Graphics quality - Mif2Go

[mathieu jacquet]

Dear all,

we are generating EclipseHelp and OmniHelp for our documentation and chose 
Mif2Go. Everything runs perfect except on one point: after conversion, graphics 
are there, well layed out but of terrible quality. I attach an original picture 
and its generated counterpart. We've played with GraphicExportDPI and 
GraphicExportFormat but to no avail so far.

Do you have any strategy for obtaining graphics of a decent quality in our HTML 
output? I guess it is something to be thought about from scratch, when 
importing them in Frame. Is there any rule to respect (for instance, import in 
xx DPI in Frame, then set GraphicExportDPI to xx DPI)?

Thank you very much in anticipation,
Mathieu.

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RE: Graphics quality - Mif2Go

[Reng, Dr. Winfried]

Hi Mathieu,

As far as I know, attachments are not allowed in 
this mailing list. However, your attachment could
not answer questions like these:
o Which graphic format do you use in FrameMaker?
o Are the graphics referenced?
o What is the content of the anchored frames with
  the graphics? Only a single graphics files or
  several graphics files or also any FrameMaker 
  graphics object?
o Do all converted graphics files have a bad quality
  or only specific ones? If not all, what are the
  differences?
o Which graphics settings in the ini file did you
  test with which result?
o Do you use the latest Mif2Go update?

I do not know, whether I can help you. However,
these answers will help to find an answer.

Best regards

Winfried 

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 Subject: Graphics quality - Mif2Go
 
 
 Dear all,
 
 we are generating EclipseHelp and OmniHelp for our 
 documentation and chose Mif2Go. Everything runs perfect 
 except on one point: after conversion, graphics are there, 
 well layed out but of terrible quality. I attach an original 
 picture and its generated counterpart. We've played with 
 GraphicExportDPI and GraphicExportFormat but to no avail so far.
 
 Do you have any strategy for obtaining graphics of a decent 
 quality in our HTML output? I guess it is something to be 
 thought about from scratch, when importing them in Frame. Is 
 there any rule to respect (for instance, import in xx DPI in 
 Frame, then set GraphicExportDPI to xx DPI)?
 
 Thank you very much in anticipation,
 Mathieu.
 
 P.S.: work environment is FM9 on Vista 64.
 
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300+ XML files

[Yves Barbion]

Ah, after 17 years of using FrameMaker, I finally got to see a dialog box
which I have never seen before. It says:

You have opened more than 300 XML files in the current session.
We recommend that you save and close all files then restart FrameMaker to
prevent a crash.

The guy/girl who wrote that text had a good sense of humor.

I know, the notorious Fm8 300+ XML files bug.

I think/hope that this one has been fixed in Fm9.

;-)



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Re: Graphics quality - Mif2Go

[rinch]

Mathieu

While I've got the latest version of Mif2Go, I've not used it in quite 
awhile since I no longer have the requirement to produce HTML docs. So, 
I'm in a memory fog here.  Back when I first started to use Mif2Go to 
product HTML docs, I was not happy with the quality of the graphics in my 
HTML output from FrameMaker. If I remember correctly, using the FrameMaker 
export filters resulted in the poor graphics quality. What you need to do 
is use a third party tool to create the graphics, then tell Mif2Go to use 
the third-party graphics directly. In your Mif2Go manual, check out 
4.8.2.3 Using Third Party Graphics Converters (this from my 2007 May 01 
Mif2Go manual).

Best bet is to contact Omni Systems with your question, or maybe Jeremy 
will read your posting and will point you in the right direction. As I 
remember, Mif2Go support (Jeremy) was very helpful.

Good luck,
Richard

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Re: Graphics quality - Mif2Go

[Art Campbell]

Although I use MIF2GO for conversion, I usually use PNG format graphics in
my Frame files so no conversion is necessary.

If something needs to change, I usually do a batch resize or conversion of
graphics myself, using Photoshop, although any suitable program should work.

Art

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On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:28 AM, ri...@inficon.com wrote:

 Mathieu

 While I've got the latest version of Mif2Go, I've not used it in quite
 awhile since I no longer have the requirement to produce HTML docs. So,
 I'm in a memory fog here.  Back when I first started to use Mif2Go to
 product HTML docs, I was not happy with the quality of the graphics in my
 HTML output from FrameMaker. If I remember correctly, using the FrameMaker
 export filters resulted in the poor graphics quality. What you need to do
 is use a third party tool to create the graphics, then tell Mif2Go to use
 the third-party graphics directly. In your Mif2Go manual, check out
 4.8.2.3 Using Third Party Graphics Converters (this from my 2007 May 01
 Mif2Go manual).

 Best bet is to contact Omni Systems with your question, or maybe Jeremy
 will read your posting and will point you in the right direction. As I
 remember, Mif2Go support (Jeremy) was very helpful.

 Good luck,
 Richard

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Re: Graphics quality - Mif2Go

[Yves Barbion]

Hi Mathieu

I just use the graphics as is, so I don't convert them.

From the MIF2Go Help:

22.4.1 Using referenced graphics without converting
***22.4.1 Using referenced graphics without converting*

If some referenced graphics are already in a format appropriate for Web use,
such as JPEG, GIF, or PNG (see §29.1.4 *Graphics formats for
HTML*z129x1162767.htm#Rz129x19891);
and if they are alone in their anchored frames (no callouts or in-frametitles,
for example); you do not have to convert them. Either check *Use original
graphic names* in the *Mif2Go* *Export* dialog, or set the following option
in the configuration file:

[Graphics]

UseOriginalGraphicNames=Yes

For details, see §29.3.1.4 *Using original files and image sizes
forreferenced graphics
* z129x1194622.htm#Rz129x42868.

The naming is preserved like any other in the img src=.../ tags. Unless
you explicitly remap a name in the [GraphFiles] section (see §22.4.2
*Specifying
formats of replacement graphics* z122x1249169.htm#Rz122x32239), or specify
a GraphSuffix in the [Graphics] section, the graphic name is always passed
through unchanged.

If the original graphics are not in the same folder as the FrameMaker files,
set the following option also (see §22.3 *Locating graphics files for
HTML*z122x1326720.htm#Rz122x81089
):

[Graphics]

StripGraphPath=Yes

If you have supplied replacements for referenced graphics that are in a
different format, and if the replacements have the same base names as the
originals, you can specify just the new file extension (see §29.3.1.2
*Substituting
graphics files for HTML* z129x1112424.htm#Rz129x40236):

[Graphics]

GraphSuffix=jpg

Use this setting when you convert referenced graphics with a third-party
program; see §4.10.2.3 *Using third-party graphics
converters*z104x1000863.htm#Rz104x80713
.

A problem arises if you add any FrameMaker elements, such as arrows or
callouts,
to a referenced graphic. You can direct *Mif2Go* to use the FrameMaker
export filters to convert the whole graphic to JPEG or GIF; see
§4.10.2.2 *Using
FrameMaker graphic export filters* z104x1085973.htm#Rz104x19843. Or you
can reproduce the elements in the external graphic with a third-party
program.

Cheers



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RE: Graphics quality - Mif2Go

[Kelly McDaniel]

I use FrameMaker 9 in TCS2 patched to p250 on Win32 XP Pro SP3 box.
I use PNG format exclusively, SnagIt 8 to take screenshots and edit, and set to 
96 DPI on all graphics in a FrameMaker frame-shrink.

Recently, after p250 upgrade, I have experienced spontaneous reformatting of 
random graphics. The only evident pattern is that the graphics appear to be 
reformatted to a lower DPI setting than 96 DPI, although FM still displays 
Object Properties as 96 DPI, and that the issue continues to plague me. I 
review my work in FM, build a PostScript file, and distill the PS into a PDF. 
The gnarly graphics are usually noticed in a 3rd party review of the PDF. When 
I check my FM source, the graphic I had previously confirmed as good is now 
gnarly. The fix is to locate the offending graphic,  double-click it to open in 
my default tool, SnagIt 8, then save it. That's all. When I return to FM, the 
graphic is as coded. Due to the state of Adobe Support, I have not reported 
this issue. (I trust that R. J. and Jeremy are lurking.)

In conclusion, my belief is that Mif2Go grabs the graphic from FrameMaker and 
uses it the way it finds it. You may very well have the same/related issue as I 
have experienced...regards, Kelly.

