date:20110804

I'd recommend WebWorks ePublisher's Reverb output. You can test drive a 
trial version 
(http://www.webworks.com/Products/ePublisher/Free_Trial/default.shtm). 
ePublisher ingests Word, FrameMaker (unstructured), and DITA XML. You 
can even mix all three sources into one project.


Nadine

On 03/08/2011 11:08 AM, Paula Toth wrote:


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.

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Re: adding icon to FM para tag?

2011-08-04 Thread MamaRed

I've actually done this different ways (in 7.x), depending on what the
desired look is. One way was to create a paired set of tags: one holds the
graphic, the other the alert text.

ANother was a preconfigured table that had the graphic and the appropriate
color stored as part of the table format.

I would be happy to share details...and if this wasn't what you were looking
for, didn't want to waste your time. Let me know!

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 We're using FM 8 (unstructured). One of the writers is working on a method
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 automatically add an icon to Warnings and Notes using a Wingdings-like
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 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
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Accessing a DLL file

2011-08-04 Thread George, Brenda (CAI)

I need to change the width of tables in FrameMaker files. The files are flowed 
as xml files into FrameMaker. These tablewidths have to be changed in the .dll 
file that FrameMaker looks for when files are flowed. These widths can't be 
changed in a FrameMaker template or through the edd file. The .dll file will 
override these settings.

I have never changed data in a .dll file. Is there freeware that I can download 
and use to view the code in the .dll file and then edit it?

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PDF Shared Review problems

2011-08-04 Thread rinch

I'm using TCS2 on a Dell Precision T3500 Workstation running Windows 7 
Professional SP1 32-bit  with 4 GB Memory, Xeon 2.53 GHz processor, 
graphics card is a NVIDIA Quadro 4000 (2 GB) running two 20 widescreen 
monitors.

I author in FM 9.0p255 then create a PDF in Acrobat 9 Pro Extended 9.4.5 
and send the PDF out for shared review on internal network public server. 
The PDF shared review process has been working great for, hmm, a year or 
more (I got TCS2 soon after it was released). 

Recently, I've been having problems with new comments not posting even 
after author's selected Publish Comments. 

This morning I'm missing comments that I know were successfully posted in 
the share reviewed PDF yesterday.

Asking reviewers to update their version of Acrobat 8 and higher (Open 
Acrobat and perform Help  Check for updates...  then installing any 
updates) fixes the new comments not posting problem. However, after 
updating, reviewers get upset when I also ask them to redo their comments. 


Not seeing comments that I know were there previously scares me.

This is all a bit odd, since PDF shared review has behaved perfectly until 
recently. Even when I went from XP to Win7 on a new computer a few months 
back, PDF shared review continued to work great. 

Since having the reviewers Help  Check for updates... in their copy of 
Acrobat 8+  seems to fix posting new comments, I suspect some recent Adobe 
or Windows upgrade changed the playing field, so to speak. 

Anyone else seeing problems like mine? What do you think the problem is?

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Re: Spacebar Doesn't Always Create a Space

2011-08-04 Thread Stuart Rogers


On 01/08/2011 2:59 PM, Michalak, Patricia S (APHIS) wrote:

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.
...



Does anyone have any ideas?



Format  Document  Text Options

Clear the Smart Spaces checkbox, and you'll be able to add all the 
unnecessary spaces you want...  ;-)


HTH,

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Internal Error 10014 when saving book file after generating

2011-08-04 Thread Chittister, Robyn

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

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AW: warnings, cautions, notes in sw documentation

2011-08-04 Thread Maike Roeder

Hi Simon,

I really like your interpretation. I'm also dealing with Software Manuals and 
wrote Hardware Manuals before, so I'm sort of having the same problem. Are 
there any official rules (similar to ANSI Z535) for software documentation?

- Maike


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Betreff: 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.

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Re: Any way to hide unconditional text?

Hello Gay

One idea is to use multiple flows for your text insets. A FM document can have 
up to (I think) 256 different flows, each having a unique name. You could have 
each text inset in a different flow, but put your metadata in the main flow 
(A). Then when you import the text inset, you select the flow that you want to 
import (try it and see!). If you name your flows appropriately, it should be 
clear which flow you want to import.

Depending on the size of your insets, you may want to use either one file or 
split them across several files in order to limit file size.

That's one idea that comes to mind...

Hope this helps.

Roger

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From: Gay Alson [mailto:gal...@epicor.com]
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:08:22 -0400
Subject: 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

 

 

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Re: adding icon to FM para tag?

Hi

Apart from the autonumbering approach that you are already using, you can use 
any of the following methods:


* Use a two-cell table, with the left cell containing a graphic. The para 
format used in the left cell should use the Frame Above or Frame Below setting 
(in the Paragraph Designer), attaching an image that is stored on the reference 
page.
* Instead of a table, just use the Frame Above or Frame Below setting (in the 
Paragraph Designer) to reference a graphic frame stored on the reference page. 
Tweak the Space Above and Space Below settings according to preference. You 
will need a second para tag without the graphic for any alerts that use more 
than one paragraph.
* Use two para formats: one with an attached graphic and set to Run-In Heading, 
the other for your text. I've never tried this but is sounds doable.


There are pros and cons for each method. (Method 3 has mostly cons, I think!)

If you go with the table method, you might look at the AutoText plugin from 
http://siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html. Using that, you can create the 
table once, then add it to an AutoText menu from which you can insert it very 
quickly.

There used to be a M document circulating that gave very clear instructions for 
these methods, but I have not seen it for a few years. I first saw it in the 
days of FM 5. I believe it was called Alerts and Warnings or something like 
that.

Hope this helps.
Roger


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Subject: 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 
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Re: AW: FrameMaker 10 and RoboHELP 9

I believe what Winfried says is correct. The purpose of the integration 
provided in TCS is to give a live connection between your FM book and 
RoboHelp, so that if the book contents change, RH knows about it. In that case 
your RH project is *linked* to the FM book. Without TCS, you simply import the 
book into RH and forego the dynamic link that TCS gives.

I applaud your desire to single-source. You should also look at alternative 
solutions such as WebWorks ePublisher, Flare, and MIF2Go, as well as the TCS. 
TCS includes other applications that you may or may not want to spend money on. 

