[Framers] Installable FrameMaker

2019-06-03 Thread Hedley Finger
I've been away for a very long time. Is it possible to download FM with a licence and install it on your own computer? Or is only available by (crippling) monthly subscription? Regards to friends old and new. Hedley -- 1/17 Glyndon Road, Camberwell VIC 3124, Australia hedley.fin...@gmail.com

Re: [Framers] OT/PSA for the creative writers on this list

2018-09-21 Thread Hedley Finger
Tammy: Will the Six Word Mystery Novel be on again this year? My entry: Beginning, middle, morgue. Tammy's lonely life. Regards, Hedley On Tue, 3 Oct 2017 at 02:50, Tammy Van Boening < tamm...@spectrumwritingllc.com> wrote: > Rocky Mountain Mystery Writers of America's First Annual Six-Word

Re: [Framers] FM 2017 Feature Request: Restore color and scaling to menu icons

2017-03-23 Thread Hedley Finger
Stefan: Usability trumps calming. Hedley On 17 March 2017 at 10:40, Stefan Gentz wrote: > Hi all, > > we heard you! > > Thanks for all your feedback on the new icon design. We do appreciate your > feedback. > > As you might imagine, we did not take the decision to go for a

Re: [Framers] Questions about tech docs in an Agile environment (may be off-topic)

2017-02-27 Thread Hedley Finger
Can you write the release notes in such a way that the content can be embedded as an insert into the user guide? Can you automate the production flow to some extent? Can time consuming tasks like repagination that do not affect content be hived of to a non-technical assistant? Could you get a less

What is the situation with regards to buying used versions of FrameMaker?

2014-12-07 Thread Hedley Finger
FrameMaker 7.2 was the last version I used, but the licence belonged to my employer. Now I want to start using it again but don't want to pay for 12.0. But there may be people out there who have successively upgraded to 12.0 who still have a 10.0, 9.0, or 8.0 installer CD in a drawer which is no

Re: What is the situation with regards to buying used versions of FrameMaker?

2014-12-07 Thread Hedley Finger
official at Adobe who can give a definitive answer. I am now living on a pension so cannot afford either the educational or full price of a new release. Regards, Hedley On 8 December 2014 at 09:59, Hedley Finger hedley.fin...@gmail.com wrote: FrameMaker 7.2 was the last version I used

FrameMaker to ePub; ePub readers and pinned graphics

2011-05-09 Thread Hedley Finger
into a bicycle nut! -- PLEASE UPDATE MY ADDRESS TO hedley.finger at gmail.com IN YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS BOOK OR CONTACTS LIST Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 Skype: hedley.finger Email.

Ghostscript [was 'Re: RE(2): FM10 does not output Adobe PDF']

2011-05-09 Thread Hedley Finger
OR CONTACTS LIST Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 Skype: hedley.finger Email.

FrameMaker to ePub; ePub readers and pinned graphics

2011-05-08 Thread Hedley Finger
into a bicycle nut! -- PLEASE UPDATE MY ADDRESS TO hedley.fin...@gmail.com IN YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS BOOK OR CONTACTS LIST Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 Skype: hedley.finger Email

Ghostscript [was 'Re: RE(2): FM10 does not output Adobe PDF']

2011-05-08 Thread Hedley Finger
OR CONTACTS LIST Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 Skype: hedley.finger Email. hedley.fin...@gmail.com ___ You are currently subscribed

Sheeply docked at Linux FrameMaker

2010-05-25 Thread Hedley Finger
, or can it run on Ubuntu? I have an ancient CD somewhere that has a trial Linux version at FM5.5.6. So does Linux rule OK or is it just Unix rules KO? Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412

Sheeply docked at Linux FrameMaker

2010-05-24 Thread Hedley Finger
, or can it run on Ubuntu? I have an ancient CD somewhere that has a trial Linux version at FM5.5.6. So does Linux rule OK or is it just Unix rules KO? Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412

How to kill annoying Adobe Update

2010-05-18 Thread Hedley Finger
, downloading Adobe Reader latest version and installing it would reinstall Adobe Updater. -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 Skype: hedley.finger Email.

