RE: PowerPoint to Frame

2011-06-14 Thread Pinkham, Jim
Depending upon what your goals and needs are, another approach might be: 1. File -- Send To -- Microsoft Office Word. This gives you the text, which you can then convert to plain text and format as needed with styles in in your Frame document. 2. For graphics that need to be retained, I use a

Re: PowerPoint to Frame

2011-06-14 Thread Pat Christenson
I never knew about this! Thanks for posting it. Pat Christenson On Jun 13, 2011, at 10:42 PM, Rene Stephenson wrote: However, I’d like to add a bit about the graphics… Due to the way that Microsoft Office products handle graphics, it is best to attempt to get the graphics back to their

RE: PowerPoint to Frame

2011-06-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
Assuming you are using a reasonably recent version of Microsoft Office, there is another easy way of extracting the graphical elements from the original document. Save the Office document using one of the new formats such as .DOCX (for Word), .XLSX (for Excel), or .PPTX (for PowerPoint). Those

ANN: Structured FrameMaker training week at Front Runner - Toronto, Canada

2011-06-14 Thread Veronica Kutt
Good day, It's been 14 years, and Front Runner Training continues to provide technical writers, documentation specialists, and instructional designers the skills to work efficiently - saving both the writers and their companies time and money. How does Front Runner Training do this?

List serv for Flash users

2011-06-14 Thread Jon Harvey
Hi All, Does anyone know of a list serv for Flash or Illustrator users that is similar to this one for Framers? This list has been excellent for many years. I'd like to think that there's another one out there for other adobe applications. Jon Harvey Manager, Desktop Documentation Perkin Elmer,

Sad news

2011-06-14 Thread Doug Cuff
Bruce Foster, creator of many fine FrameMaker plugins, passed away suddenly on Saturday, June 11, 2011. Although Mr Foster had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma in September 2010, his death still came earlier than was expected. Mr Foster's wife Barbara Foster today responded to a recent

Re: Sad news

2011-06-14 Thread Alan T Litchfield
Condolences to the family. My only association with Bruce was via email over several years but his work saved my butt on a number of occasions. Alan On 15/06/2011, at 12:40 PM, Doug Cuff wrote: Bruce Foster, creator of many fine FrameMaker plugins, passed away suddenly on Saturday, June

RE: Sad news

2011-06-14 Thread Rick Quatro
Hello Framers, I am so sorry to hear of Bruce's passing. He was certainly a legend in the FrameMaker community. We will pray for his wife and family. Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth

RE: Sad news

2011-06-14 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
My condolences to the family. Z -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Doug Cuff Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 5:40 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Sad news Bruce Foster, creator of many fine

RE: Sad news

2011-06-14 Thread Ann Zdunczyk
I am so sorry to hear of Bruce's passing. I have used his plugins for as long as he was creating them. My Condolences go out to his family. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to

Re: Sad news

2011-06-14 Thread Dave Reynolds
Very sorry to hear the news about Bruce. We started using his Archive plugin years ago, and are still using it today. Our condolences to his family. Dave Doug Cuff wrote, on 15/06/2011 12:40 p.m.: Bruce Foster, creator of many fine FrameMaker plugins, passed away suddenly on Saturday, June

FW: Retrospectively standardising the styles across my book

2011-06-14 Thread Smith, Andy
Hi Thanks for all the advice on standardising the styles across my book. I now realise that this is as much an issue of removing as many of the overrides as possible. I think I’ll probably end up with a version of each style with and without revision indicators which is going to make the

Hiding deletions in with Track Text Edits

2011-06-14 Thread Keith . Soltys
I'm starting to use the Track Text Edits feature in FrameMaker 10. It's nice to have, but there's one thing that I find annoying. In Word, I have my revision tracking set to use hidden text for deletions. I've deleted the text from the document - I really don't want to see it anymore.

Cross reference issues

2011-06-14 Thread Theresa de Valence
Hello Framers, I recently produced a manual for a multi-day conference (i.e. book). All the sessions were located in sessions.fm. The format for the sessions was: ID: 202 Analysis of Existing ABL Code (title) Time:Sunday, June 5, 1:30 p.m. Location: Salem Presenter: Name,

RE: List serv for Flash users

2011-06-14 Thread Tim Pann
I don't know about Illustrator but I am a member of the kirupa listserv (www.kirupa.com). That forum has been an amazing source of Flash and Actionscript information for me and I cannot recommend it enough. Some VERY smart and helpful people in there. Good luck with the Illustrator forum. Tim

PowerPoint to Frame

2011-06-14 Thread Rene Stephenson
I agree with David about save-as-html ? that?s the route I?ve taken many times in similar situations, and it has proven a pretty efficient way to extract the graphics into something FM can use as a referenced graphic. However, I?d like to add a bit about the graphics? Due to the way that

PowerPoint to Frame

2011-06-14 Thread Pinkham, Jim
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PowerPoint to Frame

2011-06-14 Thread Pat Christenson
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PowerPoint to Frame

2011-06-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
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ANN: Structured FrameMaker training week at Front Runner - Toronto, Canada

2011-06-14 Thread Veronica Kutt
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List serv for Flash users

2011-06-14 Thread Jon Harvey
Hi All, Does anyone know of a list serv for Flash or Illustrator users that is similar to this one for Framers? This list has been excellent for many years. I'd like to think that there's another one out there for other adobe applications. Jon Harvey Manager, Desktop Documentation Perkin Elmer,

Sad news

2011-06-14 Thread Doug Cuff
Bruce Foster, creator of many fine FrameMaker plugins, passed away suddenly on Saturday, June 11, 2011. Although Mr Foster had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma in September 2010, his death still came earlier than was expected. Mr Foster's wife Barbara Foster today responded to a recent

Sad news

2011-06-14 Thread Rick Quatro
Hello Framers, I am so sorry to hear of Bruce's passing. He was certainly a legend in the FrameMaker community. We will pray for his wife and family. "Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth

Sad news

2011-06-14 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
My condolences to the family. Z -Original Message- From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Doug Cuff Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 5:40 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Sad news Bruce Foster, creator of

Sad news

2011-06-14 Thread Ann Zdunczyk
I am so sorry to hear of Bruce's passing. I have used his plugins for as long as he was creating them. My Condolences go out to his family.

FW: Retrospectively standardising the styles across my book

2011-06-14 Thread Smith, Andy
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Hiding deletions in with Track Text Edits

2011-06-14 Thread keith.sol...@tmx.com
I'm starting to use the Track Text Edits feature in FrameMaker 10. It's nice to have, but there's one thing that I find annoying. In Word, I have my revision tracking set to use hidden text for deletions. I've deleted the text from the document - I really don't want to see it anymore.

Cross reference issues

2011-06-14 Thread Theresa de Valence
Hello Framers, I recently produced a manual for a multi-day conference (i.e. book). All the sessions were located in sessions.fm. The format for the sessions was: ID: 202 Analysis of Existing ABL Code (title) Time:Sunday, June 5, 1:30 p.m. Location: Salem Presenter: Name, Title,

List serv for Flash users

2011-06-14 Thread Tim Pann
I don't know about Illustrator but I am a member of the kirupa listserv (www.kirupa.com). That forum has been an amazing source of Flash and Actionscript information for me and I cannot recommend it enough. Some VERY smart and helpful people in there. Good luck with the Illustrator forum. Tim