HTH!
Roger

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To: John Sgammato [mailto:jsgamm...@imprivata.com], Thomas Scalise 
[mailto:thomas.scal...@crossmatch.com], framers@lists.frameusers.com 
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Sent: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 02:52:44 -0400
Subject: AW: FrameMaker 10 and RoboHELP 9




Hi,

 

I don‘ t have RoboHelp or the TCS. However, as far as I know 

RoboHelp can process FrameMaker books whether it’s integrated

in the TCS or not. The only advantage of the TCS is that you can 

start the conversion from within FrameMaker.

Otherwise you must manually direct RoboHelp to the folder with

the FrameMaker book.

 

Best regards

 

Winfried

 




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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] Im Auftrag von John Sgammato
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. August 2011 21:10
An: Thomas Scalise; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Betreff: 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  

 



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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.

 

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Information Development Manager

Office (561) 622-5416

Fax (561) 622-9938

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RE: Any way to hide unconditional text?

Hi Roger –

 

What an interesting suggestion.  I had never worked with text flows before, but 
after your e-mail, I created a text flow tag called Metadata containing the 
four fields I mentioned earlier and I imported only that flow into the “master” 
file that was designed to display only the metadata info from each text inset 
file.

 

You’re right – it works!

 

You mentioned putting each text inset file in a different flow, up to 256. But 
as we may end up with several hundred text inset files over time, it occurred 
to me to try it the other way ‘round: That is, to see if the main contents of 
each text inset file could remain in Flow Tag A, with only the four-line 
metadata in a separate flow. (Which means dealing only with two text flows 
instead of many.) That’s what I tried and it does work, at least in my first 
experiments. Can you think of any reason NOT to continue with that? I also 
wasn’t sure about where to place the new text frame containing the Metadata 
Flow Tag, so I inserted it in the upper left of my regular Flow A.  I had my 
doubts whether FM would permit a text flow within the frame of the larger Flow 
A but it seems to be okay.

 

Thank you so much for your creative approach to this – do my changes make sense 
or might I have paved the way for future problems due to my lack of familiarity 
with this new feature?

 

Thanks again,

~~Gay

 

From: Roger Shuttleworth [mailto:rshuttlewo...@avbasesystems.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 8:51 AM
To: Gay Alson
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Any way to hide unconditional text?

 

Hello Gay

One idea is to use multiple flows for your text insets. A FM document can have 
up to (I think) 256 different flows, each having a unique name. You could have 
each text inset in a different flow, but put your metadata in the main flow 
(A). Then when you import the text inset, you select the flow that you want to 
import (try it and see!). If you name your flows appropriately, it should be 
clear which flow you want to import.

Depending on the size of your insets, you may want to use either one file or 
split them across several files in order to limit file size.

That's one idea that comes to mind...

Hope this helps.

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





From: Gay Alson [mailto:gal...@epicor.com]
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:08:22 -0400
Subject: 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

 

 

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Any way to disable hover bubbles?

2011-08-04 Thread Harding, Daniel B

Framemaker 10, Windows 7 64-bit.

Is there any way to disable those annoying hover bubbles that appear any time 
your mouse crosses a control or input field? They obscure what is underneath 
them, and worse, depending on what you're doing or what the bubbles are 
displayed over, they won't go away for several seconds even after the mouse is 
moved.

Frame needs to stop helping me to death... it's becoming more and more a 
Microsoft product with every passing day...

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RE: Any way to hide unconditional text?

Hello Gay

Not creative, just a grateful reader of other people's suggestions over the 
years ;^)
  
  I have in fact used the method described in years past, with entirely 
satisfactory results.

Others may chime in with better suggestions or refinements, but what you are 
doing sounds fine. On a technical point, FrameMaker does not mind where you 
place your text frame, since it is not in the larger flow A anyway. It 
*overlies* your flow A when you view your document, but that's just a visual 
effect caused by the master page design for flow A. If you want, you could 
modify your flow A master page(s) to accommodate space for your Metadata flow. 
It's entirely up to you. When you import the contents of a flow into another 
document as an inset, you can choose to disregard the layout of the imported 
flow in favour of the layout of the container document (I think that's 
correct; it's a long time since I used insets).

Roger

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AV-BASE Systems Inc.
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London, Ontario
N5V 3S4
Tel. 519 691-0919 ext. 330
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From: Gay Alson [mailto:gal...@epicor.com]
To: Roger Shuttleworth [mailto:rshuttlewo...@avbasesystems.com]
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:59:16 -0400
Subject: RE: Any way to hide unconditional text?





Hi Roger –

 

What an interesting suggestion.  I had never worked with text flows before, but 
after your e-mail, I created a text flow tag called Metadata containing the 
four fields I mentioned earlier and I imported only that flow into the “master” 
file that was designed to display only the metadata info from each text inset 
file.

 

You’re right – it works!

 

You mentioned putting each text inset file in a different flow, up to 256. But 
as we may end up with several hundred text inset files over time, it occurred 
to me to try it the other way ‘round: That is, to see if the main contents of 
each text inset file could remain in Flow Tag A, with only the four-line 
metadata in a separate flow. (Which means dealing only with two text flows 
instead of many.) That’s what I tried and it does work, at least in my first 
experiments. Can you think of any reason NOT to continue with that? I also 
wasn’t sure about where to place the new text frame containing the Metadata 
Flow Tag, so I inserted it in the upper left of my regular Flow A.  I had my 
doubts whether FM would permit a text flow within the frame of the larger Flow 
A but it seems to be okay.

 

Thank you so much for your creative approach to this – do my changes make sense 
or might I have paved the way for future problems due to my lack of familiarity 
with this new feature?

 

Thanks again,

~~Gay

 



From: Roger Shuttleworth [mailto:rshuttlewo...@avbasesystems.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 8:51 AM
To: Gay Alson
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Any way to hide unconditional text?

 

Hello Gay

One idea is to use multiple flows for your text insets. A FM document can have 
up to (I think) 256 different flows, each having a unique name. You could have 
each text inset in a different flow, but put your metadata in the main flow 
(A). Then when you import the text inset, you select the flow that you want to 
import (try it and see!). If you name your flows appropriately, it should be 
clear which flow you want to import.

Depending on the size of your insets, you may want to use either one file or 
split them across several files in order to limit file size.

That's one idea that comes to mind...

Hope this helps.

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


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From: Gay Alson [mailto:gal...@epicor.com]
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:08:22 -0400
Subject: 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

RE: Any way to hide unconditional text?

