FYI: Adobe Releases Major Upgrade to RoboHelp

2007-01-15 Thread Dov Isaacs
> -Original Message- > From: Adobe Systems Incorporated > Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 9:04 PM > Subject: Adobe Releases Major Upgrade to RoboHelp > > ( BW)(CA-ADOBE-SYSTEMS)(ADBE) Adobe Releases Major Upgrade to RoboHelp > > Adobe RoboHelp 6 Eases Creation, Management and Publish

Dual Monitor(s) ??s

2007-01-15 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Another option is a single wide-screen monitor. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Sean Pollock wrote: > ? I use dual monitors all the time. You just have to have a graphics card > that supports it (has two outputs). > > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces+spolloc1=hotmail.com at lists.fram

Framers Digest, Vol 15, Issue 13

2007-01-15 Thread Marcus Carr
Dov wrote: > PDF is a "final form" document format. It does not have > the context of the graphical objects it represents. > At best, if you produce a "tagged" PDF, a "converter" > can make some guesses as to the original document > structure in terms of sentences, paragraphs, and tables, > but no

Expanding fonts...

2007-01-15 Thread Dodd, Frank J
When printing FM pages the fonts mysteriously expand on the page and will overlap/underlap inserted graphics.. Tried different printers with no luck. Any suggestions? Frank ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list

Index and TOC refs in Text Insets

2007-01-15 Thread White, William
I've been using Text Insets for a while, but have just noticed that when I click on the page number in the index entry for an index marker that is located inside a text inset, the jump takes me to the beginning of the text inset, not to the actual marker location in the inset. Along much the same l

Second Job Opening - Silicon Valley - Local Candidates only

2007-01-15 Thread Gillian Flato
Guys, The second position we have open is for a Technical Writer 1. It is relatively the same position as the other one, but with more supervision. This position will be supervised and trained by the lead Technical Writer. Please email your resumes to me privately. My company makes hardware that

Second Job Opening - Silicon Valley - Local Candidates only

2007-01-15 Thread Gillian Flato
Guys, The second position we have open is for a Technical Writer 1. It is relatively the same position as the other one, but with more supervision. This position will be supervised and trained by the lead Technical Writer. Please email your resumes to me privately. My company makes hardware that

PDF to framemaker

2007-01-15 Thread Gagne, Bernard (Bolton)
I frequently get Word files with embedded graphics from our engineers. The best way I have found to get the content in Frame has been to save the Word file as both HTML and TXT. I then extract the graphics from the HTML graphics folder, import the TXT, and reformat according to our template. I neve

Expanding fonts...

2007-01-15 Thread Dodd, Frank J
When printing FM pages the fonts mysteriously expand on the page and will overlap/underlap inserted graphics.. Tried different printers with no luck. Any suggestions? Frank

Index and TOC refs in Text Insets

2007-01-15 Thread White, William
I've been using Text Insets for a while, but have just noticed that when I click on the page number in the index entry for an index marker that is located inside a text inset, the jump takes me to the beginning of the text inset, not to the actual marker location in the inset. Along much the same l

techniques to indicate hyperlinks in frame

2007-01-15 Thread Stuart Rogers
Kevin Hunter wrote: > > I'm looking for a simple but effective technique of visually > indicating, in the PDF version of the guide, that certain text > strings are hyperlinks. Ideally, this technique would be invisible in > the print version, where the links obviously wouldn't work. > > I don't

RE: PDF to framemaker

2007-01-15 Thread Gagne, Bernard (Bolton)
I frequently get Word files with embedded graphics from our engineers. The best way I have found to get the content in Frame has been to save the Word file as both HTML and TXT. I then extract the graphics from the HTML graphics folder, import the TXT, and reformat according to our template. I neve

Dual Monitor(s) ??s

2007-01-15 Thread Dan Gallagher
Thanks to the lone writers STC group, I learned about dual monitors a couple years back. And I never looked back. Simply pop in a second video card. You guys mention apps and which monitor etc.? Our proprietary software always comes up in the center of my two monitors, split in half. And our n

RE: RTF to framemaker

2007-01-15 Thread Matt Sullivan
I don't use the RTF to Frame filter, but instead import the .doc into a Frame template to eliminate the "generic" master pages and catalogs created when using Frame to "open" the doc directly. The resulting Word import filter does a fine job of importing, but doesn't address inconsistencies and wo

RE: PDF to framemaker

2007-01-15 Thread Diane Gaskill
Embedded graphics in Word do not come across with the text. In fact, most RTF files with graphics in them crash the filter. It simily stops. After a few seconds, it displays an error message about not being able to continue. This happens with anything except very small files (one or two pages).

