Re: FrameMaker 12 released

2014-01-17 Thread Jim Owens
After years with the same company, I'm just starting to re-invent myself as a contractor. So far no one has asked for work in FrameMaker. If they did, I'd have to consider my options. A thousand bucks is a big outlay. On the other hand, I'd probably want it for no more than a month or two,

FrameMaker 12 released

2014-01-17 Thread Jim Owens
After years with the same company, I'm just starting to re-invent myself as a contractor. So far no one has asked for work in FrameMaker. If they did, I'd have to consider my options. A thousand bucks is a big outlay. On the other hand, I'd probably want it for no more than a month or two,

Re: Script to convert tables to paragraphs

2013-11-26 Thread Jim Owens
AutoIT is a powerful scripting language, and it comes with good documentation. It's intended to act as a surrogate for a human, by detecting screen or window activity and sending mouse or keyboard responses, but it's also very good for general-purpose programming. It includes the ability to

Re: Script to convert tables to paragraphs

2013-11-26 Thread Jim Owens
and context-sensitive help. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 On 26-Nov-13 4:27 PM, Jim Owens wrote: AutoIT is a powerful scripting language, and it comes with good documentation. It's intended to act as a surrogate for a human, by detecting screen or window activity and sending

Script to convert tables to paragraphs

2013-11-26 Thread Jim Owens
AutoIT is a powerful scripting language, and it comes with good documentation. It's intended to act as a surrogate for a human, by detecting screen or window activity and sending mouse or keyboard responses, but it's also very good for general-purpose programming. It includes the ability to

Script to convert tables to paragraphs

2013-11-26 Thread Jim Owens
framers at lists.frameusers.com > *Subject:* Re: Script to convert tables to paragraphs > > And the free editor that comes with it provides autocompletion and > context-sensitive help. > > Regards, > Shmuel Wolfson > 052-763-7133 > > On 26-Nov-13 4:27 PM, Jim Owens wr

Re: Fm and Sharepoint

2013-11-22 Thread Jim Owens
It is possible. In the Adobe FrameMaker forums, there's a subforum for Content Management Systems where the SharePoint Connector has been discussed from time to time. On 2013-11-22 15:25, John Posada wrote: Hi guys... Has anyone managed to use Sharepoint as a FM cms? Thanks

Fm and Sharepoint

2013-11-22 Thread Jim Owens
It is possible. In the Adobe FrameMaker forums, there's a subforum for Content Management Systems where the SharePoint Connector has been discussed from time to time. On 2013-11-22 15:25, John Posada wrote: > > Hi guys... > > Has anyone managed to use Sharepoint as a FM cms? > > Thanks > > > >

Re: FrameMaker 11 and referenced graphics pointing to wrong drive: nightmare alley

2013-05-14 Thread Jim Owens
You may be able to change the letters assigned to your drives. See http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/change-drive-letters-windows-7.htm On 2013-05-14 14:38, Rob Shell wrote: Dear Framers: I wonder if anyone out there has experienced this. I upgraded windows 7 32 bit to 64 bit. To do

Re: FrameMaker 11 and referenced graphics pointing to wrong drive: nightmare alley

2013-05-14 Thread Jim Owens
On 2013-05-14 15:36, Fred Ridder wrote: I don't think this will work because Rob already has an H: drive, which is where his FM files are. You can't assign two drives (or two partitions) to the same letter. I thought he might be able to rename the current H drive to something else, and

FrameMaker 11 and referenced graphics pointing to wrong drive: nightmare alley

2013-05-14 Thread Jim Owens
You may be able to change the letters assigned to your drives. See http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/change-drive-letters-windows-7.htm On 2013-05-14 14:38, Rob Shell wrote: > Dear Framers: > I wonder if anyone out there has experienced this. > I upgraded windows 7 32 bit to 64 bit. >

FrameMaker 11 and referenced graphics pointing to wrong drive: nightmare alley

2013-05-14 Thread Jim Owens
On 2013-05-14 15:36, Fred Ridder wrote: > I don't think this will work because Rob already has an H: drive, > which is where his FM files are. You can't assign two drives (or two > partitions) to the same letter. > I thought he might be able to rename the current H drive to something else, and

