RE: Maybe OT -- Does anyone have recent experience with POD publishers?

[Lou Martindale]

You might try Mimeo.com. We used them a few years ago and they did
landscape, saddle stitching, and spiral bound. It was a few years ago, but
the quality was good.

 

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813-621-6463 ext. 126

 

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Subject: Maybe OT -- Does anyone have recent experience with POD publishers?

 

Need to publish a children's book with illustrations. ;- ) 

 

I've been happily using Lightning Source for print on demand commercial
books, but they won't/can't do landscape formats. 

 

So I'm looking at Lulu, but remembering that 5 years or so ago, when I
evaluated them for documentation POD, the samples weren't good. 

 

Any recent feedback from anyone? 

 

Thanks,

Art

 

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Maybe OT -- Does anyone have recent experience with POD publishers?

[Lou Martindale]

You might try Mimeo.com. We used them a few years ago and they did
landscape, saddle stitching, and spiral bound. It was a few years ago, but
the quality was good.



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Subject: Maybe OT -- Does anyone have recent experience with POD publishers?



Need to publish a children's book with illustrations. ;- ) 



I've been happily using Lightning Source for print on demand commercial
books, but they won't/can't do landscape formats. 



So I'm looking at Lulu, but remembering that 5 years or so ago, when I
evaluated them for documentation POD, the samples weren't good. 



Any recent feedback from anyone? 



Thanks,

Art



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RE: FM grey GUI [WAS: Windows 7 - Snap]

[Lou Martindale]

I agree, I agree, I agree with everyone's comments. When I upgraded to Frame
9 from 7 (I think) I was so disappointed in the gray color scheme and it was
so hard from my eyes to read. I even asked this forum if anyone knew a way
to change it. Now after using 9 for a while, my second complaint is the
small menu bar. I drag windows around between multiple monitors and if I am
not real careful in placement of the cursor it will open a menu, not let me
grab, drag and drop. It's the only program I have problems with so I know
it's not user error.


Lou Martindale 
Technical Writer/Web Master/Marketing Design 
PdMA Corporation - www.pdma.com 
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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Stuart Rogers
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 10:57 AM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com; kve...@adobe.com
Subject: FM grey GUI [WAS: Windows 7 - Snap]

On 03/02/2011 10:04 AM, mkopen wrote:

  the new grey Stalin gothic, I mean, Adobe GUI

rant

Bang on, Mike.  I'm also addressing this message to Kapil Verma, who was 
recently introduced as FM's product manager.  The low-contrast, 
monochrome GUI in FM 9 is not just butt-ugly, it's HARD TO USE.  It GETS 
IN THE WAY. It PREVENTS ME FROM EASILY ACHIEVING MY GOALS.

There may be a valid argument for low-contrast grey interfaces in 
programs like Illustrator and Photoshop, where the user's perception of 
colours in the working document could be adversely influenced by colours 
and contrasts in the GUI.  But FM is NOT a graphics design program.  The 
precaution of eliminating colour and contrast in the GUI, if that's what 
it is, is misplaced, unjustified, and highly counterproductive.

Or if it's a marketing decision, originating in the imperative that 
Adobe products must all look the same to protect the brand, remember 
that Henry Ford's user-defying mantra, Any customer can have a car 
painted any color that he wants so long as it is black has been 
discredited as a marketing strategy for an awfully long time.

I strongly recommend, Kapil, that you call together the graphic 
designers (and marketing branders) who have obviously had overwhelming 
influence on this GUI, thank them for their efforts, and politely show 
them the door.  Then get some USER INTERACTION experts and USABILITY 
experts on board and set them to undoing the damage that the 
artsy/marketsy folks have inflicted.

The world (of technical writing) would be a better place.

/rant

Thanks,

-- 
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Technical Communicator
Phoenix Geophysics Limited
3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3
Toronto, ON, Canada  M1W 3K5
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FM grey GUI [WAS: Windows 7 - Snap]

[Lou Martindale]

I agree, I agree, I agree with everyone's comments. When I upgraded to Frame
9 from 7 (I think) I was so disappointed in the gray color scheme and it was
so hard from my eyes to read. I even asked this forum if anyone knew a way
to change it. Now after using 9 for a while, my second complaint is the
small menu bar. I drag windows around between multiple monitors and if I am
not real careful in placement of the cursor it will open a menu, not let me
grab, drag and drop. It's the only program I have problems with so I know
it's not "user error".


