Re: FM 7 and CS6 Illustrator art
At 11:34 -0800 4/2/13, arlyn_...@ea.epson.com wrote: Does anyone know of any issues importing CS6 Illustrator art into FM 7? We're still using FM 7 (obviously) and one of our vendors is planning on upgrading to CS6. Will they need to back save to a previous version? I vaguely recall hearing about art import issues, but maybe that was with earlier versions of FM. Thanks! Just to add to what the others have posted, I circumvent .ai and save from Illustrator as editable PDF and it gives me no problems. It's in fact an advantage, as diagrams can be viewed in Reader. But yes, FrameMaker 7 can import .ai files - at least those from CS2, which is what I have here. Or at least he Mac version can: I don't know about Windows FrameMaker. I have v 10, but as yet no machine to run it on. -- Steve ___ 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.
best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?
We've encountered JavaScript bugs in Internet Explorer 8 that break the TOC and search in RoboHelp 9's WebHelp output. We could fix that by upgrading to TCS 4, but that would cost $800, so I might as well look at other options for generating web help from unstructured FM. I've got MIF2Go so I'm trying that, but encountering some issues with Firefox. I'll give WebWorks ePublisher a try. http://www.indoition.com/online-help-authoring-tools-survey.htm says it costs $795 a year, does the license actually expire? Last time I tried Flare, the FrameMaker import was quite good but it needed some cleanup so wasn't a replacement for RoboHelp. Anything else out there? ___ 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: Read-Write rules for table cell rotation
Hi Scott
Thanks for your reply. After more research and reading, plus some trial
and error, I came up with the same rule that you have below, and it
works. FM knows what to do if you then give the @outputclass attribute a
value of 270. I guess you can also use 90 or 180.
I also tried it using a custom attribute called @rotated, with values of
yes or no. That works too, and it's not difficult to add the
attribute to the DTD. At least, it's not difficult to do it the wrong
way, by modifying the DITA DTD directly rather than using a
customization layer. But since @outputclass works and we don't need it
for anything else, I think I'll go with that.
Thanks again,
Roger
On 04/02/2013 5:22 PM, Scott Prentice wrote:
Hi Roger...
Interesting. I've not played with this to see how (or if) this can be
done through the rules file. Did you try this (without the value..
line) ..
element entry {
is fm table cell element;
attribute outputclass {
is fm property rotate;
}
}
I'd think that if @outputclass was set to 0, 90, 180, or 270 .. this
might rotate the cell. I know this isn't really a workable solution,
but would be interesting to see if it works. I think the idea is that
you'd have an attribute called rotation (or whatever) that you'd set
to the desired value .. also not really feasible with DITA since you
can't really add attributes.
DITA-FMx supports rotated cells by adding a data element to the entry
and stores the rotation value in there, then sets the cell rotation
when you open the file (via FDK coding).
Do let me know if you get this working via the rules file.
Cheers,
...scott
Scott Prentice
Leximation, Inc.
www.leximation.com
+1.415.485.1892
On 2/4/13 8:20 AM, Roger Shuttleworth wrote:
Hello All
FM 11.0.1 structured, using DITA 1.2.
I'm hoping some read-write rules guru will be able point me in the
right direction...
We have some tables in which occasional cell contents are rotated. To
do this manually, we select the text and go to the Graphics menu. But
since we are using DITA XML, I'd like to save the rotation property
to the XML and have FM apply it again when the XML file is reopened.
Clearly a job for read-write rules.
So after a thorough study of the Structured Application Developer's
Guide and the corresponding Reference, as well as the FM11 help,
etc., I have attempted with the following:
element entry {
is fm table cell element;
attribute outputclass {
is fm property rotate;
value rotate is fm value 270;
}
}
When I set @outputclass to rotate and save as XML, the attribute
value is not written. If I edit the XML in a text editor and then
open in FM, the @outputclass is set to no value. So clearly nothing
is happening using @outputclass and/or my rule.
The Developer Reference gives tantalizing information such as
FrameMaker extends the possible values to allow rotations of 0, 90,
80, and 270 degrees. I've tried a whole lot of alternative rules and
values, but nothing seems to do anything (except generate an error,
that is).
