s to a different directory, see if you can
SaveAs MIF to the same directory. Sounds like a permission
problem.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
sted this in detail,
though. FM8 had the same ability, but had a problem with number
formats where the bullet char was still in Unicode, which won't work
in 7. I don't know if that was fixed in 9. Caveat emptor!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
mos/macroman.html
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,
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/
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. ;-)
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/
e difference is small; try it
both ways, and see what you prefer.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
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
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/
. ;-) 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/
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.com/
so 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/
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/
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/
; 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/
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/
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/
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.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
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/
. So it means something
is referencing a color that's not defined.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
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/
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/
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.
example:
http://www.nitropdf.com/index.asp
Not free, the Pro version is $99. Also look at Tracker:
http://www.docu-track.com/downloads/
We use their free viewer in preference to Adobe's. Not as much
of a memory hog.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
n with two monitors, I don't want to give *both* of them to
Frame. I have a few other apps I need quick access to, like email
and Web and development IDEs. So if I wnated to use FM9 in that
environment, I would need *three* monitors. And a wider desk. Not
a possibility, so I use FM7.1 (for
//forums.adobe.com/community/robohelp/robohelp_html
>
>
>
>Peter Grainge
>www.grainge.org
Since you are using Frame 7.2, not Frame 9, it does not seem likely.
But still, the coincidence is interesting. Perhaps a Windows problem
to which
h does the same job as Automap, when used to make
PDFs from Frame 9. It worked manually, but not from
the command-line utility. This works fine on Frame 8
and earlier; no such reports for those versions, and
just the one Frame 9 failure report ... so far.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
ubject "Mif2Go", and we'll send a password and download
instructions for the full registered version. No proof is
needed; we use the Honor System here.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
form GREP
Find/Changes, making it easier for us to apply
character styles to text pattern strings such as
?all text? between parentheses. InDesign CS4
introduces the ability to lock this pattern based
application of character styles into your Paragraph
Styles.
-- Jeremy
ing
will revert to whatever the wrapper chapter is set up for.
So every chapter may be numbered "1"...
A Framescript to do the basic combining would be simple.
It's the cleanup that can't really be automated. ;-)
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
correct the paths in [FDK].
>Thank you very much for your support,
Quite welcome!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
S says "p.name" but element is an "li").
There are fixes for any problem, but first you need to
identify the exact problem. ;-)
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
e unlikely to work. If you are putting the graphics in
the same dir as the HTML, you definitely want StripGraphPath=Yes.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
t be a problem? Because "+" has a meaning to the
copy command, and will make the whole line mean something else.
That is why you should NEVER, NEVER, NEVER use any characters
in a file or path name other than letters and digits...
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
ep\documentation\trunk\MEMS+OmniHelp\MEMSplus
That is what we run, I'll bet that it does *not* copy the files.
If you really remove the plus from the directory name, it will.
In the copy command, "+" means to concatenate the file before
the plus with the file after the
nd is even accepted as that in Windows.
>Quotes and apostrophes are a disaster IMO as well.
Yes, and commas, and much more. Which is why I say, "Avoid them all!"
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
command". At least then you could set
[BookFileCommands]
BookCommandWindow=Keep
so you could see any error messages you get from Windows,
which you can't with the Automation command.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
Floating.
Sounds like ShrinkWrapAsIs.dll. It's available (free)
from Carla Martinek's site at:
http://martinek.us/shrinkwrap.html
Put it in frame\fminit\plugins, delete .cache there
(if any), restart Frame, and enjoy. Then Esc m p
will leave your existing anchor settings unchanged.
switch to Word. ;-) They can
just get one or two licenses and downgrade to match
the rest of their installed base.
Definitely one of Adobe's better moves. ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
ent list software, without losing the real member too.
Just hit Delete...
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
Getting one yourself would make no
difference at all.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
y idea on what
>could be wrong?
Yes. On the first page of your chapters, the chapter title is
in a text frame that is not connected to the body text frame on
its page. So the body text, containing the subhead, is processed
before the title. The solution is to connect the text frame with
the t
ame look and feel
>using paragraph and character styles.
Yes, IMHO that would be better practice. About the only
case where you can't do that is if you have to rotate
the text, like poor Tori had to do, which is kind of awful
anyway in itself.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
ot;
>
>Has anyone else experienced this? Fixed it? How?
