¿Is there a substitute for MicroType TimeSavers?

[Stamm, David-P45904]

2009-04-10-05T12:15Z

My hearty ¡Thanks! to Sarah O'Keefe, who was the only person to offer the 
information requested.

I will do my best to use the information available to convince the powers who 
are to allow us here to resume using TimeSavers plugin.

Dave Stamm
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General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc.
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Re: searching for article in front of a variable

[beverly_robinson]

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Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:33:47 -0400
From: Laurie Little llit...@words-tw.com
Subject: searching for article in front of a variable
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Frame 7.2
I have a variable (government ministry of health shortform) that affects
the
article in front of it. Each province has a different shortform. When I
change the variable, the article may be affected.

For example, in the Ontario doc, it's an MOH bill, while in New
Brunswick,
it should be a DHW bill.

Is there any way to search for a var name or an var name, or do I
have to just search for all instances of that variable to check the article
in front of it?

Thanks,


Laurie Little
Words That Work
www.words-tw.com

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I have the same situation in one of my file sets. I use two variables named
article (used most of the time, when the article should be lowercase) and
Article (used when the article starts a sentence or heading). The Frame
file would read article var name instead of  a var name or an
var name. My template documents define the articles correctly for the
definition of the variables and all are imported at the same time when I
change from one output to another.

Hope this helps,

Beverly Robinson

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Re: searching for article in front of a variable

[Peter Gold]

 I have a variable (government ministry of health shortform) that affects
 the
 article in front of it. Each province has a different shortform. When I
 change the variable, the article may be affected.

 For example, in the Ontario doc, it's an MOH bill, while in New
 Brunswick,
 it should be a DHW bill.

 Is there any way to search for a var name or an var name, or do I
 have to just search for all instances of that variable to check the article
 in front of it?

If the form name always appears with appropriate article, would it
suffice to define the variable with the article and the form name, as:

a DHW  or an MOH ?

HTH

Regards,

Peter
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RE: searching for article in front of a variable

[Combs, Richard]

beverly_robin...@datacard.com wrote: 
 
 I have the same situation in one of my file sets. I use two variables
named
 article (used most of the time, when the article should be
lowercase) and
 Article (used when the article starts a sentence or heading). The
Frame
 file would read article var name instead of  a var name or
an
 var name. My template documents define the articles correctly for
the
 definition of the variables and all are imported at the same time when
I
 change from one output to another.

Excellent! IMHO, this is clearly the best solution. Thank you for
sharing. 

Richard


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OT: New Tool for us

[Flato, Gillian]

Check out this new invention. It's a pen that records audio and video so
it records what you're writing and what someone is saying nearby. Then
you can transfer your notes to your computer. It's the perfect Tool for
Tech Writers.
 
http://www.livescribe.com/
 

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RE: (Slightly OT) Any up to date comparisons of Word and Frame

[Callie Bertsche]

*Slightly off-topic*

For the record, although I agree that FM is far and away the more
professional and versatile tool for extended publications, I have been
won over to MS Word's ribbon. I also used to think of it as unintuitive
- but after watching the video below and studying their UI design, I
think that the steep learning curve and alternate way of thinking are
the rough part, but after you learn to think of the tools visually
rather than textually, the ribbon becomes more powerful than the older
menus, and intuitive. Some will say that if you need a video or other
training to understand the ribbon, it is not intuitive; rather, I think
that we can use a video, training, or working with the ribbon long
enough to shift our thinking from primarily textual to primarily visual.
As a mac user first and always (when not at work), I still applaud MS
for thinking outside the box on this one.

Intriguing video (click on one of the Story of the Ribbon links on
this blog):

http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2008/03/12/the-story-of-the-ribbo
n.aspx

Cheers and in good humor,

Callie Bertsche
Tecplot, Inc.

