images for mif2go

2006-05-04 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
limited to screen resolution. That's fine for docs only viewed on screen, but looks poor when printed. Preconverting preserves the original resolution. It also lets us include any callouts or other Frame additions as vector elements in the WMF. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Exporting embedded graphics

2006-05-05 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
;manually? Not with Mif2Go. However, IIRC, Rick Quatro has a plugin that does that. I just looked on his site and don't see it, but you might ask him directly: http://www.frameexpert.com/index.htm HTH! > >Thanks for any wisdom. I'm probably asking for way too much

How to include para format in list of markers?

2006-05-16 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Tue, 16 May 2006 15:34:04 -0700, FIONA HANINGTON wrote: >On the reference page, we can have the list items >include page numbers by including <$pagenum>. Is >there a similar trick to include the paragraph type too? Yes, that "building block" is <$paratag>

problem with PDF batch processing (cudspan batch + watched folder)

2006-05-17 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
need to download and install our demo version (at least the plugin parts): http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm Full instructions on using runfm (a command-line app, so you can include it in .bat files) are in the User's Guide (WinHelp version in the demo, other versions available on the Do

Find not finding

2006-05-19 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
need to buy Mif2Go to use it; just download the demo and install the plugin: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm It works on entire books as well as single files, way faster than you can do it by hand. Enjoy! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

OT: autonumbering in Word

2006-05-19 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
's even possible to do it in what used to be an all-Word shop. After all, if they get working Word files, why do they care *how* they were created? >Unfortunately, since bullets use the same mechanism in Word, you >still have to live with bizarre behavior in that feature... Unless you use Frame/Mif2Go as your Word authoring tool... -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Chm plugin for Frame?

2006-11-21 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
with Frame). You can download a demo version of Mif2Go from: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Fw: third party vendors

2006-11-22 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
"Michael Zaichenko" >Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:35:56 +0100 HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

"MIF"ed Newbie

2006-10-05 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
e files. That works fine in the free demo version too. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Generierte Verzeichnisse bei Suche ignorieren

2006-10-19 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ites Buch ohne die erzeugten Akten in ihm, her und suchen Sie in diesem Buch. Mit freundlichen Gr??en -- Jeremy H. Griffith, Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Mif2Go Help

2006-09-03 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
send us a one-page test case, as described in Appendix D of the User's Guide, and we'll look into the problem promptly. >Any help would be greatly appreciated. We're always glad to help. ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Adobe Release: DITA and S1000D **Direct Link**

2006-09-07 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
eads to a page that asks for Project Lightroom info. And when you try to make selections, they don't take. Attempts to continue send you back to "correct" your response. You can't download anything. Is this typical of the QA of the Application Pack? Gah! -- Jeremy H.

Software Need - Advice and Recommendations Requested

2006-09-18 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
t;functionality is not found within a piece of software, we would still >consider its use. As in importing a Frame template with the right vars? We can add that too. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Mif2Go question

2007-04-24 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
Guide, Appendix D, and send it to the address given there (*not* the one in this post) inside a single .zip file. Then we'll identify and fix the problem promptly. Thanks! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Recall: FM to RH Import Settings?

2007-08-07 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
can try our free unlimited demo and see if it works for you: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm If it does, at $295 we're way less expensive than RH or ePP... ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Auto-Generation of PDF's

2007-08-30 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
nt jobs, and, of course, Mif2Go conversions. Note that runfm is free and legal to use even if you never buy the licensed version of Mif2Go. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Creating hyperlink to a specific location

2007-12-02 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
case, the char format would be applied to "Framers", the gotolink marker would be inside that format, and the newlink would be in the "Information..." heading.] HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Validating all hypertext links in a FM book?

2007-12-21 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
the User's Guide. We generate a Book Error Log in Frame that links directly to any links that did not resolve while running the book. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

OT: Documenting Multiple Baseline Versions of Software

2007-12-22 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
if the difference between the docs and what they see is a feature or a bug. Some will call or write to ask. You don't want that. We'd say six weeks is *way* too long to leave that situation happening. The docs should match the software, period. >I appreciate any ideas offered. Thanks! HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Expanding text in Framemaker

2007-02-08 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
he macro too, and just have the text for the expanded part in Frame. Or use a button. This is why we don't provide a "canned" method (and why Microsoft doesn't either); this is best designed to fit your specific needs. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Reasons to Structure

