FM 9 Blinking linked images

2012-11-20 Thread Keith Soltys
I'm not sure I can agree with this, although I suppose it depends on the specific network involved. I've been working here for several years with my Frame documents on a networked SAN drive and never had any issues that I could identify, other than a slight performance degradation when updating

changing the graphics runaround props default

2012-11-20 Thread Pat Christenson
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Confluence 4 export: the one feature that would justify my upgrading from FM10

2012-11-20 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:28:01 -0800, Robert Lauriston wrote: >Confluence has two or three APIs that could be used to write an import >tool, as well as the plugin SDK. There's also an unsupported >command-line interface, which in theory should be able to do a batch >import, but I couldn't get it t

Re: FM 9 Blinking linked images

2012-11-20 Thread Helen Borrie
At 05:41 AM 21/11/2012, Stephen O'Brien wrote: > >We are several tech writers using books/documents on a server, containing >images imported by reference (also on the server). Network file locking is >activated. The network is relatively fast. > >Every day on the same workstation (FM9.0p.255, W

FM 9 Blinking linked images

2012-11-20 Thread Stephen O'Brien
Hi, We have been working like this with documents on a server for years with almost no problems. I see what you mean by copying the documents and images locally, but in our case we have documents with many text insets containing images...I cannot see how to copy the document, its images, and i

Re: FM 9 Blinking linked images

2012-11-20 Thread Dave Reynolds
I have also worked on a network for many years - both the Frame files and referenced graphics are on a network drive. Mostly this works really well, especially in recent years with network upgrades. There are two occasions when I canremember having serious speed problems. The first was in 2008

changing the graphics runaround props default

2012-11-20 Thread Rick Quatro
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Re: changing the graphics runaround props default

2012-11-20 Thread Pat Christenson
And I heartily endorse this plugin. Pat Christenson On Nov 20, 2012, at 3:51 PM, Rick Quatro wrote: > Hi Ken, > > No, and thus my RunaroundNone plugin J. > > Rick > > Rick Quatro > Carmen Publishing Inc. > 585-283-5045 > r...@frameexpert.com > > > > From: framers-boun...@lists.frame

FM 9 Blinking linked images

2012-11-20 Thread Stephen O'Brien
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Confluence 4 export: the one feature that would justify my upgrading from FM10

2012-11-20 Thread Robert Lauriston
The APIs are supported. The command-line interface is a third-party project. I already have a FrameMaker template that maps to Confluence XHTML, so import would be clean.

Re: Confluence 4 export: the one feature that would justify my upgrading from FM10

2012-11-20 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:28:01 -0800, Robert Lauriston wrote: >Confluence has two or three APIs that could be used to write an import >tool, as well as the plugin SDK. There's also an unsupported >command-line interface, which in theory should be able to do a batch >import, but I couldn't get it t

RE: changing the graphics runaround props default

2012-11-20 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Ken, No, and thus my RunaroundNone plugin J. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-283-5045 r...@frameexpert.com From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Ken Poshedly Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 10:3

bullets for nested lists

2012-11-20 Thread Robert Lauriston
For the record, I'm going with Arial Black's Unicode characters 2022, 25E6, and 25AA. They're more consistent in size and distance from the baseline than their counterparts in other Web-safe fonts. On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote: > I'm revising my FM 10 templates to get

RE: FM 9 Blinking linked images

2012-11-20 Thread Keith Soltys
I'm not sure I can agree with this, although I suppose it depends on the specific network involved. I've been working here for several years with my Frame documents on a networked SAN drive and never had any issues that I could identify, other than a slight performance degradation when updating

Re: Confluence 4 export: the one feature that would justify my upgrading from FM10

2012-11-20 Thread Robert Lauriston
Confluence has two or three APIs that could be used to write an import tool, as well as the plugin SDK. There's also an unsupported command-line interface, which in theory should be able to do a batch import, but I couldn't get it to work, and did I mention it's unsupported? https://bobswift.atlas

changing the graphics runaround props default

2012-11-20 Thread Ken Poshedly
apologies for how my previous message appeared. to speed things up, I just pick a previous post and modify it -- but goofed this last time. the question, however, still remains. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com.

changing the graphics runaround props default

2012-11-20 Thread Ken Poshedly
This MAY have been asked previously but I don't recall seeing it. Is there a way of changing the Graphics --> Runaround Properties from the default "Runaround and Contour" to a new default "Not Runaround"? For our purposes here, this new default is what we need. -- Ken in Atlanta __