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Subject: Graphics quality - Mif2Go


Dear all,

we are generating EclipseHelp and OmniHelp for our documentation and chose 
Mif2Go. Everything runs perfect except on one point: after conversion, graphics 
are there, well layed out but of terrible quality. I attach an original picture 
and its generated counterpart. We've played with GraphicExportDPI and 
GraphicExportFormat but to no avail so far.

Do you have any strategy for obtaining graphics of a decent quality in our HTML 
output? I guess it is something to be thought about from scratch, when 
importing them in Frame. Is there any rule to respect (for instance, import in 
xx DPI in Frame, then set GraphicExportDPI to xx DPI)?

Thank you very much in anticipation,
Mathieu.

P.S.: work environment is FM9 on Vista 64.
  
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Re: Graphics quality - Mif2Go

[Yves Barbion]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Kelly McDaniel kmcdan...@pavtech.comwrote:

 (...)

 In conclusion, my belief is that Mif2Go grabs the graphic from FrameMaker
 and uses it the way it finds it. You may very well have the same/related
 issue as I have experienced...regards, Kelly.


You can make MIF2Go do that by selecting the option Do not write graphics
files.

See also: *3.7.4.1 Omitting and restoring graphics production in the
MIF2Go Help*

Cheers


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Re: 300+ XML files

[Scott Prentice]

Hi Yves...

This message is coming from DITA-FMx. Yes .. It has been fixed in  
FM9.  :-)


...scott

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 29, 2010, at 3:27 AM, Yves Barbion yves.barb...@gmail.com  
wrote:


Ah, after 17 years of using FrameMaker, I finally got to see a  
dialog box

which I have never seen before. It says:

You have opened more than 300 XML files in the current session.
We recommend that you save and close all files then restart  
FrameMaker to

prevent a crash.

The guy/girl who wrote that text had a good sense of humor.

I know, the notorious Fm8 300+ XML files bug.

I think/hope that this one has been fixed in Fm9.

;-)



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RE: Graphics quality - Mif2Go

[Kelly McDaniel]

Thanks for the info, however, I’m not currently using Mif2Go in production…that 
may change very soon, tho’…regards, Kelly.

 

From: Yves Barbion [mailto:yves.barb...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 9:33 AM
To: Kelly McDaniel
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Graphics quality - Mif2Go

 

 

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Kelly McDaniel kmcdan...@pavtech.com wrote:

(...)

In conclusion, my belief is that Mif2Go grabs the graphic from FrameMaker and 
uses it the way it finds it. You may very well have the same/related issue as I 
have experienced...regards, Kelly.


You can make MIF2Go do that by selecting the option Do not write graphics 
files. 

See also: 3.7.4.1 Omitting and restoring graphics production in the MIF2Go Help

Cheers


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www.scripto.nu

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Cross-file links failing under Linux

[jdeland1]

FM 9 p250 on WinXP Pro SP3 
Acrobat Pro Extended 9.3.2 

I am struggling with links across PDF files. They all work in Windows, but some 
work and some don't under Red Hat Enterprise 4 Linux . 

I am using the following directory structure to create a hierarchy of menu 
pages with links to other PDFs: 

C:\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\source_docs\contents\Draft for 
.fm files and .book files; C:\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\nCode Desktop 6.0 
ISR2\source_docs\contents\Draft\graphics for graphics. 

There are about 50 other directories for PDF documents (they are what you 
arrive at using the menus), one for each .book and .fm file set, with a path 
such as C:\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\nCode Desktop 6.0 
ISR2\source_docs\designlifetheory\draft. This creates designlifetheory.pdf. 
There are crosslinks to other pdfs from within some of these files. 

For the Contents menus, I have created one book per menu. Menus are a single 
page long. 

All of the books create single pdfs (i.e., not multiple files per book). The 
books are all output to a single directory, C:\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\nCode 
Desktop 6.0 ISR2\Deliverables. 

I am using the newlink and gotolink commands. The newlink commands are all on 
master pages. The gotoink commands are all on body pages. A typical gotolink 
would be gotolink map_of_help.pdf:helpmap. This one seems to fail 
consistently on Linux. I have tried using gotolink map_of_help.fm:helpmap, 
which also fails. Should I be using .fm instead of .pdf in the link? 

The .pdfs are created using Print to Adobe PDF. The PDF Setup is Settings: 
Standard Job Options, View Generated PDF in Acrobat, Convert CMYK Colors to 
RGB; Bookmarks: Generate PDF Bookmarks; Tags: Generate Tagged PDF; Links: 
Create Named Destinations for All Elements and Paragraphs. 

I have tried placing all the books in a single directory using Save As, with 
all the paths relative, and books open, and with books closed. I have tried 
dumping all the .fm files and .book files into the same directory. I have tried 
outputting to various directories. I have combed the archives, and tried to 
follow Shlomo's training module on FrameMaker Books  Cross-File Links. 

I don't seem to get it, whatever it may be. 

Any help for this newbie appreciated. 

Jack 



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Re: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies

[Joel]

I had high hopes for Buzzword when Adobe bought it, but rather than making
it a Word-killer they have slowed down the release cycle, added things I
don't care about, and been a bummer in general. I think they have too many
products and aren't supporting the really good ones like they should be.

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Re: Cross-file links failing under Linux

[Shlomo Perets]

Jack,

You wrote:


... I am struggling with links across PDF files. They all work in Windows,
but some work and some don't under Red Hat Enterprise 4 Linux . ...





If the links all work as expected in Windows, the first thing to check is 
the consistency of case in file names.

This is not an issue in Windows, but file names in Linux are case-sensitive.

Other than inconsistency between the case use in the hypertext marker vs. 
the file name as exists in the OS (which would not be a problem under 
Windows), I encountered situations in the past where problems were related 
to the case of the file names being changed in the process of the file 
transfer (but file names as present internally in FrameMaker's hypertext 
markers were not affected).



Shlomo Perets

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32 easy ways to improve your PDFs with FrameMaker-to-Acrobat 
TimeSavers/Assistants,

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Frame/PDF crashing again after Acrobat update - reapply hotfix

[Martin Ley]

Hi Framers,

A while ago I had weeks of woes with mega-crashes while trying to print to PDF 
from Frame books. Eventually, the cure was to apply the hotfix that lots of 
people mentioned (I say eventually, because I couldn't download it for ages, 
and assumed it would never work for me).

Well, everything's been fine for a couple of months, then Adobe updated 
Acrobat, which I assume stiffed the Distiller or something, because I started 
getting crashes again while building PDFs from FM book files. 

For example:

%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
%%[Page: 1]%%
%%[Page: 2]%%
%%[Page: 3]%%
%%[Page: 4]%%
%%[Page: 5]%%
%%[Page: 6]%%
%%[Page: 7]%%
%%[Page: 8]%%
%%[Page: 9]%%
%%[Page: 10]%%
%%[Page: 11]%%
%%[Page: 12]%%
%%[Page: 13]%%
%%[ Error: ioerror; OffendingCommand: imageDistiller ]%%

Stack:
-dict-
-mark-
-save-


%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%


Naturally, this happened while I was up against a deadline, but I thought 
Hmmm, I wonder if I apply the hotfix again, it will cure things...

Yes. Joy!

The page to look at for info on the hotfix is:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=952909

Read the bumf then click the View and request hotfix downloads link near the 
top of the page (you need to do this, as you eventually get an email with the 
right link and a password).

It took me ages to get the correct link/hotfix for some reason.

Hope this helps someone.

Martin 




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RE: Graphics quality - Mif2Go

[mathieu jacquet]

Thank you all for your pieces of advice!

I'll have a look at your options and try to apply them to my workflow.

Thank you again,
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Re: Cross-file links failing under Linux

[jdeland1]

Hello, Shlomo - 

Thanks. I checked. The file names in the commands all match the file names on 
disk. There are a few with mixed case, but almost all are lower case, and the 
links fail there, too. Do you recommend switching to all lower case? 

You mentioned the case of the file names being changed in the process of the 
file transfer - is there anything that can be done about this? 

Jack DeLand 
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Upgrading to Windows 7 with TCS2

[Joseph Lorenzini]

Hi all,

My corporation will be converting all its computers to Windows 7 in the next
six months or so. Has anyone installed the full TCS2 suite on Windows 7? How
does it run? Are there any bugs?

Sincerely,
Joseph Lorenzini
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FrameMaker 9 slow and sometimes unresponsive?

