in a minute or two. ;-)
Use your list with the HTML files of the
HTML project, not the ones from the OH
project, which have some JS used only by OH.
The filenames and titles will all be identical.
HTH!
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ArchiveStartParams = -add
; Command-line parameters required after the archive name:
ArchiveEndParams = *.*
You need to edit it to use the command and parameters
of whatever you use to make zips; there are numerous
free programs out there for it. I suggest 7-zip if
you don't al
r. 10.2.4, "Examining generated control and
data files".
>I don't need to ship anything today, so I will deal
>with the zip issue later
The step by step instructions for setting up the
archiver are in par. 35.11, "Archiving deliverables".
-- Jeremy H. Gr
. Select
the HTML project, but don't push any buttons yet.
Change the name in the top field, and for the
second field push [...] and choose the new
Omnihelp output directory, Then select Omnihelp
in the last field.
NOW, press Add, then OK. It should go on to the
Export dialog, just
" version of FrameMaker as far
>as speed and stability.
I totally agree with Rick. I've seen nothing in any
release after 8 that is really needed, and a lot that
is broken that worked before. I have FM9, and was in
the betas for 10 and 11, but still use 8 for real work
myself.
-- Jere
e, Chapter 36,
"Converting via runfm".
Note that if all you want is PDF, not Word or HTML, the
free demo version will work fine for you. You do need
to do the full install, as it uses the Mif2Go plugin.
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with at least one char of real text between markers
so you can see how many you have, to be best practice.
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n Web links. So
we force the filenames and refs to lower case so that
they will work.
All of these "annoyances" are the result of seeing
really large numbers of bug reports and complaints
about each of these issues. You should expect the
same if you remove the seat belts from the v
cified by GraphPath)
CopyOriginalGraphics = Yes
Make sure you turn off the older method, with
GraphCopyFiles=No, or you will still get all the
filetypes specified from the project dir and from
CopyGraphicsFrom.
HTH!
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This point is addressed in exhaustive detail in
User's Guide par. 22.7, "Assigning CSS classes".
Basically, for each tag, decide which of your
corporate CSS classes applies, and map the tag
to the class, a one-liner.
HTH!
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about OmniHelp "losing files", LOL!
That use of small files is what makes it way faster than
the alternatives. None ever get lost. ;-)
But really, Help Viewer is the only one that works within
VS as you want. MS has made very sure of that.
-- J
n-Eclipse-based product? If not,
>I'll take this question to the eclipse_tw group.
There's a good reason nobody does that. It has
a huge footprint, a lengthy install that few will
be willing to put up with, and is high maintenance.
Even dot updates often break working
cks and does not find a result. We can get the links to work in
>PDF but then it has to be done manually and that's not what we want.
>I hope I made myself clear...
You need Timesavers, from Microtype:
http://www.microtype.com
That's the first place to go for PDF problems in Fram
conversion projects (including IBM's) to get it
right. And to make it as easy as possible. This has
actually become the second-biggest use case for Mif2Go
(the biggest is still conversion to Word). Save
yourself a BIG bundle of time and money, and use it.
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;t believe Kindle books even support
>cross-references (other than possibly table of contents).
Don't know about that. For ePub, we suggest using
the Mif2Go XHTML output, then the free converter
Calibre:
http://calibre-ebook.com
HTH!
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7.
Keep all your current versions. Just put FM 7.1
on Win 7, works fine. So does old Mif2Go.
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sequence that is not the one in the screem. Make sure the frames are
connected too.
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HTH!
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use Mif2Go, you'll find runfm.exe in the
current upgrade (m2g33u44.zip) file; no need to download
anything else.
Enjoy this gift of the season!
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t is doable with what we have. Any suggestions would be
>welcome. Thanks.
Quite welcome! See our announcement (the very next post on
Framers after yours) for links to runfm docs and download.
And the price is hard to beat... ;-)
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on... We can offer shared royalties on the
result, or agree to make the Mac version free (our preference),
but we cannot offer the $100K+ that would be needed to pay for
this port. If anyone on the lists is interested, let us know!
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e width and height, "130, 180" is good.
