RE: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-10 Thread Syed.Hosain
stallation directory from my backups ... is there some file there that would solve this issue? Z From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Syed Zaeem Hosain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Sent: Wed 12/10/2008 8:59 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re-installing FM 8

Re: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-10 Thread John Posada
Why don't you just contact Adobe. Think maybe they've seen this situation before? On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:11 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sigh ... yup, I was afraid of this issue. I decided to try installing it > anyway and the older "activation" on my dead drive is preventing my > activ

RE: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-10 Thread Dov Isaacs
L PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 9:00 AM > To: framers@lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ... > > Hi, all. > > My laptop disk drive started acting flaky, so I had to put a new drive onto > the system. In this > process, I

RE: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-10 Thread Syed.Hosain
I think I will need to do that! Z From: John Posada [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 12/10/2008 9:17 AM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ... Why don't you

RE: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-10 Thread Syed.Hosain
Okay ... I am now in "Live Chat" with someone who says they can help. Z From: John Posada [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 12/10/2008 9:17 AM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Re-installing F

RE: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-10 Thread Syed.Hosain
Hi, Dov, et. al. > (1) FrameMaker 8 works fine on both Vista 32-bit and Vista 64-bit assuming that if you are running Acrobat, you are using at least Acrobat 8.1. Thanks for the info! I use Acrobat Pro 9, so that should be okay. But, I do have to re-install Acrobat next. And, deal with

Re: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-10 Thread Susan Modlin
...Susan From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dov Isaacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; framers@lists.frameusers.com Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 3:28:43 PM Subject: RE: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ... Hi, Dov, et. al. > (1) FrameMaker 8 works fine on

RE: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-10 Thread Syed.Hosain
. Z From: Susan Modlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 5:14 PM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]); Dov Isaacs; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ... Just out of curiosity, does Frame 7.2 run on either Vista

RE: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-10 Thread Dov Isaacs
Susan Modlin; Dov Isaacs; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ... I do not know about FM 7.2 and Vista - so maybe Dov can comment on that. But, at least, I can now confirm that FrameMaker 8 runs fine on Vista 32 bit. :) The look and feel of the windows an

RE: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-11 Thread Syed.Hosain
> I use both FM 7.2 and 8 on the same Vista 32-bit system without problems. > I just open the version I want to use first. Curiosity question: I see a number of people keeping FM7.2 on their systems. Why? Wouldn't it be simpler to go to FM8 and be done with it? I don't have a need to send .fm or .

RE: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-11 Thread Mike Feimster
ed to update entire departments. Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 10:22 AM To: David Creamer; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ... &g

RE: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-11 Thread Syed.Hosain
> > Wouldn't it be simpler to go to FM8 and be done with it? > Maybe. But. > - If FM 7.2 does everything you need, there might not be a reason to update. > - Not everybody can get the money for updates. While it might be relatively cheap to buy a single license, the cost grows quickly when you n

Re: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-11 Thread David Creamer
On syed.hos...@aeris.net at syed.hos...@aeris.net wrote on 12/11/08 7:22 AM: > Curiosity question: I see a number of people keeping FM7.2 on their > systems. Why? Wouldn't it be simpler to go to FM8 and be done with it? I > don't have a need to send .fm or .book files to people, but if I did, I >

RE: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-11 Thread Syed.Hosain
> I'm an Adobe trainer, so I need both versions depending on which version my client has. I also have InDesign CS2, CS3, and CS4 on my computer too. (The government is usually the last to upgrade...) Ah! Got it ... > > I am not sure I understand this exactly. Do you mean that when you did > > an

Re: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-11 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:22:26 -0700, wrote: >Curiosity question: I see a number of people keeping FM7.2 on their >systems. Why? Wouldn't it be simpler to go to FM8 and be done with it? I >don't have a need to send .fm or .book files to people, but if I did, I >could save it in FM7.2 format if need

RE: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-11 Thread Syed.Hosain
> > Curiosity question: I see a number of people keeping FM7.2 on their > > systems. Why? Wouldn't it be simpler to go to FM8 and be done with it? I > > don't have a need to send .fm or .book files to people, but if I did, I > > could save it in FM7.2 format if needed (as far as I recall) from with

