Re: [Framers] OT: Screen recording

[Grant Hogarth]

I use OBS to record video. It's free, and works very well with Premiere Pro and 
After Effects. 

⁣Grant

On Aug 7, 2023, 6:19 AM, at 6:19 AM, r...@rickquatro.com wrote:
>Hi All,
>
> 
>
>What is Adobe's preferred screen recording software? Is it still
>Captivate?
>Is there anything in the Creative Suite designed for this? Thank you.
>
> 
>
>Rick
>
> 
>
>Rick Quatro
>
>r...@frameexpert.com <mailto:r...@frameexpert.com> 
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Re: [Framers] Graphics question

[Grant Hogarth]

IIRC, what I used to do with this was to add a very tiny (3pt?) para 
below the image in the frame.  I've also used a graphics tool to add 3pt 
of white/transparent to the bottom of the image.


Grant


-- Original Message --

From "Tammy Van Boening" 

To "Framers List" 
Date 10/19/2022 10:35:27 AM
Subject [Framers] Graphics question


OK,

This is kinda' a combination question, and I hope that I can articulate the 
issue what I am running into. I have many Excel charts/graphics that I must 
incorporate into a manual. My SME has provided these graphics in an Excel 
spreadsheet, with one graphic per tab/sheet.

I have Excel 2016, and there is a known issue that Microsoft NEVER bothered to 
fix in that the Save As Picture option on the graphic context menu (right-click 
the any border of the graphic to open the context menu) just got nuked/blown 
away after some long ago updates and never added back in to the menu, so the 
workaround is to right-click the graphic, select Copy, and then Paste the 
copied graphic into a blank PPT slide. You can then right-click on the graphic 
in PPT and the Save as Picture option is there, so I do this and then save the 
picture as a PNG and it looks just as expected with borders, legends . . . 
Nothing is missing in the pasted graphic.

Now, in both the pasted graphic in PPT and in the saved PNG when opened in 
SnagIT, the bottom border of the graphic is clearly displayed - you can see all 
four borders (top, bottom, and right and left sides); however, when I then 
import the graphic by reference into an anchored frame in Framemaker (2019, 
64-bit), the bottom border NEVER shows - I thought that maybe it was just a 
display funkiness in the source file, but when I save the source file as a PDF, 
and open the PDF and even increase the magnification, the bottom border is just 
not showing, so after I save the chart as a PNG in SnagIt, I then have to 
manually draw in the bottom border over the bottom border that is already 
displayed and then I can save the PNG and import it and the bottom border 
shows. Does this even  make sense?

If anyone has any ideas as to why I am seeing this quirk and what to do about 
it, I would sincerely appreciate it.

TVB

Tammy Van Boening
Tammy dot vanboening at spectrumwritingllc dot com
www.spectrumwritingllc.com

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Re: [Framers] FM10 templates

[Grant Hogarth]

here you are. Right from the Adobe 10 source!  :-)

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Sent: 8/4/2021 12:28:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Framers] FM10 templates


My http://lauriston.com/fm10_link_to_rh9.zip is for FrameMaker 10.
Just ignore the RoboHelp part. Not a newsletter layout but you could
modify it pretty easily.

Or try LibreOffice Writer.

On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 9:37 AM Ken Poshedly  wrote:


 Hey gang,
 I'm now doing a company newsletter (contract job) and could use some help in locating a 
few FrameMaker 10 (yes, "10") newsletter templates. (I'm retired and on SS, so 
upgrading to subscription-only FM is out of the question. Plus, I own what I have and it 
works just fine for my needs.)
 My client is a family-owned construction company and I have a sample of one of the 
previous company newsletters (done in [ugh!] Word), but prefer to do mine in Frame, since 
Word just seems to glitch frequently with me. The sample is attractive, but has no 
general layout "theme" (at least to me).

 I've done the usual online search and see nice things, but prefer not to have 
to actually build headings and styles and such from scratch if a ready-made 
template is available.

 So any ideas for FM10 newsletter templates? Anybody? Beuhler?
 -- Ken in Atlanta
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Re: [Framers] Using vector images in Frame

[Grant Hogarth]

I agree. What I was describing was a vector file that contained a PNG, and 
which the client called a "vector PNG". 
[And the client is always right... ]

⁣Grant

On Dec 14, 2020, 5:14 PM, at 5:14 PM, Robert Lauriston  
wrote:
>PNG is a raster format. It can't contain vector image data. (Adobe
>Fireworks used the PNG extension but included a lot of incompatible
>stuff.)
>
>Most vector file formats can also contain bitmaps. It used to be
>common that users didn't understand why EPS images looked terrible in
>FrameMaker, where they were looking at a low-res bitmap preview, and
>fine when printed.
>
>On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 11:03 AM Grant Hogarth 
>wrote:
>>
>> When I've seen "Vector PNG" images before, it's usually a Vector
>> (AI/EPS/SVG) portion laid over a raster (PNG) image.  So part of it
>will
>> render/scale nicely, but the other (depending on how large the source
>> image is) does not.
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Re: [Framers] Using vector images in Frame

[Grant Hogarth]

When I've seen "Vector PNG" images before, it's usually a Vector 
(AI/EPS/SVG) portion laid over a raster (PNG) image.  So part of it will 
render/scale nicely, but the other (depending on how large the source 
image is) does not.


Grant

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Sent: 11/30/2020 1:27:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Framers] Using vector images in Frame


Hmmm ... PNG is not a vector format - it is a bitmap ("raster") too.

So, I am not sure what format your illustrator actually provided!

Z

Sparky Anderson wrote:

 I have another image my illustrator provided...apparently it's a vector PNG.  
If I add it to the FM file and then Publish it to HTML5, the image loses 
sharpness when I zoom up the HTML.  Apparently Frame rasterizes it during the 
publication process?  Is there a way to make Frame not rasterize images?  If I 
replace the rasterized image when the original vector PNG, I can zoom up the 
HTML without losing clarity.

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Re: [Framers] FM on Next - question from a nostalgic person

[Grant Hogarth]

Well, Huh! 

Guess my memory isn't all that reliable. I had it in my head that the 
NeXT only had a CDROM drive for external media.


Thanks for this, Robert.

On 6/15/20 2:16 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:

FM3 for NextStep came on five floppy disks.

https://fsck.technology/software/NeXT/NeXTSTEP%20Applications/Framemaker%203.0%20NeXTSTEP/

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 12:39 PM Grant Hogarth  wrote:

As one of the writers who wrote the documentation for that generation of
FM (Chris Despopoulos was part of that crew), I recall that most of the
documentation was included on the delivery media (for NeXT, that would
have been a CD). Unfortunately, I don't have (that I know of), a copy
any more. As Robert Lauriston notes, that documentation should be in the
FrameMaker directories (under "Manuals", as I recall).

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Re: [Framers] FM on Next - question from a nostalgic person

[Grant Hogarth]

As one of the writers who wrote the documentation for that generation of 
FM (Chris Despopoulos was part of that crew), I recall that most of the 
documentation was included on the delivery media (for NeXT, that would 
have been a CD). Unfortunately, I don't have (that I know of), a copy 
any more. As Robert Lauriston notes, that documentation should be in the 
FrameMaker directories (under "Manuals", as I recall).


Good luck!

On 6/15/20 12:23 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:

I wrote software reviews for Nextworld back in those days, and I don't
recall any printed documentation. The documentation for the operating
system, FrameMaker, etc. was all on disk. If you rummage around in the
FrameMaker directories, you should find it somewhere.

Next's own docs are online: http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Docs/

NextStep is still in development. The latest release is MacOS 10.15.

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 8:53 AM Klaus Daube  wrote:

Dear friends
I got the following mail (see the original at the end):


My name is Dr Ralf Alexander Kohler and by chance I visited your website.
Although, technically, it wasn't a coincidence at all, because I was searching
the Internet for documentation for FrameMaker 3.2  20 years ago I bought a
NextStation with Framemaker 3.2 installed. The plan at the time was to use it to
write my dissertation. Unfortunately, the computer broke down and I had to
switch to Linux/Latex. But now I have succeeded to build a Next computer
emulation with the exact working environment I had back then. While it's not
more than just a gimmick, I still would like to continue using FrameMaker. Now
my question: Do you happen to know if there is any documentation for NextStation
at all? And if so, how can I get it? I only found documentation for FM version
5.0 on the net, but not anything to Next Computer. I would be very interested in
your answer.

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Re: [Framers] Revisiting graphic formats, png or something else?

[Grant Hogarth]

I agree completely with Syed. PNG is the way to go if at all possible.

Grant

On Jun 3, 2019, 4:38 PM, at 4:38 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain  
wrote:
>For screen captures, using PNG is the best way to go, IMHO. In our
>modern web/storage era, the size of HTML files should not be a
>constraint here.
>
>JPG is for pictures (can create pixel artifacts with images like screen
>captures - random dots with colors not from the original, etc.).
>
>GIF (at least the earlier formats) is too restrictive in the number of
>possible colors - this may not be an issue with your images, but why
>bother worrying about it.
>
>Z
>
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> On Behalf
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>Sent: Sunday, June 2, 2019 5:45 AM
>To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software.
>
>Subject: [Framers] Revisiting graphic formats, png or something else?
>
>Hi
>
>I create PDF files, which are generally viewed on screen, and possibly
>printed by end-users from time to time, and responsive HTML help files.
>
>The user guides contain screen captures in .png format.
>
>Keeping the size of the HTML files down in important.
>
>Is there are better option than png?
>
>thanks
>
>--
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>Technical/Marcom Writer
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Re: [Framers] Extracting images

[Grant Hogarth]

Save as HTML, then pull it from the images folder.
Grant Hogarth

-- Original Message --
From: "Doug" 
To: "Framers" 
Sent: 12/14/2018 8:22:43 AM
Subject: [Framers] Extracting images


What's the best way to extract images from Word or from Frame that are
embedded and not inserted by reference?

I have one particular image that is composed of detailed line art, about an
inch wide by 6 inches high.  I loaded the DOC into Frame and the detail is
still sharp and clear, but all attempts to get extract it to an image file
on disk have resulted in a loss of sharpness/clarity.

Ideas?

Doug


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Re: [Framers] Retired

[Grant Hogarth]

Enjoy your time at rest.

We will miss you on Framers!

On Nov 26, 2018, 9:23 AM, at 9:23 AM, Keith Soltys  wrote:
>As of last Wednesday, I am now retired, courtesy of a sudden but not 
>entirely unexpected lay off from the TMX Group (basically the Toronto 
>Stock Exchange) where I've been for the last seventeen years. This will
>
>likely end any further use of FrameMaker on my part, as I won't be 
>looking for full-time work again.
>
>I'd like to thank everyone on this list and in the Frame community for 
>their help over the years. This list has been a great resource and I 
>hope I've been able to pay some of it back.
>
>Regards
>
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Re: [Framers] Spelling bee champs out there?

[Grant Hogarth]

Well, so much for those theories  

-- Original Message --
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To: "'An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software.'" 
; "'Grant Hogarth'" 


Sent: 10/30/2018 5:48:20 PM
Subject: RE: [Framers] Spelling bee champs out there?

Nope, no cut and paste. Original text only. I am the author. And it is 
the

app as it is flagged in other documents as well.

Thanks!

TVB

Tammy Van Boening
Tammy dot vanboening at spectrumwritingllc dot com
www.spectrumwritingllc.com

-Original Message-
From: Framers
 
On

Behalf Of Stephen Rickaby
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2018 1:12 AM
To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software.
; 'Grant Hogarth' 
Subject: Re: [Framers] Spelling bee champs out there?

At 19:32 -0600 25/10/18,  wrote:


...if anyone has any ideas, I would appreciate it.  (I can't believe
it, but yet I can, that FM would be buggy for this one word!)


Maybe it's just FrameMaker being a bit more human. I have a few words 
that I

can't abide. Such as 'deal' ;-)

To be sensible for a moment (why?), is there any possibility that your
source document has been compiled from some cut and paste operation 
that has

resulted in each instance of the problem word containing, say, hidden
characters?

I ask because whenever I work on a document with a lot of repetition, I 
use

a text expander instead of endlessly typing, say,
antidisestablishmentarianism or whatever, and if the source word in the
expander somehow has cruft in it, you get that cruft in every instance 
of
the word. I have also programmed the expander with my all favorite 
typos:

maybe your author got sick of typing 'hieght' and then correcting it?

Just a thought... Other than that, maybe try a reinstall of FrameMaker? 
But

odds on it's a problem with the document rather than with the app.

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Re: [Framers] Spelling bee champs out there?

[Grant Hogarth]

Good thought Stephen!
Alternatively, a "lookalike" character from a different alphabet?
Grant

-- Original Message --
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Sent: 10/26/2018 1:11:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Framers] Spelling bee champs out there?


At 19:32 -0600 25/10/18,  wrote:

...if anyone has any ideas, I would appreciate it.  (I can't believe 
it, but

yet I can, that FM would be buggy for this one word!)


Maybe it's just FrameMaker being a bit more human. I have a few words 
that I can't abide. Such as 'deal' ;-)


To be sensible for a moment (why?), is there any possibility that your 
source document has been compiled from some cut and paste operation 
that has resulted in each instance of the problem word containing, say, 
hidden characters?


I ask because whenever I work on a document with a lot of repetition, I 
use a text expander instead of endlessly typing, say, 
antidisestablishmentarianism or whatever, and if the source word in the 
expander somehow has cruft in it, you get that cruft in every instance 
of the word. I have also programmed the expander with my all favorite 
typos: maybe your author got sick of typing 'hieght' and then 
correcting it?


Just a thought... Other than that, maybe try a reinstall of FrameMaker? 
But odds on it's a problem with the document rather than with the app.


--
Steve


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Re: [Framers] Spelling bee champs out there?

[Grant Hogarth]

In earlier versions you could edit the site.dict file.

According to the Adobe forums (https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1148638):
In later versions, the Adobe dictionaries are located in a Linguistics 
folder. The exact location varies depending upon the O/S, but in Windows 
the Linguistics files can be found at any of these locations depending 
upon your operating system and installation location (typically drive 
C:, but can vary):

 \Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Linguistics
  \Documents and Settings\username\Application 
Data\Adobe\Linguistics

  \users\username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Linguistics
That said, I was not able to find a dictionary file (as such) in any of 
these folders.


See also:
https://forums.adobe.com/message/7970974#7970974

-- Original Message --
From: tamm...@spectrumwritingllc.com
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Sent: 10/25/2018 3:17:08 PM
Subject: [Framers] Spelling bee champs out there?

OK, working on a document where the word "height" is used frequently 
(object
modeling software app.)  Framemaker 12 keeps flagging this as a 
misspelled
word - say what? I have tried to add it to a Dictionary, make it allow 
the
word, learn the word,  and no joy. It keeps barfing on me w/ the 
message
that I first must Deselect the corresponding Find setting in the 
Spelling

Checker Options dialog box.



OK, I will admit - in all my years of working w/ FM, I have never seen 
this
message before and why FM keeps throwing up on a correctly spelled word 
is
beyond me. Where is this Spelling Checker Options dialog box and why 
this

message?



Thanks!



TVB



Tammy Van Boening

Tammy dot vanboening at spectrumwritingllc dot com

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Re: [Framers] Happy Birthday Rick

[Grant Hogarth]

What Julie said!  :-)
You are a treasure.
Grant

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To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Sent: 10/25/2018 5:10:54 AM
Subject: [Framers] Happy Birthday Rick

Belated happy birthday, Rick. Hope you had a wonderful day and the 60s 
can
be a fulfilling and rewarding time. Especially with you around to make 
our

FrameMaker lives a little bit easier and less frustrating.

Julie

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Re: [Framers] Frame2017 slow on network??

[grant]

   I've had that problem as well.  As I understand it, it has to do with
   handshaking protocols and packet prioritization.

