Re: Change color of interface

[Alan T Litchfield]

Lou, I think you are out of luck. That is the Adobe corporate colour  
scheme and now conforms to the other Adobe applications.


I hope to stand corrected however.

Alan

On 27/03/2010, at 8:15 AM, Lou Martindale wrote:

This is such a mundane request I hate to ask, but I've searched and  
searched

for an answer. I'm hoping someone on this vast list can help me.

Recently I upgraded from Frame 6 to Frame 9. I am having a lot of  
problems,
both mental and physical, working with a gray screen. The icons and  
text
seem to fade into the screen.  The document is in full living color,  
but the
background (toolbar, pods, menu bar, status bar, etc.) are all in  
dull,

drab, depressing gray. I'd like to change it to normal windows
configuration. But how to do that is a mystery to me.

I am running Windows XP.



--
Alan T Litchfield
AlphaByte
PO Box 141, Auckland, 1140
New Zealand
http://www.alphabyte.co.nz
http://www.alphabyte.co.nz/beatrice

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Garbage characters in FM9

[Roger Shuttleworth]

Hello All

FM9.0 p250 (structured), Windows XP SP3, Pentium dual 2.00GHz, 1 GHz of RAM (I 
know...)

I'm finding that sometimes FM inserts garbage characters when inserting text. 
For example, adding text in a Body para that uses Adobe Minion Pro, I type o 
and get op; I type s and get so. The Backspace key deletes the following 
character instead of the previous one, and the left-arrow key moves right.

No doubt a memory problem, but has anyone else noticed similar shenanigans? I 
do get the impression, on this borderline hardware, that FM eats up memory over 
the course of the day...

Roger

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Technical Documentation
AV-BASE Systems Inc.
1000 Air Ontario Drive, Suite 200
London, Ontario
N5V 3S4
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Change color of interface

[Lou Martindale]

This is such a mundane request I hate to ask, but I've searched and searched
for an answer. I'm hoping someone on this vast list can help me. 

Recently I upgraded from Frame 6 to Frame 9. I am having a lot of problems,
both mental and physical, working with a gray screen. The icons and text
seem to fade into the screen.  The document is in full living color, but the
background (toolbar, pods, menu bar, status bar, etc.) are all in dull,
drab, depressing gray. I'd like to change it to normal windows
configuration. But how to do that is a mystery to me. 

I am running Windows XP. 

TIA,
Lou

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Technical Writer/Web Master/Marketing Design 
PdMA Corporation - www.pdma.com 
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Changing font when translating to Japanese

[Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp]

Hi Verner,



You use verdana, if it's the Windows Open Type font it will display Japanese
for the same. 



FrameMaker natively supports Japanese, so if your translator does a good job
you should be able open your MIF file without problems and see all in
Japanese .. 



The tricky thing of course is that you won't be able to do any text changes
etc. unless you understand Japanese.



Should you need to change fonts globally, you can create a Japanese template
with all the needed font settings. To globally change a font: open the MIF
in a plain text editor, search for the font name and replace with the font
name you want to use (change all). To see the correct font name for
replacement you can make a small test file in Framemaker and save that as
MIF. Open this in a plain text editor and look for the font, copy the name
(check differences in bold, italics etc and look for what part should be
replaced) and use that for pasting into your template MIF.



In a workflow you could make a script (Perl or VB) to run on each file after
translation and do this font replacement.

Kind regards, vriendelijke groet,

Wim Hooghwinkel

iDTP - Technical Communication Consultant

Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in FrameMaker / NLDITA 2010

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Skype wimhooghwinkel
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ANN and OT: Sr. Tech Writer opening in San Mateo, CA

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and moving to San Mateo, CA, and is looking for a Sr. Tech Writer to produce 
sterling, customer-facing documentation for SaaS security applications. Check 
out the job specs here: 

http://www.webroot.com/En_US/about-careers-open-positions.html 

(If the file isn't available, try again a little later. It's a fairly new 
posting.) 



