RE: Inconsistent Conditional Text Settings that won't go away
Hello Fei, you could try to set the conditional show/hide settings from within the book file. Then it will update al (selected) files in the book with the same settings. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 – Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @NLDITA @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framema...@idtp.eu ___ 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.
Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!
Hi, all (particularly Dov Isaacs, as I seem to remember that you know a lot about Adobe fonts). Over the years, I bought a number of fonts from Adobe (some of them were quite expensive too) for use with FrameMaker. Of course, since these were all purchased _more_ than a decade ago, they are all Type 1 PostScript fonts (i.e, before the TrueType and OpenType formats even existed). Now, I assume that, since my purchases, these fonts have _probably_ been improved and tweaked quite a bit. Plus, there are newer versions in the OpenType format now for many of these fonts (like Adobe Caslon, Adobe Caslon Expert, Adobe Garamond, Adobe Garamond Expert, Tekton ... just to name a few of the ones I purchased)! 1. How can I upgrade (so to speak) these fonts to the latest - presumably OpenType? - versions of the same fonts without having to buy them all over again? I have not seen anything on the Adobe site that would seem to allow such an upgrade. Or would it be considered a supportable download, perhaps? :) Buying new versions these would be quite an expensive proposition, so I am hopeful that you all have some recommendations here! Also, some of these purchases were of Adobe Multiple Master Fonts (or some such name, as I recall). Since the old Adobe Type Manager is not supported under Windows 7, I don't know how to use these with Windows applications anymore - let alone FrameMaker. 2. How do you all deal with these older Adobe Multiple Master Font formats? Am I even asking the right question here? Thanks much for any recommendations/suggestions you all may have. Z ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Frame to Robo Cross Refs: Conversion Unpredictable
I don't have these problems. Are you importing your Frame files or linking them? From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Keith Hansen Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 7:59 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: TCS: Frame to Robo Cross Refs: Conversion Unpredictable Hello, I'm using FrameMaker 11 and RoboHelp 10 in Adobe Technical Communication Suite (TCS) 4. My FrameMaker book is linked to RoboHelp. Assume I have a cross ref like this in Frame: See ABC on page 101. RoboHelp is supposed to convert the cross ref into a hyperlink like this: See ABC. Most of my cross-references are converted correctly, but some are not. (The on page 101 is still there in RoboHelp and the generated WebHelp project.) In Frame, two references may use the same cross reference format... but RoboHelp converts the one cross ref OK but not the other. In fact, I've even copied a cross ref and pasted it into another location in the Frame file. The original cross ref converts OK, but the copied one does not! Anyone else encountered this problem? Any solutions? Thanks much. Keith NOTICE: This e-mail is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise exempt from disclosure. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by replying to the original message at the listed email address. Thank You. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Frame to Robo Cross Refs: Conversion Unpredictable
Two avenues of attack for this - one is to examine the places it worked where it didn't in both the resulting RH topic source FM file - are some xrefs by paragraph and others by marker tag? Conditional text at play here? There has to be something going on in or around the xref to make it convert right/wrong sometimes. The second area would be to do an experiment where you create a new project in RH, use your .isf file from your linked project, and do an import of the FM content (checking to see that all the conversion settings are set to see 'ABC') and see if linking vs. importing is at the source of the problem. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Keith Hansen Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 10:59 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: TCS: Frame to Robo Cross Refs: Conversion Unpredictable Hello, I'm using FrameMaker 11 and RoboHelp 10 in Adobe Technical Communication Suite (TCS) 4. My FrameMaker book is linked to RoboHelp. Assume I have a cross ref like this in Frame: See ABC on page 101. RoboHelp is supposed to convert the cross ref into a hyperlink like this: See ABC. Most of my cross-references are converted correctly, but some are not. (The on page 101 is still there in RoboHelp and the generated WebHelp project.) In Frame, two references may use the same cross reference format... but RoboHelp converts the one cross ref OK but not the other. In fact, I've even copied a cross ref and pasted it into another location in the Frame file. The original cross ref converts OK, but the copied one does not! Anyone else encountered this problem? Any solutions? Thanks much. Keith NOTICE: This e-mail is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise exempt from disclosure. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by replying to the original message at the listed email address. Thank You. ___ 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: FrameMaker9 / XML
Hi Ian This is what I would do: 1. Quick fix: use MIF2Go: www.mif2go.com 2. Long-term solution: use DITA, and you can also use MIF2Go to convert your FM files to DITA. Cheers -- Yves Barbion www.scripto.nu ___ 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: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!