   The best answer I have found is to work on the files locally, and then
   save them back up to the network drive. Suboptimal, but faster.

   Grant

 On August 17, 2018 at 12:20 PM Bernard Aschwanden
 <[1]bern...@publishingsmarter.com> wrote:
 If it is slow on the network I don't know if it's fair to blame
 FrameMaker
 specifically. It *might* be, but my best guess is the network may be
 the
 issue. I've worked with files on a slow and a fast network (or at
 slow and
 fast times at client sites) and it can make a HUGE impact on the
 content. I
 find that if the traffic is high and the network isn't supporting it
 (or if
 it's on a CCMS that is remotely hosted) the result is "slow FM" but
 the
 cause is outside of Adobe's sphere of control.
 Bernard
 -Original Message-
 From: Framers
 [mailto:[2]framers-bounces+bernard=publishingsmarter.com@lists.frame
 users.com]
 On Behalf Of Jules Harrell
 Sent: Friday, August 17, 2018 2:16 PM
 To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software.
 Subject: SPAM -> Re: [Framers] Frame2017 slow on network??
 I had the same problem. Seems like the old FrameMaker I once knew
 and loved
 is no longer in existence.
 Jules
 On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 10:29 AM, Caroline Tabach
 <[3]caroline.tab...@gmail.com

 wrote:

 Hi,

 Our purchase of Frame went through.

 I am working on Frame 2017, with my files on the network

 In the past I always worked locally.

 FrameMaker seems a bit slow to me.

 Is this owing to working from the network?

 >
 >

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Re: [Framers] Perpetual Newbie Question #2: Lists of Para and Char Tags

[Grant Hogarth]

Create a book for the files, and then generate a list of the paragraph 
and character tags.  (These will be separate lists). The Silicon Prairie 
tools are also good.

Grant

-- Original Message --
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Sent: 8/9/2018 9:26:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Framers] Perpetual Newbie Question #2


I believe Delete All Unused Formats was added in FM10.

In earlier releases I used Silicon Prairie's Character Tools and
Paragraph Tools:

https://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/

On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 4:12 AM, Doug  wrote:

On the Paragraph/Character Catalog window there's a gear icon.  When
clicked it shows a list of options, one of which is to Show Only 
Unused

Formats, another of which is Delete All Unused Formats.  I find those
options to be the easiest way to clean up a document's catalogs.

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 10:48 PM, Dennis Brunnenmeyer <
dennis.brunnenme...@gmail.com> wrote:


I'm back with another basic question:

I assume it's not rocket science, but then my last year as an actual 
rocket
scientist was early in 1970. Is there an straightforward way to get a 
list

of all of the paragraph and character tags actually used in a given
FrameMaker 7.2 document, thereby making it easy to purge those two
catalogs?

I apologize if I've overlooked something that should be obvious. 
Thanks in

advance for your help (again)!

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Re: [Framers] SVG graphic with photograph not importing

[Grant Hogarth]

Robert makes a good point, but if no one is expecting a magical increase 
in resolution, the standardization on graphic type makes sense.



-- Original Message --
From: "Robert Lauriston" 
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Sent: 7/20/2018 12:17:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Framers] SVG graphic with photograph not importing


When you export the SVG with the embedded bitmap to PDF, is it still
missing? FrameMaker can't always preview vector images.

You're wasting your time embedding bitmaps in SVGs. It's still a
bitmap, so if someone zooms in it you'll start seeing the graininess.
Only the vector portions of the SVG will stay sharp.

On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 10:45 AM, Lin Sims  wrote:
I created a Visio diagram by pasting a photograph onto a sheet and 
adding a
text label, then grouping the two together and saving the file first 
as a

Visio diagram (.vsdx) and then as an SVG file. Visio is set to
automatically display SVG files in a web browser so I can check that 
things
converted correctly. They seemed to; both the picture and the text 
label

showed up.

But when I import that same SVG file into FrameMaker, the only thing 
that's
visible is the text label I added. Even though the anchored graphic 
imports
at a size indicating that the entire SVG graphic is there, the 
photograph

isn't visible.

At the moment I'm converting to JPG so I can get a visible image, but 
I'm
wondering if this is a Visio issue (doubting: it shows up correctly in 
the
browser), or a FrameMaker issue, or something I haven't the knowledge 
of to

even suspect.

Has anyone encountered this before? Is it known what might be the 
cause? Is
there a fix so I can use SVG? (NB: We use SVG because we produce PDFs, 
and

if someone zooms in or out the graphic doesn't get grainy 'n stuff.)

Also, is it just me or has the list been very, VERY quiet the last 
couple

of weeks?

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Re: [Framers] SVG graphic with photograph not importing

[Grant Hogarth]

Thought: could FrameMaker be interpreting the transparency of the label 
layer differently for this image?
Although given the other images coming in correctly, perhaps there is 
something in that original photo that has a transparency issue.


Grant

-- Original Message --
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Sent: 7/20/2018 12:09:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Framers] SVG graphic with photograph not importing

I don't work with them, but isn't there some sort of "flattening" thing 
you need to do with SVG images that have different layers in them?




From: Framers 
 on 
behalf of Lin Sims 

Sent: July 20, 2018 2:04 PM
To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software.
Subject: Re: [Framers] SVG graphic with photograph not importing

True. I'm just trying to keep to the standards we're setting, which 
call

for using SVG files for all graphics.

The REALLY odd thing is that other SVG files made the same way work
perfectly. It's just these 3. Maybe I should try importing the 
photograph

instead of doing a copy and paste of it

On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 1:58 PM, Rick Quatro  
wrote:



Hi Lin,

I am not sure what the svg issue is and I am not familiar with Visio, 
but

if
you can make a PDF of the image from Visio, that should maintain text
clarity in the final PDF from FrameMaker.

Rick

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
r...@frameexpert.com
585-729-6746 NEW!



-Original Message-
From: Framers 


On
Behalf Of Lin Sims
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2018 1:45 PM
To: Frame Users 
Subject: [Framers] SVG graphic with photograph not importing

I created a Visio diagram by pasting a photograph onto a sheet and 
adding a
text label, then grouping the two together and saving the file first 
as a

Visio diagram (.vsdx) and then as an SVG file. Visio is set to
automatically
display SVG files in a web browser so I can check that things 
converted
correctly. They seemed to; both the picture and the text label showed 
up.


But when I import that same SVG file into FrameMaker, the only thing 
that's
visible is the text label I added. Even though the anchored graphic 
imports
at a size indicating that the entire SVG graphic is there, the 
photograph

isn't visible.

At the moment I'm converting to JPG so I can get a visible image, but 
I'm
wondering if this is a Visio issue (doubting: it shows up correctly in 
the
browser), or a FrameMaker issue, or something I haven't the knowledge 
of to

even suspect.

Has anyone encountered this before? Is it known what might be the 
cause? Is
there a fix so I can use SVG? (NB: We use SVG because we produce PDFs, 
and

if someone zooms in or out the graphic doesn't get grainy 'n stuff.)

Also, is it just me or has the list been very, VERY quiet the last 
couple

of
weeks?
--
Lin Sims
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Re: [Framers] Final note about Adobe Licensing

[Grant Hogarth]

Some of us use both; different clients have different requirements.
Grant

-- Original Message --
From: "Jack DeLand" 
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Sent: 6/26/2018 9:39:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Framers] Final note about Adobe Licensing

Few people are more Flare-dedicated than me, but I don't think I'll 
leave this list, either. Too much good info & good people, plus I still 
use FM for my book.



Jack DeLand • Principal
Adam Charles Consulting, LLC

734 972 3026

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackdeland/
http://www.adamcharlesconsulting.com/

-Original Message-
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Of Eichelberger, Mark (King of Prussia)

Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 11:34 AM
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Subject: Re: [Framers] Final note about Adobe Licensing

Jack,
I just have not gotten around to unsubscribing to this list.  I 
probably will one day, but I have not yet decided to cut the cord 
completely.


-Original Message-
From: Framers 
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Behalf Of Jack DeLand

Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 11:26 AM
To: 'An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software.' 


Subject: Re: [Framers] Final note about Adobe Licensing

And now I wonder how many closet Flare users are on this list. 

Jack DeLand • Principal
Adam Charles Consulting, LLC

734 972 3026

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackdeland/
http://www.adamcharlesconsulting.com/

-Original Message-
From: Framers 
 On Behalf 
Of Rick Quatro

Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 11:25 AM
To: 'An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software.' 


Subject: Re: [Framers] Final note about Adobe Licensing

Mark,

Now that you are a couple of years into it, it would be good to hear 
what your satisfaction is with Flare versus FrameMaker. Thanks.


Rick

Rick Quatro
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-Original Message-
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Eichelberger, Mark (King of Prussia)

Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 10:55 AM
To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. 


Subject: Re: [Framers] Final note about Adobe Licensing

All of these posts regarding Adobe's poor support/abandonment of FM are 
one of the reasons why my company decided to focus on another tool and 
migrate away from FM.  All of the technical publications staff 
(including me) are now using Madcap Flare and we have just completed a 
2 year migration of all FM documents into Flare.   It was a bit sad to 
say goodbye to FM, but the handwriting was on the wall.



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Re: [Framers] Follow up to Adobe "support"

[Grant Hogarth]

paint.net also works well, and is donation-supported.

⁣Sent from Blue ​

On Jun 7, 2018, 12:12 PM, at 12:12 PM, Rick Quatro  wrote:
>Plus, you still need a Photoshop-like tool. You may want to look at
>Affinity
>Photo. I haven't tried it yet, but for $50 and no subscription, it may
>be a
>good choice.
>
>Rick Quatro
>Carmen Publishing Inc.
>r...@frameexpert.com
>585-729-6746 NEW!
>
>
>
>-Original Message-
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> On
>Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
>Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2018 3:08 PM
>To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software.
>
>Subject: Re: [Framers] Follow up to Adobe "support"
>
>Flare's superior to FrameMaker + ePublisher Pro in most ways, but as
>with
>any topic-based single-sourcing tool, getting professional-looking PDFs
>can
>be a lot of work, and you might spend a lot of time dealing with bad
>page
>breaks.
>
>On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 11:06 AM,  
>wrote:
>
>> I was evaluating two approaches for a new client project - either 
>> Flare or Adobe FM/ePub and guess what? Adobe just made the decision 
>> for me like that
>> - Flare here I come.
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Re: [Framers] ANN: I owe taxes sale!

[Grant Hogarth]

Made my contribution/investment. :-)
Thanks Rick!
Grant

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Subject: [Framers] ANN: I owe taxes sale!


Hi Framers,
I have a big tax bill coming up on the 15th so I decided to have a sale 
on
all of my FrameMaker solutions. Single licenses are all $19 each and 
site
licenses, including the source code, are $99 each. Each script works 
with
FrameMaker 10 and higher and does not require FrameScript. Now is a 
good

time to increase your FrameMaker productivity! Thank you very much.

http://www.frameexpert.com/store

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Re: [Framers] Framers Digest, Vol 142, Issue 17

[grant]

   Catherine, If you are importing images or PDF files, that font might be
   in one of those.

   An alternative is to edit maker.ini and alias SymbolBolded to Symbol,
   Bold.

   Grant

 On January 29, 2018 at 3:54 PM Catherine Forrest wrote:
 Stefan, SymbolBolded is reported as missing even though the docs
 have no bolded symbols. The Symbol character tag with no weight is
 applied.
 SymbolBolded is not in the Fonts pod. I've searched for it with no
 luck. It's not on the body, reference, or master pages. I've even
 looked at one of the MIF files and didn't see Symbol Bolded
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 Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 19:18:04 +
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 Which font (exactly) was reported as missing before you tried to get
 rid of it by turning off "Remember missing font names"? And which
 font (exactly) is reported as missing now?
 I'm asking, because FM replaces fonts by a standard mappings (see
 maker.ini). And maybe something like "Fontname1 Heavy" was replaced
 with "Fontname2 Heavy" (which might be not present as well) or
 somethings replacement problems come up with Bold, Italic,
 BoldItalic replacements.
 ?
 Regards,
 Stefan Gentz
 Adobe Worldwide TechComm Evangelist
 ??
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 Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 20:19:09 +
 From: Stefan Gentz
 To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software.
 Subject: Re: [Framers] Simplified Chinese and Latin Quotation Marks
 Message-ID:
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
 Hi,
 Heiko Haida wrote:

 the symbols U+201C and U+201D have to be used for the double quotes
 (in Simplified Chinese).

 At least as long as it's actually a "Quotation Mark." (for a
 quotation).
 If it's a title mark (e.g. for a book, or e.g. a chapter heading)
 fullwidth double angle brackets should be used as primary quotes):
 ??? (U+300A left double angle bracket, U+300B right double angle
 bracket)
 For embedding fullwidth single angle brackets, ??? (U+3008 left
 angle bracket, U+3009 right 

Re: [Framers] Simplified Chinese and Latin Quotation Marks

[grant]

   Hi Rick;

   It's been a while, but I as I recall, the only way I found was to do a
   S for these characters.  That was back in FM7 or so, so things may
   have changed.

   Grant

 On January 25, 2018 at 1:18 PM Rick Quatro wrote:
 Hi Framers,
 I have a structured FrameMaker 2017 document that has been
 translated to Simplified Chinese. Some of the cross-reference
 formats have double quotes in them, like
 See “<$paratext>” on page <$pagenum>.
 The text has been translated but the quotes and building blocks are
 still there. The problem is that with the Chinese there are
 sometimes line breaks after the open quote and before the close
 quote, depending on where the cross-reference falls on the line. For
 example, the close quote in the text below is on the second line by
 itself instead of bring the whole quoted text down with it.
 燃油加注口盖。请参见第 97 页的 “ 燃油加注
 ”
 The same thing happens if an open quote falls as the end of the
 line; it stays there and the rest of the quoted text moves to the
 next line. Is there a way to prevent these line breaks? Thank you
 very much.
 Rick
 Rick Quatro
 Carmen Publishing Inc.
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Re: [Framers] OT-Documenting APIs

[Grant Hogarth]

Hi Shmuel
You are correct.  The second form are usually called REST or RESTful 
applications.
The main difference from our perspective is that for the REST type, you 
really do need to provide a lot more "recipes" for how the various HTTP 
requests (GET, POST, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS, etc.) are used, and 
which requests are and are not supported.
This is because the same API will behave (and respond) differently 
depending on the type of request being made. A GET, for example, only 
returns information from the target, while a POST or PATCH will change 
the target.
A use case (highly recommended), should show how a user would make a 
request using a GET to retrieve information (for example, the name of 
the resource), and then use a PATCH to change the name.


For my own purposes, I define an "Example" as a single use of a command 
or call/request, and a "Use Case" as a collection of commands/calls that 
show how the user would achieve a desired task. By analogy, a Use Case 
is a routine that is composed of subroutines, while an Example would be 
a single-operation sub-routine.


Does this help?
Grant

-- Original Message --
From: "Shmuel Wolfson" <shmue...@gmail.com>
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Sent: 11/23/2017 3:59:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Framers] OT-Documenting APIs

Just to add to what others have mentioned, I did a search for "API 
documentation" on Udemy.com and there is a nice list of API courses:

https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?q=api%20documentation

I think there are two different types of APIs:
1. A list if software functions
2. Web-based commands that allow you to interact with website 
applications


The two types seem very different. I write software reference manuals 
that are like #1 above, but the API documentation examples here don't 
look anything like what I write:

https://github.com/PharkMillups/beautiful-docs

Could someone verify if this is correct or not?

--
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Re: [Framers] OT-Documenting APIs

[Grant Hogarth]

Hi Allison.
I've done a fair bit of API documentation, so feel free to ask me 
questions.


The thing to remember is that basically an API doc is a cookbook. You 
are providing the recipe and cooking instructions.


