Madcap software wants your opinions
As you may have heard, I'm the new product manager for Blaze. I'm running a survey to find out a little more about our audience and how you all work. We're also giving out 5 Madcap tee shirts to people who provide their contact info. Providing contact info is optional, but you won't be entered to win if you don't provide it. To participate, go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=xagCIO4Hj1duIDFnjmJsnQ_3d_3d The survey closes October 6th! sharon Sharon Burton Product Manager, Blaze Madcap Software sburton at madcapsoftware.com Voice: 858-320-0387 x217
Closing big book files
From the book file, press the Shift key. While you are holding the whift key, click the File menu. Notice that you have 3 new options: Save All, Close All and one other I can't remember. sharon Quoting Harold Winberg : > Hello Framers > > > > I am working in a Book file with over 400 chapters. > > > > I am using IXgen and opening all files to perform updates. > > > > Is there a quick way to save and close the files? > > > > I am saving the book and using shift/close all files but it makes me > confirm OK save the file. > > > > It takes over a half hour. > > > > Any other way?? > > > > Thanks > > > > Les Winberg > > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as sharon at anthrobytes.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >
TOC within a chapter
A fast story: I had a client with a big manual to which we were adding stuff. Each chapter had its own TOC and the entire book had an index, TOC, LOF and LOT. Inserting cross references wasn't working because we were moving things and losing things. To get the page numbers for the entire manual correct, I had to: 1. Generate and update the entire book. 2. Manually generate each chapter TOC to get the page numbers and headings correct in the chapter TOC. This means open each chapter, generate the TOC, save and close. 3. Generate and update the entire book again to make sure the imported TOC files were all updated properly in each file. 4. Spot check to make sure step 3 didn't add pages I didn't expect and thus made the chapter level TOC out of date. 5. Possibly do steps 1 - 4 a second time. This process could take over an hour if I was trapped in steps 4 and 5. I asked Rick if he could write me a script to automate this process because it was tedious, at best. He quoted me a very fair rate that was about half what I was making on the total project. He wrote the script and gave it to me, under the theory that he could sell it to others. The moral of the story? Besides the fact that Rick is a great guy, the script saved me about 20 hours on the project. 20 hours x hourly rate... For your client, it would probably pay for Framescript and the script the first manual it's used for. sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 -Original Message- To: Butler,Darren J CTR USAF AFMC 584 CBSS/GBHAC; framers at frameusers.com Subject: Re: TOC within a chapter Hi Darren, Those that won't buy FrameScript will have to settle for either manual method: inserting cross-references to make a chapter TOC, or using Special > Table of Contents to generate a TOC and then import it by reference into the chapter. Considering the significant time savings that a script would bring every time it is used, the "won't buy" argument doesn't make any sense to me. Any serious FrameMaker shop should consider FrameScript as an essential plugin, especially at the bargain price of $149/seat. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com Unfortunately, some of my clients do not have the FrameScript program and a few of them have no plans to purchase it. Therefore, I need a plan "B." I'm considering generating the TOC to a separate file, then importing the TOC as a text inset. Any thoughts on this? ___
MadCap Blaze
Vendor Post I've been at WritersUA and away from my personal email since Sunday. I got back late last night. I'm the product manager for Blaze. (BTW - great conference!) Some clarifications: Blaze is the younger sister of Flare 4. If you need complex print and online docs, then you want Flare 4. If you only need printed output, then you want Blaze. Everything that's in Blaze will be in Flare 4. Blaze is a fully featured print authoring and publishing system. It imports and exports Frame and Word because you may have a workflow that requires you to import from or export to these formats for some reason. We want to account for that. However, you don't *need* to export to Frame to get your output if your workflow doesn't require that. You can import existing Word or Frame documents and you're good to go. Then you can directly create PDFs or XPSs as your deliverables, with the content for those deliverables based on your Outlines. Our page design and layout in Blaze is robust so there's no need to export to Frame if your workflow doesn't require Frame as an output. One of the biggest differences in Blaze - and really, Flare - is that you are not authoring long documents, but rather you're authoring topics. Then, using Outlines, you put together the topics into the deliverables; for example, a User's Guide and an Admin Guide. There's nothing to prevent you from authoring just like you do in Word of Frame in that you can open a new topic in Blaze and then write a 200 page document in one topic. But by doing that, you lose the power of topic-based content development that easily allows content reuse across multiple deliverables for one or more projects. I strongly urge you to attend one of my online demos to learn more about the paradigm shift for Blaze. If you are not aware of the shift and just click Next in the import wizard, you are going to wind up with a mess. I go over that in the demos. (Don't try to signup for a few hours, as all the scheduled demos for the next 6 weeks are full and I have to schedule more. Give me until about 9am Pacific today, please.) As to our newly announced product Press, it's for glossy print materials, like Annual reports or other glossy printed material. It's related to our other products, but it's not the only press solution. As to DITA or CMS, check out our just announced product Team Server. It's a workflow management tool that's amazing. We have ideas about what it should do but we want your input about what you need that tool to do. I'm delighted to answer questions about Blaze or any of our products. If you could send those questions to my MadCap email, that would help me a lot. sburton at madcapsoftware.com, please. sharon Sharon Burton MadCap Software Product Manager sburton at madcapsoftware.com http://madcapsoftware.wordpress.com
MadCap Blaze
Because some people don't want or need online docs. For example, one of my former clients was a cash register manufacturer. You can buy their products for about $100. There is no concept of online help for these products, as they don't come with a computer. I delivered a PDF of the manual and they sent that to the printer. They delivered a printed book with the product. Why should these people purchase a tool that does way more than they need? Flare 4 is too much for them. I don't wish to get into the DITA discussion because that's very far afield from the discussion of the Blaze beta at this moment. If you are currently doing DITA and you're happy with your tools, then good on you. MadCap will support DITA in the future. That's all I wish to publicly disclose about our plans for DITA at this time. Team Server is being developed right now. I would expect it by the end of the year. Because we want to know what you want in a product like this, and because we are developing it right now, now would be the time to talk to us about what you want in a workflow management tool. We want to build what you are looking for in this sort of tool. We have ideas but you all know your workflow needs. I never said that topic-based authoring is a new concept. But it is a shift from how most people think about docs. Thus, a discussion of this development method is relevant. For lots of good info, see JoAnn Hackos's newest book. She really explains it in detail. And, yes, our UI is very different. Some people love it, some don't. sharon Sharon Burton -Original Message- From: Bill Swallow [mailto:techcommd...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 8:26 AM To: sharon at anthrobytes.com Cc: Frame Users; Sharon Work Subject: Re: MadCap Blaze > Some clarifications: Blaze is the younger sister of Flare 4. If you need > complex print and online docs, then you want Flare 4. If you only need > printed output, then you want Blaze. Everything that's in Blaze will be in > Flare 4. I really don't understand this, I'm not trying to be difficult... But if Flare does everything that Blaze does and more, and Flare's been out for years, why develop Blaze at all? I guess I don't see the point of spending the time, energy, and money to develop a brand new product that does a subset of what another of your products already does. > One of the biggest differences in Blaze - and really, Flare - is that you > are not authoring long documents, but rather you're authoring topics. Then, > using Outlines, you put together the topics into the deliverables; for > example, a User's Guide and an Admin Guide. The classic authoring model for FrameMaker is indeed long document authoring, but it's not so with DITA. > There's nothing to prevent you from authoring just like you do in Word of > Frame in that you can open a new topic in Blaze and then write a 200 page > document in one topic. But by doing that, you lose the power of topic-based > content development that easily allows content reuse across multiple > deliverables for one or more projects. Well, agreed. That would be just silly. For the record, I've done topic-based authoring in FrameMaker years ago. It's all about how you approach your content structure. I needed to leverage topics in different documents in different ways, so I just created a new document for every portable topic. I don't think topic based content authoring is a revolutionary concept. > I strongly urge you to attend one of my online demos to learn more about the > paradigm shift for Blaze. I don't see a paradigm shift at all, but the UI is way different than what non-Flare users would be accustomed to. But paradigm shift, no. Topic based authoring is not a new concept. > As to DITA or CMS, > check out our just announced product Team Server. It's a workflow management > tool that's amazing. We have ideas about what it should do but we want your > input about what you need that tool to do. I'm confused. Is it a product or is it an idea for a product? > I'm delighted to answer questions about Blaze or any of our products. If you > could send those questions to my MadCap email, that would help me a lot. > sburton at madcapsoftware.com, please. I'll keep my questions on the list since that's where they originated. -- Bill Swallow HATT List Owner WWP-Users List Owner Senior Member STC, TechValley Chapter STC Single-Sourcing SIG Manager http://techcommdood.blogspot.com
MadCap Blaze