I, too, wish there were an upgrade path for fonts. Though I haven't tried them, something else to look at might be the various font conversion utilities. Searching on font conversion turned up several free online utilities. You can also buy professional conversion utilities at http://www.fontlab.com. Mike Wickham ___ 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: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but ... related in a way!
Thanks for that link, Mike. I will take a look at that site. Although I hazard a guess that this would get me the same info in the new formats, but not really deal, of course, with font corrections/tweaks that the Adobe Designer might have made, or Unicode additions, etc. Z I, too, wish there were an upgrade path for fonts. Though I haven't tried them, something else to look at might be the various font conversion utilities. Searching on font conversion turned up several free online utilities. You can also buy professional conversion utilities at http://www.fontlab.com. Mike Wickham ___ 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: Shift key not working when adjusting a line?
On 15/01/2013 3:48 AM, Harro de Jong wrote: I'm trying to adjust a line, using the shift key to constrain the line to horizontal or vertical. I click on one of the endpoints of an existing line, drag it to its new position and then press Shift to constrain the line. But as soon as I press Shift, the endpoint is 'dropped' at the mouse position instead (with the resulting line being at whatever angle, instead of being constrained to 0 or 90 deg.). It works correctly when I draw a new line, but only if I do this: 1. press Shift 2. click and drag to draw the line. if I do this: 1. click to define the starting point 2. press Shift the endpoint is again set as soon as I press Shift. FM9.0.237, Windows 7 I can't find anything weird in my configuration. A colleague with a similar installation has the same problem. ISTR this working correctly in FM 7, but it's been a few years since I last used that. Is this a bug in FM9? I don't remember the behaviour in FM 7. In FM 10, you must press Shift *before* clicking or dragging, either to create a new line, or to adjust an existing handle. When adjusting a handle after pressing shift, it is the motion of the handle, not the angle of the line, that is constrained to vertical or horizontal. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited 3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3 Toronto, ON, Canada M1W 3K5 +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 http://www.phoenix-geophysics.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.
Jumping toolbar
I am using FM 10 on a Windows 7 system.Here's a new, weird behavior: When I click through the chapters in a book file, a toolbar moves.S[, when I click on the path at the top of the book file, the top row of toolbars looks like this:Red FM icon, followed from left to right with File Edit . . . . Help, then "UI Visibility" Icon, "Arrange Documents" Icon, and "Screen Mode" icon.When I doubleclick a chapter file in the book, the last three icons jump to a separate row, by themselves, at the top of the screen.As I click through the chapters to open them, the three icons jump up and down depending onwhich click of the double-click I'm clicking.It's making me dizzy. Any ideas as to why this is happening and how to stop it?--Nancy ___ 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: TCS: Frame to Robo Cross Refs: Conversion Unpredictable
You can convert using 2 methods: map xref format in RH via File Project Settings FrameMaker Document Edit Cross Reference. Your xref should be set to paratext, not [Source]. manually modify the cross-ref format by creating a conversion template and applying it in RH via File Project Settings Apply Conversion Template Which are you using? Have you tried the other? -Matt Matt Sullivan technical communication | online training | eLearning twitter: @mattrsullivan phone: 714 960-6840 On Jan 15, 2013, at 7:58 AM, Keith Hansen keith.han...@opensolutions.com wrote: I'm using FrameMaker 11 and RoboHelp 10 in Adobe Technical Communication Suite (TCS) 4. My FrameMaker book is linked to RoboHelp. Assume I have a cross ref like this in Frame: See ABC on page 101. RoboHelp is supposed to convert the cross ref into a hyperlink like this: See ABC. Most of my cross-references are converted correctly, but some are not. (The on page 101 is still there in RoboHelp and the generated WebHelp project.) In Frame, two references may use the same cross reference format... but RoboHelp converts the one cross ref OK but not the other. In fact, I’ve even copied a cross ref and pasted it into another location in the Frame file. The original cross ref converts OK, but the copied one does not! ___ 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: TCS Frame to Robo Cross Refs: Conversion Unpredictable