Not that we know of; nobody has ever reported it.
We can't reproduce it here; in the current Firefox,
3.6.3, Enter does the same as Find. Same thing in
Internet Explorer. What browser are you using?
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
strategy
and adaptability to the changing industry.
I'm not Adobe-bashing here. But if they don't wake up
to the consequences of their current policies real soon,
the downward slide may be irreversible.
Paging Doctor Warnock...
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
k without major pain and hair loss:
http://www.leximation.com/dita-fmx/
So a good way to start is by creating some new doc
content in DITA-FMx, to get into the DITA worldview.
There's a free demo version.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith
DITA2Go site: http://www.dita2go.com/
op attribution
to the author, Joseph Lorenzini, who was the person
I thought I was responding to.
I didn't even notice your comments below his sig;
I thought *that* was the earlier quote, like it
said it was.
My apologies for not reading carefully enough.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
sers]:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/
Or at least read through the archives. It's informative.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith
DITA2Go site: http://www.dita2go.com/
s
a *Frame* bug, not a Mif2Go bug, and indicates further breakage
in the FDK control over the UI.
I'm as frustrated as the others who have posted here recently
about the severe damage to FDK functionality introduced in 9.
We can only hope that FM 10, whenever it comes out, fixes some
of these n
date.
Then close them after updating. If they are all open, you
avoid any issues Frame may have with opening them automatically.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
elect "Write for anchored
frames". Note that this is *not* the best-quality method,
merely the simplest. Please read User's Guide par. 3.7.4,
"Figuring out graphics export options", which explains this
in detail.
>Other info: XP, Word 2003
>
>Thank you for your help,
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
hts, and much more. The results were "good enough"
for use as WinHelp illustrations, but would not win prizes.
>So, yes, it is possible with some limitations.
Some pretty severe ones, IMHO... which is another reason
we haven't rushed to do it.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
t
to WinHelp, so those are better quality than the
native Frame WMF used for the HTML/XML exports.
We plan to write our own SVGs at some point too,
but so far demand has not justified the substantial
programming effort required.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
the appropriate
replacement graphic. That way, you keep the scaling
and position of the image as it was, while removing
the embedded graphic. It's quick and simple.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
he box.
It's the main thing our customers use the RTF output for.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
;
>
>My X=Ref (Instruction Step #) is defined as "step <$paranum>"
>
>Using Special > Marker to insert the cross reference
>results in, for example, "step 13." And I don't want
>the period as part of the X-Ref.
>
>Any suggestions?
Use <$paranumonly> in place of <$paranum>.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
s would stay accurate.
>(That is, I'll keep my page x of y and so forth).
Only until the pagination changes. ;-)
>I know there are other PDF converters out there, maybe that's the route I
>should pursue.
Possibly. Or just do the whole job in Frame and forget Word. ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
-page User's Guide on line:
http://www.omsys.com/dcl/ohusergd/
Or download any of a dozen versions of it, including
PDF and Frame itself, from:
http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm#Mif2Go_UG
>Thanks in advance; feel free to email me directly
>if it's too much clutter for the list.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
must be unique; it's OK for IDs in different
files to be the same.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
ogram", sounds kinda high. ;-) Most are free.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
inancially
possible in most cases these days) or else switch to
Word. ;-) They can just get one or two licenses and
downgrade to match the rest of their installed base.
Note that you *cannot* downgrade if you purchase the
copy of Frame any other way (like retail). You must
use the TLP.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
hat I can then save it as a .FM
>file or must I start from scratch and re-create it?
You can toggle read-only mode on or off with:
Esc F l k
That's Escape, Shift-F, lower-case L, lower-case K.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
saving them back; Frame
will do that automatically whenever you use one.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
s (and I don't have FrameScript),
>I will definitely have to make the LSP fix it.
I'm pretty sure you can do that by opening the para designer,
setting it to As Is, changing the one language setting, and
applying it globally. But I don't have 9 handy to check on.
>-
>
>Any help is appreciated, Alison
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
uy
Mif2Go to use it, just install the demo:
http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
e of two other graphic
types, either EPS, or a PNG using a color map (rather than
24-bit color). You could make it go away by replacing the
EPS with a PDF, or changing the PNG to use 24-bit colors.
>shouldn't I be able to
>keep different color definitions for different templates?
