page numbering

[Peter Rule]

Hello framers,

I have a query about setting up page numbering.  

Is there any way to modify the $curpagenum system variable so that it 
displays the page number in two digits (eg, 01, 02, 03 etc.).  

When I reset the document numbering from 1 to 01 it doesn't recognise the 
change and resets it back to 1.

Any suggestion appreciated.

Cheers,

Pete
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Re: Formula for Tech Writing Lead Time?

[Steve Rickaby]

At 09:04 -0700 4/10/06, Courtney Collins wrote:

  Is anyone aware of a formula for how many words/pages a Tech Writer can 
 produce in a given period of time? I am being asked to take on additional 
 manuals and upper management wants some numbers to justify additional head 
 count that will be needed. I can probably come up with an estimate based on 
 what we produce today, but I was wondering if some kind of standard already 
 exists.

Courtney: all your responses have been (quite justifiably) 'it depends'. And it 
does: there is no formula. If it's any help, 0.5 to 4 or more hours per 
average manual page depending on content, complexity, audience and quality 
and availability of input data. The latter is key: if you are dependent on 
specific people for data input and they are busy, then all the metrics for 
productivity in the world won't have a lot of bearing on true, elapsed, time 
for content creation.

There are many other issues on estimation - a book could be written. If working 
with a complex product you haven't seen before, you need to allow for your own 
head-banging time to get up to speed with it. Also, the 'other people' factor 
comes heavily into play if the job requires reviewing by subject-matter experts 
(as is usually the case). I once had a set of ten manuals that took the client 
about eighteen months to review, by which time the product in question had 
moved to a new revision.

I can't do better than this other than echo the recommendation to meticulously 
record your own productivity on all jobs for use in later estimation. You can 
then feed this into those phases of a project plan that define your own work, 
while making 'reasonable' estimations for other people's productivity. The 
planning process is usually a matter of scientific 'finger in the air' 
guesstimation. That is, it's fine to make estimates, providing that you clearly 
document those estimates and can justify them. It also help to highlight them, 
for example in a 'Risks' section, which can be especially useful if the dirt 
starts flying later ;-)

An anecdote: perhaps even more difficult than estimating virgin content 
creation is estimating revision, particularly for a large documentation set. I 
was once asked to undertake such a job. Two weeks of heavy, and unpaid, 
spreadsheeting later, I came up with a figure of about $22k in today's money. 
The client's response was 'Yes, we thought it would be about that much'. The 
point being that because I was able to show what in school we were taught to 
call our 'workings out', they were happy to accept the estimate.

Or... you can ignore all the above and Google on 'technical writing planning 
metrics estimation', which got me 3.5 million hits. Here's the top hit, which 
offers a free Excel estimation spreadsheet:

http://www.writingassist.com/articles/plan-documentation-projects.htm

It looks like good sense.

HTH
-- 
Steve
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Internal FM error 7104, 7256027,4752735-Any fixes?

[archana sathiyamurthy]

Greetings Framers:
 
We are working on a FM book file with eight chapter files in it.We have to 
update a few of those chapters with new contents.
 
After we made changes to the respective chapters and tried to update the book, 
we encountered the following errors:
 
Internal FM  error 7104, 7256027,4752735
 
FM automatically closes after we click OK for the above error dialog.
 
Also,the error log report showed some fonts as unavailable.We unchecked the 
check box Do not remember missing fonts under FilePreferencesGeneral, 
assuming this would solve it.But no luck there!
 
We even tried copying all the contents and generated the book file from 
scratch, but it did not work too.
 
I can't think of anything else to fix this.
 
Please let us know if there is any solution or workaround for this.
 
Thanks in advance,
Archana


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transparency of png import

[Elisabeth SABOT]

Hi Framers !

 

Windows FM7.1.b0.23

 

I import png graphics by reference in my FM files, and for some reason,
the transparency becomes black when displaying in FM, hence in pdf
output.

Is there a way to get FM to support transparency in imported gfx? Or
should I use another format instead? In that case, which one?  jpeg? 

 

Many thanks!

 

Elisa


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RE: MIFed Newbie

[Steve Cavanaugh]

Yes, I was thinking the error I made was a separate directory (if you're
under 40, those are called folders I guess...).  Thanks for the pointer!



Steve Cavanaugh
Sr. Technical Writer
NAT Seattle Inc.

-Original Message-
From: Jeremy H. Griffith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 7:52 PM
To: framers@frameusers.com
Cc: Steve Cavanaugh
Subject: Re: MIFed Newbie 

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 09:01:22 -0700, Steve Cavanaugh 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

is there a way to prevent Frame from changing the cross-references when

saving as MIF and then re-saving as .fm?

Yes: save the .mif in the *same* dir as the .fm.
Otherwise, Frame corrects *every* external ref, for xrefs, hyperlinks,
graphics, and insets (at least).  If you want the .mif to be in a
different dir while you work on it, move it using Explorer
*after* Frame produces it.

That's what we do for the Mif2Go conversion to MIF, which works for
individual .fm files or full books, and which we created so that we
could put MIF files into CVS conveniently.  We don't do that any more,
but the MIF destination format choice lives on in Mif2Go, and works fine
in the free demo version (which isn't size or time limited):
  http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm

Using that, you can specify any directory you want as the destination,
and the files will work correctly when you put them back into the
original directory.  (Of course, if you open them in Frame in the other
dir, they *won't* work. ;-)  We generally name the MIF files .fm, so
that references from the book file work; when Frame saves them next, it
saves them in the real .fm binary format.  Makes it easy.

