Re: [Framers] Including a "Subject" in an e-mail link

[nuhDEEN]

 I haven't used FM in a long time, but I was curious. Could it be something 
like what's described in this? 
https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/using-variables-in-mailto-hyperlinks/m-p/9392318
Nadine
On Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 07:04:47 p.m. EDT, acr...@shaw.ca 
 wrote:  
 
  

This may not be possible in Frame (2020), but in Word I can include an
e-mail link and format it such that when the new e-mail opens, the Subject
line includes what I want (in this case, the word "Documentation" as I am
inviting people to ask questions or provide feedback and suggestions about
the documentation).

 

Can you do this Frame? If so how? 

 

If it's covered in the manual, they've hidden it well.

 

Alison 

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Re: [Framers] Other tools

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 If you have the option of porting to a different authoring system for your 
source docs, I've long been a fan (and MVP) of WebWorks ePublisher. It's very 
flexible and you can create multiple outputs.
Nadine
On Thursday, October 14, 2021, 11:07:00 a.m. EDT, Caroline Tabach 
 wrote:  
 
 After leaving Framemaker (which I worked with for about 20 years!), I arrived 
at a company which publishes everything directly to the web using Document360. 
But this doesn't do everything I want, so I am looking into different options, 
to publish to the web, create PDF files if required, as well as make a html 5 
help file.
So I am looking for something else 
Happy to hear ideas offline
Caroline Tabach
On Thu, 14 Oct 2021, 16:08 nuhDEEN,  wrote:

 Caroline, what are you using now to create your source docs?
Nadine
On Thursday, October 14, 2021, 08:34:23 a.m. EDT, Shmuel Wolfson 
 wrote:  
 
 Affinity looks great for magazines, but it currently lacks support for 
cross-references, so it's not an option for books IMHO. But it seems 
like it is a feature thta they want to add. See 
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/120048-cross-reference-support/page/2/&tab=comments#comment-844902

I'm not sure about online help. It seems to have a "web" option, but I 
couldn't find any videos about that option, so I can't tell if it would 
be an option for online help.


On 14-Oct-21 2:00 PM, D B wrote:
> Someone mentioned Affinity here, so I installed it.  It looks like it has a
> lot of potential, but It was more than I needed right now so I didn't put
> much effort into using it.
>
> Doug
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 2:49 AM Caroline Tabach 
> wrote:
>
>> Someone said they hesitated to recommend Frame because of recent
>> installation issues, so told a company to try something else.
>>
>> Can you tell me what it was?
>>
>> We need to put our docs online
>>
>> Caroline Tabach
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Re: [Framers] Other tools

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 Caroline, what are you using now to create your source docs?
Nadine
On Thursday, October 14, 2021, 08:34:23 a.m. EDT, Shmuel Wolfson 
 wrote:  
 
 Affinity looks great for magazines, but it currently lacks support for 
cross-references, so it's not an option for books IMHO. But it seems 
like it is a feature thta they want to add. See 
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/120048-cross-reference-support/page/2/&tab=comments#comment-844902

I'm not sure about online help. It seems to have a "web" option, but I 
couldn't find any videos about that option, so I can't tell if it would 
be an option for online help.


On 14-Oct-21 2:00 PM, D B wrote:
> Someone mentioned Affinity here, so I installed it.  It looks like it has a
> lot of potential, but It was more than I needed right now so I didn't put
> much effort into using it.
>
> Doug
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 2:49 AM Caroline Tabach 
> wrote:
>
>> Someone said they hesitated to recommend Frame because of recent
>> installation issues, so told a company to try something else.
>>
>> Can you tell me what it was?
>>
>> We need to put our docs online
>>
>> Caroline Tabach
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Re: [Framers] Why so many of us feel the way we do about Adobe

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 Michael, what are you using to publish your DITA content? What output is it 
missing?
Nadine
On Wednesday, October 13, 2021, 04:43:39 p.m. EDT, Norton, Michael 
 wrote:  
 
 Some of us have been using FrameMaker since it was owned by Frame. For many 
years, it seemed as if Adobe was trying to abandon FraneMaker. That has changed 
and it is still a good product. RoboHelp, however, is much more troublesome. I 
would not recommend it. It's buggy, and cumbersome. That said, the company I 
work for is moving into a DITA toolset that is even more buggy than RoboHelp 
and doesn't have nearly the publishing capabilities of FrameMaker. So, I am 
thankful that I can, for a little while longer, still work with one good tool.

And yeah, installation and licensing is a pain. I hesitate to get with Adobe 
Support for RoboHelp problems because a reinstall is often necessary and it's 
just a major pain. In contrast, I can't remember the last time I had to contact 
them with a FrameMaker problem. FrameMaker has that one characteristic that I 
really appreciate in a software tool - it works.


