FrameUsers.com Public Beta

2007-02-19 Thread Brad Anderson
Framers, We've finally brought FrameUsers.com back online and are still looking for folks to kick the tires. I think we've flushed out the major bugs. Have a look and let us know if you have any problems. Drop us a line at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Brad

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2007-02-19 Thread Gordon McLean
I've been playing with the Mif2Go product this morning as I have a requirement to produce editable versions of part of the product docs set. Having laughed off FMs Save As feature (which generated a 51MB .RTF file!!), I've tried converting a PDF to Word, which places all the text within frames in

RE: Figure Numbering Problem

2007-02-19 Thread MATT TODD
Hi, Howard, I had the exact same problem. I discovered that the problem was an override. I was working on a manual. I named the paragraph tag for my figure titles Figure. When I copied portions of text with graphics from another file into my manual, everything appeared to be just dandy, but a

RE: Changing to initial-cap first-word-only format on headings onglobal basis

2007-02-19 Thread Pinkham, Jim
I can give you a partial answer, one that applies to Microsoft Word. Visit The Editorium (http://lists.topica.com/lists/editorium/read/message.html?mid=171511989 4) and check out the article on the Title Case macro. With a little tweaking, I'm confident you could apply it to Word's sentence case

Re: Changing to initial-cap first-word-only format on headings on global basis

2007-02-19 Thread Art Campbell
I think this would be pretty easy in FrameScript, but I haven't heard of an existing one. I've commisioned custom scripts from Rick Quatro in the past and can recommend his work. This would require a copy of FrameScript to run against too www.frameexpert.com Art On 2/16/07, [EMAIL

RE: rant moan fm to word rant moan

2007-02-19 Thread Lin Surasky
Ummm I'm really new to Mif2Go (so NOT an expert by any means), but my screenshots with callouts come through just fine. See section 26.2.1.2 Converting bitmap graphics for print RTF for a brief explanation of how it works. Also, I'm not positive, but I think you need to make sure the

Re: rant moan fm to word rant moan

2007-02-19 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:32:02 -, Gordon McLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been playing with the Mif2Go product this morning as I have a requirement to produce editable versions of part of the product docs set. Having laughed off FMs Save As feature (which generated a 51MB .RTF file!!),

Re: Frame's future

2007-02-19 Thread Shlomo Perets
Art Campbell wrote: A little rich, but interesting reading: http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2007/02/framemaker_is_and_will_remain.html Twelve years after the first release of Adobe-branded FrameMaker (5.0), and six years after Adobe's FrameMaker is alive and well statement, I would like

FrameUsers.com Public Beta

2007-02-19 Thread Brad Anderson
Framers, We've finally brought FrameUsers.com back online and are still looking for folks to "kick the tires". I think we've flushed out the major bugs. Have a look and let us know if you have any problems. Drop us a line at listadmin at frameusers.com. Thanks, Brad

rant moan fm to word rant moan

2007-02-19 Thread Gordon McLean
I've been playing with the Mif2Go product this morning as I have a requirement to produce "editable" versions of part of the product docs set. Having laughed off FMs "Save As" feature (which generated a 51MB .RTF file!!), I've tried converting a PDF to Word, which places all the text within frames

Figure Numbering Problem

2007-02-19 Thread MATT TODD
Hi, Howard, I had the exact same problem. I discovered that the problem was an override. I was working on a manual. I named the paragraph tag for my figure titles "Figure". When I copied portions of text with graphics from another file into my manual, everything appeared to be just dandy, but a

Changing to initial-cap first-word-only format on headings onglobal basis

2007-02-19 Thread Pinkham, Jim
I can give you a partial answer, one that applies to Microsoft Word. Visit The Editorium (http://lists.topica.com/lists/editorium/read/message.html?mid=171511989 4) and check out the article on the Title Case macro. With a little tweaking, I'm confident you could apply it to Word's "sentence case"

Changing to initial-cap first-word-only format on headings on global basis

2007-02-19 Thread Art Campbell
I think this would be pretty easy in FrameScript, but I haven't heard of an existing one. I've commisioned custom scripts from Rick Quatro in the past and can recommend his work. This would require a copy of FrameScript to run against too www.frameexpert.com Art On 2/16/07, Cadel_Janice at

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2007-02-19 Thread Art Campbell
If you're referring to graphics "with callouts" that were created in Frame, you're tight, I don't think MIF2go nor any other export program supports a clean conversion of them. You're basically asking for a program that can grab a jpg, gif, or whatever and merge that with another program's overlay

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2007-02-19 Thread Lin Surasky
Ummm I'm really new to Mif2Go (so NOT an expert by any means), but my screenshots with callouts come through just fine. See section 26.2.1.2 Converting bitmap graphics for print RTF for a brief explanation of how it works. Also, I'm not positive, but I think you need to make sure the

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2007-02-19 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:32:02 -, "Gordon McLean" wrote: >I've been playing with the Mif2Go product this morning as I have a >requirement to produce "editable" versions of part of the product docs set. >Having laughed off FMs "Save As" feature (which generated a 51MB .RTF >file!!), I've tried

Outsourcing tech writing

2007-02-19 Thread Shinohara, Lee E