If you're interested, contact jlandau at webroot.com offlist. Per Jon's 
request, Principals only please. Feel free to email me offlist if you have 
questions. 



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SDL AuthorAssistant in Fm 9, just wondering...

[Yves Barbion]

... is anyone using it?

Any good or bad experiences you wish to share?

Thanks.

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www.scripto.nu

Garbage characters in FM9

[Roger Shuttleworth]

Hello All

FM9.0 p250 (structured), Windows XP SP3, Pentium dual 2.00GHz, 1 GHz of RAM (I 
know...)

I'm finding that sometimes FM inserts garbage characters when inserting text. 
For example, adding text in a Body para that uses Adobe Minion Pro, I type o 
and get op; I type s and get so. The Backspace key deletes the following 
character instead of the previous one, and the left-arrow key moves right.

No doubt a memory problem, but has anyone else noticed similar shenanigans? I 
do get the impression, on this borderline hardware, that FM eats up memory over 
the course of the day...

Roger

Roger Shuttleworth
Technical Documentation
AV-BASE Systems Inc.
1000 Air Ontario Drive, Suite 200
London, Ontario
N5V 3S4
Tel. 519 691-0919 ext. 330

Change color of interface

[Lou Martindale]

This is such a mundane request I hate to ask, but I've searched and searched
for an answer. I'm hoping someone on this vast list can help me. 

Recently I upgraded from Frame 6 to Frame 9. I am having a lot of problems,
both mental and physical, working with a gray screen. The icons and text
seem to fade into the screen.  The document is in full living color, but the
background (toolbar, pods, menu bar, status bar, etc.) are all in dull,
drab, depressing gray. I'd like to change it to normal windows
configuration. But how to do that is a mystery to me. 

I am running Windows XP. 

TIA,
Lou

Lou Martindale 
Technical Writer/Web Master/Marketing Design 
PdMA Corporation - www.pdma.com 
lou at pdma.com 
813-621-6463 ext. 126 




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Editing PDFs Causes Corruption

[Joseph Lorenzini]

Hi all,

So I previously wrote about how when a reviewer makes comments in my PDFs,
the PDFs becomes corrupted. Thanks everyone for all your advice. Turns out
that if you are on the latest version of acrobat reader, then the
corruptions don't occur. Now I have another PDF corruption issue.

I publish a PDF from FrameMaker 9. I open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Pro
Extended. In the PDF, I go to page seven. Page seven contains a bulleted
list. One item in the list has a period at the end of the sentence fragment.
I select the TouchUp Text Tool and then I delete the period. When I save the
PDF, two items in another list on the same page become messed up. The best
way I can describe it is that the letters in each word become overlayed on
one another, making the text illegible. This ONLY happens on page 7. I make
other edits to other pages and this doesn't occur. I have noticed that this
happens on occasion with other PDFs, where I'll delete or add a character or
word and then one page out of a 200 page document becomes corrupted this
way.

Any idea what's going on? I only use the TouchUp Text Tool for very minor
editing. I don't know why removing or adding a single character would cause
words on other parts of the page to become messed up.

Thanks,
Joseph Lorenzini

Re: [framemaker-dita] ANN: Renaming DITA Map Topics

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:43:32 +0100, Yves Barbion 
 wrote:

>I'm not sure whether Fm+DITA users are a shrinking 
>population, Jeremy. 

I am.  I can't give you a rigorous statistical study, 
but I can tell you that of those using Mif2Go to go
from Frame to DITA, the clear majority are not staying 
with Frame.  This includes *all* the major enterprises 
involved; we can't name names, but I can say most of 
them are represented on the DITA TC...  That's a lot
of seats, easily in the thousands.

>My experience is that existing Frame users keep using 
>Frame to author DITA content, mainly for two reasons:

That's a self-selecting group; the rest don't go to
consultants with Frame expertise, they go to their 
new editor vendor.  Or they have in-house transition 
teams; that's what we see most often.