[Studio Smalbro]

Am I the only one to find that FrameMaker 9 is slow and sometimes 
unresponsive. I run Win 7/64bit and has vast amounts of RAM, but 
nevertheless it takes FrameMaker lots of time saving documents and 
sometimes using shortcuts just plainly stops working. I am right now 
writing some course material on FrameMaker 9 and slowly discovers the 
good and the bad. I really hate the new Paragraph Designer - what 
happend to the tabbed interface? Everything else has become tabbed only 
not what is used exensively. It is no longer possible to tell what part 
of the tab you're in unless you read.


regards
Bjørn
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Re: FrameMaker 9 slow and sometimes unresponsive?

[Writer]

I've noticed the same issue when I save a file. Usually, it's when I save the 
first time after opening FM9 (especially DITA XML files). Even if it is only a 
small file.

I agree that the icons on the Paragraph Designer don't map to their actual 
meaning. But I've started to become used to them

Other issues that bother me are that FM9 doesn't remember the last 
magnification value for DITA XML files, and it opens dialog boxes when I open a 
DITA XML file that I had closed previously.

Nadine

--- On Thu, 4/29/10, Studio Smalbro stu...@smalbro.dk wrote:

 From: Studio Smalbro stu...@smalbro.dk
 Subject: FrameMaker 9 slow and sometimes unresponsive?
 To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
 Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010, 3:55 PM
 Am I the only one to find that
 FrameMaker 9 is slow and sometimes unresponsive. I run Win
 7/64bit and has vast amounts of RAM, but nevertheless it
 takes FrameMaker lots of time saving documents and sometimes
 using shortcuts just plainly stops working. I am right now
 writing some course material on FrameMaker 9 and slowly
 discovers the good and the bad. I really hate the new
 Paragraph Designer - what happend to the tabbed interface?
 Everything else has become tabbed only not what is used
 exensively. It is no longer possible to tell what part of
 the tab you're in unless you read.
 
 regards
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RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

[Matt Sullivan]

 
from earlier post
While there's structured framemaker, dita, and a host of third party plugins
can anyone really say its a simple, painless, and quick process to
transition from unstructured framemaker to either structured or dita? 

Sincerely,
Joseph Lorenzini
___
/from earlier post

Hi Joseph,

I generally teach my students in a hands-on environment to convert legacy
documents to XML in under 2 hours, so I do see the process as painless and
quick.

I'll be in Dallas at the Adobe booth next week for the STC Summit if you'd
like a quick runthrough.

Tom Aldous will also be there, and he's actually scheduled to a 15 minute
runthrough of document conversion at the Adobe booth this coming  Monday
from 1:15-1:30

I have our complete booth schedule, including booth demos and Adobe
presentations schedule available in PDF by request or at
http://blogs.roundpeg.com/2010/04/adobe-stc-summit/

Of course the success of the conversion depends upon the extent to which the
content adheres to a standard. For example, if your Word docs all use
Normal+ for formatting, or if your FM docs are riddled with *Body, then no
logic can be applied and thus, no easy conversion exists.

So if your authors worked with style sheets, the supplied conversion tools
(FM conversion tables) are well-worth the effort and can convert any number
of documents to fairly valid XML with little relative effort. 

If they didn't, I know of no tool, for FM or any other editor, that will
analyze and structure documents using ad hoc formatting.


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RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

[David Spreadbury]

It can be, depending on

Complexity of your structure EDD
Complexity of your unstructured documents
Cleanliness of your unstructured documents
Your ability in creating a conversion table
Your patience

This list is not all inclusive.

David Spreadbury
Sr. Technical Writer


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Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 3:24 PM
To: 'Joseph Lorenzini'; 'FrameMaker Forum'
Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate
Strategies)

 
from earlier post
While there's structured framemaker, dita, and a host of third party plugins
can anyone really say its a simple, painless, and quick process to
transition from unstructured framemaker to either structured or dita? 

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Re: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:23:54 -0700, Matt Sullivan 
m...@grafixtraining.com 
wrote:

While there's structured framemaker, dita, and a host 
of third party plugins can anyone really say its a simple, 
painless, and quick process to transition from unstructured 
framemaker to either structured or dita? 

They can say it, but it's unlikely to be true.  ;-)

The reason is simple.  In unstructured Frame, formats 
are presentational in nature.  You may use Indented 
for several different kinds of text, where all they 
have in common is the plain indentation.  That's usual;
why have different formats if there is no difference
in the applied formatting?

Structured designs, like DITA, have elements that
are semantic in nature.  They ignore presentation.
(Frame's EDDs are a hybrid.)  So there is usually no
simple mapping from formats to elements.  The info
needed to do that mapping is not in the format system;
it is in the mind of the author.  So you'll frequently
need to add information to the unstructured file to
guide the conversion process.  The alternative is to
do the fixup by hand after conversion, but that is
usually many times worse than doing it up front.

OTOH, once you do the conversion, you may well gain
enormous benefits, mainly with much improved single-
sourcing and re-use.  This is especially true when
localization is involved; the savings in the first
round of translations may pay for the entire process.

Not all structures are the same, and it's important
to choose the one that fits your docs best.  Often
this is DITA; for some, it may be DocBook.  You can
roll your own, but that is a very-high-cost route,
since you will have to build all your own tools too.
If you aren't a megacorp, forget it.  ;-)  Remember,
DITA was what came out when IBM rolled its own...
and the staffing required to do that was not small.

As to how to get there, start by learning all about
the structure you plan to use.  There are plenty of
resources about DITA, starting with the OASIS specs
and going on from there.  We think authors should be
very involved with the conversion process; they will
have to live with the results.  Start small and build.

For Frame, you can get an idea of conversion options
from a webinar that Sriptorium produced, that looks
at three methods:
http://bit.ly/61MvPx
It starts with Frame's native conversion tables; the
Mif2Go part is at 33:15.  ;-)

Once you have converted to DITA (or DocBook), you
have a choice of editing tools, like oXygenXML,
XMetaL, Arbortext, XML Mind, and Frame.  If you
stick with Frame, you *must* have DITA-FMx to make
it work without major pain and hair loss:
http://www.leximation.com/dita-fmx/

So a good way to start is by creating some new doc
content in DITA-FMx, to get into the DITA worldview.
There's a free demo version.

HTH!


-- Jeremy H. Griffith jer...@omsys.com
   DITA2Go site:  http://www.dita2go.com/
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Re: FrameMaker 9 slow and sometimes unresponsive?

[Scott Prentice]

Hi Nadine...

Regarding the document magnification issue .. this is the situation for 
all XML in FrameMaker. The magnification (as well as other document 
settings) are not saved in the XML, and are reapplied from the template 
each time you open a file. You can open the template file and set the 
magnification as you like, then save it .. and that will be what you get.


I've got a plugin called RestoreWindows that does this for you 
automatically (although it's not been updated for FM9 yet) ..


   http://www.leximation.com/tools/info/restorewindows.php

Also, West Street Consulting has a plugin called Structure Tools that 
includes this same feature ..


   http://www.weststreetconsulting.com/WSC_StructureTools.htm

Cheers,

...scott

Scott Prentice
Leximation, Inc.
www.leximation.com
+1.415.485.1892


Writer wrote:

I've noticed the same issue when I save a file. Usually, it's when I save the 
first time after opening FM9 (especially DITA XML files). Even if it is only a 
small file.

I agree that the icons on the Paragraph Designer don't map to their actual 
meaning. But I've started to become used to them

Other issues that bother me are that FM9 doesn't remember the last 
magnification value for DITA XML files, and it opens dialog boxes when I open a 
DITA XML file that I had closed previously.

Nadine

--- On Thu, 4/29/10, Studio Smalbro wrote:

  
From: Studio Smalbro 
Subject: FrameMaker 9 slow and sometimes unresponsive?

To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010, 3:55 PM
Am I the only one to find that
FrameMaker 9 is slow and sometimes unresponsive. I run Win
7/64bit and has vast amounts of RAM, but nevertheless it
takes FrameMaker lots of time saving documents and sometimes
using shortcuts just plainly stops working. I am right now
writing some course material on FrameMaker 9 and slowly
discovers the good and the bad. I really hate the new
Paragraph Designer - what happend to the tabbed interface?
Everything else has become tabbed only not what is used
exensively. It is no longer possible to tell what part of
the tab you're in unless you read.

regards
Bjørn
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RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

[Matt Sullivan]

As a point of correction...

I didn't state the para you've attributed to me and I *do not* agree with
it.

My post was entirely related to the ability to structure documents to a very
useable degree with nothing more than a few hours of education and an
iterative approach. 