Vendor post Forgive me - these are straight questions. I really don't quite understand. What's convoluted about getting printed output out of XML, HTML, or XHTML topics in Blaze? You create topics, you define and assign style sheets to topics (you can also have multiple style sheets in one project and assign them at build time when you create the output), you create outlines that define the content for the output, you specify PDF, XPS, or HTML as the output, you output, and you're done. What other printed outputs would you want? PDF and XPS seem to be the only ones you can send to a printer for printed books... If your workflow needs you to also output to Word or Frame, we have that too, but it's not really a print output, per se. As to XML, HTML, or XHTML not being the right data format for content, it's the direction the industry is moving. Data in these formats are more extendable and reusable than in a Word format, for example... Pretty much all CMSs, for example, store data as one of these formats. We've not found much that you can do in unstructured Frame that you can't do in Blaze. But Blaze does things that Frame can't do, like Smart Cross-references. [see the docs or our website for what those are but they are very powerful] As to the docs, we have a 36 page Quick Start Guide and very extensive help system in the first beta build. This *is* a beta, so we're finishing the docs during the beta, hopefully using info you guys give us about what else needs tight docs. We would need to know what are you struggling with that needs more docs? Can you help me understand? Quoting quills at airmail.net: > > For a product that is supposedly Print oriented, HTML is a lousy > media to produce it in. There is no reason to use HTML. Even XHTML is > not the best route, nor is XML. While HTML and XHTML are presentation > based, they don't allow the same type of easy manipulation that > FrameMaker or even Word allows. > > This just isn't a paradigm that makes sense to me. There isn't an > output other than html or PDF or XPS. The means to get to your output > result is laborious and convoluted. This just doesn't seem to be a > well thought out print solution. > > And the beta did not provide me with any real documentation that I > could view with confidence. Was that a problem with the build? > > Scott
MadCap Blaze
In fact, we have these features and in fact you have the sort of control - and in some cases, more control - you expect from an app designed for "print". For example, you also have short line control, missing from FrameMaker. Really. Quoting William Gaffga : > leading ... kerning ... tracking ... ligatures ... this kinda stuff (and > more) is something you expect from "print". HTML, even with the aid of > CSS, is not going to be able to give you the control of these that you > would get from an app designed for "print". > > Sharon Burton wrote: >> Can you help me understand? >>
MadCap Blaze
It's the second, as in your example. If the words leave a line that's too short to look good, you can set how that's managed. It can either recalculate the lines above it and pull the short line up into the paragraph OR it can expand the text and send more into the last line. But it's automatic. You don't have to put a non-breaking space. And if you need to reuse that content in another layout, that non-breaking space could look icky in the second layout. Better to set rules for this and then move on. sharon Sharon Burton CEO, Anthrobytes Consulting 951-369-8590 www.anthrobytes.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com]On Behalf Of Hedley Finger Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:35 PM To: Frame Users Subject: Re: MadCap Blaze Sharon: At Friday, 21/03/2008, 11:07 AM;, you wrote: >you also have short line control, missing from FrameMaker. Is that the same as widows and orphans? Or is it when a small word, say "all", turns over onto a new line at the end of a paragraph? If the latter, in FM most people just put a non-breaking space before the word, e.g. "\ all", in order to bring the preceding word over onto the last line. Regards, Hedley
More like a flicker than a Blaze
Vendor post Actually, to clarify for those who may not know, with Flare you get both online and print in one package. With Frame, you get print or PDF. With the addition of ePub (another $1200, last I looked), you get online. You also get very responsive tech support, should you want it. If you have concerns about or would like to provide input into our pricing strategy or our product strategy, I encourage you to contact me at my madcap email: sburton at madcapsoftware.com Sharon Burton Product Manager MadCap Software Quoting "Flato, Gillian" : > I just looked at pricing. Flare is $899. FrameMaker is $899. With Frame > I get DITA and a program that works with my ePub Help software, with > Flare I get less. > > Not only does MadCap's product strategy make no sense, their pricing > strategy also makes no sense. > > Since we are the potential audience for Flare, MadCap should talk to us > before they develop their next product and decide on pricing structure. > > -Gillian > > > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of > quills at airmail.net > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 7:02 PM > To: Hedley Finger; Frame Users > Subject: Re: More like a flicker than a Blaze > > Truthfully, I'd use Oxygen rather than Blaze for an XHTML editor. Or > I'd use a couple of other apps, which even when taken as a group are > less expensive than would be Blaze. And have a learning curve that > isn't as steep. The requirement to design isn't one that I would give > to all authors, though the input of data I would, and that can be > done with text editors, much as is done with Arbortext apps. > > Scott >
Announcing MadCap Blaze!
***Vendor post alert! Avert your eyes if these emails upset you!! ;-) It's been a long time in the works, but it's finally here: MadCap Software announces Blaze! Blaze is the perfect product for authoring and publishing complex printed materials. With Blaze, you finally have a complete product for developing long printed documents while maximizing content re-use through topic-based authoring: * Topic-based content development * Content reuse with conditional text, variables, snippets, outlines, and more * Flexibility with XML and CSS * And much more Blaze also integrates with our other products, including Flare, MadCap Lingo, Analyzer, X-edit and Capture so you can extend the power of Blaze as your needs grow. Madcap Blaze includes all the features you expect in a high-end XML-based publishing system. I'm not going to list them here but go to the website and read all the features. This product is amazing. To see what Blaze can do for you, to sign up for a free web-based demo, or to download the trial, go to http://www.madcapsoftware.com/products/blaze/. You just won't believe how easy your life can be. sharon Sharon Burton Product Manager MadCap Software Voice: 858-320-0387 x 222 Cell: 951-202-0813 Home office: 951-369-8590 sburton at madcapsoftware.com IM: sharonvburton at yahoo.com http://madcapsoftware.wordpress.com
ePublisher Pro vs. other generated online help
***Vendor post*** We just released Flare 4, which will do everything I suspect you need and more. You can download a trial version at www.madcapsoftware.com and sign up for a demo, if you want. The demo is good, in that it will shows you some of what the product does. We can certainly dynamically link to Frame files, not problems. We easily do multiple sets of variables, including importing the variables in your Frame files. And the conditions come thru easy pleasey. sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com]On Behalf Of Callie Bertsche Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 2:59 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: ePublisher Pro vs. other generated online help Hi Framaniacs ;) I generate 10+ manuals from FrameMaker 7.2 into PDFs, with extensive single sourcing material. Currently, I've been using WebWorks ePublisher Pro 9.1 (I just did an old maintenance upgrade to 9.2, actually) to generate several thousand help pages (between different projects/products). I just received an offer from ePublisher Pro to upgrade to their 2008.2 (9.5) edition for the cost of software maintenance, since I'm on an unsupported (old) version. Primarily I'm wondering: - Do other writers with similar publishing needs consider ePubPro a competitive product? - Have other products sharpened their competitive edge since our last tool decision (a few years ago)? For instance, comparisons with MadCap or Flare? In considering a new product, I know immediately I value the following: - Dynamic connection with FrameMaker documents (ability to rescan/update files in help project file) - Ability to set variables and conditions or pass them through from the document, in a user-friendly manner, when building the help Thanks for any "help" on the help anyone has time to give! Cheers, Callie
MadCap Software offering Free Webinars
***Vendor post!*** MadCap Software is offering several free webinars in the month of October. These sales pitch-free webinars are filling up fast. If you want to learn more about any of these topics, click the links below to sign up. Importing FrameMaker files to Flare or Blaze October 3 at 9am Pacific Reserve your Webinar seat at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/667817804 What?s new in Flare 4? October 9 at 9am Pacific Reserve your Webinar seat at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/562186940 Planning the move to Flare or Blaze October 15 at 9am Pacific Reserve your Webinar seat at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/385144397 Doing more with less (Tools independant: this is the crazy sold out STC webinar we did in late spring) October 21 at 9am Pacific Reserve your Webinar seat at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/865719205 sharon Sharon Burton Product Manager MadCap Software Voice: 858-320-0387 x 222 Cell: 951-202-0813 Home office: 951-369-8590 sburton at madcapsoftware.com IM: sharonvburton at yahoo.com Blog: http://madcapsoftware.wordpress.com
Still time to sign up for the next free tools-neutral webinar
Not much of a vendor post As you know, MadCap Software is hosting a series of free tool-neutral webinars. The next one is April 9th at 9am Pacific. There's still time to sign up. Planning Topic-based Authoring: Working in a Use Case or Scenario-based Environment Presenter: John Hedtke Time and date: April 9 2009 9am Pacific Sign up: http://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/webinars.aspx You know topic-based authoring will save you time and effort in your authoring and publishing projects. If you're working in a use case or scenario development environment, you also know topic-based authoring will make your life easier. This free webinar will walk you thru planning your projects. When we're done, you'll have a firm idea of what you need to do with your projects to make sure you deliver on time and in budget and how to integrate your project into the rest of the project planning. This free webinar is being recorded, so even if the date and time don't work for you, sign up and you'll automatically get a link to the recording the next day. sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvburton at yahoo.com Blog: madcapsoftware.wordpress.com
Cross-ref formats
Given that more and more information is being repurposed, I've become against making things fit the old printed model. The xref formats you describe are from print. But I'm thinking more and more of formatting and content as separate. I would set the xrefs as simple as possible in Frame to handle other outputs. But that's just me. I'd rather not have writers trying to figure out what to use when and I'd really like to not have checking these formats in the preproduction list. sharon Sharon Burton IM: sharonvburton at yahoo.com 951-369-8590 -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 12:52 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Cross-ref formats Some follow-up questions: 1. I've been looking at the Chicago Manual, 15th edition. I'd expect a great honking treatment of this subject, but I'm not seeing it. All the cross-reference i9nformation is presented with reference to indexes and bibliographies. The sections referring to cross-references "in text" are discussions of the editor's obligation to check cross-references! Is there an exhaustive section on x-ref format, in text, that I'm missing? 2. I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you , to discover just what a stick-in-the-mud I really am. I thought italics were sacrosanct for referring to the titles of separately bound publications. (Although how purely electronic publications can be "bound" is a topic for another day.) But .. . you've all gotten over this hurdle and use italics to identify cross-references? Like: "See Pots and Pans on page 85," where "Pots and Pans" is a couple of paragraphs with header in a much longer chapter of a much larger *separately bound* publication, whether physical or digital? Really? I must sit down. In that case, do you also put your italicized x-refs in a different color, so as to distinguish them from the titles of separately bound publications, which you might also mention in your text? Thanks! --Nancy