Lou Martindale 
Technical Writer/Web Master/Marketing Design 
PdMA Corporation - www.pdma.com 
lou at pdma.com 

-Original Message-
From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Stuart Rogers
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 10:57 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com; kverma at adobe.com
Subject: FM grey GUI [WAS: Windows 7 - Snap]

On 03/02/2011 10:04 AM, mkopen wrote:

  the new grey Stalin gothic, I mean, Adobe GUI



Bang on, Mike.  I'm also addressing this message to Kapil Verma, who was 
recently introduced as FM's product manager.  The low-contrast, 
monochrome GUI in FM 9 is not just butt-ugly, it's HARD TO USE.  It GETS 
IN THE WAY. It PREVENTS ME FROM EASILY ACHIEVING MY GOALS.

There may be a valid argument for low-contrast grey interfaces in 
programs like Illustrator and Photoshop, where the user's perception of 
colours in the working document could be adversely influenced by colours 
and contrasts in the GUI.  But FM is NOT a graphics design program.  The 
precaution of eliminating colour and contrast in the GUI, if that's what 
it is, is misplaced, unjustified, and highly counterproductive.

Or if it's a marketing decision, originating in the "imperative" that 
Adobe products must all look the same to protect "the brand," remember 
that Henry Ford's user-defying mantra, "Any customer can have a car 
painted any color that he wants so long as it is black" has been 
discredited as a marketing strategy for an awfully long time.

I strongly recommend, Kapil, that you call together the graphic 
designers (and marketing "branders") who have obviously had overwhelming 
influence on this GUI, thank them for their efforts, and politely show 
them the door.  Then get some USER INTERACTION experts and USABILITY 
experts on board and set them to undoing the damage that the 
artsy/marketsy folks have inflicted.

The world (of technical writing) would be a better place.



Thanks,

-- 
Stuart Rogers
Technical Communicator
Phoenix Geophysics Limited
3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3
Toronto, ON, Canada  M1W 3K5
+1 (416) 491-7340 x 325

http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com
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RE: SAving frame files with numbers at the end

[Lou Martindale]

I had this problem earlier this spring. I believe I was using Frame 6.0 at
the time. I found that renaming the file by just removing the number suffix
I could open the file, but had missing graphics. After long, agonizing trial
and error by my IT guy, we found out it was not corrupted graphics, it was
XP Sp3. We tried the hot fix and it didn't help. Finally I was upgraded to
Frame 9. I was able to import my missing graphics without any problems and
no more weird file names.

The down side was my copy of Frame was so old I couldn't upgrade and I had
to purchase a new copy at a pretty significant amount. I was pretty unhappy
about that as I was doing just fine with Frame 6.

Hope this helps.
Lou

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Subject: SAving frame files with numbers at the end

Has anyone had the problem where Frame saves the frame files with suffixes
like blah.fm.5a3? What's the cause and solution?

Thank you,


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Technical Writer (Software)
nanometrics
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SAving frame files with numbers at the end

[Lou Martindale]

I had this problem earlier this spring. I believe I was using Frame 6.0 at
the time. I found that renaming the file by just removing the number suffix
I could open the file, but had missing graphics. After long, agonizing trial
and error by my IT guy, we found out it was not corrupted graphics, it was
XP Sp3. We tried the hot fix and it didn't help. Finally I was upgraded to
Frame 9. I was able to import my missing graphics without any problems and
no more weird file names.

The down side was my copy of Frame was so old I couldn't upgrade and I had
to purchase a new copy at a pretty significant amount. I was pretty unhappy
about that as I was doing just fine with Frame 6.

Hope this helps.
Lou

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Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 6:58 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: SAving frame files with numbers at the end

Has anyone had the problem where Frame saves the frame files with suffixes
like blah.fm.5a3? What's the cause and solution?

Thank you,


Gillian Flato
Technical Writer (Software)
nanometrics
1550 Buckeye Dr.
Milpitas, CA. 95035
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RE: Change color of interface

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Thanks to all who responded to my cry for help. I will follow up on all
suggestions, but for a quick fix for short term I decided to try adjusting
the UI brightness and it does make the toolbars, icons, etc. easier to read.
I'll just try to ignore the grayness. Sure makes me wonder what was Adobe
thinking when they choose gray as their cross platform corporate look. 

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Change color of interface

[Lou Martindale]

Thanks to all who responded to my cry for help. I will follow up on all
suggestions, but for a quick fix for short term I decided to try adjusting
the UI brightness and it does make the toolbars, icons, etc. easier to read.
I'll just try to ignore the grayness. Sure makes me wonder what was Adobe
thinking when they choose gray as their cross platform corporate look. 

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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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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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 
lou at pdma.com 
813-621-6463 ext. 126 




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