Adobe CEO interview

From the interview (http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1741) with the Adobe CEO: * We will continue to extend the capabilities of the core product in each of those segments with some of the features that are available in the other products. But, yes, it is our goal

FrameMaker.next

At 15:50 -0700 17/5/07, Chris Borokowski wrote: >I was excited by the "social networking" package that >is rumored to be part of Framemaker.next. In addition >to translating output into PDF and XML, the new >version will also automatically post it to your blog >or Myspace. This is for real, Chris

PDF Content reuse with Frame + DITA?

Hello Framers, (Frame 7.2b144) For my product, I have 2 guides with similar content across different chapters. Can I publish two different PDFs from the same source (with selective content obviously). -> How will this be done? Using topic IDs? -> Is Show/hide a better option for this than Struct

How to keep track of 80 conditional text tags... (was RE: FrameMaker.next)

-Original Message- From: Diane Gaskill My question is Why?? I suppose this is a little OT, but I cannot imagine needing more than 10 conditions, even when you create PDF for both computer screens and handhelds, and also help, as well as have 3 or 4 models of a product described in the sam

Aligning Imported Graphics and Callouts Against the Grid

I'm using FM 7.1p116 and Illustrator 9.0. It would seem that there should be a way to get beyond/behind the standard white background of an imported Illy file to show only the image. I'm not sure if the problem of the white canvas obscuring the gridlines is an Illy problem/feature or on the Frame

FrameMaker.next

Diane Gaskill wrote: > > My question is Why?? I suppose this is a little OT, but I cannot imagine > needing more than 10 conditions, even when you create PDF for both computer > screens and handhelds, and also help, as well as have 3 or 4 models of a > product described in the same set of file

Aligning Imported Graphics and Callouts Against the Grid

Pinkham, Jim wrote: > I'm using FM 7.1p116 and Illustrator 9.0. It would seem that there > should be a way to get beyond/behind the standard white background of an > imported Illy file to show only the image. I'm not sure if the problem > of the white canvas obscuring the gridlines is an Illy prob

FrameMaker.next

Oh, yeah... two more things I remembered from the demos: 1 - you can embed a 3D image in Frame, and the user can manipulate it in Acro Reader 8. They can change the lighting, rotate the object, change it to wireframe, among other things. 2 - you can embed a Flash object directly in Frame. The s

Aligning Imported Graphics and Callouts Against the Grid

Thanks, Stuart. I'm working with this, and I think it will prove helpful. Jim P.S. -- It would be great if Frame *did* support transparency. -Original Message- From: Stuart Rogers [mailto:srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 9:33 AM To: Pinkham, Jim Cc: framers at

Cross Reference in Structured FrameMaker

One easy thing to do is just to define the xref as having a character format attached in the template. Basically create the xref so that instead of: <$elemtext> It uses: <$elemtext> Where the corresponds to a tag that is only set to add blue. Hope that helps. Bernard Bernard Aschwanden

OT: RE: surreptitious mountains

Reminds me of the job posting on the list a while back that said somthing about working with your piers. No question. English is a strange language and it's no wonder why it is hard for people from other countries to learn it. A lot of it just doesn't make sense. Read on to see what I mean. Ex

FrameMaker.next

>> I've been sorely tempted to write a free plugin to do that, where you could have boolean logic that included more than "OR". Perhaps this is a feature in the next FM. I don't know, myself, but I'd love to see it. That would ROCK! Please create that plugin -Gillian -Original Message---

PDF Content reuse with Frame + DITA?

Hi Gyanesh... If your main goal is to publish two different sets of content from the same FM source files, I'd think that your best bet is to just use conditional text (show/hide) in unstructured FM files. There are probably benefits you could gain by moving to structure and/or DITA (and it ca

Aligning Imported Graphics and Callouts Against the Grid

Jim, have you tried selecting the graphic in FrameMaker, and then in Graphics > Tools, choosing Fill > None? Sometimes this enables transparency in an imported graphic. Worth a try. Let us know how it works for you. HTH Regards, Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices Stuart Rogers wr

OT: RE: surreptitious mountains

Diane Gaskill wrote: > Reminds me of the job posting on the list a while back that said somthing > about working with your piers. Are you sure that this wasn't a sails position? > > The rest is available on request. All these pun-ishing responses are exhausting. I'd like to request that rest,

