OT :: Frame & Voice to Text software

A slightly OT request. I'm investigating the feasibility of using voice to text software as a hedge against tendonitis and other work-related maladies. Does anyone have experience using such software with Frame? Baruch Brodersen

OT :: Frame & Voice to Text software

Dragon Naturally Speaking worked pretty well, but I only played with it and didn't try to use it day after day in a production environment. The newest version is supposed to be much better. A headset mic worked much better for me than the computer's omnidirectional mic. Although you didn't ask, I'

OT :: Frame & Voice to Text software

Art Campbell wrote: > > Although you didn't ask, I'd highly recommend the Microsoft Natural > Keyboard and a Logitech trackball as alternative controllers. I've > used both for a long time and love 'em both, but you do need to adjust > to them. I know many people prefer a trackball to a mouse. I

PDF to Word Conversion

Good morning, I have been working on a manual for a while now, the manual is projected to be over 2000 pages to include, photographs, autocad drawings and diagrams. My client decided Friday that he now wants the entire document in word. Is there anyway I could convert it to word, that wil

PDF to Word Conversion

Because you posted your enquiry on a Frame forum rather than an Acrobat one, I'm going to assume that the file is in Frame. If so, use MIF2Go from Omsys.com to export it to .RTF. You may want to mention to your client that this is closely related to shooting themselves in the foot... Art Art Ca

PDF to Word Conversion

Charlene_Glover at emainc.com wrote: > Good morning, > I have been working on a manual for a while now, the manual is > projected to be over 2000 pages to include, photographs, autocad > drawings and diagrams. My client decided Friday that he now wants the > entire document in word. Is th

PDF to Word Conversion

I agree with the other two posters. Go from your source document to Word. It's much much easier. And then run from this client. The problems of maintaining the drawing in an updated format, and 2000 pages with, I assume, an index and table of contents, would be very, very daunting if done in Wo

PDF to Word Conversion

Here is a list of options: - In Acrobat Reader, select View > Continuous. Then select all (CTRL+A) selects the entire document, rather than the single page. Copy it to your clipboard, and Paste Special into Microsoft Word. Converters: - BCL easyConverter Desktop ($19.95): http://www.pdfonline.co

Set custom dpi to import graphics

Hi, all. I can't figure out how to get Frame to remember the custom dip at which I'm importing a whole bunch of graphics. Sometimes, Frame does remember a new import dpi, but I have no idea why it remembers some and not others. I'm importing .bmps into anchored frames, and every import box di

Set custom dpi to import graphics

Did you try saving the file after importing one at 200? Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers app

Set custom dpi to import graphics

Yes. Made no difference. On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Art Campbell wrote: > Did you try saving the file after importing one at 200? Art Campbell ?? art.campbell at gmail.com ? ? "... In my opinion, there's

Set custom dpi to import graphics

Nancy Allison wrote: > I can't figure out how to get Frame to remember the custom dip at which > I'm importing a whole bunch of graphics. > > Sometimes, Frame does remember a new import dpi, but I have no idea why > it remembers some and not others. > > I'm importing .bmps into anchored frames

PDF to Word Conversion - Caution

I have to agree with Scott. The entire reason for my company going to Frame was the twice-yearly corruption of our 300-page Word manual. Frame paid for itself within a year. Lea _ Lea Rush Software and Documentation Specialist Astoria-Pacific International PO Bo

OT :: Frame & Voice to Text software

> I'd highly recommend the Microsoft Natural Keyboard and a Logitech trackball as alternative controllers. I've used both for a long time and love 'em both, but you do need to adjust to them. I also *highly* recommend the Microsoft Natural keyboard. I have the classic fore-arm repetitive motion in

PDF to Word Conversion

Why does he want it in Word? Rather than converting to Word, which will be time-consuming and result in a document that has problems, find out what his goal is. For example, an Engineer recently said that he wanted a document in Word. When I asked him why, he said it was because he wanted to edit i

PDF to Word Conversion

As you noted, the built-in support in Adobe Acrobat has, to write the PDF in Word format, is pretty darn limited for any serious documents. I have used PDF Convertor Professional (from www.nuance.com) to read PDF files into Word with much better results. However, the results STILL require a LOT of

OT :: Frame & Voice to Text software

PDF to Word Conversion

Editable PDF? Are you kidding? PDF is a final form file format. Any edits that you can do in PDF should be restricted to emergency situations only. PDF does not maintain any of the context of the original source document. The concepts of words, sentences, paragraphs, etc. is limited at best (if the

PDF to Word Conversion

I suspect Gillian meant "Comment and annotate in a PDF" not "edit" in the sense that a word-worker edits. Art Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson

PDF to Word Conversion

Dov, I am talking about the Send for Review feature where people can insert and delete text and make comments. That's what I mean by editable. -Dov -Original Message- From: Dov Isaacs [mailto:isa...@adobe.com] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 9:48 AM To: Flato, Gillian; Charlene_Glover

