Fred,
Good summary. I have one thing to add and one disagreement...
For the average author, the biggest advantage of structured Frame might be
simply the superiority of the authoring environment. It is so much easier to
navigate, select, cut/paste, move, and format your content when you have a
Miriam Boral wrote:
I'm the sole tech writer for a very small company, but we have a
large suite of documentation. I'm beginning to teach myself
structured Frame both because I feel it's the way of the future (and
therefore worth learning) and also to explore how it might (or might
not) be
Miriam asked about the benefits of structured Frame. Fred Ridder
suggested that the payoff for a small writing group might not be big.
This question comes up periodically on this list, but I guess it is
always new to someone and therefore always worth answering.
I too am a sole writer. I've
Tina,
You might try creating the PDF from postscript rather than Frame:
1) Open the book and all files in it.
2) Print the book to a postscript file using the Adobe PDF printer option.
3) Double-click the postscript file to start Distiller and create the PDF.
Miriam
You wrote.
I'm using
Rene Stephenson wrote:
My question is, I looked in the MIF and I don't see any path stuff
that I could just do a find/replace to make it point to the right
path. Is there any way to change the paths without having to manually
reinsert each and every xref?? ALL ideas welcome.
Search for
Judie Vegh wrote:
I've got a coworker who is trying to archive a FrameMaker book, however,
during mid-archive, they receive the message No documents found in
current book. However, there are plenty of files within the book that
exist in its directory. The Archive plug-in log has the following,
Russ,
I've never said that using structured authoring in a single-writer
department didn't have significant advantages compared to
non-structured authoring. There *are* some real benefits, but
they tend to be less quantifiable tangible and harder to proove
to managers or business analysts who
Fred,
Your points are well-taken and I didn't mean to be confrontational. I just
thought that your return on investment . . . is likely to be rather small
statement might not be completely true. I didn't realize that you were speaking
in terms of making a business case. Indeed, it is very,
Hello,
I am about to upgrade from Framemaker 6 to version 8 and notice that
Webworks is no longer provided with Framemaker, I have several help projects
built using Webworks Pro and want to know if I can still use this software
with Frame Maker 8 or if I need to purchase a new online help
A number of other threads here and on Adobe's site have reported that
you need the latest version of Webwork's software to be compatible
with 8... ePublisher 9.2.something
Another alternative is to export from FM through Omsys's MIF2Go
program, which is what I've done for several years.
Someone responded offlist with the solution:
FM adjusts the path to an xref target, if the source (from which
you copied) and the target (to which you paste) are in different
folders. ...Just copy the file with the xrefs into the same folder
as the file into which you want to paste. Then copy
Fred,
Good summary. I have one thing to add and one disagreement...
For the average author, the biggest advantage of structured Frame might be
simply the superiority of the authoring environment. It is so much easier to
navigate, select, cut/paste, move, and format your content when you have a
Miriam asked about the benefits of structured Frame. Fred Ridder
suggested that the payoff for a small writing group might not be big.
This question comes up periodically on this list, but I guess it is
always new to someone and therefore always worth answering.
I too am a sole writer. I've
Tina,
You might try creating the PDF from postscript rather than Frame:
1) Open the book and all files in it.
2) Print the book to a postscript file using the Adobe PDF printer option.
3) Double-click the postscript file to start Distiller and create the PDF.
Miriam
You wrote.
>I'm using Frame
Hi FrameMaker Enthusiasts,
I've got a coworker who is trying to archive a FrameMaker book, however,
during mid-archive, they receive the message "No documents found in
current book." However, there are plenty of files within the book that
exist in its directory. The Archive plug-in log has the
Hi,
I'm using FM 7.2 w/ WWP 2003 Pro on WinXP, and I have some issues with xrefs
that I can't get resolved.
The short history is:
In the 8/25 files, there was a list of xrefs (literally a few thousand) for
navigating to points in the content, all to different FM files within the same
Rene Stephenson wrote:
>
> My question is, I looked in the MIF and I don't see any path stuff
> that I could just do a find/replace to make it point to the right
> path. Is there any way to change the paths without having to manually
> reinsert each and every xref?? ALL ideas welcome.
>
Search
Judie Vegh wrote:
>
> I've got a coworker who is trying to archive a FrameMaker book, however,
> during mid-archive, they receive the message "No documents found in
> current book." However, there are plenty of files within the book that
> exist in its directory. The Archive plug-in log has the
Russ,
I've never said that using structured authoring in a single-writer
department didn't have significant advantages compared to
non-structured authoring. There *are* some real benefits, but
they tend to be less quantifiable tangible and harder to proove
to managers or business analysts who
Fred,
Your points are well-taken and I didn't mean to be confrontational. I just
thought that your "return on investment . . . is likely to be rather small"
statement might not be completely true. I didn't realize that you were speaking
in terms of making a business case. Indeed, it is very,
Tina,
I echo Miriam's suggestion.
The PDF Writer captures display data and assembles the PDF.
Distiller uses a Postscript datastream produced by FrameMaker. The
Postscript file contains much more, and more accurate information to
construct the PDF...Kelly.
See:
Hello,
I am about to upgrade from Framemaker 6 to version 8 and notice that
Webworks is no longer provided with Framemaker, I have several help projects
built using Webworks Pro and want to know if I can still use this software
with Frame Maker 8 or if I need to purchase a new online help
I am trying to feather a book. However, there is one problem.
The book is The New Testament, that I have posted about several times
this summer. I ended up setting it up structured, as I ran into too
many problems with the InDesign-to-Word files. All that went well,
and, of course, I decided to
A number of other threads here and on Adobe's site have reported that
you need the latest version of Webwork's software to be compatible
with 8... ePublisher 9.2.something
Another alternative is to export from FM through Omsys's MIF2Go
program, which is what I've done for several years.
Hi Bodvar,
One clunky way of doing drop caps is to use subscript for the first
character and set large values for your subscript values. Choose Format >
Document > Text Options and try 280% for the Subscript Size and 115% for the
Offset. Make sure the Line Spacing on your paragraphs is Fixed.
Someone responded offlist with the solution:
FM adjusts the path to an xref target, if the source (from which
you copied) and the target (to which you paste) are in different
folders. ...Just copy the file with the xrefs into the same folder
as the file into which you want to paste. Then copy
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