Aligning Imported Graphics and Callouts Against the Grid

I checked and had Fill defaulted to None. Thanks for the suggestion, though. It was well worth trying. -Original Message- From: Peter Gold [mailto:knowhow...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 11:27 AM To: Stuart Rogers Cc: Pinkham, Jim; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Al

change bars -- how to turn off

Help! Does anyone know how to turn off change bars? They are appearing in a document that I am editing today. A few years ago, I used change bars on this file and removed all the bars. I edited this file a few months ago and they did not appear. Today, they appear. I looked at the Format /

Aligning Imported Graphics and Callouts Against the Grid

Hi, Jim: I forgot one important thing: Sometimes the Fill > None method doesn't seem to enable transparency on screen in FrameMaker, but it does enable it in printing to paper, or converting to PDF by Save As, or printing to a PostScript file and distilling it. If you haven't tried these outp

change bars -- how to turn off

Try the Format/Document/Change Bars dialog & check the Clear All Change Bars option... -Matt Sullivan GRAFIX Training, Inc. An Adobe Authorized Training Center www.grafixtraining.com 888 882-2819 -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+matt=grafixtraining@lists.frameusers.co

Do I need to jump into the Structured FM pool?

Or can I keep my inflatable ducky hiked firmly around my middle and paddle around in unstructured FM? Over the past year or so, I've been poking around at structured FM with no real goal in mind except to see if it might benefit us down the road. For the most part, our process is pretty linear, an

Do I need to jump into the Structured FM pool?

I create similar release notes. I just use conditional text for the different customers, (and yes, I have a Known Issues section as well). -Gillian -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+gflato=nanometrics@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+gflato=nanometrics.com at lists

Reality Check: ODF vs. OpenXML [InfoWorld]

Snagged out of the XML Daily Newslink for Tuesday, 15 May 2007 http://xml.coverpages.org/ Reality Check: ODF vs. OpenXML Ephraim Schwartz, InfoWorld At the highest level, ODF (Open Document Format) vs. OpenXML is a battle between two business competitors, IBM and Mic

Adobe CEO interview

I think it means that the village of Crawford, Texas, lost it's idiot several years back... Art On 5/18/07, Alan Litchfield wrote: > > "don't leave any customer behind" reminds me of the US "don't leave > any child behind" education system. Umm, but what does that actually > mean, anyway? > > A

Adobe CEO interview

I dispute. Don't you mean, the village of Crawford, Texas, lost it's chief idiot several years back. I will bet my paycheck that Crawford, Texas has multiple idiots! -Gillian -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+gflato=nanometrics@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+gfla

FW: Adobe CEO interview

It is interesting that I have been hearing about paperless offices for years but have yet to see one. Its like the people that say books are going away and being replaced by electronic media. I, as a reader, plan to continue reading PAPER books. I do not plan to read on a screen, I do that all day.

Adobe CEO interview

No Child Left Behind did nothing but expand the federal educational bureaucracy. The only way to reform education is to break the public education monopoly. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com > "don't leave any customer behind" reminds me of the US "don't leave any

Do I need to jump into the Structured FM pool?

Yeah, the multiple customer/multiple product thing is easily managed with conditional text already; it's more about the last-minute changes to the content context, and the sheer quantity of changes that need to be managed in a short period of time. Sorry if I wasn't clear -- my brain is on overload

change bars -- how to turn off

I had one like that here a while back. The previous TW had ignored the built in change bar capability, and created a special "changed" paragraph tag that included a graphic on the reference page for the change bar. Took a while to find that one... Steve Cavanaugh -Original Message- Fr

XML - graphics - import

Hi I have been trying to open up a XML document in FrameMaker 7.2 which contains graphic entities. I am at a los as to what I am missing. The graphics are declared at the top of the XML document instance. The structure of the XML document instance is valid. Anyone have a hint as to what I migh

Adobe CEO interview

From the interview (http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1741) with the Adobe CEO: * We will continue to extend the capabilities of the core product in each of those segments with some of the features that are available in the other products. But, yes, it is our goal

RE: FrameMaker.next

At 15:50 -0700 17/5/07, Chris Borokowski wrote: >I was excited by the "social networking" package that >is rumored to be part of Framemaker.next. In addition >to translating output into PDF and XML, the new >version will also automatically post it to your blog >or Myspace. This is for real, Chris

PDF Content reuse with Frame + DITA?

