RE: PowerPoint to Framemaker
One should be very careful in using RTF as the means of transferring PowerPoint slides to a FrameMaker document. The last several versions of Microsoft Office applications support live transparency (drop shadows, reflections, clipped images, etc.) and saving to RTF from these applications supports this. However, FrameMaker's imaging model does not support live transparency in any way. Transparency effects from RTF will likely be lost or misinterpreted when brought into a FrameMaker document. Thus, is you want the highest fidelity for such PowerPoint slides when importing into FrameMaker, use the Acrobat Save as PDF function from Microsoft PowerPoint and then import into FrameMaker. Such content is obviously not editable, but will maintain graphical integrity. If you need to be able to edit the slide content in FrameMaker, RTF is a solution as long as you understand that you will probably not maintain graphical integrity! - Dov From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Alan Litchfield Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 8:39 PM To: Rick Quatro Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: PowerPoint to Framemaker Or export from Powerpoint as rtf. Alan On 8/10/2011, at 1:33 PM, Rick Quatro wrote: Hi Gillian, If you don't need to edit the slides in FrameMaker, you could save them as PDF and import the PDF into your FrameMaker document. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-659-8267 r...@frameexpert.commailto:r...@frameexpert.com From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.commailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com]mailto:[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Flato, Gillian Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 8:02 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.commailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: PowerPoint to Framemaker Anyone know a utility for converting PowerPoint slides with lots of graphics to FrameMaker, or something that can be imported into Frame? Thank you, Gillian Flato Senior Technical Writer (Software) nanometrics 1550 Buckeye Dr. Milpitas, CA. 95035 (408.545.6316 7 408.232.5911 * gfl...@nanometrics.commailto:gfl...@nanometrics.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.
RE: Coaching Engineers
Huh? This is a list for people who use FrameMaker and you think most readers are not technical writers? Then who do you think is using FrameMaker? I'm interested in this discussion because it involves my work as an editor and writer. And just to add my .02 on this, it's usually the technical editor who trains people how to write. Lea Galanter Technical Editor Writer -Original Message- Please, can you keep this discussion off the list? Many of us who appreciate this list are neither technical writers nor engineers.[[LG]] Confidentiality Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential and meant solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the e-mail or any attachment is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the sender and then delete this copy and the reply from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. ___ 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.
ANN: Live Online Training, Nov-Dec (Captivate, FM, Visually-Oriented Docs)
Half-days; scheduled hours adjusted to fit participants' time zones. * Using Captivate, November 1+2+3 * FrameMaker Template Design, November 8+9+10+15+16+17 * Rich Media in PDFs with FM-to-Acrobat TimeSavers+Multimedia Asst, November 14 * Visually-Oriented Documentation, December 5+6 * Single Sourcing with FrameMaker, December 7+8 * Using FrameMaker, December 12+13+14+15+16 Course description + participants' feedback: http://www.microtype.com/training.html Registration form: http://www.microtype.com/training/MT-Web2011e-Reg.pdf Shlomo Perets MicroType, http://www.microtype.com FrameMaker/TCS training consulting * FM-to-Acrobat TimeSavers/Assistants ___ 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.
Frame 8 crashing on opening
All, Any suggestions for this problem out of the blue? Internal Error 8004, 7072680, 7074223, 6295985. FrameMaker has detected a serious problem and must quit. FM 8 didn't crash with an open file previously. It was working fine until today. Now, it won't open either on several different FM files or just standalone. Hadn't changed anything Frame related recently. My os is Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate Edition. I uninstalled FM 8 and reinstalled. Still getting this error. Frame 10 does open fine but my client only has 8 and they don't want to upgrade (not in the budget). Haven't had any issues in months w/ FM. Googled but haven't found anything that worked. Can't open Frame so several tricks can't be tried (like the corrupt user.dict). Suggestions? Thx, Ed Ed Marshall Marshall Documentation Consulting www.MarshallDocumentationServices.com Linked In profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ed-marshall/0/501/898 Contract technical writing, consulting, training, conversions, proofreading, editing, and other services related to technical documentation. Specializing in developer documentation (APIs, SDKs, Web services, etc.), source code control / file management systems, and tools to let the computer do the work. Ed Marshall Marshall Documentation Consulting www.MarshallDocumentationServices.com Linked In profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ed-marshall/0/501/898 Contract technical writing, consulting, training, conversions, proofreading, editing, and other services related to technical documentation. Specializing in developer documentation (APIs, SDKs, Web services, etc.), source code control / file management systems, and tools to let the computer do the work. Certified MadCap Advanced Developer (MAD) for Flare V7 ___ 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.