How to kill annoying Adobe Update

2010-05-17 Thread Hedley Finger
, downloading Adobe Reader latest version and installing it would reinstall Adobe Updater. -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 Skype: hedley.finger Email. hfin...@handholding.com.au

[Fwd: 'Burning the bridges' sale]

2010-01-25 Thread Hedley Finger
also selling a lot of programming books -- see them by clicking the See other items <http://search.ebay.com.au/_W0QQsassZhedleyfingerQQhtZ-1> link under my vendor name hedleyfinger <http://myworld.ebay.com.au/hedleyfinger/> at the right upper corner of the eBay page. Regards, Hedley

[Fwd: 'Burning the bridges' sale]

2010-01-24 Thread Hedley Finger
of programming books -- see them by clicking the See other items http://search.ebay.com.au/_W0QQsassZhedleyfingerQQhtZ-1 link under my vendor name hedleyfinger http://myworld.ebay.com.au/hedleyfinger/ at the right upper corner of the eBay page. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street

'Burning the bridges' sale

2010-01-24 Thread Hedley Finger

'Burning the bridges' sale

2010-01-23 Thread Hedley Finger
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Is FM8 --> FM9 worth the money?

2009-06-18 Thread Hedley Finger
Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 Skype: hedley.finger Email. "Hedley Finger"

Is FM8 -- FM9 worth the money?

2009-06-17 Thread Hedley Finger
Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 Skype: hedley.finger Email. Hedley Finger hfin...@handholding.com.au ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers

[Free Framers] Re: Strange FM8 character substitution

2009-04-07 Thread Hedley Finger
tead of using the \x? notation. Let's see if that works. Very sporadic so results might be weeks or months. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 Skype: hedley.finger Email. "Hedley Finger"

Re: [Free Framers] Re: Strange FM8 character substitution

2009-04-06 Thread Hedley Finger
sporadic so results might be weeks or months. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 Skype: hedley.finger Email. Hedley Finger hfin...@handholding.com.au

Strange FM8 character substitution

2009-04-06 Thread Hedley Finger
pages for scrolling through unpaged text, but Enhance has worked well in many other projects without this phenomenon occurring. Any idea what is causing this and how to fix it? Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call

Strange FM8 character substitution

2009-04-05 Thread Hedley Finger
pages for scrolling through unpaged text, but Enhance has worked well in many other projects without this phenomenon occurring. Any idea what is causing this and how to fix it? Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call

More than lipstick on a pig

2009-04-02 Thread Hedley Finger
efforts should be directed? Take a look at Cindex, Sky Index, and Macrex to get a bit of a hint. Oh, and MultiTes too for vocabulary control of team indexing. Even InDesign indexing interface is better in some respects. -- Disillusioned in Melbourne) Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent

More than lipstick on a pig

2009-04-01 Thread Hedley Finger
efforts should be directed? Take a look at Cindex, Sky Index, and Macrex to get a bit of a hint. Oh, and MultiTes too for vocabulary control of team indexing. Even InDesign indexing interface is better in some respects. -- Disillusioned in Melbourne) Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent

FrameMaker 9: Dialogues sizes

2009-03-26 Thread Hedley Finger
I haven't trialled FM9 yet, but if the various tiny dialogue windows are now (a) bigger and (b) resizable, those would be immense improvements. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell

FrameMaker 9: Dialogues sizes

2009-03-25 Thread Hedley Finger
I haven't trialled FM9 yet, but if the various tiny dialogue windows are now (a) bigger and (b) resizable, those would be immense improvements. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell

Friends of FrameMaker: LinkedIn group for jobs

2009-03-23 Thread Hedley Finger
r service on Friends of FrameMaker as freely as you like and include promotional content and links not permitted on discussion forums. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +6

Friends of FrameMaker: LinkedIn group for jobs

2009-03-22 Thread Hedley Finger
on Friends of FrameMaker as freely as you like and include promotional content and links not permitted on discussion forums. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 Skype

Anyone know where to find BeauxIX c. FM 6?

2009-03-12 Thread Hedley Finger
Google). Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 Skype: hedley.finger Email. "Hedley Finger"

Anyone know where to find BeauxIX c. FM 6?

2009-03-11 Thread Hedley Finger
Google). Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 Skype: hedley.finger Email. Hedley Finger hfin...@handholding.com.au ___ You

Is it possible to install the trial Tech Comm Suite 2 beside TCS 1?

2009-03-11 Thread Hedley Finger
crafted FM8 set-up just to try out FM9. Has anybody succeeded in installing TCS2 or any of its components alongside TCS1? And successfully run each ... Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell

Is it possible to install the trial Tech Comm Suite 2 beside TCS 1?