Cross-ref formats
Right now she's doing print. But in 6 months? I like to build for this possibility. And I'm lazy and don't want to have to worry about what template is applied and checking the xref formats to make sure it's all as it should be and... I'm not saying Nancy is wrong, I'm just giving my philosophy on what I prefer to do. sharon Sharon Burton IM: sharonvburton at yahoo.com 951-369-8590 -Original Message- From: Mike Feimster [mailto:mike.feims...@acstechnologies.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 1:33 PM To: sharon at anthrobytes.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Cross-ref formats Considering she's setting up a template for a print document, it makes sense to include the page numbers in the x-ref formats. If she's outputting to a different format, she can create a separate set of x-ref definitions in the tool she is using to create her other output. Mike -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Sharon Burton Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:18 PM To: 'Nancy Allison'; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Cross-ref formats Given that more and more information is being repurposed, I've become against making things fit the old printed model. The xref formats you describe are from print. But I'm thinking more and more of formatting and content as separate. I would set the xrefs as simple as possible in Frame to handle other outputs. But that's just me. I'd rather not have writers trying to figure out what to use when and I'd really like to not have checking these formats in the preproduction list. sharon Sharon Burton IM: sharonvburton at yahoo.com 951-369-8590 -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 12:52 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Cross-ref formats Some follow-up questions: 1. I've been looking at the Chicago Manual, 15th edition. I'd expect a great honking treatment of this subject, but I'm not seeing it. All the cross-reference i9nformation is presented with reference to indexes and bibliographies. The sections referring to cross-references "in text" are discussions of the editor's obligation to check cross-references! Is there an exhaustive section on x-ref format, in text, that I'm missing? 2. I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you , to discover just what a stick-in-the-mud I really am. I thought italics were sacrosanct for referring to the titles of separately bound publications. (Although how purely electronic publications can be "bound" is a topic for another day.) But .. . you've all gotten over this hurdle and use italics to identify cross-references? Like: "See Pots and Pans on page 85," where "Pots and Pans" is a couple of paragraphs with header in a much longer chapter of a much larger *separately bound* publication, whether physical or digital? Really? I must sit down. In that case, do you also put your italicized x-refs in a different color, so as to distinguish them from the titles of separately bound publications, which you might also mention in your text? Thanks! --Nancy ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as mike.feimster at acstechnologies.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/mike.feimster%40acst echnologies.com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Free non-tools webinars from MadCap Software
Vendor alert but not product news As you know, MadCap Software is running a series of popular free webinars for the Tech Comm community. We?ve added 2 more webinars to the schedule. They are: Controlling costs by controlling language This tool-independent webinar shows how simplified language options can reduce page count, decrease translation expense, and improve comprehension among on-English audiences. But is it appropriate for you? Find out. Presenter: Brenda Huettner, P-N Designs, Inc Apr 23, 2009 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (Pacific Time) https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/877644241 Users: Who are these people and what do they want? This tool-independent webinar discusses creating the wrong content for the wrong user is as bad as creating nothing at all. Learn to identify your users and decide how to support them. Reduce costs and schedules by providing the right information. Presenter: Sharon Burton, MadCap Software May 14, 2009 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (Pacific Time) https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/674715509 We?ve not added them to the MadCap website yet but they should appear in the next few days. If you?re interested, sign up. We?re getting about 200 people signed up for each one. We?re also recording the webinars so they are available afterwards if the time and date don?t work for you. And don?t forget, you can still sign up for Sarah O?Keefe doing DITA ? Why the buzz? at 9am 5 Feb Pacific by going to https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/598015341 sharon Sharon Burton Product Manager MadCap Software Voice: 858-320-0387 x 222 Cell: 951-202-0813 Home office: 951-369-8590 sburton at madcapsoftware.com IM: sharonvburton at yahoo.com Blog: http://madcapsoftware.wordpress.com Free webinars: http://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/webinars.aspx
The next free MadCap tool-s neutral webinar is Feb 12
Vendor alert but not real vendor-y As you know, MadCap is hosting a free series of Tech Comm-related, generally, tools-neutral, webinars. Building the business case for topic-based authoring. Feb 12, 9-10am Pacific This webinar will walk you through defining the problem, gathering appropriate data, compiling the data, and presenting it to your management. Learn the best ways to make your management see you can?t afford *not* to make the move. There?s still time to sign up at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/706899386 These webinars are well attended and the response is very positive. They are not cleverly disguised sales pitches ? in fact, MadCap products are not usually mentioned. We?re also recording the webinars and if you sign up and can?t attend, you will get the link automatically the next day. sharon Sharon Burton Product Manager MadCap Software Voice: 858-320-0387 x 222 Cell: 951-202-0813 Home office: 951-369-8590 sburton at madcapsoftware.com IM: sharonvburton at yahoo.com Blog: http://madcapsoftware.wordpress.com Free webinars: http://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/webinars.aspx
Still time to sign up for the next tools-neutral free webinar
Vendor post alert! There?s still time to sign up for the next tools-neutral free webinar hosted by MadCap Software. Planning for Content Reuse: Best Practices for Legacy and/or New Content Tue, Feb 24, 2009 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PST https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/647207434 Eddie VanArsdall is covering best Practices for planning for content reuse, both in legacy docs and for new content, regardless of the tool you use. This one is popular, with over 200 people signed up so far. As always, our free webinar series is not a cleverly disguised sales pitch. It?s free training to help you stay on top of the issues in Tech Comm. In this economy, you need to make sure you?re as marketable as you can be. If the time and date don?t work for you, we record these webinars. If you sign up and can?t attend, you?ll automatically get a link the next day to the recording that you can watch when it?s a good time for you. sharon Sharon Burton Product Manager MadCap Software Voice: 858-320-0387 x 222 Cell: 951-202-0813 Home office: 951-369-8590 sburton at madcapsoftware.com IM: sharonvburton at yahoo.com Blog: http://madcapsoftware.wordpress.com Free webinars: http://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/webinars.aspx -- From web
Still time to sign up for the free tool-independent webinar next week
***Vendor post, but, seriously, not very vendor-y You still have time to sign up for the tool-independent webinar MadCap Software is hosting next week. We have VoIP, so no phone calls - just your computer and your speakers. Topic-based Authoring: Doing more with less Jan 15 2009 9am (Pacific Time) Regardless of the tool you use to develop content, this webinar introduces you to topic-based content development, shows you how to plan, and explains how to leverage the content you develop. You'll leave this event with vocabulary, planning ideas, and knowledge to help you move to the next level. This is a *very* popular webinar topic - when we did it with STC, 250 people signed up in less than 2 hours. Go to http://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/webinars.aspx to sign up and see more information about the typically tool-neutral webinars we're doing over the next few months. We're adding several more in the March to June time frame in the next month or so, so it's worth checking the website often. If you have a topic you think would be interesting to the Tech Comm field, contact me at sburton at madcapsoftware.com and let's talk about it. sharon Sharon Burton
Frame Versions Question
My employer wants to know if this is legal: We are adding 3 writers. We currently all run Frame 7.2. We will be ordering Frame 8 for the new writers, with the intention of later this year, upgrading all 10 of the other writers to Frame 8. In the interim, we don't want some writers in 7.2 and some on 8. We are also about to release a major set of products and don't want to upgrade the docs people midstream. We all know the bad things that can happen of we do that this close to product releases. Can we buy the 3 copies of 8 and then let the 3 writers use 7.2? We will be violating our license agreement? sharon Sharon Burton CEO, Anthrobytes Consulting 951-369-8590 www.anthrobytes.com
Frame Versions Question
Because of how my employer purchases software, we can't buy from someone who isn't Adobe when we buy Adobe software. It's a very frustrating purchasing process. We were hoping if we purchase 8, then it would sort of cover us on the extra use of the 7.2 seats in a retroactive way. We would have, in fact, enough seats of Frame, we just wouldn't use the 8 copies until we can bring the entire group forward at the same time. I can't figure out from the EULA if this is legal or not. sharon Sharon Burton CEO, Anthrobytes Consulting 951-369-8590 www.anthrobytes.com -Original Message- From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campb...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 2:43 PM To: sharon at anthrobytes.com Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Frame Versions Question Without reading the 8 EULA, which I don't have access to, yes, probably it's not legal. Why not just follow the KISS principle and get three 7.2 packages off the shelf of a retailer who has left-overs and then see if Adobe will follow it's usual procedure of giving an upgrade to the current release if the product was purchased in the release time frame? Adds up to the same amount of money, but you get everyone on 7.2 and then upgrade together. Art On 8/5/07, Sharon Burton wrote: > My employer wants to know if this is legal: > > We are adding 3 writers. We currently all run Frame 7.2. We will be ordering > Frame 8 for the new writers, with the intention of later this year, > upgrading all 10 of the other writers to Frame 8. In the interim, we don't > want some writers in 7.2 and some on 8. We are also about to release a major > set of products and don't want to upgrade the docs people midstream. We all > know the bad things that can happen of we do that this close to product > releases. > > Can we buy the 3 copies of 8 and then let the 3 writers use 7.2? We will be > violating our license agreement?