Mif2Go also has a Wash via MIF command, which saves files (or books)
as MIF, then re-opens them and re-saves as .fm.  This trip through MIF
often cleans up oddities in the Frame files.
That works fine in the free demo version too.

HTH!

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
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RE: MIFed Newbie

[Steve Cavanaugh]

Knowing what I know now, I agree with your assessment.   


Steve Cavanaugh
Sr. Technical Writer
NAT Seattle Inc.

-Original Message-
From: Spreadbury, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 6:57 PM
To: Steve Cavanaugh; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: MIFed Newbie 

Steve,
I wouldn't have taken the MIF route to change the fonts. I would have
gone through the Paragraph Designer and changed the Paragraph Tags so
that they all called Arial instead of Helvetica. Then I would import the
Paragraph Tags from the edited chapter to all of the other chapters.
This should have accomplished the same thing you did with MIF, only a
lot faster and would not have messed up your cross-references.

MIF is great for fixing a lot of strange Frame failures, most of which
are unknown. The reason this works has never been explained to me, but I
use it when nothing else I do fixes the problem.

I have used MIF to fix font problems, but never on a global scale.
Usually just the Frame file that was displaying the problem.

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m] On Behalf Of Steve Cavanaugh
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 11:01 AM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: MIFed Newbie 

I started using FrameMaker 7.2 fairly recently.  I was fortunate to beg
a template off an experienced user, saving me many hours of setup for
the document I'm writing.  I've been reading the list for about six
weeks, and numerous times I've seen instructions to save to MIF, do some
editing, then read back into Frame. Good, I'm not afraid of that, and
looking at a MIF file it seems a great way to get at things.

I've been battling fonts here, and after a number of aborted efforts to
convert my activities to Helvetica, I decided that Arial would be fine,
and after all, it is available on every Windows machine.  Anyone can
maintain it with Arial.  I reasoned that the easiest way to do this
would be to save all of the files in my book to MIF and use
Search/Replace to get things converted.  That way I wouldn't have to go
looking under all the rocks in Frame to find all of the Font
definitions.  So I created a MIF folder and saved the entire book (about
36 files) to MIF format.  

The Search/Replace went smoothly, and when I read the files back in I
was pleased to see the Font change was in place.  Good.  

One thing that I didn't really pay enough attention to though - when I
opened the first file, Frame complained about Unresolved
Cross-References.  Well we see that a lot, don't we.  I ignored it for
the moment and began adding value to the book.  But I kept seeing this
on all of the files, so I decided to resolve them yesterday.  What I
discovered was very upsetting - all of the cross-references embedded on
the master pages of each file were now pointing to the MIF folder, which
I had sumarily dismissed after finishing with it.  All thirty-six files,
with about five to seven master pages each, three cross-references per
page.  OUCH!  I just finished about 6 hours of re-establishing all of
those cross-references.  

So, I'm not sure where I went wrong.  I had named all of the MIF files
as filename.fm.mif which allowed me to easily revert to saving as .fm
when I was ready to re-save.  If Frame has a habit of doing this kind of
thing, I'm not sure I can use MIF again - is there a way to prevent
Frame from changing the cross-references when saving as MIF and then
re-saving as .fm?  Anyone see where I went wrong?  

Steve Cavanaugh

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RE: MIFed Newbie

[Owen, Clint]

 Steve,

I went through a similar exercise recently. It works great if you use
the same file names and stay in the same directory.

Clint


Clint Owen 
Technical Publications
Crane Aerospace  Electronics 
425-743-8674


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Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 9:01 AM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: MIFed Newbie 

I started using FrameMaker 7.2 fairly recently.  I was fortunate to beg
a template off an experienced user, saving me many hours of setup for
the document I'm writing.  I've been reading the list for about six
weeks, and numerous times I've seen instructions to save to MIF, do some
editing, then read back into Frame. Good, I'm not afraid of that, and
looking at a MIF file it seems a great way to get at things.

I've been battling fonts here, and after a number of aborted efforts to
convert my activities to Helvetica, I decided that Arial would be fine,
and after all, it is available on every Windows machine.  Anyone can
maintain it with Arial.  I reasoned that the easiest way to do this
would be to save all of the files in my book to MIF and use
Search/Replace to get things converted.  That way I wouldn't have to go
looking under all the rocks in Frame to find all of the Font
definitions.  So I created a MIF folder and saved the entire book (about
36 files) to MIF format.  

The Search/Replace went smoothly, and when I read the files back in I
was pleased to see the Font change was in place.  Good.  

One thing that I didn't really pay enough attention to though - when I
opened the first file, Frame complained about Unresolved
Cross-References.  Well we see that a lot, don't we.  I ignored it for
the moment and began adding value to the book.  But I kept seeing this
on all of the files, so I decided to resolve them yesterday.  What I
discovered was very upsetting - all of the cross-references embedded on
the master pages of each file were now pointing to the MIF folder, which
I had sumarily dismissed after finishing with it.  All thirty-six files,
with about five to seven master pages each, three cross-references per
page.  OUCH!  I just finished about 6 hours of re-establishing all of
those cross-references.  

So, I'm not sure where I went wrong.  I had named all of the MIF files
as filename.fm.mif which allowed me to easily revert to saving as .fm
when I was ready to re-save.  If Frame has a habit of doing this kind of
thing, I'm not sure I can use MIF again - is there a way to prevent
Frame from changing the cross-references when saving as MIF and then
re-saving as .fm?  Anyone see where I went wrong?  

