FrameMaker 5 problems
Dear Philip: I would advise running the Windows XP virtual machine within Windows 7, not just the compatibility mode. This is a download (free) Moreover, I would use .tifs for referenced files. I am not sure whether jpgs (so many new formats) will appear flawlessly in a Framemaker (so old). Hope this helps. The Virtual machine is VERY stable. I use it every day. Rob image001.jpg___ 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: Frame 10 crashes and corruption
Intex Xeon CPU E5405 @ 2.00GHz 1.99 GHz, 3.00 GB of Ram 11GB free on C: drive Files stored on network drive In my case, I found that a book file corrupted. I've also had random crashes and can't think of anything unusual I've done. I'd done nothing unusual - I tried to open a file within the book, and it crashed. Repeatedly. I went to a backup of the file, replaced the original file, and then tried opening it from the book again, and it crashed. I realized that my book file was corrupted, so I had to create a new one. My coworker gets random crashes, often when trying to do something with conditional text. I haven't had to work with conditional text as much, so I'm not seeing it. FM 10 also appears to be slow on my system - much more so than FM9. I've run both FM9 and FM10 on this same system. If I have a business case, I can request an upgrade to Win7. -Carla Files are legacy files that were updated from FM9 files. Some files have been MIF-washed in FM10, but not all. -Original Message- From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campb...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 3:34 PM To: Martinek, Carla Cc: Framers Subject: Re: Frame 10 crashes and corruption Could you give more details on your environment? Could you give some details on how much RAM, how much free space; are the FM files and graphics local or on a server, etc and what exactly do you mean by simple tasks? Are the files and books you're working with FM 10 files, or legacy files that you rolled forward from earlier releases? If they did come from earlier releases, did you MIF-wash the files in 10? For the record, on Win 7 32 and 64 systems with 4-8 G RAM, I don't remember the last time I had a 10 crash. Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com ... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl. -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 I support www.TheGrotonLine.com, hyperlocal news for Groton MA. On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Martinek, Carla cmarti...@zebra.com wrote: A couple of us here at work are experiencing repeated Frame 10 crashes and file corruptions while doing *simple* tasks. It so bad that one writer is considering saving all of her work back down to FM9 format and returning to that. Are others having the same problem? We're on WinXP SP3 with FM10.0.1.402. And, on a related note, although I'm sure the developers considered it a feature and not a bug that they introduced, I noticed that the sort order for para styles has been messed with. Again. NOW FM10 is sorting UPPERCASE letters prior to lowercase letters, whereas in FM9 it was lowercase then uppercase. I and a few others fought this battle during the FM9 beta, and as a result the SymbolSortingBeforeAlphaNumeric=On/Off parameter was added to the maker.ini file so you could specify your preferred sort order (in FM8 and older, symbols sorted before alpha/numeric - in FM9, they had them sorting afterwards, unless you changed the parameter.) Might not be a big issue to some people, but when you have shortcuts for the F8 and F9 keys built into your style names, it plays havoc with what styles are applied as compared to what you expect to be applied. -C - CONFIDENTIAL- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may also be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not review, use, copy, or distribute this message. If you receive this email in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply email and then delete this email. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as art.campb...@gmail.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/art.campbell%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ 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.
