Take TOOLBOX for FrameMaker: Modul "Format List" of a document or book
http://www.toolboxforme.com
+ Go to Downloads
+ Install the 30-day trial version with full functionality
Purchase TOOLBOX ...:
http://www.systec-gmbh.com/os/index.php?cat=c14_7-6-x.html
... with Online Licensing.
Georg Eck
Obviously, take with a grain of salt, but some interesting points,
nonetheless.
TVB
http://www.9news.com/money/article.aspx?storyid=68237
Tammy L. Van Boening
Senior Technical Writer
Fiserv Insurance Solutions
Property and Casualty Division
303-729-7733
tammy.vanboening at fiserv.com
**
At 09:32 -0600 18/4/07, Van Boening, Tammy wrote:
>Obviously, take with a grain of salt, but some interesting points,
>nonetheless.
This is all we need: yet another set of web 'standards'.
The NYT site that the article refers to was a mess.
'While Microsoft's hybrid applications can only be bui
Hi All,
I am wondering how others keep track of changes made to their books. I am
the only technical writer at my company, and we have a rigorous system of
reviews such that people are looking at the manuals who don't edit/read them
regularly. Those engineers who have been doing reviews on the
Hi,
I'm using FM 6.5, Mac, in Classic. I was printing to a Laserwriter Select
360, through an AsanteTalk bridge, and everything looked as it should.
I've just switched to a Lexmark E120n laser printer. Now it prints Helvetica
bold oblique and Helvetica oblique with an additional slant. (I have
Gosh, you said it, and I agree wholeheartedly. The
field is cluttered enough already, and I'm not sure of
the demonstrable need for either one of these. Users
will watch television when they want television, but
on the web they want function, even if that function
is chat rooms, forums, pornography
At 11:35 -0400 18/4/07, Molly Keegan wrote:
>
>I am wondering how others keep track of changes made to their books. I am
>the only technical writer at my company, and we have a rigorous system of
>reviews such that people are looking at the manuals who don't edit/read them
>regularly. Those engin
I generally do what Steve suggests. I run the compare utility on the old book
versus the new book. Then I collect all of the newly created files
(file1cmp.fm, file2cmp.fm, etc.) and create a new book with them. I use the
existing graphics, TOC, and index files and then PDF the whole mess for the
Hi, Molly:
If you're circulating your documents as PDFs, take a look at Acrobat's
review-cycle feature, and also the document comparison feature that has
several levels of granularity. Acrobat 8 can enable PDF documents for
comments by users who view the documents with Reader 8 or Reader 7, so
Framers,
I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this. My client and I are both
seeing this odd and inconsistent behavior and neither of us can explain or
fix it. :o
Our template has side heads set up and several table styles. When we insert
one style of table, both the table and
the table titl
At 11:13 -0600 18/4/07, Linda G. Gallagher wrote:
>I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this. My client and I are both
>seeing this odd and inconsistent behavior and neither of us can explain or
>fix it. :o
>
>Our template has side heads set up and several table styles.
Wasn't something like
Steve,
Thanks for the steer. I did just find that thread in the Oct archive, but it
doesn't deal with side heads. I *think* what I'm seeing is a little
different.
~
Linda G. Gallagher
TechCom Plus, LLC
lindag at techcomplus dot com
www.techcomplus.com
303-450-9076 or 800
At 11:39 -0600 18/4/07, Linda G. Gallagher wrote:
>Thanks for the steer. I did just find that thread in the Oct archive, but it
>doesn't deal with side heads. I *think* what I'm seeing is a little
>different.
Ah.. right. Sorry.
--
Steve
The table title is set to In Column. Forgot to mention that.
~
Linda G. Gallagher
TechCom Plus, LLC
lindag at techcomplus dot com
www.techcomplus.com
303-450-9076 or 800-500-3144
User guides, online help, FrameMaker and
WebWorks ePublisher templates
~~
I inherited some documentation, and I get an error message "The
"Frutiger-Black" Font is not available." Does anyone know where I can
download that font for free or does anyone know anything about that
font. I am using FM 7.2 unstructured.
Thanks,
Janice
Janice Cadel
Principal Technical Writer
Hello All,
I'm using Frame 7.2b144 on Windows XP.