Steve Cavanaugh



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RE:Translation questions

[Alexandra Duffy]

Thanks to everyone who responded to my questions. We are definitely
aware that the lowest bidder is not always the best choice; however, the
choice of vendors is not within my control. One of the reasons I asked
my question was in an effort to potentially change vendors.

Thanks again for your information,
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Designing a PDF hierarchy of documents

[Carol Wade]

Our client services department wants me to design a hierarchy of PDFs to
replace our five user guides. They claim that the size of the guides
(100-250 pg. each) are intimidating, and users have trouble finding what
they want. (Hint: The product is REALLY complex and can be daunting.) 

 

What they want is somewhat like an HTML help system in which a top-level
document (NOT a TOC) describes and contains links to collections of
documents that reside in directories beneath that document. The
top-level document should contain links to an index, or getting
started document in each subdirectory. Again, these documents should
describe and contain links to the individual documents in that
directory. 

 

You see, they want to be able to peruse the directory and filenames, the
top-level document, or index documents in the sub-directories to find
what they are looking for. 

 

I can figure out how to create the hierarchy, and even zip it up so that
the hierarchy is recreated on the user's machine when unzipped. What I
must figure out is how to automate this process, because I am the only
technical writer maintaining 700 pages of complex technical information.

 

I can create FrameMaker books in the subdirectories, and even add cross
references that are maintained when the PDFs are unzipped. The problem
is automating the placement of the PDFs in a hierarchy that can be
zipped without my having to manually move them out of the hierarchy that
contains all of the FrameMaker files and/or distiller log files. 

 

I use Watched Folders in Acrobat, so all the PDFs are in an out
subdirectory. 

 

One thought that I have not pursued would be to pick up some descriptive
text (perhaps using conditional text) to kludge together a TOC document
that looks more like a descriptive HTML index than a TOC. 

 

I'm looking for general direction at this point. Am I making this too
complex, when there is actually a simple solution? Should I be using
FrameMaker in some other way to achieve these results? Or do I just need
some DOS scripts to move my PDF files into a pristine hierarchy that I
can then zip up in one step? I have FrameScript, and have written some
scripts, but I'm really not too good at script writing. I do have Carmen
Publishing's Super Web Bundle, which I have used to create my own
scripts. (whimper)

 

I'm on Windows 2000 using FrameMaker 7  Acrobat Distiller 7.0.7
Professional. 

 

Thank you for any ideas in or outside the box.

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the page, puntuation performs its grammatical function, but in the
mind of the reader it does more than that. It tells the reader how to
hum the tune.
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FrameMaker 7.0 for Mac?

[Neil Tubb]

Hey Framers,

 

I use Frame 7.1 for Windows at work, but use a PowerPC Mac at home. I
would really like to be able to work a bit from home, so was wondering
if it would be worth picking up Frame 7.0 for Mac. So:

 

1. Did they actually make Frame 7.0 for Mac...I keep reading about an
upgrade, but not a real product. I realize it is now discontinued.

 

2. Are there big problems going back and forth between the two
platforms? I have an old (5.5) version on my Mac currently, but going
the Save to MIF route has resulted in no end of weird issues.

 

Thanks in advance,

Neil

 

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Senior Technical Writer

Solace Systems, Inc.

535 Legget Drive, 6th Floor

Ottawa, ON K2K 3B8

 

Phone: (613) 271-1010, ext. 1066

Fax: (613) 271-2844

Internet: www.solacesystems.com http://www.solacesystems.com 

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Frame-to-PDF-to-Frame

[Eduardo F. Cidade, Sr.]

Good morning from the USA.

I was discussing with an associate the merits of converting a PDF to
FrameMaker.  The object, of course, being that it would take time for this
type of conversion since there is no known methodology of round-tripping a
FrameMaker-to-PDF-to-FrameMaker document.

My associate then informed me that someone told him it was entirely possible
to do this.  He did not get a name to go along with this revelation.  After
much discussion and some research, I still cannot find the answer.

So I ask my fellow Acrobats, Frame Templars, and those who I believe are in
the know about FrameMaker the same question:

Is it possible to round-trip a document from
FrameMaker-to-PDF-to-FrameMaker? and...
if it is possible, is it easy (click here, there, and everywhere)

or

Does the same methodology of converting from PDF to FrameMaker applytake
time, money, and efforting.

Puzzled in Western Pennsylvania

Eduardo
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RE: mailto: what am I doing wrong?

[Charles Beck]

Richard,

Try leaving out the double quotation marks (). You don't need them in
this type of marker. 

Also, to be on the safe side, I would replace the spaces in the intended
subject line with: %20 This is because some email clients still have
trouble with programmed spaces. 

HTH, 
Chuck


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Subject: mailto: what am I doing wrong?

Microsoft Windows 2000 5.00.2195 Service Pack 4. FrameMaker 6.0p405. 
Acrobat Professional 7.0.8

I'm trying to create a mailto: link in FrameMaker that will be active in
the PDF.

I chose Special  Hypertext..

In the Hypertext dialog, I selected Go To URL.

In the Syntax area I typed:

message URL mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Film Help

Then I PDF the document.

When I click on the link in the PDF, my Lotus Notes opens, but the To: 
field is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it should be [EMAIL PROTECTED]). 