I don't think so, not in the same book.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
o sign up daily. When one slips through, bad
things appear in the forums. They now use real
humans, not robots, to get in, so we ask for a
short statement about why you are interested;
so far, that has sorted them out nicely. ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
phs (usually paragraphs whose formats designate split
>points), or paragraphs in a special format dedicated to this
>purpose.
Perhaps Rick's process avoids this, by rigorously checking
for duplicates. In that case, it's a very good answer to
the problem that some users have with
use it? The DITA user base is expanding fast,
and it can really use good toolmakers like you! ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
ew more I can think of too,
who might want to look at the need for tools similar
to those they already produce for Frame in the wider
DITA community. You know who you are. ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
tility
someplace. Or you could do it with a binary editor.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
be OK. But your method is definitely easier to
maintain correctly, without winding up with missing or
extra spaces between sentences, for example. Go for it! ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
that, or how useful
it would be in your situation to have "invisible" files open.
HTH...
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
code page.
This also applies to Greek, Czech, and Asian languages.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
y go into \windows\system32 into \windows\SysWOW64
instead. We mention this on the download page, but recheck.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
Most
people just change the xref format, and that works fine. I
suspect this issue is because you're changing the numbering
properties too.
>By the way, I'm on digest, so please cc me in any response.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
orted (as it should be), your update would
get the old values. Perhaps importing the template to
the book forced a cache flush. But this is speculation;
the bottom line is, now you have a way to proceed that
works.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
ion as part of a software build
process.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
rame, 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/
those.
I 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/
icts with namespaces), 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/
d and Paste Special 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/
rsion 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/
right syntax,
like 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/
ck the Advanced view box, select Unicode
as the char set, after it type 2192 in the box,
click Select, click Copy, then in Frame Paste
Special as Unicode.
No keyboard method I know of.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
; Hex Input... or Alt + f u
>i.
Interesting, thanks! It seems to have been added in FM9; it's not
present in Frame 8.
And if you are wondering how to make the Character Palette go away,
since it has no close box or button, just hit Esc. ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
o
Arial Unicode MS, which does have that glyph, and see
if the symbol appears then. (You could change the
font just for the one char, with a Character Format.)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
F than Frame's native output, which is almost
worthless for docs with figs and tables, IMHO.
About half our customers get it for Word docs
alone...
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
tion about this product?
You'll have better luck on HATT:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HATT/
where this query would definitely be ON-topic.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
For ePub output, consider Calibre, which is free:
http://calibre-ebook.com/
You can feed it with the HTML output of Mif2Go or ePP.
Maybe even the Frame native HTML, never tried that.
Or perhaps your PDF; it's flexible.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
viewing app,
and choose appropriate names for them. Finally, for each
of the embedded images, select the image (not the frame)
and use File > Import > File to replace it with the one
you extracted. That's really the best you can do.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
can specify that some apps
run in "compatibility mode" for earlier versions, like XP.
However, this does not always work. You can't run any 16-bit
apps, for example, even though they ran in the real XP. But
32-bit apps mostly work fine.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
e and Robo,
import the Frame files instead, which means lots
more work for every revision. Robo claims to "link",
but see what its users have to say about that on:
http://groups.google.com/group/TCS-Users
and decide for yourself.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
/ohusergd/
which opens in a new window. Chrome is very slow
loading, but it gets there eventually. Use Firefox
if at all possible, or IE, Opera, Safari, or Linux
Konqueror. All work with both local and network
copies, as do many more.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
risk a system on
which my livelihood depended...
Just my opinion. ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
.
This is a change all your users would need to make;
you can't change anything in the WebHelp or OmniHelp
to allow that, for obvious security reasons.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
r the chars: \x2663 \x2666 \x2665
\x2660 for the solid symbols, \x2667 \x2662 \x2661
\x2664 for the hollow ones.
>I'm currently using FM8 from TCS1 on WinXP SP2
For FM8 and above, Unicode code points should work.
Haven't tested this specific usage, though. ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
t Full; see User's Guide par. 8.8.1, "Choosing how to generate
HTML Help contents and index". Missetting that would make a .hhc
that has only the contents of the last file run.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
d value (CSV) file.
>4. Import the CSV into WordPress, assigning tags, categories, post
>types and other bits and pieces on import.
WordPress doesn't import HTML? CSV is a very old and
limited format... Does WordPress use it internally,
or does it use its own XML format, as I'd e
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