RE: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-12 Thread Martinek, Carla
The one compelling reason I had to upgrade to FM8 was unicode support. One of my docs was a multi-lingual safety guide, and each language had to be done separately, PDF'd on localized machines, and then each language had to be assembled into the the final book. This caused problems with some of ou

Re: [fmforosx] RE: Dreaded Distiller barf - fixed, sort of

2009-03-04 Thread Steve Rickaby
It was a bad font... this from MonoType: >I had one of our type engineers review it and it appears that we had >updated this font back in 2006 but for whatever reason the data has not >been updated on the website? So not only has the font data been rebuilt, >it has been updated. > >The original re

Re: RE: Esc-m-p to wrap anchored frame

2009-05-20 Thread Nancy Allison
Thank you all. You are the greatest! --Nancy On May 20, 2009, Fred Ridder wrote: ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to

RE: RE: Esc-m-p to wrap anchored frame

2009-05-21 Thread Richard Melanson
I agree !! Great info. Rick -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:55 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: RE: Esc-m-p to wrap anchored frame

Re: RE: Arrows chase text out of text frames

2009-05-28 Thread Nancy Allison
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Fwd: Re: RE: Can Word identify graphic file names?

2009-06-30 Thread Nancy Allison
Sorry, sorry. Here it is in plain text. Jeff suggested something that made me take a look at the html output. You get a folder with all your files if you save to html also, but the graphics are autonumbered image001.jpg, image002.jpg, etc. But, if you look in the htm file itself in Notepad, yo

Re: [Free Framers] Re: Global changes to Anchored Frames?

2010-03-04 Thread Art Campbell
Hi Wayne, Thanks for doing the research, but this is to change existing frames & content. ImpGraph does this (partially -- doesn't do the rules and content position -- for NEW imports. And it does it very well. However, I'm happy to report that Rick Quattro at frameexp...@truevine.net has a scrip

RE: [Free Framers] RE: Change bars for multiple revisions

2010-03-04 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Subject: [Free Framers] RE: Change bars for multiple revisions Thanks, this gives my brain some directions to think in. And yes, I fully agree on the message headers! I always wind up accidentally replying only to the sender. Seonaid Seonaid Welch | Narrative Writer seonaid.we...@aecinc.com AEC | W

RE: [Free Framers] RE: Change bars for multiple revisions

2010-03-04 Thread Combs, Richard
list. Richard > -Original Message- > From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers- > boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Coatsworth > Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 2:55 PM > To: framers@lists.frameusers.com > Subject: RE: [Free Framers] RE: Change bar

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-29 Thread Matt Sullivan
While there's structured framemaker, dita, and a host of third party plugins can anyone really say its a simple, painless, and quick process to transition from unstructured framemaker to either structured or dita? Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini ___ Hi

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-29 Thread David Spreadbury
- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Matt Sullivan Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 3:24 PM To: 'Joseph Lorenzini'; 'FrameMaker Forum' Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Stra

Re: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-29 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
t is usually many times worse than doing it up front. OTOH, once you do the conversion, you may well gain enormous benefits, mainly with much improved single- sourcing and re-use. This is especially true when localization is involved; the savings in the first round of translations may pay for the

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-29 Thread Matt Sullivan
lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy H. Griffith Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 2:25 PM To: 'FrameMaker Forum' Subject: Re: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:23:54 -0700, "Matt Sulli

Re: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-29 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:54:08 -0700, "Matt Sullivan" wrote: >As a point of correction... > >I didn't state the para you've attributed to me >and I *do not* agree with it. Ah. You were quoting it. I didn't notice that, because you had omitted the usual top attribution to the author, Joseph Lo

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Bernard Aschwanden (Publishing Smarter)
ose results. Start with quality, life/job is easier. Bernard Bernard Aschwanden Publishing Smarter www.publishingsmarter.com Write Less. Write Better. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Matt Su