I have a question concerning conditional text. I'm cross-referencing
a chapter that uses conditional text in it, as such: 2240AB, where there
are two models of the equipment, 2240A and 2240B. I've marked the A and
B as conditional text b
As crazy it sounds, do you have a special tag for the table anchor - if
so, what is its pagination properties?
Tammy L. Van Boening
Senior Technical Writer
Fiserv Insurance Solutions
Property and Casualty Division
303-729-7733
tammy.vanboening at fiserv.com
Cadel_Janice at emc.com wrote:
> I inherited some documentation, and I get an error message
> "The "Frutiger-Black" Font is not available." Does anyone
> know where I can download that font for free or does anyone
> know anything about that font. I am using FM 7.2 unstructured.
The original
Linda G. Gallagher wrote:
> Framers,
>
> I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this. My client and I are both
> seeing this odd and inconsistent behavior and neither of us can explain or
> fix it. :o
>
> Our template has side heads set up and several table styles. When we insert
> one style o
Hi!
I have an architecture challenge. I have two FrameMaker 7.2 (Unstructured)
books:
- User's Guide
- Concepts Guide
The User's Guide refers to the Concepts Guide and vice versa. Currently,
this reference is simply a variable with the book's title. However, I'm
thinking about creating hyperlink
Linda G. Gallagher wrote:
> The tables are all anchored to paragraphs that are in the
> main text area, not in the side head area.
Are you sure? Really? Double-check this in Paragraph Designer's
Pagination tab. Are the anchor pgfs all set to In Column? It's not
enough that they _be_ in the colum
Folks,
we all know the benefits of creating and publishing books using
FrameMaker, especially since PDF creation is "mostly harmless". Also,
FrameMaker documents are a good source for HTML conversion processes, if
one follows the structure or template.
A company with a lot of modules (software o
You're right, but people like PDFs because they're
portable. Most that I know have at least one directory
stuffed with PDFs for fast reference, or catching up
on that international plane flight when net access is
not possible.
I favor having both if possible, if for no other
reason that Google can
Michael M?ller-Hillebrand
> A company with a lot of modules (software or hardware)
> nowadays usually has a website where all the latest PDF files
> are available for download.
>
> But, wouldn't it be desirable to have all that information in HTML
> format: better navigation options, more effic
IMO The US Internal Revenue Service has excellent online documentation portal:
http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html
Also interesting - the NY Times has a cool feature that I would love to be able
to replicate in my documentation: doubleclick any word in any article and it
opens a dictionary
After installing CS2, I get an "Adobe UI font missing" error when I start
Illustrator, and the fonts in my dialog boxes in Frame all look dark and bold
now.
Does anyone know how I can solve this?
Thanks.
Paul
> A company with a lot of modules (software or hardware) nowadays
> usually
> has a website where all the latest PDF files are available for
> download.
we do.
> But, wouldn't it be desirable to have all that information in HTML
> format: better navigation options, more efficient search, search
>Acrobat 8 can enable PDF documents
Acrobat 7 also
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
"They say everyone needs goals. Mine is to live forever.
So far, so good."
The company I recently started working for, Color Kinetics, has a "not
bad" delivery portal.
Disclaimer: Only a couple items here are mine. All typos, weird
wording, etc., originated elsewhere. ;- )
And on format: PDF is still classed as a "terminal format" in that
it's relatively hard to modify.
How much of that can be controlled by providing a good print.css file and a
button for it?
-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces+jsgammato=imprivata.com at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+jsgammato=imprivata@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf
Of John Posada
Sent: Wedne
Drat - What's the short cut key sequence for this on FM 7.x and Win XP?
I'm sure I seen it recently.
Also, where can I find a comprehensive list of short cuts? There seem to
be a fair number missing from the Quick Reference Card.
Any help greatly appreciated
Will White
One Lambda, Inc
Argh, I know that this topic has been covered before, but the archives
keep timing out on my right now and my google search has resulted in
zilch. Isn't there a plugin available from someone/somewhere that allows
you to adjust the sizes of dialog boxes in Framemaker? Like, right now,
when my books
All,
Thanks VERY much to Tammy Van Boening, Gillian Flato, and William
Abernathy who helped me to resolve this problem! I mostly lurk here,
only chiming in when I feel I have something useful to add. But, it's
people like these three, as well as many others on both this list and
Techwr-l that h
Not crazy. We don't currently have a dedicated anchor tag (lots of legacy
content), but the para tag the tables are anchored to, in all instances, are
also set to In Column.