2007-02-13 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
etup costs (time and consultants) are likely to exceed the benefits, much like a CMS (Content Management System) can. There are excellent consultants around, many on this list, for whom it is a breeze. If you decide to go this way, hire one. It will prevent much anguish and hair loss. -- Je

Reasons to Structure

2007-02-14 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
and MTSC systems, wrote the first screen-oriented editor for CP/M (and the first Z-80 symbolic debugger), wrote software for the first "affordable" ($9,995) dedicated word processor, and did typesetting on an XDS-940 mainframe driving a Mergenthaler V-I-P photocomposer. I've always been on the bleeding edge of tech publications... not the trailing edge. However, more to the point, unlike the typewriter salesman I make *nothing* when people stay with unstructured Frame. You, OTOH, make your living from people who go structured. Perhaps it's the *computer* salesman you need to watch? ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

rant moan fm to word rant moan

2007-02-19 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
I guess I'm asking for any suggestions or tips in improving the Mif2Go >output. I'm trawling through their help file at the moment but, as ever, I'm >sure someone out there has some top tips? All this is explained in the User's Guide, Chapter 26, "Working with graphics". HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Cross Refs, Structured FM, and WWP

2007-02-28 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
tured xrefs are different from unstructured ones internally. I'm rather surprised that WWP doesn't support them, but if that is the case, you may want to know that Mif2Go always has... no added work required, it's automatic. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Translators and Word vs FM

2007-01-05 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
, as credit-card companies automatically handle the exchange at market rates. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Looking for an editable output from Frame 7.2

2007-01-11 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
t multiple Word versions conveniently. >There are other limitations I don't recall offhand. But if you just want >a Frame format mirrored in Word, for temporary use, Mif2Go does well. >Definitely try it first to see if it will work for you and yours. Thanks! Those interested can download the current demo version: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

How long to learn FrameScript?

2007-01-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
for example. The FDK is a more advanced tool, but it's best used by an *experienced* C/C++ programmer who already has a suitable IDE on hand: VS4 or later for Windows, CodeWarrior 6 for Mac Classic (FDK 7.0 is the last Mac version), or native cc for Unix. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Weird Frame to PDF problem

2007-01-26 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
er* worked properly with network drives. Sad, considering it was born on UNIX, but true. Work on a local drive, then copy the end result to the network. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Weird Frame to PDF problem

2007-01-26 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
lem goes away, she can continue with her project. If it doesn't, she needs to continue troubleshooting. It's a quick and easy test to make. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Paragraph numbering issue

2007-07-09 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
t sounds right. >Nonetheless, the R: series doggedly resets at the chapter breaks. *Where* did you set the numbering properties? The settings made from the book file override those made from the chapter file. Sounds like the book could be resetting the paragraph numbering. -- Jeremy H.

Save book as postcript

2007-07-20 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ttp://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm You do need to install it; runfm uses the plugin to run the projects. See Chapter 32, "Converting via runfm", for the details. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Cross-reference break after sorting Table - Frame 7.2

2007-06-04 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
he rest of cud's tools there) are in CudSpanDocs.pdf there. And Leximation has MarkerTool: http://www.leximation.com/tools/info/markertools.php HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Link on Index References in PDF

2007-06-29 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
all of our own systems. The one time we asked for help with a problem, we got an instant fix of the plugin a day later. Highly recommended. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Cross Refs, Structured FM, and WWP

2007-03-01 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
There's some initial setup, but thereafter it's essentially the same. And Mif2Go's included automation tool, runfm, can simplify it further; the corresponding WWP tool, AutoMap, costs $20K, IIRC... ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Frame Improvements

2007-03-08 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
think there's a much better chance that Rick's plugin will fix the OP's problem than that Wash Via MIF will... -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Framescript capabalities

2007-03-22 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
th Word.Once you're sure you have the right one for the anchored frame before you, select the image (not the frame!) in Frame, and use File | Import to replace it. That way you don't have to resize, and any Frame additions (like callouts) remain in place. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Left-brain/right-brain: FrameMaker and XHTML

2007-03-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
tructure would bring to something as free-form as a Web site... ;-) HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Table anchors and extra spaces in sideheads ...

2007-03-30 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ve negative too, the same as the space below the upper para, to get the overlap. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

ANN: Mif2Go supports DITA from UNstructured FrameMaker

2007-05-02 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
XML as you like it. No other workflow gives you so much, so easily, at such a low cost in both time and money. Try it yourself; the free unlimited demo is at: <http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm>. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

What next for Mif2Go?