FrameMaker 10 and RoboHELP 9
Esteemed colleagues, Can anyone give me specific information about the supposed special relationship between Frame 10 and RoboHELP 9 that allow for single source authoring of a help system? If it exists, must it occur within the TCS? I have a large update project and it would be immensely easier with single source capability. Thanks in advance for any suggestions, info, etc. Tom Scalise Information Development Manager Office (561) 622-5416 Fax (561) 622-9938 thomas.scal...@crossmatch.commailto:thomas.scal...@crossmatch.com [Description: Description: Description: cid:image001.gif@01CBDF0D.2B428620]http://www.crossmatch.com/ This e-mail message from Cross Match Technologies, Inc. is intended only for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you received this e-mail by accident, please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail and all copies of it. inline: image001.gif___ 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: FrameMaker 10 and RoboHELP 9
The full integration works only within TCS. If you have FM10 and you have RH9, but not TCS, then you don't have the integration. When you have the TCS integration, you can write in FM and then click Publish to go directly to your RH outputs. The RH projects must be set up ahead of time, of course, which is not a trivial step, but you would have to do that in any event. So TCS3 is not a magic wand, but it is a time saver and error-reducer. Ymmv john From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Thomas Scalise Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 1:26 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: FrameMaker 10 and RoboHELP 9 Esteemed colleagues, Can anyone give me specific information about the supposed special relationship between Frame 10 and RoboHELP 9 that allow for single source authoring of a help system? If it exists, must it occur within the TCS? I have a large update project and it would be immensely easier with single source capability. Thanks in advance for any suggestions, info, etc. Tom Scalise Information Development Manager Office (561) 622-5416 Fax (561) 622-9938 thomas.scal...@crossmatch.com http://www.crossmatch.com/ This e-mail message from Cross Match Technologies, Inc. is intended only for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you received this e-mail by accident, please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail and all copies of it. -- image001.gif___ 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: warnings, cautions, notes in sw documentation
Hi, The general convention (which is based on an ISO standard whose number I can't recall offhand) is that a Warning indicates the danger of death or injury to people; a Caution indicates some lesser risk, such as a loss of data; and a Note indicates some additional parenthetical or interesting information. Many companies don't see the need to apply any external standards to their software documentation so, in the real world, that's the way we do it here trumps all other standards, ISO or otherwise. David On 1 August 2011 04:42, hessiansx4 hessian...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello all! I've noticed that the legacy docs I'm currently working on use notes and warnings (no cautions) for a software product. I asked why a warning was used instead of a caution and was told: that's the way we do it here. I've only used warnings when bodily harm could result from some action. How are those of y'all in the sw world doing it? ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as dfar...@yahoo.co.uk. 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/dfarbey%40yahoo.co.uk Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- David Farbey - da...@farbey.co.uk Mobile 07879 005 946 Web site/Blog http://www.farbey.co.uk Twitter http://twitter.com/dfarb LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/informationdesign ___ 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.
Indexable HTML Online Help
HI Folks, We have a project to get FrameMaker-based content topics out to the internet as an online help system without a lot of customization effort. *BUT* we want readers to be able to quickly and easily find specific topics that answer questions by searching on the internet using Google or any other search engine of their preference. This means that at a minimum. 1. The online help must be made up of straight HTML pages with no frame sets or iframes of any kind, so that the online help pages can be indexed by the popular search engines 2. Each topic must have its own url 3. There must be a way to: a. Input and manage meta data tags b. Control the meta data with a standardized taxonomy 4. Navigate the HTML pages 5. Link to related pages I understand that requirement 1 and 2 means that I cannot user RoboHelp as it uses framesets or iframes. Is there a way to use WebWorks Publisher, FrameMaker Export to HTML feature, or any other technique to address these requirements? If we want the content to stay in FrameMaker, would we have to author in FrameMaker and use DITA and the DITA OT to do this? Would love to hear your thoughts on this matter. Paula Toth Best Practices Lead / Single Sorceress TechProse mailto:pa...@techprose.com pa...@techprose.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulatoth http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulatoth ___ 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: warnings, cautions, notes in sw documentation