There is nothing in the Subject: field (there should be Thin Film Help).

And my Internet Explorer browser opens, too, with a Action Cancelled
error screen (and mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is in the address field). I do
not want the browser to open.

What am I doing wrong? 

Thanks!
Richard


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RE: Frame-to-PDF-to-Frame

[Spreadbury, David]

Wouldn't it be wonderful if it could be done with a ... click here,
there, and everywhere...

I won't say it can't be done, because it can, but not with a couple of
clicks. Acrobat can SaveAs RTF, Frame can import Word; saving your PDF
as RTF, opening this in Word and saving it, gives you a way to get the
content back into Frame.

Now comes the fun part, reapplying all your tags/elements, reimporting
all your graphics (which have now been mangled by Words method of
handling graphics).

If anyone knows of a way to easily go from Frame to PDF to Frame,
please chime in. This would be an invaluable tool.

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Subject: Frame-to-PDF-to-Frame

Good morning from the USA.

I was discussing with an associate the merits of converting a PDF to
FrameMaker.  The object, of course, being that it would take time for
this
type of conversion since there is no known methodology of
round-tripping a
FrameMaker-to-PDF-to-FrameMaker document.

My associate then informed me that someone told him it was entirely
possible
to do this.  He did not get a name to go along with this revelation.
After
much discussion and some research, I still cannot find the answer.

So I ask my fellow Acrobats, Frame Templars, and those who I believe are
in
the know about FrameMaker the same question:

Is it possible to round-trip a document from
FrameMaker-to-PDF-to-FrameMaker? and...
if it is possible, is it easy (click here, there, and everywhere)

or

Does the same methodology of converting from PDF to FrameMaker
applytake
time, money, and efforting.

Puzzled in Western Pennsylvania

Eduardo

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Frame2000 still available?

[Charles Grinnell]

Anyone knows whether Frame2000 is still available for
purchase? Thanks in advance!

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Re: Internal FM error 7104, 7256027,4752735-Any fixes?

[Stuart Rogers]

archana sathiyamurthy wrote:

Greetings Framers:

We are working on a FM book file with eight chapter files in it.We
have to update a few of those chapters with new contents.

After we made changes to the respective chapters and tried to update
the book, we encountered the following errors:

Internal FM  error 7104, 7256027,4752735

FM automatically closes after we click OK for the above error dialog.


Also,the error log report showed some fonts as unavailable.We
unchecked the check box Do not remember missing fonts under
FilePreferencesGeneral, assuming this would solve it.But no luck
there!

We even tried copying all the contents and generated the book file
from scratch, but it did not work too.

I can't think of anything else to fix this.

Please let us know if there is any solution or workaround for this.

Thanks in advance, Archana


Archana, you could try creating a new book and adding your content files
one at a time, updating after each. If the cause is a single corrupt 
file, that will help you isolate it. You could also try the Wash By MIF 
feature of Mif2Go (it's in the free demo version, so you can use it even 
if you haven't bought the software). Sometimes just saving everything to 
MIF and reopening in FM does the trick, and Mif2Go automates that.


Good luck.

(And Happy Thanksgiving to all the Canadians on the list! See you 
Tuesday...)


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Re: FrameMaker 7.0 for Mac?

[William Gaffga]

Adobe did indeed make a v7.0 for Mac. EBay is one option for getting  
a copy. If you use identical fonts on both platforms there really  
shouldn't be any issues. We use that same setup in a professional  
environment.


Will.

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Hey Framers,

I use Frame 7.1 for Windows at work, but use a PowerPC Mac at home. I
would really like to be able to work a bit from home, so was wondering
if it would be worth picking up Frame 7.0 for Mac. So:

1. Did they actually make Frame 7.0 for Mac...I keep reading about an
upgrade, but not a real product. I realize it is now discontinued.

2. Are there big problems going back and forth between the two
platforms? I have an old (5.5) version on my Mac currently, but going
the Save to MIF route has resulted in no end of weird issues.

Thanks in advance,

Neil

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RE: Frame2000 still available?

[Combs, Richard]

Charles Grinnell wrote: 

 Anyone knows whether Frame2000 is still available for 
 purchase? Thanks in advance!

Huh? What's a Frame2000? 

It's not a FrameMaker version -- those are (going back to mid-90s)
5.5.6, 6, 7, 7.1, and 7.2. 

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page numbering

[Peter Rule]

Hello framers,

I have a query about setting up page numbering.  

Is there any way to modify the <$curpagenum> system variable so that it 
displays the page number in two digits (eg, "01", "02", "03" etc.).  

When I reset the document numbering from "1" to "01" it doesn't recognise the 
change and resets it back to "1".

Any suggestion appreciated.

Cheers,

Pete

Formula for Tech Writing Lead Time?

[Steve Rickaby]

At 09:04 -0700 4/10/06, Courtney Collins wrote:

>  Is anyone aware of a formula for how many words/pages a Tech Writer can 
> produce in a given period of time? I am being asked to take on additional 
> manuals and upper management wants some numbers to justify additional head 
> count that will be needed. I can probably come up with an estimate based on 
> what we produce today, but I was wondering if some kind of standard already 
> exists.

Courtney: all your responses have been (quite justifiably) 'it depends'. And it 
does: there is no formula. If it's any help, 0.5 to 4 or more hours per 
 page depending on content, complexity, audience and quality 
and availability of input data. The latter is key: if you are dependent on 
specific people for data input and they are busy, then all the metrics for 
productivity in the world won't have a lot of bearing on true, elapsed, time 
for content creation.

