Re: Eclipse Help from Frame books

2013-07-04 Thread Robert Lauriston
MIF2Go worked for me a few years ago. WebWorks ePublisher can also now generate Eclipse Help from FrameMaker source. On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Alastair Dent wrote: > Has anyone tried generating Eclipse help directly from Frame books? ___ You are

Eclipse Help from Frame books

2013-07-04 Thread Art Campbell
Jeremy is correct -- MIF2GO is pretty much the easiest and least painful way to do this. Once everything is set up for the Eclipse project, it's automatic / one-click. Art Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent

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2013-07-04 Thread John Pilla
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Consultants to convert from unstructured Frame to DITA

2013-07-04 Thread Art Campbell
Might also want to look at this: http://ig5authoringtools.com/ditatoo-dita-cms-is-now-tightly-integrated-with-framemaker-11/ Don't know more about it than the info on the web site, but it looks interesting. Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothin

Re: Eclipse Help from Frame books

2013-07-04 Thread Art Campbell
Jeremy is correct -- MIF2GO is pretty much the easiest and least painful way to do this. Once everything is set up for the Eclipse project, it's automatic / one-click. Art Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent an

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2013-07-04 Thread John Pilla
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Eclipse Help from Frame books

2013-07-04 Thread Robert Lauriston
MIF2Go worked for me a few years ago. WebWorks ePublisher can also now generate Eclipse Help from FrameMaker source. On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Alastair Dent wrote: > Has anyone tried generating Eclipse help directly from Frame books?

Re: Consultants to convert from unstructured Frame to DITA

2013-07-04 Thread Art Campbell
Might also want to look at this: http://ig5authoringtools.com/ditatoo-dita-cms-is-now-tightly-integrated-with-framemaker-11/ Don't know more about it than the info on the web site, but it looks interesting. Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing i

Condition indicators not working in table rows

2013-07-04 Thread rebecca officer
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Replacing one paragraph/character format with another

2013-07-04 Thread Mike Wickham
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Eclipse Help from Frame books

2013-07-04 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Mon, 1 Jul 2013 13:37:06 +, Alastair Dent wrote: >Has anyone tried generating Eclipse help directly >from Frame books? Mif2Go supports that. If you mean using native Frame HTML export, no, not without many hours of work cleaning up problems and creating the files it doesn't make. O

Consultants to convert from unstructured Frame to DITA

2013-07-04 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 17:23:56 +, Gillian Flato wrote: >Does anyone know of any consultants or companies that >will convert a company from unstructured Frame to DITA, >using structured Frame. Meaning, create conversion >tables, DTDs, EDDs, etc. No consultant is likely to do it that way, as

Re: Replacing one paragraph/character format with another

2013-07-04 Thread Mike Wickham
One post-import method is the inexpensive Paragraph Tools plugin from http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/ Mike Wickham On 7/1/2013 10:11 AM, Alastair Dent wrote: I need to import Word documents, some of them large, into FM. Is there any way of automatically mapping the Word styles to spec

Re: Eclipse Help from Frame books

2013-07-04 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Mon, 1 Jul 2013 13:37:06 +, Alastair Dent wrote: >Has anyone tried generating Eclipse help directly >from Frame books? Mif2Go supports that. If you mean using native Frame HTML export, no, not without many hours of work cleaning up problems and creating the files it doesn't make. O

Re: Consultants to convert from unstructured Frame to DITA

2013-07-04 Thread Matt Sullivan
Hi Gillian,I'd be happy to help you with your conversion table and related DITA template files. I'm currently working with 2 (quite happy) clients on exactly that process.As long as you don't want to do any DITA specialization, there isn't likely a need for DTD or EDD customization. -MattMatt R. Su

Consultants to convert from unstructured Frame to DITA

2013-07-04 Thread Matt Sullivan
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Re: Replacing one paragraph/character format with another

2013-07-04 Thread Matt Sullivan
Rick Quatro has an excellent post-import FrameScript solution for this. -MattMatt R. Sullivan co-author Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 11 P: 714.798.7596 | C: 714.585.2335 | m...@mattrsullivan.com @mattrsullivan LinkedIn facebook mattrsullivan.com  On Jul 1, 2013, at 8:11 AM, Ala