The definition of Danger, Warning, Caution is defined by several organizations. I typically follow the ANSI Z535 standard. ANSI 35 and 53 are referenced by OSHA. However, OSHA hasn't updated their references to reflect the fact that ANSI combined these 2 standards into Z535 many years ago. Mathieu has the Danger and Warning definitions correct. They currently discourage the use of Caution for equipment damage although it is still acceptable. There's a new version being published next month that I suspect will eliminate Caution as an acceptable term for equipment damage. David also mentioned a mil spec that defines the terms and I know that ISO also has standards possible injury, although they don't reference the different levels of injury. With the attempted harmonization between ISO and ANSI, this may be additional changes in the forthcoming update. So you need to know the standards that your industry (and country) reference and apply those standards to your documents. It is also good practice (required?) that you state those definitions in your document. Brian David Spreadbury dspre...@yahoo.com Sent by: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com 08/01/2011 08:28 AM To hessian...@yahoo.com, framers@lists.frameusers.com, mathieu jacquet bobi...@hotmail.com cc Subject RE: warnings, cautions, notes in sw documentation The use of Warnings, Cautions, and Notes, specifically Warnings and Cautions, are used differently in different technologies. Here are some links that may hep you to decide which use best fits your needs: http://www.techcommunicators.com/dkmanual/chap5015.html http://www.techcommunicators.com/emanuals/wrm/chap06/06-13_notes.htm http://www.stc-soc.org/quill/2004-05/warnings.html http://www.tpub.com/content/tentsshelters/TB-9-2320-360-13-P-2/TB-9-2320-360-13-P-20234.htm http://www.techwr-l.com/archives/0403/techwhirl-0403-00541.html http://goodtools.net/pages/SUNstyle/constr8.htm http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/op990/en/SM/SFF/GUID-EA258A9C-D5EA-43BE-9A44-E8B52A0E594F.html And MIL-STD-38784C states: WARNINGS : Highlights an essential operating or maintenance procedure, practice, condition, statement, etc, which, if not strictly observed, could result in injury to, or death of, personnel or long term health hazards. CAUTIONS: Highlights an essential operating or maintenance procedure, practice, condition, statement, etc, which, if not strictly observed, could result in damage to, or destruction of, equipment or loss of mission effectiveness. NOTE: Highlights an essential operating or maintenance procedure, condition, or statement. Another thing that most people don't adhere to is that WARNINGS should come before CAUTIONS, which should come before NOTES, when any two, or all three, may apply to the following paragraph or section. --- On Mon, 8/1/11, mathieu jacquet bobi...@hotmail.com wrote: From: mathieu jacquet bobi...@hotmail.com Subject: RE: warnings, cautions, notes in sw documentation To: hessian...@yahoo.com, framers@lists.frameusers.com Date: Monday, August 1, 2011, 5:33 AM Hi hessiansx4, Here is how we define them in our doc: . Warning mention (+ pictogram): WARNING indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided, can result in death or serious injury. . Caution mention (+ picto): CAUTION indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided, can result in minor or moderate injury. . Caution mention (without picto): CAUTION, used without the safety alert symbol, indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided, can result in equipment damage. We talk about equipment damage because our soft is used for remote equipment control. Mathieu. Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:42:37 -0700 From: hessian...@yahoo.com Subject: warnings, cautions, notes in sw documentation To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Hello all! I've noticed that the legacy docs I'm currently working on use notes and warnings (no cautions) for a software product. I asked why a warning was used instead of a caution and was told: that's the way we do it here. I've only used warnings when bodily harm could result from some action. How are those of y'all in the sw world doing it? ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as bemr...@phoenixcon.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/bemrich%40phoenixcon.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ 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
thanks for your assistance on Warnings, Cautions, Notes - this list rocks! EOM
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Spacebar Doesn't Always Create a Space
I'm enjoying a spiffy, new FM 9 template created for my group. It's great except for one quirk: The spacebar doesn't always create a space. Across all paragraph tags, hitting the spacebar does not create a space in the text at the cursor. If I place the cursor at the end of a word, and hit the spacebar, I'm simply moved to the next word but a space has not been created. If I place the cursor in the middle of a word and hit the spacebar, one space is created (creating two words), but additional taps on the spacebar do nothing. However, if I open a new FM document without importing the character tags from the new template, my spacebar works as it should within the default paragraph tags. Does anyone have any ideas? ___ 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.
Internal Error 10014 when generating toc/index
Hello, I'm using FrameMaker 10.0.1.402 on Windows 7. I have a very large book file - 30 files that total over 1000 pages. Track changes is enabled. All conditional text is shown. All cross-references are resolved. Sometimes, after generating the book, I will try to save it. I will then receive the error: Internal Error 10014, 6377587, 6370465, 6383969. FrameMaker has detected a serious problem and must quit. Please describe your recent actions and send this, along with the generated file, to fmer...@adobe.commailto:fmer...@adobe.com. Even if I then deleted the generated files, any time I would generate the book, and then try to save it, I would receive the error. At first, it happened when I added the TOC. Then, I was able to add and generate the TOC, but when I tried to use our template, the book crashed. I finally got that to work. Then, I added an index, and the book crashed when I tried to save it. Then, I could add the index, but when I imported reference and master pages, then generated the book and tried to save it, the book crashed. Today, I just opened the book, which had been fine last night, generated it, tried to save it, and the book crashed. I tried all sorts of things this evening, and sometimes the book crashed, sometimes it didn't. I have a very long file that details what I tried. I have it all working now, but I don't know why it works, and I don't know how long it will work. I saved to MIF, but a working book and non-working book are the same number of pages and the same number of characters. I've seen the Adobe support forum topic on this issue, and it doesn't apply here. Has anyone encountered this problem? Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be happening? Thank you! ~Robyn Robyn Chittister robyn.chittis...@calchamber.commailto:robyn.chittis...@calchamber.com Mobile: (925) 695-5710 ___ 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.