~
Linda G. Gallagher
TechCom Plus, LLC
lindag at techcomplus dot com
www.techcomplus.com
303-450-9
Escape m p
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com
Drat - What's the short cut key sequence for this on FM 7.x and Win XP?
I'm sure I seen it recently.
Also, where can I find a comprehensive list of short cuts? There seem to
be a fair number missing from the Quick Refere
White, William wrote:
> Drat - What's the short cut key sequence for this on FM 7.x and Win XP?
Esc m p (Escape fraMe wraP)
>
> I'm sure I seen it recently.
I'm sure you done too ;-)
>
> Also, where can I find a comprehensive list of short cuts? There seem to
> be a fair number missing from
Van Boening, Tammy wrote:
> Argh, I know that this topic has been covered before, but the archives
> keep timing out on my right now and my google search has resulted in
> zilch. Isn't there a plugin available from someone/somewhere that allows
> you to adjust the sizes of dialog boxes in Framemake
The mnemonic actually stands for "mathematics package",
since the feature was originally designed to package graphics
that were in-line equations.
And it's probably worthwhile pointing out that the standard
command changes the position attribute of the anchored frame
to be "at insertion point" re
Well, maybe I've found a bug. I assure you the para tag the tables are
anchored to is set to In Column, but the frame for the table title goes to
the left side of the side head area when I insert a new table.
Some existing tables of this same style, anchored to the same para tag, have
the title fr
We have a free plugin that generates a list of all shortcuts available
on your Frame install .. this ends up being a 30-40 page FM file, and is
generated based on the commands and plugins currently installed.
http://www.leximation.com/tools/info/listshortcuts.php
Cheers!
...scott
Scott Pr
Well, maybe I've found a bug. I assure you the para tag the tables are
anchored to is set to In Column, but the frame for the table title goes to
the left side of the side head area when I insert a new table.
Some existing tables of this same style, anchored to the same para tag, have
the title fr
We have a free plugin that generates a list of all shortcuts available
on your Frame install .. this ends up being a 30-40 page FM file, and is
generated based on the commands and plugins currently installed.
http://www.leximation.com/tools/info/listshortcuts.php
Cheers!
...scott
Scott Pr
I use reshacker. Works well. I have the whole interface in Greek now.
Michael
From: "Van Boening, Tammy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Subject: Adjusting dialog box sizes in Framemaker?
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:23:08 -0600
Argh, I know that this topic has been covered before, but the archives
keep
Take TOOLBOX for FrameMaker: Modul "Format List" of a document or book
http://www.toolboxforme.com
+ Go to Downloads
+ Install the 30-day trial version with full functionality
Purchase TOOLBOX ...:
http://www.systec-gmbh.com/os/index.php?cat=c14_7-6-x.html
... with Online Licensing.
Georg Eck
Obviously, take with a grain of salt, but some interesting points,
nonetheless.
TVB
http://www.9news.com/money/article.aspx?storyid=68237
Tammy L. Van Boening
Senior Technical Writer
Fiserv Insurance Solutions
Property and Casualty Division
303-729-7733
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
***
At 09:32 -0600 18/4/07, Van Boening, Tammy wrote:
>Obviously, take with a grain of salt, but some interesting points,
>nonetheless.
This is all we need: yet another set of web 'standards'.
The NYT site that the article refers to was a mess.
'While Microsoft's hybrid applications can only be bui
Hi All,
I am wondering how others keep track of changes made to their books. I am
the only technical writer at my company, and we have a rigorous system of
reviews such that people are looking at the manuals who don't edit/read them
regularly. Those engineers who have been doing reviews on th
Hi,
I'm using FM 6.5, Mac, in Classic. I was printing to a Laserwriter Select
360, through an AsanteTalk bridge, and everything looked as it should.