Principal Technical Documentation Specialist, Robotic Automation  |  
Pegasystems Inc.
Office: +1.678.527.5412  |  Email: 
michael.nor...@pega.com  |  
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Re: [Framers] Stefan wanted to know why so many of us Adobe users "feel" the way we do about Adobe

[nuhDEEN]

 You make a good point about attrition, Peter. I see very few job ads that 
require skills for authoring for in a print environment these days.
Nadine
On Wednesday, October 13, 2021, 03:21:50 p.m. EDT, Peter Gold 
 wrote:  
 
 In the old days, Adobe had beta-test (AKA pre-release) programs, for which
interested volunteers who represent a range of users from single-person
business to large enterprises with multiple seats, could apply. Is there a
FM beta-test program now? Is anyone on this list in the program? Of course
the idea was to subject the testers to all possible user-level torture
before the real users could stumble on bugs and other issues, and fix as
many problems as possible before general release. Customers would only have
sunshine, harmony, and uninterrupted workflows. I participated in FM,
Acrobat, and InDesign pre-release programs. Corporations change over
time, and so, too, their attitudes towards what comprises good
customer care.

InDesign's pre-release program is still active. Lots of test releases and
candidate releases are provided to testers until Quality Assurance
certifies the release.

I stopped using FM when my work didn't require it back around FM 7, and was
especially sad to find that Adobe abandoned Macintosh compatibility. I
upgraded a few times for nostalgia and personal writing, by using
Parallels. But, when my Windows version on Parallels no longer supported
newer FM versions, I froze my system, stuck in amber but still working. I
haven't had to endure the frustrating and productivity-sinking intricacies
of upgrade experiences like I've read about on this list.

IMO, the FM development team has the challenging and frustrating mission of
trying to keep an ancient technological design alive and reliable in
corporate environments. Just getting each new FM release to print "Hello,
World!" under each new Windows release on each new CPU architecture,
formatted for every new digital output format, is quite a miracle. However,
the effort and expense to maintain the FM might be better spent on
developing a completely new underlying software design that seems to work
the same from a user's point-of-view. You know, like nations of citizens
being able to commute daily in their all-electric cars, using the same
habits* they learned while driving petroleum-fueled autos. The investment
in a fundamentally re-engineered FM should pay off going forward, unless
investments in imagined AI succeed in being able to replace technical
publishing with autonomous-everything.

*Well, maybe self-driving vehicles might help reduce the consequence of
drivers impaired by ingested chemical substances and those generated
social-media overdoses.

My short answer for Stefan is "Because Adobe seems to have stopped paying
attention to FM users." I don't know if his question encompases users of
all Adobe software products, or just FM. The FM user community is probably
the oldest demographic. It's not about age, but years of use, and the kind
of use. Technical authors and publishers, thanks to FM, are content
creators, often also editors, subject matter experts, and document
manufacturers. This mixture of skill-sets doesn't exist to the same degree
among other Adobe creative software products. Users of filmmaking software
usually aren't also the writers of source material, or the adapters to
treatments, screenplays, scripts, or production-accounting software. Nor do
they write the documentation for the products used for these specialized
skill areas. So, if something that should be simple and trouble-free, like
installing an upgraded version of a professional software product that a
large enterprise customer's technical publishing depends upon, often turns
out to crash the customer's workflow, that's a good example of why
customers feel that way. Perhaps customers feel that the corporate view is
that this generation of user and product will retire soon?

Just my continually-deflating $0.02.

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 1:06 PM A Craig  wrote:

>
> I wholeheartedly agree — except, sadly, I'm not semi-retired.
>
> Alison
>
>
> From: tamm...@spectrumwritingllc.com
> To: "An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker, software." <
> framers@lists.frameusers.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 October, 2021 15:55:26
> Subject: [Framers] Stefan wanted to know why so many of us Adobe users
> "feel" the way we do about Adobe
>
> Because every single solitary time that I have to uninstall/reinstall an
> Adobe app., I hold my breath to see what kind of friggin' rabbit hole
> Adobe
> takes me down and yep, it pulled a doozy on me this week, and thanks to
> Adobe, I lost a good 2 hours' worth of work to get my system back up to
> 'snuff.
>
> I can give details if interested, but I just wanted to chime in to the
> thread from a few weeks ago, where someone stated that they feel that
> Adobe
> hates their customers. . . well, yea, I understand that feeling. I LOVE
> Adobe products. . . I HATE installing/uninstalling them and I hate tha

Re: [Framers] OT: Software store

[nuhDEEN]

 Have you considered Shopify and setting up your own store?
Nadine
On Wednesday, September 22, 2021, 08:39:35 a.m. EDT,  
wrote:  
 
 Hi All,

 

Off topic question here, but my online store vendor is dropping me because
of lower volume. Any recommendations for a new vendor would be appreciated.
It needs to be a place where people can purchase and download software.
Thank you very much.

 

Rick Quatro

Carmen Publishing Inc.

585-729-6746

r...@frameexpert.com  

http://www.frameexpert.com/store

 

 

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Re: [Framers] Can Someone Take the Reins?

[nuhDEEN]

 I know that you don't want to lose the archives, but have you folks considered 
moving to a different platform (such as Reddit) so you're less reliant on a 
site owner?
Nadine
On Wednesday, June 30, 2021, 10:02:02 a.m. EDT, r...@rickquatro.com 
 wrote:  
 
 Thank you everyone for all of the love and appreciation. In reality, Carol
has done all of the work and has been a great list mom and friend. The Frame
community has some great people in it and I enjoy being a part of it.

Rick

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