Do I need to use or define a different attribute than @outputclass?
Or is there some other secret syntax that eludes me? Or does it just
not work?
Thanks for your help..
Roger Shuttleworth
London, Canada
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Framemaker 11 crashes constantly when I generate a RH project
Hi all Every time I try to generate a small RH project which is linked to a single Framemaker chapter, I get the message that FM has stopped working. This was working for me yesterday, no problems with this part of it. I've tried just generating, doing an update all etc, same result. I changed a couple of mappings - I selected Ignore Output for ChapterTitle, ChapNumber and AppendixTitle in the mapping dialog. No idea if that is what has caused this. I've also tried starting a new project, but it gets as far as specifying a FM template then crashes. We are using TC4. Has anyone else had these major problems? We are still trialling the TC4 software and although I am a big FM fan I am starting to wonder if this is the right way to go as the integration seems very flaky. Please help if you can, thanks in advance. Laura ___ 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: best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?
I'll give WebWorks ePublisher a try. http://www.indoition.com/online-help-authoring-tools-survey.htm says it costs $795 a year, does the license actually expire? The subscription expires, but you can still use the software. You just don't get the four upgrades/year or access to direct support once your subscription expires. Nadine ___ 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: best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?
I use Mif2Go. It's complicated to set up, but once it's set up there is no clean-up afterwards. It's also relatively inexpensive. I had a consultant set it up for me, and I've been using it ever since. The consultant was Steve Wiseman (swise...@context.co.il or +972-2-999-7816). Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 On 05-Feb-13 2:45 PM, Writer wrote: I'll give WebWorks ePublisher a try. http://www.indoition.com/online-help-authoring-tools-survey.htm says it costs $795 a year, does the license actually expire? The subscription expires, but you can still use the software. You just don't get the four upgrades/year or access to direct support once your subscription expires. Nadine ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as shmue...@gmail.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/shmuelw1%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to 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: Framemaker 11 crashes constantly when I generate a RH project
Your copy of FM should just be sitting there at the Splash screen when doing the linking to a RH project. I've never had any Not Responding messages happening when dealing with TCS4 on my Win7 64-bit machine or an XP SP3 machine either. Can you give us more details about your O/S and hardware? Location of files, etc. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Laura Fergusson Sent: February-05-13 4:13 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Framemaker 11 crashes constantly when I generate a RH project Hi all Every time I try to generate a small RH project which is linked to a single Framemaker chapter, I get the message that FM has stopped working. This was working for me yesterday, no problems with this part of it. I've tried just generating, doing an update all etc, same result. I changed a couple of mappings - I selected Ignore Output for ChapterTitle, ChapNumber and AppendixTitle in the mapping dialog. No idea if that is what has caused this. I've also tried starting a new project, but it gets as far as specifying a FM template then crashes. We are using TC4. Has anyone else had these major problems? We are still trialling the TC4 software and although I am a big FM fan I am starting to wonder if this is the right way to go as the integration seems very flaky. Please help if you can, thanks in advance. Laura ___ 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.
FW: Framemaker 11 crashes constantly when I generate a RH project
From: Craig Ede [mailto:craig...@hotmail.com] Sent: February-05-13 10:37 AM To: Jeff Coatsworth Subject: RE: Framemaker 11 crashes constantly when I generate a RH project Just to add a frame of reference, I quite often get Not responding states with FM 11 on a 64 bit Win7 machine (8 GB mem) and with FM10 and TCS 3 on an equivalent machine. The best thing seems to be to let it finish whatever it is doing. Of course, crashes are a whole 'nuther thing. Craig From: jeff.coatswo...@jonassoftware.commailto:jeff.coatswo...@jonassoftware.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.commailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 09:16:17 -0500 Subject: RE: Framemaker 11 crashes constantly when I generate a RH project Your copy of FM should just be sitting there at the Splash screen when doing the linking to a RH project. I've never had any Not Responding messages happening when dealing with TCS4 on my Win7 64-bit machine or an XP SP3 machine either. Can you give us more details about your O/S and hardware? Location of files, etc. ___ 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: best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?