2007-05-06 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ring conversion. We have lots more, but what really counts is what *you* want. Please do tell us! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

FrameMaker.next

2007-05-17 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
n 16. ;-) >How in heck to you keep track of 80 tags, Carla? That's the problem, all right. Managing it all. I've been sorely tempted to write a free plugin to do that, where you could have boolean logic that included more than "OR". Perhaps this is a feature in the nex

Confused about hexadecimal codes

2007-05-19 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
set. We use mapping tables in Mif2Go. Note that for "dingbats" fonts, the mapping is *different* from that for "normal" fonts. ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

PDF Content reuse with Frame + DITA?

2007-05-20 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
h different text, >and conditionalize each marker accordingly. However this >is difficult to maintain ... -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

trouble adding extra line to master page header

2007-11-06 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
y for the OP to handle this problem is to keep the header one paragraph, but add a second line to it using Shift-Enter. Then the blue line will remain below the second text line, and no changes to the format are required. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Possible Frame6+SGML Issue only MIF to Native and OLE graphics

2007-11-06 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
the FrameScript code to see what options you are using for the saves to MIF and to Frame binary. I don't know of a particular one that would have that effect, but it's not impossible... HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Bug: FrameMaker 8 changes dash \= in paragraph numbering of FM 7 MIF

2007-11-16 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ash, U+2013, was encoded in UTF-8 (correctly) as bytes E2 80 93, so you see the corresponding Frame characters... The trouble, of course, is that MIF pre-8.0 knows nothing of UTF-8. It's a bug. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Frame's lame callouts

2007-11-21 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
r HTML-based Help. For WinHelp and Word, we use a third method, and make a WMF graphic ourselves, which retains both the original resolution *and* the Frame graphic elements. As SVG gets more usable, we intend to implement a similar method for *ML, but we don't do that yet. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Conversion of a Framemaker file?

2007-11-26 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ansfer, either because it was treated as ASCII instead of binary, or because something was added to the end (like a CR/LF pair). If it's just two bytes over, you can use a hex editor to trim it back; I wrote a little utility to do that. If it's more, you probably need to get ano

Italics dropping out of TOC

2007-10-10 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
in maker.ini for [Fonts] and/or [WindowsToFrameFontAliases], which may be more trouble than it's worth to you. I don't recall just how that setting needs to be, but maybe someone else here does. I have *not* tested this... ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

forced line breaks, URLs, and justified text

2007-10-19 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
iced... Once you made such a tweak, it would not need to be changed later, so the maintenance issue goes away too. Just a thought... -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Fixed my Problem

2007-09-07 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
u could save even more time and money by using Mif2Go for the whole job. It costs only about 1/5 of what ePP is these days... and does much more. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Re: Graphics Fundamentals

2008-12-25 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
phics will not have their original names, because Frame discarded those on import. (Word does better; it keeps them. ;-) But they *will* be in the original format, most likely EPS in your case, and the process is very fast and automatic; you can do a full book at once. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griff

Re: Text insets question

2008-12-31 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
space at the *end* of the line where the inset is anchored, before you import the inset. IIRC, that's the trick. All the best! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers

Re: converting email addresses to hyperlink

2009-01-01 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
nsert hypertext", but wwhere do I go fromn there? You want a hypertext marker with: message URL mailto:n...@company.com HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers a

Re: FrameMaker/ePublisher issue

2009-01-05 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
s Wood references to find Unicode equivalents, which *all* browsers should support. HTH! HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list me

Re: Opinions on FrameMaker Content Management Systems

2009-01-07 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
every revision) and went to storing the binaries in CVS instead. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.

Re: Does FM crash on Large files on a regular basis?

2009-01-08 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
rmat, losslessly. You do not have to buy Mif2Go to do this, just install the demo: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm The User's Guide has detailed instructions in par. 2.5.2, "Replacing embedded graphics with referenced graphics". HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, a

Re: Does FM crash on Large files on a regular basis?