PDF to Word Conversion

PDF XChange Viewer is a really easy-to-use (free) tool for commenting on PDFs. It's something that you do not have to teach the reviewers. It's self explanatory. And you do not have to "allow" users to comment on the PDF in order to use this tool. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 05

Automated List of Effective Pages for Aerospace Documents

To anyone who has to keep track of the revision date for each page in a document. You know what a pain it is to do manually. I have worked out a way to generate an automatic LOEP in unstructured FrameMaker documents. This method uses a second flow, with a text frame on each page that only has room

S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

> How much RAM are you running? And any other memory-hungry aps open at > the same time? I've got 4 GB of RAM (though XP reports on 3.25). Frame is the only program open. I've since done some experimenting with my template. Cursor speed was fine with this template when it was in FM6 and FM7.1. I

S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

I was able to get something like this to happen this weekend, too, and it occurred when I opened a file that started life in FM 5 or so... and has been rolled forward through all the releases since. Native FM9 files worked fine & fast. I'm going to save as MIF in 9 later to see if that cleans it u

Automated List of Effective Pages for Aerospace Documents

Silicon Prairie Software also as an LEP plugin. I've never needed it or used it, so I can't comment on how it works: http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html >From their website: "LEP Tools LEP Tools is a special-purpose FrameMaker plug-in that helps generate a List of Effective Pag

S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Art Campbell wrote: > I was able to get something like this to happen this weekend, too, and Sounds like you should give FM the weekend off to recharge. Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices

OT :: Frame & Voice to Text software

> Although you didn't ask, I'd highly recommend the Microsoft Natural > Keyboard and a Logitech trackball as alternative controllers. I've > used both for a long time and love 'em both, but you do need to adjust > to them. I'll add my vote for the Logitech trackball. I'll never go back to a tradi

S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

> I'm going to save as MIF in 9 later to see if that cleans it up. I tried a MIF 9 save with no luck. Mike Wickham

S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

Mike Wickham wrote: >> How much RAM are you running? And any other memory-hungry aps open at >> the same time? > > I've got 4 GB of RAM (though XP reports on 3.25). Frame is the only program > open. I've since done some experimenting with my template. Cursor speed was > fine with this template w

Disappearing callouts

Hi, everyone. New problem: I create an anchored frame and import a graphic into it. Using the Text Frame tool in the Graphics toolbar, I create callouts. They work fine as long as they are positioned on top of the imported graphic. However, if they are above the graphic, but still inside the

Disappearing callouts

Check the Runaround Property for the graphic (select it and right-click) to make sure that there isn't a runaround set Also, each graphic item you add is likely to be on it's own layer, so you may want to select all of them (maybe omitting the background graphic) and Group them. Art Art Camp

Disappearing callouts

Thank you, everyone who answered privately or on the list. Run around properties solved the problem! --Nancy

Automated List of Effective Pages for Aerospace Documents

Hi Clint, Just curious: What's an Effective Page? Kind regards, Klaus

Automated List of Effective Pages for Aerospace Documents

It may not be the most informative term, but it's been in use for a long time. Basically, it's a front matter list of the date on which each page in the manual was last updated. Military and Aerospace manuals typically have hundreds of pages, and may go through dozens of revisions that change only

PDF to Word Conversion

On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 10:28:13 -0500, wrote: > I have been working on a manual for a while now, the manual is >projected to be over 2000 pages to include, photographs, autocad >drawings and diagrams. My client decided Friday that he now wants the >entire document in word. As everyone else

imported graphic on coloured background - thin white line around the inserted graphic

Thanks a lot for the input. I have used the workaround "or produce the entire background color with the image as a single bitmap." br, Ulrike -Original Message- From: Shlomo Perets [mailto:shlo...@microtype.com] Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 7:11 PM To: Ulrike Forsberg (UFO); f

Frame reference book

Although outdated, my pick is "The Masters Series: FrameMaker 6" by Thomas Neuburger, published by Twelfth Night Books. This book is both a teaching aid and a fine reference. Hopefully a newer edition is available. I use Frame 7 so this book is all I need. Regards, Barry Technical Writer Comme

Changed a format's tab stop & imported to 2nd doc--but 2nd doc's tab stop doesn't change

Hello all, I've got a FM book with several documents in it. In document A, I changed a tab stop in my Header paragraph format--intending that I would then import formats into each of the other documents in the book. Naturally, I'm expecting that once I've done so, the header's tab stop would ha

OT :: Frame & Voice to Text software

A slightly OT request. I'm investigating the feasibility of using voice to text software as a hedge against tendonitis and other work-related maladies. Does anyone have experience using such software with Frame? Baruch Brodersen ___ You are current