I've just switched to a Lexmark E120n laser printer. Now it prints Helvetica
bold oblique and Helvetica oblique with an additional slant. (I hav
Gosh, you said it, and I agree wholeheartedly. The
field is cluttered enough already, and I'm not sure of
the demonstrable need for either one of these. Users
will watch television when they want television, but
on the web they want function, even if that function
is chat rooms, forums, pornography
At 11:35 -0400 18/4/07, Molly Keegan wrote:
>
>I am wondering how others keep track of changes made to their books. I am
>the only technical writer at my company, and we have a rigorous system of
>reviews such that people are looking at the manuals who don't edit/read them
>regularly. Those engin
I generally do what Steve suggests. I run the compare utility on the old book
versus the new book. Then I collect all of the newly created files
(file1cmp.fm, file2cmp.fm, etc.) and create a new book with them. I use the
existing graphics, TOC, and index files and then PDF the whole mess for the
Hi, Molly:
If you're circulating your documents as PDFs, take a look at Acrobat's
review-cycle feature, and also the document comparison feature that has
several levels of granularity. Acrobat 8 can enable PDF documents for
comments by users who view the documents with Reader 8 or Reader 7, so
Framers,
I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this. My client and I are both
seeing this odd and inconsistent behavior and neither of us can explain or
fix it. :o
Our template has side heads set up and several table styles. When we insert
one style of table, both the table and
the table titl
At 11:13 -0600 18/4/07, Linda G. Gallagher wrote:
>I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this. My client and I are both
>seeing this odd and inconsistent behavior and neither of us can explain or
>fix it. :o
>
>Our template has side heads set up and several table styles.
Wasn't something like
Steve,
Thanks for the steer. I did just find that thread in the Oct archive, but it
doesn't deal with side heads. I *think* what I'm seeing is a little
different.
~
Linda G. Gallagher
TechCom Plus, LLC
lindag at techcomplus dot com
www.techcomplus.com
303-450-9076 or 800
At 11:39 -0600 18/4/07, Linda G. Gallagher wrote:
>Thanks for the steer. I did just find that thread in the Oct archive, but it
>doesn't deal with side heads. I *think* what I'm seeing is a little
>different.
Ah.. right. Sorry.
--
Steve
___
You are
The table title is set to In Column. Forgot to mention that.
~
Linda G. Gallagher
TechCom Plus, LLC
lindag at techcomplus dot com
www.techcomplus.com
303-450-9076 or 800-500-3144
User guides, online help, FrameMaker and
WebWorks ePublisher templates
~
I inherited some documentation, and I get an error message "The
"Frutiger-Black" Font is not available." Does anyone know where I can
download that font for free or does anyone know anything about that
font. I am using FM 7.2 unstructured.
Thanks,
Janice
Janice Cadel
Principal Technical Wr
Hello All,
I'm using Frame 7.2b144 on Windows XP.
I have a question concerning conditional text. I'm cross-referencing
a chapter that uses conditional text in it, as such: 2240AB, where there
are two models of the equipment, 2240A and 2240B. I've marked the A and
B as conditional text
As crazy it sounds, do you have a special tag for the table anchor - if
so, what is its pagination properties?
Tammy L. Van Boening
Senior Technical Writer
Fiserv Insurance Solutions
Property and Casualty Division
303-729-7733
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I inherited some documentation, and I get an error message
> "The "Frutiger-Black" Font is not available." Does anyone
> know where I can download that font for free or does anyone
> know anything about that font. I am using FM 7.2 unstructured.
The original Fruti
Linda G. Gallagher wrote:
Framers,
I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this. My client and I are both
seeing this odd and inconsistent behavior and neither of us can explain or
fix it. :o
Our template has side heads set up and several table styles. When we insert
one style of table, both
Hi!
I have an architecture challenge. I have two FrameMaker 7.2 (Unstructured)
books:
- User's Guide
- Concepts Guide
The User's Guide refers to the Concepts Guide and vice versa. Currently,
this reference is simply a variable with the book's title. However, I'm
thinking about creating hyperlin
Linda G. Gallagher wrote:
> The tables are all anchored to paragraphs that are in the
> main text area, not in the side head area.