Hello Framers, (Frame 7.2b144) For my product, I have 2 guides with similar content across different chapters. Can I publish two different PDFs from the same source (with selective content obviously). -> How will this be done? Using topic IDs? -> Is Show/hide a better option for this than Struc

How to keep track of 80 conditional text tags... (was RE: FrameMaker.next)

-Original Message- From: Diane Gaskill My question is Why?? I suppose this is a little OT, but I cannot imagine needing more than 10 conditions, even when you create PDF for both computer screens and handhelds, and also help, as well as have 3 or 4 models of a product described in the sam

Re: FrameMaker.next

Diane Gaskill wrote: My question is Why?? I suppose this is a little OT, but I cannot imagine needing more than 10 conditions, even when you create PDF for both computer screens and handhelds, and also help, as well as have 3 or 4 models of a product described in the same set of files. How

Aligning Imported Graphics and Callouts Against the Grid

I'm using FM 7.1p116 and Illustrator 9.0. It would seem that there should be a way to get beyond/behind the standard white background of an imported Illy file to show only the image. I'm not sure if the problem of the white canvas obscuring the gridlines is an Illy problem/feature or on the Frame

Re: Aligning Imported Graphics and Callouts Against the Grid

Pinkham, Jim wrote: I'm using FM 7.1p116 and Illustrator 9.0. It would seem that there should be a way to get beyond/behind the standard white background of an imported Illy file to show only the image. I'm not sure if the problem of the white canvas obscuring the gridlines is an Illy problem/fe

RE: Aligning Imported Graphics and Callouts Against the Grid

Thanks, Stuart. I'm working with this, and I think it will prove helpful. Jim P.S. -- It would be great if Frame *did* support transparency. -Original Message- From: Stuart Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 9:33 AM To: Pinkham, Jim Cc: framers@lists.frameusers

RE: FrameMaker.next

Oh, yeah... two more things I remembered from the demos: 1 - you can embed a 3D image in Frame, and the user can manipulate it in Acro Reader 8. They can change the lighting, rotate the object, change it to wireframe, among other things. 2 - you can embed a Flash object directly in Frame. The s

RE: Cross Reference in Structured FrameMaker

One easy thing to do is just to define the xref as having a character format attached in the template. Basically create the xref so that instead of: <$elemtext> It uses: <$elemtext> Where the corresponds to a tag that is only set to add blue. Hope that helps. Bernard Bernard Aschwanden

OT: RE: surreptitious mountains

Reminds me of the job posting on the list a while back that said somthing about working with your piers. No question. English is a strange language and it's no wonder why it is hard for people from other countries to learn it. A lot of it just doesn't make sense. Read on to see what I mean. Ex

RE: FrameMaker.next

>> I've been sorely tempted to write a free plugin to do that, where you could have boolean logic that included more than "OR". Perhaps this is a feature in the next FM. I don't know, myself, but I'd love to see it. That would ROCK! Please create that plugin -Gillian -Original Message---

Re: Aligning Imported Graphics and Callouts Against the Grid

Jim, have you tried selecting the graphic in FrameMaker, and then in Graphics > Tools, choosing Fill > None? Sometimes this enables transparency in an imported graphic. Worth a try. Let us know how it works for you. HTH Regards, Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices Stuart Rogers w

Re: PDF Content reuse with Frame + DITA?

