a software build
process.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
especially
where graphics are involved. You might see if it works
if you set the project up in a path without spaces in it,
as we strongly advocate in many places in the docs.
Otherwise, kindly send us that test case. Thanks!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
don't use "Program Files" either, always install Frame
in one like C:\Frame8, for example. Much safer.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
t long...
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
paces), and underscore.
However... these names will not be the same as the Frame
format names anyway. So making the Frame format names
conformant to XML rules is unnecessary, and probably unwise,
since it could lead to confusion between element and format
names later...
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
cial in Frame.
Then retag per your Frame template. It takes a bit
longer to do it that way, but it eliminates numerous
issues you'll have forever from the Frame import.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
provides that and many other handy utilities,
like MIF washing and lossless extraction of embedded
graphics. You can download it from:
http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
this for red:
[Colors]
99 = ff
Then use in the marker:
[HTMLStyles]=Bold Color99
> - config file, [Macros] section: HTMConfig=<$$HTMLStyles]Bold "Lite
> Blue">
That won't work at all, for lots of reasons. ;-)
>Can anyone help?
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
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/
for the 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/
ms.
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/
p, 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/
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/
ht 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/
omething as free-form as a Web site... ;-)
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
e 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/
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/
more, but what really counts is what *you*
want. Please do tell us!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
;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 next FM.
I don't know, mysel
les 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/
nalize each marker accordingly. However this
>is difficult to maintain ...
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
or 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/
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/
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/
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/
se 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 another copy from the
originator.
er.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/
d... 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/
me 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/
merge them?
I don't. I view each in a browser tab, and flip back and forth as
I please. If I need them side by side, I open a new browser window.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
en a new .hhp would always be written, overwriting the
previous one.
It's possible he's set an HHPFileName that can't be written
because it's on a nonexistent drive, or points to a directory
where he lacks write permission, or is an invalid file name.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
o library file that would
be part of the distro. We don't actually have WWP ourselves, so
we'll need the help of those migrating to Mif2Go from WWP to do that.
Thank you for raising this issue!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
strictions.
One simple way to accomplish something close to this is to
rename the .mif files to .fm. Frame doesn't care; when you
open one, it opens normally, and when you save it, it saves
as .fm binary over the .mif.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
you could SaveAs plain text, and archive
*that* in CVS or SVN. Then you'll get it working the
way programmers do, which could actually be helpful.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
ut taking over for what's-his-name at GM?.:)
LOL! No thanks! He dug his own grave, but we shouldn't put all
the employees who had no part in that in there with him. IMHO.
All the best!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
it, test *very* thoroughly, and look in odd corners like variable
definitions, xref formats, and those numbering strings. You may
be fine, but it's best to find out early if you're not.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
olved it for me.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
e
>actual straight character versions, you have to use
>Ctrl-` and Ctrl-'. That's the same as in FM7.
For the record, I'm still using 8.0p273, because of the reported
issues with p277 when it came out (posted on Framers). That may
make a difference.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
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. Griffith, at Omni Sy
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/
s also the preferred choice in DocBook, the most mature
of the common XML formats, although DocBook has added support
for the HTML table model too. In Mif2Go's DocBook output from
Frame, you can select either one; we have customers using both.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
versities before Brad came along... ;-)
Who else?
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
setini "C:\path\to\maker.ini" Directories OpenDirOnStart "X:\path\you\want"
in your bat file before opening Frame. Note that the quotes are
only needed if the paths contain any spaces.
The Mif2Go demo version is available at:
http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
ngle-user license, $300 for a site license,
and is available for FrameMaker 6.x and 7.x on Windows and Macintosh.
>From Silicon Prarie, <http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/>.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
referencing
paragraph at the text you want to use as the hotspot. Apply
a character format to the hotspot text, including the gotolink
marker. Then the hotspot text will act like a cross-reference
in your PDF or HTML output.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
encodings such as
FrameRoman, JISX0208.ShiftJIS, BIG5, GB2312-80.EUC, and
KSC5601-1992, which were supported in earlier versions of
FrameMaker.
But that only worked for GB2312, not for the other two.
Anyone have any ideas? Has anyone actually managed to
convert an existing FM7 Asian doc to FM8 Unicode?