Hello Keith, Yes, I have the same problem. This is a new problem in TCS 4 that did not exist in TCS3. Alan Houser posted the same observation on the TCS-users list last year. He said he noticed that if the target was after the x-ref, the conversion was correct, but if the target was earlier in the documentation set than the x-ref, the page number was incorrectly included in RH. I did a test and found the same. I posted a bug to Adobe back in AUGUST and I heard from a RH engineer. He requested a sample project showing the problem, and I complied. I keep thinking, any day now, there will be a RH update and this will be fixed, but not yet! My workaround is to change all FrameMaker x-refs to $paratext before linking to RH. This is fast enough to do by importing x-ref formats to all chapters, but sometimes I forget and have to regenerate the whole project again. Alexandra ___ 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: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!
With regards to updating old versions of Adobe fonts ... (1)For better or for worse, Adobe has never offered any upgrades for users of individual typefaces or full font families licensed from Adobe. This includes not only the original Type 1 fonts, but also Multiple Master and now OpenType fonts (yes, there have been significant updates and improvements in those fonts since they were first released over a dozen years ago). The only upgrades that Adobe offers are for licensees of the Adobe Font Folio products. (I will not even attempt to provide the business reasons for this or justify it any way, but those were the decisions made. FWIW, Adobe's policies in terms of font upgrades is fairly consistent with industry practice.) (2)Originally, the OpenType format was also supposed to support a Multiple Master flavor of fonts, but this was dropped shortly before the first release of the OpenType fonts due to the objections of Microsoft who refused to support such a feature. When Adobe made the OpenType versions of the Type 1 Multiple Master fonts, it made an individual font to match each and every one of the primary instances of the comparable Type 1 Multiple Master font in terms of weight, style, optical style, etc. In some cases, extra fonts were added to reflect common customized Multiple Master instances that were believed to be in use and of general usefulness to users. Migrating from Multiple Master to OpenType requires you to match the Type 1 Multiple Master font instance with the particular member of the comparable OpenType font family. (3)With regards to converting fonts - let's say from Type 1 to OpenType, we strongly discourage that. Although this may sound self-serving and even assuming you use a product that preserves hinting and metrics, you gain virtually nothing from such conversions other than a repackaging of the font. In producing the OpenType version of its type library, quite a bit of work was done in the area of adjusting and correcting metrics, supporting Unicode, creating links that allow for automatic use of ligatures in page layout programs, easy access to alternative and swash characters, small caps, and old style figures, etc. Given that Adobe hasn't release any Type 1 or Multiple Master fonts in a dozen years, from a business perspective, you can readily declare that your Type 1 fonts from Adobe are fully depreciated. Adobe is not abandoning Type 1 support in any of its products (nor do we have any plans for such abandonment) and we absolutely cannot eliminate Type 1 and Multiple Master support for Acrobat (for the obvious reason that we will forever need to support embedded fonts in existing PDF files). What I typically recommend is for users to continue to use their Type 1 fonts with existing documents and publications and add the OpenType fonts as necessary under any one or more of the following scenarios: (1)You create a new publication (or artwork) or significantly modify the style of an existing publication (or artwork). (2)You need to have cross-platform compatibility for editing. (3)You need access to the typographical and multilingual features (via Unicode) of OpenType fonts. Further note that the OpenType fonts from Adobe have different names (typically suffixed with either Std - standard character sets or Pro - extended character sets often with