The requirements:
-Knowledge of one's DTD or schema
-No more than 2 hours of hands-on education
-Docs that adhere to a stylesheet
-A day or two to analyse how one's linear paragraph docs map into the
content model (DTD or schema) provided

-Matt



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From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy H.
Griffith
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 2:25 PM
To: 'FrameMaker Forum'
Subject: Re: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate
Strategies)

On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:23:54 -0700, Matt Sullivan 
m...@grafixtraining.com
wrote:

While there's structured framemaker, dita, and a host of third party 
plugins can anyone really say its a simple, painless, and quick process 
to transition from unstructured framemaker to either structured or 
dita?

They can say it, but it's unlikely to be true.  ;-)

The reason is simple.  In unstructured Frame, formats are presentational
in nature.  You may use Indented 
for several different kinds of text, where all they have in common is the
plain indentation.  That's usual; why have different formats if there is no
difference in the applied formatting?

Structured designs, like DITA, have elements that are semantic in
nature.  They ignore presentation.
(Frame's EDDs are a hybrid.)  So there is usually no simple mapping from
formats to elements.  The info needed to do that mapping is not in the
format system; it is in the mind of the author.  So you'll frequently need
to add information to the unstructured file to guide the conversion process.
The alternative is to do the fixup by hand after conversion, but that is
usually many times worse than doing it up front.

OTOH, once you do the conversion, you may well gain enormous benefits,
mainly with much improved single- sourcing and re-use.  This is especially
true when localization is involved; the savings in the first round of
translations may pay for the entire process.

Not all structures are the same, and it's important to choose the one that
fits your docs best.  Often this is DITA; for some, it may be DocBook.  You
can roll your own, but that is a very-high-cost route, since you will have
to build all your own tools too.
If you aren't a megacorp, forget it.  ;-)  Remember, DITA was what came out
when IBM rolled its own...
and the staffing required to do that was not small.

As to how to get there, start by learning all about the structure you plan
to use.  There are plenty of resources about DITA, starting with the OASIS
specs and going on from there.  We think authors should be very involved
with the conversion process; they will have to live with the results.  Start
small and build.

For Frame, you can get an idea of conversion options from a webinar that
Sriptorium produced, that looks at three methods:
http://bit.ly/61MvPx
It starts with Frame's native conversion tables; the Mif2Go part is at
33:15.  ;-)

Once you have converted to DITA (or DocBook), you have a choice of editing
tools, like oXygenXML, XMetaL, Arbortext, XML Mind, and Frame.  If you stick
with Frame, you *must* have DITA-FMx to make it work without major pain and
hair loss:
http://www.leximation.com/dita-fmx/

So a good way to start is by creating some new doc content in DITA-FMx, to
get into the DITA worldview.
There's a free demo version.

HTH!


-- Jeremy H. Griffith jer...@omsys.com
   DITA2Go site:  http://www.dita2go.com/
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Re: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:54:08 -0700, Matt Sullivan 
m...@grafixtraining.com wrote:

As a point of correction...

I didn't state the para you've attributed to me 
and I *do not* agree with it.

Ah.  You were quoting it.  I didn't notice that,
because you had omitted the usual top attribution 
to the author, Joseph Lorenzini, who was the person
I thought I was responding to.  

I didn't even notice your comments below his sig; 
I thought *that* was the earlier quote, like it 
said it was.
  
My apologies for not reading carefully enough.

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Re: FrameMaker 9 slow and sometimes unresponsive?

[Writer]

Ah. I did not realize it was saved in the document itself.

Thx,

Nadine

On 29/04/2010 5:33 PM, Scott Prentice wrote:

Hi Nadine...

Regarding the document magnification issue .. this is the situation 
for all XML in FrameMaker. The magnification (as well as other 
document settings) are not saved in the XML, and are reapplied from 
the template each time you open a file. You can open the template file 
and set the magnification as you like, then save it .. and that will 
be what you get.


I've got a plugin called RestoreWindows that does this for you 
automatically (although it's not been updated for FM9 yet) ..


   http://www.leximation.com/tools/info/restorewindows.php

Also, West Street Consulting has a plugin called Structure Tools that 
includes this same feature ..


   http://www.weststreetconsulting.com/WSC_StructureTools.htm

Cheers,

...scott

Scott Prentice
Leximation, Inc.
www.leximation.com
+1.415.485.1892


Writer wrote:
I've noticed the same issue when I save a file. Usually, it's when I 
save the first time after opening FM9 (especially DITA XML files). 
Even if it is only a small file.


I agree that the icons on the Paragraph Designer don't map to their 
actual meaning. But I've started to become used to them


Other issues that bother me are that FM9 doesn't remember the last 
magnification value for DITA XML files, and it opens dialog boxes 
when I open a DITA XML file that I had closed previously.


Nadine

--- On Thu, 4/29/10, Studio Smalbro wrote:

From: Studio Smalbro Subject: FrameMaker 9 slow and sometimes 
unresponsive?

To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010, 3:55 PM
Am I the only one to find that
FrameMaker 9 is slow and sometimes unresponsive. I run Win
7/64bit and has vast amounts of RAM, but nevertheless it
takes FrameMaker lots of time saving documents and sometimes
using shortcuts just plainly stops working. I am right now
writing some course material on FrameMaker 9 and slowly
discovers the good and the bad. I really hate the new
Paragraph Designer - what happend to the tabbed interface?
Everything else has become tabbed only not what is used
exensively. It is no longer possible to tell what part of
the tab you're in unless you read.

regards
Bjørn
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FM9 Unstructured- Variables in Paragraph Designer are Gone

[LaBarre, Susan]

The variables were there a couple of days ago on the numbering tab of Paragraph 
Designer. I've shut down and restarted more than once.

Anyone else experiencing this issue? Is this another one of the v9 bugs?

Do I have to uninstall/reinstall to get them back?

Still designing my template or I wouldn't care, but I do not remember all the 
numbering variables by heart...

Thanks!

Susan

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RE: Frame/PDF crashing again after Acrobat update - reapply hotfix

[Catherine Woods]

Thank you very much Martin. I was beginning to think I was going to have to
recreate a 185 page container file from scratch.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Martin Ley
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 12:00 PM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Frame/PDF crashing again after Acrobat update - reapply hotfix

Hi Framers,

A while ago I had weeks of woes with mega-crashes while trying to print to
PDF from Frame books. Eventually, the cure was to apply the hotfix that lots
of people mentioned (I say eventually, because I couldn't download it for
ages, and assumed it would never work for me).

Well, everything's been fine for a couple of months, then Adobe updated
Acrobat, which I assume stiffed the Distiller or something, because I
started getting crashes again while building PDFs from FM book files. 

For example:

%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
%%[Page: 1]%%
%%[Page: 2]%%
%%[Page: 3]%%
%%[Page: 4]%%
%%[Page: 5]%%
%%[Page: 6]%%
%%[Page: 7]%%
%%[Page: 8]%%
%%[Page: 9]%%
%%[Page: 10]%%
%%[Page: 11]%%
%%[Page: 12]%%
%%[Page: 13]%%
%%[ Error: ioerror; OffendingCommand: imageDistiller ]%%

Stack:
-dict-
-mark-
-save-


%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%


Naturally, this happened while I was up against a deadline, but I thought
Hmmm, I wonder if I apply the hotfix again, it will cure things...

Yes. Joy!

The page to look at for info on the hotfix is:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=952909

Read the bumf then click the View and request hotfix downloads link near the
top of the page (you need to do this, as you eventually get an email with
the right link and a password).

It took me ages to get the correct link/hotfix for some reason.

Hope this helps someone.

Martin 




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Graphics quality - Mif2Go

[mathieu jacquet]

Dear all,

we are generating EclipseHelp and OmniHelp for our documentation and chose 
Mif2Go. Everything runs perfect except on one point: after conversion, graphics 
are there, well layed out but of terrible quality. I attach an original picture 
and its generated counterpart. We've played with GraphicExportDPI and 
GraphicExportFormat but to no avail so far.

Do you have any strategy for obtaining graphics of a decent quality in our HTML 
output? I guess it is something to be thought about from scratch, when 
importing them in Frame. Is there any rule to respect (for instance, import in 
xx DPI in Frame, then set GraphicExportDPI to xx DPI)?

Thank you very much in anticipation,
Mathieu.

P.S.: work environment is FM9 on Vista 64.