So you might wind up with:
[DialogLayout]
;- Dialog & Window layout -
MakerWin=3, -1, -1, -1, -1, 0, 0, 640, 400
PCatalog=500, 40, 130, 180
CCatalog=0, 0, 130, 180
...
HTH!
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it's also there for Win 2K Pro. The last element is
7.1 on my system. The second copy (which overrides the one in
the Frame home directory) started appearing with Frame 7.0.
I always forget about it... thanks, David!
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rce is hidden, it reports the xref as unresolved. It's
best to use Show All when checking (or rechecking) xrefs.
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hics are unaltered
for demo purposes (unlike the HTML text, which is altered).
Of course, it's simplest to have Mif2Go do the whole job, but
when that is not possible, this is a workable alternative.
The current Mif2Go demo can be downloaded from:
http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm
ht-aligned version of it on
the reference page and use that one for Frame Below.
HTH!
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ligned on the
>body page beneath the paragraph tag. I am stumped.
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. The graphic needs to be right-aligned
inside a frame that starts at the left edge of the body text frame.
But I see Lester just described it nicely!
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all but the current chapter) in
>production edit. Within structured FrameMaker, is there
>a way of automating this?
Sounds to me like a FrameScript (or plugin) job. I'm
sure Rick Quatro could cook
one up in minutes... either way. He does good work at
very reasonable prices. ;-)
ics > Object Properties. One of the two frames
should have slightly different properties than the ones you see
whan you check a frame on a different page; that's the one you need
to delete.
HTH!
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eplacing its existing content.
File Naming Limitations: File and directory names should not contain
spaces; not all platforms handle spaces well. Commonly-reserved filenames
should also be avoided. Some reserved filenames follow (treat all as if
they are case insensitive, don't use
rom:
http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm
All are made with Mif2Go; pick from: HTML Help, HTML,
XHTML, JavaHelp, Oracle Help for Java, PDF, our own
cross-platform OmniHelp (my personal favorite), Word
RTF, and Frame 7.0 itself (with all .ini files, to
use as examples).
HTH!
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ff the page size. I cannot see
>why this View, hidden in Frame, shows in Word.
Nor can I. We respect all of Frames conditional text
settings. If you cannot determine what the problem
is after actually reading the User's Guide , you
can send us a one-page test case as described in
Appe
to it.
Then something else beckons.By all means, add
what you can; *you* may be the hundredth monkey! ;-)
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And Ian's tech support is very, very good. ;-)
Enjoy!
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g in an IMPORTPICTURE field, the
only way of having Word import non-BMP (or WMF)
images, they will *never* be sized properly unless
they are coincidentally sized at 96 DPI in Frame,
as explained in par. 5.16.2.3, "Leaving graphics
unconverted for Word (no scaling)".
HTH!
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n's tech support is very, very good. Like Shlomo's. ;-)
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you can easily see what was altered and
copy/paste it (as PLAIN TEXT) back into the FrameMaker doc.
That way, your writer maintains control of doc integrity, which
we consider very important. You don't want any old tweak made
by a reviewer to go into the master FrameMaker doc without any
au
gt;
>What do you do when you have to translate into
>Hebrew or Arabic and convert into an online help?
I'm not sure, but I'll bet our Mif2Go trainer/reseller
in Israel knows: Steve Wiseman
HTH!
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, the sudden
appearance of grey boxes where images used to be, which
can be fixed only by re-importing those images (if you
are fortunate enough to remember where they are and what
they are named), is much worse. And that can happen
at any time.
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"as is")
to the hotspot text; the marker must also be within the
span of the char format. See the Frame docs for more
on the many kinds of hypertext markers available.
HTH!
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will be valid on all
users' machines. Registering the .chm doesn't help.
HTH!
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Frame files.
This is all explained in the User's Guide, par. 2.3,
"Importing formats from a conversion template".
HTH!
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or those Mac users running Frame under Virtual PC...
that won't work any more on the Intel Macs:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.aspx?pid=macIntelQA
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dorne,
a $US 25 ($CDN 28) plugin we couldn't live without:
http://www.sundorne.com/FrameMaker/IndexRef/indexref.htm
HTH!
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rated files, you update first. The second,
without the generated files but with First as the
starting file, you update next.
HTH!