2009-01-08 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ase you can set: [GraphExport] MultipleOLE=Yes and we'll output *all* of them. This is in the User's Guide par. 29.2.3.7, "Setting export options for OLE objects". HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___

Re: MIF2Go: specifying anchor names

2009-01-09 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ased... Sure, that's what you'll get by default. But try to talk the fo//person out of it; at least, make clear that your ongoing repair time will be billed at full rate, not provided as a free "bug fix". ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.om

Re: Alignment of graphic and text elements in a table format

2009-01-10 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
nstead of above it. Then you can further tweak the frame's vertical position with "Distance above baseline", which can be negative. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscrib

Re: Report FrameMaker 9 plugin compatibilities here

2009-01-24 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
no problems. The MIF it produces is almost identical to that for FM8. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@list

FM8 Updates (was: Re: difficulties using italics for index entries in FM 8.0)

2009-01-26 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
"improvement" is in FM9, but thankfully there is a maker.ini setting to make it work the old (correct) way. With 277, you're stuck with it; you can't undo the patch unless you uninstall and reinstall from the original media. Be warned. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Syst

Re: Looking for software to convert Framemaker 7 sources to clean HTML (for HTML Help) supporting multiple languages

2009-01-28 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
Frame 8 anyway, since it allows *much* better use of multiple languages in one document, and supports pretty much *all* Unicode characters in the BMP (assuming you have Unicode fonts that contain them). HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ _

Re: Footnote Out of Sequence

2009-02-02 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ve amount for space above the table. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscrib

Re: Frame reference book

2009-02-05 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
Frame 8, "Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 8", ISBN 9780970473349, at: http://www.scriptorium.com/books/fm8/unstrfm8.html In addition, they offer their workbooks for free on a wiki: http://wiki.scriptorium.com/tiki-index.php HTH! -- Jeremy

Re: PDF to Word Conversion

2009-02-09 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
m and see for yourself if it will work for you. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To

Re: Replace a para tag throughout book?

2009-02-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
imited demo version of Mif2Go is available at: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm You might want to wait until tomorrow; we're putting a new upgrade (53) on the site later tonight. ;-) HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.

Re: cross book cross-references

2009-03-02 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
r 34, "Converting via runfm". The HTML Help version of the User's Guide is included in the main download. About a dozen other versions, including PDF and OmniHelp, are available farther down on the same page. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys

Re: Structured Frame Help

2009-03-06 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
want to become an XSLT and Java programmer. And you can still use Mif2Go to make on-line HTML help; it's much faster and easier than the DITA-OT for that. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You ar

Re: Re-referencing Frame Maker Graphics

2009-03-17 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
IX. Or if you want it alphabetical, rather than sequential, make an Index of References instead. >Thanks for any help! HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...

Re: Using Framers to network for job-hunting?

2009-03-20 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ts to sign on to FreeFramers can do so at: http://www.omsys.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/list/framers HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. S

Re: Graphics Fundamentals

2009-04-03 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
save it in its originally-imported (into Frame) format, with a new name. Just try it and see what happens. You don't have to know the format in advance, just tell Mif2Go to export everything, including OLE objects, and see what you get. ;-) -- Jeremy H. Grif

Re: Framescript to remove all images (but leave the AFrames)

2009-04-08 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
thers with this issue, it also works fine in the demo version; you don't need to buy a copy of Mif2Go to use it for this purpose. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed t

Re: Framescript to remove all images (but leave the AFrames)

2009-04-09 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
he referenced graphics will have *exactly* the same settings as the embedded ones do. You will not see any visible difference at all. But your Frame file will be a lot smaller, and more stable. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Re: Using the FDK to manipulate Graphics in FrameMaker 7x...

2009-04-09 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
export the OLE facets with Mif2Go (which can be done using the free demo version), you can rename them form .ole to .vsd and they will work. >Thanks for any info or experiences... HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ _

Re: Usage of WebWorks (ePublisher)

2009-04-16 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ular HTML output, then create the index, toc, project file, alias and map files by hand, or at best do it with HTML Help Workshop, which is almost as bad. If the client is merely trying to save money by using a "free" tool, we'll *give* her a copy of Mif2Go. Nobody should have to

Re: Usage of WebWorks (ePublisher)

2009-04-17 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
t what they were demanding. Perhaps. ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe sen

Re: Usage of WebWorks (ePublisher)

2009-04-17 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
few seconds for my program to fix them up. They went back to work on the easier-to-use system... much happier. My point? It's *not* that easier is worse. It's that every tool has its use, and if you master them all, you are better off than those who limit themselves to one. Even if you

Re: Usage of WebWorks (ePublisher)

2009-04-17 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
get me started... ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ 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 fr

Re: Working with MIFs in Frame

2009-04-27 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
MIF. This actually opens the .fm files (it's fine that they are really MIF), resaves as MIF, reopens those, and saves them as .fm, all in a second or two, for the whole book. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___

Re: Frame-to-PDF mini-docs

2009-04-27 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
TML files to Frame or Word, and making the PDFs from there). The Mif2Go part is easy, but the next step may require scripting of some sort (JS, VBA, FrameScript) to avoid a lot of manual work. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ __

Re: Is there a way to convert all embedded pictures to be references?