support for one or more non-Western Latin alphabets) than the Type 1 or Multiple Master fonts they replace. You will need to do some edit work to migrate an existing document to use of OpenType (note that this is where use of paragraph and character styles really pays off handsomely!). We purposely did this renaming in order to avoid any misperception of 100% compatibility of the Type 1 to OpenType migration. There is minor chance of text reflow, but also the possibility of problems with mapping of non-ASCII characters (this is especially true for all characters in fonts such as Symbol, Carta, Sonata, and Zapf Dingbats). -Dov [cid:image001.png@01CDF41A.14B92F20] Dov Isaacs Principal Scientist Adobe Systems Incorporated +1 408.536.2896 (tel) +1 408.242.5161 (cell) isa...@adobe.commailto:isa...@adobe.com 345 Park Avenue San Jose, CA 95110-2704 USA http://www.adobe.comhttp://www.adobe.com/ Feel free to print this e-mail if your needs dictate hard copy. There is no need to feel guilty about printing! Paper is renewable and recyclable. ISAACS-OFFICE.corp.adobe.com From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 12:09 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way! Hi, all (particularly Dov Isaacs, as I seem to remember that you know a lot about Adobe fonts). Over the years, I bought a number of
LaTeX to MIF/MML
It is ok, but it misses a number of packages that are used commonly. I use it sometimes on simple documents only. Alan On 15/01/13 11:52 PM, Harro de Jong wrote: > A quick search brings up this: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/latex2rtf/ > > which claims to convert LaTeX to RTF including style information, this might > yield a better conversion than LaTeX->PDF->RTF. > > Harro de Jong > Triview > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as alan at alphabyte.co.nz. > > 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/alan%40alphabyte.co.nz > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > -- AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland http://www.alphabyte.co.nz
Inconsistent Conditional Text Settings that won't go away
Hello Fei, you could try to set the conditional show/hide settings from within the book file. Then it will update al (selected) files in the book with the same settings. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 ? Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @NLDITA @ien2013 info at idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framemaker at idtp.eu -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130116/487ea083/attachment.html>
Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!
Hi, all (particularly Dov Isaacs, as I seem to remember that you know a lot about Adobe fonts). Over the years, I bought a number of fonts from Adobe (some of them were quite expensive too) for use with FrameMaker. Of course, since these were all purchased _more_ than a decade ago, they are all Type 1 PostScript fonts (i.e, before the TrueType and OpenType formats even existed). Now, I assume that, since my purchases, these fonts have _probably_ been improved and tweaked quite a bit. Plus, there are newer versions in the OpenType format now for many of these fonts (like Adobe Caslon, Adobe Caslon Expert, Adobe Garamond, Adobe Garamond Expert, Tekton ... just to name a few of the ones I purchased)! 1. How can I "upgrade" (so to speak) these fonts to the latest - presumably OpenType? - versions of the same fonts without having to buy them all over again? I have not seen anything on the Adobe site that would seem to allow such an upgrade. Or would it be considered a supportable download, perhaps? :) Buying new versions these would be quite an expensive proposition, so I am hopeful that you all have some recommendations here! Also, some of these purchases were of "Adobe Multiple Master" Fonts (or some such name, as I recall). Since the old Adobe Type Manager is not supported under Windows 7, I don't know how to use these with Windows applications anymore - let alone FrameMaker. 2. How do you all deal with these older Adobe Multiple Master Font formats? Am I even asking the right question here? Thanks much for any recommendations/suggestions you all may have. Z -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130116/293c0ed6/attachment.html>
Frame to Robo Cross Refs: Conversion Unpredictable
