RE: Training material for FrameMaker 10?
If you are already familiar with FM, then there's no reference book that I know of for FM10; however, a good guide to FM (based on the FM8 interface) is the Scriptorium.com reference work (very cheap as a PDF download). The screens (UI) have changed in FM9+, but the functionality remains the same. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Studio Smalbro Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 3:45 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Training material for FrameMaker 10? I have been looking for training material for FrameMaker 10 preferrably in book form or as pdf's for print but can not find anything. Adobe used to do the Classroom in a Book series on FrameMaker but I cannot find one for FrameMaker 10. Would anybody here know of some material from other publishers perhaps? Best regards Bjørn ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as jeff.coatswo...@jonassoftware.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/jeff.coatsworth%40jonassoftware.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: FrameMaker7 to RoboHelp 5 - Online Help Files
Or abandon RH altogether and go with WebWorks ePublisher. ePublisher provides an inline process that ingests FM 7 without creating a second set of source files. Nadine On 18/11/2011 8:37 AM, Jeff Coatsworth wrote: With that version of RH, your only hope is to import the FM files (and I'm not too sure that it supports doing that). Your best bet would be to upgrade to TCS 3.5 to give you RH9 and FM10 with linking and importing features. *From:* framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Carmen Robards *Sent:* Thursday, November 17, 2011 1:09 PM *To:* framers@lists.frameusers.com *Subject:* FW: FrameMaker7 to RoboHelp 5 - Online Help Files Hello, Using RoboHelp Version 5 and FrameMaker 7 Unstructured I would appreciate any information on the best way to convert a User Guide developed in FrameMaker 7 into RoboHelp for Online help Of the same software. Thank you, (new to the list) Carmen Robards ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as generic...@yahoo.ca. 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/generic668%40yahoo.ca 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.
Getting out of View-only state
I am running Frame 10.0.1.402 on Windows 7. Somehow, I have put a number of the chapters in a book into View-only mode. I tried the Esc Shift+flk key sequence but it has no effect (surprise, surprise). Can anyone help me out? I am not sure how these files got into this state. I need to get them back into a normal Document state. The book was a Frame 9 book that I brought into Frame 10 and saved as a Frame 10 book and documents. The generated files are not View-only and one of the chapter files is not, The rest of the chapter files are View-only. For the life of me I cannot figure out what I did. Tom Scalise Information Development Manager Office (561) 622-5416 Fax (561) 622-9938 thomas.scal...@crossmatch.commailto:thomas.scal...@crossmatch.com [Description: Description: Description: cid:image001.gif@01CBDF0D.2B428620]http://www.crossmatch.com/ This e-mail message from Cross Match Technologies, Inc. is intended only for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you received this e-mail by accident, please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail and all copies of it. inline: image001.gif___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Getting out of View-only state
Thomas Scalise wrote: I am running Frame 10.0.1.402 on Windows 7. Somehow, I have put a number of the chapters in a book into View-only mode. I tried the Esc Shift+flk key sequence but it has no effect (surprise, surprise). Can anyone help me out? I am not sure how these files got into this state. I need to get them back into a normal Document state. It's Esc F l k -- or, if you prefer, Esc Shift+f l k. The point is, don't Shift the l or k. :-) 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.