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Graphics quality - Mif2Go

[Reng, Dr. Winfried]

Hi Mathieu,

As far as I know, attachments are not allowed in 
this mailing list. However, your attachment could
not answer questions like these:
o Which graphic format do you use in FrameMaker?
o Are the graphics referenced?
o What is the content of the anchored frames with
  the graphics? Only a single graphics files or
  several graphics files or also any FrameMaker 
  graphics object?
o Do all converted graphics files have a bad quality
  or only specific ones? If not all, what are the
  differences?
o Which graphics settings in the ini file did you
  test with which result?
o Do you use the latest Mif2Go update?

I do not know, whether I can help you. However,
these answers will help to find an answer.

Best regards

Winfried 

> -Original Message-
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com 
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of 
> mathieu jacquet
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 10:50 AM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Graphics quality - Mif2Go
> 
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> we are generating EclipseHelp and OmniHelp for our 
> documentation and chose Mif2Go. Everything runs perfect 
> except on one point: after conversion, graphics are there, 
> well layed out but of terrible quality. I attach an original 
> picture and its generated counterpart. We've played with 
> GraphicExportDPI and GraphicExportFormat but to no avail so far.
> 
> Do you have any strategy for obtaining graphics of a decent 
> quality in our HTML output? I guess it is something to be 
> thought about from scratch, when importing them in Frame. Is 
> there any rule to respect (for instance, import in xx DPI in 
> Frame, then set GraphicExportDPI to xx DPI)?
> 
> Thank you very much in anticipation,
> Mathieu.
> 
> P.S.: work environment is FM9 on Vista 64.
> 
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300+ XML files

[Yves Barbion]

Ah, after 17 years of using FrameMaker, I finally got to see a dialog box
which I have never seen before. It says:

"You have opened more than 300 XML files in the current session.
We recommend that you save and close all files then restart FrameMaker to
prevent a crash."

The guy/girl who wrote that text had a good sense of humor.

I know, the notorious Fm8 300+ XML files bug.

I think/hope that this one has been fixed in Fm9.

;-)



-- 
Yves Barbion
www.scripto.nu

Graphics quality - Mif2Go

[ri...@inficon.com]

Mathieu

While I've got the latest version of Mif2Go, I've not used it in quite 
awhile since I no longer have the requirement to produce HTML docs. So, 
I'm in a memory fog here.  Back when I first started to use Mif2Go to 
product HTML docs, I was not happy with the quality of the graphics in my 
HTML output from FrameMaker. If I remember correctly, using the FrameMaker 
export filters resulted in the poor graphics quality. What you need to do 
is use a third party tool to create the graphics, then tell Mif2Go to use 
the third-party graphics directly. In your Mif2Go manual, check out 
4.8.2.3 Using Third Party Graphics Converters (this from my 2007 May 01 
Mif2Go manual).

Best bet is to contact Omni Systems with your question, or maybe Jeremy 
will read your posting and will point you in the right direction. As I 
remember, Mif2Go support (Jeremy) was very helpful.

Good luck,
Richard

Graphics quality - Mif2Go

[Art Campbell]

Although I use MIF2GO for conversion, I usually use PNG format graphics in
my Frame files so no conversion is necessary.

If something needs to change, I usually do a batch resize or conversion of
graphics myself, using Photoshop, although any suitable program should work.

Art

Art Campbell
 art.campbell at gmail.com
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redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
 No disclaimers apply.
  DoD 358


On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:28 AM,  wrote:

> Mathieu
>
> While I've got the latest version of Mif2Go, I've not used it in quite
> awhile since I no longer have the requirement to produce HTML docs. So,
> I'm in a memory fog here.  Back when I first started to use Mif2Go to
> product HTML docs, I was not happy with the quality of the graphics in my
> HTML output from FrameMaker. If I remember correctly, using the FrameMaker
> export filters resulted in the poor graphics quality. What you need to do
> is use a third party tool to create the graphics, then tell Mif2Go to use
> the third-party graphics directly. In your Mif2Go manual, check out
> 4.8.2.3 Using Third Party Graphics Converters (this from my 2007 May 01
> Mif2Go manual).
>
> Best bet is to contact Omni Systems with your question, or maybe Jeremy
> will read your posting and will point you in the right direction. As I
> remember, Mif2Go support (Jeremy) was very helpful.
>
> Good luck,
> Richard
>
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Graphics quality - Mif2Go

[Yves Barbion]

Hi Mathieu

I just use the graphics "as is", so I don't convert them.

>From the MIF2Go Help:

22.4.1 Using referenced graphics without converting
***22.4.1 Using referenced graphics without converting*

If some referenced graphics are already in a format appropriate for Web use,
such as JPEG, GIF, or PNG (see ?29.1.4 *Graphics formats for
HTML*);
and if they are alone in their anchored frames (no callouts or in-frametitles,
for example); you do not have to convert them. Either check *Use original
graphic names* in the *Mif2Go* *Export* dialog, or set the following option
in the configuration file:

[Graphics]

UseOriginalGraphicNames=Yes

For details, see ?29.3.1.4 *Using original files and image sizes
forreferenced graphics
* .

The naming is preserved like any other in the  tags. Unless
you explicitly remap a name in the [GraphFiles] section (see ?22.4.2
*Specifying
formats of replacement graphics* ), or specify
a GraphSuffix in the [Graphics] section, the graphic name is always passed
through unchanged.

If the original graphics are not in the same folder as the FrameMaker files,
set the following option also (see ?22.3 *Locating graphics files for
HTML*
):

[Graphics]

StripGraphPath=Yes

If you have supplied replacements for referenced graphics that are in a
different format, and if the replacements have the same base names as the
originals, you can specify just the new file extension (see ?29.3.1.2
*Substituting
graphics files for HTML* ):

[Graphics]

GraphSuffix=jpg

Use this setting when you convert referenced graphics with a third-party
program; see ?4.10.2.3 *Using third-party graphics
converters*
. 

A problem arises if you add any FrameMaker elements, such as arrows or
callouts,
to a referenced graphic. You can direct *Mif2Go* to use the FrameMaker
export filters to convert the whole graphic to JPEG or GIF; see
?4.10.2.2 *Using
FrameMaker graphic export filters* . Or you
can reproduce the elements in the external graphic with a third-party
program.

Cheers



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www.scripto.nu

Graphics quality - Mif2Go

[Kelly McDaniel]

I use FrameMaker 9 in TCS2 patched to p250 on Win32 XP Pro SP3 box.
I use PNG format exclusively, SnagIt 8 to take screenshots and edit, and set to 
96 DPI on all graphics in a FrameMaker frame-shrink.

Recently, after p250 upgrade, I have experienced spontaneous "reformatting" of 
random graphics. The only evident pattern is that the graphics appear to be 
reformatted to a lower DPI setting than 96 DPI, although FM still displays 
Object Properties as 96 DPI, and that the issue continues to plague me. I 
review my work in FM, build a PostScript file, and distill the PS into a PDF. 
The gnarly graphics are usually noticed in a 3rd party review of the PDF. When 
I check my FM source, the graphic I had previously confirmed as "good" is now 
gnarly. The fix is to locate the offending graphic,  double-click it to open in 
my default tool, SnagIt 8, then save it. That's all. When I return to FM, the 
graphic is "as coded." Due to the state of Adobe Support, I have not reported 
this issue. (I trust that R. J. and Jeremy are lurking.)

In conclusion, my belief is that Mif2Go grabs the graphic from FrameMaker and 
uses it the way it finds it. You may very well have the same/related issue as I 
have experienced...regards, Kelly.

-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com 
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of mathieu jacquet
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 3:50 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Graphics quality - Mif2Go


Dear all,

we are generating EclipseHelp and OmniHelp for our documentation and chose 
Mif2Go. Everything runs perfect except on one point: after conversion, graphics 
are there, well layed out but of terrible quality. I attach an original picture 
and its generated counterpart. We've played with GraphicExportDPI and 
GraphicExportFormat but to no avail so far.

Do you have any strategy for obtaining graphics of a decent quality in our HTML 
output? I guess it is something to be thought about from scratch, when 
importing them in Frame. Is there any rule to respect (for instance, import in 
xx DPI in Frame, then set GraphicExportDPI to xx DPI)?

Thank you very much in anticipation,
Mathieu.

P.S.: work environment is FM9 on Vista 64.

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Graphics quality - Mif2Go

[Yves Barbion]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Kelly McDaniel wrote:

> (...)
>
> In conclusion, my belief is that Mif2Go grabs the graphic from FrameMaker
> and uses it the way it finds it. You may very well have the same/related
> issue as I have experienced...regards, Kelly.
>

You can make MIF2Go do that by selecting the option "Do not write graphics
files".