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ss-book entry overrides the main default;
be sure you set *both* to "plain text". Thanks!
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entire entry is a link regardless of char format usage.
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program, but the reader
>is free.
Or, for *way* less, you can use Mif2Go to convert FM
docs to Word RTF, that anyone with free OpenOffice, or
Star Office, or Word itself can read and mark up. ;-)
A large percentage of our customers, even WWP diehards,
use Mif2Go for that.
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in your
File menu. If you shift-File, it does all files in the book.
Really fast. Enjoy!
HTH!
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can convert a book with one command.
HTH!
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as "Wash via MIF". ;-)
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of Frame remotely.
I don't see any other need for processing .fm files...
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gt;numbers, so the page numbers themselves are not active links. The
>appearance of the file is fine.
Right. The hypertext marker comes at the start of the para,
before the tab. If you apply the format normally, then the
marker is included in the formatted area. We do this all
the
ot viewable on the Mac.
The next best choice would be to have Mif2Go use Frame's
graphics export filters, in Windows, to produce bitmaps
that *are* usable on Mac, like JPEGs. That would not
require that you have the original application that was
used to create the graphics; Frame and M
ting Frame makes much difference.
As you know, such settings are remembered in the .ini file,
and nowhere else. Rebooting without determining just what
you have mis-set is not going to be helpful.
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aces work.
I did test this, and it worked in FM 7.1b023.
HTH!
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e a simple .bat for install
rather than an install program. It's for transparency.
Many of our biggest customers are in defense, where you
just don't want to run a program that may try to call
home, make secret registry settings, or put files where
your policies don't permit them. With o
quot;
Yikes. You don't have to look for specific refs for
geekspeak, this is just plain bad grammar. Look at
a grammar reference. You don't use "and" to separate
a conditional clause from the rest of its sentence!
I'd seriously wonder if this person were qualified
to edit
it will be unable to embed, and you will get a
reference instead. This is *not* recommended, but it
does work.
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g. I never noticed that before. Here's a
third workaround: use runfm (free in the Mif2Go demo),
and specify the names you want on the command line.
Use one invocation for each file, and put them all
in a .bat. That gives you one-click production of
the PDFs with any names you please.
HTH!
-
not needed for your use,
you can remove it with:
[Table]
EmptyTbCellContent=
The empty value disables the , or you can put in any
other content you want. Note that 0 inserts an actual "0".
HTH!
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emplate.ini
Any settings in your mif2htm.ini (or mif2rtf.ini) will override
the settings in your config template, so you will want to strip
your local .ini down to the minimum you need in it. Par. 27.2.1
gives the details on which settings to use where.
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Posada\My
>Documents\Documentation\RTM.book
>
>and
>
>[GraphFiles]
>gif=bmp
>
>can I just use gif=bmp
No.
>or must I include the [GraphFiles] part also
Yes.
>do I need to include the header portion with the ;
No. Comments are never necessary, and in fact it'
we'll write a single WMF for
each frame using Frame's graphic export filters. However, the
print quality of the image will not be as good by this method.
I'm not sure that we should continue copying the list on all
this, as it's getting real specific to your setup.
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one-click process that always works for me. I've
never done it in two steps. Is there some problem with this?
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w
before or after where you want them, and Paste. All done.
You might try this out with a few rows first, but then you
should be able to do the whole thing in one swell foop. ;-)
HTH!
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installation procedures fun. No
matter *what* you do, some users will think you're
a fool. :-(
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hing
the installed system, what chance does an ISV author have?
And Vista has *how* many versions???
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code page.
This also applies to Greek, Czech, and Asian languages.
HTH!
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instead. We mention this on the download page, but recheck.
HTH!
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people just change the xref format, and that works fine. I
suspect this issue is because you're changing the numbering
properties too.
>By the way, I'm on digest, so please cc me in any response.
HTH!
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orted (as it should be), your update would
get the old values. Perhaps importing the template to
the book forced a cache flush. But this is speculation;
the bottom line is, now you have a way to proceed that
works.
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s (and I don't have FrameScript),
>I will definitely have to make the LSP fix it.
I'm pretty sure you can do that by opening the para designer,
setting it to As Is, changing the one language setting, and
applying it globally. But I don&#x
ogram", sounds kinda high. ;-) Most are free.