Re: FW: FrameMaker7 to RoboHelp 5 - Online Help Files
Hello Carmen Welcome to the Framers list! You'll find a lot of willing helpers here. The software versions you mention are pretty old, so there may be few people who can give you specific guidance. I don't know whether RH5 can import FM files directly. If it can, that is your way to go. If it cannot, I would suggest: * Look in the FM help about saving your document to HTML. I believe you have the option to split the FM document into multiple HTML files whenever it encounters specific paragraph (heading) tags. These options are specified on a reference page called HTML Mapping or something similar. * If that reference page doesn't exist, you may have an option on the File menu, perhaps under Utilities, to set up HTML export options. Again, consult the help. * Once you have exported the HTML files, import them into your RoboHelp project. Your other options would be: * Investigate whether RH can import a Word document. If it can, save your FM document as RTF (I believe that in FM7 the Japanese RTF export was more reliable and faster), then open it in Word and resave it (as .doc, not .docx). Then import the Word doc into RH. Again, I assume you can break the doc into smaller HTML files based on Word styles. * If the situation will arise again in future and you think it's worth it, consider upgrading to the Tech Communication Suite. In TCS, FM and RH are integrated so that you can link your FM docs into a RH project and create help directly. As a first preparation step to all the above, ensure that your FM document uses consistent tagging with few or no overrides. And after you have converted, expect to have to do a fair amount of cleanup. Hope this helps you. Feel free to post further questions or update the list on your progress. 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: Carmen Robards [mailto:carmenroba...@skylineproducts.com] To: framers@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com] Sent: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:09:25 -0500 Subject: FW: FrameMaker7 to RoboHelp 5 - Online Help Files Hello, Using RoboHelp Version 5 and FrameMaker 7 Unstructured I would appreciate any information on the best way to convert a User Guide developed in FrameMaker 7 into RoboHelp for Online help Of the same software. Thank you, (new to the list) Carmen Robards___ 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: Applying Paragraph Tags with F9 Not Working in Frame 10
Thanks Tim, A few times I figured out that if I dropped the drop down paragraph list off the menu bar, then it seemed to work all day, if every time it stopped working I did that. My frustration day happened when I couldn't get the bottom window to even show where the Character or paragraph tag appeared and my above workaround wasn't working. I started out in old Word Perfect without a mouse. This feature not working is extremely upsetting as I am constantly key coding the formatting with resulting bad stuff in my document. Fortunately, Frame 8 is still living happily on my machine, coexisting with Frame 10, so I may go back to it. There are some improvements I have liked in Frame 10, but the lack of the key codes for formatting is a show stopper in my book. Linda A few years ago I bought a FrameScript from Rick Quatro called ShortCuts. It gives you pretty much complete control over keyboard shortcuts, including letting you map paragraph and character styles to whatever keyboard shortcuts you like. I've used it to map my basic styles so they use the same keyboard shortcuts I use in Word (for example CTRL+ALT+B for BodyText, CTRL+ALT+L for ListBullet). If you use FrameScript, it might be a solution for you. Honestly, there are enough cheap add-ins and free FrameScripts out there to justify the cost, even if you don't plan to program in it. Regards Keith -- Keith Soltys Senior Technical Writer Architecture TMX Group (416) 947-4397 http://www.tmx.com/ -- NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY This e-mail, including all materials contained in or attached to this e-mail, contains proprietary and confidential information solely for the internal use of the intended recipient. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or otherwise and ensure that it is permanently deleted from your systems, and do not print, copy, distribute or read its contents. AVIS DE CONFIDENTIALITÉ Le présent courriel, y compris tous les documents qu'il contient ou qui y sont joints, renferme des renseignements exclusifs et confidentiels destinés uniquement à l'usage interne du destinataire prévu. Si vous avez reçu le présent courriel par erreur, veuillez nous aviser immédiatement, notamment par retour de courriel, et vous assurer qu'il est supprimé de façon permanente de vos systèmes; veuillez également vous abstenir d'imprimer, de copier, de distribuer ou de lire son contenu. ___ 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: FW: FrameMaker7 to RoboHelp 5 - Online Help Files
Thank you so much for the reply. The documentation talks about saving the FramMaker file as a MIF file and then importing it into RoboHelp. Any thoughts on that? As to what would be the best way. Thank you, Carmen Robards From: Roger Shuttleworth [mailto:rshuttlewo...@avbasesystems.com] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 6:41 AM To: Carmen Robards Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: FW: FrameMaker7 to RoboHelp 5 - Online Help Files Hello Carmen Welcome to the Framers list! You'll find a lot of willing helpers here. The software versions you mention are pretty old, so there may be few people who can give you specific guidance. I don't know whether RH5 can import FM files directly. If it can, that is your way to go. If it cannot, I would suggest: 1. Look in the FM help about saving your document to HTML. I believe you have the option to split the FM document into multiple HTML files whenever it encounters specific paragraph (heading) tags. These options are specified on a reference page called HTML Mapping or something similar. 2. If that reference page doesn't exist, you may have an option on the File menu, perhaps under Utilities, to set up HTML export options. Again, consult the help. 3. Once you have exported the HTML files, import them into your RoboHelp project. Your other options would be: * Investigate whether RH can import a Word document. If it can, save your FM document as RTF (I believe that in FM7 the Japanese RTF export was more reliable and faster), then open it in Word and resave it (as .doc, not .docx). Then import the Word doc into RH. Again, I assume you can break the doc into smaller HTML files based on Word styles. * If the situation will arise again in future and you think it's worth it, consider upgrading to the Tech Communication Suite. In TCS, FM and RH are integrated so that you can link your FM docs into a RH project and create help directly. As a first preparation step to all the above, ensure that your FM document uses consistent tagging with few or no overrides. And after you have converted, expect to have to do a fair amount of cleanup. Hope this helps you. Feel free to post further questions or update the list on your progress. 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: Carmen Robards [mailto:carmenroba...@skylineproducts.com] To: framers@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com] Sent: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:09:25 -0500 Subject: FW: FrameMaker7 to RoboHelp 5 - Online Help Files Hello, Using RoboHelp Version 5 and FrameMaker 7 Unstructured I would appreciate any information on the best way to convert a User Guide developed in FrameMaker 7 into RoboHelp for Online help Of the same software. Thank you, (new to the list) Carmen Robards ___ 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.