Re: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only

2013-05-11 Thread Jim Owens
Even better, let's all switch to DITA and use whatever tools we like for editing and publishing. On 2013-05-11 14:33, Writer wrote: I say we start a new company and create a competitor to FrameMaker! Who's with me? Anyone? Anyone? *crickets chirp* =D Nadine - Original Message -

Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only

2013-05-11 Thread Jim Owens
Even better, let's all switch to DITA and use whatever tools we like for editing and publishing. On 2013-05-11 14:33, Writer wrote: > I say we start a new company and create a competitor to FrameMaker! Who's > with me? Anyone? Anyone? > > *crickets chirp* > > =D > > Nadine > > > - Original

Re: Adobe FrameMaker forum down

2013-04-10 Thread Jim Owens
They've been reorganized. You need to go back to the index page (http://forums.adobe.com/index.jspa) and select the FrameMaker forum from there. On 2013-04-09 11:35, Keith Soltys wrote: It looks like something bad happened to the Adobe FrameMaker forum on the community site. The page says

Adobe FrameMaker forum down

2013-04-10 Thread Jim Owens
They've been reorganized. You need to go back to the index page (http://forums.adobe.com/index.jspa) and select the FrameMaker forum from there. On 2013-04-09 11:35, Keith Soltys wrote: > > It looks like something bad happened to the Adobe FrameMaker forum on > the community site. The page

Re: FrameMaker 10 to FrameMaker 11

2013-03-05 Thread Jim Owens
We haven't experienced any problems since we upgraded a few months ago. The ability to edit the XML directly is a welcome improvement. On 2013-03-05 09:12, Danny Green - NOAA Federal wrote: All, We are considering upgrading from FrameMaker 10 to 11. I have seen some issues on this list

FrameMaker 10 to FrameMaker 11

2013-03-05 Thread Jim Owens
We haven't experienced any problems since we upgraded a few months ago. The ability to edit the XML directly is a welcome improvement. On 2013-03-05 09:12, Danny Green - NOAA Federal wrote: > All, > We are considering upgrading from FrameMaker 10 to 11. I have seen > some issues on this list

OT: HTML Help Related Topics control and character encoding

2013-02-13 Thread Jim Owens
We're using the HTML Help Related Topics ActiveX control. When we create an Item with Arabic text for the title, the wrong characters appear in the Topics Found dialog box, even when the system locale is set to Arabic. Everything else in the compiled help uses the correct Arabic characters,

Re: OT: HTML Help Related Topics control and character encoding

2013-02-13 Thread Jim Owens
to Arabic, in which case it's something like Cyrillic). The pages are all encoded with windows-1256. On 2013-02-13 10:01, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 05:44:07 -0500, Jim Owens jow...@magma.ca wrote: We're using the HTML Help Related Topics ActiveX control. When we create an Item

Re: OT: HTML Help Related Topics control and character encoding

2013-02-13 Thread Jim Owens
Thanks for the tips! I'll check them out. On 2013-02-13 12:10, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:32:23 -0500, Jim Owens jow...@magma.ca wrote: Hi, Jeremy. I'm using SBAppLocale to compile (as recommended in the Mif2Go Guide!), and Search is working OK in Arabic. In fact

Re: OT: HTML Help Related Topics control and character encoding

2013-02-13 Thread Jim Owens
On 2013-02-13 12:10, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: I wonder if there is a different version of the ActiveX control for different code pages? It sounds like it's not using the same one as the rest. See if there is a PARAM name=Font ... in the instance of the control in your HTML. MSDN has some

Re: OT: HTML Help Related Topics control and character

2013-02-13 Thread Jim Owens
Jeremy has provided information about SBAppLocale.exe, which spares you the reboot. http://mif2go.com/xhtml/htmlhelp_0073_9133compilinginadifferentlanguage.htm On 2013-02-13 14:41, David Shaked wrote: When you compiled the Arabic CHM, did you do it on an Arabic system? NOT just one with the

OT: HTML Help Related Topics control and character encoding

2013-02-13 Thread Jim Owens
We're using the HTML Help Related Topics ActiveX control. When we create an with Arabic text for the title, the wrong characters appear in the Topics Found dialog box, even when the system locale is set to Arabic. Everything else in the compiled help uses the correct Arabic characters,