2009-03-10 Thread Hedley Finger
crafted FM8 set-up just to try out FM9. Has anybody succeeded in installing TCS2 or any of its components alongside TCS1? And successfully run each ... Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell

Resizing reference pages in FM 8

2009-02-27 Thread Hedley Finger
, and ReferencePage elements. Probably not a high priority for Adobe to fix but it sure confuses the users when they are confronted by this departure from the page sizes elsewhere in the template. Any explanations welcome, the wilder the better. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell

Resizing reference pages in FM 8 [ADDENDUM]

2009-02-27 Thread Hedley Finger
Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. "Hedley Finger" -- You are subscribed to the following list: Free Framers using the following email:

Resizing reference pages in FM 8

2009-02-26 Thread Hedley Finger
. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger hfin...@handholding.com.au ___ You are currently subscribed

Resizing reference pages in FM 8 [ADDENDUM]

2009-02-26 Thread Hedley Finger
welcome, the wilder the better. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger hfin...@handholding.com.au -- You are subscribed to the following list

Utilities for FrameMaker ligatures

2009-02-05 Thread Hedley Finger
-style digits, and applies true small caps, and substitutes ligature glyphs for certain combinations of letters, e.g. ffl (characters) --> ffl (single glyph). Go to http://toolbox.rutgers.edu/%7Ehedrick/typography/>>. Have fun, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell

Does FM9 support ligatures and true small caps?

2009-02-04 Thread Hedley Finger
. But you have to remember to do this on a copy of the publication or have a good version management system that allows you to roll back to a previous version! -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +6

Does FM9 support ligatures and true small caps?

2009-02-03 Thread Hedley Finger
. But you have to remember to do this on a copy of the publication or have a good version management system that allows you to roll back to a previous version! -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461

Outline

2009-01-28 Thread Hedley Finger
t used at all) has many advantages: you can use all the XML tools on the saved files but work in a friendly WYSIWYG environment. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. &

Re: Outline

2009-01-27 Thread Hedley Finger
. Unfortunately, at this point it only works file by file. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger hfin...@handholding.com.au

Re: Outline

2009-01-27 Thread Hedley Finger
) has many advantages: you can use all the XML tools on the saved files but work in a friendly WYSIWYG environment. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley

Outline

2009-01-27 Thread Hedley Finger
ding style formats. Unfortunately, at this point it only works file by file. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. "Hedley Finger"

Re: CMYK in Frame

2008-10-10 Thread Hedley Finger
which is good enough for most everyday non-critical colour jobs. As content gets re-used in many different contexts these days, your are future proofing your graphics by NOT storing them in CMYK. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3

CMYK in Frame

2008-10-10 Thread Hedley Finger
ing for the entire which is good enough for most everyday non-critical colour jobs. As content gets re-used in many different contexts these days, your are future proofing your graphics by NOT storing them in CMYK. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +6

Re: Best Indexing Tool for FrameMaker?

2008-09-04 Thread Hedley Finger
IXgen is idiosyncratic but offers many functions to help you get going, e.g. making automatic entries for all headings which you can then edit to make proper entries. In view of the many headings in user guides, etc. and the invariable chunking into short topics, this can help you produce a

Best Indexing Tool for FrameMaker?

2008-09-04 Thread Hedley Finger
IXgen is idiosyncratic but offers many functions to help you get going, e.g. making automatic entries for all headings which you can then edit to make proper entries. In view of the many headings in user guides, etc. and the invariable chunking into short topics, this can help you produce a

Re: PDF Creation Add-on

2008-06-27 Thread Hedley Finger
to generate PDF files from FM documents. Who is right? Can you keep it and just use good old print to Adobe PDF virtual printer? Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley

PDF Creation Add-on

2008-06-27 Thread Hedley Finger
__ >> I bought the Technical Communications Suite with FM8, Acro 8, etc. The FM help so DO NOT uninstall Adobe PDF Creation as it is required to generate PDF files from FM documents. Who is right? Can you keep it and just use good old print to Adobe PDF virtual printer?

Upgrade to latest Tech Comms Suite?

2008-06-26 Thread Hedley Finger
. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. "Hedley Finger"

Upgrade to latest Tech Comms Suite?

