RE: Did I miss the FM12.0.4 Update Announcement?

2015-02-26 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Okay, I just did some testing ... the CMYK bug at Acrobat PDF output is NOT fixed in FrameMaker 12.0.4 as far as I can tell. My output PDF still shows the problem, although I cannot tell anymore if some things were fixed, since I deleted my old test output files. FWIW, I do get a lot of error m

Migrating from Parallels 9 -> 10 killed FrameMaker 12

2015-02-26 Thread Steve Rickaby
I have just run the demo version of Parallels Desktop 10, and found that my FrameMaker 12 install, which worked fine in the Win7 virtual machine under Desktop 9, would not launch when the VM was run under Desktop 10. I've reported this to Parallels, but it occurs to me that it might be a side-e

Re: Framemaker vs Flare for pdfs

2015-02-26 Thread Robert Lauriston
I had a similar experience with Flare 7.1. We had a really, really long list of table-related PDF bugs. On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Philo Calhoun wrote: > I tried unsuccessfully a year ago to move from FrameMaker to Flare. After > months with tech support to deal with various bugs in Flare

Framemaker vs Flare for pdfs

2015-02-26 Thread Philo Calhoun
I tried unsuccessfully a year ago to move from FrameMaker to Flare. After months with tech support to deal with various bugs in Flare, I concluded that it was only a reasonable option for simpler documents that were destined for web based delivery. PDFs particularly, were not as reliable as FM.

RE: How do you type a dash em in FM12

2015-02-26 Thread gr...@hedgewizard.net
Alt+150 – Alt+0151 — (entered on the number pad) Works in any Windows app, providing the font selected has the glyphs. Grant > On February 26, 2015 at 2:24 AM Laura Fergusson > wrote: > > > > > I always use Ctrl Q Shift Q for em dash and Ctrl Q Shift P for en dash. > > > > Laura

Re: Acrobat: Need to delete Shared Review profile

2015-02-26 Thread Lin Sims
Thanks Monique. That worked PERFECTLY. On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Monique Semp wrote: > Yes, I'd found this recently by googling, "acrobat delete shared review > profile": http://blogs.adobe.com/thesamepage/2009/01/modifying_ > shared_review_locati.html. > > These instructions are for Acro

Re: Frame vs. Flare for My Needs

2015-02-26 Thread Art Campbell
I haven't used Flare actively in a year or so... but after several years daily experience, I'd say: - Fewer bugs -- nope - Better conversion -- depends. I use MIF2Go to get to HTML/RTF/XHTML. Flare isn't better than that. FM 12 is pretty good for exporting. Flare is adequate or better

RE: Frame vs. Flare for My Needs

2015-02-26 Thread Kevin Ryan
Thanks for the warning, Steve. I know Word files can be difficult to manage and easy to abuse. For example, my experience has been that many if not most Word users don't use Word styles properly (assuming they even know they exist). My company provides large-scale Customer Information Systems

RE: Frame vs. Flare for My Needs

2015-02-26 Thread Harding, Dan
Both native RTF from FM12 and Mif2Go Word export will work to a certain extent, but unfortunately both can have major shortcomings depending on the nature of your content. 1. FM12’s save as RTF drops all index markers that have been placed in footnotes. An absolute deal-killer if you ind

Re: OT: Word (was Re: Frame vs. Flare for My Needs)

2015-02-26 Thread Roger Shuttleworth
Hi Steve Very amusing, but only to those observing. I'm sure we all have similar horror stories. Mine was a 75-page RFP that Sales said "has to go out this afternoon". The future of the known universe depended on it. The sales guy had fiddled, and it had blown up, so he passed it to me. By ab

OT: Word (was Re: Frame vs. Flare for My Needs)

2015-02-26 Thread Steve Rickaby
I do not think I have posted this story to this group before, so, as Word is being discussed... This really happened: I was there, I watched. Long time ago, I worked as a contractor for a small but upwardly mobile company. At that time the staff occupied a single floor of an office block in W

Re: Frame vs. Flare for My Needs

2015-02-26 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 20:21 + 25/2/15, Kevin Ryan wrote: >Our customers (utilities) have been requesting another MS Word output: >Editable MS Word versions of our 20-300 page PDF manuals so that they can edit >them for their own purposes (such as internal training). This has been an interesting and informati

RE: Frame vs. Flare for My Needs

2015-02-26 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, In my company there are also discussions to choose MadCap Flare as a common authoring tool. I see different requirements among us. Some need HTML or CHM, others only PDF. The arguments from MadCap Flare users here are: o Less bugs. o Better conversion to CHM and HTML. o Better support. (I do n

RE: How do you type a dash em in FM12

2015-02-26 Thread Laura Fergusson
I always use Ctrl Q Shift Q for em dash and Ctrl Q Shift P for en dash. Laura Fergusson | Technical Writer | Exterity Ltd tel: +44 1383 828250 ext 249 | fax: +44 1383 824905 e: laura.fergus...@exterity.com | w: www.exterity.com From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bou

RE: CMYK bug fixed? RE: Did I miss the FM12.0.4 Update Announcement?

2015-02-26 Thread Davis, David
Interesting, Craig! I had reported the CMYK thing on the Adobe bug base, and I got a mail from them saying the issue would be fixed in the next update (12.0.4) and indeed my PDFs do generate OK again now. Looks like there was more than one layers of broken-ness in this area and the one clobberin

RE: Did I miss the FM12.0.4 Update Announcement?

2015-02-26 Thread Davis, David
As I noted on the Adobe Forums, I was personally told that 12.0.4 fixed this bug by the developer who was handling by bug report, and it does indeed seem to, but this is not mentioned in the release note. This suggests that it was such an egregious bug that Adobe decided not to acknowledge that i