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Alison Craig
'Joseph Lorenzini'; 'FrameMaker Forum' Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) Further to Matt's comments, I do conversion for clients, but usually 1000's of pages at a time, and sometimes it's Word, Frame, or sloppy Fr

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Bernard Aschwanden (Publishing Smarter)
x27;s pretty smooth. Bernard -Original Message- From: Alison Craig [mailto:alison.cr...@ultrasonix.com] Sent: April-30-10 13:52 To: Bernard Aschwanden (Publishing Smarter); 'Matt Sullivan'; 'Joseph Lorenzini'; 'FrameMaker Forum' Subject: RE: Structuring docu

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Ed
ilto:framers- > boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Bernard Aschwanden (Publishing > Smarter) > Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 2:53 PM > To: 'Alison Craig'; 'Matt Sullivan'; 'Joseph Lorenzini'; 'FrameMaker Forum' > Subject: RE: Structuring documen

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Matt Sullivan
.com/in/mattrsullivan http://twitter.com/mattrsullivan http://twitter.com/roundpeginc -Original Message- From: Ed [mailto:hamonwr...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 12:22 PM To: 'Bernard Aschwanden (Publishing Smarter)'; 'Alison Craig'; 'Matt Sullivan&

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread LW White
-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Matt Sullivan Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 3:24 PM To: 'Joseph Lorenzini'; 'FrameMaker Forum' Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) While there's structured framemaker, dita, and a host of third party

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Ed
-Original Message- > From: Matt Sullivan [mailto:m...@grafixtraining.com] > Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 3:42 PM > To: 'Ed'; 'Bernard Aschwanden (Publishing Smarter)'; 'Alison Craig'; > 'FrameMaker Forum' > Subject: RE: Structuring document

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Bernard Aschwanden (Publishing Smarter)
Smarter)'; 'Alison Craig'; 'FrameMaker Forum' Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) Matt- People are asking why it's so hard to convert. My point is that for many solo writers, it's hard to propose a conversion to ma

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Ed, I think you have too many experts in your list. Many of us learned the steps as novices. For example, >An expert to create an EDD and/or DTD. You can learn to create an EDD by reading the FrameMaker documentation. If you are going to use DITA, FrameMaker comes with an EDD that you can lea

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Writer
call it sheer bloody mindedness--I wanted it badly enough to do it anyway. Nadine --- On Fri, 4/30/10, Ed wrote: > From: Ed > Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) > To: "'Matt Sullivan'" , "'Bernard

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Ed
ing XML and CSS, so maybe I'll look at this incrementally. -=Ed. > -Original Message- > From: Rick Quatro [mailto:r...@rickquatro.com] > Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 5:01 PM > To: 'Ed'; 'FrameMaker Forum' > Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Ad

Re: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:15:17 -0400, "Ed" wrote: >I went to an XSL class and was completely lost. Maybe it's changed since >then, but XSL spooked me pretty well. I enjoy hacking XML and CSS, so maybe >I'll look at this incrementally. You aren't the only one who finds XSLT challenging! I've been

Re: Re: Active Areas from Frame-Generated Index(es)

2010-06-01 Thread Eduardo F . Cidade Sr .
David Generating the index isn't a problem. It's the resulting PDFthe linking area doesn't extend to the entire index entryonly the leader dots and page numbering. Thank you All the best Eduardo Electronic Signature: Eduardo F. Cidade, Sr. On Tue 01/06/10 21:18 , David Spreadbury

Re: Re: Active Areas from Frame-Generated Index(es)

2010-06-01 Thread Eduardo F . Cidade Sr .
Thanks for the insight Les That's one of the amazing things about this onethe font characteristics across both pieces of information are identicalthat's what has me a bit stumped. But will investigate it in the morningcloser look might be in order Thank you All the best Eduardo

RE: Re: Active Areas from Frame-Generated Index(es)

2010-06-01 Thread Combs, Richard
Eduardo F.Cidade Sr. wrote: > Generating the index isn't a problem. It's the resulting PDFthe > linking area doesn't > extend to the entire index entryonly the leader dots and page > numbering. This is the expected behavior for an index (except that indexes normally don't have leader d