Re: FM 9 Blinking linked images

2012-11-20 Thread Writer
Ça va, Stephen: Even though you say you've worked for several years this way, I'm strongly inclined to agree with Jeremy. From what I've heard over the years, users who try to use FM over a network have run into trouble at some point. Nadine - Original Message - > From: Jeremy H. Grif

FM 9 Blinking linked images

2012-11-20 Thread Writer
?a va, Stephen: Even though you say you've worked for several years this way, I'm strongly inclined to agree with Jeremy. From what I've heard over the years, users who try to use FM over a network have run into trouble at some point. Nadine - Original Message - > From: Jeremy H. Grif

FM 9 Blinking linked images

2012-11-20 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:41:11 +, Stephen O'Brien wrote: >We are several tech writers using books/documents on >a server, containing images imported by reference (also >on the server). Network file locking is activated. The >network is relatively fast. > ... >Any ideas? Our IT people are no

Confluence 4 export: the one feature that would justify my upgrading from FM10

2012-11-20 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:56:33 -0800, Robert Lauriston wrote: >MIF2Go can generate Confluence 4 XHTML, but I still >haven't managed to import it into Confluence except >page by page. That's a lot better than not at all... ;-) Seriously, Confluence has no way to automate adding a set of pages,

Confluence 4 export: the one feature that would justify my upgrading from FM10

2012-11-20 Thread Robert Lauriston
Confluence has two or three APIs that could be used to write an import tool, as well as the plugin SDK. There's also an unsupported command-line interface, which in theory should be able to do a batch import, but I couldn't get it to work, and did I mention it's unsupported? https://bobswift.atlas

changing the graphics runaround props default

2012-11-20 Thread Ken Poshedly
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RE: FM 9 Blinking linked images

2012-11-20 Thread Stephen O'Brien
Hi, We have been working like this with documents on a server for years with almost no problems. I see what you mean by copying the documents and images locally, but in our case we have documents with many text insets containing images...I cannot see how to copy the document, its images, and i

Re: FM 9 Blinking linked images

2012-11-20 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:41:11 +, Stephen O'Brien wrote: >We are several tech writers using books/documents on >a server, containing images imported by reference (also >on the server). Network file locking is activated. The >network is relatively fast. > ... >Any ideas? Our IT people are no

Re: Confluence 4 export: the one feature that would justify my upgrading from FM10

2012-11-20 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:56:33 -0800, Robert Lauriston wrote: >MIF2Go can generate Confluence 4 XHTML, but I still >haven't managed to import it into Confluence except >page by page. That's a lot better than not at all... ;-) Seriously, Confluence has no way to automate adding a set of pages,

FM 9 Blinking linked images

2012-11-20 Thread Stephen O'Brien
Salut, We are several tech writers using books/documents on a server, containing images imported by reference (also on the server). Network file locking is activated. The network is relatively fast. Every day on the same workstation (FM9.0p.255, Windows 7 SP1), even in small documents (2 pages

changing the graphics runaround props default

2012-11-20 Thread Ken Poshedly
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bullets for nested lists

2012-11-20 Thread Robert Lauriston
I'm revising my FM 10 templates to get rid of ZapfDingbats, which someone back in the FM 5.5.6 era chose for bullets in paragraph tags. One option is just to use the bullet building block for all three levels of bullets. Another might be to use the same bullet symbols you'd get in a Web browser (

Re: Japan translation and dtp

2012-11-20 Thread jon . harvey
Japanese is the most expensive language to translate into. I recommend asking your translator for the translation memory (TM) files as part of the deliverables. Otherwise, it will be just as expensive the next time you ask for your docs to be translated. __ Jon Harvey Lead Techni

Re: font change not appearing in Autonumber

2012-11-20 Thread Robert Lauriston
I was trying to avoid having to change anything in the documents. If I were going to edit the styles, I'd just use the bullet building block. Eventually I figured out that the fundamental problem was that the docs department's master font directory had only one of the two files required to install

Re: Confluence 4 export: the one feature that would justify my upgrading from FM10

2012-11-20 Thread Robert Lauriston
MIF2Go can generate Confluence 4 XHTML, but I still haven't managed to import it into Confluence except page by page. And there's no way to go the other direction, which would actually be the biggest selling point. ___ You are currently subscribed to f