There are many other issues on estimation - a book could be written. If working 
with a complex product you haven't seen before, you need to allow for your own 
head-banging time to get up to speed with it. Also, the 'other people' factor 
comes heavily into play if the job requires reviewing by subject-matter experts 
(as is usually the case). I once had a set of ten manuals that took the client 
about eighteen months to review, by which time the product in question had 
moved to a new revision.

I can't do better than this other than echo the recommendation to meticulously 
record your own productivity on all jobs for use in later estimation. You can 
then feed this into those phases of a project plan that define your own work, 
while making 'reasonable' estimations for other people's productivity. The 
planning process is usually a matter of scientific 'finger in the air' 
guesstimation. That is, it's fine to make estimates, providing that you clearly 
document those estimates and can justify them. It also help to highlight them, 
for example in a 'Risks' section, which can be especially useful if the dirt 
starts flying later ;-)

An anecdote: perhaps even more difficult than estimating virgin content 
creation is estimating revision, particularly for a large documentation set. I 
was once asked to undertake such a job. Two weeks of heavy, and unpaid, 
spreadsheeting later, I came up with a figure of about $22k in today's money. 
The client's response was 'Yes, we thought it would be about that much'. The 
point being that because I was able to show what in school we were taught to 
call our 'workings out', they were happy to accept the estimate.

Or... you can ignore all the above and Google on 'technical writing planning 
metrics estimation', which got me 3.5 million hits. Here's the top hit, which 
offers a free Excel estimation spreadsheet:



It looks like good sense.

HTH
-- 
Steve

Internal FM error 7104, 7256027,4752735-Any fixes?

[archana sathiyamurthy]

Greetings Framers:

We are working on a FM book file with eight chapter files in it.We have to 
update a few of those chapters with new contents.

After we made changes to the respective chapters and tried to update the book, 
we encountered the following errors:

Internal FM  error 7104, 7256027,4752735

FM automatically closes after we click OK for the above error dialog.

Also,the error log report showed some fonts as unavailable.We unchecked the 
check box "Do not remember missing fonts" under File>Preferences>General, 
assuming this would solve it.But no luck there!

We even tried copying all the contents and generated the book file from 
scratch, but it did not work too.

I can't think of anything else to fix this.

Please let us know if there is any solution or workaround for this.

Thanks in advance,
Archana

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transparency of png import

[Elisabeth SABOT]

Hi Framers !



Windows FM7.1.b0.23



I import png graphics by reference in my FM files, and for some reason,
the transparency becomes black when displaying in FM, hence in pdf
output.

Is there a way to get FM to support transparency in imported gfx? Or
should I use another format instead? In that case, which one?  jpeg? 



Many thanks!



Elisa


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"MIF"ed Newbie

[Steve Cavanaugh]

Yes, I was thinking the error I made was a separate directory (if you're
under 40, those are called folders I guess...).  Thanks for the pointer!



Steve Cavanaugh
Sr. Technical Writer
NAT Seattle Inc.

-Original Message-
From: Jeremy H. Griffith [mailto:jer...@omsys.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 7:52 PM
To: framers at frameusers.com
Cc: Steve Cavanaugh
Subject: Re: "MIF"ed Newbie 

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 09:01:22 -0700, "Steve Cavanaugh" 
 wrote:

>is there a way to prevent Frame from changing the cross-references when

>saving as MIF and then re-saving as .fm?

Yes: save the .mif in the *same* dir as the .fm.
Otherwise, Frame "corrects" *every* external ref, for xrefs, hyperlinks,
graphics, and insets (at least).  If you want the .mif to be in a
different dir while you work on it, move it using Explorer
*after* Frame produces it.

That's what we do for the Mif2Go conversion to MIF, which works for
individual .fm files or full books, and which we created so that we
could put MIF files into CVS conveniently.  We don't do that any more,
but the MIF destination format choice lives on in Mif2Go, and works fine
in the free demo version (which isn't size or time limited):
  http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm

Using that, you can specify any directory you want as the destination,
and the files will work correctly when you put them back into the
original directory.  (Of course, if you open them in Frame in the other
dir, they *won't* work. ;-)  We generally name the MIF files .fm, so
that references from the book file work; when Frame saves them next, it
saves them in the real .fm binary format.  Makes it easy.

Mif2Go also has a "Wash via MIF" command, which saves files (or books)
as MIF, then re-opens them and re-saves as .fm.  This trip through MIF
often cleans up oddities in the Frame files.
That works fine in the free demo version too.

HTH!

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/

"MIF"ed Newbie

[Steve Cavanaugh]

Knowing what I know now, I agree with your assessment.   


Steve Cavanaugh
Sr. Technical Writer
NAT Seattle Inc.

-Original Message-
From: Spreadbury, David [mailto:david.spreadb...@tellabs.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 6:57 PM
To: Steve Cavanaugh; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: "MIF"ed Newbie 

Steve,
I wouldn't have taken the MIF route to change the fonts. I would have
gone through the Paragraph Designer and changed the Paragraph Tags so
that they all called Arial instead of Helvetica. Then I would import the
Paragraph Tags from the edited chapter to all of the other chapters.
This should have accomplished the same thing you did with MIF, only a
lot faster and would not have messed up your cross-references.

