OT: Help Authoring Tool called HelpBreeze?

[Tammy Van Boening]

All,

I know that we have tons o' help gurus on this list, so that is why I posted
here, but made sure to mark the topic as OT. I thought that I had heard/knew
of every Help Authoring/Conversion Tool out there that was considered to be
a major player in the field - Flare, ePublisher, Robohelp, Mif2Go, and
DocToHelp but I just learned of HelpBreeze yesterday. Here is the link to
the site: http://www.solutionsoft.com/hlpbrz.htm.

>From reviewing its specs., it integrates directly with MS Word, but the most
recent version available (3.0) is compatible only up to Word 2003. I also
reviewed their list of clients, and I know for a fact that three of the
clients listed now use a different HAT. 

Anyway, this is a legacy product/tool that a new client has used in the past
and I was wondering if anybody had ever heard of this tool, used it before,
and had any comments/statements about it.

Thanks,

TVB
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OT: Need contract help with RoboHelp

[Gutierrez, Dorianne]

I am struggling with setting up a rather massive Microsoft Help (chm) in 
RoboHelp from FrameMaker source files - have tried linking, importing, starting 
from scratch, importing existing project. We have Adobe Technical 
Communications Suite 3.5 (RoboHelp 9, FrameMaker 10). Context-sensitive help is 
part of the project, using a .h file of resource IDs.

I'm looking for someone interested in a short-term contract to help set up the 
project and show me where I am being so dense. If you are interested, please 
reply off-list to the e-mail address below, including a resume or summary of 
your experience and your rate. I'm sure we can figure out a way to work 
together remotely.

Thanks so much,

Dorianne Elitharp Gutierrez
Senior Technical Writer
Polaris Library Systems
PO Box 4903
Syracuse NY 13221-4903
(direct) 315-634-4519
800-272-3414
http://www.polarislibrary.com<http://www.polarislibrary.com/>
mailto:dorianne.gutierrez at polarislibrary.com

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Zapfdingbats font replacement issue

[Craig Ede]

You could change Adobe PI Std to WingDings in the maker.ini. (Not sure what the 
font cognoscenti with think of that for high quality printout; I'd be 
interested to hear.) Craig
 > Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:38:30 -0800
> Subject: Zapfdingbats font replacement issue
> From: robert at lauriston.com
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> 
> FM10, working with documents I inherited in which Zapf Dingbats was
> used for bullets. Opening one of those documents gives the message,
> "The 'Zapfdingbats' Font is not available. It will be replaced by
> 'AdobePiStd'." Bullets appear as question marks.
> 
> ZapfDingbats BT is installed and appears in the FM font menus. If I
> change the Bullet character tag from Adobe Pi Std to ZapfDingbats BT,
> the bullets look right.
> 
> The conversion is set in maker.ini as follows:
> 
> Zapfdingbats, *,*= Adobe Pi Std,*,*
> 
> I tried deleting that line, had no effect. I tried replacing it with
> the following, had no effect:
> 
> Zapfdingbats, *,*= ZapfDingbats BT,*,*
> 
> Is there some system-level way to fix this? It would be annoying to
> have to update the style in every document.
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OT: Need contract help with RoboHelp

[Robert Lauriston]

I think I'll write up a cheat sheet for linking a FrameMaker project
to RoboHelp. It's not hard but the documentation doesn't make it clear
which steps to perform in what order.

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Gutierrez, Dorianne
 wrote:
> I am struggling with setting up a rather massive Microsoft Help (chm) in
> RoboHelp from FrameMaker source files ? have tried linking, importing,
> starting from scratch, importing existing project. We have Adobe Technical
> Communications Suite 3.5 (RoboHelp 9, FrameMaker 10). Context-sensitive help
> is part of the project, using a .h file of resource IDs.

Zapfdingbats font replacement issue

[Robert Lauriston]

I couldn't get font substitution to work, so I just hacked Adobe Pi
Std with Type Light to add the bullet glyphs and map them to l and n.
Didn't work until I figured out I needed to reboot Windows to apply
the font change.

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Robert Lauriston  
wrote:
> FM10, working with documents I inherited in which Zapf Dingbats was
> used for bullets. Opening one of those documents gives the message,
> "The 'Zapfdingbats' Font is not available. It will be replaced by
> 'AdobePiStd'." Bullets appear as question marks.
>
> ZapfDingbats BT is installed and appears in the FM font menus. If I
> change the Bullet character tag from Adobe Pi Std to ZapfDingbats BT,
> the bullets look right.
>
> The conversion is set in maker.ini as follows:
>
> Zapfdingbats, *,*= Adobe Pi Std,*,*
>
> I tried deleting that line, had no effect. I tried replacing it with
> the following, had no effect:
>
> Zapfdingbats, *,*= ZapfDingbats BT,*,*
>
> Is there some system-level way to fix this? It would be annoying to
> have to update the style in every document.

font change not appearing in Autonumber

[Robert Lauriston]

FM10. Inherited documents, template has evolved over maybe 15 years so
there's a lot of legacy cruft.

I have a Bullet1 paragraph tag. Its Autonumber Format is l\t (that's a
lowercase L before the backslash). The Character Format for the
autonumber is Bullet. The font for the Bullet character tag was once
upon a time Zapf Dingbats but it gets remapped to Adobe Pi Std.

On my predecessor's machine, Bullet1 had a round bullet, maybe because
he had a different Zapf Dingbats, I don't know (machine has been wiped
so I can't check it). On my machine, instead of a bullet there's a
question mark.

I was unable to get font mapping to work so I hacked Adobe Pi Std to
add the bullet glyph from Zapf Dingbats BT Regular and map it to l.

If I type an l and format it with the Bullet character tag, it appears
as a bullet, but Bullet1 still has a question mark in place of a
bullet.

Suggestions?

OT: Help Authoring Tool called HelpBreeze?

[Tammy Van Boening]

All,

I know that we have tons o' help gurus on this list, so that is why I posted
here, but made sure to mark the topic as OT. I thought that I had heard/knew
of every Help Authoring/Conversion Tool out there that was considered to be
a major player in the field - Flare, ePublisher, Robohelp, Mif2Go, and
DocToHelp but I just learned of HelpBreeze yesterday. Here is the link to
the site: http://www.solutionsoft.com/hlpbrz.htm.

>From reviewing its specs., it integrates directly with MS Word, but the most
recent version available (3.0) is compatible only up to Word 2003. I also
reviewed their list of clients, and I know for a fact that three of the
clients listed now use a different HAT. 

Anyway, this is a legacy product/tool that a new client has used in the past
and I was wondering if anybody had ever heard of this tool, used it before,
and had any comments/statements about it.

Thanks,

TVB
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OT: Need contract help with RoboHelp

[Gutierrez, Dorianne]

I am struggling with setting up a rather massive Microsoft Help (chm) in 
RoboHelp from FrameMaker source files - have tried linking, importing, starting 
from scratch, importing existing project. We have Adobe Technical 
Communications Suite 3.5 (RoboHelp 9, FrameMaker 10). Context-sensitive help is 
part of the project, using a .h file of resource IDs.

I'm looking for someone interested in a short-term contract to help set up the 
project and show me where I am being so dense. If you are interested, please 
reply off-list to the e-mail address below, including a resume or summary of 
your experience and your rate. I'm sure we can figure out a way to work 
together remotely.

Thanks so much,

Dorianne Elitharp Gutierrez
Senior Technical Writer
Polaris Library Systems
PO Box 4903
Syracuse NY 13221-4903
(direct) 315-634-4519
800-272-3414
http://www.polarislibrary.com
mailto:dorianne.gutier...@polarislibrary.com

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