PDF to framemaker

2007-01-15 Thread Diane Gaskill
Embedded graphics in Word do not come across with the text. In fact, most RTF files with graphics in them crash the filter. It simily stops. After a few seconds, it displays an error message about not being able to continue. This happens with anything except very small files (one or two pages).

Re: techniques to indicate hyperlinks in frame

2007-01-15 Thread Stuart Rogers
Kevin Hunter wrote: I'm looking for a simple but effective technique of visually indicating, in the PDF version of the guide, that certain text strings are hyperlinks. Ideally, this technique would be invisible in the print version, where the links obviously wouldn't work. I don't want to incl

RE: techniques to indicate hyperlinks in frame

2007-01-15 Thread Matt Sullivan
Use 2 nearly identical template files 1) Called "PDF Template" with a Link character tag showing desired online formatting 2) Called "Print Template" with a Link character tag set to "As Is" -Matt Sullivan GRAFIX Training, Inc. An Adobe Authorized Training Center www.grafixtraining.com 88

First Time Indexer

2007-01-15 Thread David Schor
Fabio, You have to place a marker at every location that you want to appear in the index. Keep in mind that you don't necessarily have to place every single instance of a term or expression in the index. Only refer readers to the places where they will find relevant information related to the inde

PDF to framemaker

2007-01-15 Thread Peter Ring
Dov is of course correct in stating that PDF should be considered a final form document format. But, nevertheless, PDF can be used as an input or intermediate format when converting legacy documents formats to XML [1][2]. CambridgeDocs and Exegenix are used by many markup shops, not just for o

techniques to indicate hyperlinks in frame

2007-01-15 Thread Matt Sullivan
Use 2 nearly identical template files 1) Called "PDF Template" with a Link character tag showing desired online formatting 2) Called "Print Template" with a Link character tag set to "As Is" -Matt Sullivan GRAFIX Training, Inc. An Adobe Authorized Training Center www.grafixtraining.com 888

RTF to framemaker

2007-01-15 Thread Matt Sullivan
I don't use the RTF to Frame filter, but instead import the .doc into a Frame template to eliminate the "generic" master pages and catalogs created when using Frame to "open" the doc directly. The resulting Word import filter does a fine job of importing, but doesn't address inconsistencies and wo

techniques to indicate hyperlinks in frame

2007-01-15 Thread Kevin Hunter
hello everyone, This is not strictly a Frame technical issue, but could turn into one, so I thought I'd try you first. We use frame to produce software user guides which we make available in print or as PDFs. Being a software guide, we have frequent web links for additional info of various k

techniques to indicate hyperlinks in frame

2007-01-15 Thread Kevin Hunter
hello everyone, This is not strictly a Frame technical issue, but could turn into one, so I thought I'd try you first. We use frame to produce software user guides which we make available in print or as PDFs. Being a software guide, we have frequent web links for additional info of various kin

Re: Dual Monitor(s) ??s

2007-01-15 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain
Hi, Richard Richard Doll wrote: As many of you have touted the advantages of dual monitors . . . My ??s follow: Replacing 4-yr. old (now too slow) Dell 360 Precision WrkStation with: NewSys: WinXP Pro - Dell 490 PrecisionWorkStation - 2G Mem - 80Gig Hard Drv - Dual Monitor IntFace/Contrlr Apps:

Dual Monitor(s) ??s

2007-01-15 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain
Hi, Richard Richard Doll wrote: > As many of you have touted the advantages of dual monitors . . . My ??s > follow: > > Replacing 4-yr. old (now too slow) Dell 360 Precision WrkStation with: > NewSys: WinXP Pro - Dell 490 PrecisionWorkStation - 2G Mem - 80Gig Hard > Drv - Dual Monitor IntFace/Con

Keyboard shortcut to select an anchored frame

2007-01-15 Thread susan.kir...@microchip.com
Fred Staal wrote: > Anyone know of a keyboard shortcut to highlight/select (not create) an > anchored frame that already exists on a page (prior to importing a > graphic file, for instance)? Hi Fred, I simply hold down the Ctrl key when the cursor is near the anchored frame and it transmogrifies

Ipsum Lorem?

2007-01-15 Thread Combs, Richard
hedley.finger at myob.com wrote: > You can install a Lorem Ipsum generator in Firefox called > Dummy Lipsum. Go to www.lipsum.com for links to the Firefox add-in, a Dreamweaver extension, TeX package, etc. Or use their online generator. Tell it how many pgfs, words, bytes, or bulleted lists you

RE: Dual Monitor(s) ??s

2007-01-15 Thread John Posada
> You guys mention apps and which monitor etc.? Our proprietary > software always comes up in the center of my two monitors, split > in half. But you can grab and drag it, right? John Posada Senior Technical Writer "I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actuall

Ipsum Lorem?