Immovable objects
Hello All FrameMaker 9.0 p255 on Windows Vista. Has anyone else had problems with pods or other objects that just won't move? I was working yesterday in an unstructured document, with the Paragraph Designer and the Paragraph Catalog open. Neither of these was docked - that is, they were overlying the document, and I believe my document was maximized. Neither of the dialogs would move. Dragging the top bar had no effect. Frustrating. Is this a FM9 bug, or a feature? Is there perhaps some secret combination of things that causes this (or more to the point, stops it)? Regards, Roger Roger Shuttleworth Technical Documentation AV-BASE Systems Inc. 1000 Air Ontario Drive, Suite 200 London, Ontario N5V 3S4 Tel. 519 691-0919 ext. 330___ 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: warnings, cautions, notes in sw documentation
All the answers I have seen so far seem to relate to HARDWARE. In a SOFTWARE context, I think it's much more common to use something like the following (this is my wording, so no official): Warning: an irrecoverable action (formatting a disk), permanent data loss or other action that may result in an irreversible change to the system (such as deleting a user account) or damage to the hardware Caution: an action that may seriously affect system performance (memory usage), make take an extremely long time (resulting in inability to use the system), may seriously affect the system integrity (like removing password control or disabling a firewall) or loss or changes as listed for a warning that are reversible. Note: an action that may result in inconvenience or confusion or, positively, actions that may make usage easier. Regards, Simon North Technical Writer, Quintiq. ___ 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.
Any way to hide unconditional text?
Hello again, Framers, (FrameMaker 9.0p255, Windows 7 64-bit.) Does the following make sense? Let's say we have 100 text inset files for use in various chapters of various books. Each TI file starts with this: Filename - Long system variable Creation Date - Short system variable Description Not a variable; a text description of the text inset file. Product Not a variable; an indication whether the text inset is app-specific or global. This information is conditionalized with the Metadata tag (which is used only here and nowhere else in any of the TI files). For reporting and versioning purposes, I want to copy and paste each text inset file into a file called TextInsets.fm. In this file, I want to show ONLY text bearing the Metadata tag. However, although I can hide all of the other condition tags, I can't hide unconditional text. (And I don't want to have to tag unconditional text with a condition called Unconditional, just to be able to hide it...!) Am I overlooking something obvious, or a better way to accomplish this? Thanks for any suggestions, ~~Gay _ Gay Alson Senior Technical Writer Epicor Retail www.epicor.com http://www.epicor.com Tel.: (514) 428-2116 Fax: (514) 426-0824 E-mail: gal...@epicor.com mailto:gal...@epicor.com Epicor (Incorporating NSB and CRS) 2800 Trans Canada Highway, Pointe Claire QC H9R 1T1 This e-mail is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use, disclose or distribute this e-mail without the author's prior permission. We have taken precautions to minimize the risk of transmitting software viruses, but we advise you to carry out your own virus checks on any attachment to this message. We cannot accept liability for any loss or damage caused by software viruses. Le present courriel est envoye a l'intention exclusive de son ou de ses destinataires. Si vous avez recu ce courriel par erreur, veuillez en aviser immediatement l'expediteur et supprimer ce message. Si vous n'etes pas le destinataire vise, nous vous informons que toute utilisation, divulgation ou distribution de cette communication est strictement interdite sans la permission prealable de l'auteur. Des precautions ont ete prises afin de reduire au maximum le risque de transmission de virus informatique, mais nous tenons a vous conseiller de proceder a vos propres verifications antivirus de toute piece jointe a ce message. Aucune responsabilite ne sera assumee a la suite de toute perte ou de tout dommage causes par des virus. This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com ___ 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.
FrameMaker 10 to PDF making Funky Bookmarks
I have both portrait and landscape .fm files in my book. I've seen the postings about not using Save As PDF and also about making sure tagging is turned on. I've now discovered a new issue... The Bookmarks in the PDF for the Landscape pages show up as a sublist of the previous chapter. Example: Chapter 1: ABC (portrait chapter) 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Next Heading 1 Chapter 2: DEF (landscape chapter) Chapter 3: GHI (protrait chapter) They use the same Heading tags in the .fm files. Anyone know how to fix this one? Thanks in advance, Trish ___ 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.
adding icon to FM para tag?
We're using FM 8 (unstructured). One of the writers is working on a method to automatically add an icon to Warnings and Notes using a Wingdings-like font. I think there's another way to handle this but cannot remember the specifics. Any suggestions for how to do this? btw, we currently use a single tag for both Head + Body. TIA ___ 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.