RE: Answer: Re: Odd bug printing FM to PDF

2006-01-11 Thread Combs, Richard
Diane Gaskill wrote: > I'm not sure whetehr to call it a bug or not, but it's > definitely a known problem. Anytime there is a character > font change in the text of a link in the FM file, the link > ends at that point. This is _neither_ a "bug" _nor_ a "known problem." To reiterate what

Re: Answer: Re: Odd bug printing FM to PDF

2006-01-11 Thread Rick Quatro
What Richard says is true, but this designed behavior is not very useful for generated lists. For generated lists, it would have been better to have a mechanism that would ignore character property changes and make the whole paragraph a link. Rick Diane Gaskill wrote: I'm not sure whetehr t

RE: Answer: Re: Odd bug printing FM to PDF

2006-01-11 Thread Joe Malin
6 10:22 AM | To: framers@frameusers.com | Subject: RE: Answer: Re: Odd bug printing FM to PDF | | Diane Gaskill wrote: | | > I'm not sure whetehr to call it a bug or not, but it's | > definitely a known problem. Anytime there is a character | > font change in the text of a lin

RE: Answer: Re: Odd bug printing FM to PDF

2006-01-11 Thread Combs, Richard
Rick Quatro wrote: > What Richard says is true, but this designed behavior is not > very useful for generated lists. For generated lists, it > would have been better to have a mechanism that would ignore > character property changes and make the whole paragraph a link. OK, granted -- maybe th

Re: Answer: Re: Odd bug printing FM to PDF

2006-01-11 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:57:36 -0500, "Rick Quatro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What Richard says is true, but this designed behavior is not very useful for >generated lists. For generated lists, it would have been better to have a >mechanism that would ignore character property changes and make

Re: Answer: Re: Odd bug printing FM to PDF

2006-01-11 Thread Rick Quatro
For those interested, there is a possible FrameScript solution that would solve the problem in PDFs. A script could go through the TOC and look for lines with character property changes. It would duplicate the first Hypertext marker and insert it whereever there is a character property change.

Re: Answer: Re: Odd bug printing FM to PDF

2006-01-11 Thread hedley . finger
All: The hotspot behaviour in generated lists is user-unfriendly but works well for cross-references and index page numbers. A possible fix involving FrameScript follows: @ Create a new character format where all properties are set to null. @ Create a FrameScript event script th

RE: More about Subversion [was "Re: SourceSafe??? Recommendations needed"]

2006-04-24 Thread Grant Hogarth
5.3999 URL: www.equis.com TZ: Mountain (GMT -7) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Loren R. Elks Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 10:18 AM To: framers@frameusers.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: More about Subversion [was "

Re: OT: MIL specs (was RE: general publication quiestion)

2006-10-21 Thread Daniel Emory
Certainly I don't advocate the use of MIL specs for preparing commercial manuals. I do know, however, that most tech writers who produce manuals for commercial products remain blissfully unaware of the problems caused by their outputs. Unlike typical users of commercial products, most users of MI

RE: OT: MIL specs (was RE: general publication quiestion)

2006-10-21 Thread Combs, Richard
Daniel Emory wrote: > Certainly I don't advocate the use of MIL specs for preparing > commercial manuals. I do know, however, that most tech > writers who produce manuals for commercial products remain > blissfully unaware of the problems caused by their outputs. A valid point. Although so

Re: OT: MIL specs (was RE: general publication quiestion)

2006-10-23 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Maybe we should change it to "This page intentionally left almost completely blank," to be more technically accurate :) Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 Combs, Richard wrote: Daniel Emory wrote: Certainly I don't advocate the use of MIL specs for preparing commercial manual