OT: HTML Help Related Topics control and character encoding

2013-02-13 Thread Jim Owens
tem locale to Arabic, in which case it's something like Cyrillic). The pages are all encoded with windows-1256. On 2013-02-13 10:01, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 05:44:07 -0500, Jim Owens wrote: > >> We're using the HTML Help Related Topics ActiveX control. When we >

OT: HTML Help Related Topics control and character encoding

2013-02-13 Thread Jim Owens
Thanks for the tips! I'll check them out. On 2013-02-13 12:10, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:32:23 -0500, Jim Owens wrote: > >> Hi, Jeremy. I'm using SBAppLocale to compile (as recommended in the >> Mif2Go Guide!), and Search is working OK in Arabic. I

OT: HTML Help Related Topics control and character encoding

2013-02-13 Thread Jim Owens
On 2013-02-13 12:10, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: > I wonder if there is a different version of the > ActiveX control for different code pages? It > sounds like it's not using the same one as the > rest. > > See if there is a > in the instance of the control in your HTML. > MSDN has some very

OT: HTML Help Related Topics control and character

2013-02-13 Thread Jim Owens
Jeremy has provided information about SBAppLocale.exe, which spares you the reboot. http://mif2go.com/xhtml/htmlhelp_0073_9133compilinginadifferentlanguage.htm On 2013-02-13 14:41, David Shaked wrote: >> When you compiled the Arabic CHM, did you do it on an Arabic system? NOT > just one with

best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?

2013-02-05 Thread Jim Owens
On 2013-02-05 12:08, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: > To be clear, the only issue with Firefox you have reported to us is > with invoking OmniHelp from a Web application. This has never been > reported by anyone else, and cannot be duplicated here... We use > OmniHelp in FireFox all the time. In

Re: What is a PI marker or programming instruction marker

2012-11-30 Thread Jim Owens
With due respect for Jeremy, whom I esteem greatly, I think he may have overstated the case. You can get CHM output from oXygen with a few mouse clicks, and you can easily customize its appearance using CSS. There are also some ready-made parameter controls in oXygen, for example to create

What is a "PI marker" or "programming instruction marker"

2012-11-30 Thread Jim Owens
With due respect for Jeremy, whom I esteem greatly, I think he may have overstated the case. You can get CHM output from oXygen with a few mouse clicks, and you can easily customize its appearance using CSS. There are also some ready-made parameter controls in oXygen, for example to create

Re: Fm+Sharepoint?

2012-11-27 Thread Jim Owens
We're using FM 11 and SharePoint 2010. Our DITA project has a few hundred files. For check-in/check-out and version management, it's acceptable. The time to load the list of files when you want to insert a graphic into a topic is measurable in long seconds, and I wish that were faster. I'd

Fm+Sharepoint?

2012-11-27 Thread Jim Owens
We're using FM 11 and SharePoint 2010. Our DITA project has a few hundred files. For check-in/check-out and version management, it's acceptable. The time to load the list of files when you want to insert a graphic into a topic is measurable in long seconds, and I wish that were faster. I'd

Re: Confluence 4 export: the one feature that would justify my upgrading from FM10

2012-11-22 Thread Jim Owens
FWIW, there is a free product called AutoIT that allows you to automate complex interactions with the GUI. The programming language is well-documented and quite powerful. On 2012-11-21 13:32, Robert Lauriston wrote: The manual page-by-page import I've done is too complicated to automate.

Confluence 4 export: the one feature that would justify my upgrading from FM10

2012-11-22 Thread Jim Owens
FWIW, there is a free product called AutoIT that allows you to automate complex interactions with the GUI. The programming language is well-documented and quite powerful. On 2012-11-21 13:32, Robert Lauriston wrote: > The manual page-by-page import I've done is too complicated to > automate.