However, smaller groups and individual writers may
very well choose to stay with Frame, for the reasons
you cite:

>1. DITA-FMx, which really integrates DITA authoring 
>in a Frame production environment (and most of them 
>are already familiar with the unstructured Frame 
>environment).

Yes.  Don't do DITA in Frame without it!  I consider
it absolutely essential, and we say so in our docs.

>2. DITA2PDF output. An experienced Frame user can 
>easily design FrameMaker templates, and then generate 
>FrameMaker books from his ditamaps.

Yes, that's the other big advantage.  PDF is still
important to most doc projects, and the quality you
can get with minimal work from Frame far exceeds that
available after literally weeks of work customizing 
the OT's PDF pipeline.  It's night and day.  There are
many good people working on improving the OT, and
I don't want to minimize their accomplishments.  But
even after paying the non-trivial cost of RenderX XEP 
or Antenna House, which are required for serious work
with the OT's PDF, Frame is still well ahead.

This is an area we *plan* to address in DITA2Go,
but we don't have it yet.  We do have a workaround,
which is using the DITA2Go Word output and having 
Word make PDFs, but Frame does better than that.

>And hey, some people would even buy Frame and MIF2Go 
>to convert their Word content to DITA:

Yes, and that's a good route; the tools for doing
it direct from Word exist, but the path via Frame
and Mif2Go has better ROI for most users, IMHO.
Then you also have Frame available for the PDFs
afterwards, a *very* big plus.

>Anyway, I agree that we could really use good toolmakers 
>like Rick (and you too Jeremy, and Scott) in other DITA 
>authoring environments than Frame.

Thanks!  There are a few more I can think of too,
who might want to look at the need for tools similar
to those they already produce for Frame in the wider
DITA community.  You know who you are.  ;-)

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
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[framemaker-dita] ANN: Renaming DITA Map Topics

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:43:32 +0100, Yves Barbion 
 wrote:

>I'm not sure whether Fm+DITA users are a shrinking 
>population, Jeremy. 

I am.  I can't give you a rigorous statistical study, 
but I can tell you that of those using Mif2Go to go
from Frame to DITA, the clear majority are not staying 
with Frame.  This includes *all* the major enterprises 
involved; we can't name names, but I can say most of 
them are represented on the DITA TC...  That's a lot
of seats, easily in the thousands.

>My experience is that existing Frame users keep using 
>Frame to author DITA content, mainly for two reasons:

That's a self-selecting group; the rest don't go to
consultants with Frame expertise, they go to their 
new editor vendor.  Or they have in-house transition 
teams; that's what we see most often.

However, smaller groups and individual writers may
very well choose to stay with Frame, for the reasons
you cite:

>1. DITA-FMx, which really integrates DITA authoring 
>in a Frame production environment (and most of them 
>are already familiar with the unstructured Frame 
>environment).

Yes.  Don't do DITA in Frame without it!  I consider
it absolutely essential, and we say so in our docs.

>2. DITA2PDF output. An experienced Frame user can 
>easily design FrameMaker templates, and then generate 
>FrameMaker books from his ditamaps.

Yes, that's the other big advantage.  PDF is still
important to most doc projects, and the quality you
can get with minimal work from Frame far exceeds that
available after literally weeks of work customizing 
the OT's PDF pipeline.  It's night and day.  There are
many good people working on improving the OT, and
I don't want to minimize their accomplishments.  But
even after paying the non-trivial cost of RenderX XEP 
or Antenna House, which are required for serious work
with the OT's PDF, Frame is still well ahead.

This is an area we *plan* to address in DITA2Go,
but we don't have it yet.  We do have a workaround,
which is using the DITA2Go Word output and having 
Word make PDFs, but Frame does better than that.