RE: Save As PDF Was: RE: Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Ridder, Fred
Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Diane Gaskill Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 7:56 PM To: framers@frameusers.com Subject: Save As PDF Was: RE: Strange PDF Problem Steve, I remember many messages on this list about the Save a

re-use 101

2009-03-11 Thread Joel
file within the book. There is no re-use of anything at the moment. This is becoming increasingly burdensome to maintain, as a change to something that appears in all seven manuals requires me to make that change manually in all seven files. I would like to get to re-use, or single-sourcing, but I?m

re-use 101

2009-03-11 Thread Jerilynne Knight
ach. Many sections of these manuals are identical, some sections > differ in detail in minor ways, and fewer sections differ in more > substantial ways. Currently they are all Frame books with each chapter > being > its own file within the book. There is no re-use of anything at

re-use 101

2009-03-11 Thread Fei Min Lorente
esday, March 11, 2009 8:36 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: re-use 101 I am using Frame 8. I have a set of seven manuals that are close to 100 pages each. Many sections of these manuals are identical, some sections differ in detail in minor ways, and fewer sections differ in more subst

re-use 101

2009-03-11 Thread Jerilynne Knight
You make excellent points Fei, especially about the conditional text. Another thing: I didn't mention that I often review the content to see if text can be arranged in a different way, or different order, to achieve the results needed (without, of course, compromising readability or usability). I f

re-use 101

2009-03-11 Thread Martinek, Carla
each chapter being its own file within the book. There is no re-use of anything at the moment. This is becoming increasingly burdensome to maintain, as a change to something that appears in all seven manuals requires me to make that change manually in all seven files. I would like to get to re-use

re-use 101

2009-03-11 Thread Kristy Nolan
for our docs. Kristy -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Joel Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 7:36 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: re-use 101 I am using Frame 8. I have a set of seven

re-use 101

2009-03-11 Thread Kristy Nolan
lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: re-use 101 Inset Plus [sic] is free, and looks very interesting, but the site does not indicate whether it is a product one can just inject into one's Structured FrameMaker system, of if one needs to BUY any of the other West Street Consulting products in ord

re-use 101

2009-03-11 Thread Flato, Gillian
-Gillian -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Joel Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:36 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: re-use 101 I am using Frame 8. I have a set of seven manuals that are cl

re-use 101

2009-03-11 Thread Joel
Thank you to everyone who has replied. I am going to game plan a little, and do some version of insets or smaller topics that can be combined in the final book. I am on structured Frame, for those who asked, but I don't use the structure, elements, or XML. I just default to strucure in case I use X

re-use 101

2009-03-11 Thread Susan Modlin
Joel, I'm with Gillian on this one. Using this approach (and variables on title pages and in running headers and footers for book titles) I managed a pretty complex set of deliverables: two versions each of 10 major guides, and three versions of a training guide that contained pared-down chapt

re-use 101

2009-03-11 Thread Mollye Barrett
mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Joel Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 7:36 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: re-use 101 I am using Frame 8. I have a set of seven manuals that are close to 100 pages each. Many sections of these manuals are identical, some

re-use 101

2009-03-12 Thread Caroline Tabach
: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Susan Modlin Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 7:46 PM To: Flato, Gillian; Joel; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: re-use 101 Joel, I'm with Gillian on this one. Using this approach

re-use 101

2009-03-11 Thread Guy K. Haas
essage- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Joel > Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 7:36 AM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: re-use 101 > > I am using Frame 8. I have a set of seven manuals that are cl

OT: RE: oldie

2008-02-05 Thread Diane Gaskill
th.mcgill.ca (514) 398-8448 -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com]On Behalf Of Jeremy H. Griffith Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 12:06 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: old

RE turkish sortorder

2008-05-14 Thread Anneke von den Hoff
Hi Ann, (My reply to your mail bounces, so I contact you this way.) Thank you very much for the example. I have implemented your example in my document and it works fine! My customer is very pleased and so am I. Thanks again Anneke Disclaimer ---

RE turkish sortorder

2008-05-20 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Anneke von den Hoff wrote: > Hi Ann, > Thank you very much for the example. > I have implemented your example in my document and it works fine! My inbox does not show the response to which you refer; I've got a similar problem with Danish. Can we have responses t

RE turkish sortorder

2008-05-20 Thread Milan Davidovic
Problem solved; the answer is in the User Guide, and it's fairly clear. I had to look up the Danish alphabet, then use it on the reference page to re-order the index group titles and to replace the <$alphabetics> building block. Of course, if someone knows an easier way I could have do

Re: Smart Quotes?