I must correct myself. When you purchase a *perpetual* license, you can continue to use ePublisher after your subscription is done. I recommend that you contact WebWorks' sales department so that you can discuss your particular needs with them. Nadine I'll give WebWorks ePublisher a try. http://www.indoition.com/online-help-authoring-tools-survey.htm says it costs $795 a year, does the license actually expire? The subscription expires, but you can still use the software. You just don't get the four upgrades/year or access to direct support once your subscription expires. Nadine ___ 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: best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?
On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 15:11:28 -0800, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: We've encountered JavaScript bugs in Internet Explorer 8 that break the TOC and search in RoboHelp 9's WebHelp output. We could fix that by upgrading to TCS 4, but that would cost $800, so I might as well look at other options for generating web help from unstructured FM. I've got MIF2Go so I'm trying that, but encountering some issues with Firefox. To be clear, the only issue with Firefox you have reported to us is with invoking OmniHelp from a Web application. This has never been reported by anyone else, and cannot be duplicated here... We use OmniHelp in FireFox all the time. I'll give WebWorks ePublisher a try. http://www.indoition.com/online-help-authoring-tools-survey.htm says it costs $795 a year, does the license actually expire? Mif2Go is $295 *perpetual*, with $75/year for upgrades and support. IOW, about 10% of ePP's cost... ;-) Last time I tried Flare, the FrameMaker import was quite good but it needed some cleanup so wasn't a replacement for RoboHelp. Anything else out there? SuiteHelp, perhaps? AIR Help (if Adobe still supports it)? -- 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: enlarge equation box in FM10
On 4 Feb 2013 at 14:19, William W. Saylor, PE wrote: Is there a way to enlarge the equation box? William, try my 25% enlargement: http://www.daube.ch/docu/fmaker65.html HTH Klaus Daube ~~ Docu + Design Daube; Schäracher 11; CH-8053 Zürich Technical documentation consultancy; On-line and paper F: +41-44-422 86 25 E: d...@daube.ch W: www.daube.ch ___ 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: best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?
On 2013-02-05 00:11, Robert Lauriston wrote: We've encountered JavaScript bugs in Internet Explorer 8 that break the TOC and search in RoboHelp 9's WebHelp output. We could fix that by upgrading to TCS 4, but that would cost $800, so I might as well look at other options for generating web help from unstructured FM. I've got MIF2Go so I'm trying that, but encountering some issues with Firefox. I'll give WebWorks ePublisher a try. http://www.indoition.com/online-help-authoring-tools-survey.htm says it costs $795 a year, does the license actually expire? No it doesn't, but when your year is out you no longer get the quarterly software updates from them if you don't renew. Moreover, they only support a release for two years, so if you are still using an old version, you're on your own after two years. Best, Johan -- Johan Anglemark, Technical Communicator Localization Manager. IAR Systems AB Box 23051, Strandbodgatan 1 SE-750 23 Uppsala, SWEDEN Mobile: +46 708 651088, Phone: +46 18 167894, Fax: +46 18 167838 E-mail: johan.anglem...@iar.com Website: www.iar.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/iarsystems ___ 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: FM 10 list of pods becomes detached
In Frame 9, I find that the blue docking line appears at the location of the cursor when you've moving a block of pods, not at the edge of the block, as I originally expected. I don't know if it's true of Frame 10, but I suffered a lot of frustration until I figured that out. Anne Relurking On 2/4/2013 5:45 PM, Lin Sims wrote: Grab the pod and start moving it SLOWLY toward the edge of the frame for the FrameMaker application. When you see a faint blue line between it and the frame, stop. It's docked. Took me FOREVER to pick up that one, and it's hard because that line is very slender and if you move too fast you'll miss it. On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Nancy Allison ma...@verizon.net wrote: Hi, all. I'm using FM 10 on a Win 7 system. On the right side of my workspace, the list of pods has become detached. I can physically move it outside the FM window altogether, which can be quite helpful, but I'd like to reattach it now. It's persisted through opening and closing Frame and even rebooting the computer. I can't figure out how to reattach it. There's got to be something on the View menu or Preferences . . . what is it? Thanks! ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.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/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to 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: FM 7 and CS6 Illustrator art
Save as EPS might be your best bet if you are running into problems. That's the format that was more commonly used from Illustrator back then. Craig Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 09:10:20 + To: arlyn_...@ea.epson.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com From: srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: FM 7 and CS6 Illustrator art At 11:34 -0800 4/2/13, arlyn_...@ea.epson.com wrote: Does anyone know of any issues importing CS6 Illustrator art into FM 7? We're still using FM 7 (obviously) and one of our vendors is planning on upgrading to CS6. Will they need to back save to a previous version? I vaguely recall hearing about art import issues, but maybe that was with earlier versions of FM. Thanks! Just to add to what the others have posted, I circumvent .ai and save from Illustrator as editable PDF and it gives me no problems. It's in fact an advantage, as diagrams can be viewed in Reader. But yes, FrameMaker 7 can import .ai files - at least those from CS2, which is what I have here. Or at least he Mac version can: I don't know about Windows FrameMaker. I have v 10, but as yet no machine to run it on. -- Steve ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as craig...@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/craigede%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: FM 10 list of pods becomes detached
Once you have it built the way you want it, save it as a custom workspace and save a copy under another custom workspace name. That will save you having to rebuild it next time. 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: best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?