2011-08-04 Thread Fred Ridder


Gay Alson wrote:
 




You mentioned putting each text inset file in a different flow, up to 256. But 
as we may end up with several hundred text inset files over time, it occurred 
to me to try it the other way ‘round: That is, to see if the main contents of 
each text inset file could remain in Flow Tag A, with only the four-line 
metadata in a separate flow. (Which means dealing only with two text flows 
instead of many.) That’s what I tried and it does work, at least in my first 
experiments. Can you think of any reason NOT to continue with that? I also 
wasn’t sure about where to place the new text frame containing the Metadata 
Flow Tag, so I inserted it in the upper left of my regular Flow A.  I had my 
doubts whether FM would permit a text flow within the frame of the larger Flow 
A but it seems to be okay.
 
No, this will *not* work for your purposes. When you reference a text inset 
file from a container file, you specify which flow to import from. If all the 
content chunks are in Flow A, then all you will ever be able to do is include 
*all* the content chunks each time you do an insert from that TI file. The 
whole point of putting the content chunks in separate, named flows is to be 
able to reference them as separate content objects. It doesn't matter if all 
your meta-data text is in the same flow, because you will never need to insert 
those chunks individually into another document.
 
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RE: PDF Shared Review problems

2011-08-04 Thread Lief Erickson

Hi Richard--

I'm not going to be much help, but are sure the comments are gone? All 
reviewers when they open a shared review PDF have a .xml file created for them 
in the PDF's comments directory on the shared review server. You could look in 
that file to see if the comments are truly gone or if it's another problem. If 
the comments are not in that file, then they're gone. If they are, then it's a 
different issue (not that I know what it would be). 

If your PDF is called Chapter1_review.pdf you'll have a corresponding folder 
that's something like: Chapter1_review.pdf_f377ba938213ad932kdaf9321929dekli74. 
It's in this folder where the reviewers comments stored in an XML file specific 
to each reviewer.

-Lief

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Subject: PDF Shared Review problems

I'm using TCS2 on a Dell Precision T3500 Workstation running Windows 7 
Professional SP1 32-bit  with 4 GB Memory, Xeon 2.53 GHz processor, 
graphics card is a NVIDIA Quadro 4000 (2 GB) running two 20 widescreen 
monitors.

I author in FM 9.0p255 then create a PDF in Acrobat 9 Pro Extended 9.4.5 
and send the PDF out for shared review on internal network public server. 
The PDF shared review process has been working great for, hmm, a year or 
more (I got TCS2 soon after it was released). 

Recently, I've been having problems with new comments not posting even 
after author's selected Publish Comments. 

This morning I'm missing comments that I know were successfully posted in 
the share reviewed PDF yesterday.

Asking reviewers to update their version of Acrobat 8 and higher (Open 
Acrobat and perform Help  Check for updates...  then installing any 
updates) fixes the new comments not posting problem. However, after 
updating, reviewers get upset when I also ask them to redo their comments. 


Not seeing comments that I know were there previously scares me.

This is all a bit odd, since PDF shared review has behaved perfectly until 
recently. Even when I went from XP to Win7 on a new computer a few months 
back, PDF shared review continued to work great. 

Since having the reviewers Help  Check for updates... in their copy of 
Acrobat 8+  seems to fix posting new comments, I suspect some recent Adobe 
or Windows upgrade changed the playing field, so to speak. 

Anyone else seeing problems like mine? What do you think the problem is?

Richard

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RE: Spacebar Doesn't Always Create a Space

2011-08-04 Thread Flato, Gillian

Stuart,

Check with your IT department. Make sure permissions haven't been changed on 
the network server. That caused me a ton of problems with receiving comments.

Thank you,
 

Gillian Flato
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nanometrics
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Subject: Re: Spacebar Doesn't Always Create a Space

On 01/08/2011 2:59 PM, Michalak, Patricia S (APHIS) wrote:
 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.
...

 Does anyone have any ideas?


Format  Document  Text Options

Clear the Smart Spaces checkbox, and you'll be able to add all the 
unnecessary spaces you want...  ;-)

HTH,

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Re: Accessing a DLL file

2011-08-04 Thread Scott Prentice


Hi George...

Presumably you're talking about an FDK client DLL? Unless you've got the 
source code or it was set up to read data from some sort of support file 
(INI or otherwise), you're probably out of luck. Is this a custom DLL 
that was created for you? You'll probably need to contact the developer 
to get the source or to request that it be modified. DLLs aren't like 
resource files that can be modified.


...scott

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George, Brenda (CAI) wrote:


I need to change the width of tables in FrameMaker files. The files 
are flowed as xml files into FrameMaker. These tablewidths have to be 
changed in the .dll file that FrameMaker looks for when files are 
flowed. These widths can’t be changed in a FrameMaker template or 
through the edd file. The .dll file will override these settings.


I have never changed data in a .dll file. Is there freeware that I can 
download and use to view the code in the .dll file and then edit it?


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RE: Any way to hide unconditional text?

2011-08-04 Thread Combs, Richard

Gay Alson wrote: 
 
 You mentioned putting each text inset file in a different flow, up to
 256. But as we may end up with several hundred text inset files over
 time, it occurred to me to try it the other way ‘round: That is, to see
 if the main contents of each text inset file could remain in Flow Tag
 A, with only the four-line metadata in a separate flow. (Which means
 dealing only with two text flows instead of many.) That’s what I tried
 and it does work, at least in my first experiments. Can you think of
 any reason NOT to continue with that? 

No, that won't work. Each text inset that you import must be a complete flow. 
If all your text inset source files are concatenated into one flow, when you 
import into the destination file, you'll get the entire shebang. 

The only way to combine multiple text insets into one file is to put each in 
its own flow. Then when you import, FM prompts you to choose which flow you 
want. 

I believe the limit on text flows per file is more than 256, but can't locate 
any hard number (there may not be one). Personally, I'd never put hundreds of 
text insets in a single file just because it's not a user-friendly way to 
organize things. I'd instead create a text insets book. Within that, I'd put 
the text insets into several files based on some logical organizing principle 
-- subject matter, purpose, etc. -- so that it's easy to find things, work with 
related topics, etc.

 I also wasn’t sure about where to
 place the new text frame containing the Metadata Flow Tag, so I
 inserted it in the upper left of my regular Flow A.  I had my doubts
 whether FM would permit a text flow within the frame of the larger Flow
 A but it seems to be okay.

