FrameMaker the most popular techpubs skill in UK

I thought this might be of interest - FrameMaker is currently ranking as the most advertised-for skill amongst UK job adverts for technical authors, both contract and permanent. Details (and more statistics you could possibly digest) here:

FM > PDF bloat

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Can I use same files on both Mac and Windows platforms?

On 29 Nov 2005, at 21:26, Peter Gold wrote: > There's no difference between FM files on Mac, unix, and Windows. > However, there are some file-naming limitations you'll run into with > long file names on Windows that get truncated on Mac, because you're > running FM in Classic, not true OS X.

Looking for a structured FM consultant in Italy

I'm trying to learn the way to structure documents with FM, since the 7.1 release but I haven't the time and basis to do this. I'm looking for a consultant in Italy for a help. Please, let me know if there's anybody out there. Davide Piva davide.piva at gmail.com 368-3585350

This Weeks Sign that FrameMaker is Dead

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XML Cross-reference Problem

Hi, I produce documentation using Framemaker 7.0 and we are now attempting to get all of our documentation online in a help system, using a tool written in-house with our own software (a 4GL called Cyberscreen). My part in this is to save the individual chapters of each book as xml, producing a .x

This Weeks Sign that FrameMaker is Dead

It's so clever it must be true. Those people at Adobe and their dastardly evil scheming minds. Next thing you know, they'll announce that they are splitting the product in two parts and selling one to Arbortext for structure and the other to Microsoft as a replacement for Word. Crafty. Mike, y

XML Cross-reference Problem

If you are creating XML from 'unstructured' Frame then you are going to run into this and many other issues. To simply create XML for the sake of XML is likely a poor approach to take. Save As gives you output, but the output is restricted by what FrameMaker defaults to. If you have structured

XML Cross-reference Problem

Karen, It looks like the first A tag () is a destination anchor. That is why there is no text associated with it. The second A tag (page 147 ) appears to be a hyperlink. The text you click is the phrase "page 147". I aggree with Bernard that XML from regular FrameMaker has limited usefullness. I

XML Cross-reference Problem

Mike Feimster wrote: > I agree with Bernard that XML from regular FrameMaker has limited > usefulness. If you generate XML from structured Frame, you have many more > options. True, but not necessarily with FM7.0, and not without some effort... For more info, see "Getting external cross-

XML Cross-reference Problem

Karen, I assume you are working with structured FrameMaker documents? As I understand your question, you want to produce XML that has both the cross-reference text and the attributes that identify the link for each cross-reference. FrameMaker does not write the cross-reference text to XML, b

XML Cross-reference Problem

Mike Feimster wrote: >> I agree with Bernard that XML from regular FrameMaker has >> limited usefulness. If you generate XML from structured >> Frame, you have many more options. Shlomo Perets replied: > True, but not necessarily with FM7.0, and not without some effort... Thanks everyone

XML Cross-reference Problem

Hi, Karen: Look into the "Migrating from Unstructured to Structured FrameMaker" link at http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/indepth.html >Thanks everyone, it looks like an upgrade and a lot of effort on my part is >in order to convert my existing documents to structured Frame. Can anyone >r

Survey

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This Weeks Sign that FrameMaker is Dead

On 1 Dec 2005, at 13:34, Mike Feimster wrote: > I just?received a message that Adobe FrameMaker is now a sponsor of > Techwr-l. Surely the only reason they would do this as a part of a > massive campaign to announce its end or life. : ) Interesting! "Thanks to Adobe? FrameMaker? as a new TECHW

Survey

On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 19:57:06 +0100 (CET), Guadalupe Castillo wrote: > My name is Guadalupe and I am working in a project for my University > in Brussels. > The topic of this research is gathering information about the help > files in Framemaker format and the problems creating a template for >

DITA, and XMetaL working with FM

Hi Hedley, > And has anybody purchased FrameMaker Server, whatever that is? The Adobe > site is rather coy but says that (somehow) you can process RTF, XML, and > Auld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and all in some kind of batch process. So what > IS FM Server? Is it some kind of command-line version of F

Corrupt document that's not giving up its secrets

Hi Catherine, What happens when you update all cross references? Are there links to external files that may be broken? Can you postscript the file? If it does, will that convert to pdf using, say ps2pdf? In verbose mode this could give some useful information. Do you have conditional text

Fonts not embedding in PDF 1.6

Thanks Fred & Mike, The problem was that the printer metrics used by the OKI color printer used to print direct from Frame are *very* different from the Adobe PDF/Distiller metrics. Once I loaded up SetPrint, Frame selected only the Adobe PDF/Distiller metrics for onscreen display. What I still

Corrupt document that's not giving up its secrets

Glad to hear you got things sorted. Curious about your non-capability to produce postscript though. Is this the case even is you print with fmbatch from a console? Here is an interesting preprocessor for fmbatch: http://search.cpan.org/src/IANC/sdf-2.001/bin/sdfbatch This may be of interest to

FrameMaker the most popular techpubs skill in UK

I just thought this might be of interest - FrameMaker is currently ranking as the most advertised-for skill amongst UK job adverts for technical authors, both contract and permanent. Details (and more statistics you could possibly digest) here:

FM > PDF bloat

I have a Frame file that contains both imports of PDFs of Illustrator graphics and Illustrator files. One of these graphics in particular causes tremendous bloat. That AI (Illustrator) file weighs in at 1.9 MB. The PDF of the same file is a svelte 101 KB. If I import either the Illustrator

Re: Can I use same files on both Mac and Windows platforms?