2008-06-25 Thread Hedley Finger
. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL

Re: New figure object [was Re: table and figure captions]

2008-06-12 Thread Hedley Finger
the plethora of plug-ins for common tasks telling you what functionality you should be incorporating?] It would be nice if a table/figure title could appear beside a table/figure, perhaps in the sidebar area of a page frame. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124

New figure object [was "Re: table and figure captions"]

2008-06-12 Thread Hedley Finger
- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. "Hedley Finger"

New figure object [was "Re: table and figure captions"]

2008-06-12 Thread Hedley Finger
t;formats". But, really, why isn't this stuff built in? [NOTE: Adobe lurkers -- aren't the plethora of plug-ins for common tasks telling you what functionality you should be incorporating?] It would be nice if a table/figure title could appear beside a table/figure, perhaps in the sidebar

[Fwd: Re: "Adobe FrameMaker 8.0.4 failed to install"]

2008-06-03 Thread Hedley Finger
All: The saga continues ... > Hedley Finger wrote: > The Adobe Updater recognised that I didn't have the latest update. > Captivate and RoboHelp were updated successfully but not FrameMaker. > Why is this? I have also set preferences so that the updater will check > automatical

"Adobe FrameMaker 8.0.4 failed to install"

2008-06-02 Thread Hedley Finger
in the default directory on Windows XP, which itself has had all updates installed. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. "Hedley Finger"

Adobe FrameMaker 8.0.4 failed to install

2008-06-01 Thread Hedley Finger
in the default directory on Windows XP, which itself has had all updates installed. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Fwd: Haven't we learnt anything about usability design? [was Re: default reply-to-all]]

2008-05-19 Thread Hedley Finger
and send the message. -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax

Haven't we learnt anything about usability? [was "Re: default "reply-to-all" "]

2008-05-19 Thread Hedley Finger
y no one has > responded. I check the message I sent and discover that once again > I've been fooled by Framers non-standard reply mechanism. > Me, too! Sorry to me-too but I bet there are others who have fallen into this trap. -- Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC

Color of table borders...

2008-05-19 Thread Hedley Finger
it is added. The new ruling style then becomes available in the Table Designer. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. "Hedley Finger"

Haven't we learnt anything about usability design? [was "Re: default "reply-to-all"]

2008-05-19 Thread Hedley Finger
before sending this I noticed that the message was addressed to "Combs, Richard" and not the list. Okay, let's correct the address yet again and send the message. -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob

[Fwd: Haven't we learnt anything about usability design? [was "Re: default "reply-to-all"]]

2008-05-19 Thread Hedley Finger
ger, just before sending this I noticed that the message was addressed to "Combs, Richard" and not the list. Okay, let's correct the address yet again and send the message. -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone firs

Re: Haven't we learnt anything about usability? [was Re: default reply-to-all ]

2008-05-18 Thread Hedley Finger
. I check the message I sent and discover that once again I've been fooled by Framers non-standard reply mechanism. Me, too! Sorry to me-too but I bet there are others who have fallen into this trap. -- Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3

Re: Color of table borders...

2008-05-18 Thread Hedley Finger
in the Table Designer. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ You are currently

Haven't we learnt anything about usability design? [was Re: default reply-to-all]

2008-05-18 Thread Hedley Finger
. -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob

FrameMaker 8.0.3 Update Now Available (POSSIBLE WORKAROUND)

2008-05-15 Thread Hedley Finger
ter anyway?) Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. "Hedley Finger"

Re: FrameMaker 8.0.3 Update Now Available (POSSIBLE WORKAROUND)

2008-05-14 Thread Hedley Finger
was restored but at least the update ran to completion properly. (Adobe lurkers: should that be framemaker803-mul and does it matter anyway?) Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412

Convert HTML files to FrameMaker files

2008-05-13 Thread Hedley Finger
You can could try opening the HTML file in a late-model Word or OpenOffice.org, then save out as *.doc or *.rtf. Then you can open either in FrameMaker, complete with styles. You can use FM's style mapping to substitute desired styles. Regards, Hedley

Avoiding artefacts in Inkscape SVG --> FrameMaker, PDF

2008-05-13 Thread Hedley Finger
ffects other editors or tools. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. "Hedley Finger"

burning eyes

2008-05-12 Thread Hedley Finger
? Or get an LCD screen that has no electrostatic field. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Convert HTML files to FrameMaker files

2008-05-12 Thread Hedley Finger
You can could try opening the HTML file in a late-model Word or OpenOffice.org, then save out as *.doc or *.rtf. Then you can open either in FrameMaker, complete with styles. You can use FM's style mapping to substitute desired styles. Regards, Hedley