I hadn't tried generating web help with WebWorks in a long time. It's very slick. The output looks very professional. They handle context-sensitive help calls in a way I haven't seen before. The output contains an HTML file for each TopicAlias marker, so you can call it with help path/topicalias string.html. Though for my purposes it would be easier if I could stick with help path/some file.html#topicalias string. ___ 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: best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?
Yes, the Firefox issues are definitely related to the oddities of our application. The help is served by Tomcat without Apache, it's https, the help is on a different port than some of the calls ... not a plain-vanilla environment by any means. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Jeremy H. Griffith jer...@omsys.com wrote: To be clear, the only issue with Firefox you have reported to us is with invoking OmniHelp from a Web application. This has never been reported by anyone else, and cannot be duplicated here... ___ 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: best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?
This is a web application, https being served by Tomcat. We've encountered browser-version-specific RoboHelp rendering bugs with MSIE, Firefox, and Chrome. Typically if I test the help on an Apache server it works fine, so the only way for me to troubleshoot the issues and test potential fixes is to load the help on a test instance of the application. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Jim Owens jow...@magma.ca wrote: In case it's relevant, most browsers (including Firefox) won't open HTML files saved to a non-local drive and called using the file protocol. If they're not on a local drive, the files must be served by an HTTP server and called using the http protocol. ___ 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: Framemaker 11 crashes constantly when I generate a RH project
Hi Laura I can't help with the RH problem, but just wanted to mention that late last year I spent a few weeks trialling TC4 for outputting a 3000-page FM book as HTML. In the end, I switched to MIF2Go instead and found it hugely easier to use, with better output. Cheers Rebecca Laura Fergusson laura.fergus...@exterity.com 02/06/13 1:28 AM Hi all Every time I try to generate a small RH project which is linked to a single Framemaker chapter, I get the message that FM has stopped working. This was working for me yesterday, no problems with this part of it. I've tried just generating, doing an update all etc, same result. I changed a couple of mappings - I selected Ignore Output for ChapterTitle, ChapNumber and AppendixTitle in the mapping dialog. No idea if that is what has caused this. I've also tried starting a new project, but it gets as far as specifying a FM template then crashes. We are using TC4. Has anyone else had these major problems? We are still trialling the TC4 software and although I am a big FM fan I am starting to wonder if this is the right way to go as the integration seems very flaky. Please help if you can, thanks in advance. Laura NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please notify Allied Telesis Labs Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender has the authority to issue and specifically states them to be the views of Allied Telesis Labs. ___ 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: best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?
Once I get the output customized as necessary, I shouldn't need support, though we do need to support new browsers. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Johan Anglemark johan.anglem...@iar.com wrote: No it doesn't, but when your year is out you no longer get the quarterly software updates from them if you don't renew. Moreover, they only support a release for two years, so if you are still using an old version, you're on your own after two years. I'll give WebWorks ePublisher a try. http://www.indoition.com/online-help-authoring-tools-survey.htm says it costs $795 a year, does the license actually expire? ___ 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.