Frame Versions Question
Thank you, Dov. I'll do that. I was hoping someone might have just contacted Adobe with this same issue and knew. sharon Sharon Burton CEO, Anthrobytes Consulting 951-369-8590 www.anthrobytes.com -Original Message- From: Dov Isaacs [mailto:isa...@adobe.com] Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 4:41 PM To: sharon at anthrobytes.com; Art Campbell Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Frame Versions Question My advice, for what it is worth, is to contact Adobe Customer Support ASAP instead of relying on the guesses of those on the list as to what might be legal, what Adobe might allow, etc. Explain your situation and see whether they might be able to make some reasonable accommodation for you, especially if you are on some volume purchase plan. If necessary, ask for a supervisor. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: Sharon Burton > Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 4:38 PM > > Because of how my employer purchases software, we can't buy from someone who > isn't Adobe when we buy Adobe software. It's a very frustrating purchasing > process. > > We were hoping if we purchase 8, then it would sort of cover us on the extra > use of the 7.2 seats in a retroactive way. We would have, in fact, enough > seats of Frame, we just wouldn't use the 8 copies until we can bring the > entire group forward at the same time. > > I can't figure out from the EULA if this is legal or not. > > sharon > > Sharon Burton > CEO, Anthrobytes Consulting > 951-369-8590 > www.anthrobytes.com >
Some questions about reference pages, index specifications and font size
I've considered this a bug in Frame for years. Here's what happening: The paragraph format that formats the page number doesn't exist yet. The name appears in the list, but you see an asterisk. Frame automatically creates the format but for some reason doesn't actually save it to the catalog. The solution? 1 Go to the reference page. 2 Find the format that formats the page number. 3 Notice that it has an asterisk next to it's name int he Paragraph catalog. 4 Open the Paragraph Designer. 5 From that funny little list right under the paragraph name, select Create New. You are prompted for the name and the name is already in the text box. 6 Click Create or what ever takes you forward (I'm doing this from memory) 7 Format the page number to what ever you want, clicking Update All. 8 Regenerate. Should be fixed. sharon Sharon Burton CEO, Anthrobytes Consulting 951-369-8590 www.anthrobytes.com -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+sharon=anthrobytes@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+sharon=anthrobytes.com at lists.frameusers.com]On Behalf Of Art Campbell Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 9:52 AM To: Rob Shell Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Some questions about reference pages,index specifications and font size Have you checked the para tag that controls the entry to make sure that no character tags are invoked? And/or, highlight the entire entry Ctrl-8 and specify Default Format Art On 6/23/07, Rob Shell wrote: > Hi Framers: > I have generated several independent indexes. However the page number font > size is not constant for the same level. Thus I will have for example: > Cape > > 1657-1750 54 > > 1680-1730 36 > > The page number "36" is oversize (actually it is the paragraph number). > > I seem to think that the answer must lie in the reference pages, but the ref > page headed "Index Specifications is only one of three which appears to > control the size of the font in the index. > I have been importing formats. Have I inadvertently overloaded the index > specifications? > > I am becoming dizzy trying to find out where I m going wrong.. > Thanks > Rob
Flare v Webworks
Vendor post I'm product manager for Madcap. I can tell you that Flare nicely single sources Frame 7 and 8 files and it's all pretty easy - much easier than setting up WWP, and I'm a WWP expert. We are also offering a competitive upgrade for about $400 off the full Flare price. I strongly recommend that you consider the maintanence package, which still brings you in for much less than WWP. You can always call Sales for more info. They're nice people and can give you actual prices. Sharon Burton Product Manager Madcap Software sburton at madcapsoftware.com Voice: 858-320-0387 x217 Fax: 858-320-0338 Quoting Charles Beck : > Hi Pat, > > The tool you are looking for is called Mif2Go, and you can find it at > http://www.omsys.com/dcl/omni.htm. > > The company is very much still in business, and its owner (?) Jeremy > Griffiths is very active on this list. It is much more reasonably priced > than WebWorks but a bit more challenging to learn. However, Jeremy is > extremely helpful and supportive if you run into problems. It should do > whatever you need (assuming all you need is what you described...). > > HTH, > Chuck Beck > > Sr. Technical Writer | Infor | Office: 614.523.7302 | > Charles.Beck at infor.com > > > > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Pat Fortino > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 20:42 > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Flare v Webworks > > Hi, > > Sorry if this question has been answered already; I tried to find a > place to search the framer's archive for my questions, but can't find > it. Is there a way to search the archive? > > Anyway, I just talked to Webworks about upgrading my Webworks Pro 2003. > First of all, they told me there is no upgrade path; I have to pay full > price again, $1900. And that's only for a specific named user; each > extra user is ONLY $900. Totally rediculous. > > Anyway, I am a small company and cannot afford to pay $2000 for an > add-on frame utility that I use only once in a while. Can anyone suggest > an alternative. I once looked into Flare, and they claim Flare can use > the frame files as a source, so I assume I could still single source for > print and online help. > > Also, I remember a tool called miftogo, but I cannot find anything in > google about where to buy it. Is this company still in business. If so, > will it does what webworks does; eg, convert a frame book to an online > help format? > > Thanks for any help. > > Pat Fortino > writenowdesign.com >>>>>>>>>>> |<<<<<<<<<<<< > - Web Sites > - Technical Writing > - Editing > - Desktop Publishing > > Get Firefox, a Safer, Faster, and Better Browser > > > > > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as Charles.Beck at infor.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/charles.beck%40infor > .com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as sharon at anthrobytes.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >
Still time to sign up for the free tool-independent webinar next week
***Vendor post, but, seriously, not very vendor-y You still have time to sign up for the tool-independent webinar MadCap Software is hosting next week. We have VoIP, so no phone calls - just your computer and your speakers. Topic-based Authoring: Doing more with less Jan 15 2009 9am (Pacific Time) Regardless of the tool you use to develop content, this webinar introduces you to topic-based content development, shows you how to plan, and explains how to leverage the content you develop. You'll leave this event with vocabulary, planning ideas, and knowledge to help you move to the next level. This is a *very* popular webinar topic - when we did it with STC, 250 people signed up in less than 2 hours. Go to http://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/webinars.aspx to sign up and see more information about the typically tool-neutral webinars we're doing over the next few months. We're adding several more in the March to June time frame in the next month or so, so it's worth checking the website often. If you have a topic you think would be interesting to the Tech Comm field, contact me at sbur...@madcapsoftware.com and let's talk about it. sharon Sharon Burton ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: How do you create a new paragraph after a table?
Typically, you do one of the following: 1. Decide in your book design all Heading1s, for example, will always start at the top of the page. In that case, build it into the paragraph style using instructions others have posted to the list. 2. When the content is complete, do copy-fitting to make content fall on the page where you want it. In that case, you may wish to manually insert page breaks, knowing that you will remove these when it's time to update the content in the future. Inserting page breaks for copy-fitting while you are crating content results in a large amount of rework in the future, as added content will move page breaks around and must manually be managed. As an note to people new to Frame: I always strongly recommend you work with all Markers turned on. Quickly, you will stop seeing them until you need to see them. This lets you see index markers, xref markers, table markers and so on. If you turn them off, Frame will happily let you still delete them but you will have no idea why they are gone. sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com]on Behalf Of Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 5:45 AM To: Avraham Makeler Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: How do you create a new paragraph after a table? If anyone needed to add a couple of lines somewhere in the document before this table, resulting in moving the table (a small one I suppose) to the next page, or had to delete some contents resulting in the opposite direction of move, would you still want this page brake where you put it originally? If so I would seriously think of splitting the file instead. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson 2009/1/19 Avraham Makeler : > Thanks for the responses. > >>> You could choose Special> Page Break. The problem with that method is > that FrameMaker removes the page break anytime you remove overrides. > What?! Really?! In Word this is style independent and is a hard break , as > real as typing "avi" or any ASCII character(s). No way of making a permanent > page break? > > And if I make a Heading style that starts at the start of a page, I will > have to make a variant like that for H2, H3, H4 and H5. > > Thanks, > > - avi > > > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Mike Wickham wrote: > >> I have a table *immediately* followed by a heading, the latter being almost >>> at the end of the page. So I would like to insert a page break before the >>> heading. How do I do that? >>> ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: RESOLVED: Inserting a landscape page within a portrait layout document
Vendor post but not very vendor-y As you know, MadCap Software is offering a series of free, typically tool-neutral, webinars. There’s still time to sign up for the next one, offered Jan 29 at 9am Pacific time. Mike Hamilton is talking about Advanced Publishing in Flare or Blaze. If that time and date don’t work for you, sign up anyway and you will be sent a link to the recorded webinar the next day. We’re recording the free webinars and making them available from our website. Keep an eye on http://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/webinars.aspx for all our upcoming free webinars. These free webinars are very successful, so we plan on offering them for a while. If you want to update your knowledge of the Tech Comm field, these webinars may help. If you’re interested in presenting a topic to the field, contact me and let’s discuss your idea. If you have a topic you’d like to see, also contact me and let’s talk about it. Currently, I’m looking for someone to cover creating API docs and someone to cover creating visuals from technical content for webinars in the May/June time period. You don’t need be in the US but you do need a computer with a microphone for the VoIP to present. Microphone headsets can be purchased for less than $40US. Thanks! sharon Sharon Burton Product Manager MadCap Software Voice: 858-320-0387 x 222 Cell: 951-202-0813 Home office: 951-369-8590 sbur...@madcapsoftware.com IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Blog: http://madcapsoftware.wordpress.com ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
There's still time to sign up for the free webinar next week
Sorry, guys. I swear I changed the subject line, but... I clearly needed more coffee. -- sharon From web Quoting Sharon Burton : > Vendor post but not very vendor-y > > As you know, MadCap Software is offering a series of free, typically > tool-neutral, webinars. There’s still time to sign up for the next > one, offered Jan 29 at 9am Pacific time. Mike Hamilton is talking > about Advanced Publishing in Flare or Blaze. > > If that time and date don’t work for you, sign up anyway and you will > be sent a link to the recorded webinar the next day. We’re recording > the free webinars and making them available from our website. > > Keep an eye on http://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/webinars.aspx for > all our upcoming free webinars. These free webinars are very > successful, so we plan on offering them for a while. If you want to > update your knowledge of the Tech Comm field, these webinars may help. > > If you’re interested in presenting a topic to the field, contact me > and let’s discuss your idea. If you have a topic you’d like to see, > also contact me and let’s talk about it. > > Currently, I’m looking for someone to cover creating API docs and > someone to cover creating visuals from technical content for webinars > in the May/June time period. You don’t need be in the US but you do > need a computer with a microphone for the VoIP to present. Microphone > headsets can be purchased for less than $40US. > > Thanks! > > sharon > > Sharon Burton > Product Manager > MadCap Software > Voice: 858-320-0387 x 222 > Cell: 951-202-0813 > Home office: 951-369-8590 > sbur...@madcapsoftware.com > IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com > Blog: http://madcapsoftware.wordpress.com > > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as sha...@anthrobytes.com. > > Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.com > > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: There's still time to sign up for the free webinar next week