hotkey bug in FrameMaker 10
Hi all, I have the TCS 3.5. I was wondering if anyone else was seeing the following issue. To bring up the paragraph designer pod, one users the hotkey *ctrl+m*. To bring up the character designer pod, one uses the hotkey* ctrl+d*. I noticed that if i bring up the characer designer, then I can not use a hotkey to bring up the paragraph designer. The converse is true as well, where if i have brought up the paragraph designer then a hot key cannot bring up the character designer. Anyone else seeing this? Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini ___ 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: Training material for FrameMaker 10?
FWIW, I found that there was not a terribly steep learning curve for existing functionality when moving to FM10. Some of the new functionality (related to XML/DITA etc.) required some thinking, though. (as should be expected). Grant Jeff Coatsworth wrote: If you are already familiar with FM, then there's no reference book that I know of for FM10; however, a good guide to FM (based on the FM8 interface) is the Scriptorium.com reference work (very cheap as a PDF download). The screens (UI) have changed in FM9+, but the functionality remains the same. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Studio Smalbro Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 3:45 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Training material for FrameMaker 10? I have been looking for training material for FrameMaker 10 preferrably in book form or as pdf's for print but can not find anything. Adobe used to do the Classroom in a Book series on FrameMaker but I cannot find one for FrameMaker 10. Would anybody here know of some material from other publishers perhaps? Best regards Bjørn ___ 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.
FW: FrameMaker7 to RoboHelp 5 - Online Help Files
Thank you so much for the reply. The documentation talks about saving the FramMaker file as a MIF file and then importing it into RoboHelp. Any thoughts on that? As to what would be the best way. Thank you, Carmen Robards From: Roger Shuttleworth [mailto:rshuttlewo...@avbasesystems.com] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 6:41 AM To: Carmen Robards Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: FW: FrameMaker7 to RoboHelp 5 - Online Help Files Hello Carmen Welcome to the Framers list! You'll find a lot of willing helpers here. The software versions you mention are pretty old, so there may be few people who can give you specific guidance. I don't know whether RH5 can import FM files directly. If it can, that is your way to go. If it cannot, I would suggest: 1. Look in the FM help about saving your document to HTML. I believe you have the option to split the FM document into multiple HTML files whenever it encounters specific paragraph (heading) tags. These options are specified on a reference page called HTML Mapping or something similar. 2. If that reference page doesn't exist, you may have an option on the File menu, perhaps under Utilities, to set up HTML export options. Again, consult the help. 3. Once you have exported the HTML files, import them into your RoboHelp project. Your other options would be: * Investigate whether RH can import a Word document. If it can, save your FM document as RTF (I believe that in FM7 the Japanese RTF export was more reliable and faster), then open it in Word and resave it (as .doc, not .docx). Then import the Word doc into RH. Again, I assume you can break the doc into smaller HTML files based on Word styles. * If the situation will arise again in future and you think it's worth it, consider upgrading to the Tech Communication Suite. In TCS, FM and RH are integrated so that you can link your FM docs into a RH project and create help directly. As a first preparation step to all the above, ensure that your FM document uses consistent tagging with few or no overrides. And after you have converted, expect to have to do a fair amount of cleanup. Hope this helps you. Feel free to post further questions or update the list on your progress. 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: Carmen Robards [mailto:carmenroba...@skylineproducts.com] To: framers at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com] Sent: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:09:25 -0500 Subject: FW: FrameMaker7 to RoboHelp 5 - Online Help Files Hello, Using RoboHelp Version 5 and FrameMaker 7 Unstructured I would appreciate any information on the best way to convert a User Guide developed in FrameMaker 7 into RoboHelp for Online help Of the same software. Thank you, (new to the list) Carmen Robards -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20111118/1d73bcc4/attachment.html>