FM 7 and CS6 Illustrator art
At 11:34 -0800 4/2/13, wrote: >Does anyone know of any issues importing CS6 Illustrator art into FM 7? We're >still using FM 7 (obviously) and one of our vendors is planning on upgrading >to CS6. Will they need to back save to a previous version? I vaguely recall >hearing about art import issues, but maybe that was with earlier versions of >FM. Thanks! Just to add to what the others have posted, I circumvent .ai and save from Illustrator as editable PDF and it gives me no problems. It's in fact an advantage, as diagrams can be viewed in Reader. But yes, FrameMaker 7 can import .ai files - at least those from CS2, which is what I have here. Or at least he Mac version can: I don't know about Windows FrameMaker. I have v 10, but as yet no machine to run it on. -- Steve
Framemaker 11 crashes constantly when I generate a RH project
Hi all Every time I try to generate a small RH project which is linked to a single Framemaker chapter, I get the message that FM has stopped working. This was working for me yesterday, no problems with this part of it. I've tried just generating, doing an update all etc, same result. I changed a couple of mappings - I selected Ignore Output for ChapterTitle, ChapNumber and AppendixTitle in the mapping dialog. No idea if that is what has caused this. I've also tried starting a new project, but it gets as far as specifying a FM template then crashes. We are using TC4. Has anyone else had these major problems? We are still trialling the TC4 software and although I am a big FM fan I am starting to wonder if this is the right way to go as the integration seems very flaky. Please help if you can, thanks in advance. Laura -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130205/3f98d2f0/attachment.html>
best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?
> I'll give WebWorks ePublisher a try. > http://www.indoition.com/online-help-authoring-tools-survey.htm says > it costs $795 a year, does the license actually expire? The subscription expires, but you can still use the software. You just don't get the four upgrades/year or access to direct support once your subscription expires. Nadine
best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?
I use Mif2Go. It's complicated to set up, but once it's set up there is no clean-up afterwards. It's also relatively inexpensive. I had a consultant set it up for me, and I've been using it ever since. The consultant was Steve Wiseman (swiseman at context.co.il or +972-2-999-7816). Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 On 05-Feb-13 2:45 PM, Writer wrote: >> I'll give WebWorks ePublisher a try. >> http://www.indoition.com/online-help-authoring-tools-survey.htm says >> it costs $795 a year, does the license actually expire? > The subscription expires, but you can still use the software. You just don't > get the four upgrades/year or access to direct support once your subscription > expires. > > Nadine > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as shmuelw1 at gmail.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/shmuelw1%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >
Framemaker 11 crashes constantly when I generate a RH project
Your copy of FM should just be sitting there at the Splash screen when doing the linking to a RH project. I've never had any "Not Responding" messages happening when dealing with TCS4 on my Win7 64-bit machine or an XP SP3 machine either. Can you give us more details about your O/S and hardware? Location of files, etc. From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Laura Fergusson Sent: February-05-13 4:13 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Framemaker 11 crashes constantly when I generate a RH project Hi all Every time I try to generate a small RH project which is linked to a single Framemaker chapter, I get the message that FM has stopped working. This was working for me yesterday, no problems with this part of it. I've tried just generating, doing an update all etc, same result. I changed a couple of mappings - I selected Ignore Output for ChapterTitle, ChapNumber and AppendixTitle in the mapping dialog. No idea if that is what has caused this. I've also tried starting a new project, but it gets as far as specifying a FM template then crashes. We are using TC4. Has anyone else had these major problems? We are still trialling the TC4 software and although I am a big FM fan I am starting to wonder if this is the right way to go as the integration seems very flaky. Please help if you can, thanks in advance. Laura -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130205/f4655139/attachment.html>
FW: Framemaker 11 crashes constantly when I generate a RH project
From: Craig Ede [mailto:craig...@hotmail.com] Sent: February-05-13 10:37 AM To: Jeff Coatsworth Subject: RE: Framemaker 11 crashes constantly when I generate a RH project Just to add a frame of reference, I quite often get "Not responding" states with FM 11 on a 64 bit Win7 machine (8 GB mem) and with FM10 and TCS 3 on an equivalent machine. The best thing seems to be to let it finish whatever it is doing. Of course, crashes are a whole 'nuther thing. Craig From: jeff.coatsworth at jonassoftware.com<mailto:jeff.coatswo...@jonassoftware.com> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 09:16:17 -0500 Subject: RE: Framemaker 11 crashes constantly when I generate a RH project Your copy of FM should just be sitting there at the Splash screen when doing the linking to a RH project. I've never had any "Not Responding" messages happening when dealing with TCS4 on my Win7 64-bit machine or an XP SP3 machine either. Can you give us more details about your O/S and hardware? Location of files, etc. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130205/a9d87bd4/attachment.html>
best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?