Most APIs these days are in some variant of XML (XML, YAML, YANG, etc.), 
so being comfortable reading XML is a good start.  W3schools has really 
good reference material.


The other big thing is being able to read the source material and parse 
it out.
XSD files are often used for these, but so are .yang and .json files. 
yang.org and json.org have good references.

There are two significant areas for TWs in the source.
1) the Description section.  This should clearly explain what the 
element being described does.
2) the criteria section. This is basically everything else in the 
element description.  While some programmers are really OCD about doing 
a complete set, others are lazy (or have been distracted).

At a minimum, you need to check for
* name
* type (uint, date, string, etc.)
* units (if required)
* optional/required
* values and restrictions This can get broken out as min/max values, 
default, special values (such as -1), etc. These may be separate items 
or a single item.  You will often find this information buried in the 
description, which is (IMO) not correct.

---
Depending on your application, there may be other types of values (for 
example a mapping app might have directions), a financial app might have 
currencies, etc.)


Note that the "type" may be something your dev team has cobbled up. If 
so, you will need to find the file that they defined the type and then 
locate the definition. (usually with a defType statement)


If you are doing RESTful APIs, check out 
https://gist.github.com/iros/3426278


If you can pick your own tools, then grab a copy of Notepad++, if only 
to use it as a scratch pad.


Once you have all tee information, then you need to work with your PM do 
determine how much reference information you need to provide.  Much of 
this (as always) depends on the target audience.  I've done really basic 
stuff for experts, and full-on "this is what REST is and this is what a 
.yang file looks like" material.  At the very least, you need to provide 
information on how the users (usually developers, but not always), will 
connect to your system, what files are required, what correct out put 
will look line and so on.


That should get you started.


-- Original Message --
From: "Jeff Coatsworth" 
To: "An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software." 


Sent: 11/23/2017 7:03:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Framers] OT-Documenting APIs

Write the Docs has a Slack channel and a forum under their umbrella 
(along with an annual conference and meetups all over the world).


-Original Message-
From: Framers 
[mailto:framers-bounces+jeff.coatsworth=jonasclub@lists.frameusers.com] 
On Behalf Of Shmuel Wolfson

Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2017 5:03 AM
To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. 
; Rick Quatro 

Subject: Re: [Framers] OT-Documenting APIs

Are www.writethedocs.org and writethedocs.slack.com the same?


On 22-Nov-17 10:26 PM, Rick Quatro wrote:

Hi Craig,

You might want to check out:

http://www.writethedocs.org/


Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
r...@frameexpert.com
585-366-4017



-Original Message-
From: Framers
[mailto:framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro@lists.frameusers.com] On
Behalf Of A Craig
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2017 3:22 PM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: [Framers] OT-Documenting APIs

I'm writing the list because I hope someone here can answer my OT 
question.




I'm currently doing contract work while I search for a new full-time 
job.

The problem (for me) is that a *lot* of Tech writing jobs here in the
Vancouver, Canada, area include documenting APIs. Unfortunately, I
have zero experience in this area.



Given this fact, I'm wondering if anyone knows of an online course(s)
I could take to how to do this.



If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to answer me off-list:
acr...@shaw.ca 



Alison Craig



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Re: [Framers] [WTF ramemaker] RE: Anyone know of a way to include a non-breaking hyphen/dash in a variable definition?

[grant]

   Ctrl+Shift(hyphen)

 On October 10, 2017 at 12:36 PM David Artman 
 wrote:

 How about:
 \x15
 ...or:
 \x2011
 ...?
 \x15 is a VERY old way to do it, but perhaps not hamstrung yet? The
 \x2011 is me guessing at a way the modern Unicode hex value could be
 inserted for interpretation by FM.
 Alternately, type one or insert one using the symbols palette, copy
 it, and see if it pastes into the definition?

 There's GOT to be a way... similarly, thinspace is often a critical
 one, for volatile (or scoped/personalized) measurements and their
 units of measure.

 HTH;
 David

 - Original Message - Subject: Re: [Framers] [WTF
 ramemaker] RE: Anyone know of a way to include a non-breaking
 hyphen/dash in a variable definition?
 From: "Art Campbell" 
 Date: 10/10/17 2:23 pm
 To: "Rick Quatro" 
 Cc: "Framers List"
 , "An email list
 for people using Adobe FrameMaker software."
 

 Nope, that's not it...

 Art Campbell
 ...

 On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Rick Quatro 
 wrote:

 Hi Art,

 Try \+ in the dialog box.

 Rick

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 hyphen/dash in a variable definition?

 On FM '17
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Re: [Framers] Converting to Word for Review

[Grant Hogarth]

I agree with Rick, but would recommend (if there is the budget) a 
third-party PDF->Word converter, such as ABBYFine Reader.


Grant

-- Original Message --
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To: "'An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software.'" 
<framers@lists.frameusers.com>

Sent: 7/11/2017 7:26:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Framers] Converting to Word for Review

The PDF export seems a bit more reliable, plus you can export your 
entire
book. With FrameMaker, you can only do one file at a time. Neither way 
is

reliable for round-tripping back to FrameMaker.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
r...@frameexpert.com
585-366-4017



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Behalf

Of Caroline Tabach
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 8:37 AM
To: 'framers@lists.frameusers.com'
Subject: [Framers] Converting to Word for Review

Hi
Converting Frame to Word for review
What do you recommend
Export from PDF or Export from Frame?  Version 2015

Caroline Tabach
Technical/Marcom Writer
T. +972-77-7745-042
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Re: [Framers] Search for text + tag?

[Grant Hogarth]

Another way to do this would be to
1. Save as MIF.
2. Locate the first instance in a text editor (I prefer Notepad++)
3. Copy that string.
4. Search and Replace the string.
5. Save the MIF.
6. Reopen in FM.

-- Original Message --
From: "Karen Robbins" 
To: "framers@lists.frameusers.com" 
Sent: 6/20/2017 11:34:00 AM
Subject: [Framers] Search for text + tag?


Hello Framers,

I want to change all instances of a phrase using one paragraph tag to
another tag. I do not want to change all instances of the phrase (it 
occurs
using other tags), nor replace the current tag with the new tag (both 
tags
remain in use). The target phrase-tag combo occurs hundreds of times. 
Is
this possible through find/change or another automated method? Using FM 
11.


Thanks very much,

Karen
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Re: [Framers] active URLs spanning more than one line

[grant]

   Perhaps a silly question,but is the entire link tagged with a single
   format? (e.g. "Link").

   If it appears to be correctly tagged, I would save as MIF and go look
   at the link section. You can move the end of the tag to the end of the
   link text there, which should fix the situation.

   Grant

 On June 9, 2017 at 2:31 PM "Carol J. Elkins"
 <celk...@awrittenword.com> wrote:

 Well, thanks to these suggestions, I'm starting to whittle down the
 problem but still don't know how to fix it. Disabling Acrobat's
 "Create links from URLs" feature helped me to identify the actual
 problem: When I select the link in the PDF and view its properties,
 the entire link text is there, so Frame's marker text was correctly
 passed on. But the invisible rectangle around the box that defines
 the active area for the link is only as wide as the http:// part of
 the link.

 On that same page, I've added ginormously long test URLs (from
 Amazon) that wrap across several lines and they all perform
 correctly
 in the resulting PDF. So there is something going on with this URL
 that is preventing the text after the http:// from being included in
 the PDF's active link. Here is the URL again:

 [1]http://advancedbiofuelsusa.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11-030
 7-Biodiesel-vs-Renewable_Final-_3_-JJY-formatting-FINAL.pdf

 Can anyone see anything in this URL that would offend Frame?

 Monique, yes I'm using a hypertext marker.

 Carol

 At 01:36 PM 6/9/2017, Rick Quatro wrote:

 Carol, I am pretty sure Monique is right. In Acrobat's preferences,
 General
 Category, uncheck Create links from URLs. -Rick

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Re: [Framers] "Secret" Freeze Pagination Feature

[Grant Hogarth]

Hi Stefan;
I used it a few times back in the day (I've been using FM since v2) 
to create "insert" pages (for documents that were printed and stored in 
3-ring binders). These pages would be updates to the existing document. 
That said, I have not used the feature in many years, and I'm not sure 
it is useful outside of a paper-based environment. I suppose one could 
create such a page as something to be inserted into a PDF, but I'd have 
to be convinced of the value of that in comparison to a linked list of 
changes.
I'd much rather have an in-built tracking option that I could use to 
flag changes and be able to add an auto-generated list of changes 
chapter to a publication. (I see it as similar to the existing LOF/LOI 
functionality.)


Regards
Grant

-- Original Message --
From: "Shmuel Wolfson" <shmue...@gmail.com>
To: "Framers - frameusers.com" <framers@lists.frameusers.com>
Sent: 4/25/2017 6:58:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Framers] "Secret" Freeze Pagination Feature

You understood me correctly, but the user should be able to define 
several styles.


As a take-off on your idea (of warning before printing), how about a 
way to check (via a menu command) if the TOC is out of sync, in 
addition to the warning before printing. However, this should include 
chapter TOCs as well. If your feature would work for mini-TOCs but not 
text inset TOCs, I guess that would be good enough, even though I have 
tons of docs that still use the text inset TOCs.


Another option would be to have a warning in the dialog box that opens 
after a book update that the TOC (and maybe LOF or LOT) has changes in 
chapter X, and that you should update the local TOC if one exists. This 
would be enough to address my issue of headings changing pages. 
Actually there is a potential problem with this solution that if you 
use only three heading levels in the TOC, but use four levels in the 
chapter TOC, it would be have check for that also.


Also, your idea does not address tables that have rows that move onto a 
new page. I think a warning as the table rows actually move to a new 
page would be a good idea for this problem.


--
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
058-763-7133


On 25-Apr-17 3:15 PM, Stefan Gentz wrote:


Hi Shmuel,

thanks for your answer. I'm not sure if I completely understand the 
requirement. Do I understand right, that you would like to be able to 
define a specific style (e.g. "Heading1") in some sort of 
"Repagination Warning Setup" (dialog) and whenever you add or remove 
content somewhere that makes one of the paragraphs tagged with 
"Heading1" on some other page move to some other page you get a 
warning message? (Same for the table example you mentioned.)


Plus: I'm just wondering right now, if a feature that automatically 
warns you when you want to save as PDF / print that your automatically 
generated lists (TOC, IX etc.) are "out of sync" and recommends to 
update them. Would that be useful?


  Regards,
Stefan Gentz
Adobe Worldwide TechComm Evangelist


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From: Framers 
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Behalf Of Shmuel Wolfson

Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2017 13:58
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: [Framers] "Secret" Freeze Pagination Feature

Hi Stefan,

Instead of freeze pagination, what I would like is a pagination 
warning.
This feature would, when turned on, warn you when a paragraph with one 
of the user-specified specified styles moves to a new page, and when 
some rows of a table end up on a new page. This would be helpful when 
editing a doc, so that you know when the pagination changed and the 
TOC needs to be updated, or to look over the tables to see where rows 
moved to a new page. For extra credit, the feature would also provide 
a list of where these changes occurred. This would be a great help. 
Many times after a few edits, I find myself reviewing the entire doc 
to see where the headings appear and updating all the TOCs just in 
case a heading, table caption or figure caption, moved to a new page.


The current feature the way it is is pretty much useless to me.

--
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Re: [Framers] OT: ISP recommendations?

[grant]

   I have had very good luck (and service) from 1and1
   ([1]https://www.1and1.com) for multiple websites for about 15 years.

   Grant

 On March 3, 2017 at 6:25 AM Art Campbell <art.campb...@gmail.com>
 wrote:

 If you're using WordPress, WPEngine is the best. An install includes
 a
 staging site for testing and development; daily and on-demand
 backups; and
 when you need to, you always connect with a support person with root
 privs
 in Austin, TX.

 Art Campbell
 art.campb...@gmail.com
 "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52
 Vincent and
 a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
 No disclaimers apply.
 DoD 358

 On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 7:02 AM, D L Reynolds <reyno...@semicool.com>
 wrote:

 For about a decade I've used HostGator as my ISP and was satisfied
 until
 yesterday -- when I received an email from them saying phishing was
 being
 hosted on my site. They shut the site down before notifying me, then
 recommended that I contact a company called Sitelock for emergency
 recovery.

 From what I've read, Sitelock charges $200 for emergency recovery,
 and
 then requires a six-month monthly service commitment. As it happens,
 HostGator and Sitelock are owned by the same company, so I smell a
 rat (and
 I've found many similar complaints online). I've ftp'd my
 public_html
 folder to my hard drive, so I should have all my files. Next step it
 to
 choose another ISP. Any recommendations?

 Many thanks,

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Re: [Framers] Mif wash .book files

[grant]

   I agree! Notepad++ Is the best free text editor around.

 On November 17, 2016 at 10:42 AM Jack DeLand
  wrote:
 I never trust Notepad. Notepad++ is a free programming editor, very
 nice. You'll love it!
 Jack DeLand
 734 972 3026

 On Nov 17, 2016, at 12:25 PM, Stamm, David 
 wrote:
 2016-11-17-04T17:25Z
 Windows 7 Enterprise operating system
 FrameMaker 2015 Release (13.0.5.547) installed on workstation
 FrameMaker source and inset files are on a server on our local area
 network
 ==
 Help, please, even if only to tell me that I'm "holding my mouth
 wrong."
 With [BookName].book open, on the menu bar, I choose File | Save
 Book As... > MIF 2015 (.mif). The program saves the .book file as
 [BookName].mif.
 Through Windows Explorer, I open [BookName].mif with Notepad, delete
 various and sundry cruft such bad color definitions, old character
 tags, and old conditional text tags.
 I save [BookName].mif and exit Notepad.
 Through Windows Explorer, I try to open [BookName].mif with
 FrameMaker 2015, which displays the "Unknown file type" window.
 In the "Unknown file type" window, there are numerous types of file
 listed. "MIF" is among the choices, but .fm is not.
 When I choose "MIF" and the "Convert" button, the program complains
 that "The filter encountered an error and could not complete the
 translation."
 �Am I the only one who has experienced this?
 Thanks,
 Dave Stamm
 Information Engineer.
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Re: [Framers] Pros/Cons: Separate file per chapter, or one REALLY BIG FILE for an entire book

[grant]

   Here is another vote for a separate file per chapter.  Also make your
   images references and resize them (120ppi and less than your page width
   is a good rule of thumb).

   Grant

   Happy user of Frame since 1990.

 On November 7, 2016 at 11:54 AM Rick Quatro <r...@rickquatro.com>
 wrote:
 Hi Lin,
 No question in my mind: Separate files for each chapter, mainly
 because it
 easier to author, reorganize, and maintain separate FrameMaker
 documents.
 FrameMaker books work quite well for organizing documents. Please
 let me
 know if you have any questions or comments.
 Rick
 Rick Quatro
 Carmen Publishing Inc.
 r...@frameexpert.com
 585-366-4017
 -Original Message-
 From: Framers
 [mailto:framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro@lists.frameusers.com] On
 Behalf
 Of Lin Sims
 Sent: Monday, November 07, 2016 1:46 PM
 To: Frame Users
 Subject: [Framers] Pros/Cons: Separate file per chapter, or one
 REALLY BIG
 FILE for an entire book
 Pretty much what it says in the title. I'm guessing there have been
 discussions about this in the past, and I plan to look for those,
 but I
 thought I'd toss this out there anyway.
 We're talking chapters that can run a couple hundred (or more) pages
 loaded
 with tables, graphics, and conditional text so that they can be used
 to
 single-source multiple documents (no, don't talk to me about DITA,
 my
 non-tech-writing boss wants it in unstructured).
 --
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Re: [Framers] Bullet different color from text

[grant]

   Hi John;

   Define a "red" char style tag, and apply it to the numbering.