Re: OT :: Frame & Voice to Text software

Dragon Naturally Speaking worked pretty well, but I only played with it and didn't try to use it day after day in a production environment. The newest version is supposed to be much better. A headset mic worked much better for me than the computer's omnidirectional mic. Although you didn't ask, I'

Re: OT :: Frame & Voice to Text software

Art Campbell wrote: > > Although you didn't ask, I'd highly recommend the Microsoft Natural > Keyboard and a Logitech trackball as alternative controllers. I've > used both for a long time and love 'em both, but you do need to adjust > to them. I know many people prefer a trackball to a mouse. I

PDF to Word Conversion

Good morning, I have been working on a manual for a while now, the manual is projected to be over 2000 pages to include, photographs, autocad drawings and diagrams. My client decided Friday that he now wants the entire document in word. Is there anyway I could convert it to word, that wil

Re: PDF to Word Conversion

Because you posted your enquiry on a Frame forum rather than an Acrobat one, I'm going to assume that the file is in Frame. If so, use MIF2Go from Omsys.com to export it to .RTF. You may want to mention to your client that this is closely related to shooting themselves in the foot... Art Art Ca

RE: PDF to Word Conversion

charlene_glo...@emainc.com wrote: > Good morning, > I have been working on a manual for a while now, the manual is > projected to be over 2000 pages to include, photographs, autocad > drawings and diagrams. My client decided Friday that he now wants the > entire document in word. Is ther

Re: PDF to Word Conversion

I agree with the other two posters. Go from your source document to Word. It's much much easier. And then run from this client. The problems of maintaining the drawing in an updated format, and 2000 pages with, I assume, an index and table of contents, would be very, very daunting if done in Wo

Re: PDF to Word Conversion

Here is a list of options: - In Acrobat Reader, select View > Continuous. Then select all (CTRL+A) selects the entire document, rather than the single page. Copy it to your clipboard, and Paste Special into Microsoft Word. Converters: - BCL easyConverter Desktop ($19.95): http://www.pdfonline.co

Set custom dpi to import graphics

Hi, all. I can't figure out how to get Frame to remember the custom dip at which I'm importing a whole bunch of graphics. Sometimes, Frame does remember a new import dpi, but I have no idea why it remembers some and not others. I'm importing .bmps into anchored frames, and every import box di

Re: Set custom dpi to import graphics

Did you try saving the file after importing one at 200? Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply.

Re: Set custom dpi to import graphics

Yes. Made no difference. On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Art Campbell wrote: > Did you try saving the file after importing one at 200? Art Campbell    art.campb...@gmail.com     "... In my opinion, there's nothing i

RE: Set custom dpi to import graphics

Nancy Allison wrote: > I can't figure out how to get Frame to remember the custom dip at which > I'm importing a whole bunch of graphics. > > Sometimes, Frame does remember a new import dpi, but I have no idea why > it remembers some and not others. > > I'm importing .bmps into anchored frames

RE: PDF to Word Conversion - Caution

I have to agree with Scott. The entire reason for my company going to Frame was the twice-yearly corruption of our 300-page Word manual. Frame paid for itself within a year. Lea _ Lea Rush Software and Documentation Specialist Astoria-Pacific International PO Bo

RE: OT :: Frame & Voice to Text software

> I'd highly recommend the Microsoft Natural Keyboard and a Logitech trackball as alternative controllers. I've used both for a long time and love 'em both, but you do need to adjust to them. I also *highly* recommend the Microsoft Natural keyboard. I have the classic fore-arm repetitive motion in

RE: PDF to Word Conversion

Why does he want it in Word? Rather than converting to Word, which will be time-consuming and result in a document that has problems, find out what his goal is. For example, an Engineer recently said that he wanted a document in Word. When I asked him why, he said it was because he wanted to edit i

RE: PDF to Word Conversion

As you noted, the built-in support in Adobe Acrobat has, to write the PDF in Word format, is pretty darn limited for any serious documents. I have used PDF Convertor Professional (from www.nuance.com) to read PDF files into Word with much better results. However, the results STILL require a LOT of

Re: OT :: Frame & Voice to Text software

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RE: PDF to Word Conversion

Editable PDF? Are you kidding? PDF is a final form file format. Any edits that you can do in PDF should be restricted to emergency situations only. PDF does not maintain any of the context of the original source document. The concepts of words, sentences, paragraphs, etc. is limited at best (if the

Re: PDF to Word Conversion

I suspect Gillian meant "Comment and annotate in a PDF" not "edit" in the sense that a word-worker edits. Art Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson

RE: PDF to Word Conversion

Dov, I am talking about the Send for Review feature where people can insert and delete text and make comments. That's what I mean by editable. -Dov -Original Message- From: Dov Isaacs [mailto:isa...@adobe.com] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 9:48 AM To: Flato, Gillian; charlene_glo...

