I don't know if the suite is the best choice if you are trying to save
money. First of all, if you get TCS, every time you upgrade it will
probably cost more. (I doubt there is an option to only upgrade FM when
you own TCS.) And since you don't really need to upgrade Acrobat, it
should be much
Ask them to combine some short documents using single-sourcing features,
and see how they do it, whether they use shared book, text insets,
variables, etc.
But I disagree that it's not important to have a good technical writer,
and that it's more important to know FM well. You need both, and y
FM templates are a bit difficult. You can be a very advanced user
without that.
--
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
058-763-7133
On 16-Apr-18 11:53 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
"What's your favorite thing about FrameMaker templates?" is a good
question, since templates per se don't exist, and a
That's WORD users who do that!
(Finally back in the workforce, currently using Word because until
yesterday I was a contractor, not an employee. Hoping they get me Frame
soon, because Word is driving me right up a tree.)
On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Art Campbell
wrote:
> Advanced FM users
Lin: Consider making a list of why Word annoys you and share it with others
internally or on the list here.
For example:
1. Numbering
a. Restarting and continuing lists
b. Subordinate lists
4. Resetting numbering
c. within lists
d. between lists
5. Just get me FM
As for Advanced U
I don't think I've got any "advanced Frame" ideas to add, but Bernard, your
Word list example made me chuckle.
-Lise
On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 8:37 AM, Bernard Aschwanden <
bern...@publishingsmarter.com> wrote:
> Lin: Consider making a list of why Word annoys you and share it with others
> interna
I just tried to save a 200 page pdf to Word in Acrobat X Pro and almost all
word spaces disappeared (10pt/14 Esprit font), so I had just one very long
word for each line, more or less. Saving to rtf worked fine and I was able
to spellcheck my Icelandic (not supported by FM yet) document in
LibreOff
Made me chuckle, too.
My latest grievance, however, was the way you can't tell where the cross-reference bookmarks are invisible by
default and barely visible if you know how to fiddle the settings (I
didn't), so when I moved some text in front of a heading, all the text got
included in the cross
This reminds me of a story I heard back when edlin, an early text editor
had been left in the dust by newer tools. Allegedly, an engineer wrote a
60-page document using edlin, since it was the only tool he knew then. It
just proves that stick-to-it-ness has some value.
As to one-word-per-line, hmm
I have some old FM files - probably 5.5 vintage - that I am trying to
open in FM2015. Frame thinks they are text files. I have some other
equally old files that it opens OK. Any suggestions for how to open old
files that Frame is confused about?
Fred
--
*Fred Wersan* | Principal Technical Wr
There used to be an undocumented Force Open command, but I don't remember
the keystrokes and couldn't find it in a quick Google
If you have or can install any older versions than '15, try opening the
files with those and saving them as MIF.
Art Campbell
art.campb...@gmail.com
"..
Esc O H (open heroic)
It might be possible to open (a copy of) the file in a binary editor and
look at the header. There may be a file-designator that can be changed.
On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Art Campbell
wrote:
> There used to be an undocumented Force Open command, but I don't remembe
Peter Gold,
pdf-ed by printing book from FM 2013 to file, then distilling. In Acrobat
Save as Word. My only guess is that this font is a bit more exaggerated
serif than the standard Times (etc.) and the font size was only 10 pt.
Also, it seemed to create a text frame on each page for the contents.
That's because you're remembering it by the wrong name, Art. It's actually
called *heroic* open, and it's invoked by an Escape-key sequence: Esc, o, H
(Escape key, followed by lower-case O, followed by capital H).
But I find it very hard to believe that Frame is mistaking a binary FM file (of
Bodvar,
It might depend on whether the PDF was saved as tagged PDF or not.
Mike Wickham
On 4/17/2018 12:35 PM, Böðvar Björgvinsson wrote:
Peter Gold,
pdf-ed by printing book from FM 2013 to file, then distilling. In Acrobat
Save as Word. My only guess is that this font is a bit more exaggerate
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