Avoiding artefacts in Inkscape SVG -- FrameMaker, PDF

2008-05-12 Thread Hedley Finger
, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL

Choosing colour profiles for PDF files

2008-05-02 Thread Hedley Finger
that the PDF file is merely a surrogate for the printing press and that no further profile is applied when the plates are burned? Any advice from those more knowledgeable than me is greatly appreciated. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809

OT: Monitor for color correction

2008-05-01 Thread Hedley Finger
rapolate easily to USA) and most manufacturers have good models varying from cheap and adequate to expensive. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. "Hedley Finger"

OT: Monitor for color correction

2008-05-01 Thread Hedley Finger
ur > temperature to the recommended D65 (6500K) with these more easily. > Samsung had several quite cheap models here in Australia (prices won't > extrapolate easily to USA) and most manufacturers have good models > varying from cheap and adequate to expensive. > Hedley Finger 28 Re

Fine tuning pagination

2008-04-22 Thread Hedley Finger
t is possible to print an 8-page section two-up, halving the print run. This (2 x 8 pp = 16pp) section can be slit on the folder, and then bound in with the 16 pp sections. @Finally, just accept a few blank pages at the end of the book. Can you put some house adverts for products or ser

Re: Fine tuning pagination

2008-04-21 Thread Hedley Finger
. This (2 x 8 pp = 16pp) section can be slit on the folder, and then bound in with the 16 pp sections. @Finally, just accept a few blank pages at the end of the book. Can you put some house adverts for products or services on these pages? Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street

RE: Start a Conflagration

2008-03-23 Thread Hedley Finger
Sharon and you'all: At Saturday, 22/03/2008, 12:18 AM;, you wrote: Blaze the FrameMaker killer? Don't make me laugh. Perhaps the expectations of us FrameMaker users were raised to high by maladroit early marketing bumf. And no doubt you did not expect such a negative reaction, fuelled mostly

Start a Conflagration

2008-03-23 Thread Hedley Finger
Sharon and you'all: At Saturday, 22/03/2008, 12:18 AM;, you wrote: >Blaze the FrameMaker killer? Don't make me laugh. Perhaps the expectations of us FrameMaker users were raised to high by maladroit early marketing bumf. And no doubt you did not expect such a negative reaction, fuelled mostly

MadCap Blaze

2008-03-21 Thread Hedley Finger
Sharon: I concur with Bill. What I cannot understand is that this was trumpeted as a FrameMaker killer yet its functionality falls far below. FM is very powerful but still needs a lot of work. For one, the presence of so many indexing add-ons indicates that better indexing and index

MadCap Blaze

2008-03-21 Thread Hedley Finger
Sharon: At Friday, 21/03/2008, 11:07 AM;, you wrote: >you also have short line control, missing from FrameMaker. Is that the same as widows and orphans? Or is it when a small word, say "all", turns over onto a new line at the end of a paragraph? If the latter, in FM most people just put a

Re: MadCap Blaze

2008-03-20 Thread Hedley Finger
Sharon: I concur with Bill. What I cannot understand is that this was trumpeted as a FrameMaker killer yet its functionality falls far below. FM is very powerful but still needs a lot of work. For one, the presence of so many indexing add-ons indicates that better indexing and index

Re: MadCap Blaze

2008-03-20 Thread Hedley Finger
Sharon: At Friday, 21/03/2008, 11:07 AM;, you wrote: you also have short line control, missing from FrameMaker. Is that the same as widows and orphans? Or is it when a small word, say all, turns over onto a new line at the end of a paragraph? If the latter, in FM most people just put a

More like a flicker than a Blaze

2008-03-20 Thread Hedley Finger
Blaze the FrameMaker killer? Don't make me laugh. What about a named style for everything? What about smart cross-references? What about variables? What about advanced search and replace for anything? What about diagnostic reports? XHTML, not even XML. No DITA. Adobe will be able to

More like a flicker than a Blaze

2008-03-19 Thread Hedley Finger
Blaze the FrameMaker killer? Don't make me laugh. What about a named style for everything? What about smart cross-references? What about variables? What about advanced search and replace for anything? What about diagnostic reports? XHTML, not even XML. No DITA. Adobe will be able to

Para size in struct doc overriding char size

2008-03-05 Thread Hedley Finger
All: I am using the DITA-FMx plugin for FrameMaker with EDDs derived from the DITA DTDs/schemas. The element has a number of context-based format rules that specify various para formats dependent on context. When the context is not specified in the format rules, it simply defaults to the

Para size in struct doc overriding char size

2008-03-04 Thread Hedley Finger
All: I am using the DITA-FMx plugin for FrameMaker with EDDs derived from the DITA DTDs/schemas. The p element has a number of context-based format rules that specify various para formats dependent on context. When the context is not specified in the format rules, it simply defaults to the

Whither RoboHelp for FrameMaker, Adobe?