 
Message: 19
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:41:03 -0600
From: Spectrum Writing  spectrumwrit...@q.com
Subject: RE: Any up to date comparisons of Word and Frame
As for 2007 - I agree about how non-intuitive the ribbons are, which
just
adds to the time. Finding a command that was once one click, maybe two
clicks at most is now three to four, if it's even where you would
expect to
find it, is the norm with this blasted ribbon.
My two cents worth,
TVB
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RE: searching for article in front of a variable

[Jerry Kindall]

Laurie Little llit...@words-tw.com wrote:

 I have a variable (government ministry of health shortform) that
affects the
 article in front of it. Each province has a different shortform. When
I
 change the variable, the article may be affected.

 For example, in the Ontario doc, it's an MOH bill, while in New
Brunswick,
 it should be a DHW bill.

 Is there any way to search for a var name or an var name, or
do I
 have to just search for all instances of that variable to check the
article
 in front of it?

I'd suggest making a second variable that contains both the article and
the abbreviation (e.g. an MOH or a DHW).  Even if you still to have
to hunt down existing instances one at a time, you can then replace them
with the new variable, and it'll be the last time you ever have to do
it.

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Jerry Kindall, SDK Technical Writer
Tecplot, Inc. | Enjoy the View
Bellevue, Washington, USA
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Re: (Slightly OT) Any up to date comparisons of Word and Frame

[quills]

For the effort they put into redesigning their user interface, I would 
have massively preferred that they hold off on the eye candy and 
addressed more fundamental problems with the application. However, as a 
user, what I prefer isn't what Microsoft normally listens to. All of 
that work could have been applied to revamping the way numbering works, 
or how they apply styles, or how their multi-file function doesn't work. 
Or on stabalizing the program for large files.

They didn't. So I am not particularly inclined to congratulate them for 
making all the eye candy, and in the process making it more difficult to 
use.

Your opinion and mine are diametrically opposed. I think that you will 
find the camps firmly established and have little cross-over.

Scott

Callie Bertsche wrote:
 *Slightly off-topic*

 For the record, although I agree that FM is far and away the more
 professional and versatile tool for extended publications, I have been
 won over to MS Word's ribbon. I also used to think of it as unintuitive
 - but after watching the video below and studying their UI design, I
 think that the steep learning curve and alternate way of thinking are
 the rough part, but after you learn to think of the tools visually
 rather than textually, the ribbon becomes more powerful than the older
 menus, and intuitive. Some will say that if you need a video or other
 training to understand the ribbon, it is not intuitive; rather, I think
 that we can use a video, training, or working with the ribbon long
 enough to shift our thinking from primarily textual to primarily visual.
 As a mac user first and always (when not at work), I still applaud MS
 for thinking outside the box on this one.

 Intriguing video (click on one of the Story of the Ribbon links on
 this blog):

 http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2008/03/12/the-story-of-the-ribbo
 n.aspx

 Cheers and in good humor,

 Callie Bertsche
 Tecplot, Inc.

   
 Message: 19
 Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:41:03 -0600
 From: Spectrum Writing  spectrumwrit...@q.com
 Subject: RE: Any up to date comparisons of Word and Frame
 As for 2007 - I agree about how non-intuitive the ribbons are, which
   
 just
   
 adds to the time. Finding a command that was once one click, maybe two
 clicks at most is now three to four, if it's even where you would
   
 expect to
   
 find it, is the norm with this blasted ribbon.
 My two cents worth,
 TVB
   
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Re: (Slightly OT) Any up to date comparisons of Word and Frame

[quills]

I think it's also telling that corporations don't normally train you on 
New GUI in an app. IT tosses it over the fence and the user has to 
cope on their own without much support at all, and little documentation.

This video isn't useful to most users. It isn't available to most users.

I think that what he comments on in I can't figure out how to use it. 
indicates that it is documented poorly.

Which falls on the common comment about Microsoft documentation. 
Technically correct, but totally useless.

Scott
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RE: searching for article in front of a variable

[beverly_robinson]

Thank you, Richard, for your kind words. But now I must confess: it was a
programmer I work with who suggested the solution.

Beverly


   
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   of a variable   
   
   
   
   
   
   




beverly_robin...@datacard.com wrote:

 I have the same situation in one of my file sets. I use two variables
named
 article (used most of the time, when the article should be
lowercase) and
 Article (used when the article starts a sentence or heading). The
Frame
 file would read article var name instead of  a var name or
an
 var name. My template documents define the articles correctly for
the
 definition of the variables and all are imported at the same time when
I
 change from one output to another.