I don't have these problems. Are you importing your Frame files or linking them? From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Keith Hansen Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 7:59 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: TCS: Frame to Robo Cross Refs: Conversion Unpredictable Hello, I'm using FrameMaker 11 and RoboHelp 10 in Adobe Technical Communication Suite (TCS) 4. My FrameMaker book is linked to RoboHelp. Assume I have a cross ref like this in Frame: See "ABC" on page 101. RoboHelp is supposed to convert the cross ref into a hyperlink like this: See "ABC". Most of my cross-references are converted correctly, but some are not. (The "on page 101" is still there in RoboHelp and the generated WebHelp project.) In Frame, two references may use the same cross reference format... but RoboHelp converts the one cross ref OK but not the other. In fact, I've even copied a cross ref and pasted it into another location in the Frame file. The original cross ref converts OK, but the copied one does not! Anyone else encountered this problem? Any solutions? Thanks much. Keith NOTICE: This e-mail is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise exempt from disclosure. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by replying to the original message at the listed email address. Thank You. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130116/c1678d48/attachment.html>
Frame to Robo Cross Refs: Conversion Unpredictable
Two avenues of attack for this - one is to examine the places it worked & where it didn't in both the resulting RH topic & source FM file - are some xrefs by paragraph and others by marker tag? Conditional text at play here? There has to be something going on in or around the xref to make it convert right/wrong sometimes. The second area would be to do an experiment where you create a new project in RH, use your .isf file from your linked project, and do an import of the FM content (checking to see that all the conversion settings are set to "see 'ABC'") and see if linking vs. importing is at the source of the problem. From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Keith Hansen Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 10:59 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: TCS: Frame to Robo Cross Refs: Conversion Unpredictable Hello, I'm using FrameMaker 11 and RoboHelp 10 in Adobe Technical Communication Suite (TCS) 4. My FrameMaker book is linked to RoboHelp. Assume I have a cross ref like this in Frame: See "ABC" on page 101. RoboHelp is supposed to convert the cross ref into a hyperlink like this: See "ABC". Most of my cross-references are converted correctly, but some are not. (The "on page 101" is still there in RoboHelp and the generated WebHelp project.) In Frame, two references may use the same cross reference format... but RoboHelp converts the one cross ref OK but not the other. In fact, I've even copied a cross ref and pasted it into another location in the Frame file. The original cross ref converts OK, but the copied one does not! Anyone else encountered this problem? Any solutions? Thanks much. Keith NOTICE: This e-mail is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise exempt from disclosure. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by replying to the original message at the listed email address. Thank You. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130116/cf62f319/attachment.html>
FrameMaker9 / XML
Hi Ian This is what I would do: 1. Quick fix: use MIF2Go: www.mif2go.com 2. Long-term solution: use DITA, and you can also use MIF2Go to convert your FM files to DITA. Cheers -- Yves Barbion www.scripto.nu -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130116/0defdf9f/attachment.html>
Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!
I, too, wish there were an upgrade path for fonts. Though I haven't tried them, something else to look at might be the various font conversion utilities. Searching on "font conversion" turned up several free online utilities. You can also buy professional conversion utilities at http://www.fontlab.com. Mike Wickham
Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but ... related in a way!
Thanks for that link, Mike. I will take a look at that site. Although I hazard a guess that this would get me the same info in the new formats, but not really deal, of course, with font corrections/tweaks that the Adobe Designer might have made, or Unicode additions, etc. Z > I, too, wish there were an upgrade path for fonts. > Though I haven't tried them, something else to look at might be the various > font conversion utilities. Searching on "font conversion" turned up several > free online utilities. You can also buy professional conversion utilities at > http://www.fontlab.com. > Mike Wickham
Shift key not working when adjusting a line?