I know. I'm functioning on 3.5 hours of sleep and working off my server email client. With all that against me, I still managed to sort of post. Sorry. -- sharon From web Quoting Stuart Rogers : > Sharon Burton wrote: >> Sorry, guys. I swear I changed the subject line, but... I clearly >> needed more coffee. > > > Hi Sharon, > > It's a better idea to start a new thread with a new message, not a > Reply. If I'm not mistaken, even if you edit the subject line, the > header info retained in a Reply message can still cause the message to > be sorted into its original thread topic in e-mail clients or archives. > > Starting a fresh topic with a New message command guarantees a new thread. > > Best regards, > > -- > Stuart Rogers > Technical Communicator > Phoenix Geophysics Limited > Toronto, ON, Canada > +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 > > srogers phoenix-geophysics com > > Suggested headline for theonion.com: > "In Final Trip to Beijing, Bush Calls on Premier to 'Tear Down This Wall'" > > -- Malcolm Fleschner, Palo Alto, Calif., in The Washington Post ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Free non-tools webinars from MadCap Software
Vendor alert but not product news As you know, MadCap Software is running a series of popular free webinars for the Tech Comm community. We?ve added 2 more webinars to the schedule. They are: Controlling costs by controlling language This tool-independent webinar shows how simplified language options can reduce page count, decrease translation expense, and improve comprehension among on-English audiences. But is it appropriate for you? Find out. Presenter: Brenda Huettner, P-N Designs, Inc Apr 23, 2009 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (Pacific Time) https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/877644241 Users: Who are these people and what do they want? This tool-independent webinar discusses creating the wrong content for the wrong user is as bad as creating nothing at all. Learn to identify your users and decide how to support them. Reduce costs and schedules by providing the right information. Presenter: Sharon Burton, MadCap Software May 14, 2009 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (Pacific Time) https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/674715509 We?ve not added them to the MadCap website yet but they should appear in the next few days. If you?re interested, sign up. We?re getting about 200 people signed up for each one. We?re also recording the webinars so they are available afterwards if the time and date don?t work for you. And don?t forget, you can still sign up for Sarah O?Keefe doing DITA ? Why the buzz? at 9am 5 Feb Pacific by going to https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/598015341 sharon Sharon Burton Product Manager MadCap Software Voice: 858-320-0387 x 222 Cell: 951-202-0813 Home office: 951-369-8590 sbur...@madcapsoftware.com IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Blog: http://madcapsoftware.wordpress.com Free webinars: http://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/webinars.aspx ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
The next free MadCap tool-s neutral webinar is Feb 12
Vendor alert but not real vendor-y As you know, MadCap is hosting a free series of Tech Comm-related, generally, tools-neutral, webinars. Building the business case for topic-based authoring. Feb 12, 9-10am Pacific This webinar will walk you through defining the problem, gathering appropriate data, compiling the data, and presenting it to your management. Learn the best ways to make your management see you can?t afford *not* to make the move. There?s still time to sign up at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/706899386 These webinars are well attended and the response is very positive. They are not cleverly disguised sales pitches ? in fact, MadCap products are not usually mentioned. We?re also recording the webinars and if you sign up and can?t attend, you will get the link automatically the next day. sharon Sharon Burton Product Manager MadCap Software Voice: 858-320-0387 x 222 Cell: 951-202-0813 Home office: 951-369-8590 sbur...@madcapsoftware.com IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Blog: http://madcapsoftware.wordpress.com Free webinars: http://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/webinars.aspx ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Still time to sign up for the next tools-neutral free webinar
Vendor post alert! There’s still time to sign up for the next tools-neutral free webinar hosted by MadCap Software. Planning for Content Reuse: Best Practices for Legacy and/or New Content Tue, Feb 24, 2009 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PST https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/647207434 Eddie VanArsdall is covering best Practices for planning for content reuse, both in legacy docs and for new content, regardless of the tool you use. This one is popular, with over 200 people signed up so far. As always, our free webinar series is not a cleverly disguised sales pitch. It’s free training to help you stay on top of the issues in Tech Comm. In this economy, you need to make sure you’re as marketable as you can be. If the time and date don’t work for you, we record these webinars. If you sign up and can’t attend, you’ll automatically get a link the next day to the recording that you can watch when it’s a good time for you. sharon Sharon Burton Product Manager MadCap Software Voice: 858-320-0387 x 222 Cell: 951-202-0813 Home office: 951-369-8590 sbur...@madcapsoftware.com IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Blog: http://madcapsoftware.wordpress.com Free webinars: http://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/webinars.aspx -- From web ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
MadCap Software is hosting another free tools-neutral webinar March 12
Vendor post MadCap is hosting another free tools-neutral webinar next week. There?s still time to sign up. If the time or date don?t work for you, sign up anyway and the link to the recording will be automatically sent to you the next day. Can your HAT be a Content Management System? Help authoring tools (HATs) seem unrelated to CMSs, but HATs have gone far beyond their help roots. They offer features like repositories, version control, review management, content customization using conditionality and variables, and more. This tool-independent webinar discusses how you might use the hidden features in your existing HAT tools as a Content Management System. Thu, Mar 12, 2009 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT Neil Perlin is the presenter To sign up: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/187845873 To see the other free tools-neutral webinars that MadCap Software is hosting, go to http://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/webinars.aspx. We?ve got some great webinars planned in the next 3 months. sharon Sharon Burton Product Manager MadCap Software Voice: 858-320-0387 x 222 Cell: 951-202-0813 Home office: 951-369-8590 sbur...@madcapsoftware.com IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Blog: http://madcapsoftware.wordpress.com Free tools-neutral webinars: http://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/webinars.aspx ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Importing FM content to Flare - Changing image import location
I work for MadCap It's a good feature request. I'll send it on. Make sure you submit it too, using the Feature request on the Start page in Flare. You can move the graphics after the import. If you need help, send me an email and I'll walk you thru it. sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com]on Behalf Of David Schor Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 4:16 AM To: Jon Harvey Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Importing FM content to Flare - Changing image import location Hi Jon, I see that I can filter the view, so it makes it easier to select the graphics in order to move them to the Images folder. However, the problem remains that apparently, Flare by design, is importing the graphics together with the HTM output files into the same directory (even its Help admits that "it's messy" (LOL) so perhaps this is something that Madcap will fix in a future release (I'm working in v4.2). I would like to be able to choose the location for importing the graphics. Thanks very much! All the best, David -- David Schor Technical Writer Afcon Software and Electronics Mobile: 054 478 8253 dav...@afcon-inc.com dsch...@gmail.com On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Jon Harvey wrote: > Hi David, > > There is a filter at the top of the file list in Flare that enables you > to list only the files in which you are interested. Enter *.htm into the > text box and you should be fine. > > > Jon Harvey > Manager, Desktop Documentation > CambridgeSoft Corporation > 100 CambridgePark Drive > Cambridge, MA 02140 > (617) 588-9354 > > -Original Message- > From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of David Schor > Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 8:22 AM > To: techsho...@yahoogroups.com; framers > Subject: Importing FM content to Flare - Changing image import location > > Hey everyone, it was good to see some of you at the TCC last Thursday. > > I've just started working with Flare v4.2 and for my first project, I'm > importing a FrameMaker v7.2 Book. The problem is that in addition to the > FM > files, it imports all graphics into the same folder in the Content > Organizer. That's a bit messy for me, because I don't want to sift > through a > bunch of GIFs when looking to open a specific HTM file. I prefer to > import > the graphics into the Resources/Images folder. > I can't find any option or switch or instruction in the Flare Help to > enable > me to do this. > Does anyone know how to do this? For me, this is a black eye against > Madcap > if I have to clean this folder every time I update the content. > > TIA, > David > > -- > David Schor > Technical Writer > Afcon Software and Electronics > Mobile: 054 478 8253 > dav...@afcon-inc.com > dsch...@gmail.com > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as jhar...@cambridgesoft.com. > > Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/jharvey%40cambridges > oft.com > > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > > > ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as sha...@anthrobytes.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Another free webinar hosted by MadCap Software
Sort of a vendor post As you know, MadCap Software is hosting a series of free tool-neutral webinars. The next one is April 9th at 9am Pacific. Planning Topic-based Authoring: Working in a Use Case or Scenario-based Environment Presenter: John Hedtke Time and data: April 9 2009 9am Pacific Sign up: http://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/webinars.aspx You know topic-based authoring will save you time and effort in your authoring and publishing projects. If you’re working in a use case or scenario development environment, you also know topic-based authoring will make your life easier. This free webinar will walk you thru planning your projects. When we’re done, you’ll have a firm idea of what you need to do with your projects to make sure you deliver on time and in budget. This free webinar is being recorded, so even if the date and time don’t work for you, sign up and you’ll automatically get a link to the recording the next day. sharon Sharon Burton Product Manager MadCap Software Voice: 858-320-0387 x 222 Cell: 951-202-0813 Home office: 951-369-8590 sbur...@madcapsoftware.com IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Blog: http://madcapsoftware.wordpress.com Free tools-neutral webinars: http://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/webinars.aspx ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Still time to sign up for the next free tools-neutral webinar
Not much of a vendor post As you know, MadCap Software is hosting a series of free tool-neutral webinars. The next one is April 9th at 9am Pacific. There's still time to sign up. Planning Topic-based Authoring: Working in a Use Case or Scenario-based Environment Presenter: John Hedtke Time and date: April 9 2009 9am Pacific Sign up: http://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/webinars.aspx You know topic-based authoring will save you time and effort in your authoring and publishing projects. If you're working in a use case or scenario development environment, you also know topic-based authoring will make your life easier. This free webinar will walk you thru planning your projects. When we're done, you'll have a firm idea of what you need to do with your projects to make sure you deliver on time and in budget and how to integrate your project into the rest of the project planning. This free webinar is being recorded, so even if the date and time don't work for you, sign up and you'll automatically get a link to the recording the next day. sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Blog: madcapsoftware.wordpress.com ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Still time to sign up for the next free tools-neutral webinar
As you know, MadCap Software is hosting a series of free, tools-neutral webinars. Even if the time or date don't work for you, we record these and you can view them later. If you sign up, the link to the recording is automatically sent to you the next day. May 14, 2009 9-10am (Pacific Time) <https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/674715509> Users: Who are These People and What do They Want? This tool-independent webinar cover how creating the wrong content for the wrong user is as bad as creating nothing at all. Learn to identify your users and decide how to support them. Reduce costs and schedules by providing the right information to the right people. Presenter: Sharon Burton, MadCap Software https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/674715509 sharon Sharon Burton Product Manager MadCap Software Voice: 858-320-0387 x 222 Cell: 951-202-0813 Home office: 951-369-8590 sbur...@madcapsoftware.com IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Blog: http://madcapsoftware.wordpress.com Free tools-neutral webinars: http://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/webinars.aspx ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Procedure How to Write a Manual!