Table templates (FrameMaker 10)
Hello Rick, I wrestled with a similar problem (I think), to get a few icons such as check mark, note icon, caution icon, book icon from micro tables in FrameMaker 10 to show up in Robohelp. After following several threads on discussion boards with no luck, I mentioned the problem to one of our engineers. She suggested using the icon as a background image for the paragraph in the Robohelp style sheet. This worked beautifully. Then all I had to do was map the FrameMaker paragraph style for the cell containing the image to the Robohelp paragraph style containing a background image. Maybe this tactic will work with your step number images. Susan -- *Susan Ewald ** Technical Writer * * NetWitness® Corporation ** ** www.netwitness.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: Changing rule colors in a Table Format
Hi All, I'm new to the list, so apologies if this has been answered before: How can I change the colors of the rules (lines) when creating a Table Format in an FM template? The Table Designer allows for shading colors, but not rule colors. I've tried changing the color using: Table Format Custom Ruling and Shading which works for that particular table, but the info is not retained in the Table Format when the file is saved. Any help/suggestions would be much appreciated. Many thanks - Steve Whalley ___ 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: Coaching Engineers
here, here On 10Oct2011, at 11:34 AM, Galanter, Lea wrote: Huh? This is a list for people who use FrameMaker and you think most readers are not technical writers? Then who do you think is using FrameMaker? I'm interested in this discussion because it involves my work as an editor and writer. And just to add my .02 on this, it's usually the technical editor who trains people how to write. Lea Galanter Technical Editor Writer -Original Message- Please, can you keep this discussion off the list? Many of us who appreciate this list are neither technical writers nor engineers.[[LG]] Confidentiality Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential and meant solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the e-mail or any attachment is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the sender and then delete this copy and the reply from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as gweckr...@wowway.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/gweckrich%40wowway.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.
RE: FrameMaker 10: Changing rule colors in a Table Format
Steve Whalley wrote: How can I change the colors of the rules (lines) when creating a Table Format in an FM template? The Table Designer allows for shading colors, but not rule colors. I've tried changing the color using: Table Format Custom Ruling and Shading which works for that particular table, but the info is not retained in the Table Format when the file is saved. I'm using FM 7.2, but I doubt that this has changed. It's a two-part process. First, you have to define a new ruling line style. Then, you can apply it using the Table Designer. 1) Go to Table Custom Ruling and Shading. 2) In the Custom Ruling and Shading dialog box, click Edit Ruling Style. 3) In the Edit Ruling Style dialog box, change Name to something meaningful, like Green 1pt. 4) Change Color to the color you want, set Width as desired, and click Set. Now, when you go to the Table Designer's Ruling tab, your new ruling line style will be available in the various ruling line lists. HTH! Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 -- rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-903-6372 -- ___ 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.
PowerPoint to Framemaker
One should be very careful in using RTF as the means of transferring PowerPoint slides to a FrameMaker document. The last several versions of Microsoft Office applications support live transparency (drop shadows, reflections, clipped images, etc.) and saving to RTF from these applications supports this. However, FrameMaker's imaging model does not support live transparency in any way. Transparency effects from RTF will likely be lost or misinterpreted when brought into a FrameMaker document. Thus, is you want the highest fidelity for such PowerPoint slides when importing into FrameMaker, use the Acrobat "Save as PDF" function from Microsoft PowerPoint and then import into FrameMaker. Such content is obviously not editable, but will maintain graphical integrity. If you need to be able to edit the slide content in FrameMaker, RTF is a solution as long as you understand that you will probably not maintain graphical integrity! - Dov From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Alan Litchfield Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 8:39 PM To: Rick Quatro Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: PowerPoint to Framemaker Or export from Powerpoint as rtf. Alan On 8/10/2011, at 1:33 PM, Rick Quatro wrote: > Hi Gillian, > > If you don't need to edit the slides in FrameMaker, you could save them as > PDF and import the PDF into your FrameMaker document. > > Rick Quatro > Carmen Publishing Inc. > 585-659-8267 > rick at frameexpert.com<mailto:rick at frameexpert.com> > > > > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers-bounces at > lists.frameusers.com> [mailto:framers-bounces at > lists.frameusers.com]<mailto:[mailto:framers-bounces at > lists.frameusers.com]> On Behalf Of Flato, Gillian > Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 8:02 PM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com> > Subject: PowerPoint to Framemaker > > Anyone know a utility for converting PowerPoint slides with lots of graphics > to FrameMaker, or something that can be imported into Frame? > > Thank you, > > > Gillian Flato > Senior Technical Writer (Software) > nanometrics > 1550 Buckeye Dr. > Milpitas, CA. 95035 > (408.545.6316 > 7 408.232.5911 > * gflato at nanometrics.com<mailto:gflato at nanometrics.com> -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20111010/4b56f34f/attachment.html>
Coaching Engineers
Huh? This is a list for people who use FrameMaker and you think most readers are not technical writers? Then who do you think is using FrameMaker? I'm interested in this discussion because it involves my work as an editor and writer. And just to add my .02 on this, it's usually the technical editor who trains people how to write. Lea Galanter Technical Editor & Writer -Original Message- "Please, can you keep this discussion off the list? Many of us who appreciate this list are neither technical writers nor engineers.[[LG]] " Confidentiality Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential and meant solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the e-mail or any attachment is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the sender and then delete this copy and the reply from your system. Thank you for your cooperation.