You can't insert a text frame directly into another text frame. I'm guessing 
that you just placed it on top of the Flow A text frame (try moving/resizing 
that, and you'll probably find that the Metadata frame isn't affected). 

You can put a text frame inside another text frame _indirectly_ by creating an 
anchored frame and then creating a text frame inside that. If you have a bunch 
of short (less than a page) text insets, this would be an easy way to organize 
them. Put the metadata into the main flow, with a nearly page-filling anchored 
frame below each set of metadata. In each anchored frame, create a text frame, 
give it a unique flow name, and insert the text inset text. 

I don't think this approach is workable for longer text insets because I don't 
believe you can connect text frames that are in different anchored frames. 
Maybe you could connect the text frame inside the anchored frame to a text 
frame on a disconnected page -- I don't know. 

If your text insets are longer than a page, a better approach would be to use 
separate text frames for the metadata flow and the text insets. It will get 
somewhat fussy to set up and maintain, though (especially if there were a lot 
of churn in the content and length of the text insets). I'd keep the number per 
file fairly low (and use a book of text insets, as I mentioned before). 

HTH!

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Editing class for technical writer

2011-08-04 Thread Krishna Mukherjee


 
Hi,
 
Can anyone suggest a short course on editing/proof-reading in San Jose area or 
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RE: Any way to hide unconditional text?

Hi Roger,

I, too, am a “grateful reader of other people’s suggestions” – now including 
yours  ;-)

Unless someone else comes up with a different solution, I’ll continue 
implementing the text flow idea. If I should run into a show-stopper, I’ll 
certainly post it!

Have a good day and thank you again,

~~Gay

 

From: Roger Shuttleworth [mailto:rshuttlewo...@avbasesystems.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 11:02 AM
To: Gay Alson
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Any way to hide unconditional text?

 

Hello Gay

Not creative, just a grateful reader of other people's suggestions over the 
years ;^)

I have in fact used the method described in years past, with entirely 
satisfactory results.

Others may chime in with better suggestions or refinements, but what you are 
doing sounds fine. On a technical point, FrameMaker does not mind where you 
place your text frame, since it is not in the larger flow A anyway. It 
*overlies* your flow A when you view your document, but that's just a visual 
effect caused by the master page design for flow A. If you want, you could 
modify your flow A master page(s) to accommodate space for your Metadata flow. 
It's entirely up to you. When you import the contents of a flow into another 
document as an inset, you can choose to disregard the layout of the imported 
flow in favour of the layout of the container document (I think that's 
correct; it's a long time since I used insets).

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





From: Gay Alson [mailto:gal...@epicor.com]
To: Roger Shuttleworth [mailto:rshuttlewo...@avbasesystems.com]
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:59:16 -0400
Subject: RE: Any way to hide unconditional text?

Hi Roger –

 

What an interesting suggestion.  I had never worked with text flows before, but 
after your e-mail, I created a text flow tag called Metadata containing the 
four fields I mentioned earlier and I imported only that flow into the “master” 
file that was designed to display only the metadata info from each text inset 
file.

 

You’re right – it works!

 

You mentioned putting each text inset file in a different flow, up to 256. But 
as we may end up with several hundred text inset files over time, it occurred 
to me to try it the other way ‘round: That is, to see if the main contents of 
each text inset file could remain in Flow Tag A, with only the four-line 
metadata in a separate flow. (Which means dealing only with two text flows 
instead of many.) That’s what I tried and it does work, at least in my first 
experiments. Can you think of any reason NOT to continue with that? I also 
wasn’t sure about where to place the new text frame containing the Metadata 
Flow Tag, so I inserted it in the upper left of my regular Flow A.  I had my 
doubts whether FM would permit a text flow within the frame of the larger Flow 
A but it seems to be okay.

 

Thank you so much for your creative approach to this – do my changes make sense 
or might I have paved the way for future problems due to my lack of familiarity 
with this new feature?

 

Thanks again,

~~Gay

 

From: Roger Shuttleworth [mailto:rshuttlewo...@avbasesystems.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 8:51 AM
To: Gay Alson
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Any way to hide unconditional text?

 

Hello Gay

One idea is to use multiple flows for your text insets. A FM document can have 
up to (I think) 256 different flows, each having a unique name. You could have 
each text inset in a different flow, but put your metadata in the main flow 
(A). Then when you import the text inset, you select the flow that you want to 
import (try it and see!). If you name your flows appropriately, it should be 
clear which flow you want to import.

Depending on the size of your insets, you may want to use either one file or 
split them across several files in order to limit file size.

That's one idea that comes to mind...

Hope this helps.

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






From: Gay Alson [mailto:gal...@epicor.com]
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:08:22 -0400
Subject: 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

RE: Any way to hide unconditional text?

Fred is right, of course. I was assuming that you would have a separate file 
for each inset, not all your insets in a single flow.

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
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To: gal...@epicor.com, rshuttlewo...@avbasesystems.com
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:49:53 -0400
Subject: RE: Any way to hide unconditional text?


  Gay Alson wrote:
 
  

  
  

You mentioned putting each text inset file in a different flow, up to 256. But 
as we may end up with several hundred text inset files over time, it occurred 
to me to try it the other way ‘round: That is, to see if the main contents of 
each text inset file could remain in Flow Tag A, with only the four-line 
metadata in a separate flow. (Which means dealing only with two text flows 
instead of many.) That’s what I tried and it does work, at least in my first 
experiments. Can you think of any reason NOT to continue with that? I also 
wasn’t sure about where to place the new text frame containing the Metadata 
Flow Tag, so I inserted it in the upper left of my regular Flow A.  I had my 
doubts whether FM would permit a text flow within the frame of the larger Flow 
A but it seems to be okay.  

   

No, this will *not* work for your purposes. When you reference a text inset 
file from a container file, you specify which flow to import from. If all the 
content chunks are in Flow A, then all you will ever be able to do is include 
*all* the content chunks each time you do an insert from that TI file. The 
whole point of putting the content chunks in separate, named flows is to be 
able to reference them as separate content objects. It doesn't matter if all 
your meta-data text is in the same flow, because you will never need to insert 
those chunks individually into another document.  

   

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RE: Any way to disable hover bubbles?

2011-08-04 Thread Ian Proudfoot

Dan,

Open the Interface Preferences dialog. In the General group there is a Tool
Tips dropdown. Select 'Hidden'.

 

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Subject: Any way to disable hover bubbles?