Excellent! IMHO, this is clearly the best solution. Thank you for
sharing.

Richard


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
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OT: Older Version Corel Files

[J. Paul Kent]

I'm trying to open a couple of files I used to record the names of my roses
when I planted them back in 94.

 

I no longer have a copy of Corel, so I downloaded the trial, but when I try
to open them, I get an error message:



Attempting to open Version 1.x or 2.x file. This file format is not
supported. Please access the Readme file for additional information.

 

Does anyone have an older copy of Corel that could be used to open these and
save up to a version that I can open with CorelDRAW X4 Demo version I just
installed?

 

If so, or if you have any other ideas, please contact me off list (I'm on
digest) and I'll send them to you. 

Thanks in advance,

J. Paul Kent
206-383-0539
206-508-1144

 


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RE: Older Version Corel Files

[Chris Seal]

Oops. Should have read your post carefully. I don't think Irfanview can open
vector graphics.


Chris


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Hi. Have you tried Irfanview? 

http://irfanview.com/



Chris

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Subject: OT: Older Version Corel Files

I'm trying to open a couple of files I used to record the names of my roses
when I planted them back in 94.

 

I no longer have a copy of Corel, so I downloaded the trial, but when I try
to open them, I get an error message:



Attempting to open Version 1.x or 2.x file. This file format is not
supported. Please access the Readme file for additional information.

 

Does anyone have an older copy of Corel that could be used to open these and
save up to a version that I can open with CorelDRAW X4 Demo version I just
installed?

 

If so, or if you have any other ideas, please contact me off list (I'm on
digest) and I'll send them to you. 

Thanks in advance,

J. Paul Kent
206-383-0539
206-508-1144

 


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RE: searching for article in front of a variable

[Laurie Little]

Yes, that's a great idea, thanks Beverly!


  I have the same situation in one of my file sets. I use two variables
 named
  article (used most of the time, when the article should be
 lowercase) and
  Article (used when the article starts a sentence or heading). The
 Frame
  file would read article var name instead of  a var name or
 an
  var name. My template documents define the articles correctly for
 the
  definition of the variables and all are imported at the same time when
 I
  change from one output to another. 

 Excellent! IMHO, this is clearly the best solution. Thank you for
 sharing. 

 Richard


 Richard G. Combs
 Senior Technical Writer
 Polycom, Inc. 
 richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
 303-223-5111
 --
 rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
 303-777-0436
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Batch file for deleting paragraph and character styles

[Flato, Gillian]

I just inherited a manual from another office. It's filled with tons of
paragraph and character formats that aren't used. Does anyone know of a
batch file or plugin that will let me delete all of the unused paragraph
and character formats in a book file and the chapter files within it?
 

Thank you,

 

mailto:gfl...@nanometrics.com 

Gillian Flato

Technical Writer (Software)

nanometrics

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Import MS Word index markers into Framemaker?

[Leonard Anderson]

[also posted to comp.text.frame on Usenet, which seems to be very inactive]

Hi all,

I need to import a book, created using MS Word, into Framemaker.
Mostly this works fine, but there are problems importing the index
markers created by the author using Word. Importing simple markers
goes fine, but I have the problems listed below. (The first of these
is the most serious problem.)

1. Range index markers (e.g., "some item, pages 12-17") created using
Word's facility to create a range index based on a bookmark, don't
import correctly. The problem is that when I create the index in FM,
all that is created is a single page reference (looks like it
corresponds to the actual page where the index marker was placed in
Word), rather than a range reference. Is there a way to import MS Word
range index markers into FM?

2. In some of the MS Word index entries, fonts and italicization are
applied to the index entry text. (In MS Word, I mean that the text
"some_term" in an index entry of the form { "some_term" } may be,
e.g., italicized, or be set in a monospace font. When Word creates an
index from these markers, the font and italicization are preserved in
the index, but when the document is imported in FM, these text
attributes are lost when FM creates the index. ?Is there a way of
getting FM to preserve these text attributes of the index during an
import?

