RE: Putting line drawings in a frame doc

Theresa de Valence wrote: One of my techniques for quickly conveying an idea is to use a small line drawing (lines, boxes, circles and text). I have been doing these drawings in Frame for many years, having never developed any greater flexability with any other drawing software.

RE: Tracing the Lineage of Text Insets

Checking back on this. It was a fascinating experiment. I was very impressed with ComboBook's ability to rapidly generate the uber book from 152 book files scattered amongst subdirectories in a particular folder. (I created a file list after doing a directory search in 2xExplorer, using that

RE: Tracing the Lineage of Text Insets

Pinkham, Jim wrote: Unfortunately, I came to a screeching halt on the Update Book run to fill in the LOR when FM said couldn't update this book because it contains no openable nongenerated files. This is guesswork, but I'm thinking this book refers to one of the component sub-books of

Flare v Webworks

Hi, Sorry if this question has been answered already; I tried to find a place to search the framer's archive for my questions, but can't find it. Is there a way to search the archive? Anyway, I just talked to Webworks about upgrading my Webworks Pro 2003. First of all, they told me there is

OT: Default postscript level in Adobe Reader 7.0?

All, Posting on behalf of a colleague who is NOT a TW and who works in a location that has no TWs on site or any support for writing related issues. When trying to print to any PDF from Adobe Reader (7.0 with all patches/updates) to an HP printer, supposedly Adobe Reader picks the correct

frame 8 import graphic works differently than 7

I find that in frame 8, when I import a tiff that is 5.2 inches wide, the import dialog does not automatically choose the dpi that preserves the 5.2 inch width (which happened in frame 7). Instead, it seems that in frame 8 my only choice is to click custom and guess which dpi is going bring in

RE: Flare v Webworks

Hi Pat, The tool you are looking for is called Mif2Go, and you can find it at http://www.omsys.com/dcl/omni.htm. The company is very much still in business, and its owner (?) Jeremy Griffiths is very active on this list. It is much more reasonably priced than WebWorks but a bit more challenging

Re: Flare v Webworks

WebWorks does many things well. It has three major downsides: 1. Price 2. Support is OK, but major issues get ignored 3. Documentation gets a 0 out of 10 Other than that, it has many positive interfaces: a very Macintosh-like intuitive interface, a sensible file layout, a lot of customizability,

RE: Flare v Webworks

Vendor post I'm product manager for Madcap. I can tell you that Flare nicely single sources Frame 7 and 8 files and it's all pretty easy - much easier than setting up WWP, and I'm a WWP expert. We are also offering a competitive upgrade for about $400 off the full Flare price. I

RE: Default postscript level in Adobe Reader 7.0?

Tammy, Adobe Reader and Acrobat both select the PostScript language level based entirely upon the PostScript language level specified in the device's .PPD (PostScript Printer Definition) file. If your colleague's printer doesn't work properly with the default PostScript language level set in the

RE: Putting line drawings in a frame doc (new question)

Hi all, thanks for all the off and on list replies. I get that I should put the graphics directly into the document in question in an anchored frame, not as an anchored frame inside a text inset. Will do herewith. With respect to text running around a graphic, i.e. the width of the graphic does

RE: Flare v Webworks

I've been using Flare for a couple of years now--since its first Beta release. When you create an online Help project from FM files for the first time, it does take some time to set it up. You have to create skins, templates, assign styles, etc. The time consumption is not a limitation of the

Re: Flare v Webworks

I'd second the recommendation for MIF2Go, while pointing out that it can output to many more formats, some of which might give a small company some new formats to provide... Art On Nov 14, 2007 12:41 PM, Charles Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Pat, The tool you are looking for is called

Formatting XML and other computer code

I'm wondering how other FrameMaker users handle formatting XML and other computer code samples in text. I have tried a couple of approaches and am not satisfied with either. One approach I've taken is to create a paragraph tag that contains regularly spaced tabs. This requires that I

Modify Framemaker's File (graphic image) import default DPI Settings

Hi all,I know that I can change Framemaker's default line width sizes that appear in the drawing tool, but can I change the default image DPI settings that appear when I import a graphic file?The new template set I am working with only allows DPI settings which are not the