 

Framemaker 10, Windows 7 64-bit.

 

Is there any way to disable those annoying hover bubbles that appear any
time your mouse crosses a control or input field? They obscure what is
underneath them, and worse, depending on what you're doing or what the
bubbles are displayed over, they won't go away for several seconds even
after the mouse is moved.

 

Frame needs to stop helping me to death. it's becoming more and more a
Microsoft product with every passing day.

 

Dan Harding

Technical Editorial Specialist

University of Illinois Tax School

339 Mumford Hall

1301 West Gregory Drive

Urbana, IL 61801

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Re: Editing class for technical writer

2011-08-04 Thread Chantel Brathwaite


Krishna,

I don't know about the San Jose area, but you might want to try looking 
at the classes as Poynter.org.  Poynter is an institute for journalists 
that is based in Tampa.  They have a number of webinars and online 
courses geared towards writers.  Some of them are free - and many are 
low cost.   Might be worth a look!


Chantel Brathwaite

On 8/4/2011 2:05 PM, Krishna Mukherjee wrote:


Hi,

Can anyone suggest a short course on editing/proof-reading in San Jose 
area or online? I would like to take a refresher course.



Thanks,
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RE: Any way to hide unconditional text?

I don't know if I badly explained my own thinking or if I misunderstood
the suggested procedure.  

When I mentioned a master document, I originally envisioned it as one
big doc into which would be imported all text inset files. However, they
would NOT be imported to other files FROM this file - this is just a
master dump file for the purpose of holding metadata that could be
searched when writers want TI files to use.

After reading the idea of text flows, I put the four lines of metadata
into a separate text frame at the start of the TI template file (from
which each TI file will be made) and I named that flow tag Metadata.
Then I imported each TI file, one at a time, into the master file and
when prompted which text flow tag to import, I selected Metadata. The
result was just what I wanted: a .fm file containing ONLY the metadata.

I was afraid having the small Metadata text flow frame in the corner of
my main Flow Tag A would cause problems and some of your comments seem
to bear this out, so I'm experimenting with putting that little text
frame in a margin, outside Flow Tag A. So far, it doesn't seem to pose a
problem.

I still feel that Flow Tag A should be left alone as the container for
the main TI file - it's connected so pages continue as they should. Then
the few lines of metadata are in a separate area that can be imported
into the master (dump) file. It's the only time this text flow will
ever be used, and since the text in this small frame has a condition tag
applied that is routinely hidden, the real TI file can be edited,
imported where needed, etc., with no real change to existing TI
functionality.

At least, that's my theory!

Many thanks - as always - to you folks who so willingly give of your
time and ideas. This list is a fantastic resource.

~~Gay

 

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To: Gay Alson; rshuttlewo...@avbasesystems.com
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Any way to hide unconditional text?

 

Gay Alson wrote:
 

You mentioned putting each text inset file in a different flow, up to
256. But as we may end up with several hundred text inset files over
time, it occurred to me to try it the other way 'round: That is, to see
if the main contents of each text inset file could remain in Flow Tag A,
with only the four-line metadata in a separate flow. (Which means
dealing only with two text flows instead of many.) That's what I tried
and it does work, at least in my first experiments. Can you think of any
reason NOT to continue with that? I also wasn't sure about where to
place the new text frame containing the Metadata Flow Tag, so I inserted
it in the upper left of my regular Flow A.  I had my doubts whether FM
would permit a text flow within the frame of the larger Flow A but it
seems to be okay.

 

No, this will *not* work for your purposes. When you reference a text
inset file from a container file, you specify which flow to import
from. If all the content chunks are in Flow A, then all you will ever be
able to do is include *all* the content chunks each time you do an
insert from that TI file. The whole point of putting the content chunks
in separate, named flows is to be able to reference them as separate
content objects. It doesn't matter if all your meta-data text is in the
same flow, because you will never need to insert those chunks
individually into another document.

 

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RE: Any way to disable hover bubbles?

2011-08-04 Thread Beierle, Cecily

On August 4, 2011, Dan Harding wrote:
FrameMaker 10, Windows 7 64-bit.

Is there any way to disable those annoying hover bubbles that appear any time 
your mouse crosses a control or input field? They obscure what is underneath 
them, and worse, depending on what you're doing or what the bubbles are 
displayed over, they won't go away for several seconds even after the mouse 
is moved.

Frame needs to stop helping me to death... it's becoming more and more a 
Microsoft product with every passing day...

Dan Harding

You can change Tool Tips in the interface settings.
Got to File  Preferences  Interface...
In the General section, you'll find Tool Tips. The options are Normal, Fast, 
and Hidden.

Hope this helps! They were annoying me, too!



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TCF IT Customer Care
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Re: Editing class for technical writer

2011-08-04 Thread Lynn Gold

Try DeAnza College in nearby Cupertino.  They have many classes you can 
take online.

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Can anyone suggest a short course on editing/proof-reading in San Jose 
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Re: Any way to disable hover bubbles?


  
  
Oh, awesome!

Nadine

On 04/08/2011 1:45 PM, Ian Proudfoot wrote:

  
  
  
  
  
Dan,
Open the
Interface Preferences dialog. In the General group there is
a Tool Tips dropdown. Select Hidden.

Ian Proudfoot
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Subject: Any way to disable hover bubbles?
  


Framemaker
10, Windows 7 64-bit.

Is
there any way to disable those annoying hover bubbles that
appear any time your mouse crosses a control or input field?
They obscure what is underneath them, and worse, depending
on what youre doing or what the bubbles are displayed over,
they wont go away for several seconds even after the mouse
is moved.

Frame
needs to stop helping me to death its becoming more and
more a Microsoft product with every passing day


  Dan Harding
  Technical Editorial Specialist
  University of Illinois Tax School
  339 Mumford Hall
  1301 West Gregory Drive
  Urbana, IL 61801
  217-333-0935


  
  
  
  
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AW: FrameMaker 10 and RoboHELP 9

2011-08-04 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried

Hi,

I don' t have RoboHelp or the TCS. However, as far as I know
RoboHelp can process FrameMaker books whether it's integrated
in the TCS or not. The only advantage of the TCS is that you can
start the conversion from within FrameMaker.
Otherwise you must manually direct RoboHelp to the folder with
the FrameMaker book.

Best regards

Winfried

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lists.frameusers.com] Im Auftrag von John Sgammato
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. August 2011 21:10
An: Thomas Scalise; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Betreff: 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

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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.