Re: PDF to Word Conversion

PDF XChange Viewer is a really easy-to-use (free) tool for commenting on PDFs. It's something that you do not have to teach the reviewers. It's self explanatory. And you do not have to "allow" users to comment on the PDF in order to use this tool. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 05

Automated List of Effective Pages for Aerospace Documents

To anyone who has to keep track of the revision date for each page in a document. You know what a pain it is to do manually. I have worked out a way to generate an automatic LOEP in unstructured FrameMaker documents. This method uses a second flow, with a text frame on each page that only has roo

Re: S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

> How much RAM are you running? And any other memory-hungry aps open at > the same time? I've got 4 GB of RAM (though XP reports on 3.25). Frame is the only program open. I've since done some experimenting with my template. Cursor speed was fine with this template when it was in FM6 and FM7.1. I

Re: S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

I was able to get something like this to happen this weekend, too, and it occurred when I opened a file that started life in FM 5 or so... and has been rolled forward through all the releases since. Native FM9 files worked fine & fast. I'm going to save as MIF in 9 later to see if that cleans it u

Re: Automated List of Effective Pages for Aerospace Documents

Silicon Prairie Software also as an LEP plugin. I've never needed it or used it, so I can't comment on how it works: http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html >From their website: "LEP Tools LEP Tools is a special-purpose FrameMaker plug-in that helps generate a List of Effective Pag

Re: S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Art Campbell wrote: > I was able to get something like this to happen this weekend, too, and Sounds like you should give FM the weekend off to recharge. Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices

Re: OT :: Frame & Voice to Text software

> Although you didn't ask, I'd highly recommend the Microsoft Natural > Keyboard and a Logitech trackball as alternative controllers. I've > used both for a long time and love 'em both, but you do need to adjust > to them. I'll add my vote for the Logitech trackball. I'll never go back to a tradi

Re: S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

> I'm going to save as MIF in 9 later to see if that cleans it up. I tried a MIF 9 save with no luck. Mike Wickham ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsu

Re: S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

Mike Wickham wrote: >> How much RAM are you running? And any other memory-hungry aps open at >> the same time? > > I've got 4 GB of RAM (though XP reports on 3.25). Frame is the only program > open. I've since done some experimenting with my template. Cursor speed was > fine with this template w

Disappearing callouts

Hi, everyone. New problem: I create an anchored frame and import a graphic into it. Using the Text Frame tool in the Graphics toolbar, I create callouts. They work fine as long as they are positioned on top of the imported graphic. However, if they are above the graphic, but still inside the

Re: Disappearing callouts

Check the Runaround Property for the graphic (select it and right-click) to make sure that there isn't a runaround set Also, each graphic item you add is likely to be on it's own layer, so you may want to select all of them (maybe omitting the background graphic) and Group them. Art Art Camp

Re: Disappearing callouts

Thank you, everyone who answered privately or on the list. Run around properties solved the problem! --Nancy ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe

Re: Automated List of Effective Pages for Aerospace Documents

Hi Clint, Just curious: What's an Effective Page? Kind regards, Klaus ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr

RE: Automated List of Effective Pages for Aerospace Documents

It may not be the most informative term, but it's been in use for a long time. Basically, it's a front matter list of the date on which each page in the manual was last updated. Military and Aerospace manuals typically have hundreds of pages, and may go through dozens of revisions that change only

Re: PDF to Word Conversion

On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 10:28:13 -0500, wrote: > I have been working on a manual for a while now, the manual is >projected to be over 2000 pages to include, photographs, autocad >drawings and diagrams. My client decided Friday that he now wants the >entire document in word. As everyone else

Re: PDF to Word Conversion

Hi Charlene, I have used Solid PDF Tools converter for converting PDF to MS Word. This has yielded excellent results in terms of retaining the formatting, table and figure conversion, as well as editability. However, i am not sure for large docs extending up to 2000 pages, as is your case. HTH..

RE: imported graphic on coloured background - thin white line around the inserted graphic

Thanks a lot for the input. I have used the workaround "or produce the entire background color with the image as a single bitmap." br, Ulrike -Original Message- From: Shlomo Perets [mailto:shlo...@microtype.com] Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 7:11 PM To: Ulrike Forsberg (UFO); f

RE: Frame reference book

Although outdated, my pick is "The Masters Series: FrameMaker 6" by Thomas Neuburger, published by Twelfth Night Books. This book is both a teaching aid and a fine reference. Hopefully a newer edition is available. I use Frame 7 so this book is all I need. Regards, Barry Technical Writer Comm

Changed a format's tab stop & imported to 2nd doc--but 2nd doc's tab stop doesn't change

Hello all, I've got a FM book with several documents in it. In document A, I changed a tab stop in my Header paragraph format--intending that I would then import formats into each of the other documents in the book. Naturally, I'm expecting that once I've done so, the header's tab stop would ha