FrameMaker 5 problems
Dear Philip: I would advise running the Windows XP virtual machine within Windows 7, not just the compatibility mode. This is a download (free) Moreover, I would use .tifs for referenced files. I am not sure whether jpgs (so many new formats) will appear flawlessly in a Framemaker (so old). Hope this helps. The Virtual machine is VERY stable. I use it every day. Rob -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110803/e79bd316/attachment.html> -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 7023 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110803/e79bd316/attachment.jpe>
Frame 10 crashes and corruption
Intex Xeon CPU E5405 @ 2.00GHz 1.99 GHz, 3.00 GB of Ram 11GB free on C: drive Files stored on network drive In my case, I found that a book file corrupted. I've also had random crashes and can't think of anything unusual I've done. I'd done nothing unusual - I tried to open a file within the book, and it crashed. Repeatedly. I went to a backup of the file, replaced the original file, and then tried opening it from the book again, and it crashed. I realized that my book file was corrupted, so I had to create a new one. My coworker gets random crashes, often when trying to do something with conditional text. I haven't had to work with conditional text as much, so I'm not seeing it. FM 10 also appears to be slow on my system - much more so than FM9. I've run both FM9 and FM10 on this same system. If I have a business case, I can request an upgrade to Win7. -Carla Files are legacy files that were updated from FM9 files. Some files have been MIF-washed in FM10, but not all. -Original Message- From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campb...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 3:34 PM To: Martinek, Carla Cc: Framers Subject: Re: Frame 10 crashes and corruption Could you give more details on your environment? Could you give some details on how much RAM, how much free space; are the FM files and graphics local or on a server, etc and what exactly do you mean by "simple tasks"? Are the files and books you're working with FM 10 files, or legacy files that you rolled forward from earlier releases? If they did come from earlier releases, did you MIF-wash the files in 10? For the record, on Win 7 32 and 64 systems with 4-8 G RAM, I don't remember the last time I had a 10 crash. Art Campbell ? ? ? ? ? ? ? art.campbell at gmail.com ? "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? No disclaimers apply. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? DoD 358 I support www.TheGrotonLine.com, hyperlocal news for Groton MA. On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Martinek, Carla wrote: > A couple of us here at work are experiencing repeated Frame 10 crashes and > file corruptions while doing *simple* tasks. It so bad that one writer is > considering saving all of her work back down to FM9 format and returning to > that. > > Are others having the same problem? > > We're on WinXP SP3 with FM10.0.1.402. > > And, on a related note, although I'm sure the developers considered it a > "feature" and not a "bug" that they introduced, I noticed that the sort order > for para styles has been messed with. ? ? ? ? Again. ? ? ? ? ? NOW FM10 is > sorting UPPERCASE letters prior to lowercase letters, whereas in FM9 it was > lowercase then uppercase. > > I and a few others fought this battle during the FM9 beta, and as a result > the SymbolSortingBeforeAlphaNumeric=On/Off parameter was added to the > maker.ini file so you could specify your preferred sort order (in FM8 and > older, symbols sorted before alpha/numeric - in FM9, they had them sorting > afterwards, unless you changed the parameter.) > > Might not be a big issue to some people, but when you have shortcuts for the > F8 and F9 keys built into your style names, it plays havoc with what styles > are applied as compared to what you expect to be applied. > > -C > > > - CONFIDENTIAL- > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may also > be legally privileged. ?If you are not the intended recipient, you may not > review, use, copy, or distribute this message. If you receive this email in > error, please notify the sender immediately by reply email and then delete > this email. > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as art.campbell at gmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/art.campbell%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >
FrameMaker 10 and RoboHELP 9
Esteemed colleagues, Can anyone give me specific information about the supposed special relationship between Frame 10 and RoboHELP 9 that allow for single source authoring of a help system? If it exists, must it occur within the TCS? I have a large update project and it would be immensely easier with single source capability. Thanks in advance for any suggestions, info, etc. Tom Scalise Information Development Manager Office (561) 622-5416 Fax (561) 622-9938 thomas.scalise at crossmatch.com<mailto:thomas.scalise at crossmatch.com> [Description: Description: Description: cid:image001.gif at 01CBDF0D.2B428620]<http://www.crossmatch.com/> This e-mail message from Cross Match Technologies, Inc. is intended only for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you received this e-mail by accident, please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail and all copies of it. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110803/106189ba/attachment.html> -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.gif Type: image/gif Size: 2095 bytes Desc: image001.gif URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110803/106189ba/attachment.gif>
FrameMaker 10 and RoboHELP 9
