Judy,
It sounds like you need some help setting up the numbering of chapters,
headings, pages, and figures in your template. If you are in San Diego,
I think Matt Sullivan is in your area and my understanding is that he is
knowledgeable about FM and the TCS. His site is
http://www.grafixtraining.com/
If you have to go it alone then I think the "Adobe FM7.0 Classroom in a
Book" is a good resource. I had a great FM teacher in Boulder CO and we
used that book.
I'm in a similar boat in that I'm very familiar with RH, but less so
with FM. Are you importing FM8 files directly or importing by reference?
Importing by reference means your FM8 files stay synced with your HTML
output.
Two days ago I hooked up (imported by reference) an FM8 book to RH7
based on a PDF presentation from Kevin Siegal and a video by RJ Jacquez
(see below). I have most of the stuff working that I need and I am
trying to iron out the style mapping. I may wait to come back to this
project after I've taken Kevin Siegal's virtual training class.
Search for Kevin Siegal's presentation called "Blurring the Production
Lines" here:
http://www.stc.org/edu/55thConf/index.asp
Kevin Siegal's site is http://www.iconlogic.com/ I plan to take his
virtual training class called "Integrating Adobe's Technical
Communication Suite" on October 18.
RJ Jacquez, Adobe Product Manager, has a training video on getting
started with TCS. Its located at
https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a295153/p13101233/ I've gone thru this
a couple times and made a how doc from it.
I'm getting grief from my manager because he said that he thought TCS
was supposed to be integrated. He's half joking, but the additional time
its taking me to figure this out from sources outside the user doc is
messing up my schedule. Its too bad the product documentation from Adobe
does not adequately cover the integration of FM and RH.
One last thing. When the sys reqs for TCS say Intel(r) Pentium(r) 4
processor, they mean it. After a series of daily crashes, I'm upgrading
my 1.5 GHz Pentium machine with 2 GB RAM to 2.8ghz p4 Dual Core
processor with 2 GB RAM.
Good luck and stay in touch,
Charlie Kyle
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Charlie,
I'm trying to do the same thing. I've used RH for years, but I'm new to
FM.
I've finally gotten *most* of the unstructured FM functionality down and
I'm moving my doc set into TCS. I'd be more than willing to share
notes.
I began with 1 shorter chapters (less than 100 pgs.) and was able to
import them by copy to FM8 and tweak the formatting. I was also able to
successfully add those by reference to RH.(At least I got topic files in
RH.
I haven't fiddled with the TOC and index.)
Last week I attempted a much larger chapter and RH doesn't recognize it
as a valid FM file. I found a thread in the user forum that said
there's a file size limit. If I remember correctly, their experience
was that 25MB would work. I've had 15MB files go "unrecognized".
I went back into FM and learned a lot about document properties and book
settings, and am in the process of trying to work around that size
limit.
I was trying to include numbered chapters, headings, figures, and pages.
I can do it successfully in 1 continuous *.fm file, but I have trouble
if I have to break it into smaller files. I can get the page numbers to
run consecutively, but heading, figure and table numbers restart with
each new fm file!
I think I may be able to further decrease my file size by entering the
images by reference too, but that will take way more time than I have
before my release deadline in early Dec.. (Did I mention I'm a lone
writer and have to start writing the new content now?! This is a major
leap of faith!)
Does anyone out there have any ideas?
Judy
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