On 15/01/2013 3:48 AM, Harro de Jong wrote: > > I'm trying to adjust a line, using the shift key to constrain the line > to horizontal or vertical. > > I click on one of the endpoints of an existing line, drag it to its new > position and then press Shift to constrain the line. But as soon as I > press Shift, the endpoint is 'dropped' at the mouse position instead > (with the resulting line being at whatever angle, instead of being > constrained to 0 or 90 deg.). > > It works correctly when I draw a new line, but only if I do this: > 1. press Shift > 2. click and drag to draw the line. > > if I do this: > 1. click to define the starting point > 2. press Shift > the endpoint is again set as soon as I press Shift. > > FM9.0.237, Windows 7 > > I can't find anything weird in my configuration. A colleague with a > similar installation has the same problem. > > ISTR this working correctly in FM 7, but it's been a few years since I > last used that. Is this a bug in FM9? > > I don't remember the behaviour in FM 7. In FM 10, you must press Shift *before* clicking or dragging, either to create a new line, or to adjust an existing handle. When adjusting a handle after pressing shift, it is the motion of the handle, not the angle of the line, that is constrained to vertical or horizontal. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited 3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3 Toronto, ON, Canada M1W 3K5 +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com
Jumping toolbar
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TCS: Frame to Robo Cross Refs: Conversion Unpredictable
You can convert using 2 methods: map xref format in RH via File > Project Settings > FrameMaker Document > Edit > Cross Reference. Your xref should be set to , not [Source]. manually modify the cross-ref format by creating a conversion template and applying it in RH via File > Project Settings > Apply Conversion Template Which are you using? Have you tried the other? -Matt Matt Sullivan technical communication | online training | eLearning twitter: @mattrsullivan phone: 714 960-6840 On Jan 15, 2013, at 7:58 AM, Keith Hansen wrote: > I'm using FrameMaker 11 and RoboHelp 10 in Adobe Technical Communication > Suite (TCS) 4. My FrameMaker book is linked to RoboHelp. > > Assume I have a cross ref like this in Frame: > > See "ABC" on page 101. > > RoboHelp is supposed to convert the cross ref into a hyperlink like this: > > See "ABC". > > Most of my cross-references are converted correctly, but some are not. (The > "on page 101" is still there in RoboHelp and the generated WebHelp project.) > > In Frame, two references may use the same cross reference format... but > RoboHelp converts the one cross ref OK but not the other. In fact, I?ve even > copied a cross ref and pasted it into another location in the Frame file. The > original cross ref converts OK, but the copied one does not! -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130116/8b7766b6/attachment.html>
TCS Frame to Robo Cross Refs: Conversion Unpredictable
Hello Keith, Yes, I have the same problem. This is a new problem in TCS 4 that did not exist in TCS3. Alan Houser posted the same observation on the TCS-users list last year. He said he noticed that if the target was after the x-ref, the conversion was correct, but if the target was earlier in the documentation set than the x-ref, the page number was incorrectly included in RH. I did a test and found the same. I posted a bug to Adobe back in AUGUST and I heard from a RH engineer. He requested a sample project showing the problem, and I complied. I keep thinking, any day now, there will be a RH update and this will be fixed, but not yet! My workaround is to change all FrameMaker x-refs to <$paratext> before linking to RH. This is fast enough to do by importing x-ref formats to all chapters, but sometimes I forget and have to regenerate the whole project again. Alexandra
Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!
ember that you know a lot about Adobe fonts). Over the years, I bought a number of fonts from Adobe (some of them were quite expensive too) for use with FrameMaker. Of course, since these were all purchased _more_ than a decade ago, they are all Type 1 PostScript fonts (i.e, before the TrueType and OpenType formats even existed). Now, I assume that, since my purchases, these fonts have _probably_ been improved and tweaked quite a bit. Plus, there are newer versions in the OpenType format now for many of these fonts (like Adobe Caslon, Adobe Caslon Expert, Adobe Garamond, Adobe Garamond Expert, Tekton ... just to name a few of the ones I purchased)! 1. How can I "upgrade" (so to speak) these fonts to the latest - presumably OpenType? - versions of the same fonts without having to buy them all over again? I have not seen anything on the Adobe site that would seem to allow such an upgrade. Or would it be considered a supportable download, perhaps? :) Buying new versions these would be quite an expensive proposition, so I am hopeful that you all have some recommendations here! Also, some of these purchases were of "Adobe Multiple Master" Fonts (or some such name, as I recall). Since the old Adobe Type Manager is not supported under Windows 7, I don't know how to use these with Windows applications anymore - let alone FrameMaker. 2. How do you all deal with these older Adobe Multiple Master Font formats? Am I even asking the right question here? Thanks much for any recommendations/suggestions you all may have. Z From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Mike Wickham Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 6:51 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way! I, too, wish there were an upgrade path for fonts. Though I haven't tried them, something else to look at might be the various font conversion utilities. Searching on "font conversion" turned up several free online utilities. You can also buy professional conversion utilities at http://www.fontlab.com. Mike Wickham -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130116/9fef4cad/attachment.html> -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 871 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130116/9fef4cad/attachment.png>
FrameMaker 10.x and Windows 8?