3. In some of the MS Word index entries, boldfacing and italicization
are applied to the page numbering format. (In MS Word, I mean that the
index entry has, e.g., the form { "some_term" \b } or { "some_term" \b
\i }. When Word creates an index from these markers, the page numbers
are italicized and/or boldfaced, but when the document is imported in
FM, these formatting attributes are lost when FM creates the index. Is
there a way of getting FM to preserve these formatting attributes of
the index page numbers during an import?

Software versions: MS Word 2000, Framemaker 7.2.

Can anyone help with these problems, especially the first?

Thanks.

¿Is there a substitute for MicroType TimeSavers?

[Stamm, David-P45904]

2009-04-10-05T12:15Z

My hearty "?Thanks!" to Sarah O'Keefe, who was the only person to offer the 
information requested.

I will do my best to use the information available to convince the powers who 
are to allow us here to resume using TimeSavers plugin.

Dave Stamm
Publications Specialist, Senior Staff
General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc.
Battle Management Systems Division
1700 Magnavox Way, Suite 200
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searching for article in front of a variable

[beverly_robin...@datacard.com]

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Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:33:47 -0400
From: "Laurie Little" 
Subject: searching for article in front of a variable
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Content-Type: text/plain;charset="iso-8859-1"

Frame 7.2
I have a variable (government ministry of health shortform) that affects
the
article in front of it. Each province has a different shortform. When I
change the variable, the article may be affected.

For example, in the Ontario doc, it's "an MOH bill", while in New
Brunswick,
it should be "a DHW bill".

Is there any way to search for "a " or "an ", or do I
have to just search for all instances of that variable to check the article
in front of it?

Thanks,


Laurie Little
Words That Work
www.words-tw.com

--

I have the same situation in one of my file sets. I use two variables named
"article" (used most of the time, when the article should be lowercase) and
"Article" (used when the article starts a sentence or heading). The Frame
file would read " " instead of  "a " or "an
". My template documents define the articles correctly for the
definition of the variables and all are imported at the same time when I
change from one output to another.

Hope this helps,

Beverly Robinson

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searching for article in front of a variable

[Peter Gold]

> I have a variable (government ministry of health shortform) that affects
> the
> article in front of it. Each province has a different shortform. When I
> change the variable, the article may be affected.
>
> For example, in the Ontario doc, it's "an MOH bill", while in New
> Brunswick,
> it should be "a DHW bill".
>
> Is there any way to search for "a " or "an ", or do I
> have to just search for all instances of that variable to check the article
> in front of it?

If the form name always appears with appropriate article, would it
suffice to define the variable with the article and the form name, as:

"a DHW " or "an MOH "?

HTH

Regards,

Peter
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searching for article in front of a variable

[Jing Torralba]

And if you go with Peter's suggestion ... 



The writer might have instances for saying "the DHW" and "the MOH," so this 
could warrant two more variables to address the need for "the ..." 

Jing 



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Subject: Re: searching for article in front of a variable 

> I have a variable (government ministry of health shortform) that affects 
> the 
> article in front of it. Each province has a different shortform. When I 
> change the variable, the article may be affected. 
> 
> For example, in the Ontario doc, it's "an MOH bill", while in New 
> Brunswick, 
> it should be "a DHW bill". 
> 
> Is there any way to search for "a " or "an ", or do I 
> have to just search for all instances of that variable to check the article 
> in front of it? 

If the form name always appears with appropriate article, would it 
suffice to define the variable with the article and the form name, as: 

"a DHW " or "an MOH "? 

HTH 

Regards, 

Peter 
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searching for article in front of a variable

[Fred Ridder]

The definite article doesn't change depending on the first letter of the 
name/acronym so there's no need to include it in the variable definition. Just 
define a "naked" variable to use wherever there is no article or a definite 
article or some other adjective. 



But it is true that you probably would need to define *two* variables that 
include the indefinite article because you'll most lkely need both capped and 
lower-case variants.  