MIF is great for fixing a lot of strange Frame failures, most of which
are unknown. The reason this works has never been explained to me, but I
use it when nothing else I do fixes the problem.

I have used MIF to fix font problems, but never on a global scale.
Usually just the Frame file that was displaying the problem.

-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs.com at lists.frameusers.co
m] On Behalf Of Steve Cavanaugh
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 11:01 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: "MIF"ed Newbie 

I started using FrameMaker 7.2 fairly recently.  I was fortunate to beg
a template off an experienced user, saving me many hours of setup for
the document I'm writing.  I've been reading the list for about six
weeks, and numerous times I've seen instructions to save to MIF, do some
editing, then read back into Frame. Good, I'm not afraid of that, and
looking at a MIF file it seems a great way to get at things.

I've been battling fonts here, and after a number of aborted efforts to
convert my activities to Helvetica, I decided that Arial would be fine,
and after all, it is available on every Windows machine.  Anyone can
maintain it with Arial.  I reasoned that the easiest way to do this
would be to save all of the files in my book to MIF and use
Search/Replace to get things converted.  That way I wouldn't have to go
looking under all the rocks in Frame to find all of the Font
definitions.  So I created a MIF folder and saved the entire book (about
36 files) to MIF format.  

The Search/Replace went smoothly, and when I read the files back in I
was pleased to see the Font change was in place.  Good.  

One thing that I didn't really pay enough attention to though - when I
opened the first file, Frame complained about Unresolved
Cross-References.  Well we see that a lot, don't we.  I ignored it for
the moment and began adding value to the book.  But I kept seeing this
on all of the files, so I decided to resolve them yesterday.  What I
discovered was very upsetting - all of the cross-references embedded on
the master pages of each file were now pointing to the MIF folder, which
I had sumarily dismissed after finishing with it.  All thirty-six files,
with about five to seven master pages each, three cross-references per
page.  OUCH!  I just finished about 6 hours of re-establishing all of
those cross-references.  

So, I'm not sure where I went wrong.  I had named all of the MIF files
as filename.fm.mif which allowed me to easily revert to saving as .fm
when I was ready to re-save.  If Frame has a habit of doing this kind of
thing, I'm not sure I can use MIF again - is there a way to prevent
Frame from changing the cross-references when saving as MIF and then
re-saving as .fm?  Anyone see where I went wrong?  

Steve Cavanaugh

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"MIF"ed Newbie

[Owen, Clint]

 Steve,

I went through a similar exercise recently. It works great if you use
the same file names and stay in the same directory.

Clint


Clint Owen 
Technical Publications
Crane Aerospace & Electronics 
425-743-8674


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From: framers-bounces+clint.owen=craneaerospace@lists.frameusers.com
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om] On Behalf Of Steve Cavanaugh
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 9:01 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: "MIF"ed Newbie 

I started using FrameMaker 7.2 fairly recently.  I was fortunate to beg
a template off an experienced user, saving me many hours of setup for
the document I'm writing.  I've been reading the list for about six
weeks, and numerous times I've seen instructions to save to MIF, do some
editing, then read back into Frame. Good, I'm not afraid of that, and
looking at a MIF file it seems a great way to get at things.

I've been battling fonts here, and after a number of aborted efforts to
convert my activities to Helvetica, I decided that Arial would be fine,
and after all, it is available on every Windows machine.  Anyone can
maintain it with Arial.  I reasoned that the easiest way to do this
would be to save all of the files in my book to MIF and use
Search/Replace to get things converted.  That way I wouldn't have to go
looking under all the rocks in Frame to find all of the Font
definitions.  So I created a MIF folder and saved the entire book (about
36 files) to MIF format.  

The Search/Replace went smoothly, and when I read the files back in I
was pleased to see the Font change was in place.  Good.  

One thing that I didn't really pay enough attention to though - when I
opened the first file, Frame complained about Unresolved
Cross-References.  Well we see that a lot, don't we.  I ignored it for
the moment and began adding value to the book.  But I kept seeing this
on all of the files, so I decided to resolve them yesterday.  What I
discovered was very upsetting - all of the cross-references embedded on
the master pages of each file were now pointing to the MIF folder, which
I had sumarily dismissed after finishing with it.  All thirty-six files,
with about five to seven master pages each, three cross-references per
page.  OUCH!  I just finished about 6 hours of re-establishing all of
those cross-references.  

So, I'm not sure where I went wrong.  I had named all of the MIF files
as filename.fm.mif which allowed me to easily revert to saving as .fm
when I was ready to re-save.  If Frame has a habit of doing this kind of
thing, I'm not sure I can use MIF again - is there a way to prevent
Frame from changing the cross-references when saving as MIF and then
re-saving as .fm?  Anyone see where I went wrong?  

Steve Cavanaugh



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Translation questions

[Alexandra Duffy]

Thanks to everyone who responded to my questions. We are definitely
aware that the lowest bidder is not always the best choice; however, the
choice of vendors is not within my control. One of the reasons I asked
my question was in an effort to potentially change vendors.

Thanks again for your information,
Alexandra Duffy

Designing a PDF hierarchy of documents

[Carol Wade]

Our client services department wants me to design a hierarchy of PDFs to
replace our five user guides. They claim that the size of the guides
(100-250 pg. each) are intimidating, and users have trouble finding what
they want. (Hint: The product is REALLY complex and can be daunting.) 