2011-07-04 Thread Roger Shuttleworth
Hi Michelle Yes, I have this problem too with FM 9p255. Whenever I type single or double quotes I get a ?. FrameMaker is the only application I use that has this problem. I installed the latest driver for my Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000, but the problem persists. If you come across a s

Re OT:Unexpected event

2012-06-22 Thread Cal Callahan
Rick, I only know you from your excellent comments on this list and the reputation you've earned as reflected by others' esteem, but I too wish you a speedy recovery. cal -- -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Re: Omnihelp merging

2015-05-05 Thread Robert Lauriston
The subprojects are referenced in the main project's configuration file and table of contents? I think the MIF2Go Yahoo list is the main source of support: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mif2go/info On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:10 AM, Anne Magee wrote: > My company has asked me to test Omnihel

Re: PDF problems

2015-05-21 Thread David Spreadbury
Alan,I would ask them if they could be a little more specific on when the problem occurs.I would expect that the print job is stopping on a specific page.Knowing that you can zero in on the page that is actually causing the problem. On Thursday, May 21, 2015 8:21 AM, Alan Salo (Ariens P

Re: PDF problems

2015-05-21 Thread Alan Houser
This is a vexing type of problem. It may be a non-obvious corrupt graphic or other object. I recommend "divide and conquer", either in FrameMaker 12 or in Acrobat. - Split the file in half. - Identify the half-file that produces the error. - Split the error-prone half-file again. - Repeat until

Re: PDF problems

2015-05-21 Thread David Spreadbury
I suggested that the printer provide more details on the problem because it would appear that their rendering engine doesn't like something...duh... similar to what Distiller does when it encounters an error. Since Alan doesn't get an error when distilling, he would not be able to do more than h

RE: PDF problems

2015-05-21 Thread Fred Ridder
reports that page N is the page being processed "now". -Fred Ridder Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 09:46:04 -0400 From: a...@groupwellesley.com To: as...@ariens.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: PDF problems This is a vexing type of problem. It may be a non-obvio

Re: Purchase question

2015-06-19 Thread Lin Sims
You can still buy it at Adobe, they just make it hard to find. https://www.adobe.com/products/catalog/software._sl_id-contentfilter_sl_catalog_sl_software_sl_allsoftware.html?start=50 Keep clicking next at the bottom until you see FrameMaker (for me it was page 5), then click Buy. The full versio

Re: Purchase question

2015-06-19 Thread Heiko Haida
Hello Bertrand, did you check to work with the "Compatibility mode" setting? This is set for the "exe"-file(s) of older applications and sometimes it may help -- you would choose the "Window XP" mode here. Another problem is, that older applications often require admin-rights for certain fol

Re: Purchase question

2015-06-19 Thread Robert Lauriston
Adobe's store has really bad UI, at least for FrameMaker. Click Buy Now, then change the "I want to buy" to Full. Before you spend $1000, you might want to do a free evaluation of MadCap Flare. On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 12:06 AM, Bertrand Meyer wrote: > This is a newbie question; on the technical

RE: Purchase question

2015-06-19 Thread Lea Rush
om [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Heiko Haida Sent: June 19, 2015 5:16 AM To: bertrand.me...@inf.ethz.ch; Framers Subject: Re: Purchase question Hello Bertrand, did you check to work with the "Compatibility mode" setting? This is set for the "exe"-file(s) of older a

Re: FM12 questions

2015-06-22 Thread David Spreadbury
Ken,I have used the Packaging option in FM 12 and find it to function exactly as Bruce Fosters Archive.As far as pricing goes, you best bet to to query the Adobe website.Dave Spreadbury On Monday, June 22, 2015 10:24 AM, Ken Poshedly wrote: Questions for all you FrameMaker 12 use

RE: FM12 questions

2015-06-22 Thread Craig Ede
There is an Archiver Extendscript that came out after the release of FM10 but that had problems. FM 2015 (aka FM 13) has a Packaging feature that puts all book content into a single zip file. I haven't tried it, but I was going to recommend it to a former employer who had book referencing graph