2009-05-14 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
; File to replace the embedded image with the corresponding graphics file, imported by reference. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.c

Re: Exporting the paths of graphics used

2009-05-17 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
gt; References, if you prefer them alphabetical), and select Imported Graphics as what to include. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send

Re: Motivating end users to read the user manual

2009-05-19 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
the affected content elsewhere in the manual. The User's Guide is free, available in a dozen formats (including Frame 7) at: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm#Mif2Go_UG -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___

Re: Esc-m-p to wrap anchored frame

2009-05-20 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
t;At insertion Point." Yes, that's by design; it's meant for equations. You need the free "ShrinkWrapAsIs" plugin: http://martinek.us/shrinkwrap.html (Thanks, Carla!) It works in 6.0, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, and 8. Maybe in 9 too, haven't tried it there.

Big and Little Endians [was: Re: Procedure How to Write a Manual!]

2009-05-22 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
it for Big and after for Little. The Unicode BOM may also be used as an encoding signature, but I digress... ;-) Good thing it's Friday, eh? HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are

Re: [Free Framers] MIF2GO - (6507): Value of Separation out of range (11)

2009-05-25 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
. So it means something is referencing a color that's not defined. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@list

Re: frame and flash

2009-05-27 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
27;t require tools purchase or the time it takes to learn how to use them. ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...

Re: finding copied graphics

2009-05-28 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
for a large book. And you do *not* need to purchase Mif2Go, use the demo version: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arc

Re: finding copied graphics, another way of doing it

2009-05-28 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
if you really want to find all embedded graphics; some may not show on the body pages. And of course it can take a while to page through a large book... and my eyes, at least, have been known to miss things right in front of them. Mif2Go's export code doesn't. ;-) -- Jeremy H.

Re: MIF 7.0 and Russian (Cyrillic) Character Encoding

2009-06-09 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
tml and also in the Frmae documentation at: /yourframedir/OnlineManuals/Character_Sets.pdf The code points used in Unicode are the same as the 1252 encoding (except for U+0080-U+009F); When you use a Cyrillic font (code page 1251), the same relationships exist. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at O

Re: Getting Rid of Font Change Warning

2009-06-19 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
engths to prevent Frame from asking for anything from the user, since the user is usually not there... -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.

Re: Producing HTML help pages in FM for Eclipse help

2009-06-19 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
not if, it happens. Why do we still support the FileName markers? Well, for a while, we didn't. We removed the feature. But there is one case where it really is needed, when an external system requires a specific filename. So we put the FileName markers back... with warnings. ;-)

Re: Producing HTML help pages in FM for Eclipse help

2009-06-19 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
names themselves; it just isn't possible to remember all the ones you have used already without any errors. It takes a computer to do that. ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscrib

Re: Getting Rid of Font Change Warning

2009-06-19 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
e difference is small; try it both ways, and see what you prefer. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frame

Re: HTML Conversion: Troubleshooting Head Behavior

2009-06-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
t even *be* a workaround. You can do all the setup with Mif2Go, even the demo version. The .ini files you produce will work fine in the registered version, which is identical to the demo except for the text changes. That is really the best path to take. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Om

Re: Can Word identify graphic file names?

2009-06-30 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
r, you may be able to locate the original. Another possibility is to show all Word field codes, and see if any INCLUDEGRAPHIC fields show up by the images. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ __

Re: Logging FrameMaker book errors in a text file

2009-06-30 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
. ;-) The free unlimited demo is at: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...

Re: Mif2Go: adding watermark to CHM

2009-07-06 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
27;t parse the CSS to find it.) But when you do mention it, that overrides the CSS for that file. So *don't* mention it in any topic, but *do* include it by name in the [Files] section of the .hhp. Easy one. ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ __

Re: Frame crashes when importing large XML file

2009-07-06 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
rom which Frame can't recover? I do suspect you're pushing some internal limit here. The 250 is suspiciously close to 255... the max value of a byte, a limit a careless programmer could have imposed unknowingly, possibly in EDD processing. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni System

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