-Fred Ridder

> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:29:28 +
> From: jingtorralba at comcast.net
> To: peter at knowhowpro.com
> Subject: Re: searching for article in front of a variable
> CC: framers at lists.frameusers.com; llittle at words-tw.com
> 
> 
> 
> And if you go with Peter's suggestion ... 
> 
> 
> 
> The writer might have instances for saying "the DHW" and "the MOH," so this 
> could warrant two more variables to address the need for "the ..." 
> 
> Jing 
> 
> 
> 
> - Original Message - 
> From: "Peter Gold"  
> Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com, llittle at words-tw.com 
> Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 8:08:51 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
> Subject: Re: searching for article in front of a variable 
> 
> > I have a variable (government ministry of health shortform) that affects 
> > the 
> > article in front of it. Each province has a different shortform. When I 
> > change the variable, the article may be affected. 
> > 
> > For example, in the Ontario doc, it's "an MOH bill", while in New 
> > Brunswick, 
> > it should be "a DHW bill". 
> > 
> > Is there any way to search for "a " or "an ", or do I 
> > have to just search for all instances of that variable to check the article 
> > in front of it? 
> 
> If the form name always appears with appropriate article, would it 
> suffice to define the variable with the article and the form name, as: 
> 
> "a DHW " or "an MOH "? 
> 
> HTH 
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Peter 
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> Peter Gold 
> KnowHow ProServices 
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searching for article in front of a variable

[Combs, Richard]

beverly_robinson at datacard.com wrote: 

> I have the same situation in one of my file sets. I use two variables
named
> "article" (used most of the time, when the article should be
lowercase) and
> "Article" (used when the article starts a sentence or heading). The
Frame
> file would read " " instead of  "a " or
"an
> ". My template documents define the articles correctly for
the
> definition of the variables and all are imported at the same time when
I
> change from one output to another.

Excellent! IMHO, this is clearly the best solution. Thank you for
sharing. 

Richard


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Polycom, Inc.
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searching for article in front of a variable

[Jerry Kindall]

"Laurie Little"  wrote:

> I have a variable (government ministry of health shortform) that
affects the
> article in front of it. Each province has a different shortform. When
I
> change the variable, the article may be affected.

> For example, in the Ontario doc, it's "an MOH bill", while in New
Brunswick,
> it should be "a DHW bill".

> Is there any way to search for "a " or "an ", or
do I
> have to just search for all instances of that variable to check the
article
> in front of it?

I'd suggest making a second variable that contains both the article and
the abbreviation (e.g. "an MOH" or "a DHW").  Even if you still to have
to hunt down existing instances one at a time, you can then replace them
with the new variable, and it'll be the last time you ever have to do
it.

-- 
Jerry Kindall, SDK Technical Writer
Tecplot, Inc. | Enjoy the View
Bellevue, Washington, USA

(Slightly OT) Any up to date comparisons of Word and Frame

[qui...@airmail.net]

I think it's also telling that corporations don't normally train you on 
"New" GUI in an app. IT tosses it over the fence and the user has to 
cope on their own without much support at all, and little documentation.

This video isn't useful to most users. It isn't available to most users.

I think that what he comments on in "I can't figure out how to use it." 
indicates that it is documented poorly.

Which falls on the common comment about Microsoft documentation. 
"Technically correct, but totally useless."

Scott

searching for article in front of a variable

[beverly_robin...@datacard.com]

Thank you, Richard, for your kind words. But now I must confess: it was a
programmer I work with who suggested the solution.

Beverly



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   ,
 04/10/2009 12:11
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   RE: searching for article in front  
   of a variable   










beverly_robinson at datacard.com wrote:

> I have the same situation in one of my file sets. I use two variables
named
> "article" (used most of the time, when the article should be
lowercase) and
> "Article" (used when the article starts a sentence or heading). The
Frame
> file would read " " instead of  "a " or
"an
> ". My template documents define the articles correctly for
the
> definition of the variables and all are imported at the same time when
I
> change from one output to another.

Excellent! IMHO, this is clearly the best solution. Thank you for
sharing.

