Re: bugs in FM 9's conditional build expressions
Hi Joseph, Please provide Frame version, patches, and operating system details. Best, Baruch On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Joseph Lorenzini jalo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Recently my company has decided to release several different editions of the product we sell. This has forced me to create several conditional tags. The complexity of the conditional tags and how its applied in the document makes the use of build expressions highly desirable. However, it seems like this functionality is kinda buggy. Has anyone noticed the following: -you cannot import build expressions from one document to another. that's a killer. Is there some way around this aside from hand editing mif files? -deleting unused build expressions requires me to save the FM file as a MIF file, open the MIF file in a text editor, delete the conditional build expressions, and then save the MIF back to FM format. Is it honestly the case that Adobe didn't provide a delete button and this is the only way to get rid of expressions? -when i use a build expression, my condition indicators don't seem to work. Anyone have an idea why? Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as bar...@technitext.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/baruch%40technitext.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- B a r u c h B r o d e r s e n T e c h n i t e x t D o c u m e n t a t i o n 0 5 4 9 4 9 9 3 6 1 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Conref Issue in FrameMaker 8
Hi Salome, One way is to change the color of the condition tag named DITA Conref to black color. Open the Conditional text Pod after opening the DITA topic file. IN the Pod, you can edit the DITA Conref conditional tag to have black color by clicking the edit button of the pod. However this change will only be document specific. Thanks Vikash From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Abungu, Salome (TTI Mpls) Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 12:23 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Conref Issue in FrameMaker 8 Hi! I am running into a conref issue. I am using FrameMaker 8 to create my documents. When I insert a conref the text is blue. I want to be able to make PDF documents. However, when I generate a PDF of my document, the conref info is blue. I read in the FrameMaker help files that you can change this by changing the dita.template file. I don't even know how to do this. There are no instructions that I can find. I could generate PDFs and just set the print color to black. If I do this, my graphics will be black too. Quite a conundrum for me. Has anyone else run into this? What did you do? I have set my conrefs to load when I open a file. Any help is appreciated! Thank you! Salome _ Salome Abungu Technical Writer Engineering Services Department Thiele Technologies Phone: (612) 782-3617 E-mail: salome.abu...@thieletech.commailto:salome.abu...@thieletech.com P Go Green: Keep It on the Screen! Please do not print this email unless it is necessary. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Conref Issue in FrameMaker 8
If you make this change in the Book template file, it will apply to all of the documents generated. The template file is here (in a typical installation) .. C:\Program Files\Adobe\FrameMaker8\Structure\xml\DITA\app\DITA-Book-FM\book.template.fm Note that it's best to clone the default structure applications and create your own to customize rather than modifying the default apps. This allows you to make changes, and compare them to the default settings in case you break something (it will happen). The following topic describes this process .. http://docs.leximation.com/dita-fmx/1.1/?ditafmx_cloningtapps.html Note that this documentation was written for DITA-FMx, so it won't be exactly correct for use with the default FM8 DITA apps, but the general ideas will still apply. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Vikash Kumar wrote: Hi Salome, One way is to change the color of the condition tag named “DITA Conref” to black color. Open the Conditional text Pod after opening the DITA topic file. IN the Pod, you can edit the “DITA Conref” conditional tag to have black color by clicking the edit button of the pod. However this change will only be document specific. Thanks Vikash *From:* framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Abungu, Salome (TTI Mpls) *Sent:* Wednesday, May 25, 2011 12:23 AM *To:* framers@lists.frameusers.com *Subject:* Conref Issue in FrameMaker 8 Hi! I am running into a conref issue. I am using FrameMaker 8 to create my documents. When I insert a conref the text is blue. I want to be able to make PDF documents. However, when I generate a PDF of my document, the conref info is blue. I read in the FrameMaker help files that you can change this by changing the dita.template file. I don’t even know how to do this. There are no instructions that I can find. I could generate PDFs and just set the print color to black. If I do this, my graphics will be black too. Quite a conundrum for me. Has anyone else run into this? What did you do? I have set my conrefs to load when I open a file. Any help is appreciated! Thank you! Salome _ Salome Abungu Technical Writer Engineering Services Department Thiele Technologies Phone: (612) 782-3617 E-mail: salome.abu...@thieletech.com mailto:salome.abu...@thieletech.com P*/ /**/“Go Green: Keep It on the Screen!”/**/ /*Please do not print this email unless it is necessary./ / ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