>And hey, some people would even buy Frame and MIF2Go 
>to convert their Word content to DITA:

Yes, and that's a good route; the tools for doing
it direct from Word exist, but the path via Frame
and Mif2Go has better ROI for most users, IMHO.
Then you also have Frame available for the PDFs
afterwards, a *very* big plus.

>Anyway, I agree that we could really use good toolmakers 
>like Rick (and you too Jeremy, and Scott) in other DITA 
>authoring environments than Frame.

Thanks!  There are a few more I can think of too,
who might want to look at the need for tools similar
to those they already produce for Frame in the wider
DITA community.  You know who you are.  ;-)

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/

Changing font when translating to Japanese

[David Farbey]

Hi Verner,

I hope I'm not missing something important here, but I think the answers to
some of your questions are quite straightforward:

1. You can use the Paragraph Designer to change the font, for all the
relevant paragraph tags.
2. If your book has multiple chapters use Import> Formats to copy Paragraph
Designer settings from one chapter to all chapters.
3. The only people who can tell you which fonts to use are your translators
or editors.

You also need to discuss your other questions with your translators, editors
and project managers, as they will probably know what works in your
particualr situation.

Hope this helps,

David

Regards,

David


On 25 March 2010 07:24, Andersen, Verner Engell VEA <
verner.andersen at radiometer.dk> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am going to send an English manual to translation in Japanese. The
> translators use Trados tageditor.
>
> My manual uses the Verdana font. I believe that I have to change all the
> fonts?
>
> Do you know which font I must have in the .mif files? I looked at a
> translated Japanes manual and it had both MS UI Gothic and Arial Unicode
> MS.
>
>
>
> What is the easiest way to change the font?
>
> A search and replace throughout the book?
> What about text on master pages in markers etc?
>
> Is it a better idea to change the font in the .mif file?
>
> I have topicAlias markers which must not be translated.
>
> Any other recommendations before shipping the file off?
> Best regards,
>
> Verner Andersen
> 
>
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Re: Changing font when translating to Japanese

[Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp]

Hi Verner,

 

You use verdana, if it's the Windows Open Type font it will display Japanese
for the same. 

 

FrameMaker natively supports Japanese, so if your translator does a good job
you should be able open your MIF file without problems and see all in
Japanese .. 

 

The tricky thing of course is that you won't be able to do any text changes
etc. unless you understand Japanese.

 

Should you need to change fonts globally, you can create a Japanese template
with all the needed font settings. To globally change a font: open the MIF
in a plain text editor, search for the font name and replace with the font
name you want to use (change all). To see the correct font name for
replacement you can make a small test file in Framemaker and save that as
MIF. Open this in a plain text editor and look for the font, copy the name
(check differences in bold, italics etc and look for what part should be
replaced) and use that for pasting into your template MIF.

 

In a workflow you could make a script (Perl or VB) to run on each file after
translation and do this font replacement.

Kind regards, vriendelijke groet,

Wim Hooghwinkel

iDTP - Technical Communication Consultant

Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in FrameMaker / NLDITA 2010

tel. +31652036811
Skype wimhooghwinkel
Twitter @idtp @NLDITA
  i...@idtp.eu 
www.idtp.eu
www.nldita.nl
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[framemaker-dita] ANN: Renaming DITA Map Topics

[Yves Barbion]

I'm not sure whether Fm+DITA users are a shrinking population, Jeremy. My
experience is that existing Frame users keep using Frame to author DITA
content, mainly for two reasons:

1. DITA-FMx, which really integrates DITA authoring in a Frame production
environment (and most of them are already familiar with the unstructured
Frame environment).

2. DITA2PDF output. An experienced Frame user can easily design FrameMaker
templates, and then generate FrameMaker books from his ditamaps. And these
books can handle complex things like autonumbering schemes, pagination,
widow/orphan control, tables... You can even include "unstructured" content
(cover pages, portrait/landscape pages, "chapter cover pages"...) in your
books.
Some people even buy Frame just for this reason, because it gives them an
affordable DITA2PDF solution:

1 Fm license: $999
1 DITA-FMx license: $185.00
1 template: $2000 (but usually a lot less) ;-)
_
Total: $3184

If there are people who can design FO stylesheets for this price (or lower),
but which gives me a PDF of the same quality, feel free to contact me. I'd
be happy to do business with you.