-
ll the demo version:
http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm
We use it ourselves for producing the User's Guide PDFs
and other formats. If you set up a .bat file with the
runfm command, and put a shortcut to it on your desktop,
you get one-click production of your PDFs, possibly
several of them at once
han with
Word's broken default numbering method. And it's *very* fast.
Try the free unlimited demo version (which replaces random words
with phrases from Jabberwocky) and see for yourself:
http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
usages.
>Once it's set up, it works very fast and does a good job.
Thanks again! ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
to Row First. Your footnotes will be renumbered
accordingly.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
they appear without the "To". How can
>I tell FM to include the autonumber "To"?
Your xref format includes the token <$paratext>.
Add the token <$paranum> just before it.
For the index entry, I presume you mean the text
automatically put into the marker
re retained,
but the resolution is generally much worse than the original was.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
at which they were taken, 96DPI; more or
less will result in unreadable text.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
lemented in the beta h285i.zip, now available at our
download sites. We credited you for the idea in hist52h.txt.
Download the beta, unzip it, and copy the dwhtm.dll in it to
your \windows\system32 dir over the existing copy.
Thank you very much for this enhancement suggestion!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
link. Naturally, you have to allow the popups in
your browser for them to work.
If you want a popup in non-Help HTML, you need to use JavaScript.
Mif2Go also supports inclusion of arbitrary JS wherever you want.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
he line breaks are reset anyway upon loading the MIF.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:45:45 -0500, "Alison Carrico"
wrote:
>This could end up being an issue for my company. Do you know if it
>happens with v7 MIFs when opened with v8?
Since the bug specifically affects UTF-8 sequences, and those
are not used in Frame 7 MIF, it seems unlik
uot; on Mif2Go
is that it can have just such undesirable side effects.
Just a thought about where to look, Adobe.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
Go produces top-quality
HTML and XML (including DocBook and DITA), plus numerous Help
formats, from unstructured as well as structured Frame, and can
be fully automated. It's also fast and inexpensive.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
does* retain the names of the graphics it embeds,
so you will get back WMFs containing Word's internal representation
of each image named "originalname.wmf".
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
lso tell runfm to write even more diagnostics by adding:
-diag
to your command line, and you can save the messages to a file:
-log logfile.txt
New messages are appended to the file, so you can use the same
file for many sessions. If you specify -log with no name, we
use mif2go.log in the current directory.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
See par. 29.2.3.2, "Exporting embedded graphics before converting".
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
", and you cannot register with
Adobe because it wasn't, file a claim against them with eBay,
PayPal, *and* your credit-card provider immediately on grounds
of fraud. Lots of people have shrinkwrap machines. ;-)
eBay gives new meaning to "caveat emptor"...
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
y for print and PDF outputs.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
and you get
the normal status bar back. Maybe you only removed one DLL,
m2gframe.dll, so that the plugin was left in a broken state?
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
$_next> code, and it was hard to maintain.
That's one of the main reasons we made this enhancement.
If you continue to have any problem with this, please send us a
trimmed-down test case, like a book with two or three one-page
files, so we can help you further. Include the .book, .fm, .mif,
both .inis, .prj, and *all* output files (including the log),
all in one .zip. We'll look into it promptly.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
would
be assigned to the var at the start of the macro var expression.
We've already built this, but would like to test it with your
case before posting a new beta. Could you kindly send us a
one-page test case, including the .fm, .mif, .prj, both .inis,
and all output files, all in one .zip
e. If you still have any
problems, do write us directly. ;-)
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
racter versions, you have to use
Ctrl-` and Ctrl-'. That's the same as in FM7.
Other characters in the 80-9F range are handled more
gracefully. If you use the Ctrl-q sequences, you get
the real Unicode character, mostly in the U+2000 area.
Ctrl-q is your new best friend. ;-)
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
ing what Frame puts in the MIF,
it's hard to understand how it could work for anyone... If you
want to send me a Frame file with an example of some you put in
that way, I'll see if there's a difference viewing it here.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:37:02 -0700, "Jeremy H. Griffith"
wrote:
>If you
>want to send me a Frame file with an example of some you put in
>that way, I'll see if there's a difference viewing it here.
Dr. Winifred Reng sent me one, and provided the clue that nailed
the
me. Totally reproducible.
>BTW: I am using the U.S. version 8.0p277, in English only, on a Windows
>XP SP3 system.)