Replacing one paragraph/character format with another

2013-07-04 Thread Matt Sullivan
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Re: Consultants to convert from unstructured Frame to DITA

2013-07-04 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 17:23:56 +, Gillian Flato wrote: >Does anyone know of any consultants or companies that >will convert a company from unstructured Frame to DITA, >using structured Frame. Meaning, create conversion >tables, DTDs, EDDs, etc. No consultant is likely to do it that way, as

Re: Condition indicators not working in table rows

2013-07-04 Thread rebecca officer
Works for us. FM 10 doesn't tend to give us hash marks on conditioned rows, it tends to give solid thick borders. But definitely clearly shows if a row's conditioned. Doesn't show if a whole table is, except by colouring the table anchor. We use a mix of text colour and background for condition i

Issues Using Windows 7 and FrameMaker 8 & FrameMaker 11

2013-07-04 Thread George, Brenda (CAI)
The office where I work uses an automated process to import xml files into FrameMaker 8 and process them into formatted FrameMaker files. This automated process has been created internally, utilizing scripts written in C. We have been using Windows XP and FrameMaker 8 in order to run this proces

RE: Converting from PDF to Word (or Frame, or anything)

2013-07-04 Thread Craig Ede
What sort of glyphs are being changed to squares? Arial Unicode is probably the most glyph savvy general use font. You might applying that font to your result. Craig From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Stuart Rogers Sent: T

RE: One of my FM11 files has become Read-only (John Posada)

2013-07-04 Thread Gay Alson
I accidentally made a file "view-only" by misusing some shortcut but Thomas Michanek had a handy tip that saved the day. Caveat: it wasn't FM 11, but more like 7 -- I don't know if that would make a difference... Anyway, here's what he suggested that worked for me: 1. Press and release Esc 2.

RE: One of my FM11 files has become Read-only

2013-07-04 Thread Harro de Jong
John Posada wrote: > Hi, guys...one of the files inmy book (it has about 400 files) has become read > only. I don't know how it happened. > > When I open the file and try to select content, the frame gets selected. As > far > as I know, it kis (or was) Flow A. This symptom sounds like you've s

Re: Special character: punctuation space

2013-07-04 Thread gr...@hedgewizard.net
The other space is the non-breaking space, which is a fixed space, and which (if you are converting to HTML, stays a non-breaking space ( ). Ctrl+space to enter \ (backslash-space) to search/replace. Grant > On July 1, 2013 at 12:04 PM Lin Sims wrote: > > And if I'd read more closely, I'd hav

Consultants to convert from unstructured Frame to DITA

2013-07-04 Thread Gillian Flato
Does anyone know of any consultants or companies that will convert a company from unstructured Frame to DITA, using structured Frame. Meaning, create conversion tables, DTDs, EDDs, etc. Thanks, Gillian ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as a

RE: Convert text to variables

2013-07-04 Thread Craig Ede
To do them all at once, just say "Replace All". This will replace all throughout a book with the right settings chosen. Also, if you don't have a book, you can build a temporary one that includes all your files. You probably one to test with will a one-by-one replace to make sure you are getting wh

Replacing one paragraph/character format with another

2013-07-04 Thread Alastair Dent
I need to import Word documents, some of them large, into FM. Is there any way of automatically mapping the Word styles to specific FM styles on import? Can this be done post-import? Alastair Dent Technical Author Imagination Technologies Limited t: +44 (0)113 242 9814 www.imgtec.com

Eclipse Help from Frame books

2013-07-04 Thread Alastair Dent
Has anyone tried generating Eclipse help directly from Frame books? Alastair Dent Technical Author Imagination Technologies Limited t: +44 (0)113 242 9814 www.imgtec.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@ma

Re: Initial size of Variables Pod in FM10

2013-07-04 Thread rebecca officer
I've got all my pods collapsed into a "menu" on the side. This means I only expand pods when I need them.  The variables pod acts like all the others from that point of view. When they're expanded, there seems to be a minimum width for a number of pods, including the variables. Really annoying!