And hey, some people would even buy Frame and MIF2Go to convert their Word
content to DITA:

1. Open Word file in Frame.
2. Set up MIF2Go.
3. Go!
4. Run the ManageTopicRefNames scripts.
5. Done!

Anyway, I agree that we could really use good toolmakers like Rick (and you
too Jeremy, and Scott) in other DITA authoring environments than Frame.


Cheers


-- 
Yves Barbion
www.scripto.nu





On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:44:22 -0400, "Rick Quatro" <
> frameexpert at truevine.net >
> wrote:
>
> >Your warning of duplicates and the potential of overwriting files
> convinced
> >me to do more to ensure unique names. Now in semi-automatic mode, the
> script
> >will warn you if there are duplicates in the spreadsheet. You will be
> >required to have unique names before the script will update the DITA map
> and
> >rename any topic files. Thank you very much for all of the help.
>
> Thank *you* for handling that key issue so quickly
> and so well, Rick! We will start mentioning it in
> the User's Guide as *the* safe way to get such names.
>
> I note that this is FrameScript, and therefore works
> only for those using Frame as their DITA editor. That
> is a shrinking population. Have you considered doing
> something similar for DITA in a more general way, so
> that those using other editors (like oXygen) could
> also use it? The DITA user base is expanding fast,
> and it can really use good toolmakers like you! ;-)
>
>
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Editing PDFs Causes Corruption

[Joseph Lorenzini]

Hi all,

So I previously wrote about how when a reviewer makes comments in my PDFs,
the PDFs becomes corrupted. Thanks everyone for all your advice. Turns out
that if you are on the latest version of acrobat reader, then the
corruptions don't occur. Now I have another PDF corruption issue.

I publish a PDF from FrameMaker 9. I open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Pro
Extended. In the PDF, I go to page seven. Page seven contains a bulleted
list. One item in the list has a period at the end of the sentence fragment.
I select the TouchUp Text Tool and then I delete the period. When I save the
PDF, two items in another list on the same page become messed up. The best
way I can describe it is that the letters in each word become overlayed on
one another, making the text illegible. This ONLY happens on page 7. I make
other edits to other pages and this doesn't occur. I have noticed that this
happens on occasion with other PDFs, where I'll delete or add a character or
word and then one page out of a 200 page document becomes corrupted this
way.

Any idea what's going on? I only use the TouchUp Text Tool for very minor
editing. I don't know why removing or adding a single character would cause
words on other parts of the page to become messed up.

Thanks,
Joseph Lorenzini
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SDL AuthorAssistant in Fm 9, just wondering...

[Lief Erickson]

I have dabbled with it. I like it and what it has to offer. After my project is 
released next month I intend to explore it a bit more. 

Can't complain about the price, that's for sure!

-Lief

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... is anyone using it?

Any good or bad experiences you wish to share?

Thanks.

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ANN and OT: Sr. Tech Writer opening in San Mateo, CA

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Attention, FrameMaker and ePubPro/WWP users! A software company is expanding 
and moving to San Mateo, CA, and is looking for a Sr. Tech Writer to produce 
sterling, customer-facing documentation for SaaS security applications. Check 
out the job specs here: 

http://www.webroot.com/En_US/about-careers-open-positions.html 

(If the file isn't available, try again a little later. It's a fairly new 
posting.) 



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Principals only please. Feel free to email me offlist if you have questions. 



Jing Torralba 

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RE: SDL AuthorAssistant in Fm 9, just wondering...

[Lief Erickson]

I have dabbled with it. I like it and what it has to offer. After my project is 
released next month I intend to explore it a bit more. 