Hi Gyanesh... If your main goal is to publish two different sets of content from the same FM source files, I'd think that your best bet is to just use conditional text (show/hide) in unstructured FM files. There are probably benefits you could gain by moving to structure and/or DITA (and it c

Re: OT: RE: surreptitious mountains

Diane Gaskill wrote: Reminds me of the job posting on the list a while back that said somthing about working with your piers. Are you sure that this wasn't a sails position? The rest is available on request. All these pun-ishing responses are exhausting. I'd like to request that rest, now

RE: Aligning Imported Graphics and Callouts Against the Grid

I checked and had Fill defaulted to None. Thanks for the suggestion, though. It was well worth trying. -Original Message- From: Peter Gold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 11:27 AM To: Stuart Rogers Cc: Pinkham, Jim; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Aligning

change bars -- how to turn off

Help! Does anyone know how to turn off change bars? They are appearing in a document that I am editing today. A few years ago, I used change bars on this file and removed all the bars. I edited this file a few months ago and they did not appear. Today, they appear. I looked at the Format /

Re: Aligning Imported Graphics and Callouts Against the Grid

Hi, Jim: I forgot one important thing: Sometimes the Fill > None method doesn't seem to enable transparency on screen in FrameMaker, but it does enable it in printing to paper, or converting to PDF by Save As, or printing to a PostScript file and distilling it. If you haven't tried these out

RE: change bars -- how to turn off

Try the Format/Document/Change Bars dialog & check the Clear All Change Bars option... -Matt Sullivan GRAFIX Training, Inc. An Adobe Authorized Training Center www.grafixtraining.com 888 882-2819 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: Do I need to jump into the Structured FM pool?

I create similar release notes. I just use conditional text for the different customers, (and yes, I have a Known Issues section as well). -Gillian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lin Surasky Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 10:44 AM To: framer

Do I need to jump into the Structured FM pool?

Or can I keep my inflatable ducky hiked firmly around my middle and paddle around in unstructured FM? Over the past year or so, I've been poking around at structured FM with no real goal in mind except to see if it might benefit us down the road. For the most part, our process is pretty linear, a

Reality Check: ODF vs. OpenXML [InfoWorld]

Snagged out of the XML Daily Newslink for Tuesday, 15 May 2007 http://xml.coverpages.org/ Reality Check: ODF vs. OpenXML Ephraim Schwartz, InfoWorld At the highest level, ODF (Open Document Format) vs. OpenXML is a battle between two business competitors, IBM and Mic

Re: Adobe CEO interview

On 18/05/2007, at 7:24 PM, Graeme R Forbes wrote: From the interview (http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm? articleid=1741) with the Adobe CEO: * We will continue to extend the capabilities of the core product in each of those segments with some of the features that are avail

Re: Adobe CEO interview

I think it means that the village of Crawford, Texas, lost it's idiot several years back... Art On 5/18/07, Alan Litchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "don't leave any customer behind" reminds me of the US "don't leave any child behind" education system. Umm, but what does that actually mea

RE: Adobe CEO interview

I dispute. Don't you mean, the village of Crawford, Texas, lost it's chief idiot several years back. I will bet my paycheck that Crawford, Texas has multiple idiots! -Gillian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Art Campbell Sent: Friday, May

FW: Adobe CEO interview

It is interesting that I have been hearing about paperless offices for years but have yet to see one. Its like the people that say books are going away and being replaced by electronic media. I, as a reader, plan to continue reading PAPER books. I do not plan to read on a screen, I do that all day.

Re: Adobe CEO interview

No Child Left Behind did nothing but expand the federal educational bureaucracy. The only way to reform education is to break the public education monopoly. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com "don't leave any customer behind" reminds me of the US "don't leave any

RE: Do I need to jump into the Structured FM pool?

Yeah, the multiple customer/multiple product thing is easily managed with conditional text already; it's more about the last-minute changes to the content context, and the sheer quantity of changes that need to be managed in a short period of time. Sorry if I wasn't clear -- my brain is on overload

RE: change bars -- how to turn off

I had one like that here a while back. The previous TW had ignored the built in change bar capability, and created a special "changed" paragraph tag that included a graphic on the reference page for the change bar. Took a while to find that one... Steve Cavanaugh -Original Message- Fr

XML - graphics - import

Hi I have been trying to open up a XML document in FrameMaker 7.2 which contains graphic entities. I am at a los as to what I am missing. The graphics are declared at the top of the XML document instance. The structure of the XML document instance is valid. Anyone have a hint as to what I migh

Re: Do I need to jump into the Structured FM pool?

Could you present your release notes in tables? That lets you use FM's sort function to split the bugs into resolved and not. You just have to have a column called something like "status" and then sort according to that. Then immediately before release, you can split the table up to make your 3 se