2008-03-03 Thread Hedley Finger
BlueSky turned into eHelp and developed RoboHelp for FrameMaker, an intuitive GUI oriented converter to generate RoboHelp from original FrameMaker files. Then MacroMedia bought eHelp to get their hands on Captivate, preserved RoboHelp (sort of) and dumped RoboHelp for FrameMaker. Then Adobe

Whither RoboHelp for FrameMaker, Adobe?

2008-03-02 Thread Hedley Finger
BlueSky turned into eHelp and developed RoboHelp for FrameMaker, an intuitive GUI oriented converter to generate RoboHelp from original FrameMaker files. Then MacroMedia bought eHelp to get their hands on Captivate, preserved RoboHelp (sort of) and dumped RoboHelp for FrameMaker. Then Adobe

Modularised EDDs?

2008-02-28 Thread Hedley Finger
s >of the EDD is a good approach for EDD maintenance. >Note that this is how the structapp stub files have been implemented >in DITA-FMx .. the stub files themselves are invalid, but when >imported as an inset into the structapps file, work fine. >Cheers, >Scott Prentice >Lex

Re: Modularised EDDs?

2008-02-27 Thread Hedley Finger
. Note that this is how the structapp stub files have been implemented in DITA-FMx .. the stub files themselves are invalid, but when imported as an inset into the structapps file, work fine. Cheers, Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Hedley Finger wrote: Lynne Price

Modularised EDDs?

2008-02-27 Thread Hedley Finger
Lynne Price, Kay Whatley and others: The DITA DTDs are modularised to allow ready re-use, specialisation and maintenance. Is there any way to create a modularised EDD, with a skeleton host file and modules imported as text insets? I have been studying the Adobe documentation for developing

Modularised EDDs?

2008-02-26 Thread Hedley Finger
Lynne Price, Kay Whatley and others: The DITA DTDs are modularised to allow ready re-use, specialisation and maintenance. Is there any way to create a modularised EDD, with a skeleton host file and modules imported as text insets? I have been studying the Adobe documentation for developing

FrameMaker 8 won't import SVG graphics correctly

2008-02-22 Thread Hedley Finger
Ursula: At Friday, 22/02/2008, 02:29 AM;, you wrote: >Hi, Headley Hedley >I didn't see a reply to your very interesting question on the >list... [FrameMaker 8 won't import SVG graphics correctly] ... did >you get any useful feedback privately? An Adobe employee emailed me that this was a

SOLUTION -- PERHAPS [was "RE: FrameMaker 8 won't import SVG graphics correctly"]

2008-02-22 Thread Hedley Finger
All: Original SVG from Inkscape consists of a screen capture to PNG plus some thin lines and some TrueType text. @ Direct import of *.svg by FrameMaker = strange white rectangles partially obscuring part of graphic. Thickness of hair lines varies. Appears to

RE: FrameMaker 8 won't import SVG graphics correctly

2008-02-21 Thread Hedley Finger
Ursula: At Friday, 22/02/2008, 02:29 AM;, you wrote: Hi, Headley Hedley I didn't see a reply to your very interesting question on the list... [FrameMaker 8 won't import SVG graphics correctly] ... did you get any useful feedback privately? An Adobe employee emailed me that this was a bug

SOLUTION -- PERHAPS [was RE: FrameMaker 8 won't import SVG graphics correctly]

2008-02-21 Thread Hedley Finger
All: Original SVG from Inkscape consists of a screen capture to PNG plus some thin lines and some TrueType text. @ Direct import of *.svg by FrameMaker = strange white rectangles partially obscuring part of graphic. Thickness of hair lines varies. Appears to

FrameMaker 8 won't import SVG graphics correctly

2008-02-17 Thread Hedley Finger
I am working on a personal DITA project in FrameMaker 8 with DITA-FMx, the more highly functional successor to the Adobe DITA plug-in. I created an SVG graphic graphic consisting of a screen capture of a dialogue as a PNG graphic, a few straight lines, and some text in Inkscape and saved as

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