Can't complain about the price, that's for sure!

-Lief

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... is anyone using it?

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Re: Changing font when translating to Japanese

[David Farbey]

Hi Verner,

I hope I'm not missing something important here, but I think the answers to
some of your questions are quite straightforward:

1. You can use the Paragraph Designer to change the font, for all the
relevant paragraph tags.
2. If your book has multiple chapters use Import> Formats to copy Paragraph
Designer settings from one chapter to all chapters.
3. The only people who can tell you which fonts to use are your translators
or editors.

You also need to discuss your other questions with your translators, editors
and project managers, as they will probably know what works in your
particualr situation.

Hope this helps,

David

Regards,

David


On 25 March 2010 07:24, Andersen, Verner Engell VEA <
verner.ander...@radiometer.dk> wrote:

> Hi
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> I am going to send an English manual to translation in Japanese. The
> translators use Trados tageditor.
>
> My manual uses the Verdana font. I believe that I have to change all the
> fonts?
>
> Do you know which font I must have in the .mif files? I looked at a
> translated Japanes manual and it had both MS UI Gothic and Arial Unicode
> MS.
>
>
>
> What is the easiest way to change the font?
>
> A search and replace throughout the book?
> What about text on master pages in markers etc?
>
> Is it a better idea to change the font in the .mif file?
>
> I have topicAlias markers which must not be translated.
>
> Any other recommendations before shipping the file off?
> Best regards,
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Re: [framemaker-dita] ANN: Renaming DITA Map Topics

[Yves Barbion]

I'm not sure whether Fm+DITA users are a shrinking population, Jeremy. My
experience is that existing Frame users keep using Frame to author DITA
content, mainly for two reasons:

1. DITA-FMx, which really integrates DITA authoring in a Frame production
environment (and most of them are already familiar with the unstructured
Frame environment).

2. DITA2PDF output. An experienced Frame user can easily design FrameMaker
templates, and then generate FrameMaker books from his ditamaps. And these
books can handle complex things like autonumbering schemes, pagination,
widow/orphan control, tables... You can even include "unstructured" content
(cover pages, portrait/landscape pages, "chapter cover pages"...) in your
books.
Some people even buy Frame just for this reason, because it gives them an
affordable DITA2PDF solution:

1 Fm license: $999
1 DITA-FMx license: $185.00
1 template: $2000 (but usually a lot less) ;-)
_
Total: $3184

If there are people who can design FO stylesheets for this price (or lower),
but which gives me a PDF of the same quality, feel free to contact me. I'd
be happy to do business with you.

And hey, some people would even buy Frame and MIF2Go to convert their Word
content to DITA:

1. Open Word file in Frame.
2. Set up MIF2Go.
3. Go!
4. Run the ManageTopicRefNames scripts.
5. Done!

Anyway, I agree that we could really use good toolmakers like Rick (and you
too Jeremy, and Scott) in other DITA authoring environments than Frame.


Cheers


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On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:44:22 -0400, "Rick Quatro" <
> frameexp...@truevine.net >
> wrote:
>
> >Your warning of duplicates and the potential of overwriting files
> convinced
> >me to do more to ensure unique names. Now in semi-automatic mode, the
> script
> >will warn you if there are duplicates in the spreadsheet. You will be
> >required to have unique names before the script will update the DITA map
> and
> >rename any topic files. Thank you very much for all of the help.
>
> Thank *you* for handling that key issue so quickly
> and so well, Rick! We will start mentioning it in
> the User's Guide as *the* safe way to get such names.
>
> I note that this is FrameScript, and therefore works
> only for those using Frame as their DITA editor. That
> is a shrinking population. Have you considered doing
> something similar for DITA in a more general way, so
> that those using other editors (like oXygen) could
> also use it? The DITA user base is expanding fast,
> and it can really use good toolmakers like you! ;-)
>
>
> -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
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