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inancially
possible in most cases these days) or else switch to
Word. ;-) They can just get one or two licenses and
downgrade to match the rest of their installed base.
Note that you *cannot* downgrade if you purchase the
copy of Frame any other way (like retail). You must
use the TLP.
hat I can then save it as a .FM
>file or must I start from scratch and re-create it?
You can toggle read-only mode on or off with:
Esc F l k
That's Escape, Shift-F, lower-case L, lower-case K.
HTH!
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ing them back; Frame
will do that automatically whenever you use one.
HTH!
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a *Frame* bug, not a Mif2Go bug, and indicates further breakage
in the FDK control over the UI.
I'm as frustrated as the others who have posted here recently
about the severe damage to FDK functionality introduced in 9.
We can only hope that FM 10, whenever it comes out, fixes some
of these n
date.
Then close them after updating. If they are all open, you
avoid any issues Frame may have with opening them automatically.
HTH!
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frames". Note that this is *not* the best-quality method,
merely the simplest. Please read User's Guide par. 3.7.4,
"Figuring out graphics export options", which explains this
in detail.
>Other info: XP, Word 2003
>
>Thank y
rsion provides that and many other handy utilities,
like MIF washing and lossless extraction of embedded
graphics. You can download it from:
http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm
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right syntax,
like this for red:
[Colors]
99 = ff
Then use in the marker:
[HTMLStyles]=Bold Color99
> - config file, [Macros] section: HTMConfig=<$$HTMLStyles]Bold "Lite
> Blue">
That won't work at all, for lots of r
d and Paste Special in Frame.
Then retag per your Frame template. It takes a bit
longer to do it that way, but it eliminates numerous
issues you'll have forever from the Frame import.
HTH!
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where graphics are involved. You might see if it works
if you set the project up in a path without spaces in it,
as we strongly advocate in many places in the docs.
Otherwise, kindly send us that test case. Thanks!
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those.
I don't use "Program Files" either, always install Frame
in one like C:\Frame8, for example. Much safer.
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icts with namespaces), and underscore.
However... these names will not be the same as the Frame
format names anyway. So making the Frame format names
conformant to XML rules is unnecessary, and probably unwise,
since it could lead to confusion between element and format
names later...
HTH!
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hts, and much more. The results were "good enough"
for use as WinHelp illustrations, but would not win prizes.
>So, yes, it is possible with some limitations.
Some pretty severe ones, IMHO... which is another reason
we haven't rushed to do it.
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t
to WinHelp, so those are better quality than the
native Frame WMF used for the HTML/XML exports.
We plan to write our own SVGs at some point too,
but so far demand has not justified the substantial
programming effort required.
HTH!
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can specify that some apps
run in "compatibility mode" for earlier versions, like XP.
However, this does not always work. You can't run any 16-bit
apps, for example, even though they ran in the real XP. But
32-bit apps mostly work fine.
HTH!
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e and Robo,
import the Frame files instead, which means lots
more work for every revision. Robo claims to "link",
but see what its users have to say about that on:
http://groups.google.com/group/TCS-Users
and decide for yourself.
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/ohusergd/
which opens in a new window. Chrome is very slow
loading, but it gets there eventually. Use Firefox
if at all possible, or IE, Opera, Safari, or Linux
Konqueror. All work with both local and network
copies, as do many more.
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risk a system on
which my livelihood depended...
Just my opinion. ;-)
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This is a change all your users would need to make;
you can't change anything in the WebHelp or OmniHelp
to allow that, for obvious security reasons.
HTH!
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tion about this product?
You'll have better luck on HATT:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HATT/
where this query would definitely be ON-topic.
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For ePub output, consider Calibre, which is free:
http://calibre-ebook.com/
You can feed it with the HTML output of Mif2Go or ePP.
Maybe even the Frame native HTML, never tried that.
Or perhaps your PDF; it's flexible.
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viewing app,
and choose appropriate names for them. Finally, for each
of the embedded images, select the image (not the frame)
and use File > Import > File to replace it with the one
you extracted. That's really the best you can do.
HTH!
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/download.htm
HTH!
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