This is easy. 14 steps: 1. Identify the audience 2. Identify the information needs of that audience (job aids, user guides, and so on) 3. Identify the tasks the audience needs to do 4. Identify the supporting info the audience needs to do those tasks 5. Identify the best way to deliver the information (PDF, help, others) 6. Create a plan that layout all this information 7. Assign time estimates to the plan 8. Decide what can be cut due to time limitations 9. Start creating the information, adapting to the changing product 10. Review by others 11. Make the review changes 12. Build "gold" candidates 13. Deliver the finals 14. Archive the finals, including all planning information Of course, these steps include a lot of embedded steps and domain knowledge in our field. But these are the steps. sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Blog: madcapsoftware.wordpress.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Richard Melanson Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 10:58 AM To: Avraham Makeler; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Procedure How to Write a Manual! First, thank you Everyone, you guys always have the answers to questions, even when I don't post questions :-) I just want to share this with the list and absorb the response. My boss today told me to "write a procedure on how to write a manual" and he also stated to me that anyone could be a writer, he did not understand what all the fuss was about tech writing, anyone could do it. Needless to say, I am still sitting at my desk trying to sort through the myriad of reactions I am having! I cant wait to hear everyone's thoughts. Rick PS: Does anyone have a procedure how to write a manual ;-) ___ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Procedure How to Write a Manual!
Sorry, guys. I don't know why the line breaks vanished! sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Blog: madcapsoftware.wordpress.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Sharon Burton Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 5:43 PM To: 'Richard Melanson'; 'Avraham Makeler'; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Procedure How to Write a Manual! This is easy. 14 steps: 1. Identify the audience 2. Identify the information needs of that audience (job aids, user guides, and so on) 3. Identify the tasks the audience needs to do 4. Identify the supporting info the audience needs to do those tasks 5. Identify the best way to deliver the information (PDF, help, others) 6. Create a plan that layout all this information 7. Assign time estimates to the plan 8. Decide what can be cut due to time limitations 9. Start creating the information, adapting to the changing product 10. Review by others 11. Make the review changes 12. Build "gold" candidates 13. Deliver the finals 14. Archive the finals, including all planning information Of course, these steps include a lot of embedded steps and domain knowledge in our field. But these are the steps. sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Blog: madcapsoftware.wordpress.com ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Motivating end users to read the user manual
Have you considered sitting with the users and asking them what the issues are and why they don't like the materials? Don't defend what you've done, listen to why these materials are not doing what you think they should be doing. Ask questions, lots of questions. It could be as easy as they are visual learners and they need flow charts and other graphics. It could be as complicated as they never see the training materials because those get locked away somewhere. Perhaps Job Aids and Quick Starts would help. But until you talk to the users and find out what they need that they aren't getting, you're only guessing. You don't get to decide the docs are sufficient, tho - your users get to decide that. sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Blog: madcapsoftware.wordpress.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Shmuel Wolfson Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 6:47 AM To: Garnier Garnier; Framers Subject: Re: Motivating end users to read the user manual The fact is that people don't like to read. Exhaustive training material is "exhaustive" to read. If there are specific "do"s and "don't"s that are *not* intuitive, make a short 1-3 page list, print it on color paper, and put it in the box with the product. That they might read. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Garnier Garnier wrote: > Hi listers, > > I would like some feedback on this issue which I am sure most of us face. Please write to me directly as most of the time the mails form forums bounces and I do not receive them. Not sure about the reason. > > I put in a lot of effort to create an exhaustive training material. It includes all information in detail and all the steps too are documentented in simple English. The training material is very technical and includes all the required details and instructions. Still none of the engineers bother to read the contents and when they are at the customer site for training they start complaining that nothing is working. The engineers are familiar with the product no doubt about it but there are certain "do's" that they ought to know and which is documented in the training material which none bother to read. > > I welcome suggestions for improvement in the document or otherwise that will prompt the end user to read the training material contents instead simply complaining "nothing is working". > > B/R > Garnier > ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Motivating end users to read the user manual
Hey, Cal! Or embedded help might be an option. But we're guessing what they want. Ask *them* - they contact the writer asking for help. At that point, call them or email them asking for time to talk about what they need. Altho it's really hard, explaining what you're doing doesn't help. You don't get to decide if what you've done is the right stuff. The users get to decide that. Your users are telling you that what you provide is the wrong stuff. Only they can tell you what the right stuff is. This is the ethnographic part of what we do - talking to people, looking at how they do what they do, asking questions about how they do it. Then you figure out how to provide user assistance that fits what they need. sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Blog: madcapsoftware.wordpress.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Cal Callahan Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 5:56 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Motivating end users to read the user manual I like Sharon's advice (ask the user directly). But I haven't seen anyone mention context-sensitive help or conditional text. I hope the lengthy paragraphs in your query are not representative of your manuals--that would certainly turn off users. A couple of guidelines: KISS--keep it simple, sir. Tell them what you're going to tell them, tell them what you want to tell them, then tell them what you told them Engineers like flow charts and logic diagrams, so fire up your Visio and try to put the points across that way. And everyone likes pictures, so see where you can use those. (Many people are visually oriented and don't like to read.) I hope I haven't insulted your intelligence. I'm just picking trees out of the forest. cal ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Motivating end users to read the user manual
Visual appeal with well used colors will be effective if the user base includes lots of visual learners. I suspect that audience does, but all our ideas about what those users need are non-relevant. Ask the users what they need. If they are visual learners, then well crafted visuals will help. sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Blog: madcapsoftware.wordpress.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Neeraj Jain Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 8:08 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Cc: Cal Callahan Subject: Re: Motivating end users to read the user manual Hi Cal, When making diagrams and inserting pictures, I would suggest using some colors. Colors definitely add to the visual appeal. A colorful manual is definitely going to catch the user attention. What say?  ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Cross-ref formats
Given that more and more information is being repurposed, I've become against making things fit the old printed model. The xref formats you describe are from print. But I'm thinking more and more of formatting and content as separate. I would set the xrefs as simple as possible in Frame to handle other outputs. But that's just me. I'd rather not have writers trying to figure out what to use when and I'd really like to not have checking these formats in the preproduction list. sharon Sharon Burton IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com 951-369-8590 -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 12:52 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Cross-ref formats Some follow-up questions: 1. I've been looking at the Chicago Manual, 15th edition. I'd expect a great honking treatment of this subject, but I'm not seeing it. All the cross-reference i9nformation is presented with reference to indexes and bibliographies. The sections referring to cross-references "in text" are discussions of the editor's obligation to check cross-references! Is there an exhaustive section on x-ref format, in text, that I'm missing? 2. I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you , to discover just what a stick-in-the-mud I really am. I thought italics were sacrosanct for referring to the titles of separately bound publications. (Although how purely electronic publications can be "bound" is a topic for another day.) But .. . you've all gotten over this hurdle and use italics to identify cross-references? Like: "See Pots and Pans on page 85," where "Pots and Pans" is a couple of paragraphs with header in a much longer chapter of a much larger *separately bound* publication, whether physical or digital? Really? I must sit down. In that case, do you also put your italicized x-refs in a different color, so as to distinguish them from the titles of separately bound publications, which you might also mention in your text? Thanks! --Nancy ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Cross-ref formats
Right now she's doing print. But in 6 months? I like to build for this possibility. And I'm lazy and don't want to have to worry about what template is applied and checking the xref formats to make sure it's all as it should be and... I'm not saying Nancy is wrong, I'm just giving my philosophy on what I prefer to do. sharon Sharon Burton IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com 951-369-8590 -Original Message- From: Mike Feimster [mailto:mike.feims...@acstechnologies.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 1:33 PM To: sha...@anthrobytes.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Cross-ref formats Considering she's setting up a template for a print document, it makes sense to include the page numbers in the x-ref formats. If she's outputting to a different format, she can create a separate set of x-ref definitions in the tool she is using to create her other output. Mike -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Sharon Burton Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:18 PM To: 'Nancy Allison'; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Cross-ref formats Given that more and more information is being repurposed, I've become against making things fit the old printed model. The xref formats you describe are from print. But I'm thinking more and more of formatting and content as separate. I would set the xrefs as simple as possible in Frame to handle other outputs. But that's just me. I'd rather not have writers trying to figure out what to use when and I'd really like to not have checking these formats in the preproduction list. sharon Sharon Burton IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com 951-369-8590 -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 12:52 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Cross-ref formats Some follow-up questions: 1. I've been looking at the Chicago Manual, 15th edition. I'd expect a great honking treatment of this subject, but I'm not seeing it. All the cross-reference i9nformation is presented with reference to indexes and bibliographies. The sections referring to cross-references "in text" are discussions of the editor's obligation to check cross-references! Is there an exhaustive section on x-ref format, in text, that I'm missing? 2. I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you , to discover just what a stick-in-the-mud I really am. I thought italics were sacrosanct for referring to the titles of separately bound publications. (Although how purely electronic publications can be "bound" is a topic for another day.) But .. . you've all gotten over this hurdle and use italics to identify cross-references? Like: "See Pots and Pans on page 85," where "Pots and Pans" is a couple of paragraphs with header in a much longer chapter of a much larger *separately bound* publication, whether physical or digital? Really? I must sit down. In that case, do you also put your italicized x-refs in a different color, so as to distinguish them from the titles of separately bound publications, which you might also mention in your text? Thanks! --Nancy ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as mike.feims...@acstechnologies.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/mike.feimster%40acst echnologies.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Another tools-neutral webinar