See also: *3.7.4.1 Omitting and restoring graphics production in the
MIF2Go Help*

Cheers


-- 
Yves Barbion
www.scripto.nu

300+ XML files

[Scott Prentice]

Hi Yves...

This message is coming from DITA-FMx. Yes .. It has been fixed in  
FM9.  :-)

...scott

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 29, 2010, at 3:27 AM, Yves Barbion   
wrote:

> Ah, after 17 years of using FrameMaker, I finally got to see a  
> dialog box
> which I have never seen before. It says:
>
> "You have opened more than 300 XML files in the current session.
> We recommend that you save and close all files then restart  
> FrameMaker to
> prevent a crash."
>
> The guy/girl who wrote that text had a good sense of humor.
>
> I know, the notorious Fm8 300+ XML files bug.
>
> I think/hope that this one has been fixed in Fm9.
>
> ;-)
>
>
>
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> Yves Barbion
> www.scripto.nu
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Graphics quality - Mif2Go

[Kelly McDaniel]

Thanks for the info, however, I?m not currently using Mif2Go in production?that 
may change very soon, tho??regards, Kelly.



From: Yves Barbion [mailto:yves.barb...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 9:33 AM
To: Kelly McDaniel
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Graphics quality - Mif2Go





On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Kelly McDaniel  
wrote:

(...)

In conclusion, my belief is that Mif2Go grabs the graphic from FrameMaker and 
uses it the way it finds it. You may very well have the same/related issue as I 
have experienced...regards, Kelly.


You can make MIF2Go do that by selecting the option "Do not write graphics 
files". 

See also: 3.7.4.1 Omitting and restoring graphics production in the MIF2Go Help

Cheers


-- 
Yves Barbion
www.scripto.nu

Cross-file links failing under Linux

[jdela...@comcast.net]

FM 9 p250 on WinXP Pro SP3 
Acrobat Pro Extended 9.3.2 

I am struggling with links across PDF files. They all work in Windows, but some 
work and some don't under Red Hat Enterprise 4 Linux . 

I am using the following directory structure to create a hierarchy of "menu" 
pages with links to other PDFs: 

C:\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\source_docs\contents\Draft for 
.fm files and .book files; C:\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\nCode Desktop 6.0 
ISR2\source_docs\contents\Draft\graphics for graphics. 

There are about 50 other directories for PDF documents (they are what you 
arrive at using the menus), one for each .book and .fm file set, with a path 
such as C:\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\nCode Desktop 6.0 
ISR2\source_docs\designlifetheory\draft. This creates designlifetheory.pdf. 
There are crosslinks to other pdfs from within some of these files. 

For the Contents "menus", I have created one book per menu. Menus are a single 
page long. 

All of the books create single pdfs (i.e., not multiple files per book). The 
books are all output to a single directory, C:\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\nCode 
Desktop 6.0 ISR2\Deliverables. 

I am using the newlink and gotolink commands. The newlink commands are all on 
master pages. The gotoink commands are all on body pages. A typical gotolink 
would be "gotolink map_of_help.pdf:helpmap". This one seems to fail 
consistently on Linux. I have tried using "gotolink map_of_help.fm:helpmap", 
which also fails. Should I be using ".fm" instead of ".pdf" in the link? 

The .pdfs are created using Print to Adobe PDF. The PDF Setup is Settings: 
Standard Job Options, View Generated PDF in Acrobat, Convert CMYK Colors to 
RGB; Bookmarks: Generate PDF Bookmarks; Tags: Generate Tagged PDF; Links: 
Create Named Destinations for All Elements and Paragraphs. 

I have tried placing all the books in a single directory using Save As, with 
all the paths relative, and books open, and with books closed. I have tried 
dumping all the .fm files and .book files into the same directory. I have tried 
outputting to various directories. I have combed the archives, and tried to 
follow Shlomo's training module on "FrameMaker Books & Cross-File Links." 

I don't seem to get it, whatever it may be. 

Any help for this newbie appreciated. 

Jack 

Adobe's New Corporate Strategies

[Joel]

I had high hopes for Buzzword when Adobe bought it, but rather than making
it a Word-killer they have slowed down the release cycle, added things I
don't care about, and been a bummer in general. I think they have too many
products and aren't supporting the really good ones like they should be.

Joel

Cross-file links failing under Linux

[Shlomo Perets]

Jack,

You wrote:

>... I am struggling with links across PDF files. They all work in Windows,
>but some work and some don't under Red Hat Enterprise 4 Linux . ...




If the links all work as expected in Windows, the first thing to check is 
the consistency of case in file names.
This is not an issue in Windows, but file names in Linux are case-sensitive.

Other than inconsistency between the case use in the hypertext marker vs. 
the file name as exists in the OS (which would not be a problem under 
Windows), I encountered situations in the past where problems were related 
to the case of the file names being changed in the process of the file 
transfer (but file names as present internally in FrameMaker's hypertext 
markers were not affected).


Shlomo Perets

MicroType * http://www.microtype.com
FrameMaker/Acrobat training & consulting

"32 easy ways to improve your PDFs with FrameMaker-to-Acrobat 
TimeSavers/Assistants",
http://www.microtype.com/ImprovePDF.html

Frame/PDF crashing again after Acrobat update - reapply hotfix

[Martin Ley]

Hi Framers,

A while ago I had weeks of woes with mega-crashes while trying to print to PDF 
from Frame books. Eventually, the cure was to apply the hotfix that lots of 
people mentioned (I say eventually, because I couldn't download it for ages, 
and assumed it would never work for me).

Well, everything's been fine for a couple of months, then Adobe updated 
Acrobat, which I assume stiffed the Distiller or something, because I started 
getting crashes again while building PDFs from FM book files. 

For example:

%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
%%[Page: 1]%%
%%[Page: 2]%%
%%[Page: 3]%%
%%[Page: 4]%%
%%[Page: 5]%%
%%[Page: 6]%%
%%[Page: 7]%%
%%[Page: 8]%%
%%[Page: 9]%%
%%[Page: 10]%%
%%[Page: 11]%%
%%[Page: 12]%%
%%[Page: 13]%%
%%[ Error: ioerror; OffendingCommand: imageDistiller ]%%

Stack:
-dict-
-mark-
-save-


%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%


Naturally, this happened while I was up against a deadline, but I thought 
"Hmmm, I wonder if I apply the hotfix again, it will cure things"...

Yes. Joy!

The page to look at for info on the hotfix is:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=952909

Read the bumf then click the View and request hotfix downloads link near the 
top of the page (you need to do this, as you eventually get an email with the 
right link and a password).

It took me ages to get the correct link/hotfix for some reason.

Hope this helps someone.

Martin 




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Graphics quality - Mif2Go

[mathieu jacquet]

Thank you all for your pieces of advice!

I'll have a look at your options and try to apply them to my workflow.

Thank you again,
Mathieu.

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Cross-file links failing under Linux

[jdela...@comcast.net]

Hello, Shlomo - 

Thanks. I checked. The file names in the commands all match the file names on 
disk. There are a few with mixed case, but almost all are lower case, and the 
links fail there, too. Do you recommend switching to all lower case? 

You mentioned "the case of the file names being changed in the process of the 
file transfer" - is there anything that can be done about this? 

Jack DeLand 

Upgrading to Windows 7 with TCS2

[Joseph Lorenzini]

Hi all,

My corporation will be converting all its computers to Windows 7 in the next
six months or so. Has anyone installed the full TCS2 suite on Windows 7? How
does it run? Are there any bugs?

Sincerely,
Joseph Lorenzini

FrameMaker 9 slow and sometimes unresponsive?

[Studio Smalbro]

Am I the only one to find that FrameMaker 9 is slow and sometimes 
unresponsive. I run Win 7/64bit and has vast amounts of RAM, but 
nevertheless it takes FrameMaker lots of time saving documents and 
sometimes using shortcuts just plainly stops working. I am right now 
writing some course material on FrameMaker 9 and slowly discovers the 
good and the bad. I really hate the new Paragraph Designer - what 
happend to the tabbed interface? Everything else has become tabbed only 
not what is used exensively. It is no longer possible to tell what part 
of the tab you're in unless you read.

regards
Bj?rn

FrameMaker 9 slow and sometimes unresponsive?

[Writer]

I've noticed the same issue when I save a file. Usually, it's when I save the 
first time after opening FM9 (especially DITA XML files). Even if it is only a 
small file.