Re: Confluence 4 export: the one feature that would justify my upgrading from FM10

2012-11-21 Thread Jim Owens
We've just started using Confluence; we have documents in Frame and DITA; and we use Mif2Go and DITA2Go. So naturally I'm interested. At the risk of going off topic: Confluence has an Import from disk feature. As far as I can tell, it accepts multiple files placed in a folder on the

Re: Confluence 4 export: the one feature that would justify my upgrading from FM10

2012-11-21 Thread Jim Owens
I've been looking into this, and it seems there's a problem due to a format change. It's important to know what version of Confluence you're dealing with. It seems Confluence 3.x and earlier used Confluence Wiki Markup format for their pages. Beginning with 4.0, Atlassian changed to the

Confluence 4 export: the one feature that would justify my upgrading from FM10

2012-11-21 Thread Jim Owens
We've just started using Confluence; we have documents in Frame and DITA; and we use Mif2Go and DITA2Go. So naturally I'm interested. At the risk of going off topic: Confluence has an "Import from disk" feature. As far as I can tell, it accepts multiple files placed in a folder on the

Confluence 4 export: the one feature that would justify my upgrading from FM10

2012-11-21 Thread Jim Owens
I've been looking into this, and it seems there's a problem due to a format change. It's important to know what version of Confluence you're dealing with. It seems Confluence 3.x and earlier used Confluence Wiki Markup format for their pages. Beginning with 4.0, Atlassian changed to the more

Re: Response from Adobe - Print to .PS issue - Cause and solution

2012-09-27 Thread Jim Owens
I'm always in structured mode (FM10 at the moment). Sometimes I work on unstructured documents, and I've never had a problem. On 2012-09-27 13:48, Robert Lauriston wrote: I'm curious to hear how well that works. Seems like editing unstructured documents in structured mode is likely to have

Response from Adobe - Print to .PS issue - Cause and solution

2012-09-27 Thread Jim Owens
I'm always in structured mode (FM10 at the moment). Sometimes I work on unstructured documents, and I've never had a problem. On 2012-09-27 13:48, Robert Lauriston wrote: > I'm curious to hear how well that works. Seems like editing > unstructured documents in structured mode is likely to have

FM10 SharePoint Connector speed -- need input

2012-09-20 Thread Jim Owens
For those using FM10's CMS Connector with SharePoint 2010: Is the file dialog reasonably responsive when you want to add a graphic or other file to a document? We find it very slow, but we aren't sure whether the issue is with the CMS Connector or with our SharePoint installation.

FM10 SharePoint Connector speed -- need input

2012-09-20 Thread Jim Owens
For those using FM10's CMS Connector with SharePoint 2010: Is the file dialog reasonably responsive when you want to add a graphic or other file to a document? We find it very slow, but we aren't sure whether the issue is with the CMS Connector or with our SharePoint installation.

Re: Resources to help a newbie create DITA documents in FrameMaker 10

2012-05-18 Thread Jim Owens
In case no one else has mentioned it, you can also use DITA2Go as an alternative to the DITA-OT (or Flare or RoboHelp). It's free, and it's highly configurable. The learning curve is not as steep as for the DITA-OT, especially for those familiar with its sister product Mif2Go, and the

Resources to help a newbie create DITA documents in FrameMaker 10

2012-05-18 Thread Jim Owens
In case no one else has mentioned it, you can also use DITA2Go as an alternative to the DITA-OT (or Flare or RoboHelp). It's free, and it's highly configurable. The learning curve is not as steep as for the DITA-OT, especially for those familiar with its sister product Mif2Go, and the

Re: Save as HTML causes unstructured FM10 to hang

2012-04-20 Thread Jim Owens
If the book is smallish, why not just CTRL-A CTRL-C CTRL-V all the chapters into a single Frame file? On 2012-04-20 14:25, John Sgammato wrote: I am trying to save a smallish book as HTML. I have done the HTML setup utility bit and copied the reference pages across the files in the book.

Save as HTML causes unstructured FM10 to hang

2012-04-20 Thread Jim Owens
If the book is smallish, why not just CTRL-A CTRL-C CTRL-V all the chapters into a single Frame file? On 2012-04-20 14:25, John Sgammato wrote: > > I am trying to save a smallish book as HTML. I have done the HTML > setup utility bit and copied the reference pages across the files in > the

Re: DITA file naming conventions

2011-11-03 Thread Jim Owens
As far as possible, make sure the file name matches the title of the topic. So if your topic is Inserting the Widget then your file name would be inserting_the_widget.xml. I realize this may cause problems later if the title changes, but that doesn't happen often and you can usually make

Re: DITA file naming conventions

2011-11-03 Thread Jim Owens
For what it's worth, the DITA Style Guide recommends using names that match the titles. It also recommends using the extensions .dita and .ditamap, instead of .xml. That way, you have more control over which tool opens the file, and you can distinguish the files from other xml files used in