The full integration works only within TCS. If you have FM10 and you have RH9, but not TCS, then you don't have the integration. When you have the TCS integration, you can write in FM and then click Publish to go directly to your RH outputs. The RH projects must be set up ahead of time, of course, which is not a trivial step, but you would have to do that in any event. So TCS3 is not a magic wand, but it is a time saver and error-reducer. Ymmv john From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Thomas Scalise Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 1:26 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: FrameMaker 10 and RoboHELP 9 Esteemed colleagues, Can anyone give me specific information about the supposed special relationship between Frame 10 and RoboHELP 9 that allow for single source authoring of a help system? If it exists, must it occur within the TCS? I have a large update project and it would be immensely easier with single source capability. Thanks in advance for any suggestions, info, etc. Tom Scalise Information Development Manager Office (561) 622-5416 Fax (561) 622-9938 thomas.scalise at crossmatch.com <http://www.crossmatch.com/> This e-mail message from Cross Match Technologies, Inc. is intended only for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you received this e-mail by accident, please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail and all copies of it. -- -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110803/f6040d1b/attachment.html> -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 2095 bytes Desc: image001.gif URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110803/f6040d1b/attachment.gif>
Indexable HTML Online Help
HI Folks, We have a project to get FrameMaker-based content topics out to the internet as an online help system without a lot of customization effort. *BUT* we want readers to be able to quickly and easily find specific topics that answer questions by searching on the internet using Google or any other search engine of their preference. This means that at a minimum. 1. The online help must be made up of straight HTML pages with no frame sets or iframes of any kind, so that the online help pages can be indexed by the popular search engines 2. Each topic must have its own url 3. There must be a way to: a. Input and manage meta data tags b. Control the meta data with a standardized taxonomy 4. Navigate the HTML pages 5. Link to related pages I understand that requirement 1 and 2 means that I cannot user RoboHelp as it uses framesets or iframes. Is there a way to use WebWorks Publisher, FrameMaker Export to HTML feature, or any other technique to address these requirements? If we want the content to stay in FrameMaker, would we have to author in FrameMaker and use DITA and the DITA OT to do this? Would love to hear your thoughts on this matter. Paula Toth Best Practices Lead / Single Sorceress TechProse <mailto:paula at techprose.com> paula at techprose.com <http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulatoth> http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulatoth -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110803/644f2775/attachment.html>
FrameMaker 10 to PDF making Funky Bookmarks
I have both portrait and landscape .fm files in my book.? I've seen the postings about not using Save As PDF and also about making sure tagging is turned on.? I've now discovered a new issue... The Bookmarks in the PDF for the Landscape pages show up as a sublist of the previous chapter. Example: Chapter 1: ABC (portrait chapter) 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Next Heading 1 Chapter 2: DEF (landscape chapter) Chapter 3: GHI (protrait chapter) They use the same Heading tags in the .fm files. Anyone know how to fix this one? Thanks in advance, Trish
adding icon to FM para tag?
We're using FM 8 (unstructured). One of the writers is working on a method to automatically add an icon to Warnings and Notes using a Wingdings-like font. I think there's another way to handle this but cannot remember the specifics. Any suggestions for how to do this? btw, we currently use a single tag for?both Head + Body.? TIA
Spacebar Doesn't Always Create a Space
You have Smart Spaces enabled ... this is how I want to use FrameMaker. This is how I avoid extra spaces between words. You can disable this setting and then add extra spaces ... but that is not necessarily what you may want! Also, to insert extra spaces when you still have Smart Spaces enabled, you can insert special fixed-width spaces using key characters - try "ESC space m" for example . This is described in the documentation ... Z From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Michalak, Patricia S (APHIS) Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 12:00 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Spacebar Doesn't Always Create a Space I'm enjoying a spiffy, new FM 9 template created for my group. It's great except for one quirk: The spacebar doesn't always create a space. Across all paragraph tags, hitting the spacebar does not create a space in the text at the cursor. If I place the cursor at the end of a word, and hit the spacebar, I'm simply moved to the next word but a space has not been created. If I place the cursor in the middle of a word and hit the spacebar, one space is created (creating two words), but additional taps on the spacebar do nothing. However, if I open a new FM document without importing the character tags from the new template, my spacebar works as it should within the default paragraph tags. Does anyone have any ideas? -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110803/26ec9ce5/attachment.html>