RE: Formatting XML and other computer code

Hi Carol, Here is what I do, although I don't claim it is the best. - I have defined a paragraph style that is single spaced and which uses a mono-space font. It has NO tab stops. - When I have a code sample, I first paste it into a text editor called UltraEdit-32, change all the tabs to

Putting line drawings in a frame doc

Theresa de Valence wrote: > One of my techniques for quickly conveying an idea is to use > a small line drawing (lines, boxes, circles and text). I have > been doing these drawings in Frame for many years, having > never developed any greater flexability with any other > drawing software. >

Tracing the Lineage of Text Insets

Checking back on this. It was a fascinating experiment. I was very impressed with ComboBook's ability to rapidly generate the "uber book" from 152 book files scattered amongst subdirectories in a particular folder. (I created a file list after doing a directory search in 2xExplorer, using that

ANN: ABCM and InsetPlus for FM8

Hi, The ABCM and InsetPlus plugins are now available for FM8. They are still free and you can get them at: http://www.weststreetconsulting.com ABCM is still version at 1.0. InsetPlus has been upgraded to 2.0, with some cool new features such as source module tracking. For more information,

Tracing the Lineage of Text Insets

Pinkham, Jim wrote: > Unfortunately, I came to a screeching halt on the Update Book > run to fill in the LOR when FM said "couldn't update this > book because it contains no openable nongenerated files." > This is guesswork, but I'm thinking "this book" refers to one > of the component

Flare v Webworks

WebWorks does many things well. It has three major downsides: 1. Price 2. Support is OK, but major issues get ignored 3. Documentation gets a 0 out of 10 Other than that, it has many positive interfaces: a very Macintosh-like intuitive interface, a sensible file layout, a lot of customizability,

Flare v Webworks

Hi Pat, The tool you are looking for is called Mif2Go, and you can find it at http://www.omsys.com/dcl/omni.htm. The company is very much still in business, and its owner (?) Jeremy Griffiths is very active on this list. It is much more reasonably priced than WebWorks but a bit more challenging

frame 8 import graphic works differently than 7

I find that in frame 8, when I import a tiff that is 5.2 inches wide, the import dialog does not automatically choose the dpi that preserves the 5.2 inch width (which happened in frame 7). Instead, it seems that in frame 8 my only choice is to click custom and guess which dpi is going bring in

Flare v Webworks

Vendor post I'm product manager for Madcap. I can tell you that Flare nicely single sources Frame 7 and 8 files and it's all pretty easy - much easier than setting up WWP, and I'm a WWP expert. We are also offering a competitive upgrade for about $400 off the full Flare price. I

Default postscript level in Adobe Reader 7.0?

Tammy, Adobe Reader and Acrobat both select the PostScript language level based entirely upon the PostScript language level specified in the device's .PPD (PostScript Printer Definition) file. If your colleague's printer doesn't work properly with the default PostScript language level set in the

Putting line drawings in a frame doc (new question)

Hi all, thanks for all the off and on list replies. I get that I should put the graphics directly into the document in question in an anchored frame, not as an anchored frame inside a text inset. Will do herewith. With respect to text running around a graphic, i.e. the width of the graphic does

Flare v Webworks

I've been using Flare for a couple of years now--since its first Beta release. When you create an online Help project from FM files for the first time, it does take some time to set it up. You have to create skins, templates, assign styles, etc. The time consumption is not a limitation of the

Flare v Webworks

I'd second the recommendation for MIF2Go, while pointing out that it can output to many more formats, some of which might give a small company some new formats to provide... Art On Nov 14, 2007 12:41 PM, Charles Beck wrote: > Hi Pat, > > The tool you are looking for is called Mif2Go, and you

Formatting XML and other computer code

I'm wondering how other FrameMaker users handle formatting XML and other computer code samples in text. I have tried a couple of approaches and am not satisfied with either. One approach I've taken is to create a paragraph tag that contains regularly spaced tabs. This requires that I

Modify Framemaker's File (graphic image) import default DPI Settings

Hi all,I know that I can change Framemaker's default line width sizes that appear in the drawing tool, but can I change the default image DPI settings that appear when I import a graphic file?The new template set I am working with only allows DPI settings which are not the