Sad news
Bruce Foster, creator of many fine FrameMaker plugins, passed away suddenly on Saturday, June 11, 2011. Although Mr Foster had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma in September 2010, his death still came earlier than was expected. Mr Foster's wife Barbara Foster today responded to a recent e-mail I had sent to Bruce requesting assistance with his Archive plugin, by letting me know this news. Mrs Foster gave me permission to post here on FrameUsers, and mentioned her intention of updating her late husband's web page (http://home.comcast.net/~bruce.foster) with the news of his death. Mr Foster's plugins for FrameMaker were Archive, BookInfo, ImpGraph, MifSave, MifToFM, and RtfSave. Doug Cuff ___ 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.
Sad news
Bruce Foster, creator of many fine FrameMaker plugins, passed away suddenly on Saturday, June 11, 2011. Although Mr Foster had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma in September 2010, his death still came earlier than was expected. Mr Foster's wife Barbara Foster today responded to a recent e-mail I had sent to Bruce requesting assistance with his Archive plugin, by letting me know this news. Mrs Foster gave me permission to post here on FrameUsers, and mentioned her intention of updating her late husband's web page (http://home.comcast.net/~bruce.foster) with the news of his death. Mr Foster's plugins for FrameMaker were Archive, BookInfo, ImpGraph, MifSave, MifToFM, and RtfSave. Doug Cuff
New Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 and new, Adobe Learning Suite
> 2. It seems very clicky, I am hoping the keyboard commands have not > been lost or changed excessively. One of the min reasons I use FM is > through having the ability to virtually leave the mouse alone while > chunking through a 600-odd page book. I hope that FM9 will meet your needs. I also fear that it won't. Several of the alpha- and beta-testers, including me, made the point about how vital shortcut keys like Ctrl-8/F8 and Ctrl-9/F9 were to the way we work. We made the point repeatedly, after several builds, and strongly. Whether or not the developers actually listened to us in the final build, I do not know. I haven't seen it yet. I am waiting eagerly to find out. Perhaps someone could test out the free trial download and let us know? (I couldn't get the download to work for me yesterday.) Doug Cuff
Odd keyboard behavior
This is fairly bizarre. I've been having no problems at all with smart quotes on FM8 p277. I spent a moment or two wondering what Mr Griffith was talking about (but confident he did know ;-). My maker.ini looks like this: ; Smart Quote Characters ; SmartQuotes \xd4\xd5\xd2\xd3 ) English curved quotes ; SmartQuotes \xe2\xd4\xe3\xd2 ) German-style quotes with base quotes ; SmartQuotes \xd5\xd5\xc7\xc8 ) French-style quotes using guillemets ; SmartQuotes \xd5\xd5\xd3\xd3 ) Swedish- and Finnish-style quotes ; SmartQuotes \xd4\xd5\xd2\xd3 ) Italian curved quotes ; ; English curved quotes: SmartQuotes= ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Odd keyboard behavior
This is fairly bizarre. I've been having no problems at all with smart quotes on FM8 p277. I spent a moment or two wondering what Mr Griffith was talking about (but confident he did know ;-). My maker.ini looks like this: ; Smart Quote Characters ; SmartQuotes \xd4\xd5\xd2\xd3 ) English curved quotes ; SmartQuotes \xe2\xd4\xe3\xd2 ) German-style quotes with base quotes ; SmartQuotes \xd5\xd5\xc7\xc8 ) French-style quotes using guillemets ; SmartQuotes \xd5\xd5\xd3\xd3 ) Swedish- and Finnish-style quotes ; SmartQuotes \xd4\xd5\xd2\xd3 ) Italian curved quotes ; ; English curved quotes: SmartQuotes=
Plugins, Framescripts, etc.
I'll definitely add a filtering option for FM versions, excellent idea. Wow--thanks! Colour me _chuffed_. Or if you (anyone) knows of any tools that have been updated or have suggestions for other tools that should be added, please let me know. Character Tools and Paragraph Tools (both from Silicon Prairie Software) have both been updated to work with FrameMaker 8. I have a sneaking suspicion that their other plugins are okay for FM8 too, but I don't know that of my own knowledge. Doug ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Plugins, Framescripts, etc.