Re: OT: Scary responsibility in job ad

2011-10-06 Thread Jim Owens
I'm seeing some interest in this kind of thing from our local Agile Scrum Master. There aren't enough writers to go to all the scrums , so (the thinking goes) maybe the engineers could create some content, which the writers could edit. On 2011-10-06 12:51, Writer wrote: A local company listed

Re: Space at beginning of title

2010-12-16 Thread Jim Owens
1. Save as MIF. 2. Open MIF file in text editor. 3. Replace String ` with String ` (without the double quotes). Note that the opening single quote character is `, not '. This will remove leading spaces anywhere they're found. It shouldn't cause any problems, but have a backup in case.

Re: Space at beginning of title

2010-12-16 Thread Jim Owens
Hold that advice! MIF sometimes includes word spaces at the start of a string segment. On 2010-12-16 10:28, Jim Owens wrote: 1. Save as MIF. 2. Open MIF file in text editor. 3. Replace String ` with String ` (without the double quotes). Note that the opening single quote character

Space at beginning of title

2010-12-16 Thread Jim Owens
1. Save as MIF. 2. Open MIF file in text editor. 3. Replace " Hi, > > We have redefined our title paragraph formats and the space that was > entered manually is now included in the numbering scheme. > > Result, additional space at the beginning of all titles (hundreds of > them, of course). > >

Space at beginning of title

2010-12-16 Thread Jim Owens
Hold that advice! MIF sometimes includes word spaces at the start of a string segment. On 2010-12-16 10:28, Jim Owens wrote: > 1. Save as MIF. > 2. Open MIF file in text editor. > 3. Replace " Note that the opening single quote character is `, not '. > > This will remove lea

Re: FrameMaker and RoboHelp

2010-11-01 Thread Jim Owens
Adobe has a FrameMaker Integration Forum for FM-RoboHelp issues. http://forums.adobe.com/community/robohelp/robohelp_framemaker On 2010-11-01 13:01, Martha Lee wrote: Hi All, I'm looking for some resources to learn how to use RoboHelp with FrameMaker. (...)

FrameMaker and RoboHelp

2010-11-01 Thread Jim Owens
Adobe has a FrameMaker Integration Forum for FM-RoboHelp issues. http://forums.adobe.com/community/robohelp/robohelp_framemaker On 2010-11-01 13:01, Martha Lee wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm looking for some resources to learn how to use RoboHelp with FrameMaker. > (...)

Re: off topic: e-drawings, eps files, frame and pdf

2010-10-18 Thread Jim Owens
For what it's worth, I worked with the Solidworks free viewer, and it seemed pretty powerful, although not very intuitive. After playing around with it for a couple of hours, I was able to create narrow sections to isolate the views I wanted. From a single 3D Solidworks file, I was able to

off topic: e-drawings, eps files, frame and pdf

2010-10-18 Thread Jim Owens
For what it's worth, I worked with the Solidworks free viewer, and it seemed pretty powerful, although not very intuitive. After playing around with it for a couple of hours, I was able to create narrow sections to isolate the views I wanted. From a single 3D Solidworks file, I was able to

Re: off topic: e-drawings, eps files, frame and pdf

2010-10-15 Thread Jim Owens
I had to bring in a Solidworks file for an illustration recently. I tried it a few ways. If I recall correctly, I ended up printing from Solidworks to Adobe PDF. In my case, I had to open the PDF in Illustrator for some edits and then save it again as PDF. Then I brought the PDF into the

off topic: e-drawings, eps files, frame and pdf

2010-10-15 Thread Jim Owens
I had to bring in a Solidworks file for an illustration recently. I tried it a few ways. If I recall correctly, I ended up printing from Solidworks to Adobe PDF. In my case, I had to open the PDF in Illustrator for some edits and then save it again as PDF. Then I brought the PDF into the

Re: Pgf numbering strangeness

2010-09-30 Thread Jim Owens
Finding rogue paragraph numbering can be a little less tedious if you save as MIF, open the MIF in a text editor, and search for PgfAutoNum Yes or PgfNumFormat tags. Fred Ridder wrote: . . . What Cynthia needs to look for is rogue paragraphs that increment the first counter in the S:

