FM11 + FM10: background color disappears in CMYK PDF

2012-12-21 Thread Yves Barbion
Hi group When I save my FM11 or Fm10 file as a CMYK PDF, I see that the background color of my text is gone in my PDF. It's okay when I select the option to convert CMYK colors to RGB, but I don't want to convert my colors to RGB. Is this a known FM bug? Thanks -- Yves Barbion www.scripto.nu

Tables in rotated text frames unselectable?

2012-12-21 Thread Christoph Korsmeier
Hi everybody, I've designed an FM10 masterpage with a rotated text flow (90° ccw). (The client wanted to accomodate large landscape tables in a portrait document). Now when I apply this rotated masterpage to a body page, the tables on it can only be selected whole, e.g. I can't select single

Re: Madcap Flare vs Framemaker

2012-12-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
How solid TCS is for single-sourcing depends on your requirements. FrameMaker is solid for PDF, and FrameMaker plus RoboHelp is solid for WebHelp and HTML Help, but it's bad for Word, wiki XHTML, wiki markup, or plain text. I use MIF2Go for those. On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Bill Swallow

RE: framers Digest, Vol 86, Issue 15

2012-12-21 Thread David Millis
Thanks to Nadine. He suggestion of Right-clicking on the frame, go to Object Properties, and turn the side head off and turn the columns for that page on worked. Thank you, David -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

Re: Madcap Flare vs Framemaker

2012-12-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Bill Swallow techcommd...@gmail.com wrote: I've not had an issue with messy HTML nor with controlling output file nesting. How do you make RoboHelp not create a separate subdirectory in WebHelp output for each document in a FrameMaker book? Or you just don't

Re: Is FrameMaker 11 going down or is it a keeper?

2012-12-21 Thread Michael Norton
I've worked in two (US) companies this year and FrameMaker was the main documentation tool used in both. The first company was medium-sized (around 300 employees) before being bought by a very large company. We were using FrameMaker 7.2 in unstructured mode and our main output was PDF manuals.

Re: Is FrameMaker 11 going down or is it a keeper?

2012-12-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
One clue to who's still using FM is which content management systems they integrate. Documentum is almost exclusively used by very large organizations. http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/cms-integration.html Another is how much focus recent releases have had on DITA and translation.

RE: Is FrameMaker 11 going down or is it a keeper?

2012-12-21 Thread Keith Soltys
The number of FrameMaker users was discussed on the FrameMaker History page some time ago: http://daube.ch/docu/fmhist00.html It seems that somewhere upwards of 500,000 would be a reasonable guess. Regards Keith -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

Re: Tables in rotated text frames unselectable?

2012-12-21 Thread Brad Anderson
Christoph, Rotate the text frame on the master page as well and then you'll be able to select the table cells as normal. Brad On Dec 18, 2012, at 11:35 PM, Christoph Korsmeier christoph.korsme...@werktext.eu wrote: Hi everybody, I've designed an FM10 masterpage with a rotated text flow

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2012-12-21 Thread Craig Ede
As promised in an earlier post to the framers list, here are some concerns I have about the FM 11 codeview mode. I am also copying this to framemaker-d...@yahoogroups.com since it falls in that domain. Maybe I am missing something easy that would solve these issues. I would be happy to be

RE: Dell Service Request: 867568273

2012-12-21 Thread Karen Mann
Brandon here is a copy of the error I receive - so darn generic... It's 12/20/12 @ 1:45PM ( Cen. Time) --- FrameMaker --- Insufficient memory to display the dialog box. Close one or more windows and try again. --- OK

Re: Is FrameMaker 11 going down or is it a keeper?

2012-12-21 Thread David Creamer
. but I would agree that Adobe's ownership has not been good for the Frame community. You may recall that Frame Technologies was almost bankrupt before Adobe bought it. Granted another company could have purchased it, but I doubt it would have fared as well in the hands of a smaller company

Re: Tables in rotated text frames unselectable?

2012-12-21 Thread Ed Nodland
In FM10 you can select Format Customize Layout Rotate {Clock/Counter} then do your editing. Ed San Diego Data Services On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Christoph Korsmeier christoph.korsme...@werktext.eu wrote: ** Hi everybody, I've designed an FM10 masterpage with a rotated text flow

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2012-12-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
I've had far fewer problems with FM10 once I gave up on rearranging windows and dialog boxes, though that means I waste a lot of time collapsing dialog boxes to show the full paragraph tag list. Adobe's profound incompetence is I think best shown by their redoing the UI but not changing the

RE: Is FrameMaker 11 going down or is it a keeper?

2012-12-21 Thread Craig Ede
Wow! That makes you wonder what the number of Creative Suite users is! Craig From: keith.sol...@tmx.com To: srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Is FrameMaker 11 going down or is it a keeper? Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:33:32 + The number

Re: Madcap Flare vs Framemaker

2012-12-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
I found ExtendScript unreliable. A build script that had been working fine for months stopped working one day and given the lack of documentation and support I gave up on it. I bought FrameScript and it seems solid. On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Matt Sullivan m...@mattrsullivan.com wrote:

RE: Is FrameMaker 11 going down or is it a keeper?

2012-12-21 Thread rebecca officer
The New Zealand Tech Comms Association does an annual salary and tools survey. It's a self-selected sample so it's probably biased towards experienced career writers, but in 2011, about 15% of respondents used Framemaker, from about 7% of companies. Flare had a few fewer users, so it's not

Re: Is FrameMaker 11 going down or is it a keeper?

2012-12-21 Thread Alan T Litchfield
On 22/12/12 1:19 PM, David Creamer wrote: . but I would agree that Adobe's ownership has not been good for the Frame community. You may recall that Frame Technologies was almost bankrupt before Adobe bought it. Granted another company could have purchased it, but I doubt it would have

Is FrameMaker 11 going down or is it a keeper?

2012-12-21 Thread Alan T Litchfield
I am in the same situation as Steve. In fact I have an old eMac I run it on now just for that purpose. It runs well under Classic on OS 10.4. Alan On 20/12/12 10:13 PM, Steve Rickaby wrote: > As a user of FrameMaker to produce several dozen published textbooks, I might > perhaps be qualified

FM11 + FM10: background color disappears in CMYK PDF

2012-12-21 Thread Yves Barbion
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Tables in rotated text frames unselectable?

2012-12-21 Thread Brad Anderson
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Is FrameMaker 11 going down or is it a keeper?

2012-12-21 Thread David Creamer
>. but I would agree that Adobe's ownership has not been good for the Frame community. You may recall that Frame Technologies was almost bankrupt before Adobe bought it. Granted another company could have purchased it, but I doubt it would have fared as well in the hands of a smaller company

Tables in rotated text frames unselectable?

2012-12-21 Thread Ed Nodland
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2012-12-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
I've had far fewer problems with FM10 once I gave up on rearranging windows and dialog boxes, though that means I waste a lot of time collapsing dialog boxes to show the full paragraph tag list. Adobe's profound incompetence is I think best shown by their redoing the UI but not changing the

Is FrameMaker 11 going down or is it a keeper?

2012-12-21 Thread Craig Ede
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Madcap Flare vs Framemaker

2012-12-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
I found ExtendScript unreliable. A build script that had been working fine for months stopped working one day and given the lack of documentation and support I gave up on it. I bought FrameScript and it seems solid. On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Matt Sullivan wrote: > I've had 3 clients