Are you sure? Really? Double-check this in Paragraph Designer's
Pagination tab. Are the anchor pgfs all set to In Column? It's not
enough that they _be_ in the colu
Folks,
we all know the benefits of creating and publishing books using
FrameMaker, especially since PDF creation is "mostly harmless". Also,
FrameMaker documents are a good source for HTML conversion processes, if
one follows the structure or template.
A company with a lot of modules (software o
You're right, but people like PDFs because they're
portable. Most that I know have at least one directory
stuffed with PDFs for fast reference, or catching up
on that international plane flight when net access is
not possible.
I favor having both if possible, if for no other
reason that Google can
Michael Müller-Hillebrand
> A company with a lot of modules (software or hardware)
> nowadays usually has a website where all the latest PDF files
> are available for download.
>
> But, wouldn't it be desirable to have all that information in HTML
> format: better navigation options, more effi
IMO The US Internal Revenue Service has excellent online documentation portal:
http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html
Also interesting - the NY Times has a cool feature that I would love to be able
to replicate in my documentation: doubleclick any word in any article and it
opens a dictionary
After installing CS2, I get an "Adobe UI font missing" error when I start
Illustrator, and the fonts in my dialog boxes in Frame all look dark and bold
now.
Does anyone know how I can solve this?
Thanks.
Paul
___
You are currently subscribed to Fr
> A company with a lot of modules (software or hardware) nowadays
> usually
> has a website where all the latest PDF files are available for
> download.
we do.
> But, wouldn't it be desirable to have all that information in HTML
> format: better navigation options, more efficient search, search
>Acrobat 8 can enable PDF documents
Acrobat 7 also
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
"They say everyone needs goals. Mine is to live forever.
So far, so good."
___
You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Send list messages to
The company I recently started working for, Color Kinetics, has a "not
bad" delivery portal.
Disclaimer: Only a couple items here are mine. All typos, weird
wording, etc., originated elsewhere. ;- )
And on format: PDF is still classed as a "terminal format" in that
it's relatively hard to modify
How much of that can be controlled by providing a good print.css file and a
button for it?
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Posada
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 4:58 PM
To: Michael "Müller-Hillebrand; Framers
Subject: Re: Looking fo
Drat - What's the short cut key sequence for this on FM 7.x and Win XP?
I'm sure I seen it recently.
Also, where can I find a comprehensive list of short cuts? There seem to
be a fair number missing from the Quick Reference Card.
Any help greatly appreciated
Will White
One Lambda, Inc
Argh, I know that this topic has been covered before, but the archives
keep timing out on my right now and my google search has resulted in
zilch. Isn't there a plugin available from someone/somewhere that allows
you to adjust the sizes of dialog boxes in Framemaker? Like, right now,
when my books
All,
Thanks VERY much to Tammy Van Boening, Gillian Flato, and William
Abernathy who helped me to resolve this problem! I mostly lurk here,
only chiming in when I feel I have something useful to add. But, it's
people like these three, as well as many others on both this list and
Techwr-l that h
Not crazy. We don't currently have a dedicated anchor tag (lots of legacy
content), but the para tag the tables are anchored to, in all instances, are
also set to In Column.
~
Linda G. Gallagher
TechCom Plus, LLC
lindag at techcomplus dot com
www.techcomplus.com
303-450-9
Escape m p
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com
Drat - What's the short cut key sequence for this on FM 7.x and Win XP?
I'm sure I seen it recently.
Also, where can I find a comprehensive list of short cuts? There seem to
be a fair number missing from the Quick Refer
White, William wrote:
Drat - What's the short cut key sequence for this on FM 7.x and Win XP?
Esc m p (Escape fraMe wraP)
I'm sure I seen it recently.
I'm sure you done too ;-)
Also, where can I find a comprehensive list of short cuts? There seem to
be a fair number missing from the Qu
Van Boening, Tammy wrote:
Argh, I know that this topic has been covered before, but the archives
keep timing out on my right now and my google search has resulted in
zilch. Isn't there a plugin available from someone/somewhere that allows
you to adjust the sizes of dialog boxes in Framemaker? Lik
The mnemonic actually stands for "mathematics package",
since the feature was originally designed to package graphics
that were in-line equations.
And it's probably worthwhile pointing out that the standard
command changes the position attribute of the anchored frame
to be "at insertion point" re
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