I agree that the icons on the Paragraph Designer don't map to their actual 
meaning. But I've started to become used to them

Other issues that bother me are that FM9 doesn't remember the last 
magnification value for DITA XML files, and it opens dialog boxes when I open a 
DITA XML file that I had closed previously.

Nadine

--- On Thu, 4/29/10, Studio Smalbro  wrote:

> From: Studio Smalbro 
> Subject: FrameMaker 9 slow and sometimes unresponsive?
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010, 3:55 PM
> Am I the only one to find that
> FrameMaker 9 is slow and sometimes unresponsive. I run Win
> 7/64bit and has vast amounts of RAM, but nevertheless it
> takes FrameMaker lots of time saving documents and sometimes
> using shortcuts just plainly stops working. I am right now
> writing some course material on FrameMaker 9 and slowly
> discovers the good and the bad. I really hate the new
> Paragraph Designer - what happend to the tabbed interface?
> Everything else has become tabbed only not what is used
> exensively. It is no longer possible to tell what part of
> the tab you're in unless you read.
> 
> regards
> Bj?rn
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Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

[Matt Sullivan]

While there's structured framemaker, dita, and a host of third party plugins
can anyone really say its a simple, painless, and quick process to
transition from unstructured framemaker to either structured or dita? 

Sincerely,
Joseph Lorenzini
___


Hi Joseph,

I generally teach my students in a hands-on environment to convert legacy
documents to XML in under 2 hours, so I do see the process as painless and
quick.

I'll be in Dallas at the Adobe booth next week for the STC Summit if you'd
like a quick runthrough.

Tom Aldous will also be there, and he's actually scheduled to a 15 minute
runthrough of document conversion at the Adobe booth this coming  Monday
from 1:15-1:30

I have our complete booth schedule, including booth demos and Adobe
presentations schedule available in PDF by request or at
http://blogs.roundpeg.com/2010/04/adobe-stc-summit/

Of course the success of the conversion depends upon the extent to which the
content adheres to a standard. For example, if your Word docs all use
Normal+ for formatting, or if your FM docs are riddled with *Body, then no
logic can be applied and thus, no easy conversion exists.

So if your authors worked with style sheets, the supplied conversion tools
(FM conversion tables) are well-worth the effort and can convert any number
of documents to fairly valid XML with little relative effort. 

If they didn't, I know of no tool, for FM or any other editor, that will
analyze and structure documents using ad hoc formatting.


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Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

[David Spreadbury]

It can be, depending on

Complexity of your structure EDD
Complexity of your unstructured documents
Cleanliness of your unstructured documents
Your ability in creating a conversion table
Your patience

This list is not all inclusive.

David Spreadbury
Sr. Technical Writer


-Original Message-
From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Matt Sullivan
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 3:24 PM
To: 'Joseph Lorenzini'; 'FrameMaker Forum'
Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate
Strategies)



While there's structured framemaker, dita, and a host of third party plugins
can anyone really say its a simple, painless, and quick process to
transition from unstructured framemaker to either structured or dita? 

Sincerely,
Joseph Lorenzini
___

Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:23:54 -0700, "Matt Sullivan" 
 
wrote:

>While there's structured framemaker, dita, and a host 
>of third party plugins can anyone really say its a simple, 
>painless, and quick process to transition from unstructured 
>framemaker to either structured or dita? 

They can say it, but it's unlikely to be true.  ;-)

The reason is simple.  In unstructured Frame, formats 
are "presentational" in nature.  You may use "Indented" 
for several different kinds of text, where all they 
have in common is the plain indentation.  That's usual;
why have different formats if there is no difference
in the applied formatting?

Structured designs, like DITA, have "elements" that
are "semantic" in nature.  They ignore presentation.
(Frame's EDDs are a hybrid.)  So there is usually no
simple mapping from formats to elements.  The info
needed to do that mapping is not in the format system;
it is in the mind of the author.  So you'll frequently
need to add information to the unstructured file to
guide the conversion process.  The alternative is to
do the fixup by hand after conversion, but that is
usually many times worse than doing it up front.

OTOH, once you do the conversion, you may well gain
enormous benefits, mainly with much improved single-
sourcing and re-use.  This is especially true when
localization is involved; the savings in the first
round of translations may pay for the entire process.

Not all structures are the same, and it's important
to choose the one that fits your docs best.  Often
this is DITA; for some, it may be DocBook.  You can
roll your own, but that is a very-high-cost route,
since you will have to build all your own tools too.
If you aren't a megacorp, forget it.  ;-)  Remember,
DITA was what came out when IBM rolled its own...
and the staffing required to do that was not small.

As to how to get there, start by learning all about
the structure you plan to use.  There are plenty of
resources about DITA, starting with the OASIS specs
and going on from there.  We think authors should be
very involved with the conversion process; they will
have to live with the results.  Start small and build.

For Frame, you can get an idea of conversion options
from a webinar that Sriptorium produced, that looks
at three methods:
http://bit.ly/61MvPx
It starts with Frame's native conversion tables; the
Mif2Go part is at 33:15.  ;-)

Once you have converted to DITA (or DocBook), you
have a choice of editing tools, like oXygenXML,
XMetaL, Arbortext, XML Mind, and Frame.  If you
stick with Frame, you *must* have DITA-FMx to make
it work without major pain and hair loss:
http://www.leximation.com/dita-fmx/

So a good way to start is by creating some new doc
content in DITA-FMx, to get into the DITA worldview.
There's a free demo version.

HTH!


-- Jeremy H. Griffith 
   DITA2Go site:  http://www.dita2go.com/

FrameMaker 9 slow and sometimes unresponsive?

[Scott Prentice]

Hi Nadine...

Regarding the document magnification issue .. this is the situation for 
all XML in FrameMaker. The magnification (as well as other document 
settings) are not saved in the XML, and are reapplied from the template 
each time you open a file. You can open the template file and set the 
magnification as you like, then save it .. and that will be what you get.

I've got a plugin called RestoreWindows that does this for you 
automatically (although it's not been updated for FM9 yet) ..

http://www.leximation.com/tools/info/restorewindows.php

Also, West Street Consulting has a plugin called Structure Tools that 
includes this same feature ..

http://www.weststreetconsulting.com/WSC_StructureTools.htm

Cheers,

...scott

Scott Prentice
Leximation, Inc.
www.leximation.com
+1.415.485.1892


Writer wrote:
> I've noticed the same issue when I save a file. Usually, it's when I save the 
> first time after opening FM9 (especially DITA XML files). Even if it is only 
> a small file.
>
> I agree that the icons on the Paragraph Designer don't map to their actual 
> meaning. But I've started to become used to them
>
> Other issues that bother me are that FM9 doesn't remember the last 
> magnification value for DITA XML files, and it opens dialog boxes when I open 
> a DITA XML file that I had closed previously.
>
> Nadine
>
> --- On Thu, 4/29/10, Studio Smalbro wrote:
>
>   
>> From: Studio Smalbro 
>> Subject: FrameMaker 9 slow and sometimes unresponsive?
>> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
>> Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010, 3:55 PM
>> Am I the only one to find that
>> FrameMaker 9 is slow and sometimes unresponsive. I run Win
>> 7/64bit and has vast amounts of RAM, but nevertheless it
>> takes FrameMaker lots of time saving documents and sometimes
>> using shortcuts just plainly stops working. I am right now
>> writing some course material on FrameMaker 9 and slowly
>> discovers the good and the bad. I really hate the new
>> Paragraph Designer - what happend to the tabbed interface?
>> Everything else has become tabbed only not what is used
>> exensively. It is no longer possible to tell what part of
>> the tab you're in unless you read.
>>
>> regards
>> Bj?rn
>> ___
>>
>>
>> 
>
>   

Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

[Matt Sullivan]

As a point of correction...

I didn't state the para you've attributed to me and I *do not* agree with
it.

My post was entirely related to the ability to structure documents to a very
useable degree with nothing more than a few hours of education and an
iterative approach. 

The requirements:
-Knowledge of one's DTD or schema
-No more than 2 hours of hands-on education
-Docs that adhere to a stylesheet
-A day or two to analyse how one's linear paragraph docs map into the
content model (DTD or schema) provided

-Matt



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-Original Message-
From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy H.
Griffith
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 2:25 PM
To: 'FrameMaker Forum'
Subject: Re: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate
Strategies)

On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:23:54 -0700, "Matt Sullivan" 

wrote:

>While there's structured framemaker, dita, and a host of third party 
>plugins can anyone really say its a simple, painless, and quick process 
>to transition from unstructured framemaker to either structured or 
>dita?