I must correct myself. When you purchase a *perpetual* license, you can continue to use ePublisher after your subscription is done. I recommend that you contact WebWorks' sales department so that you can discuss your particular needs with them. Nadine >> I'll give WebWorks ePublisher a try. > >> http://www.indoition.com/online-help-authoring-tools-survey.htm says >> it costs $795 a year, does the license actually expire? > > The subscription expires, but you can still use the software. You just don't > get the four upgrades/year or access to direct support once your subscription > expires. > > Nadine
best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?
On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 15:11:28 -0800, Robert Lauriston wrote: >We've encountered JavaScript bugs in Internet Explorer 8 that break >the TOC and search in RoboHelp 9's WebHelp output. > >We could fix that by upgrading to TCS 4, but that would cost $800, so >I might as well look at other options for generating web help from >unstructured FM. > >I've got MIF2Go so I'm trying that, but encountering some issues with >Firefox. To be clear, the only issue with Firefox you have reported to us is with invoking OmniHelp from a Web application. This has never been reported by anyone else, and cannot be duplicated here... We use OmniHelp in FireFox all the time. >I'll give WebWorks ePublisher a try. >http://www.indoition.com/online-help-authoring-tools-survey.htm says >it costs $795 a year, does the license actually expire? Mif2Go is $295 *perpetual*, with $75/year for upgrades and support. IOW, about 10% of ePP's cost... ;-) >Last time I tried Flare, the FrameMaker import was quite good but it >needed some cleanup so wasn't a replacement for RoboHelp. > >Anything else out there? SuiteHelp, perhaps? AIR Help (if Adobe still supports it)? -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/
best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?
On 2013-02-05 12:08, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: > To be clear, the only issue with Firefox you have reported to us is > with invoking OmniHelp from a Web application. This has never been > reported by anyone else, and cannot be duplicated here... We use > OmniHelp in FireFox all the time. In case it's relevant, most browsers (including Firefox) won't open HTML files saved to a non-local drive and called using the file protocol. If they're not on a local drive, the files must be served by an HTTP server and called using the http protocol.
enlarge equation box in FM10
On 4 Feb 2013 at 14:19, William W. Saylor, PE wrote: > Is there a way to enlarge the equation box? William, try my 25% enlargement: http://www.daube.ch/docu/fmaker65.html HTH Klaus Daube ~~ Docu + Design Daube; Sch?racher 11; CH-8053 Z?rich Technical documentation & consultancy; On-line and paper F: +41-44-422 86 25 E: ddd at daube.ch W: www.daube.ch
FM 7 and CS6 Illustrator art
Save as EPS might be your best bet if you are running into problems. That's the format that was more commonly used from Illustrator back then. Craig > Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 09:10:20 + > To: Arlyn_Lee at ea.epson.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com > From: srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk > Subject: Re: FM 7 and CS6 Illustrator art > > At 11:34 -0800 4/2/13, wrote: > > >Does anyone know of any issues importing CS6 Illustrator art into FM 7? > >We're still using FM 7 (obviously) and one of our vendors is planning on > >upgrading to CS6. Will they need to back save to a previous version? I > >vaguely recall hearing about art import issues, but maybe that was with > >earlier versions of FM. Thanks! > > Just to add to what the others have posted, I circumvent .ai and save from > Illustrator as editable PDF and it gives me no problems. It's in fact an > advantage, as diagrams can be viewed in Reader. But yes, FrameMaker 7 can > import .ai files - at least those from CS2, which is what I have here. Or at > least he Mac version can: I don't know about Windows FrameMaker. I have v 10, > but as yet no machine to run it on. > > -- > Steve > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as craigede 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/craigede%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/20130205/79eec904/attachment.html>
FM 10 list of pods becomes detached
Once you have it built the way you want it, save it as a custom workspace and save a copy under another custom workspace name. That will save you having to rebuild it next time. Craig -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130205/d5e2c05f/attachment.html>
best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?