ANN: Live Online Training, Nov-Dec (Captivate, FM, Visually-Oriented Docs)
Half-days; scheduled hours adjusted to fit participants' time zones. * Using Captivate, November 1+2+3 * FrameMaker Template Design, November 8+9+10+15+16+17 * Rich Media in PDFs with FM-to-Acrobat TimeSavers+Multimedia Asst, November 14 * Visually-Oriented Documentation, December 5+6 * Single Sourcing with FrameMaker, December 7+8 * Using FrameMaker, December 12+13+14+15+16 Course description + participants' feedback: http://www.microtype.com/training.html Registration form: http://www.microtype.com/training/MT-Web2011e-Reg.pdf Shlomo Perets MicroType, http://www.microtype.com FrameMaker/TCS training & consulting * FM-to-Acrobat TimeSavers/Assistants
Table templates (FrameMaker 10)
Hello Rick, I wrestled with a similar problem (I think), to get a few icons such as check mark, note icon, caution icon, book icon from micro tables in FrameMaker 10 to show up in Robohelp. After following several threads on discussion boards with no luck, I mentioned the problem to one of our engineers. She suggested using the icon as a background image for the paragraph in the Robohelp style sheet. This worked beautifully. Then all I had to do was map the FrameMaker paragraph style for the cell containing the image to the Robohelp paragraph style containing a background image. Maybe this tactic will work with your step number images. Susan -- *Susan Ewald ** Technical Writer * * NetWitness? Corporation ** ** www.netwitness.com * * * -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20111010/107b2db0/attachment.html>
FrameMaker 10: Changing rule colors in a Table Format
Hi All, I'm new to the list, so apologies if this has been answered before: How can I change the colors of the rules (lines) when creating a Table Format in an FM template? The Table Designer allows for shading colors, but not rule colors. I've tried changing the color using: Table > Format > Custom Ruling and Shading which works for that particular table, but the info is not retained in the Table Format when the file is saved. Any help/suggestions would be much appreciated. Many thanks - Steve Whalley -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20111010/be38dde1/attachment.html>
Coaching Engineers
here, here On 10Oct2011, at 11:34 AM, Galanter, Lea wrote: > Huh? This is a list for people who use FrameMaker and you think most > readers are not technical writers? Then who do you think is using > FrameMaker? I'm interested in this discussion because it involves my > work as an editor and writer. And just to add my .02 on this, it's > usually the technical editor who trains people how to write. > > Lea Galanter > Technical Editor & Writer > > -Original Message- > > "Please, can you keep this discussion off the list? Many of us who > appreciate this list are neither technical writers nor engineers.[[LG]] > " > > > Confidentiality Notice: > > This email and any attachments are confidential and meant solely for the use > of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient any > disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the e-mail or any attachment is > prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify us > immediately by replying to the sender and then delete this copy and the reply > from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. > > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as GWEckrich at wowway.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/gweckrich%40wowway.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
FrameMaker 10: Changing rule colors in a Table Format
Steve Whalley wrote: > How can I change the colors of the rules (lines) when creating a Table > Format in an FM template? > > The Table Designer allows for shading colors, but not rule colors. I've > tried changing the color using: Table > Format > Custom Ruling and > Shading which works for that particular table, but the info is not > retained in the Table Format when the file is saved. I'm using FM 7.2, but I doubt that this has changed. It's a two-part process. First, you have to define a new ruling line style. Then, you can apply it using the Table Designer. 1) Go to Table > Custom Ruling and Shading. 2) In the Custom Ruling and Shading dialog box, click Edit Ruling Style. 3) In the Edit Ruling Style dialog box, change Name to something meaningful, like "Green 1pt." 4) Change Color to the color you want, set Width as desired, and click Set. Now, when you go to the Table Designer's Ruling tab, your new ruling line style will be available in the various ruling line lists. HTH! Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 -- rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-903-6372 --