Richard


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
--
rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
303-777-0436
--







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OT: Older Version Corel Files

[J. Paul Kent]

I'm trying to open a couple of files I used to record the names of my roses
when I planted them back in 94.



I no longer have a copy of Corel, so I downloaded the trial, but when I try
to open them, I get an error message:



Attempting to open Version 1.x or 2.x file. This file format is not
supported. Please access the Readme file for additional information.



Does anyone have an older copy of Corel that could be used to open these and
save up to a version that I can open with CorelDRAW X4 Demo version I just
installed?



If so, or if you have any other ideas, please contact me off list (I'm on
digest) and I'll send them to you. 

Thanks in advance,

J. Paul Kent
206-383-0539
206-508-1144

Older Version Corel Files

[Chris Seal]

Hi. Have you tried Irfanview? 

http://irfanview.com/



Chris

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Subject: OT: Older Version Corel Files

I'm trying to open a couple of files I used to record the names of my roses
when I planted them back in 94.



I no longer have a copy of Corel, so I downloaded the trial, but when I try
to open them, I get an error message:



Attempting to open Version 1.x or 2.x file. This file format is not
supported. Please access the Readme file for additional information.



Does anyone have an older copy of Corel that could be used to open these and
save up to a version that I can open with CorelDRAW X4 Demo version I just
installed?



If so, or if you have any other ideas, please contact me off list (I'm on
digest) and I'll send them to you. 

Thanks in advance,

J. Paul Kent
206-383-0539
206-508-1144




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Older Version Corel Files

[Chris Seal]

Oops. Should have read your post carefully. I don't think Irfanview can open
vector graphics.


Chris


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Hi. Have you tried Irfanview? 

http://irfanview.com/



Chris

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Subject: OT: Older Version Corel Files

I'm trying to open a couple of files I used to record the names of my roses
when I planted them back in 94.



I no longer have a copy of Corel, so I downloaded the trial, but when I try
to open them, I get an error message:



Attempting to open Version 1.x or 2.x file. This file format is not
supported. Please access the Readme file for additional information.



Does anyone have an older copy of Corel that could be used to open these and
save up to a version that I can open with CorelDRAW X4 Demo version I just
installed?



If so, or if you have any other ideas, please contact me off list (I'm on
digest) and I'll send them to you. 

Thanks in advance,

J. Paul Kent
206-383-0539
206-508-1144




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searching for article in front of a variable

[Laurie Little]

Yes, that's a great idea, thanks Beverly!

>
> > I have the same situation in one of my file sets. I use two variables
> named
> > "article" (used most of the time, when the article should be
> lowercase) and
> > "Article" (used when the article starts a sentence or heading). The
> Frame
> > file would read " " instead of  "a " or
> "an
> > ". My template documents define the articles correctly for
> the
> > definition of the variables and all are imported at the same time when
> I
> > change from one output to another. 
>
> Excellent! IMHO, this is clearly the best solution. Thank you for
> sharing. 
>
> Richard
>
>
> Richard G. Combs
> Senior Technical Writer
> Polycom, Inc. 
> richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
> 303-223-5111
> --
> rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
> 303-777-0436
> --
>
>

Batch file for deleting paragraph and character styles

[Flato, Gillian]

I just inherited a manual from another office. It's filled with tons of
paragraph and character formats that aren't used. Does anyone know of a
batch file or plugin that will let me delete all of the unused paragraph
and character formats in a book file and the chapter files within it?


Thank you,



 

Gillian Flato

Technical Writer (Software)

nanometrics

1550 Buckeye Dr. 

Milpitas, CA. 95035

(408.545.6316

7  408.232.5911

* gflato at nanometrics  .com
 

Older Version Corel Files

[Lauren]

Would Star Office work?  What about ThinkFree Office?  Can Word or
WordPerfect import the file?  I have Corel on an old computer, I think.  I
don't even know if that box still runs, but I can try to get it going.

Lauren


> From: J. Paul Kent

> I'm trying to open a couple of files I used to record the 
> names of my roses
> when I planted them back in 94.