Pgf numbering strangeness

2010-09-30 Thread Jim Owens
Finding rogue paragraph numbering can be a little less tedious if you save as MIF, open the MIF in a text editor, and search for or PgfNumFormat tags. Fred Ridder wrote: > . . . > What Cynthia needs to look for is rogue paragraphs that increment the first > counter in the "S:" numbering

Re: Online help generator using FM8

2010-04-22 Thread Jim Owens
Besides Webworks Publisher, other options include Mif2Go (which we use) -- fast, powerful, highly configurable, extensively documented, and reasonably priced, but better for those with some scripting or programming experience; and Adobe RoboHelp (included with FrameMaker in Adobe's Technical

Online help generator using FM8

2010-04-22 Thread Jim Owens
Besides Webworks Publisher, other options include Mif2Go (which we use) -- fast, powerful, highly configurable, extensively documented, and reasonably priced, but better for those with some scripting or programming experience; and Adobe RoboHelp (included with FrameMaker in Adobe's Technical

Re: Mif2Go exclude page numbers from x-refs?

2010-04-01 Thread Jim Owens
You need to set up an FM template with different cross-reference definitions, and then instruct Mif2Go to use that template. John Sgammato wrote: I am generating online OmniHelp from FM9 files. The X-refs in the manuals say See x on page . I want to keep the and lose the on page

Mif2Go exclude page numbers from x-refs?

2010-04-01 Thread Jim Owens
You need to set up an FM template with different cross-reference definitions, and then instruct Mif2Go to use that template. John Sgammato wrote: > I am generating online OmniHelp from FM9 files. The X-refs in the > manuals say See "x on page ". > I want to keep the and lose the "on

Re: RoboHelp Help

2010-01-22 Thread Jim Owens
Tony Marek wrote: Does anyone know if there is a similar RoboHelp mailing list? There is a browser-based Adobe user-to-user forum; also one for the TCS.. I found both helpful when I was evaluating RoboHelp. http://forums.adobe.com/community/robohelp

RoboHelp Help

2010-01-22 Thread Jim Owens
Tony Marek wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a similar RoboHelp mailing list? There is a browser-based Adobe user-to-user forum; also one for the TCS.. I found both helpful when I was evaluating RoboHelp. http://forums.adobe.com/community/robohelp

Re: How to find Unavailable Fonts

2010-01-11 Thread Jim Owens
syed.hos...@aeris.net wrote: I saved those two files in MIF format and searched for FFamily and only see the following unique entries for font familes: That search may not have been definitive. According to the MIF Reference (MIF Document Statements Character Formats PgfFont and Font

How to find "Unavailable Fonts"

2010-01-11 Thread Jim Owens
Syed.Hosain at aeris.net wrote: > I saved those two files in MIF format and searched for "FFamily" and > only see the following unique entries for font familes: > > That search may not have been definitive. According to the MIF Reference (MIF Document Statements > Character Formats > PgfFont

Re: Switching to RoboHelp for large-scale Frame-to-HTML Help Project

2009-12-14 Thread Jim Owens
Lots of time might be overstating it. Every new tool requires time to learn and set up. Getting working help from Mif2Go doesn't take very long at all -- maybe a couple of days to figure out what you need to do, and then do it. Customizing the output to your presferences takes longer. With

Re: Switching to RoboHelp for large-scale Frame-to-HTML Help Project

2009-12-10 Thread Jim Owens
I'll second that. It's well worth looking at. (another satisified Mif2Go customer) David Spreadbury wrote: Well, I will jump in and ask why not try Mif2Go. Book size doesn't matter. Should handle all your context sensitive requirements without a problem. Assistance, if needed, is an email

Switching to RoboHelp for large-scale Frame-to-HTML Help Project

2009-12-10 Thread Jim Owens
I'll second that. It's well worth looking at. (another satisified Mif2Go customer) David Spreadbury wrote: > Well, I will jump in and ask why not try Mif2Go. Book size doesn't matter. > Should handle all your context sensitive requirements without a problem. > Assistance, if needed, is an email