As you know, MadCap Software is hosting a series of tools-neutral webinars on topics the Tech Comm industry may find useful. If the time or date are not good for you, we record these and make them available at a later time. The next one is Wednesday, 7 October 2009. APIs and SDKs - Breaking into and Succeeding in a Specialty Market In this tools-neutral webinar, you'll learn what APIs and SDKs are and the similarities and differences between them, who uses APIs and SDKs and why, the benefits and drawbacks of API/SDK writing, and more. Presenter: Ed Marshall, Principle, Marshall Documentation Consulting October 7, 2009 9-10am (Pacific Time) https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/518223241 sharon Sharon Burton MadCap Software Product Consultant Managing your content, one topic at a time www.anthrobytes.com 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Twitter: sharonburton ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: To make a hyperlink to a different area of text in the same book
Look up Cross references in the Frame help. That will get you going. sharon Sharon Burton MadCap Software Product Consultant Managing your content, one topic at a time www.anthrobytes.com 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Twitter: sharonburton -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Avraham Makeler Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:09 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: To make a hyperlink to a different area of text in the same book Hi all, I need to make a hyperlink (hypertext) to a different area of text in the same book-- actually in the same document/file. How would I do this. In Word this would be a two step operation: 1. Create a bookmark extending at or over the range of the text. 2. Create a hyperlink by opening the Insert Hyperlink dlg box , locating the bookmark and then creating the hypertext. How do I do this in FM. I can see that in FM there are things called markers (like bookmarks?). And I can make cross-references to markers by setting the 'Source Type' to 'Cross-reference Markers', but then I am not sure which building block to put in the Reference Format that I must make. I have found something predefined called 'MarkerTextOnly' but when I use that it just deletes the text to which I wanted to add a hyperlink. Help would be appreciated ... TIA - avi ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as sha...@anthrobytes.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Find Apply
Why not create a variable for the name, format it the way you want and then do a S/R for the text and replace it with the variable. That way, when they change the name of the product or the formatting of the name, you change the definition of the variable and you're done. sharon Sharon Burton MadCap Software Product Consultant Managing your content, one topic at a time www.anthrobytes.com 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Twitter: sharonburton -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Avraham Makeler Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 8:17 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Find Apply Hi all, I need a simple Find-Replace operation, which I thought I asked about once before ... but not quite. I now need to look for all instances of the company's name, e.g., Acme, and apply a character style to it. And if I am already asking, how would I apply italics to the text, instead of applying a character style? I have looked at a number of articles about doing Find-Replace with tags but they all seem to discuss how to change one tag to another, or how to change local formatting to a tag, and not how to look for text and apply to it a tag or formatting. I saw somebody recommended Rick Quattro's Find-Replace plug-in. I couldn't find it. Does anybody have a link to this? TIA - avi ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as sha...@anthrobytes.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Find Apply
1. Create a new character style with the attributes you want. Call it TextItalics, for example. 2. Create a variable. Call it CompanyName. 3. Define the variable with the name of the product, using the new character format, as needed. 4. Replace an instance of the current product name text with the CompanyName variable you create. 5. Select the variable. Press Ctrl+c. The variable is copied into the buffer. 6. Open the Find/Replace. 7. Type the text you want to find - in this case, it's the name of the company. 8. In the Replace area, select Copy from Clipboard. 9. Click Find Next. 10. Click Replace. Click Find Next. 11. Rinse and repeat until all text company names have been replaced with your variable. (This is all from memory, so parts may be slightly wrong) The advantage to this is that when they change the company name again - and they will - you change the value of the CompanyName variable and it's changed through out the file. Import that variable into all other documents and you're done. Do this for the product name as well, because if they are changing the company name, they'll change the product name. Usually at the last second. sharon Sharon Burton MadCap Software Product Consultant Managing your content, one topic at a time www.anthrobytes.com 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Twitter: sharonburton -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Avraham Makeler Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:00 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Find Apply It works. I thought I already tried this but it didn't work before. The guys on this forum obviously have "green fingers"... Just one small problem though... I used the Emphasis character style. I tried to apply "As is" to all the formatting of Emphasis, and then to set it to italics, but it didn't "stick". So when I then applied the Emphasis style to a title, for example, it changed the font of the word Acme to whatever size and color Emphasis is, which in my case, is italicized body text. >> As for applying italics without a character format, I think most would agree that this is a Bad Thing. I agree that this is not professional, but if I do it this way then at least I don't get the problem I get when I use a character style (Emphasis) above. Thanks, avi ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Find Apply
I'm not very bright - the Product name in the steps below should be Company name... sharon Sharon Burton MadCap Software Product Consultant Managing your content, one topic at a time www.anthrobytes.com 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Twitter: sharonburton -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Sharon Burton Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:19 AM To: 'Avraham Makeler'; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Find Apply 1. Create a new character style with the attributes you want. Call it TextItalics, for example. 2. Create a variable. Call it CompanyName. 3. Define the variable with the name of the product, using the new character format, as needed. 4. Replace an instance of the current product name text with the CompanyName variable you create. 5. Select the variable. Press Ctrl+c. The variable is copied into the buffer. 6. Open the Find/Replace. 7. Type the text you want to find - in this case, it's the name of the company. 8. In the Replace area, select Copy from Clipboard. 9. Click Find Next. 10. Click Replace. Click Find Next. 11. Rinse and repeat until all text company names have been replaced with your variable. (This is all from memory, so parts may be slightly wrong) The advantage to this is that when they change the company name again - and they will - you change the value of the CompanyName variable and it's changed through out the file. Import that variable into all other documents and you're done. Do this for the product name as well, because if they are changing the company name, they'll change the product name. Usually at the last second. sharon Sharon Burton MadCap Software Product Consultant Managing your content, one topic at a time www.anthrobytes.com 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Twitter: sharonburton -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Avraham Makeler Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:00 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Find Apply It works. I thought I already tried this but it didn't work before. The guys on this forum obviously have "green fingers"... Just one small problem though... I used the Emphasis character style. I tried to apply "As is" to all the formatting of Emphasis, and then to set it to italics, but it didn't "stick". So when I then applied the Emphasis style to a title, for example, it changed the font of the word Acme to whatever size and color Emphasis is, which in my case, is italicized body text. >> As for applying italics without a character format, I think most would agree that this is a Bad Thing. I agree that this is not professional, but if I do it this way then at least I don't get the problem I get when I use a character style (Emphasis) above. Thanks, avi ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as sha...@anthrobytes.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Find Apply
You didn't create a new character format and apply it to the text in the variable in the Variable dialog box. That's where you do it. Look in the Frame docs for more help. sharon Sharon Burton MadCap Software Product Consultant Managing your content, one topic at a time www.anthrobytes.com 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Twitter: sharonburton From: Avraham Makeler [mailto:amake...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 12:00 PM To: sha...@anthrobytes.com Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Find Apply Thanks Sharon, Ok, I have done it and it works ... ... almost completely. I am having the same problem with the character style that I had with Roger_Shuttleworth's suggestion that I Find+Apply the text string with my desired character style. Namely, I can;t get the attributes of my style to stay as "As Is" and so when I apply the style it does not just apply the italic, which is what I want, but it applies all the specific style attributes of the style. Thanks, avi On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Sharon Burton wrote: 1. Create a new character style with the attributes you want. Call it TextItalics, for example. 2. Create a variable. Call it CompanyName. 3. Define the variable with the name of the product, using the new character format, as needed. 4. Replace an instance of the current product name text with the CompanyName variable you create. 5. Select the variable. Press Ctrl+c. The variable is copied into the buffer. 6. Open the Find/Replace. 7. Type the text you want to find - in this case, it's the name of the company. 8. In the Replace area, select Copy from Clipboard. 9. Click Find Next. 10. Click Replace. Click Find Next. 11. Rinse and repeat until all text company names have been replaced with your variable. (This is all from memory, so parts may be slightly wrong) The advantage to this is that when they change the company name again - and they will - you change the value of the CompanyName variable and it's changed through out the file. Import that variable into all other documents and you're done. Do this for the product name as well, because if they are changing the company name, they'll change the product name. Usually at the last second. sharon Sharon Burton MadCap Software Product Consultant Managing your content, one topic at a time www.anthrobytes.com 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Twitter: sharonburton -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Avraham Makeler Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:00 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Find Apply It works. I thought I already tried this but it didn't work before. The guys on this forum obviously have "green fingers"... Just one small problem though... I used the Emphasis character style. I tried to apply "As is" to all the formatting of Emphasis, and then to set it to italics, but it didn't "stick". So when I then applied the Emphasis style to a title, for example, it changed the font of the word Acme to whatever size and color Emphasis is, which in my case, is italicized body text. >> As for applying italics without a character format, I think most would agree that this is a Bad Thing. I agree that this is not professional, but if I do it this way then at least I don't get the problem I get when I use a character style (Emphasis) above. Thanks, avi ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
MadCap Software is hosting another tool-neutral webinar this week
As I'm sure you know, MadCap Software is hosting a series of tools-neutral webinars about Tech Comm related topics. We have a 2 part-er coming this week. DITA: 10 things to know During this 2 part webinar Bernard Aschwanden guides people who are new to DITA through the top 10 things they should know to get a grounding in DITA ideas, technology, and tools. Presenter: Bernard Aschwanden, President, Publishing Smarter November 18, 2009 7-8am(Pacific Time) To sign up, go to http://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/webinars.aspx sharon Sharon Burton MadCap Software Product Consultant Managing your content, one topic at a time www.anthrobytes.com 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Twitter: sharonburton ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: MadCap Software is hosting another tool-neutral webinar this week