   Grant

 On September 8, 2016 at 4:47 PM John Posada <jposad...@gmail.com>
 wrote:
 Hi, guys...I'm replicating the styles that are defined by my company
 in a
 Word template. They said I could use FM if my docs look close to
 theirs.
 Quick question that I'm sure I knew years ago, but have forgotten.
 FM 11 and the output will be PDF
 I want to do a bullet list where the bullet is red, but the bullet
 text is
 black.
 Can anyone point me in the right direction?
 --
 John Posada
 Rock portfolio: http://www.actionremembered.com/musicportfolio
 Twitter: @rockbandphotos
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Re: [Framers] Rick's Ride and Suggestions for Plugin

[grant]

   That could be very useful!

 On May 19, 2016 at 11:44 AM Lin Sims  wrote:
  And if you have any spare time , something I'd love would be a way to get the color pick menu
 to NOT
 show all the generated colors, such as PANTONE 556U or
 fm_gen_##.
 I don't need or want to see them. I want to see the ones my company
 (or I)
 have defined for use. It is way too easy to miss the color you're
 looking
 for when various graphics have added several hundred generically
 named
 items.
 On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Rick Quatro 
 wrote:

 Does anyone have documentation for the original CleanImports plugin?
 Rick Quatro
 Carmen Publishing Inc.
 585-366-4017
 r...@frameexpert.com
 -Original Message-
 From: O'Laoghaire Micheal [mailto:M.O'laogha...@oberthur.com]
 Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 3:43 PM
 To: framers@lists.frameusers.com; r...@rickquatro.com
 Subject: RE: Rick's Ride and Suggestions for Plugin
 I'd back an updated re-creation of the CleanImports plugin.
 Rick, good luck with the ride.
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Re: [Framers] Searching for content in FrameMaker files

[grant]

   I paid for the File Locator Pro version of Agent Ransack; I like the
   ability to search network drives

 On May 7, 2016 at 11:01 AM Robert Lauriston 
 wrote:
 Windows' search is garbage. I use Agent Ransack, a free search tool.
 On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Austin Meredith 
 wrote:

 I don't seem to be able to persuade the File Explorer of Windows 10
 to
 find Boolean content inside FrameMaker2015 files. I've tried all the
 obvious tricks such as making certain that the file suffixes ".fm"
 and
 ".frame" are included in the indexing list, and deleting and
 rebuilding
 that indexing list. File Explorer will find the name "Thoreau" if it
 is
 part of the FrameMaker file's filename such as "ThoreauINDEX.fm" and
 will indeed find the name "Thoreau" when it is *inside* a '.txt" or
 other file, but refuses to find the name "Thoreau" for me when it is
 inside a ".fm" or ".frame" file. What am I doing wrong? -Austin
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Re: [Framers] Windows 10 "hijacked" my computer

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   I can tell you (after having the same stealth install), the if you do
   the "revert" you will find that many applications (Firefox,
   iTunes,others) will not be able to update, and if you delete them, you
   cannot reinstall them.

   I'm giving serious thought to shifting fulltime to Linux Mint, and only
   run Windows 7 (Ultimate), in a VM space.

 On April 29, 2016 at 1:03 PM Ken Poshedly 
 wrote:
 Well, Gang, Windows 10 wants me and it wants me NOW!
 Some months ago, I signed up for the free offer of Windows 10 for
 installation at MY convenience.
 Early this morning when I check the home desktop, Windows 10 had
 apparently self-installed overnight. (I usually leave the platform
 on all night.)
 I rebooted and when prompted with the Windows 10 EULA (end-user
 license agreement), I declined. Windows 10 said it would then
 "reinstall my Windows 7".
 I didn't have time to wait for it so I let it do its own thing and
 left for my office; I'll see how things played out when I get home
 tonight.
 Two questions:
 1. Regarding FrameMaker (I'm running FM10), am I facing any
 operational or other problems or must I reinstall it? If so, that
 might be a problem because I didn't "de-activate" my second license.
 (One is on the desktop and one is on a laptop.)
 2. Am I facing any general problems with Windows 10?
 I hate when this happens.
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Re: [Framers] Running H/F variable challenge

[Grant Hogarth]

   Try adding a non-breaking space after the text in the Exercise\
   :[non-breaking space]

 On March 16, 2016 at 3:10 PM Pat Christenson
  wrote:
 Hi Fred -
 Yes, I tried that but then it includes the space when the header is
 referencing a Heading2 and I can't use that.
 However, I seem to be having some success by replacing the space
 after the colon in the autonumber with 3 thin spaces. Go figure.
 Thanks.
 -Original Message-
 From: Fred Ridder [mailto:docu...@hotmail.com]
 Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 3:42 PM
 To: Pat Christenson
 Subject: Re: Running H/F variable challenge
 Have you tried including a space between the building blocks in the
 two variables in the Running H/F variable definition? In other
 words, either a regular space or a non-breaking space (typed with a
 backslash preceding the space) between the > and the <.
 -FR
 
 From: Framers
  on behalf
 of Pat Christenson 
 Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 4:22 PM
 To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
 Subject: [Framers] Running H/F variable challenge
 I need a Running H/F variable to work as follows:
 If there's a Heading2, pull the text (such as Overview). If there's
 an exercise head, pull the exercise number and the text. Heading2
 paras don't have an autonumber. Exercises number like this:
 Exercise\ : (with a space after the colon)
 So the Running H/F variable should read either Overview or Exercise
 2: Create a data point
 I've defined the variable as
 <$paranum[Exercise,Heading2><$paratext[Exercise,Heading2]>
 It works perfectly except for one thing. I can't get the space after
 the colon in the autonumber to appear in the header. Instead, it
 looks like this:
 Exercise 2:Create a data point
 I've tried using a non-breaking space after the colon in the
 autonumber but that doesn't work either.
 Help is appreciated.
 Pat Christenson
 Senior Technical Writer, Client Education Morningstar, Inc.
 pat.christen...@morningstar.com
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Re: FM Crashes after generating html

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  As you are on Windows 7, it my be due to a timeout/handshakeproblem.
  Ive run into this, and there is a fix.
  I posted it here a while back, so it should be in the archives; but Ill try to see if I can find the mail I sent and resend it to you.
  
  Grant
  
   
   
   
   
   
On January 26, 2015 at 10:46 PM Cathy Giddens cathy.gidd...@qv.co.nz wrote:
   
   
   
I am using FM10 10.0.2.419 fully patched, as part of TCS, on Windows 7, over a remote desktop connection to the PC where FM is loaded. The FM files are contained on a server which is possibly somewhere else again.

I am doing a ‘Save book as htm’ operation, I have edited the BookHtml and BookHeading mapping tables in the first file in the book as per the manual, and got it all set up so it looks right. It is set to generate separate files at each chapter and Heading1. The operation goes right through the process, takes about 3 minutes, generates 170 html files. Then FM crashes with a message that is essentially ‘FM crashed’.

I’ve looked for the log files in AppData/Roaming in my user profile, and there is nothing for today’s date – several log files for various previous hangs and crashes, but nothing relating to dates I’ve created html files and crashed.

The html files all work well, I’ve been deleting the FM lock files en masse rather than opening FM and reset lock for each file.

Any suggestions appreciated on how to stop FM crashing at end of html process.


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Acrobat Shared Review question (date extention)

[Grant Hogarth]

 
  Question, not really FM-related, but there does not seem to be an easily-Googled answer...
  Once a review has completed, is there any way to extend the review date, or do I have to reissue a new document?
  
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RE: How do you get fractions in FM 12?

[Grant Hogarth]

 
  Use the Character Tool to see if your font provides true fractions. 
  If not, find a font that looks like yours that does, and then create a character definition that uses that font. 
  Then just apply the character tag to the correct character.
  
  Grant
  
   On December 9, 2014 at 10:03 AM Craig Ede craig...@hotmail.com wrote:
   
   
   
I keep these characters (in the font we use for body text) in a text box on the reference page and cutpaste as needed.

1⁄4 1⁄2 3⁄4 1⁄3 2⁄3 1⁄8 3⁄8 5⁄8 7⁄8

16ths are another problem.

Craig



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   Subject: How do you get fractions in FM 12?
  
  
  I have text that expresses one-and-one-half as 1-1/2, which could be interpreted as 1-to-1/2. I would like to be able to show the fraction without the hyphen. 
 

   
  
  
  
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Re: On Book Update, FM 12 deleting networked files created in FM 9

[grant]

 
  I have seen this with earlier versions of FM, and it is not FMs fault, but Microsofts.
  With Windows 7, they changed how handshaking is done between computers.
  I will send you offlist the remedy.
  Grant
  -
  
   
   
   
   
   
On October 23, 2014 at 7:59 AM Stephen OBrien sobr...@innovmetric.com wrote:
   
   
   
Hi,
This FM 12 problem is explained clearly by a posting by Veronica Kutt of Front Runner Training (I have the identical problem of files being deleted on book update, still occurs with latest patch):
FrameMaker 12 seems to be deleting files from their network drive during the Update Book function, not just the file itself, but the backup version too.
FrameMaker 10 files had been opened and re-saved as FrameMaker 12. Then, in a subsequent update of the book file, FM reported that it could not find a certain file, and the icon for that file in the book file turned into a question mark. On inspection of the folder that should contain the file, the file was gone, as was the .backup.fm version of the file. It is my assumption that this problem occurred during a book update, although it is remotely possible that the problem occurred while saving the files from Frame 10 to Frame 12.
Have you seen this?
Thanks,
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Fwd: Use a Ninja to Analyze Web Fonts

[Grant Hogarth]

 
  This looks like an interesting free resource.
  
  
   
   -- Original Message --
   From: SitePoint Design des...@sitepoint.com
   To: gr...@hedgewizard.net gr...@hedgewizard.net
   Date: August 6, 2014 at 12:00 PM
   Subject: Use a Ninja to Analyze Web Fonts
   

   
   

 
  
   

 
  
   

 
  
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Re: OT: Adobe 'Creative Cloud' (again)

[Grant Hogarth]

David, it seems logical to me:
if the CC licence is for version 6, and your CS version is 6, flies 
created with the cloud version won't be able to be opened with your 
local version.  Just like you cannot open FM version 10 files in FM 
version 9.


Grant

On 7/17/2013 4:52 AM, David Creamer wrote:

If you already own a perpetual license version, you don't have to stop
using it. But if you start out as a renter, you do. And if you own a
perpetual license, such as CS6, and then rent CC as your new upgrade
path, when you stop paying, there's a good chance that your current
files will no longer open in the CS6 version, potentially rendering it
useless.

Where did you get that info?
If you have CS6 via a perpetual license it will still work even after canceling 
a Cloud subscription.
Naturally, if you have CS6 via a Cloud subscription (like I do), it will stop 
working.

David Creamer
IDEAS Training



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OT: Adobe 'Creative Cloud' (again)

[Grant Hogarth]

David, it seems logical to me:
if the CC licence is for version >6, and your CS version is 6, flies 
created with the cloud version won't be able to be opened with your 
local version.  Just like you cannot open FM version 10 files in FM 
version 9.

Grant

On 7/17/2013 4:52 AM, David Creamer wrote:
>> If you already own a perpetual license version, you don't have to stop
>> using it. But if you start out as a renter, you do. And if you own a
>> perpetual license, such as CS6, and then rent CC as your new upgrade
>> path, when you stop paying, there's a good chance that your current
>> files will no longer open in the CS6 version, potentially rendering it
>> useless.
> Where did you get that info?
> If you have CS6 via a perpetual license it will still work even after 
> canceling a Cloud subscription.
> Naturally, if you have CS6 via a Cloud subscription (like I do), it will stop 
> working.
>
> David Creamer
> IDEAS Training
>

Re: Cleaning Character Formats

[Grant Hogarth]

It will also match head, head.1, head.2, 
Grant

On 7/9/2013 3:47 PM, Scott Prentice wrote:
While we're on the subject .. an unfortunate tag searching issue 
happens if your tag names contain hyphens, and you try to use the 
Whole Word option. FM will match on partial tag names where search 
string matches a hyphen-delimited word in your tag name. For 
example, if you have tags named head1 and task-head1 .. and you 
search for head1, it will match on both of the tags.


Cheers,

...scott
On 7/9/13 2:37 PM, Fred Ridder wrote:
I just confirmed that Consider Case really is active in tag 
searches--peculiar but true.


But since this is actually the case, you'd probably want to leave it 
OFF if you've got the kind of bad naming practices you mention.


If you tell FrameMaker to consider case, then you'd have to do 
*separate* searches for italic and Italic (and for ITALIC or 
any camel-case variations). But with Consider Case inactive, 
searching for italic return results for *any* instance of those 6 
letters in that order *regardless of case*. Covering all permutations 
of upper-case and lower case letters in the name of a 6-letter tag 
would take 64 (2^6) separate searches with consider case ON, but 
only one search with consider case OFF.


-Fred Ridder


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Cleaning Character Formats

[Grant Hogarth]

It will also match head, head.1, head.2, 
Grant

On 7/9/2013 3:47 PM, Scott Prentice wrote:
> While we're on the subject .. an unfortunate tag searching issue 
> happens if your tag names contain hyphens, and you try to use the 
> "Whole Word" option. FM will match on partial tag names where search 
> string matches a hyphen-delimited "word" in your tag name. For 
> example, if you have tags named "head1" and "task-head1" .. and you 
> search for "head1", it will match on both of the tags.
>
> Cheers,
>
> ...scott
> On 7/9/13 2:37 PM, Fred Ridder wrote:
>> I just confirmed that "Consider Case" really is active in tag 
>> searches--peculiar but true.
>>
>> But since this is actually the case, you'd probably want to leave it 
>> OFF if you've got the kind of bad naming practices you mention.
>>
>> If you tell FrameMaker to consider case, then you'd have to do 
>> *separate* searches for "italic" and "Italic" (and for "ITALIC" or 
>> any camel-case variations). But with "Consider Case" inactive, 
>> searching for "italic" return results for *any* instance of those 6 
>> letters in that order *regardless of case*. Covering all permutations 
>> of upper-case and lower case letters in the name of a 6-letter tag 
>> would take 64 (2^6) separate searches with "consider case" ON, but 
>> only one search with "consider case" OFF.
>>
>> -Fred Ridder
>
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Re: switch between 8.5x11 and A4 sized pages within the same book?

[Grant Hogarth]

Hello Lise;
There are two (IMO) better solutions than two full books.

One is to use a universal page (11.5 x 7.5 in ) --short enough to fit 
on US Letter; narrow enough for A4. The downside is that you will end up 
with extra white space (LR on US, TB on A4). OTOH, you can print the 
PDF anywhere.


The other is to define two templates (one for each paper size), and then 
generate two PDFs (applying the other template between generation).


Grant


On 2/21/2013 8:57 AM, Lise Bible wrote:

Fellow Framers,
I'm mostly a lurker, but have found the wealth of knowledge shared by 
this list's members to be quite helpful!


I have a manual (I'm on Frame 8) in which I've used conditional text 
to show/hide tables, text, parts lists depending on if it's for the 
American market or European.
This manual originated for a US-made product so it started life with 
8.5x11 (US-letter size) pages. And it didn't even occur to me that it 
might need to be A4-sized for the European market.


Is there a good way to switch back and forth between A4 and 8.5x11 
page sizes, depending on which version of a book you want to print?


I have the sneaking suspicion that I will have to break this into two 
separate books, but I figured I'd ask to see if anyone had 
recommendations.


Thanks,
Lise
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Re: switch between 8.5x11 and A4 sized pages within the same book?

[Grant Hogarth]

Doh! Peter is correct about the page dimensions.  Sufficient coffee 
evidently has not reached neurons yet.

Grant

On 2/21/2013 9:35 AM, Peter Hirons wrote:


I frequently hit this problem, but my solution is to define a custom 
paper size of 8.25 x 11 inches.  This will print on both paper sizes 
without problems and means you don't have the problems of making 
things fit.