They can say it, but it's unlikely to be true.  ;-)

The reason is simple.  In unstructured Frame, formats are "presentational"
in nature.  You may use "Indented" 
for several different kinds of text, where all they have in common is the
plain indentation.  That's usual; why have different formats if there is no
difference in the applied formatting?

Structured designs, like DITA, have "elements" that are "semantic" in
nature.  They ignore presentation.
(Frame's EDDs are a hybrid.)  So there is usually no simple mapping from
formats to elements.  The info needed to do that mapping is not in the
format system; it is in the mind of the author.  So you'll frequently need
to add information to the unstructured file to guide the conversion process.
The alternative is to do the fixup by hand after conversion, but that is
usually many times worse than doing it up front.

OTOH, once you do the conversion, you may well gain enormous benefits,
mainly with much improved single- sourcing and re-use.  This is especially
true when localization is involved; the savings in the first round of
translations may pay for the entire process.

Not all structures are the same, and it's important to choose the one that
fits your docs best.  Often this is DITA; for some, it may be DocBook.  You
can roll your own, but that is a very-high-cost route, since you will have
to build all your own tools too.
If you aren't a megacorp, forget it.  ;-)  Remember, DITA was what came out
when IBM rolled its own...
and the staffing required to do that was not small.

As to how to get there, start by learning all about the structure you plan
to use.  There are plenty of resources about DITA, starting with the OASIS
specs and going on from there.  We think authors should be very involved
with the conversion process; they will have to live with the results.  Start
small and build.

For Frame, you can get an idea of conversion options from a webinar that
Sriptorium produced, that looks at three methods:
http://bit.ly/61MvPx
It starts with Frame's native conversion tables; the Mif2Go part is at
33:15.  ;-)

Once you have converted to DITA (or DocBook), you have a choice of editing
tools, like oXygenXML, XMetaL, Arbortext, XML Mind, and Frame.  If you stick
with Frame, you *must* have DITA-FMx to make it work without major pain and
hair loss:
http://www.leximation.com/dita-fmx/

So a good way to start is by creating some new doc content in DITA-FMx, to
get into the DITA worldview.
There's a free demo version.

HTH!


-- Jeremy H. Griffith 
   DITA2Go site:  http://www.dita2go.com/
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Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:54:08 -0700, "Matt Sullivan" 
 wrote:

>As a point of correction...
>
>I didn't state the para you've attributed to me 
>and I *do not* agree with it.

Ah.  You were quoting it.  I didn't notice that,
because you had omitted the usual top attribution 
to the author, Joseph Lorenzini, who was the person
I thought I was responding to.  

I didn't even notice your comments below his sig; 
I thought *that* was the earlier quote, like it 
said it was.

My apologies for not reading carefully enough.

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

FrameMaker 9 slow and sometimes unresponsive?

[Writer]

Ah. I did not realize it was saved in the document itself.

Thx,

Nadine

On 29/04/2010 5:33 PM, Scott Prentice wrote:
> Hi Nadine...
>
> Regarding the document magnification issue .. this is the situation 
> for all XML in FrameMaker. The magnification (as well as other 
> document settings) are not saved in the XML, and are reapplied from 
> the template each time you open a file. You can open the template file 
> and set the magnification as you like, then save it .. and that will 
> be what you get.
>
> I've got a plugin called RestoreWindows that does this for you 
> automatically (although it's not been updated for FM9 yet) ..
>
>http://www.leximation.com/tools/info/restorewindows.php
>
> Also, West Street Consulting has a plugin called Structure Tools that 
> includes this same feature ..
>
>http://www.weststreetconsulting.com/WSC_StructureTools.htm
>
> Cheers,
>
> ...scott
>
> Scott Prentice
> Leximation, Inc.
> www.leximation.com
> +1.415.485.1892
>
>
> Writer wrote:
>> I've noticed the same issue when I save a file. Usually, it's when I 
>> save the first time after opening FM9 (especially DITA XML files). 
>> Even if it is only a small file.
>>
>> I agree that the icons on the Paragraph Designer don't map to their 
>> actual meaning. But I've started to become used to them
>>
>> Other issues that bother me are that FM9 doesn't remember the last 
>> magnification value for DITA XML files, and it opens dialog boxes 
>> when I open a DITA XML file that I had closed previously.
>>
>> Nadine
>>
>> --- On Thu, 4/29/10, Studio Smalbro wrote:
>>
>>> From: Studio Smalbro Subject: FrameMaker 9 slow and sometimes 
>>> unresponsive?
>>> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
>>> Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010, 3:55 PM
>>> Am I the only one to find that
>>> FrameMaker 9 is slow and sometimes unresponsive. I run Win
>>> 7/64bit and has vast amounts of RAM, but nevertheless it
>>> takes FrameMaker lots of time saving documents and sometimes
>>> using shortcuts just plainly stops working. I am right now
>>> writing some course material on FrameMaker 9 and slowly
>>> discovers the good and the bad. I really hate the new
>>> Paragraph Designer - what happend to the tabbed interface?
>>> Everything else has become tabbed only not what is used
>>> exensively. It is no longer possible to tell what part of
>>> the tab you're in unless you read.
>>>
>>> regards
>>> Bj?rn
>>> ___
>>>
>>>
>>
>

FM9 Unstructured- Variables in Paragraph Designer are Gone

[LaBarre, Susan]

The variables were there a couple of days ago on the numbering tab of Paragraph 
Designer. I've shut down and restarted more than once.

Anyone else experiencing this issue? Is this another one of the v9 bugs?

Do I have to uninstall/reinstall to get them back?

Still designing my template or I wouldn't care, but I do not remember all the 
numbering variables by heart...

Thanks!

Susan

Susan LaBarre
Technology Support Analyst
State of North Carolina
Office of Information Technology Services (ITS)
3700 Wake Forest Road
Raleigh, NC 27609
(919)754-6174
(919)754-6000 ITS Service Desk
Susan.LaBarre at its.nc.gov
http://www.its.state.nc.us/

Frame/PDF crashing again after Acrobat update - reapply hotfix

[Catherine Woods]

Thank you very much Martin. I was beginning to think I was going to have to
recreate a 185 page container file from scratch.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

-Original Message-
From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Martin Ley
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 12:00 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Frame/PDF crashing again after Acrobat update - reapply hotfix

Hi Framers,

A while ago I had weeks of woes with mega-crashes while trying to print to
PDF from Frame books. Eventually, the cure was to apply the hotfix that lots
of people mentioned (I say eventually, because I couldn't download it for
ages, and assumed it would never work for me).

Well, everything's been fine for a couple of months, then Adobe updated
Acrobat, which I assume stiffed the Distiller or something, because I
started getting crashes again while building PDFs from FM book files. 

For example:

%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
%%[Page: 1]%%
%%[Page: 2]%%
%%[Page: 3]%%
%%[Page: 4]%%
%%[Page: 5]%%
%%[Page: 6]%%
%%[Page: 7]%%
%%[Page: 8]%%
%%[Page: 9]%%
%%[Page: 10]%%
%%[Page: 11]%%
%%[Page: 12]%%
%%[Page: 13]%%
%%[ Error: ioerror; OffendingCommand: imageDistiller ]%%

Stack:
-dict-
-mark-
-save-


%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%


Naturally, this happened while I was up against a deadline, but I thought
"Hmmm, I wonder if I apply the hotfix again, it will cure things"...

Yes. Joy!

The page to look at for info on the hotfix is:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=952909

Read the bumf then click the View and request hotfix downloads link near the
top of the page (you need to do this, as you eventually get an email with
the right link and a password).

It took me ages to get the correct link/hotfix for some reason.

Hope this helps someone.

Martin 




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FM9 Unstructured- Variables in Paragraph Designer are Gone

[Steve Johnson]

Source control?

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:52 AM, LaBarre, Susan
 wrote:
> The variables were there a couple of days ago on the numbering tab of 
> Paragraph Designer. I've shut down and restarted more than once.
>
> Anyone else experiencing this issue? Is this another one of the v9 bugs?
>
> Do I have to uninstall/reinstall to get them back?
>
> Still designing my template or I wouldn't care, but I do not remember all the 
> numbering variables by heart...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Susan
>
> Susan LaBarre
> Technology Support Analyst
> State of North Carolina
> Office of Information Technology Services (ITS)
> 3700 Wake Forest Road
> Raleigh, NC 27609
> (919)754-6174
> (919)754-6000 ITS Service Desk
> Susan.LaBarre at its.nc.gov
> http://www.its.state.nc.us/
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