On 29 Nov 2005, at 21:26, Peter Gold wrote: There's no difference between FM files on Mac, unix, and Windows. However, there are some file-naming limitations you'll run into with long file names on Windows that get truncated on Mac, because you're running FM in Classic, not true OS X. Just t

Looking for a structured FM consultant in Italy

I'm trying to learn the way to structure documents with FM, since the 7.1 release but I haven't the time and basis to do this. I'm looking for a consultant in Italy for a help. Please, let me know if there's anybody out there. Davide Piva [EMAIL PROTECTED] 368-3585350 _

This Weeks Sign that FrameMaker is Dead

I just received a message that Adobe FrameMaker is now a sponsor of Techwr-l. Surely the only reason they would do this as a part of a massive campaign to announce its end or life. : )   ---Mike FeimsterIDD Technical Analyst ACS Technologies 180 N. Dunbarton Drive Florence, SC 295

XML Cross-reference Problem

Hi, I produce documentation using Framemaker 7.0 and we are now attempting to get all of our documentation online in a help system, using a tool written in-house with our own software (a 4GL called Cyberscreen). My part in this is to save the individual chapters of each book as xml, producing a .x

RE: This Weeks Sign that FrameMaker is Dead

It's so clever it must be true. Those people at Adobe and their dastardly evil scheming minds. Next thing you know, they'll announce that they are splitting the product in two parts and selling one to Arbortext for structure and the other to Microsoft as a replacement for Word. Crafty. Mike, y

RE: XML Cross-reference Problem

If you are creating XML from 'unstructured' Frame then you are going to run into this and many other issues. To simply create XML for the sake of XML is likely a poor approach to take. Save As gives you output, but the output is restricted by what FrameMaker defaults to. If you have structured

RE: XML Cross-reference Problem

Karen, It looks like the first A tag () is a destination anchor. That is why there is no text associated with it. The second A tag (page 147 ) appears to be a hyperlink. The text you click is the phrase "page 147". I aggree with Bernard that XML from regular FrameMaker has limited usefullness. I

XML Cross-reference Problem

Mike Feimster wrote: > I agree with Bernard that XML from regular FrameMaker has limited > usefulness. If you generate XML from structured Frame, you have many more > options. True, but not necessarily with FM7.0, and not without some effort... For more info, see "Getting external cross-re

Re: XML Cross-reference Problem

Karen, I assume you are working with structured FrameMaker documents? As I understand your question, you want to produce XML that has both the cross-reference text and the attributes that identify the link for each cross-reference. FrameMaker does not write the cross-reference text to XML, b

RE: XML Cross-reference Problem

Mike Feimster wrote: >> I agree with Bernard that XML from regular FrameMaker has >> limited usefulness. If you generate XML from structured >> Frame, you have many more options. Shlomo Perets replied: > True, but not necessarily with FM7.0, and not without some effort... Thanks everyon

RE: XML Cross-reference Problem

Hi, Karen: Look into the "Migrating from Unstructured to Structured FrameMaker" link at http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/indepth.html Thanks everyone, it looks like an upgrade and a lot of effort on my part is in order to convert my existing documents to structured Frame. Can anyone re

Survey

> Hello,>> My name is Guadalupe and I am working in a project for my University in> Brussels.> The topic of this research is gathering information about the help files in> Framemaker format and the problems creating a template for them in Webworks.> I know how to use both softwares but I believ

Re: This Weeks Sign that FrameMaker is Dead

On 1 Dec 2005, at 13:34, Mike Feimster wrote: I just received a message that Adobe FrameMaker is now a sponsor of Techwr-l. Surely the only reason they would do this as a part of a massive campaign to announce its end or life. : ) Interesting! "Thanks to Adobe® FrameMaker® as a new TECHWR-L

DITA, and XMetaL working with FM

I saw a few familar names at Blast Radius' webinar (just concluded) on using XMetaL DITA Edition with FrameMaker. I'm pretty sure I heard Paul Prescod say that a build path to go from DITA XML to FM to PDF is being added to the DITA open toolkit. Can anyone confirm this? Or was it that just

Re: Survey

On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 19:57:06 +0100 (CET), Guadalupe Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My name is Guadalupe and I am working in a project for my University > in Brussels. > The topic of this research is gathering information about the help > files in Framemaker format and the problems creati

Re: DITA, and XMetaL working with FM

Hi Hedley, And has anybody purchased FrameMaker Server, whatever that is? The Adobe site is rather coy but says that (somehow) you can process RTF, XML, and Auld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and all in some kind of batch process. So what IS FM Server? Is it some kind of command-line version of FM, i.e