2007-01-15 Thread hedley.fin...@myob.com
You can install a Lorem Ipsum generator in Firefox called Dummy Lipsum. -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151 Austral

Dual Monitor(s) ??s

2007-01-15 Thread John Posada
> You guys mention apps and which monitor etc.? Our proprietary > software always comes up in the center of my two monitors, split > in half. But you can grab and drag it, right? John Posada Senior Technical Writer "I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actuall

Dual Monitor(s) ??s

2007-01-15 Thread Combs, Richard
Richard Doll wrote: > Try'd 24" Wide Screen on this sys; but, aspect of wide-screen > only stretches display to fill monitor area. Such that > 8.5x11-in page at 100% displays at > 10.25x11 . . . like its quite chubby. Type and graphics also > display pixelized/distorted. Can change aspect to n

Re: PDF to framemaker

2007-01-15 Thread Daniel Emory
--- Peter Ring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dov is of course correct in stating that PDF should > be considered a final form document format. But, > nevertheless, PDF can be used as an > input (to Frame) === Another effective way to use PDF as an input to FrameMaker is

Re: Keyboard shortcut to select an anchored frame

2007-01-15 Thread Susan . Kirsch
Fred Staal wrote: > Anyone know of a keyboard shortcut to highlight/select (not create) an > anchored frame that already exists on a page (prior to importing a > graphic file, for instance)? Hi Fred, I simply hold down the Ctrl key when the cursor is near the anchored frame and it transmogrifies

Re: Dual Monitor(s) ??s

2007-01-15 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Another option is a single wide-screen monitor. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Sean Pollock wrote: ? I use dual monitors all the time. You just have to have a graphics card that supports it (has two outputs). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: Dual Monitor(s) ??s

2007-01-15 Thread Dan Gallagher
Thanks to the lone writers STC group, I learned about dual monitors a couple years back. And I never looked back. Simply pop in a second video card. You guys mention apps and which monitor etc.? Our proprietary software always comes up in the center of my two monitors, split in half. And our n

RE: PDF to framemaker

2007-01-15 Thread Dov Isaacs
You could/should be a bit more specific about what you mean by Adobe "fixing up the RTF to FM filter." If you are finding bugs, by all means officially report them! You should be aware that many of the "RTF to anything else" conversion issues do relate to inconsistencies between how Microsoft itse

PDF to framemaker

2007-01-15 Thread Dov Isaacs
You could/should be a bit more specific about what you mean by Adobe "fixing up the RTF to FM filter." If you are finding bugs, by all means officially report them! You should be aware that many of the "RTF to anything else" conversion issues do relate to inconsistencies between how Microsoft itse

PDF to framemaker

2007-01-15 Thread Daniel Emory
--- Peter Ring wrote: > Dov is of course correct in stating that PDF should > be considered a final form document format. But, > nevertheless, PDF can be used as an > input (to Frame) === Another effective way to use PDF as an input to FrameMaker is to use it to impor

RE: Ipsum Lorem?

2007-01-15 Thread Combs, Richard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You can install a Lorem Ipsum generator in Firefox called > Dummy Lipsum. Go to www.lipsum.com for links to the Firefox add-in, a Dreamweaver extension, TeX package, etc. Or use their online generator. Tell it how many pgfs, words, bytes, or bulleted lists you want,

RE: Dual Monitor(s) ??s

2007-01-15 Thread Combs, Richard
Richard Doll wrote: > Try'd 24" Wide Screen on this sys; but, aspect of wide-screen > only stretches display to fill monitor area. Such that > 8.5x11-in page at 100% displays at > 10.25x11 . . . like its quite chubby. Type and graphics also > display pixelized/distorted. Can change aspect to

Re: PDF to framemaker

2007-01-15 Thread Peter Ring
Dov is of course correct in stating that PDF should be considered a final form document format. But, nevertheless, PDF can be used as an input or intermediate format when converting legacy documents formats to XML [1][2]. CambridgeDocs and Exegenix are used by many markup shops, not just for

Re: First Time Indexer

2007-01-15 Thread David Schor
Fabio, You have to place a marker at every location that you want to appear in the index. Keep in mind that you don't necessarily have to place every single instance of a term or expression in the index. Only refer readers to the places where they will find relevant information related to the ind