What they want is somewhat like an HTML help system in which a top-level
document (NOT a TOC) describes and contains links to "collections" of
documents that reside in directories beneath that document. The
top-level document should contain links to an "index," or "getting
started" document in each subdirectory. Again, these documents should
describe and contain links to the individual documents in that
directory. 



You see, they want to be able to peruse the directory and filenames, the
top-level document, or "index" documents in the sub-directories to find
what they are looking for. 



I can figure out how to create the hierarchy, and even zip it up so that
the hierarchy is recreated on the user's machine when unzipped. What I
must figure out is how to automate this process, because I am the only
technical writer maintaining 700 pages of complex technical information.



I can create FrameMaker books in the subdirectories, and even add cross
references that are maintained when the PDFs are unzipped. The problem
is automating the placement of the PDFs in a hierarchy that can be
zipped without my having to manually move them out of the hierarchy that
contains all of the FrameMaker files and/or distiller log files. 



I use Watched Folders in Acrobat, so all the PDFs are in an "out"
subdirectory. 



One thought that I have not pursued would be to pick up some descriptive
text (perhaps using conditional text) to kludge together a TOC document
that looks more like a descriptive HTML index than a TOC. 



I'm looking for general direction at this point. Am I making this too
complex, when there is actually a simple solution? Should I be using
FrameMaker in some other way to achieve these results? Or do I just need
some DOS scripts to move my PDF files into a pristine hierarchy that I
can then zip up in one step? I have FrameScript, and have written some
scripts, but I'm really not too good at script writing. I do have Carmen
Publishing's Super Web Bundle, which I have used to create my own
scripts. (whimper)



I'm on Windows 2000 using FrameMaker 7 & Acrobat Distiller 7.0.7
Professional. 



Thank you for any ideas in or outside the box.













"On the page, puntuation performs its grammatical function, but in the
mind of the reader it does more than that. It tells the reader how to
hum the tune."
- Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves

FrameMaker 7.0 for Mac?

[Neil Tubb]

Hey Framers,



I use Frame 7.1 for Windows at work, but use a PowerPC Mac at home. I
would really like to be able to work a bit from home, so was wondering
if it would be worth picking up Frame 7.0 for Mac. So:



1. Did they actually make Frame 7.0 for Mac...I keep reading about an
upgrade, but not a real product. I realize it is now discontinued.



2. Are there big problems going back and forth between the two
platforms? I have an old (5.5) version on my Mac currently, but going
the Save to MIF route has resulted in no end of weird issues.



Thanks in advance,

Neil



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Solace Systems, Inc.

535 Legget Drive, 6th Floor

Ottawa, ON K2K 3B8



Phone: (613) 271-1010, ext. 1066

Fax: (613) 271-2844

Internet: www.solacesystems.com  

Email: neil.tubb at solacesystems.com

mailto: what am I doing wrong?

[ri...@inficon.com]

Microsoft Windows 2000 5.00.2195 Service Pack 4. FrameMaker 6.0p405. 
Acrobat Professional 7.0.8

I'm trying to create a mailto: link in FrameMaker that will be active in 
the PDF.

I chose Special >> Hypertext..

In the Hypertext dialog, I selected Go To URL.

In the Syntax area I typed:

message URL "mailto:Thin.Film at inficon.com?subject=Thin Film Help"

Then I PDF the document.

When I click on the link in the PDF, my Lotus Notes opens, but the To: 
field is Film at inficon.com (it should be Thin.Film at inficon.com). 

There is nothing in the Subject: field (there should be Thin Film Help).

And my Internet Explorer browser opens, too, with a Action Cancelled error 
screen (and mailto:Film at inficon.com is in the address field). I do not 
want the browser to open.

What am I doing wrong? 

Thanks!
Richard

Frame-to-PDF-to-Frame

[Eduardo F. Cidade, Sr.]

Good morning from the USA.

I was discussing with an associate the merits of converting a PDF to
FrameMaker.  The object, of course, being that it would take time for this
type of conversion since there is no known methodology of "round-tripping" a
FrameMaker-to-PDF-to-FrameMaker document.

My associate then informed me that someone told him it was entirely possible
to do this.  He did not get a name to go along with this revelation.  After
much discussion and some research, I still cannot find the answer.

So I ask my fellow Acrobats, Frame Templars, and those who I believe are in
the know about FrameMaker the same question:

"Is it possible to round-trip a document from
FrameMaker-to-PDF-to-FrameMaker?" and...
"if it is possible, is it easy (click here, there, and everywhere)"

or

Does the same methodology of converting from PDF to FrameMaker applytake
time, money, and efforting.

Puzzled in Western Pennsylvania

Eduardo

mailto: what am I doing wrong?

[Charles Beck]

Richard,

Try leaving out the double quotation marks ("). You don't need them in
this type of marker. 

Also, to be on the safe side, I would replace the spaces in the intended
subject line with: %20 This is because some email clients still have
trouble with programmed spaces. 

HTH, 
Chuck


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Subject: mailto: what am I doing wrong?

Microsoft Windows 2000 5.00.2195 Service Pack 4. FrameMaker 6.0p405. 
Acrobat Professional 7.0.8

I'm trying to create a mailto: link in FrameMaker that will be active in
the PDF.

I chose Special >> Hypertext..

In the Hypertext dialog, I selected Go To URL.

In the Syntax area I typed:

message URL "mailto:Thin.Film at inficon.com?subject=Thin Film Help"

Then I PDF the document.

When I click on the link in the PDF, my Lotus Notes opens, but the To: 
field is Film at inficon.com (it should be Thin.Film at inficon.com). 