Re: How to create CHM from NDOC

2009-11-09 Thread Jim Owens
Do you have to use NDOC? Most people now use Sandcastle to process .NET code comments into Help. Nidhi Bansal wrote: Hi, I have to create CHM file of the .Net code comments taking NDoc3 2.0 as a code documentation generator tool. Can anyone provide me with the steps of how to create the

How to create CHM from NDOC

2009-11-09 Thread Jim Owens
Do you have to use NDOC? Most people now use Sandcastle to process .NET code comments into Help. Nidhi Bansal wrote: > Hi, > > I have to create CHM file of the .Net code comments taking NDoc3 2.0 as a > code documentation generator tool. Can anyone provide me with the steps of > how to create

Mif2Go: LOT and LOF accessible by search in HTML Help output

2009-10-28 Thread Jim Owens
This is a weird one -- any clues would be appreciated. I'm generating HTML Help using Mif2GO and two conditionalized Frame 9 books. I don't want the LOT or LOF in the outputs, so I've set UseFrameGenFiles=No. Nevertheless, when I search for terms such as figure or table in the Help, the

Re: Mif2Go: LOT and LOF accessible by search in HTML Help output

2009-10-28 Thread Jim Owens
That's a useful workaround, but the LOT and LOF shouldn't show up in the output, and usually they don't. Whatever caused the problem, it may have gone away. The output folders contain HTML files for the LOT or LOF, and these files are picked up by the HHP project, but the LOT and LOF files

Re: Mif2Go: LOT and LOF accessible by search in HTML Help output

2009-10-28 Thread Jim Owens
I suspect that while fumbling around in the new FM9 interface, I accidentally generated Mif2Go output for the LOF and LOT instead of the book. I can never tell what's selected in this interface. Am I the only one? Jim Owens wrote: I'll put it down to a user error of some sort, delete them

Mif2Go: LOT and LOF accessible by search in HTML Help output

2009-10-28 Thread Jim Owens
This is a weird one -- any clues would be appreciated. I'm generating HTML Help using Mif2GO and two conditionalized Frame 9 books. I don't want the LOT or LOF in the outputs, so I've set UseFrameGenFiles=No. Nevertheless, when I search for terms such as "figure" or "table" in the Help, the

Mif2Go: LOT and LOF accessible by search in HTML Help output

2009-10-28 Thread Jim Owens
That's a useful workaround, but the LOT and LOF shouldn't show up in the output, and usually they don't. Whatever caused the problem, it may have gone away. The output folders contain HTML files for the LOT or LOF, and these files are picked up by the HHP project, but the LOT and LOF files

Mif2Go: LOT and LOF accessible by search in HTML Help output

2009-10-28 Thread Jim Owens
I suspect that while fumbling around in the new FM9 interface, I accidentally generated Mif2Go output for the LOF and LOT instead of the book. I can never tell what's selected in this interface. Am I the only one? Jim Owens wrote: > > I'll put it down to a user error of some sort, delet

Re: Mif2Go graphics question

2009-09-14 Thread Jim Owens
I have no idea whether it will make a difference, but your GraphCopyFiles statement has a space following the equals sign. Have you tried removing it? ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to

Re: Mif2Go graphics question

2009-09-14 Thread Jim Owens
Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: Also, if you use StripGraphPath=No, and don't set a GraphPath, you are saying to preserve the original paths from the Frame files. Those are unlikely to work. If you are putting the graphics in the same dir as the HTML, you definitely want StripGraphPath=Yes.

Mif2Go graphics question

2009-09-14 Thread Jim Owens
I have no idea whether it will make a difference, but your GraphCopyFiles statement has a space following the equals sign. Have you tried removing it?

Mif2Go graphics question

2009-09-14 Thread Jim Owens
Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: > > Also, if you use StripGraphPath=No, and don't set a GraphPath, you > are saying to preserve the original paths from the Frame files. > Those are unlikely to work. If you are putting the graphics in > the same dir as the HTML, you definitely want StripGraphPath=Yes. >

Mif2Go: adding watermark to CHM

2009-07-06 Thread Jim Owens
I'm trying to add a draft watermark to our CHM output. Following the CSS method described in the Mif2GO documentation (Section 22.11), I've succeeded in adding a watermark to the HTML files, as viewed in Internet Explorer. However, the watermark does not appear in the CHM topics. A quick