On 2013-02-05 00:11, Robert Lauriston wrote: > We've encountered JavaScript bugs in Internet Explorer 8 that break > the TOC and search in RoboHelp 9's WebHelp output. > > We could fix that by upgrading to TCS 4, but that would cost $800, so > I might as well look at other options for generating web help from > unstructured FM. > > I've got MIF2Go so I'm trying that, but encountering some issues with Firefox. > > I'll give WebWorks ePublisher a try. > http://www.indoition.com/online-help-authoring-tools-survey.htm says > it costs $795 a year, does the license actually expire? No it doesn't, but when your year is out you no longer get the quarterly software updates from them if you don't renew. Moreover, they only support a release for two years, so if you are still using an old version, you're on your own after two years. Best, Johan -- Johan Anglemark, Technical Communicator & Localization Manager. IAR Systems AB Box 23051, Strandbodgatan 1 SE-750 23 Uppsala, SWEDEN Mobile: +46 708 651088, Phone: +46 18 167894, Fax: +46 18 167838 E-mail: johan.anglemark at iar.com Website: www.iar.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/iarsystems
FM 10 list of pods becomes detached
In Frame 9, I find that the blue "docking" line appears at the location of the cursor when you've moving a block of pods, not at the edge of the block, as I originally expected. I don't know if it's true of Frame 10, but I suffered a lot of frustration until I figured that out. Anne Relurking On 2/4/2013 5:45 PM, Lin Sims wrote: > Grab the pod and start moving it SLOWLY toward the edge of the "frame" > for the FrameMaker application. When you see a faint blue line between > it and the frame, stop. It's docked. > > Took me FOREVER to pick up that one, and it's hard because that line > is very slender and if you move too fast you'll miss it. > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Nancy Allison wrote: >> Hi, all. >> >> I'm using FM 10 on a Win 7 system. >> >> On the right side of my workspace, the list of pods has become detached. I >> can physically move it outside the FM window altogether, which can be quite >> helpful, but I'd like to reattach it now. >> >> It's persisted through opening and closing Frame and even rebooting the >> computer. >> >> I can't figure out how to reattach it. There's got to be something on the >> View menu or Preferences . . . what is it? Thanks! >> ___ >> >> >> You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims.ML at gmail.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/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com >> >> Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit >> http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > >
best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?
I hadn't tried generating web help with WebWorks in a long time. It's very slick. The output looks very professional. They handle context-sensitive help calls in a way I haven't seen before. The output contains an HTML file for each TopicAlias marker, so you can call it with /.html. Though for my purposes it would be easier if I could stick with /.html#.
best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?
Yes, the Firefox issues are definitely related to the oddities of our application. The help is served by Tomcat without Apache, it's https, the help is on a different port than some of the calls ... not a plain-vanilla environment by any means. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: > To be clear, the only issue with Firefox you have reported > to us is with invoking OmniHelp from a Web application. > This has never been reported by anyone else, and cannot be > duplicated here...
best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?
This is a web application, https being served by Tomcat. We've encountered browser-version-specific RoboHelp rendering bugs with MSIE, Firefox, and Chrome. Typically if I test the help on an Apache server it works fine, so the only way for me to troubleshoot the issues and test potential fixes is to load the help on a test instance of the application. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Jim Owens wrote: > In case it's relevant, most browsers (including Firefox) won't open HTML > files saved to a non-local drive and called using the file protocol. If > they're not on a local drive, the files must be served by an HTTP server and > called using the http protocol.
best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?
Once I get the output customized as necessary, I shouldn't need support, though we do need to support new browsers. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Johan Anglemark wrote: > No it doesn't, but when your year is out you no longer get the quarterly > software updates from them if you don't renew. Moreover, they only support a > release for two years, so if you are still using an old version, you're on > your own after two years. > >> I'll give WebWorks ePublisher a try. >> http://www.indoition.com/online-help-authoring-tools-survey.htm says >> it costs $795 a year, does the license actually expire?