There is nothing in the Subject: field (there should be Thin Film Help).

And my Internet Explorer browser opens, too, with a Action Cancelled
error screen (and mailto:Film at inficon.com is in the address field). I do
not want the browser to open.

What am I doing wrong? 

Thanks!
Richard


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Frame-to-PDF-to-Frame

[Spreadbury, David]

Wouldn't it be wonderful if it could be done with a "... click here,
there, and everywhere..."

I won't say it can't be done, because it can, but not with a couple of
clicks. Acrobat can SaveAs RTF, Frame can import Word; saving your PDF
as RTF, opening this in Word and saving it, gives you a way to get the
content back into Frame.

Now comes the fun part, reapplying all your tags/elements, reimporting
all your graphics (which have now been mangled by Words method of
handling graphics).

If anyone knows of a way to "easily" go from Frame to PDF to Frame,
please chime in. This would be an invaluable tool.

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Subject: Frame-to-PDF-to-Frame

Good morning from the USA.

I was discussing with an associate the merits of converting a PDF to
FrameMaker.  The object, of course, being that it would take time for
this
type of conversion since there is no known methodology of
"round-tripping" a
FrameMaker-to-PDF-to-FrameMaker document.

My associate then informed me that someone told him it was entirely
possible
to do this.  He did not get a name to go along with this revelation.
After
much discussion and some research, I still cannot find the answer.

So I ask my fellow Acrobats, Frame Templars, and those who I believe are
in
the know about FrameMaker the same question:

"Is it possible to round-trip a document from
FrameMaker-to-PDF-to-FrameMaker?" and...
"if it is possible, is it easy (click here, there, and everywhere)"

or

Does the same methodology of converting from PDF to FrameMaker
applytake
time, money, and efforting.

Puzzled in Western Pennsylvania

Eduardo

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Frame2000 still available?

[Charles Grinnell]

Anyone knows whether Frame2000 is still available for
purchase? Thanks in advance!

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Internal FM error 7104, 7256027,4752735-Any fixes?

[Stuart Rogers]

archana sathiyamurthy wrote:
> Greetings Framers:
> 
> We are working on a FM book file with eight chapter files in it.We
> have to update a few of those chapters with new contents.
> 
> After we made changes to the respective chapters and tried to update
> the book, we encountered the following errors:
> 
> Internal FM  error 7104, 7256027,4752735
> 
> FM automatically closes after we click OK for the above error dialog.
> 
> 
> Also,the error log report showed some fonts as unavailable.We
> unchecked the check box "Do not remember missing fonts" under
> File>Preferences>General, assuming this would solve it.But no luck
> there!
> 
> We even tried copying all the contents and generated the book file
> from scratch, but it did not work too.
> 
> I can't think of anything else to fix this.
> 
> Please let us know if there is any solution or workaround for this.
> 
> Thanks in advance, Archana

Archana, you could try creating a new book and adding your content files
one at a time, updating after each. If the cause is a single corrupt 
file, that will help you isolate it. You could also try the Wash By MIF 
feature of Mif2Go (it's in the free demo version, so you can use it even 
if you haven't bought the software). Sometimes just saving everything to 
MIF and reopening in FM does the trick, and Mif2Go automates that.

Good luck.

(And Happy Thanksgiving to all the Canadians on the list! See you 
Tuesday...)

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FrameMaker 7.0 for Mac?

[William Gaffga]

Adobe did indeed make a v7.0 for Mac. EBay is one option for getting  
a copy. If you use identical fonts on both platforms there really  
shouldn't be any issues. We use that same setup in a professional  
environment.

Will.

On Oct 6, 2006, at 8:12 AM, Neil Tubb wrote:

> Hey Framers,
>
> I use Frame 7.1 for Windows at work, but use a PowerPC Mac at home. I
> would really like to be able to work a bit from home, so was wondering
> if it would be worth picking up Frame 7.0 for Mac. So:
>
> 1. Did they actually make Frame 7.0 for Mac...I keep reading about an
> upgrade, but not a real product. I realize it is now discontinued.
>
> 2. Are there big problems going back and forth between the two
> platforms? I have an old (5.5) version on my Mac currently, but going
> the Save to MIF route has resulted in no end of weird issues.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Neil

Frame2000 still available?

[Combs, Richard]

Charles Grinnell wrote: 

> Anyone knows whether Frame2000 is still available for 
> purchase? Thanks in advance!

Huh? What's a Frame2000? 

It's not a FrameMaker version -- those are (going back to mid-90s)
5.5.6, 6, 7, 7.1, and 7.2. 

Richard


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Issue in Optimizing PDF size

[Radha Padmanabhan]

Hi, 

  I use FM 7.1 with Windows XP.

  I got a 500 page FM Book with 16 files including TOC and Index. When I opened 
it was detected to be of version 5.5. I was also prompted to Optimize for PDF 
size during conversion to pdf. But when doing that (selecting the book), the 
files to which "Links are found" are opened. I press 'OK' to open all the 
files. But the operation fails telling 

  [PDFSize]  Error: Cannot open file ama-pre.fm. 
  Error: Cannot open file ama-pre.fm.
[PDFSize] Dumping Error Information

  If I Skip this file, same error is displayed for another file.
  What is wrong in what I am doing? How do I get the optimization done? Other 
than the size of PDF, how does it affect conversion to pdf.

  Thanks
Radha


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