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Indexable HTML Online Help

I'd recommend WebWorks ePublisher's Reverb output. You can test drive a 
trial version 
(http://www.webworks.com/Products/ePublisher/Free_Trial/default.shtm). 
ePublisher ingests Word, FrameMaker (unstructured), and DITA XML. You 
can even mix all three sources into one project.

Nadine

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> 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.
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adding icon to FM para tag?

2011-08-04 Thread MamaRed

I've actually done this different ways (in 7.x), depending on what the
desired "look" is. One way was to create a paired set of tags: one holds the
graphic, the other the alert text.

ANother was a preconfigured table that had the graphic and the appropriate
color stored as part of the table format.

I would be happy to share details...and if this wasn't what you were looking
for, didn't want to waste your time. Let me know!

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:43 PM, hessiansx4  wrote:

> 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
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Accessing a DLL file

2011-08-04 Thread George, Brenda (CAI)

I need to change the width of tables in FrameMaker files. The files are flowed 
as xml files into FrameMaker. These tablewidths have to be changed in the .dll 
file that FrameMaker looks for when files are flowed. These widths can't be 
changed in a FrameMaker template or through the edd file. The .dll file will 
override these settings.

I have never changed data in a .dll file. Is there freeware that I can download 
and use to view the code in the .dll file and then edit it?

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PDF Shared Review problems

2011-08-04 Thread ri...@inficon.com

I'm using TCS2 on a Dell Precision T3500 Workstation running Windows 7 
Professional SP1 32-bit  with 4 GB Memory, Xeon 2.53 GHz processor, 
graphics card is a NVIDIA Quadro 4000 (2 GB) running two 20" widescreen 
monitors.

I author in FM 9.0p255 then create a PDF in Acrobat 9 Pro Extended 9.4.5 
and send the PDF out for shared review on internal network public server. 
The PDF shared review process has been working great for, hmm, a year or 
more (I got TCS2 soon after it was released). 

Recently, I've been having problems with new comments not posting even 
after author's selected Publish Comments. 

This morning I'm missing comments that I know were successfully posted in 
the share reviewed PDF yesterday.

Asking reviewers to update their version of Acrobat 8 and higher (Open 
Acrobat and perform Help >> Check for updates...  then installing any 
updates) fixes the new comments not posting problem. However, after 
updating, reviewers get upset when I also ask them to redo their comments. 


Not seeing comments that I know were there previously scares me.

This is all a bit odd, since PDF shared review has behaved perfectly until 
recently. Even when I went from XP to Win7 on a new computer a few months 
back, PDF shared review continued to work great. 

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Acrobat 8+  seems to fix posting new comments, I suspect some recent Adobe 
or Windows upgrade changed the playing field, so to speak. 

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Spacebar Doesn't Always Create a Space

2011-08-04 Thread Stuart Rogers

On 01/08/2011 2:59 PM, Michalak, Patricia S (APHIS) wrote:
> 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.
>...

> Does anyone have any ideas?
>

Format > Document > Text Options

Clear the Smart Spaces checkbox, and you'll be able to add all the 
unnecessary spaces you want...  ;-)

HTH,

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Internal Error 10014 when saving book file after generating

2011-08-04 Thread Chittister, Robyn

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 fmerror at adobe.com<mailto:fmerror at 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

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AW: warnings, cautions, notes in sw documentation

2011-08-04 Thread Maike Roeder

Hi Simon,

I really like your interpretation. I'm also dealing with Software Manuals and 
wrote Hardware Manuals before, so I'm sort of having the same problem. Are 
there any official rules (similar to ANSI Z535) for software documentation?

- Maike


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An: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Betreff: 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.
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Re: Any way to hide unconditional text?

Hello Gay

One idea is to use multiple flows for your text insets. A FM document can have 
up to (I think) 256 different flows, each having a unique name. You could have 
each text inset in a different flow, but put your metadata in the main flow 
(A). Then when you import the text inset, you select the flow that you want to 
import (try it and see!). If you name your flows appropriately, it should be 
clear which flow you want to import.

Depending on the size of your insets, you may want to use either one file or 
split them across several files in order to limit file size.

That's one idea that comes to mind...

Hope this helps.

Roger

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London, Ontario
N5V 3S4
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Sent: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:08:22 -0400
Subject: 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:



  system variable
  system variable
  Not a variable; a text description of the text inset file.
  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





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Re: adding icon to FM para tag?

Hi

Apart from the autonumbering approach that you are already using, you can use 
any of the following methods:


* Use a two-cell table, with the left cell containing a graphic. The para 
format used in the left cell should use the Frame Above or Frame Below setting 
(in the Paragraph Designer), attaching an image that is stored on the reference 
page.
* Instead of a table, just use the Frame Above or Frame Below setting (in the 
Paragraph Designer) to reference a graphic frame stored on the reference page. 
Tweak the Space Above and Space Below settings according to preference. You 
will need a second para tag without the graphic for any alerts that use more 
than one paragraph.
* Use two para formats: one with an attached graphic and set to Run-In Heading, 
the other for your text. I've never tried this but is sounds doable.


There are pros and cons for each method. (Method 3 has mostly cons, I think!)

If you go with the table method, you might look at the AutoText plugin from 
http://siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html. Using that, you can create the 
table once, then add it to an AutoText menu from which you can insert it very 
quickly.

There used to be a M document circulating that gave very clear instructions for 
these methods, but I have not seen it for a few years. I first saw it in the 
days of FM 5. I believe it was called "Alerts and Warnings" or something like 
that.

Hope this helps.
Roger


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Subject: 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 
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  + Body.  TIA
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AW: FrameMaker 10 and RoboHELP 9

I believe what Winfried says is correct. The purpose of the integration 
provided in TCS is to give a "live" connection between your FM book and 
RoboHelp, so that if the book contents change, RH knows about it. In that case 
your RH project is *linked* to the FM book. Without TCS, you simply import the 
book into RH and forego the dynamic link that TCS gives.

I applaud your desire to single-source. You should also look at alternative 
solutions such as WebWorks ePublisher, Flare, and MIF2Go, as well as the TCS. 
TCS includes other applications that you may or may not want to spend money on. 