Regarding your list, Scott, very helpful but it would be really great if you could organize your plugin list by Framemaker compatibility Actually, what would be even nicer is in the search could include an option exclude-FrameMaker-versions-earlier-than. Yeah, that's kinda greedy of me. But my larger problem isn't with Scott's terrific list but rather with the fact that too many of the plugins I supported by buying are no longer being updated. (Silicon Prairie Software is one terrific exception.) My employer provides me with a FrameMaker 8 license on my work desktop, but this week I am using my own personal laptop with my own personal FrameMaker 7.1 license. Two plugins that simply do not work under FM8 will allow me to burn through tedious monkey-work in hours rather than days. Sadly, when I need a really complex find-and-replace, I save my files as MIF and use TextPipe Lite on 'em (datamystic.com/textpipe/web.html). That too is my own personal license, but now that I think of it, I shall point out to my employer just how useful it is in hopes they buy a few licenses. And since TextPipe Lite isn't a FrameMaker utility, it doesn't support finding and changing paragraph formats or anything like that. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Plugins, Framescripts, etc.
> Regarding your list, Scott, very helpful but it would be really great if you > could organize your plugin list by Framemaker compatibility Actually, what would be even nicer is in the search could include an option exclude-FrameMaker-versions-earlier-than. Yeah, that's kinda greedy of me. But my larger problem isn't with Scott's terrific list but rather with the fact that too many of the plugins I supported by buying are no longer being updated. (Silicon Prairie Software is one terrific exception.) My employer provides me with a FrameMaker 8 license on my work desktop, but this week I am using my own personal laptop with my own personal FrameMaker 7.1 license. Two plugins that simply do not work under FM8 will allow me to burn through tedious monkey-work in hours rather than days. Sadly, when I need a really complex find-and-replace, I save my files as MIF and use TextPipe Lite on 'em (datamystic.com/textpipe/web.html). That too is my own personal license, but now that I think of it, I shall point out to my employer just how useful it is in hopes they buy a few licenses. And since TextPipe Lite isn't a FrameMaker utility, it doesn't support finding and changing paragraph formats or anything like that.
Plugins, Framescripts, etc.
> I'll definitely add a filtering option for FM versions, excellent idea. Wow--thanks! Colour me _chuffed_. > Or if you (anyone) knows of any tools that have been updated > or have suggestions for other tools that should be added, please let me know. Character Tools and Paragraph Tools (both from Silicon Prairie Software) have both been updated to work with FrameMaker 8. I have a sneaking suspicion that their other plugins are okay for FM8 too, but I don't know that of my own knowledge. Doug
PDF Creation Add-on
We don't now remember having *uninstalled* anything about FM before upgrading Acrobat. The good news is that it's easy to tell whether the PDF Creation Add-on is *still* uninstalled. Follow the usual Start Settings Control Panel path if the add-on is still installed, it will appear in the Add or Remove Programs control panel. I seem to recall it's under Adobe PDF Creation Add-on. I invite corrections. What should we do now? It's at moments like this that I'm glad there are so many people more knowledgeable than me on this list. At least one of them will chime in shortly. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
PDF Creation Add-on
> We don't now remember having *uninstalled* anything about FM > before upgrading Acrobat. The good news is that it's easy to tell whether the PDF Creation Add-on is *still* uninstalled. Follow the usual Start > Settings > Control Panel path if the add-on is still installed, it will appear in the Add or Remove Programs control panel. I seem to recall it's under Adobe PDF Creation Add-on. I invite corrections. > What should we do now? It's at moments like this that I'm glad there are so many people more knowledgeable than me on this list. At least one of them will chime in shortly.
FrameMaker v8.0.4 (p277)
According to the readme, patch 277 contains one fix: =-=-= Adobe nbsp;FrameMaker nbsp;8.0.4 ReadMe nbsp; This update resolves the critical issue found in FM 8.0.3. After installing FM 8.0.3 ,CrossRef marker present in Framemaker file is deleted during Show/Hide condition because of which Cross-reference gets unresolved. =-=- In the meantime, some of the bugs fixed in 8.0.3 are still very much with me. For example, Next Pgf Tag is still broken when the paragraph tag has no text in it except for the autonumbering. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
FrameMaker v8.0.4 (p277)
According to the readme, patch 277 contains one fix: =-=-= Adobe FrameMaker 8.0.4 ReadMe This update resolves the critical issue found in FM 8.0.3. After installing FM 8.0.3 ,CrossRef marker present in Framemaker file is deleted during Show/Hide condition because of which Cross-reference gets unresolved. =-=- In the meantime, some of the bugs "fixed" in 8.0.3 are still very much with me. For example, Next Pgf Tag is still broken when the paragraph tag has no text in it except for the autonumbering.