I looked back through list discussions and I don't see any discussion of problems/questions/experiences using FrameMaker 10.x and Windows 8... actually I'm not seeing discussions of ANY version of Frame being used with Win8. While I am still using Windows 7 Enterprise, I'm looking at a desktop upgrade later this year and depending on when that occurs, it very well may be that I am forced to use Windows 8 (organizational standards; I won't have an option to remain on Win7). Any reports from the field? Thanks in advance. -Dan -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130116/c6822c00/attachment.html>
Frame to Robo Cross Refs: Conversion Unpredictable
Hi Keith, Try this, Wherever the Framemaker document or book is on your system, copy the complete stuff from there and paste it in Local Disk C:/ of the computer, make sure there is no folder tree like C:/documents/Keith/keith.fm...,the Framemaker document should be in the root folder without any folder tree like only in C:/ Once you have the Framemaker document there, open Robohelp and link the Framemaker document from the new location C:/ and that should fix all your issues with XREF's. Let me know it that worked or not. Regards Harpreet Adobe Systems. From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Coatsworth Sent: 16 January 2013 19:25 To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Frame to Robo Cross Refs: Conversion Unpredictable Two avenues of attack for this - one is to examine the places it worked & where it didn't in both the resulting RH topic & source FM file - are some xrefs by paragraph and others by marker tag? Conditional text at play here? There has to be something going on in or around the xref to make it convert right/wrong sometimes. The second area would be to do an experiment where you create a new project in RH, use your .isf file from your linked project, and do an import of the FM content (checking to see that all the conversion settings are set to "see 'ABC'") and see if linking vs. importing is at the source of the problem. From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com> [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Keith Hansen Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 10:59 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com> Subject: TCS: Frame to Robo Cross Refs: Conversion Unpredictable Hello, I'm using FrameMaker 11 and RoboHelp 10 in Adobe Technical Communication Suite (TCS) 4. My FrameMaker book is linked to RoboHelp. Assume I have a cross ref like this in Frame: See "ABC" on page 101. RoboHelp is supposed to convert the cross ref into a hyperlink like this: See "ABC". Most of my cross-references are converted correctly, but some are not. (The "on page 101" is still there in RoboHelp and the generated WebHelp project.) In Frame, two references may use the same cross reference format... but RoboHelp converts the one cross ref OK but not the other. In fact, I've even copied a cross ref and pasted it into another location in the Frame file. The original cross ref converts OK, but the copied one does not! Anyone else encountered this problem? Any solutions? Thanks much. Keith NOTICE: This e-mail is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise exempt from disclosure. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by replying to the original message at the listed email address. Thank You. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130116/7617159a/attachment.html>
Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!
And while we are on the topic of fonts and FrameMaker, can someone suggest a reasonable way to get the ZapfDingbat font cheaply, since the default FM installation often complains about this font not being available (even using their templates). BTW: I understand Adobe not wanting to license it with its products anymore, but the default replacement that FM substitutes is completely silly. > From: Syed.Hosain at aeris.net > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:08:53 -0800 > Subject: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, > but related in a way! > > > Hi, all (particularly Dov Isaacs, as I seem to remember that you know a > lot about Adobe fonts)... > >
Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but ... related in a way!
Adobe must have done business with them as they now own Macromedia's old product Fontographer. Craig > From: Syed.Hosain at aeris.net > To: info at mikewickham.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com > Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:23:18 -0800 > Subject: RE: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but > ... related in a way! > > Thanks for that link, Mike. I will take a look at that site. >
FrameMaker9 / XML
I use MIF2Go. I can post my settings if you want them. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:37 AM, Ian McDonald wrote: > Hello fellow Framers, > > I'm looking to save small chunks of a FM9 file (9 chapter book, 600 pages) > as XML for use in a standard text/content library.