HTH!
Roger

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Subject: AW: FrameMaker 10 and RoboHELP 9




Hi,



I don? t have RoboHelp or the TCS. However, as far as I know 

RoboHelp can process FrameMaker books whether it?s integrated

in the TCS or not. The only advantage of the TCS is that you can 

start the conversion from within FrameMaker.

Otherwise you must manually direct RoboHelp to the folder with

the FrameMaker book.



Best regards



Winfried






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Betreff: 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

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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.



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Any way to hide unconditional text?

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Any way to disable hover bubbles?

2011-08-04 Thread Harding, Daniel B

Framemaker 10, Windows 7 64-bit.

Is there any way to disable those annoying hover bubbles that appear any time 
your mouse crosses a control or input field? They obscure what is underneath 
them, and worse, depending on what you're doing or what the bubbles are 
displayed over, they won't go away for several seconds even after the mouse is 
moved.

Frame needs to stop helping me to death... it's becoming more and more a 
Microsoft product with every passing day...

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RE: Any way to hide unconditional text?

suggestions,

~~Gay

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Any way to hide unconditional text?

2011-08-04 Thread Fred Ridder


Gay Alson wrote:





You mentioned putting each text inset file in a different flow, up to 256. But 
as we may end up with several hundred text inset files over time, it occurred 
to me to try it the other way ?round: That is, to see if the main contents of 
each text inset file could remain in Flow Tag A, with only the four-line 
metadata in a separate flow. (Which means dealing only with two text flows 
instead of many.) That?s what I tried and it does work, at least in my first 
experiments. Can you think of any reason NOT to continue with that? I also 
wasn?t sure about where to place the new text frame containing the Metadata 
Flow Tag, so I inserted it in the upper left of my regular Flow A.  I had my 
doubts whether FM would permit a text flow within the frame of the larger Flow 
A but it seems to be okay.

No, this will *not* work for your purposes. When you reference a text inset 
file from a "container" file, you specify which flow to import from. If all the 
content chunks are in Flow A, then all you will ever be able to do is include 
*all* the content chunks each time you do an insert from that TI file. The 
whole point of putting the content chunks in separate, named flows is to be 
able to reference them as separate content objects. It doesn't matter if all 
your meta-data text is in the same flow, because you will never need to insert 
those chunks individually into another document.

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PDF Shared Review problems

2011-08-04 Thread Lief Erickson

Hi Richard--

I'm not going to be much help, but are sure the comments are gone? All 
reviewers when they open a shared review PDF have a .xml file created for them 
in the PDF's comments directory on the shared review server. You could look in 
that file to see if the comments are truly gone or if it's another problem. If 
the comments are not in that file, then they're gone. If they are, then it's a 
different issue (not that I know what it would be). 

If your PDF is called "Chapter1_review.pdf" you'll have a corresponding folder 
that's something like: Chapter1_review.pdf_f377ba938213ad932kdaf9321929dekli74. 
It's in this folder where the reviewers comments stored in an XML file specific 
to each reviewer.

-Lief

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Subject: PDF Shared Review problems

I'm using TCS2 on a Dell Precision T3500 Workstation running Windows 7 
Professional SP1 32-bit  with 4 GB Memory, Xeon 2.53 GHz processor, 
graphics card is a NVIDIA Quadro 4000 (2 GB) running two 20" widescreen 
monitors.

I author in FM 9.0p255 then create a PDF in Acrobat 9 Pro Extended 9.4.5 
and send the PDF out for shared review on internal network public server. 
The PDF shared review process has been working great for, hmm, a year or 
more (I got TCS2 soon after it was released). 

Recently, I've been having problems with new comments not posting even 
after author's selected Publish Comments. 

This morning I'm missing comments that I know were successfully posted in 
the share reviewed PDF yesterday.

Asking reviewers to update their version of Acrobat 8 and higher (Open 
Acrobat and perform Help >> Check for updates...  then installing any 
updates) fixes the new comments not posting problem. However, after 
updating, reviewers get upset when I also ask them to redo their comments. 


Not seeing comments that I know were there previously scares me.

This is all a bit odd, since PDF shared review has behaved perfectly until 
recently. Even when I went from XP to Win7 on a new computer a few months 
back, PDF shared review continued to work great. 

Since having the reviewers Help >> Check for updates... in their copy of 
Acrobat 8+  seems to fix posting new comments, I suspect some recent Adobe 
or Windows upgrade changed the playing field, so to speak. 

Anyone else seeing problems like mine? What do you think the problem is?

Richard

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Spacebar Doesn't Always Create a Space

2011-08-04 Thread Flato, Gillian

Stuart,

Check with your IT department. Make sure permissions haven't been changed on 
the network server. That caused me a ton of problems with receiving comments.

Thank you,
?

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On 01/08/2011 2:59 PM, Michalak, Patricia S (APHIS) wrote:
> 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.
>...

> Does anyone have any ideas?
>

Format > Document > Text Options

Clear the Smart Spaces checkbox, and you'll be able to add all the 
unnecessary spaces you want...  ;-)

HTH,

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Accessing a DLL file

2011-08-04 Thread Scott Prentice

Hi George...

Presumably you're talking about an FDK client DLL? Unless you've got the 
source code or it was set up to read data from some sort of support file 
(INI or otherwise), you're probably out of luck. Is this a custom DLL 
that was created for you? You'll probably need to contact the developer 
to get the source or to request that it be modified. DLLs aren't like 
resource files that can be modified.

...scott

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George, Brenda (CAI) wrote:
>
> I need to change the width of tables in FrameMaker files. The files 
> are flowed as xml files into FrameMaker. These tablewidths have to be 
> changed in the .dll file that FrameMaker looks for when files are 
> flowed. These widths can?t be changed in a FrameMaker template or 
> through the edd file. The .dll file will override these settings.
>
> I have never changed data in a .dll file. Is there freeware that I can 
> download and use to view the code in the .dll file and then edit it?
>
> Brenda George
>
> Desk: (724) 720-8491
>
> bgeorge at federatedinv.com
>
>

Any way to hide unconditional text?

2011-08-04 Thread Combs, Richard

Gay Alson wrote: 

> You mentioned putting each text inset file in a different flow, up to
> 256. But as we may end up with several hundred text inset files over
> time, it occurred to me to try it the other way ?round: That is, to see
> if the main contents of each text inset file could remain in Flow Tag
> A, with only the four-line metadata in a separate flow. (Which means
> dealing only with two text flows instead of many.) That?s what I tried
> and it does work, at least in my first experiments. Can you think of
> any reason NOT to continue with that? 