Peter


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switch between 8.5x11 and A4 sized pages within the same book?

[Grant Hogarth]

Hello Lise;
 There are two (IMO) better solutions than two full books.

One is to use a "universal" page (11.5 x 7.5 in ) --short enough to fit 
on US Letter; narrow enough for A4. The downside is that you will end up 
with extra white space (L on US, T on A4). OTOH, you can print the 
PDF anywhere.

The other is to define two templates (one for each paper size), and then 
generate two PDFs (applying the "other" template between generation).

Grant


On 2/21/2013 8:57 AM, Lise Bible wrote:
> Fellow Framers,
> I'm mostly a lurker, but have found the wealth of knowledge shared by 
> this list's members to be quite helpful!
>
> I have a manual (I'm on Frame 8) in which I've used conditional text 
> to show/hide tables, text, parts lists depending on if it's for the 
> American market or European.
> This manual originated for a US-made product so it started life with 
> 8.5x11 (US-letter size) pages. And it didn't even occur to me that it 
> might need to be A4-sized for the European market.
>
> Is there a good way to switch back and forth between A4 and 8.5x11 
> page sizes, depending on which version of a book you want to print?
>
> I have the sneaking suspicion that I will have to break this into two 
> separate books, but I figured I'd ask to see if anyone had 
> recommendations.
>
> Thanks,
> Lise
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switch between 8.5x11 and A4 sized pages within the same book?

[Grant Hogarth]

Doh! Peter is correct about the page dimensions.  Sufficient coffee 
evidently has not reached neurons yet.
Grant

On 2/21/2013 9:35 AM, Peter Hirons wrote:
>
> I frequently hit this problem, but my solution is to define a custom 
> paper size of 8.25 x 11 inches.  This will print on both paper sizes 
> without problems and means you don't have the problems of making 
> things fit.
>
> Peter
>
>
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Re: OT: Reference list formatting

[Grant Hogarth]

All I can think of is to do a repetitive search-and-replace for some of 
this, but most of it would have to be hand-done.

Grant

On 2/12/2013 1:10 PM, Steve Rickaby wrote:

Do any academic editors out there know of any software that will take an 
existing reference list made up of entries in a variety of formats and render a 
list in which all references have the same format? Not necessarily in 
FrameMaker: Word would do.

I have, for example, a mix of Art Snoggins and Snoggins A., some page ranges 
that use hyphens, some that use en dashes, the same journal or conference 
listed in three or four different ways, and so on. Yech.



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OT: Reference list formatting

[Grant Hogarth]

All I can think of is to do a repetitive search-and-replace for some of 
this, but most of it would have to be hand-done.
Grant

On 2/12/2013 1:10 PM, Steve Rickaby wrote:
> Do any academic editors out there know of any software that will take an 
> existing reference list made up of entries in a variety of formats and render 
> a list in which all references have the same format? Not necessarily in 
> FrameMaker: Word would do.
>
> I have, for example, a mix of Art Snoggins and Snoggins A., some page ranges 
> that use hyphens, some that use en dashes, the same journal or conference 
> listed in three or four different ways, and so on. Yech.
>

Re: Use Blank Paper ruler units (Was: Unavailable Fonts error)

[Grant Hogarth]

Could this possibly be a FMinit setting?
Grant
On 1/24/2013 12:19 PM, Stuart Rogers wrote:

On 24/01/2013 1:31 PM, Matt Sullivan wrote:

I believe the Document Properties in custom.fm will control units.
(setting custom.fm to use a specific unit of measure should fix this)


Should, but doesn't.  The Custom file (no extension) opens with a 
ruler in inches.  New documents opened with any of the Portrait, 
Landscape, or Custom options (even with Custom options set to US 
Letter, all margins in inches, and Units selected as Inch) open with a 
ruler in centimetres.



On Jan 24, 2013, at 10:13 AM, Combs, Richard
richard.co...@polycom.com mailto:richard.co...@polycom.com wrote:


I don't know what controls the ruler units when you select Portrait or
Landscape in the New dialog. But when you select Custom, what you set
Units to in the Custom Blank Paper dialog is what you should get.


See above :-(

s 

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Job Ops: Networking technology writers

[Grant Hogarth]

Hi all! The company I have been contracting for for the past 9 months 
now has some open contract positions that they want to fill 
immediately.  I'm posting here because they are FrameMaker jobs.


Bard (http://www.bardwrite.com/ 
redir.aspx?C=fc7b544926bf43e19dad21c7de1a7103URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.bardwrite.com%2f) 
is looking immediately to fill a number ofpositions with writers who 
haveXML experience and network security knowledge and experience in at 
least some of the following areas:


 * Cloud/Network security
 * Email/Web security
 * Security policies
 * Intrusion prevention
 * Encryption
 * Authentication
 * Mobile device management
 * VPN management


On a separate requirement, Bard is looking for multiple writers with 
experience doing hardware and software documentation, ideally in 
networking (switching, routing, wireless, or combination), with an 
emphasis on data center switching and network management. XML experience 
will be a definite plus. There is also a desire for at least a couple of 
writers with writing for mobile use or video-creation experience.


Obviously not everyone will have /all/this experience, but a successful 
applicant will have some of it.


The other information I have at this time is that:

 * The writing will be done using FrameMakerand or XML(client-provided).
 * The client will be doing the writer selection (Bard will pass the
   qualified names/resumes to them).
 * The client is a major player in the networking world and is looking
   at this being a long-term contract opportunity, running through at
   least 2013. The usualcontract is six months.
 * There is currently no requirement for the writers to be on-site, so
   non-US applications are welcome, provided they meet the other
   requirements.
 * Writers will start as US 1099 contractors; Bard is examining the
   option of making a W2-contract available later in 2013


Please send resume (word or PDF format) and cover letter to 
ad...@bardnangleann.com 
redir.aspx?C=fc7b544926bf43e19dad21c7de1a7103URL=mailto%3aadmin%40bardnangleann.comASAP.

No agency/recruiter applications please.
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Use Blank Paper ruler units (Was: Unavailable Fonts error)

[Grant Hogarth]

Could this possibly be a FMinit setting?
Grant
On 1/24/2013 12:19 PM, Stuart Rogers wrote:
> On 24/01/2013 1:31 PM, Matt Sullivan wrote:
>> I believe the Document Properties in custom.fm will control units.
>> (setting custom.fm to use a specific unit of measure should fix this)
>
> Should, but doesn't.  The Custom file (no extension) opens with a 
> ruler in inches.  New documents opened with any of the Portrait, 
> Landscape, or Custom options (even with Custom options set to US 
> Letter, all margins in inches, and Units selected as Inch) open with a 
> ruler in centimetres.
>
>> On Jan 24, 2013, at 10:13 AM, "Combs, Richard"
>> mailto:richard.combs at Polycom.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know what controls the ruler units when you select Portrait or
>>> Landscape in the New dialog. But when you select Custom, what you set
>>> Units to in the Custom Blank Paper dialog is what you should get.
>
> See above :-(
>
> s 

Job Ops: Networking technology writers

[Grant Hogarth]

Hi all! The company I have been contracting for for the past 9 months 
now has some open contract positions that they want to fill 
immediately.  I'm posting here because they are FrameMaker jobs.

Bard (http://www.bardwrite.com/ 
)
 
is looking immediately to fill a number ofpositions with writers who 
haveXML experience and network security knowledge and experience in at 
least some of the following areas:

  * Cloud/Network security
  * Email/Web security
  * Security policies
  * Intrusion prevention
  * Encryption
  * Authentication
  * Mobile device management
  * VPN management


On a separate requirement, Bard is looking for multiple writers with 
experience doing hardware and software documentation, ideally in 
networking (switching, routing, wireless, or combination), with an 
emphasis on data center switching and network management. XML experience 
will be a definite plus. There is also a desire for at least a couple of 
writers with writing for mobile use or video-creation experience.

Obviously not everyone will have /all/this experience, but a successful 
applicant will have some of it.

The other information I have at this time is that:

  * The writing will be done using FrameMakerand or XML(client-provided).
  * The client will be doing the writer selection (Bard will pass the
qualified names/resumes to them).
  * The client is a major player in the networking world and is looking
at this being a long-term contract opportunity, running through at
least 2013. The usualcontract is six months.
  * There is currently no requirement for the writers to be on-site, so
non-US applications are welcome, provided they meet the other
requirements.
  * Writers will start as US 1099 contractors; Bard is examining the
option of making a W2-contract available later in 2013


Please send resume (word or PDF format) and cover letter to 
admin at bardnangleann.com 
ASAP.
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Re: font change not appearing in Autonumber

[Grant Hogarth]

have you tried using Alt+0149 (U2202) for the numbering character?
Grant

On 11/14/2012 4:40 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:

FM10. Inherited documents, template has evolved over maybe 15 years so
there's a lot of legacy cruft.

I have a Bullet1 paragraph tag. Its Autonumber Format is l\t (that's a
lowercase L before the backslash). The Character Format for the
autonumber is Bullet. The font for the Bullet character tag was once
upon a time Zapf Dingbats but it gets remapped to Adobe Pi Std.

On my predecessor's machine, Bullet1 had a round bullet, maybe because
he had a different Zapf Dingbats, I don't know (machine has been wiped
so I can't check it). On my machine, instead of a bullet there's a
question mark.

I was unable to get font mapping to work so I hacked Adobe Pi Std to
add the bullet glyph from Zapf Dingbats BT Regular and map it to l.

If I type an l and format it with the Bullet character tag, it appears
as a bullet, but Bullet1 still has a question mark in place of a
bullet.

Suggestions?


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[Grant Hogarth]

have you tried using Alt+0149 (U2202) for the numbering character?
Grant

On 11/14/2012 4:40 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
> FM10. Inherited documents, template has evolved over maybe 15 years so
> there's a lot of legacy cruft.
>
> I have a Bullet1 paragraph tag. Its Autonumber Format is l\t (that's a
> lowercase L before the backslash). The Character Format for the
> autonumber is Bullet. The font for the Bullet character tag was once
> upon a time Zapf Dingbats but it gets remapped to Adobe Pi Std.
>
> On my predecessor's machine, Bullet1 had a round bullet, maybe because
> he had a different Zapf Dingbats, I don't know (machine has been wiped
> so I can't check it). On my machine, instead of a bullet there's a
> question mark.
>
> I was unable to get font mapping to work so I hacked Adobe Pi Std to
> add the bullet glyph from Zapf Dingbats BT Regular and map it to l.
>
> If I type an l and format it with the Bullet character tag, it appears
> as a bullet, but Bullet1 still has a question mark in place of a
> bullet.
>
> Suggestions?
>

Re: Question about char tag override indicator

[Grant Hogarth]

It's Franklin Gothic, so there is book, demi, demi condensed, medium, 
medium condensed, and heavy.
Sadly I am not the template owner, and am working on FM remotely (via 
citrix) on the client's server.

So WISIWIG.

Grant

On 9/6/2012 9:32 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote:

Does the font for the paragraph tag where you're applying it have a bold weight?

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:13 AM, gr...@hedgewizard.net
gr...@hedgewizard.net wrote:

In FM10, I have a document that has character tags.  One of these is bold,
which has everything set to as-is but the font weight.

For some reason, when I apply the tag, it's always marked with an asterisk,
even if I apply Default Para Font first, and then Bold.


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[Grant Hogarth]

It's Franklin Gothic, so there is book, demi, demi condensed, medium, 
medium condensed, and heavy.
Sadly I am not the template owner, and am working on FM remotely (via 
citrix) on the client's server.
So WISIWIG.

Grant

On 9/6/2012 9:32 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
> Does the font for the paragraph tag where you're applying it have a bold 
> weight?
>
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:13 AM, grant at hedgewizard.net
>  wrote:
>> In FM10, I have a document that has character tags.  One of these is bold,
>> which has everything set to "as-is" but the font weight.
>>
>> For some reason, when I apply the tag, it's always marked with an asterisk,
>> even if I apply "Default Para Font" first, and then "Bold".

FM9 does not support helvetica font (any workaround)

[Grant Hogarth]

Amita?
FM9 has never had any font restrictions that I know of. You should be
able to use any correctly-installed windows font in it. I have Helvetica
installed and have no problems with it.

Grant

On 6/19/2012 1:27 AM, Amita Goyal wrote:
> Hello Framers,
> I have a specifc query on FM9. It does not support helvetica font (not
> included in the licensed version of this s/w package).
> Can someone install the Helvetica Font for his specific use in FM9, by
> copying required fonts in the fminit (or fonts/ or any other)
> directory or by any other method.
> I would have liked to test this myselves, but time is short, and hence
> putting this question on the list.
> Thanks for any help on this topic,
> Amita Goyal
> Lead Technical Writer,
> STMicroelectronics

Re: Upgrading from FM7.x to FM10: Features

[Grant Hogarth]

One more piece; there is a graphic/table on the Adobe FM site that shows
what features were added for each release:

http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/upgrade.html

This compares FM7, FM8, FM9 and FM10, so you can tell (pretty much) when
each feature was introduced.
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[Grant Hogarth]

One more piece; there is a graphic/table on the Adobe FM site that shows
what features were added for each release:

http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/upgrade.html

This compares FM7, FM8, FM9 and FM10, so you can tell (pretty much) when
each feature was introduced.

Re: Deal for upgrading from FM7.x to FM10 ends June 15

[Grant Hogarth]

I can assure you that I'm not an intentional spammer (nor do I work for
Adobe).
My apologies for using a URL compressor that made it look that way.
Actually, my contact at Adobe did, and I didn't think anything of it.
wry smile
I just wanted to let folks know that a) there was a deal, and b) It was
going away very soon.

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Deal for upgrading from FM7.x to FM10 ends June 15

[Grant Hogarth]

I can assure you that I'm not an intentional spammer (nor do I work for
Adobe).
My apologies for using a URL compressor that made it look that way.
Actually, my contact at Adobe did, and I didn't think anything of it.

I just wanted to let folks know that a) there was a deal, and b) It was
going away very soon.

Grant

FYI: Deal for upgrading from FM7.x to FM10 ends June 15

[Grant Hogarth]

Just got this from a friend at Adobe (I'm trying to get some clients to
upgrade).

Cheapest route to go is the Promo which ends June 15th, which lets
you upgrade FM7.x to FM10 at 30% of what would have been normal
cost. Before this promo you could only have updated to entire tech
comm suite. (Much more expensive.) This 30% off upgrade ends FOREVER
AND EVER AND EVER on June 15th. It will never be repeated. This is
your last chance.

*Promo landing page: *http://adobe.ly/ItpxLt

*Summary of 10-part blog series on why upgrade:*
http://adobe.ly/IDoaYj

*Blog with summary of 4 Captivate videos:* http://adobe.ly/L7qfvg


Also, any earlier versions are now orphans. (I found a still-sealed box
of FM5+SGML in the garage this weekend, so I had to ask! grin)
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FYI: Deal for upgrading from FM7.x to FM10 ends June 15

[Grant Hogarth]

Just got this from a friend at Adobe (I'm trying to get some clients to
upgrade).

Cheapest route to go is the "Promo" which ends June 15th, which lets
you upgrade FM7.x to FM10 at 30% of what would have been normal
cost. Before this promo you could only have updated to entire tech
comm suite. (Much more expensive.) This 30% off upgrade ends FOREVER
AND EVER AND EVER on June 15th. It will never be repeated. This is
your last chance.