I'm still using 8.0p273, because of the reported issues
with p277 when it came out (posted on Framers). Maybe
they fixed it then...
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
e named IX,
and find the line(s) containing <$pagenum>. Apply a character
format to that whole line with the properties you want. Save,
regenerate the IX from the book, and all your page numbers
(but not the index entry text) will have the properties you set.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
g
from Frame, like ePP, and unlike RH (even in TCS) or Flare.
Not to mention being way less expensive than any of them...
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
olumn below the graphic, then continue to top of the right
>column, then below the graphic in the right column.
>
>Is there a way to do that in FM?
Not that I know of. But another possibility would be to set such
graphics to go always to the top (or bottom) of the page. Then the
questio
-celled table to package the frame
and the caption, if the more limited table placement options work
for you.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
your job. You can get the
handle of the topmost window there, but Windows itself
has no idea what Frame is displaying at that point,
and Frame won't tell you in the FDK. Hmmm... ;-)
Good luck!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
end an email with an attachment from
the command line... ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
free trial, and provides
excellent support. Highly recommended for anyone seriously
using DITA in structured Frame.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
n that point, see:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/message/12132
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
, and you may
get more precise assistance.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
rom their
colleague? Guess what; it doesn't happen. We have more
license purchases for *additional* copies than for singles.
If you treat people as honest, they *are*. If you treat
them like criminals, well... you say more about yourself
than about them.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
ink produces better output.
Try the free unlimited demo, and see for yourself:
http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm
>Thanks for any "help" on the help anyone has time to give!
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
/download.htm
And Mif2Go comes with the best free support in the industry;
who else fixes bugs on the spot (not "in the next version"),
and adds features you ask for overnight? See the history.txt
file there for numerous examples of those enhancements, with
the names of those who asked f
x25a0
p =
You can download the free unlimited demo version of Mif2Go,
and the User's Guide in numerous formats, from:
http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
rs and anchors took up space, the rendering would
be thrown off.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
orld supports us very well indeed.
>So that's the sad story. Because webworks is the only game in town,
>they can get away with their Draconian licensing practices.
Only as long as *you* choose to support those practices. ;-)
All the best!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
u can download the User's Guide in numerous formats
(including DocBook itself ;-) from the same page.
The same method, BTW, works nicely for moving from unstructured
to structured Frame using DITA. We worked with members of both
OASIS TC's developing it...
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
ttp://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm
It's a lot less expensive than the ePP upgrade, and does
more for you. IMHO. ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
y Mif2Go doc, the 1000-page User's Guide, is much better,
because it was written by a real TW. Imagine that! ;-)
Please feel free to write us directly if you have any other problems!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
ut FrameScript because I know Rick will, and he's the
expert on it. But I will post about FM8 Unicode issues that are
unrelated to conversion because I know those very well.
Thank you, Rick, for a clear and cogent analysis!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
om/dcl/offer.htm
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
, you'll find runfm.exe in the
current upgrade (m2g33u44.zip) file; no need to download
anything else.
Enjoy this gift of the season!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
royalties on the
result, or agree to make the Mac version free (our preference),
but we cannot offer the $100K+ that would be needed to pay for
this port. If anyone on the lists is interested, let us know!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
"130, 180" is good.
So you might wind up with:
[DialogLayout]
;- Dialog & Window layout -
MakerWin=3, -1, -1, -1, -1, 0, 0, 640, 400
PCatalog=500, 40, 130, 180
CCatalog=0, 0, 130, 180
...
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
Actually it's also there for Win 2K Pro. The last element is
7.1 on my system. The second copy (which overrides the one in
the Frame home directory) started appearing with Frame 7.0.
I always forget about it... thanks, David!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
xref as unresolved. It's
best to use Show All when checking (or rechecking) xrefs.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
naltered
for demo purposes (unlike the HTML text, which is altered).
Of course, it's simplest to have Mif2Go do the whole job, but
when that is not possible, this is a workable alternative.
The current Mif2Go demo can be downloaded from:
http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm
HTH!
-- Jerem
right-aligned version of it on
the reference page and use that one for Frame Below.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
t-aligned on the
>body page beneath the paragraph tag. I am stumped.
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. The graphic needs to be right-aligned
inside a frame that starts at the left edge of the body text frame.
But I see Lester just described it nicely!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems I
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