No, that won't work. Each text inset that you import must be a complete flow. 
If all your text inset source files are concatenated into one flow, when you 
import into the destination file, you'll get the entire shebang. 

The only way to combine multiple text insets into one file is to put each in 
its own flow. Then when you import, FM prompts you to choose which flow you 
want. 

I believe the limit on text flows per file is more than 256, but can't locate 
any hard number (there may not be one). Personally, I'd never put hundreds of 
text insets in a single file just because it's not a user-friendly way to 
organize things. I'd instead create a text insets book. Within that, I'd put 
the text insets into several files based on some logical organizing principle 
-- subject matter, purpose, etc. -- so that it's easy to find things, work with 
related topics, etc.

> I also wasn?t sure about where to
> place the new text frame containing the Metadata Flow Tag, so I
> inserted it in the upper left of my regular Flow A. ?I had my doubts
> whether FM would permit a text flow within the frame of the larger Flow
> A but it seems to be okay.

You can't insert a text frame directly into another text frame. I'm guessing 
that you just placed it on top of the Flow A text frame (try moving/resizing 
that, and you'll probably find that the Metadata frame isn't affected). 

You can put a text frame inside another text frame _indirectly_ by creating an 
anchored frame and then creating a text frame inside that. If you have a bunch 
of short (less than a page) text insets, this would be an easy way to organize 
them. Put the metadata into the main flow, with a nearly page-filling anchored 
frame below each set of metadata. In each anchored frame, create a text frame, 
give it a unique flow name, and insert the text inset text. 

I don't think this approach is workable for longer text insets because I don't 
believe you can connect text frames that are in different anchored frames. 
Maybe you could connect the text frame inside the anchored frame to a text 
frame on a disconnected page -- I don't know. 

If your text insets are longer than a page, a better approach would be to use 
separate text frames for the metadata flow and the text insets. It will get 
somewhat fussy to set up and maintain, though (especially if there were a lot 
of churn in the content and length of the text insets). I'd keep the number per 
file fairly low (and use a book of text insets, as I mentioned before). 

HTH!

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Polycom, Inc.
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Editing class for technical writer

2011-08-04 Thread Krishna Mukherjee



Hi,

Can anyone suggest a short course on editing/proof-reading in San Jose area or 
online? I would like to take a refresher course. 


Thanks,
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RE: Any way to hide unconditional text?

Fred is right, of course. I was assuming that you would have a separate file 
for each inset, not all your insets in a single flow.

Roger

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AV-BASE Systems Inc.
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From: Fred Ridder [mailto:docu...@hotmail.com]
To: galson at epicor.com, rshuttleworth at avbasesystems.com
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:49:53 -0400
Subject: RE: Any way to hide unconditional text?


  Gay Alson wrote:






You mentioned putting each text inset file in a different flow, up to 256. But 
as we may end up with several hundred text inset files over time, it occurred 
to me to try it the other way ?round: That is, to see if the main contents of 
each text inset file could remain in Flow Tag A, with only the four-line 
metadata in a separate flow. (Which means dealing only with two text flows 
instead of many.) That?s what I tried and it does work, at least in my first 
experiments. Can you think of any reason NOT to continue with that? I also 
wasn?t sure about where to place the new text frame containing the Metadata 
Flow Tag, so I inserted it in the upper left of my regular Flow A.  I had my 
doubts whether FM would permit a text flow within the frame of the larger Flow 
A but it seems to be okay.  



No, this will *not* work for your purposes. When you reference a text inset 
file from a "container" file, you specify which flow to import from. If all the 
content chunks are in Flow A, then all you will ever be able to do is include 
*all* the content chunks each time you do an insert from that TI file. The 
whole point of putting the content chunks in separate, named flows is to be 
able to reference them as separate content objects. It doesn't matter if all 
your meta-data text is in the same flow, because you will never need to insert 
those chunks individually into another document.  



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Any way to disable hover bubbles?

2011-08-04 Thread Ian Proudfoot

Dan,

Open the Interface Preferences dialog. In the General group there is a Tool
Tips dropdown. Select 'Hidden'.



Ian Proudfoot

iTP-X



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Sent: 04 August 2011 15:18
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Any way to disable hover bubbles?



Framemaker 10, Windows 7 64-bit.



Is there any way to disable those annoying hover bubbles that appear any
time your mouse crosses a control or input field? They obscure what is
underneath them, and worse, depending on what you're doing or what the
bubbles are displayed over, they won't go away for several seconds even
after the mouse is moved.



Frame needs to stop helping me to death. it's becoming more and more a
Microsoft product with every passing day.



Dan Harding

Technical Editorial Specialist

University of Illinois Tax School

339 Mumford Hall

1301 West Gregory Drive

Urbana, IL 61801

217-333-0935



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Editing class for technical writer

2011-08-04 Thread Chantel Brathwaite

Krishna,

I don't know about the San Jose area, but you might want to try looking 
at the classes as Poynter.org.  Poynter is an institute for journalists 
that is based in Tampa.  They have a number of webinars and online 
courses geared towards writers.  Some of them are free - and many are 
low cost.   Might be worth a look!

Chantel Brathwaite

On 8/4/2011 2:05 PM, Krishna Mukherjee wrote:
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>
> Can anyone suggest a short course on editing/proof-reading in San Jose 
> area or online? I would like to take a refresher course.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Krishna
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2011-08-04 Thread Beierle, Cecily

On August 4, 2011, Dan Harding wrote:
>>FrameMaker 10, Windows 7 64-bit.

>>Is there any way to disable those annoying hover bubbles that appear any time 
>>your mouse crosses a control or input field? They obscure what is underneath 
>>them, and worse, depending on what you're doing or what the bubbles are 
>>displayed over, they won't go away for several seconds even after the mouse 
>>is moved.

>>Frame needs to stop helping me to death... it's becoming more and more a 
>>Microsoft product with every passing day...

Dan Harding<<<

You can change Tool Tips in the interface settings.
Got to File > Preferences > Interface...
In the General section, you'll find Tool Tips. The options are Normal, Fast, 
and Hidden.

Hope this helps! They were annoying me, too!

Cecily Beierle
Technical Writer
TCF IT Customer Care
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Editing class for technical writer

2011-08-04 Thread Lynn Gold

Try DeAnza College in nearby Cupertino.  They have many classes you can 
take online.

--Lynn

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