*Promo landing page: *http://adobe.ly/ItpxLt

*Summary of 10-part blog series on "why upgrade":*
http://adobe.ly/IDoaYj

*Blog with summary of 4 Captivate videos:* http://adobe.ly/L7qfvg


Also, any earlier versions are now orphans. (I found a still-sealed box
of FM5+SGML in the garage this weekend, so I had to ask! )
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Would like to get comments from people about my flow changes (Was RE: Resources to help a newbie create DITA documents in FrameMaker 10)

[Grant Hogarth]

Hi Syeed---
   I would suggest you look at MIF2Go if you've just got one writer or
workstream, or possibly WebWorks if you have multiple.  Both do all that
you ask for.
I've used both, and am very happy with MIF2Go.  WebWorks ePublisher
Express is working fine for a client, but I don't do anything but feed
things through the processor for them, so I dont know much about
setup/configuration for that product.

Grant

On 5/18/2012 12:07 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) wrote:
> Thanks, Nadine and Scott.
>
> As I mentioned in my other e-mail, DITA is just a learning curiosity for me 
> at this point. It *seems* overly compex for what I need, but looking to learn 
> nevertheless ...
>
> Now to real reason for this thread!
>
> My *current* flow is simple:
>
> 1.Write the documents and specifications in Unstructured FrameMaker 10.
>
>   These typical range from 10 pages to 200 page FM books (typically as 
> four separate chapters: Title, Content, Body and Index), and all have similar 
> look and feel - given that I am the only author, I can control this easily 
> (and anally! :)).
>
>   The content has quite a few referenced hyperlinks to other content 
> within them (only a few to external URL's) and these do come out properly in 
> the PDF.
>
>   Sidebar: my experience with text references (which I *would* like to 
> use for common content) has been not good - due to *my* not wanting to waste 
> time figuring out what *I* am doing wrong. My typical problem is that 
> character formats applied to text within the referenced content does not show 
> correctly in the final output, and I haven't bothered figuring out why - 
> although I would like to someday keep the common text in other files (text or 
> FM) really, so that a single change to them gets reflected in all the 
> referencING documents.
>
> 2.Print to PDF using Adobe Acrobat X Pro.
>
>   I have found that "Save as PDF" and "Print to Adobe PDF" usually 
> results in differing output and have learned, over the years, to experiment 
> with each new release of DM and Acrobat, and the settings, till I get what I 
> need. With the latest versions of FM 10 and Acrobat Pro X, it looks like 
> "Print to Adobe PDF" is best at the moment, although "Save as PDF" from 
> within FrameMaker worked a lot better in the past.
>
> 3.Fix the few PDF file properties that did not come across from 
> FrameMaker 10.
>
>   This is usually stuff like Copyright information and meta-data that I 
> just change manually - some can be "set and forget" in FrameMaker 10, but 
> others need changes after the PDF is done. I have not found the place in 
> FrameMaker to do some of these items ...
>
> ... deep breath moment ...
>
> However, I have a *new* need for the near future.
>
> There is a desire to have our documentation and specs, etc., as hyperlinked 
> HTML pages - but, with the PDF as an available separate option still). I *do* 
> like the idea of doing this actually, and now need to take my current FM 
> books and specs and output them in the correct format (for Confluence ... see 
> below).
>
> But, my early experiments with using the HTML output capability in FM 10 and 
> Acrobat Pro X is *miserable* to say the least! The result is atrocious and 
> unusable really.
>
> In the interim, one person has been taking my PDF documents (he does not know 
> how to use FrameMaker) and creating all the HTML pages manually from the PDF 
> text (argh!) and inserting them into Confluence (see 
> http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/overview for more info on that).
>
> The result is a loss of the text hyperlinks, lots of time to do the work, 
> etc., etc., etc.
>
> So, I need to change my flow to output clean HTML that can be far more easily 
> put into Confluence and am trying to figure out the best way to proceed here.
>
> Do people have recommendations as to the best workflow for this? I have 
> changed the title of this thread to make sure that I don't confuse everybody 
> ...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Z
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Re: Demo version of FM10

[Grant Hogarth]

I suspect that the problem is not with the demo version, but that he did
not exit FM properly when he did his earlier work, thereby leaving .lck
files behind.  deleting those should clear up this problem.  I've never
tried to load a second demo version onto the same computer, so I can't
tell you what effects that might have.

Bonne Chance!
Grant

On 4/13/2012 7:33 AM, Stephen O'Brien wrote:

 Hi,

  

 I have a translator friend who translated some FM files using s demo
 version of FM 10 within the 30-day trial period. Some work has to be
 redone so he redownloaded a trial version of FM 10 (I am in no way
 condoning this practice) and has problems opening FM files, also
 messages about file locking...

  

 I just would like to know if this is due to using a second trial
 version on the same PC. If so, I will encourage him to buy the product.

  

 Many thx,

  

 Stephen O'Brien

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Demo version of FM10

[Grant Hogarth]

I suspect that the problem is not with the demo version, but that he did
not exit FM properly when he did his earlier work, thereby leaving .lck
files behind.  deleting those should clear up this problem.  I've never
tried to load a second demo version onto the same computer, so I can't
tell you what effects that might have.

Bonne Chance!
Grant

On 4/13/2012 7:33 AM, Stephen O'Brien wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>  
>
> I have a translator friend who translated some FM files using s demo
> version of FM 10 within the 30-day trial period. Some work has to be
> redone so he redownloaded a trial version of FM 10 (I am in no way
> condoning this practice) and has problems opening FM files, also
> messages about file locking...
>
>  
>
> I just would like to know if this is due to using a second trial
> version on the same PC. If so, I will encourage him to buy the product.
>
>  
>
> Many thx,
>
>  
>
> Stephen O'Brien
>
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Re: OT: Conversion of .vsd to .png

[Grant Hogarth]

Zamzar does...
http://blog.zamzar.com/2009/05/08/convert-visio-files-vsd-to-pdf-jpg-png-html-and-more/

jburgdor wrote:

 Does anyone know of an automated method for doing drawing conversions
 from .vsd to .png?


 
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Zamzar does...
http://blog.zamzar.com/2009/05/08/convert-visio-files-vsd-to-pdf-jpg-png-html-and-more/

jburgdor wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of an automated method for doing drawing conversions
> from .vsd to .png?
>
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Variables and Character Formats

[Grant Hogarth]

Alison ---
 A lot depends on how many variants you have.  You will have to 
define one for each product.
("SonixTouch", "SonixRemote", "SonixMDP", etc.), now if you want 
"SonixTouch Installation" to appear that way for the chapter title page 
and then appear "SonixTouch INSTALLATION" in the header, that gets a bit 
tricky, as one can't nest variables in FM.
One way to do this define the header on the master page as 
"<$ProductName> "
You would also define a charformat tag of "AllCaps", and set the value 
of <$chaptertitlename> to "Installation"
(See attached.)


Others may have other solutions (possibly better)

Grant
(Sample FM 10 file attached --- although it may get stripped off by the 
server)


On 2/3/2012 5:15 PM, Alison Craig wrote:
>
> Penelope:
>
> I need the upper/lowercase mix so that when I use the product Variable 
> in an all uppercase header, the product Variable remains a mix of 
> upper/lowercase. For example:
>
> CHAPTER 1: SonixTouch INSTALLATION
>
> Note that the upper/lowercase mix is a Marketing standard over which I 
> have no control. We used to use all uppercase (SONIXMDP), then we went 
> to a mix (SonixTOUCH) and now a different mix (SonixTouch). It's fun 
> keeping up with Marketing ;-)))
>
> From your explanation, I'm going to need multiple versions of some of 
> my product Variables -- which is a pain, but doable.
>
> If I can't define more than one Char tag inside the Variable (*/Bold 
> Italic/* and lowercase), then I'll have to create a new Char tag just 
> to use with Variables.
>
> Thanks, Alison
>
> *From:*Penelope Perkins [mailto:Penelope.Perkins at synergex.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, February 03, 2012 4:03 PM
> *To:* Alison Craig
> *Subject:* RE: Variables and Character Formats
>
> Alison,
>
> I'm unclear why you need the upper/lower case char formats in the 
> variable. You can just create a variable with the text "SonixRemote" 
> -- no need for formats at all.
>
> However, you are correct that applying a char format to a variable 
> does not work. If you need the product name to be bold or italic in a 
> paragraph that is otherwise not bold or italic, you'll need to define 
> additional variables thus:
>
> SonixRemote
>
> SonixRemote
>
> (Using, of course, whatever your char tags are for bold and italic.)
>
> Note that if the product name appears in, say, a heading paragraph 
> that includes bold as part of the para format, then it will be bold. 
> You would just use the plain version of the variable and let the para 
> format take care of the bold. Does that make sense?
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
>
> Penelope
>
> *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 
> *Alison Craig
> *Sent:* Friday, February 03, 2012 3:50 PM
> *To:* framers at lists.frameusers.com <mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com>
> *Subject:* Variables and Character Formats
>
> FM 9 Version: 9.0p255
>
> Unstructured
>
> OS: Windows 7 Ultimate, 64 bit
>
> FM Experience: 2-? years
>
> I'm having a problem with applying a Character Tag to certain 
> Variables. Some of my Heading styles appear in all Uppercase. However, 
> internal standards require that certain product names always appear in 
> a mix of Uppercase and Lowercase (eg, SonixTouch). To handle this, I 
> create my product Variables as follows:
>
> SonixTouch
>
> This is fine for product Variables that never require the application 
> of a Char Tag. But some product Variables are sometimes required to be 
> */Bold, Italic/*, eg, */SonixRemote/*: 
> S<F-lowercase)>onixRemote
>
> After applying the Char Tag for */Bold, Italic/*, at some point 
> (during Update Book?) part of the Char Tag is lost so instead of 
> */SonixRemote/* I get */Sonix/*Remote. I'm sure my mistake is 
> something reasonably simple, but I have no idea how to fix this.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Alison
>
> *Alison Craig *
>
> Lead Technical Writer
>
> 604-279-8550 | fax 604-279-8559 | toll-free 1-866-437-9508
> *Ultrasonix Medical Corporation | **www.ultrasonix.com* 
> <http://www.ultrasonix.com/>
>
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Re: PNG usage (was re: Recommended single-sourcing graphic file format for FM-RH)

[Grant Hogarth]

If you are talking about JPEG 2000, I would agree.
I still find that adding annotations on a JPG (unless one uses no
compression), leaves artifacts, which are especially noticeable when
they get scaled.
If you are not scaling and not annotating directly on the image, then
JPG is probably not a bad choice.
(And yes, I agree that FM needs to improve it's handling of PNG colors. 
FM10 seems to have eliminated most of that problem (in that I've not
noticed it in FM 10), but I've also not pushed the limits.  (I also save
in indexed PNG, which may have something to do with it.)

See also:

  * optiping: http://optipng.sourceforge.net/
   (get the opti-png UI add on here:
http://www.enzofleri.com/eng/programs.html  )

and

  * pngcrush: http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/

*Note from website:* Pngcrush is a command line application. If you
prefer a draggity-droppity GUI, several are available, including these
which embed pngcrush along with other command line image
compressors/optimizers:

  * ImageOptim http://imageoptim.pornel.net/ for Macs, free, GPLv2 license
  * Trimage http://trimage.org/ for Linux, Windows, Mac, free, MIT license


Related How-To articles:

  * http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/png-optimization/   
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/png-optimization/
  * 
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/15/clever-png-optimization-techniques/
  * http://perishablepress.com/press/2009/05/17/png-image-optimization/


John Sgammato wrote:

 With all due respect to my colleagues on this forum, IMO the line
 between JPG and other formats is no longer as neat as it once was.
 Many screenshots in Win 7 require gradients that JPG handles well. IMO
 anything that a photo can handle might not be so far removed as you
 might think from basic screen captures, We are no longer in the
 cartoony Win 3.x world.

 And since AFAIK FrameMaker still imports eleventyhundred colors with
 every .PNG file, I do not see why a PNG with its headaches is superior
 to the no-longer-extant difficulties of the .JPG format.

 Craving enlightenment...

 john

  

 *From:*framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
 [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Grant Hogarth
 *Sent:* Saturday, January 14, 2012 7:01 PM
 *To:* Virginia Morgan
 *Cc:* framers@lists.frameusers.com
 *Subject:* Re: Recommended graphic file format for single-sourcing
 from Frame to Robohelp?

  

 I always vote for PNG.  The files may not be the smallest, but I've
 never had anything in the past decade choke on them (not
 display/corrupt display (either unreadable or artifacts)/Fail (as in
 crash)).

 JPEG is fine for Photos, and SVG for line graphics.  PS is fine if
 you've got the time to render it.
 GIF is for icons. 
 BMP/WMF/EMF should be discontinued.

 You may want to invest in a graphics converter.  The two best (IMO)
 are FastStone Image Viewer (or just Image Converter) and IrfanView.

 Grant

 On 1/13/2012 3:23 PM, Virginia Morgan wrote:

 Hello Framers --

  

 It has been several years since I have been part of this group, so I
 apologize if this topic has been covered extensively somewhere (if
 so,  please feel free to point me to it). I have recently resumed my
 Technical Writing career at a software development company that uses
 FrameMaker to create its documentation. All the legacy manuals were
 delivered with the products as hyperlinked PDF files (not really meant
 for printing due to length, although one could do so and they are
 formatted correctly for that).

  

 The company recently purchased TCS3, and would like to single-source
 Frame files to online help using Robohelp. I have been trying to find
 out what would be the best graphic file format  to use for this
 multi-purpose moving forward. Some background: All legacy images,
 which are primarily screenshots with some flowcharts, were .tif files,
 RGB color, 96 dpi (again, intended for on-screen viewing). Using TCS3
 moving forward, is there a better/clear recommendation for what
 graphic file format would produce the best results?

  

 I have been searching the web for a few days and can't seem to find
 any information on this particular aspect of single-sourcing using the
 new TCS3. Does it not matter, i.e., does one just set up Robohelp
 templates to convert .tifs to .jpgs or similar?

  

 All information is very much appreciated. Thank you, and I am happy to
 be back to this forum!

  

 Virginia Morgan | Technical Writer

 TAKE Solutions, Inc.

 O 512.735.4316 | M 512.426.8323

 virginia.mor...@takesolutions.com
 mailto:virginia.mor...@takesolutions.com

   


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PNG usage (was re: Recommended single-sourcing graphic file format for FM->RH)

[Grant Hogarth]

If you are talking about JPEG 2000, I would agree.
I still find that adding annotations on a JPG (unless one uses no
compression), leaves artifacts, which are especially noticeable when
they get scaled.
If you are not scaling and not annotating directly on the image, then
JPG is probably not a bad choice.
(And yes, I agree that FM needs to improve it's handling of PNG colors. 
FM10 seems to have eliminated most of that problem (in that I've not
noticed it in FM 10), but I've also not pushed the limits.  (I also save
in indexed PNG, which may have something to do with it.)