Re: Mif2Go: adding watermark to CHM

2009-07-06 Thread Jim Owens
something I'm missing? Jim Owens wrote: I'm trying to add a draft watermark to our CHM output. Following the CSS method described in the Mif2GO documentation (Section 22.11), I've succeeded in adding a watermark to the HTML files, as viewed in Internet Explorer. However, the watermark does

Mif2Go: adding watermark to CHM

2009-07-06 Thread Jim Owens
I'm trying to add a "draft" watermark to our CHM output. Following the CSS method described in the Mif2GO documentation (Section 22.11), I've succeeded in adding a watermark to the HTML files, as viewed in Internet Explorer. However, the watermark does not appear in the CHM topics. A quick

Mif2Go: adding watermark to CHM

2009-07-06 Thread Jim Owens
file. - if no topics have a markup, then the CHM does not have any background images, even though the CSS specifies one. Fully repeatable, and at this point Mif2Go is not involved. Have I discovered a new Help Compiler bug, or is there still something I'm missing? Jim Owens wrote: > I'm try

Mif2Go: adding watermark to CHM

2009-07-06 Thread Jim Owens
m > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Jim Owens > Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 3:51 PM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com; framers at omsys.com > Subject: Re: Mif2Go: adding watermark to CHM > > (an update - also posting to Omsys list) > > Wh

Saving conditional Boolean expressions?

2009-06-18 Thread Jim Owens
Is there a way in FM8 or FM9 to save and re-use conditional expressions created using the Build expression dialog box? I'm using FM8 and I can't find a way to do this. I'm hoping the capability has been added for FM9. ___ You are currently

Saving conditional Boolean expressions?

2009-06-18 Thread Jim Owens
Is there a way in FM8 or FM9 to save and re-use conditional expressions created using the "Build expression" dialog box? I'm using FM8 and I can't find a way to do this. I'm hoping the capability has been added for FM9.

Re: French Language Challenge

2009-05-25 Thread Jim Owens
In Frame, each paragraph tag has a designated language (on the Default Fonts page of the Paragraph Designer). If I recall correctly, the spell-checker for that language is applied. marc.creag...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Everybody, I am working on Windows XP, FrameMaker 8 unstructured on a

French Language Challenge

2009-05-25 Thread Jim Owens
In Frame, each paragraph tag has a designated language (on the Default Fonts page of the Paragraph Designer). If I recall correctly, the spell-checker for that language is applied. marc.creaghan at sympatico.ca wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > I am working on Windows XP, FrameMaker 8 unstructured

Re: I need a Word to Frame dictionary

2009-05-12 Thread Jim Owens
In Frame, you don't have to worry too much about this. You just set up the table to have so many header rows, and they show up on subsequent pages. It sounds like you are in the paradigm-shift phase, where you have a certain conception of how to do things, Frame isn't living up to them, and

I need a Word to Frame dictionary

2009-05-12 Thread Jim Owens
In Frame, you don't have to worry too much about this. You just set up the table to have so many header rows, and they show up on subsequent pages. It sounds like you are in the paradigm-shift phase, where you have a certain conception of how to do things, Frame isn't living up to them, and

Re: Inventory of Template Features

2009-05-11 Thread Jim Owens
At the end of an internal project, I usually write a short document that explains what I've done. This lets me record the reasons for my decisions, and highlight any unusual features that may need special attention. Sometimes the document is as simple as a text file. If I think others might

Inventory of Template Features

2009-05-11 Thread Jim Owens
At the end of an internal project, I usually write a short document that explains what I've done. This lets me record the reasons for my decisions, and highlight any unusual features that may need special attention. Sometimes the document is as simple as a text file. If I think others might

Re: Compile Book_Wrong Font msg

2009-04-25 Thread Jim Owens
I had this happen just the other day. Washing as MIF didn't help. I saved as MIF, opened the MIF file in a text editor, and searched for the font name (in this case, Times-Roman). This turned up one Ffamily `Times-Roman' tag that did not seem to be wrapping any text. I removed the entire tag

Compile Book_Wrong Font msg

2009-04-25 Thread Jim Owens
I had this happen just the other day. Washing as MIF didn't help. I saved as MIF, opened the MIF file in a text editor, and searched for the font name (in this case, "Times-Roman"). This turned up one tag that did not seem to be wrapping any text. I removed the entire tag section, and this

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