[Framers] Default book window size

2016-03-14 Thread Pat Christenson 
I'm using FrameMaker 12. Is there any way to change the default size/position 
of a book window? When I open a book, I would prefer it to be a free-standing 
window and not take up nearly half my screen?

Thanks in advance.


Pat Christenson
Senior Technical Writer, Client Education
Morningstar, Inc.
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Re: [Framers] Bootcamp vs. Parallels or VM, WAS: FrameMaker and Salesforce

2016-03-14 Thread Pat Christenson 
Thank you to everyone who responded. I will definitely take your comments into 
account when making my decision.

Pat

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On Behalf Of Alan Litchfield
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2016 5:49 PM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: [Framers] Bootcamp vs. Parallels or VM, WAS: FrameMaker and 
Salesforce

Indeed yes. The more you can assign, the better your experience. When I am 
giong to do intensive work in FM, Visio, etc, I assign 8Gb.

Alan

On 10/03/16 10:31 am, Scott Prentice wrote:
> You do need more RAM for VMs. An easy rule of thumb is 4GB per OS .. 4 
> for the Mac, and 4 for each VM. I've got 16GB, and that works great 
> for
> 3 OSes.
>
> ..scott
>
>
>
> On 3/9/16 1:17 PM, John Sgammato wrote:
>> Hi Pat,
>> I got my MacBook Pro in November 2012.
>> First I asked for a Windows machine. That was rejected.
>> Then I tried VirtualBox, and that did not work well for a number of 
>> reasons that I no longer recall.
>> (I had plenty of support from well-meaning engineers.) Then one of 
>> those well-meaning engineers took my Mac home over the weekend and 
>> when I got it back it was great. He had configured Bootcamp to use 
>> virtually all the Mac resources and since then it has been a Windows 
>> machine, first Win7 and now Win10 with TCS 2015.
>> I was just talking to our IT guy. I am due for an upgrade, but I told 
>> him that I don't want it because my system ain't broke, so please 
>> don't fix it.
>> About 21 months ago, we added two more writers. They got Macs, but 
>> set up Parallels. Parallels was a resource hog and their systems 
>> never ran as well as my older Bootcamp one. In December, they 
>> switched to Bootcamp, with happy results.
>> I recommend Bootcamp over Parallels or VirtualBox for our kind of work.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Pat Christenson < 
>> pat.christen...@morningstar.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, John -
>>>
>>> I've run FrameMaker under both Parallels and VMware Fusion but have 
>>> only used in on a Windows platform for the last several years. I may 
>>> soon be in a position to use a Mac again. I'm curious about your 
>>> preference for Bootcamp (which I've never used). I would also love 
>>> to hear from other Framers on this topic.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Pat Christenson
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>> John Sgammato wrote:
>>>
>>> In other news, we are also a Mac house. Over three years of 
>>> trial-and-error, we have determined that our best setup is Bootcamp 
>>> on the Mac, not Parallels and not VirtualMachine.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Robyn Chittister 
>>> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 Hello,

 Does anyone use FrameMaker and then integrate that documentation 
 with Salesforce?

 I'm 1 of 1-1/2 technical writers at a start up that creates cloud 
 apps for Salesforce. We are currently using Salesforce Knowledge to 
 create and deliver our documentation. Knowledge is possibly the 
 worst documentation tool I have ever used. We've been looking at 
 various single-sourcing solutions, and we're down to MadCap Flare 
 and FrameMaker.

 I'm a FrameMaker user from way back - I started with FM+SGML 5.5 in 
 1999. I developed templates and tools for FM+SGML and FM+XML from 
 1999-2005. I've used FM 12 in an unstructured environment, and am 
 happy to see the improvements. I'm not sure how many improvements 
 there have been in the structured environment, however. I've tried 
 to contact Adobe, and have gotten a human being to say he'll give 
 my questions to a solutions specialist to answer. Knowing Adobe, 
 I'm not
>>> going to hold my breath.
 My questions are:

 - Is anyone here writing doc for Salesforce or Salesforce apps?
 If so,
 what tools do you use?
 - Is there a good comparison of the most recent versions of 
 Flare v.
>>> FM?
 The only ones I've been able to find are from several years ago.
 - Is anyone here using FM+XML (either v12 or 2015) who could 
 answer
>>> some
 specific questions I have about it?


 We're a Mac house, so I can't just download the trial versions. We 
 understand that we will need to get me set up with a VM and Windows 
 to use the software we choose.

 Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

 ~Robyn

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[Framers] Xyleme and FrameMaker

2016-03-14 Thread Terry Gascoigne 
Hi

The company I work for are looking to invest in a system called Xyleme for 
their elearning offering.
To be able to justify this they are looking at my department, User 
Documentation to come on board and also use the system for our User 
documentation. We currently use FrameMaker 10 and Webworks ePublisher.
It appears to me that Xyleme is a Learning Content Management System (LCMS) and 
I can't find anyone out there that has successfully used Xyleme for User 
Documentation. I am being told that Xyleme will work very successfully and 
currently I have no reason to disbelieve this.
Has anyone had any dealing with Xyleme, good or bad?

Regards
Terry

Terry Gascoigne
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