See also:

  * optiping: http://optipng.sourceforge.net/
   (get the "opti-png UI" add on here:
http://www.enzofleri.com/eng/programs.html  )

and

  * pngcrush: http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/

*Note from website:* Pngcrush is a command line application. If you
prefer a draggity-droppity GUI, several are available, including these
which embed pngcrush along with other command line image
compressors/optimizers:

  * ImageOptim <http://imageoptim.pornel.net/> for Macs, free, GPLv2 license
  * Trimage <http://trimage.org/> for Linux, Windows, Mac, free, MIT license


Related "How-To" articles:

  * http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/png-optimization/   
<http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/png-optimization/>
  * 
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/15/clever-png-optimization-techniques/
  * http://perishablepress.com/press/2009/05/17/png-image-optimization/


John Sgammato wrote:
>
> With all due respect to my colleagues on this forum, IMO the line
> between JPG and other formats is no longer as neat as it once was.
> Many screenshots in Win 7 require gradients that JPG handles well. IMO
> anything that a photo can handle might not be so far removed as you
> might think from basic screen captures, We are no longer in the
> cartoony Win 3.x world.
>
> And since AFAIK FrameMaker still imports eleventyhundred colors with
> every .PNG file, I do not see why a PNG with its headaches is superior
> to the no-longer-extant difficulties of the .JPG format.
>
> Craving enlightenment...
>
> john
>
>  
>
> *From:*framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Grant Hogarth
> *Sent:* Saturday, January 14, 2012 7:01 PM
> *To:* Virginia Morgan
> *Cc:* framers at lists.frameusers.com
> *Subject:* Re: Recommended graphic file format for single-sourcing
> from Frame to Robohelp?
>
>  
>
> I always vote for PNG.  The files may not be the smallest, but I've
> never had anything in the past decade choke on them (not
> display/corrupt display (either unreadable or artifacts)/Fail (as in
> crash)).
>
> JPEG is fine for Photos, and SVG for line graphics.  PS is fine if
> you've got the time to render it.
> GIF is for icons. 
> BMP/WMF/EMF should be discontinued.
>
> You may want to invest in a graphics converter.  The two best (IMO)
> are FastStone Image Viewer (or just Image Converter) and IrfanView.
>
> Grant
>
> On 1/13/2012 3:23 PM, Virginia Morgan wrote:
>
> Hello Framers --
>
>  
>
> It has been several years since I have been part of this group, so I
> apologize if this topic has been covered extensively somewhere (if
> so,  please feel free to point me to it). I have recently resumed my
> Technical Writing career at a software development company that uses
> FrameMaker to create its documentation. All the legacy manuals were
> delivered with the products as hyperlinked PDF files (not really meant
> for printing due to length, although one could do so and they are
> formatted correctly for that).
>
>  
>
> The company recently purchased TCS3, and would like to single-source
> Frame files to online help using Robohelp. I have been trying to find
> out what would be the best graphic file format  to use for this
> multi-purpose moving forward. Some background: All legacy images,
> which are primarily screenshots with some flowcharts, were .tif files,
> RGB color, 96 dpi (again, intended for on-screen viewing). Using TCS3
> moving forward, is there a better/clear recommendation for what
> graphic file format would produce the best results?
>
>  
>
> I have been searching the web for a few days and can't seem to find
> any information on this particular aspect of single-sourcing using the
> new TCS3. Does it not matter, i.e., does one just set up Robohelp
> templates to convert .tifs to .jpgs or similar?
>
>  
>
> All information is very much appreciated. Thank you, and I am happy to
> be back to this forum!
>
>  
>
> Virginia Morgan | Technical Writer
>
> TAKE Solutions, Inc.
>
> O 512.735.4316 | M 512.426.8323
>
> virginia.morgan at takesolutions.com
> <mailto:virginia.morgan at takesolutions.com>
>
>   
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Re: Recommended graphic file format for single-sourcing from Frame to Robohelp?

[Grant Hogarth]

I always vote for PNG.  The files may not be the smallest, but I've 
never had anything in the past decade choke on them (not display/corrupt 
display (either unreadable or artifacts)/Fail (as in crash)).


JPEG is fine for Photos, and SVG for line graphics.  PS is fine if 
you've got the time to render it.

GIF is for icons.
BMP/WMF/EMF should be discontinued.

You may want to invest in a graphics converter.  The two best (IMO) are 
FastStone Image Viewer (or just Image Converter) and IrfanView.


Grant

On 1/13/2012 3:23 PM, Virginia Morgan wrote:


Hello Framers --

It has been several years since I have been part of this group, so I 
apologize if this topic has been covered extensively somewhere (if 
so,  please feel free to point me to it). I have recently resumed my 
Technical Writing career at a software development company that uses 
FrameMaker to create its documentation. All the legacy manuals were 
delivered with the products as hyperlinked PDF files (not really meant 
for printing due to length, although one could do so and they are 
formatted correctly for that).


The company recently purchased TCS3, and would like to single-source 
Frame files to online help using Robohelp. I have been trying to find 
out what would be the best graphic file format  to use for this 
multi-purpose moving forward. Some background: All legacy images, 
which are primarily screenshots with some flowcharts, were .tif files, 
RGB color, 96 dpi (again, intended for on-screen viewing). Using TCS3 
moving forward, is there a better/clear recommendation for what 
graphic file format would produce the best results?


I have been searching the web for a few days and can't seem to find 
any information on this particular aspect of single-sourcing using the 
new TCS3. Does it not matter, i.e., does one just set up Robohelp 
templates to convert .tifs to .jpgs or similar?


All information is very much appreciated. Thank you, and I am happy to 
be back to this forum!


Virginia Morgan | Technical Writer

TAKE Solutions, Inc.

O 512.735.4316 | M 512.426.8323

virginia.mor...@takesolutions.com

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Recommended graphic file format for single-sourcing from Frame to Robohelp?

[Grant Hogarth]

I always vote for PNG.  The files may not be the smallest, but I've 
never had anything in the past decade choke on them (not display/corrupt 
display (either unreadable or artifacts)/Fail (as in crash)).

JPEG is fine for Photos, and SVG for line graphics.  PS is fine if 
you've got the time to render it.
GIF is for icons.
BMP/WMF/EMF should be discontinued.

You may want to invest in a graphics converter.  The two best (IMO) are 
FastStone Image Viewer (or just Image Converter) and IrfanView.

Grant

On 1/13/2012 3:23 PM, Virginia Morgan wrote:
>
> Hello Framers --
>
> It has been several years since I have been part of this group, so I 
> apologize if this topic has been covered extensively somewhere (if 
> so,  please feel free to point me to it). I have recently resumed my 
> Technical Writing career at a software development company that uses 
> FrameMaker to create its documentation. All the legacy manuals were 
> delivered with the products as hyperlinked PDF files (not really meant 
> for printing due to length, although one could do so and they are 
> formatted correctly for that).
>
> The company recently purchased TCS3, and would like to single-source 
> Frame files to online help using Robohelp. I have been trying to find 
> out what would be the best graphic file format  to use for this 
> multi-purpose moving forward. Some background: All legacy images, 
> which are primarily screenshots with some flowcharts, were .tif files, 
> RGB color, 96 dpi (again, intended for on-screen viewing). Using TCS3 
> moving forward, is there a better/clear recommendation for what 
> graphic file format would produce the best results?
>
> I have been searching the web for a few days and can't seem to find 
> any information on this particular aspect of single-sourcing using the 
> new TCS3. Does it not matter, i.e., does one just set up Robohelp 
> templates to convert .tifs to .jpgs or similar?
>
> All information is very much appreciated. Thank you, and I am happy to 
> be back to this forum!
>
> Virginia Morgan | Technical Writer
>
> TAKE Solutions, Inc.
>
> O 512.735.4316 | M 512.426.8323
>
> virginia.morgan at takesolutions.com
>
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Re: documentation best practices

[Grant Hogarth]

I think you are right about all of this.
It's marketing fertilizer.
If you have documented (via emails, memos) the risks, then you are
covered, even if the company is not.
Aspirational material needs that disclaimer that stock prospectives have
( and I don't think your boss will want that legaleseg)

Grant

-
Nadine wrote:
 That's what I was thinking. It sounds more like marketing copy than
 user guide content.

 Nadine

 
 *From:* Jeff Coatsworth jeff.coatswo...@jonassoftware.com
 *To:* framers@lists.frameusers.com framers@lists.frameusers.com
 *Sent:* Monday, December 5, 2011 5:21:46 PM
 *Subject:* RE: documentation best practices

 It's called marketing ;)

 
 *From:* framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
 [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of
 *hessiansx4
 *Sent:* Monday, December 05, 2011 5:56 AM
 *To:* framers@lists.frameusers.com
 *Subject:* documentation best practices

 I could use some insight into a situation I haven't encountered
 before today: how does one best respond to a request (read: order)
 to include something in their product's documentation about a
 functionality that will not be released with the upcoming
 release (it will still be in development) but is hoped to be ready
 shortly (whatever that means) after the product is released.
  
 I've politely pointed out that industry best practice is to
 document what IS as opposed to what WILL BE and that certain
 liabilities might be incurred if promises are made and then
 something goes wrong.
  
 Any thoughts?

 
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documentation best practices

[Grant Hogarth]

I think you are right about all of this.
It's marketing fertilizer.
If you have documented (via emails, memos) the risks, then you are
covered, even if the company is not.
Aspirational material needs that disclaimer that stock prospectives have
( and I don't think your boss will want that legalese)

Grant

-
Nadine wrote:
> That's what I was thinking. It sounds more like marketing copy than
> user guide content.
>
> Nadine
>
> 
> *From:* Jeff Coatsworth 
> *To:* "framers at lists.frameusers.com" 
> *Sent:* Monday, December 5, 2011 5:21:46 PM
> *Subject:* RE: documentation best practices
>
> It's called "marketing" ;>)
>
> 
> *From:* framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of
> *hessiansx4
> *Sent:* Monday, December 05, 2011 5:56 AM
> *To:* framers at lists.frameusers.com
> *Subject:* documentation best practices
>
> I could use some insight into a situation I haven't encountered
> before today: how does one best respond to a request (read: order)
> to include something in their product's documentation about a
> functionality that will not be released with the upcoming
> release (it will still be in development) but is hoped to be ready
> "shortly" (whatever that means) after the product is released.
>  
> I've politely pointed out that industry best practice is to
> document what IS as opposed to what WILL BE and that certain
> liabilities might be incurred if promises are made and then
> something goes wrong.
>  
> Any thoughts?
>

Re: FM 10 books

[Grant Hogarth]

AFAIK, there are *no* FM10-specific books out (yet).
Grant
==
Corinne Kenney wrote:
 Are there any decent (or any at all) FM 10 books out there? We can't use 
 online resources. If anyone knows of FM 10 books, please recommend them. I 
 think I've seen the suggestion that FM 9 Classroom in a Book is a good way to 
 go.
  
 Any suggestions are appreciated!
  
 Corinne Kenney 

 
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FM 10 books

[Grant Hogarth]

AFAIK, there are *no* FM10-specific books out (yet).
Grant
==
Corinne Kenney wrote:
> Are there any decent (or any at all) FM 10 books out there? We can't use 
> online resources. If anyone knows of FM 10 books, please recommend them. I 
> think I've seen the suggestion that FM 9 Classroom in a Book is a good way to 
> go.
>  
> Any suggestions are appreciated!
>  
> Corinne Kenney 
>

Re: Training material for FrameMaker 10?

[Grant Hogarth]

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

 
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Re: Tool to convert jpeg files to text

[Grant Hogarth]

Garnier 
 There is no text component to JPEG files, so your best bet is to
run them through an optical character recognition (OCR) program or send
them out to have them transcribed by a service that does that type of
work.  You *might* be able to PDF them and use Acrobat's OCR facility,
but I've not had the best luck with that route.

Grant
=
Garnier Garnier wrote:
 Hello Listers,
  
 Is there a free tool available that can convert .jpg files to text? I
 have been provided a manual in jpg format for reference. I realize
 that I can use some of the contents from same instead of re-writing
 from scratch. How can I avoid typing the contents?
  
 TIA,
  
 Garnier

 
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Re: Unknown File Type -- Corruption Problem?

[Grant Hogarth]

I second the recommendation.  You never know what parts of a drive may 
be suffering bitrot, especially if you use the drive a lot!

Grant

On 10/21/2011 7:03 AM, keith.sol...@tmx.com wrote:

If the problem is hard-drive related, I strongly recommend getting GRC's
SpinRite. It's a low-level disk repair utility and has saved my bacon on
more than one occasion.

http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm

I'm not sure if it would work on an external drive (if it's though a USB
interface). If the files are on your office PC, I'd suggest scanning that
drive.

Regards
Keith
-
Keith Soltys
Senior Technical Writer
Architecture
TMX Group
(416) 947-4397
http://www.tmx.com/



Hi Framers,

I've read a few threads on this in the archives but didn't get how
they could help solve this problem.

Using FM 9.0p255 on a virtual PC, Windows 7, via Parallels.

I have a set of well-established files on an external HD that I take
between home and office to work on the files regularly. Yesterday,
one file generated the dreaded unknown file type error and nothing
seemed to open it. Because I'd had a modem power supply go bad around
the same time as I last worked on this file (at home), I accepted the
corruption and was able to restore the content from other sources
into a new file.

Today, a different file that was fine yesterday afternoon at home now
generates the same unknown file type error at the office. And this
file I don't relish reconstructing. The result is the same whether I
double-click from the Mac, open from the Windows desktop or folder,
or choose FileOpen in Frame. From the Mac side it looks like the
permissions are OK; don't know how to check that on the PC side.

I'm concerned that the problem is random and could affect any file at
any time--I can't back up every file every minute without seriously
slowing down my/the computer's efficiency and compromising my
already-tight deadline.

Are there any solutions to this problem? Something I missed or
misunderstood in the archives?

Thanks for any insight,
Karen

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"Unknown File Type" -- Corruption Problem?

[Grant Hogarth]

I second the recommendation.  You never know what parts of a drive may 
be suffering bitrot, especially if you use the drive a lot!
Grant

On 10/21/2011 7:03 AM, Keith.Soltys at tmx.com wrote:
> If the problem is hard-drive related, I strongly recommend getting GRC's
> SpinRite. It's a low-level disk repair utility and has saved my bacon on
> more than one occasion.
>
> http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm
>
> I'm not sure if it would work on an external drive (if it's though a USB
> interface). If the files are on your office PC, I'd suggest scanning that
> drive.
>
> Regards
> Keith
> -
> Keith Soltys
> Senior Technical Writer
> Architecture
> TMX Group
> (416) 947-4397
> http://www.tmx.com/
>
>
>> Hi Framers,
>>
>> I've read a few threads on this in the archives but didn't get how
>> they could help solve this problem.
>>
>> Using FM 9.0p255 on a virtual PC, Windows 7, via Parallels.
>>
>> I have a set of well-established files on an external HD that I take
>> between home and office to work on the files regularly. Yesterday,
>> one file generated the dreaded "unknown file type" error and nothing
>> seemed to open it. Because I'd had a modem power supply go bad around
>> the same time as I last worked on this file (at home), I accepted the
>> corruption and was able to restore the content from other sources
>> into a new file.
>>
>> Today, a different file that was fine yesterday afternoon at home now
>> generates the same "unknown file type" error at the office. And this
>> file I don't relish reconstructing. The result is the same whether I
>> double-click from the Mac, open from the Windows desktop or folder,
>> or choose File>Open in Frame. From the Mac side it looks like the
>> permissions are OK; don't know how to check that on the PC side.
>>
>> I'm concerned that the problem is random and could affect any file at
>> any time--I can't back up every file every minute without seriously
>> slowing down my/the computer's efficiency and compromising my
>> already-tight deadline.
>>
>> Are there any solutions to this problem? Something I missed or
>> misunderstood in the archives?
>>
>> Thanks for any insight,
>> Karen
> --
>
>

Re: [stclwrsig-l] Question on FF - RH conversion

[Grant Hogarth]

That was the problem!!!
ONLY  check pagination.  ( solved some other problems too!)

Thanks John!
Grant

On 10/17/2011 11:01 AM, John Sgammato wrote:

Checking Pagination should do the trick -you don't have to edit style as well. 
Just check Pagination for your Heading 1 and Heading 2 and Title if you have 
something like that.
john

-Original Message-
From: stclwrsig-l-bounces+jsgammato=imprivata@mailman.stc.org 
[mailto:stclwrsig-l-bounces+jsgammato=imprivata@mailman.stc.org] On Behalf 
Of Grant Hogarth
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 11:50 AM
To: Frame Users
Cc: Lone Writers List
Subject: Re: [stclwrsig-l] Question on FF -  RH conversion

Apologies for incomplete/distorted information.

I'm using a demo version of TCS 3.5 (FM 10.0.1.408  RH 9.0.1.262) on
Windows Vista (fully patched).

I'm trying to split on FM styles heading 1 and heading 2.
The formats are mapped.

