, and make sure its border is set to None. Any change in the PDF? -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited 3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3 Toronto, ON, Canada M1W 3K5 +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com
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Robert, have you tried the Save as PDF route, with the Adobe PDF print driver selected? Same result? -Matt Matt R. Sullivan co-author Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 11 > On 2013-Jul-22 1:12 PM, Robert CH Shell wrote: >> Dear Framers: >> I am stuck once more. >> I am printing a single file to pdf via the .ps route. >> However, I am finding that each and every graphic (all jpgs below 250kb) is >> surrounded by a thin white INDELIBLE HAIRLINE. >> No hairlines are visible in FM 11 >> I cannot find the answer in the manual or the lists. >> A few Google hits suggest that it occurs in the flattening process but not >> specific to FM >> I am quite certain it is in the print settings, but I have become dizzy >> changing them. >> >> I am printing using the Smallest File Size option >> > > Select one of the .jpg graphics and check to make sure its border is set to > None (in graphics tools). > Select the frame that contains the .jpg, and make sure its border is set to > None. > Any change in the PDF? > > -- > Stuart Rogers > Technical Communicator > Phoenix Geophysics Limited > 3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3 > Toronto, ON, Canada M1W 3K5 > +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 > > http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com > > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as matt at mattrsullivan.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/matt%40mattrsullivan.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130722/acef9f46/attachment.html>
Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11
Have you zoomed into the PDF to see if the hairline is still there? Acrobat sometimes creates display artifacts, depending on zoom level. They only appear on screen at low zoom levels and don't print. Presumably, they are rounding errors, where Acrobat rounds something up to display as one pixel, rather than rounding it down to zero. You might also try selecting the anchored frame that holds the graphic and setting the fill pattern to none. Mike Wickham On 7/22/2013 12:12 PM, Robert CH Shell wrote: > Dear Framers: > I am stuck once more. > I am printing a single file to pdf via the .ps route. > However, I am finding that each and every graphic (all jpgs below 250kb) is > surrounded by a thin white INDELIBLE HAIRLINE. > No hairlines are visible in FM 11 > I cannot find the answer in the manual or the lists. > A few Google hits suggest that it occurs in the flattening process but not > specific to FM > I am quite certain it is in the print settings, but I have become dizzy > changing them. > > I am printing using the Smallest File Size option > > Rob > PC > 8 Gbyte > 3 terrabyte drives > Windows 7 > 64 bit > TCS 4 > Creative suite CS4 > Flash Professional > > > > > > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as info at mikewickham.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/info%40mikewickham.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > >
Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11
Robert, be sure that your Distiller is using joboptions that have Acrobat compatibility set to Acrobat 5 or above. Acrobat 4 compatibility will produce the hairlines. That said, Mike is correct -- they do not print. Tori Muir tmuir at spot-on-creative.com | 650.430.8674 www.spot-on-creative.com On 7/22/13 2:45 PM, Mike Wickham wrote: > Have you zoomed into the PDF to see if the hairline is still there? > Acrobat sometimes creates display artifacts, depending on zoom level. > They only appear on screen at low zoom levels and don't print. > Presumably, they are rounding errors, where Acrobat rounds something > up to display as one pixel, rather than rounding it down to zero. > > You might also try selecting the anchored frame that holds the graphic > and setting the fill pattern to none. > > Mike Wickham > > On 7/22/2013 12:12 PM, Robert CH Shell wrote: >> Dear Framers: >> I am stuck once more. >> I am printing a single file to pdf via the .ps route. >> However, I am finding that each and every graphic (all jpgs below >> 250kb) is >> surrounded by a thin white INDELIBLE HAIRLINE. >> No hairlines are visible in FM 11 >> I cannot find the answer in the manual or the lists. >> A few Google hits suggest that it occurs in the flattening process >> but not >> specific to FM >> I am quite certain it is in the print settings, but I have become dizzy >> changing them. >> >> I am printing using the Smallest File Size option >> >> Rob >> PC >> 8 Gbyte >> 3 terrabyte drives >> Windows 7 >> 64 bit >> TCS 4 >> Creative suite CS4 >> Flash Professional >> >> >> >> >> >> ___ >> >> >> You are currently subscribed to framers as info at mikewickham.com. >> >> Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. >> >> To unsubscribe send a blank email to >> framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com >> or visit >> http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/info%40mikewickham.com >> >> Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit >> http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >> >> > > > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as tmuir at spot-on-creative.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/tmuir%40spot-on-creative.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >
Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11
In my experience, this has happened for one of the following reasons: 1. The JPEG has the line in there as a row (or few) of single-color pixels that are different from the rest of the image - this requires fixing in an image editing program to remove. 2. The FM instance of that image has outline on the frame - perhaps in a white color? The first has proven to be the most common reason for me. My fix is to use the "Trim" option available in most graphics programs. The only thing to be concerned about is that editing a JPG, making changes, and then saving it back as a JPG will cause some image quality loss if you are not careful. However, some additional questions for you too: 1. Is your background white or is it some other color? Meaning, does the thin white line matter (or show enough to matter)? 2. What is the original resolution of the JPG? Is it being shrunk or expanded when it is placed in the FM file? And is the aspect ratio of the image kept unchanged when it is shrunk or expanded? 3. Is the thin line showing around all four sides of the image when PDF'ed? Or just one side (e.g., only below the image perhaps)? If you want to send a page (or two) from the FM file original and the resulting PDF output to look at, please feel free to send it along (not to the entire list though!). Z -Original Message- From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert CH Shell Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 10:13 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11 Dear Framers: I am stuck once more. I am printing a single file to pdf via the .ps route. However, I am finding that each and every graphic (all jpgs below 250kb) is surrounded by a thin white INDELIBLE HAIRLINE. No hairlines are visible in FM 11 I cannot find the answer in the manual or the lists. A few Google hits suggest that it occurs in the flattening process but not specific to FM I am quite certain it is in the print settings, but I have become dizzy changing them. I am printing using the Smallest File Size option Rob PC 8 Gbyte 3 terrabyte drives Windows 7 64 bit TCS 4 Creative suite CS4 Flash Professional ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as Syed.Hosain at aeris.net. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/syed.hosain%40aeris.net Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Keyboard shortcuts causing crash on FM appserver installation
Hi, all. A new FrameMaker 11 installation on a Citrix application server crashes instantly when I press F8 or F9, as well as the alternate Ctrl+8/Ctrl+9 shortcuts. It's the regular FrameMaker "serious problem" message, showing internal error codes 11024, 23327044, 26070837. OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard FM: 11.0.2.384 Frame 9 on the same appserver never had a shortcut problem, and FM 11 on my Windows 7 laptop is fine. Any clues? Thanks, Mike -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130722/7f4b4a90/attachment.html>
Auto-rotate pages in PDF
Framers, I'm stumped again. I'm running FM9 V9.0p237 and Acrobat Distiller 9.5.1283 on Win7. I'm distilling a large file that mostly has portrait pages with some embedded landscape pages. The file is set up so that "Apply Master Pages" automatically sets the appropriate portrait/landscape orientation after edits. When I review the pages in FM, they all have correct orientation. When I generate the PDF, the landscape pages are generated as if they are portrait (they are cut off on the right and left). The Distiller job settings has "Compatibility" set to "Acrobat 5.0 (PDF 1.4)" and "Auto-Rotate Pages" set to "Individually." The other options shouldn't really matter. My client is still using FM8 (I save as FM8 when I return files), but she has Acrobat 11 installed. She can correctly generate the PDF for the same files. This has worked for me in the past with these files (a couple of years ago with FM9). Has anyone run into this issue? Jay