Re: FM12 questions

2015-06-22 Thread Ken Poshedly
Thanks Craig, The Extendscript version is the one we downloaded and use here because there was no other alternative available. So the "Packager" feature creates a zip file. OK. But then is that just a simple gathering of the relevant FM book, chapter and image files or can one open the book and

RE: FM12 questions

2015-06-22 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Always use a non-production machine to download Trial versions ;>) From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Ken Poshedly Sent: June-22-15 11:50 AM To: Craig Ede; framers Subject: Re: FM12 questions Thanks Craig, The Extendscr

Re: FM12 questions

2015-06-23 Thread thomas . zeisig
Hi Ken, as far I could check the FM12 packager does not extract referenced graphics files to the zip file. We use the Squidds Finalyser plugin, which gathers all book files, graphics files, text-insets into a specified folder, rearranging all references and links to the new folder stucture. T

Re: FM12 questions

2015-06-23 Thread John Sgammato
The Fm12 package feature includes all the files in the book and all the images in an images subfolder. It does not get images referenced from an adjacent folder (I have one called Resources that includes \images with the master page images). I normally use FrameScript and the ArchiveFM.FSO free scr

OT: Re: adventures

2005-12-22 Thread Stuart Rogers
A wrote: > > A.u.r.o.r.a > www.adventuresindefecation.com Well, I just had to check that link out to be sure I read it correctly. A little story for you: Years ago, I worked as a security guard in a downtown office tower and attached mall. Whenever anything out of the ordinary occurred, we wer

SOLVED: Re: IACOverview.pdf

2006-01-12 Thread Rick Quatro
Thanks to David Spreadbury, who emailed me the file. Thanks to the others who responded. Rick

ADMIN re: gmane.org

2006-01-27 Thread Lisa M. Bronson
Hello everyone, I do not know much about gmane.org; while I will look into it, I do not expect that its existence will change the way Framers is going to be archived in the future. In case you've missed previous posts about Mailman, the list no longer runs on Lyris, and the archives are no longer

Re: [Framers] Shrinkwrapping

2016-04-02 Thread Mike Wickham
I'm not aware of any way to change it, except to manually drag the handles of the anchored frame. You can change the offset of the image from the top left corner of the anchored frame to zero (in object properties), so that it butts against that corner, but you have to manually drag the diagona

Re: [Framers] Shrinkwrapping

2016-04-02 Thread Peter Gold
IIRC, there was a script in the long-ago days that would trim the excess. Maybe someone remembers it and can point to it. On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Mike Wickham wrote: > I'm not aware of any way to change it, except to manually drag the handles > of the anchored frame. You can change the

Re: [Framers] Shrinkwrapping

2016-04-02 Thread Fred Ridder
Cc: Framers (E-mail) Subject: Re: [Framers] Shrinkwrapping IIRC, there was a script in the long-ago days that would trim the excess. Maybe someone remembers it and can point to it. On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Mike Wickham wrote: > I'm not aware of any way to change it, except to ma

Re: [Framers] Shrinkwrapping

2016-04-03 Thread russ
://www.weststreetconsulting.com/WSC_Utils.htm Russ -- Message: 7 Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 13:49:01 -0500 From: Peter Gold To: Mike Wickham Cc: "Framers \(E-mail\)" Subject: Re: [Framers] Shrinkwrapping Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 IIRC, there was a

Re: [Framers] Shrinkwrapping

2016-04-03 Thread Michael Heine
ate: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 13:49:01 -0500 From: Peter Gold To: Mike Wickham Cc: "Framers \(E-mail\)" Subject: Re: [Framers] Shrinkwrapping Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 IIRC, there was a script in the long-ago days that would trim the excess. Maybe someone remembers

Re: [Framers] Shrinkwrapping

2016-04-03 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain
Michael Heine said: > ShrinkwrapAsIs was created by an anonymous contributor, and published by To give due credit, the source code for ShrinkWrapAsIs (at least version 1.00) says it was created by Mike Hardy ... back in 2001. Z ___ This message is fro

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