I selected Pagination, and then after clicking Edit Style, I
selected Format  Paragraph  New Page.
===
In response to:

Jeff Coatsworth:
That should work - you're sure that the FM doc has Heading1 as its paragraph 
format? What versions of FM and RH are you using?

Bill Swallow:
I see a disconnect here. You mention Level1 Head and Heading1. Are
these formats mapped? Also, which versions of the tools are you using?
Part of TCS?


On 10/15/2011 2:26 PM, Grant Hogarth wrote:

I'm trying to move a FM book to RH to produce Eclipse Help output.
Where I'm breaking my brain is on trying to get the RH import to split
off a new topic at each Level1 Head.
I've set the import (.isf) file to paginate on Heading1, but that does
not seem to split the files as desired.
What am I missing?
(or do the FM files need to be split from chapters into 1-page topics
separately?)

Thanks!
Grant


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Question on FF - RH conversion

[Grant Hogarth]

I'm trying to move a FM book to RH to produce Eclipse Help output.
Where I'm breaking my brain is on trying to get the RH import to split 
off a new topic at each Level1 Head.
I've set the import (.isf) file to paginate on Heading1, but that does 
not seem to split the files as desired.

What am I missing?
(or do the FM files need to be split from chapters into 1-page topics 
separately?)


Thanks!
Grant
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Question on FF -> RH conversion

[Grant Hogarth]

Apologies for incomplete/distorted information.

I'm using a demo version of TCS 3.5 (FM 10.0.1.408 & RH 9.0.1.262) on 
Windows Vista (fully patched).

I'm trying to split on FM styles "heading 1" and "heading 2".
The formats are mapped.

I selected "Pagination", and then after clicking "Edit Style", I 
selected Format> Paragraph> New Page.
===
In response to:

Jeff Coatsworth:
That should work - you're sure that the FM doc has "Heading1" as its paragraph 
format? What versions of FM and RH are you using?

Bill Swallow:
I see a disconnect here. You mention "Level1 Head" and "Heading1". Are
these formats mapped? Also, which versions of the tools are you using?
Part of TCS?


On 10/15/2011 2:26 PM, Grant Hogarth wrote:
> I'm trying to move a FM book to RH to produce Eclipse Help output.
> Where I'm breaking my brain is on trying to get the RH import to split 
> off a new topic at each Level1 Head.
> I've set the import (.isf) file to paginate on Heading1, but that does 
> not seem to split the files as desired.
> What am I missing?
> (or do the FM files need to be split from chapters into 1-page topics 
> separately?)
>
> Thanks!
> Grant
> _

[stclwrsig-l] Question on FF -> RH conversion

[Grant Hogarth]

That was the problem!!!
ONLY  check pagination.  (& solved some other problems too!)

Thanks John!
Grant

On 10/17/2011 11:01 AM, John Sgammato wrote:
> Checking Pagination should do the trick -you don't have to edit style as 
> well. Just check Pagination for your Heading 1 and Heading 2 and Title if you 
> have something like that.
> john
>
> -Original Message-
> From: stclwrsig-l-bounces+jsgammato=imprivata.com at mailman.stc.org 
> [mailto:stclwrsig-l-bounces+jsgammato=imprivata.com at mailman.stc.org] On 
> Behalf Of Grant Hogarth
> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 11:50 AM
> To: Frame Users
> Cc: Lone Writers List
> Subject: Re: [stclwrsig-l] Question on FF ->  RH conversion
>
> Apologies for incomplete/distorted information.
>
> I'm using a demo version of TCS 3.5 (FM 10.0.1.408&  RH 9.0.1.262) on
> Windows Vista (fully patched).
>
> I'm trying to split on FM styles "heading 1" and "heading 2".
> The formats are mapped.
>
> I selected "Pagination", and then after clicking "Edit Style", I
> selected Format>  Paragraph>  New Page.
> ===
> In response to:
>
> Jeff Coatsworth:
> That should work - you're sure that the FM doc has "Heading1" as its 
> paragraph format? What versions of FM and RH are you using?
>
> Bill Swallow:
> I see a disconnect here. You mention "Level1 Head" and "Heading1". Are
> these formats mapped? Also, which versions of the tools are you using?
> Part of TCS?
>
>
> On 10/15/2011 2:26 PM, Grant Hogarth wrote:
>> I'm trying to move a FM book to RH to produce Eclipse Help output.
>> Where I'm breaking my brain is on trying to get the RH import to split
>> off a new topic at each Level1 Head.
>> I've set the import (.isf) file to paginate on Heading1, but that does
>> not seem to split the files as desired.
>> What am I missing?
>> (or do the FM files need to be split from chapters into 1-page topics
>> separately?)
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Grant
>>

Question on FF -> RH conversion

[Grant Hogarth]

I'm trying to move a FM book to RH to produce Eclipse Help output.
Where I'm breaking my brain is on trying to get the RH import to split 
off a new topic at each Level1 Head.
I've set the import (.isf) file to paginate on Heading1, but that does 
not seem to split the files as desired.
What am I missing?
(or do the FM files need to be split from chapters into 1-page topics 
separately?)

Thanks!
Grant

Re: screwy x-ref formatting

[Grant Hogarth]

All I can think of is that you are missing a DefaultParaFont (or  
\) at the end of the reference string.


Grant

On 10/4/2011 8:44 PM, Carol J. Elkins wrote:
I haven't seen a response to this, so I wanted to comment that I have 
this happen in one particular book as well. But unlike John's 
experience where his entire xref turns blue, every time I regenerate, 
I lose the blue character formatting in some, but not all, of the 
xrefs. But when I close down the book and reopen it, all the xrefs are 
correctly formatted once again. A sample xref format would be

X-refBlueFigure\ $paranumonly on\ page\ $chapnum–$pagenum

I can't narrow the problem down to any specific xref format, and I 
confess that because reopening the book solves the problem, I haven't 
really pursued a fix. My system has 8 GB of RAM, so resources 
shouldn't be a problem. Very frustrating. It would be great if anyone 
can shed some light on this. I'm using Frame9 on Win7, fully patched.


Carol

At 11:00 AM 9/30/2011, you wrote:
I have a simple x-ref that works fine in 7 books and screwy in an 
eight book.

Blue$paratext /on page $pagenum
usually produces the desired blue text for the title and plain text 
for the page number, but in the errant book the entire x-ref is blue. 
When I update the x-ref, it behaves properly. But when I update all 
x-refs in the book, it reverts to the all-blue look.


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Re: font errors/problems

[Grant Hogarth]

One additional thought --- are the fonts there and not corrupted?

I've had enough problems with certain font files getting corrupted that 
I have a zipped set of them stored on a different drive for rapid 
replacement and I usually run chkdisk or SpinRite on the drive before 
reinstalling to make sure I'm not accidentally saving things to an iffy 
sector.


Grant

On 9/15/2011 2:13 PM, Michael Müller-Hillebrand wrote:

John,

From the error message I assume you are running on Windows 7. I think 
it wasn't mentioned before.


Normally you cannot write to files in the program files folder 
structure, but if you try to do so, the system may write the file to a 
»VirtualStore« folder structured which is created in

C:\Users\your user name\AppData\Local\VirtualStore
As a result, you may have three copies of the maker.ini. I am not 
sure, how applications that were published before Windows 7 handle 
that VirtualStore.  You should compare the different versions if you 
find anything that gives you a hint. Well, the version in

C:\Users\your user name\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\9
is not a complete version, it just contains additional settings or 
overrides to the settings in the installation folder maker.ini.


As you already guessed, something has definitely changed on your 
system, and if it is nothing FrameMaker-related it could well be 
something regarding the logged-in user, maybe some hidden changes to 
the user rights?


I would:
1. Update FrameMaker 9 to 9.0p245 (which is the latest version).
2. Give the current user Administrator rights. If you think the last 
action is too much, then allow the current user to change the 
FrameMaker installation folder.


- Michael


Am 15.09.2011 um 20:14 schrieb jburgdor:



·This script is now and has for some months been running on a single 
machine.
·The script was running fine without alteration, producing no errors, 
and then ... poof, the font problems began.

·Am running FM9.0p237.



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font errors/problems

[Grant Hogarth]

One additional thought --- are the fonts there and not corrupted?

I've had enough problems with certain font files getting corrupted that 
I have a zipped set of them stored on a different drive for rapid 
replacement and I usually run chkdisk or SpinRite on the drive before 
reinstalling to make sure I'm not accidentally saving things to an iffy 
sector.

Grant

On 9/15/2011 2:13 PM, Michael M?ller-Hillebrand wrote:
> John,
>
> From the error message I assume you are running on Windows 7. I think 
> it wasn't mentioned before.
>
> Normally you cannot write to files in the program files folder 
> structure, but if you try to do so, the system may write the file to a 
> ?VirtualStore? folder structured which is created in
> C:\Users\\AppData\Local\VirtualStore
> As a result, you may have three copies of the maker.ini. I am not 
> sure, how applications that were published before Windows 7 handle 
> that VirtualStore.  You should compare the different versions if you 
> find anything that gives you a hint. Well, the version in
> C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\9
> is not a complete version, it just contains additional settings or 
> overrides to the settings in the installation folder maker.ini.
>
> As you already guessed, something has definitely changed on your 
> system, and if it is nothing FrameMaker-related it could well be 
> something regarding the logged-in user, maybe some hidden changes to 
> the user rights?
>
> I would:
> 1. Update FrameMaker 9 to 9.0p245 (which is the latest version).
> 2. Give the current user Administrator rights. If you think the last 
> action is too much, then allow the current user to change the 
> FrameMaker installation folder.
>
> - Michael
>
>
> Am 15.09.2011 um 20:14 schrieb jburgdor:
>
>>
>> ?This script is now and has for some months been running on a single 
>> machine.
>> ?The script was running fine without alteration, producing no errors, 
>> and then ... poof, the font problems began.
>> ?Am running FM9.0p237.
>
>
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> ~*Messestand 412*in Halle 4~ Vortrag am Mi 19.10.:
> ~ 11:15h Raum 6.2 ?XPath in FrameMaker praktisch nutzen?
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Re: Link a colored background to a section of text so it moves as the doc flow changes?

[Grant Hogarth]

There are two ways to do this that I know of in FM.
1) create a graphic of the backing color block, place a text rectangle
over it, and anchor the two together.  You'll need to put it in an
in-line anchored frame.
2) create a one-cell table, color the background, and insert your text
Each has advantages and disadvantages.  I'd try one of each, and then
test all your downstream mods (HTML, PDF, XML, etc.) to see what causes
the fewest problems.

Grant
=
Terri Schultz wrote:

 Unstructured FrameMaker 9 on Windows

 I have a document with a section of text. The section includes a
 header, followed by several paragraphs.

 Is there a way that I can link a colored graphic to this section of
 text? Design requires a colored graphic behind this section.
 Pagination can change as content changes, but this section is always
 the last section in the document. Content of this section is fairly
 stable, so adjusting the size of the colored background would be a
 very occasional task.

 Thank you in advance for any help you can provide!

 Terri

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Link a colored background to a section of text so it moves as the doc flow changes?

[Grant Hogarth]

There are two ways to do this that I know of in FM.
1) create a graphic of the backing color block, place a text rectangle
over it, and anchor the two together.  You'll need to put it in an
in-line anchored frame.
2) create a one-cell table, color the background, and insert your text
Each has advantages and disadvantages.  I'd try one of each, and then
test all your downstream mods (HTML, PDF, XML, etc.) to see what causes
the fewest problems.

Grant
=
Terri Schultz wrote:
>
> Unstructured FrameMaker 9 on Windows
>
> I have a document with a section of text. The section includes a
> header, followed by several paragraphs.
>
> Is there a way that I can link a colored graphic to this section of
> text? Design requires a colored graphic behind this section.
> Pagination can change as content changes, but this section is always
> the last section in the document. Content of this section is fairly
> stable, so adjusting the size of the colored background would be a
> very occasional task.
>
> Thank you in advance for any help you can provide!
>
> Terri
>
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Re: Index Sorting - Single Word

[Grant Hogarth]

Use this: URSA: enrollment[URSA:0]

Grant
==
Karen Robbins wrote:

Hi Framers,

I've studied the index sort order reference page but don't quite get
how to make my index sort a single word followed by its comma and page
number above the same word with another word following it. I want to
keep letter-by-letter sorting. If Frame ignores commas, and the entry
has nothing following the single word, shouldn't it appear before an
entry that has any character after the word? I know I could make
another index level; but keeping known phrases together, without
twisting them around or breaking them up, is better for my readers.

What I get:

URSA
   enrollment appointment times, 28
   enrollment, 22

What I want:

URSA
   enrollment, 22
   enrollment appointment times, 28

Any way to accomplish this?

Thanks,

Karen


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Index Sorting - Single Word

[Grant Hogarth]

Use this: URSA: enrollment[URSA:0]

Grant
==
Karen Robbins wrote:
> Hi Framers,
>
> I've studied the index sort order reference page but don't quite get
> how to make my index sort a single word followed by its comma and page
> number above the same word with another word following it. I want to
> keep letter-by-letter sorting. If Frame ignores commas, and the entry
> has nothing following the single word, shouldn't it appear before an
> entry that has any character after the word? I know I could make
> another index level; but keeping known phrases together, without
> twisting them around or breaking them up, is better for my readers.
>
> What I get:
>
> URSA
>enrollment appointment times, 28
>enrollment, 22
>
> What I want:
>
> URSA
>enrollment, 22
>enrollment appointment times, 28
>
> Any way to accomplish this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Karen

Re: How do I keep Para catalog and Character catalog on top?

[Grant Hogarth]

Drag the pod off to the side so it is a child window.
You can also move the sub-pieces of the pods around to assemble a 
custom pod.


Grant

Nancy Allison wrote:

Hi, all.

I'm using FrameMaker 10 with Windows 7.

I haven't messed with the workspace setup much, so I have the panel on the right of the 
workspace, and the pods for the Paragraph Tag catalog and Character tag 
catalog are at the top of the panel.

For a while, when I opened either catalog, it would stay open and stay on top 
of my working file -- handy if I needed to apply a character tag to multiple 
instances. Now, as soon as I click a tag in the catalog, the catalog closes. 
How do I make it stay open?

I have looked for likely commands and have not found any.

Thanks.

--Nancy
fo.




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Re: Index Entry Formatting

[Grant Hogarth]

Try the following:
Adams, Geoffrey[Adams, Jeff]Bold

BoldAdams, Geoffrey/Bold[Adams, Jeff]Bold


Jeff Coatsworth wrote:
It's not clear from my e-mail client if you're trying to bold the 
index entry, and just 1 of the page refs or both of them. I'd suspect 
that the marker text would have to be identical to consolidate the 
entries and bold them, but I have no idea how you would bold the page 
refs within the marker - I'd be more inclined to attack it from the IX 
ref page itself.



*From:* framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com 
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Brad Anderson

*Sent:* Thursday, May 26, 2011 12:03 PM
*To:* framers@lists.frameusers.com
*Subject:* Index Entry Formatting

Framers,

I'm trying to get an index to format entries in a special manner.   I 
can get a page number to bold in a list of entries without a problem. 
  However, I also want to bold the entry itself.   When I do this, I 
get 2 separate entries in the index.


For example, here's my desired output:

*Adams, Geoffrey* 3, *5*

Here's how FrameMaker formats the index:

*Adams, Geoffrey* 5
Adams, Geoffrey* 3*
*
*

My entries look as follows:

Adams, Geoffrey[Adams, Jeff]Bold

BoldAdams, Geoffrey[Adams, Jeff]/BoldBold



I've tried several variations of these.  I can get the page number 
entry to bold using the first method.  However, if I try to bold the 
entry itself, it'll end up as 2 entries in the index from the other 
entries that are not bolded.   I can make the bolding with a 
FrameScript, just thought I'd check to see if someone's got this to work.


Thanks,

Brad




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