Dec 2 for part 2. sharon Sharon Burton MadCap Software Product Consultant Managing your content, one topic at a time www.anthrobytes.com 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Twitter: sharonburton From: Les Smalley [mailto:l_c_smal...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 10:51 AM To: sha...@anthrobytes.com Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: MadCap Software is hosting another tool-neutral webinar this week Are both parts of this held in the single hour, or is there a follow-on date for part 2? – Les --- On Mon, 11/16/09, Sharon Burton wrote: As I'm sure you know, MadCap Software is hosting a series of tools-neutral webinars about Tech Comm related topics. We have a 2 part-er coming this week. DITA: 10 things to know During this 2 part webinar Bernard Aschwanden guides people who are new to DITA through the top 10 things they should know to get a grounding in DITA ideas, technology, and tools. Presenter: Bernard Aschwanden, President, Publishing Smarter November 18, 2009 7-8am (Pacific Time) To sign up, go to http://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/webinars.aspx sharon Sharon Burton MadCap Software Product Consultant Managing your content, one topic at a time www.anthrobytes.com 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Twitter: sharonburton ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Tempaltes
Create a PDF? Then send it to your printer. They do the proper printing on their end. If you're doing the printing in house, then ClickBooks was always my favorite. sharon Sharon Burton Content Consultant www.anthrobytes.com 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Twitter: sharonburton http://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonvburton -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Alison Craig Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 10:41 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Cc: Leo Paoletti Subject: RE: Tempaltes If anyone comes across a "booklet" template, could they pass along the link to me? I've looked to no avail. We publish an "Installation Booklet" that ships with every one of our systems. It's based on legal-sized paper, in landscape format, folded in half and stapled along the fold. Depending on the system, it might be 16 to 32 pages. At the moment I have to do create these docs in a very convoluted manner in MS Word and I would really like a Frame solution - if I can find a straightforward one. Alison Alison Craig, Technical Writer Ultrasonix Medical Corporation Tel: (604) 279-8550, ext 127 E-mail: alison.cr...@ultrasonix.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Shlomo Perets Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 10:19 AM To: Leo Paoletti Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Tempaltes Leo, You wrote: >Does anyone know of any book/guide templates that can be downloaded? >I'm working on our template and would like to get some ideas of what I >can do. There are too many options, but I suggest starting by looking at http://www.microtype.com/FrameMakerTemplates.html (if you do come across other items of interest, let me know and I will add these to the list) Shlomo Perets MicroType, http://www.microtype.com FrameMaker/TCS training & consulting * FM-to-Acrobat TimeSavers/Assistants "Improve Your FrameMaker Skills" 1-hour web training sessions ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as alison.cr...@ultrasonix.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/alison.craig%40ultrasoni x.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as sha...@anthrobytes.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Converting Rows to Headers
I just want to chime in and say that with TableCleaner, I paid for my investment in the first hour. I bought it years ago when converting a large doc from Word to Frame. Lots of tables - did I mention lots of tables? As a flat rate project, I needed a way to work more efficiently. TableCleaner was/is the bomb. sharon Sharon Burton Content Consultant www.anthrobytes.com 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Twitter: sharonburton http://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonvburton -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Rick Quatro Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 8:27 AM To: generic...@yahoo.ca Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Converting Rows to Headers Hi Nadine, I have been watching this thread with interest, since I am the author of the TableCleaner plugin that others recommended. I will be honest and say that I developed TableCleaner, not in the spirit of open source, but because I wanted to solve the problems associated with working with tables imported from Word. And, I wanted to make some money doing it. That is the beauty of free enterprise: I can earn a living developing software that solves problems for people and makes their jobs easier. I too would be embarrassed by saying, "Please sir, I want some more." But that is only because you don't see value in what you are asking for. If you did, you might say, "Please sir, for a small investment, I can make dramatic gains in my productivity." I don't know of any manager that isn't interested in getting more productivity out of his people. Since I starting working with FrameMaker automation 12 years ago, I have been amazed at the huge return on investment that even a small amount of automation can bring. As workforces shrink and the amount of work we have to do expands, automation is more important now than ever. Even with ever more powerful computers, it is mind-boggling how much tedious and error prone "by hand" work we still do when working on documentation. This is the kind of work that takes us away from our primary responsibilities. I am sure it sounds self-serving, but many of my clients will tell you that automation has helped them tremendously. Respectfully, Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-659-8267 r...@frameexpert.com ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Madcap Software is hosting a tools-neutral webinar Feb 23 2010 at 9am Pacific
<https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/513872073> Cascading Style Sheets (Part 3): Images In this free tools-neutral webinar, you'll learn about specifying and using images and image controls in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The CSS specification allows for the sort of fine image control you expect from the highest end desktop publishing systems. But the mysteries of what to set and how are usually beyond most mortals. If you want to learn the darkest secrets of working with images in CSS, this webinar is for you. Feb 23 2010 at 9am Pacific. If the time or date don't work for you, the webinars are recorded and made available for later review. If you sign up, you'll get the link to the recording after the webinar is over. To see more and sign up, go to http://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/webinars.aspx sharon Sharon Burton Cell: 951-202-0813 Home office: 951-369-8590 sbur...@madcapsoftware.com IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Blog: http://madcapsoftware.wordpress.com Free tools-neutral webinars: http://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/webinars.aspx ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Frame's File Comparison Feature
But it is easy and reliable - they do a compare with the new files to the saved TM files. A report spits out, showing the differences, but totally different and slightly different. They send you that report so you can see how different the files are. I'm guessing they use Trados - as most places do - and this is simple. But all translation tools ave the diff reports ability. I managed a group a few years ago that translated into 4 other languages. We lived and died by the previous TM and the associated reports. -- sharon From web Quoting Alison Craig : Richard: Someone else who replied off-list made the same observation - and we do have a TM for each language. I can also get a copy simply by asking. I was hoping for an additional (easy and reliable) method to speed up the process and cut down on costs. Looks like I'm out of luck on this one. Alison Alison Craig, Technical Writer Ultrasonix Medical Corporation Tel: (604) 279-8550, ext 127 E-mail: alison.cr...@ultrasonix.com -Original Message- From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard.co...@polycom.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 12:17 PM To: Alison Craig; 'FrameMaker Forum' Subject: RE: Frame's File Comparison Feature Alison Craig wrote: Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 11:49 AM In various List threads, I've read about using Frame's file comparison ability to determine changes from one release to the next. As a Frame newbie, I wondered if anyone could give me more information about this feature? Can it be used to mitigate the amount of translation sent to the Language Service Provider (LSP) and if it can, how do I do this? FYI: My current procedure is to send the LSP all the relevant native Frame (and Visio) files. I let them handle the MIF conversion (as I don't pay a project management fee, I let them work for their money. Besides, I have never worked with MIF files - but there is a first time for everything). Budget is always an issue, so if I need to buy any other tools to make this feasible, I would have to present an ROI case (even for something that only cost $100). But if there is a way to send a smaller amount of text and then put the files back together without a hassle once they were completed, I know I could swing the purchase of new tools. What you're considering is (or should be) neither necessary nor desirable. Your translation vendor should be using a translation memory (and you should request a copy of it, since you've paid for it, so that you're not locked into this vendor because it's holding your translation memory hostage). When you send an updated set of files for a book that's already been translated once, the unchanged paragraphs will match the translation memory. Only the portions that are new or changed need to be translated. If your vendor isn't using translation memory, find a new one. If it is using translation memory, there's no point in you trying to dissect files and reassemble them -- you'd gain nothing and risk all kinds of problems. Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 -- rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-903-6372 -- ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as sha...@anthrobytes.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Frame Versions Question
My employer wants to know if this is legal: We are adding 3 writers. We currently all run Frame 7.2. We will be ordering Frame 8 for the new writers, with the intention of later this year, upgrading all 10 of the other writers to Frame 8. In the interim, we don't want some writers in 7.2 and some on 8. We are also about to release a major set of products and don't want to upgrade the docs people midstream. We all know the bad things that can happen of we do that this close to product releases. Can we buy the 3 copies of 8 and then let the 3 writers use 7.2? We will be violating our license agreement? sharon Sharon Burton CEO, Anthrobytes Consulting 951-369-8590 www.anthrobytes.com ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Frame Versions Question
Because of how my employer purchases software, we can't buy from someone who isn't Adobe when we buy Adobe software. It's a very frustrating purchasing process. We were hoping if we purchase 8, then it would sort of cover us on the extra use of the 7.2 seats in a retroactive way. We would have, in fact, enough seats of Frame, we just wouldn't use the 8 copies until we can bring the entire group forward at the same time. I can't figure out from the EULA if this is legal or not. sharon Sharon Burton CEO, Anthrobytes Consulting 951-369-8590 www.anthrobytes.com -Original Message- From: Art Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 2:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Frame Versions Question Without reading the 8 EULA, which I don't have access to, yes, probably it's not legal. Why not just follow the KISS principle and get three 7.2 packages off the shelf of a retailer who has left-overs and then see if Adobe will follow it's usual procedure of giving an upgrade to the current release if the product was purchased in the release time frame? Adds up to the same amount of money, but you get everyone on 7.2 and then upgrade together. Art On 8/5/07, Sharon Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My employer wants to know if this is legal: > > We are adding 3 writers. We currently all run Frame 7.2. We will be ordering > Frame 8 for the new writers, with the intention of later this year, > upgrading all 10 of the other writers to Frame 8. In the interim, we don't > want some writers in 7.2 and some on 8. We are also about to release a major > set of products and don't want to upgrade the docs people midstream. We all > know the bad things that can happen of we do that this close to product > releases. > > Can we buy the 3 copies of 8 and then let the 3 writers use 7.2? We will be > violating our license agreement? ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Frame Versions Question
Thank you, Dov. I'll do that. I was hoping someone might have just contacted Adobe with this same issue and knew. sharon Sharon Burton CEO, Anthrobytes Consulting 951-369-8590 www.anthrobytes.com -Original Message- From: Dov Isaacs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 4:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Art Campbell Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Frame Versions Question My advice, for what it is worth, is to contact Adobe Customer Support ASAP instead of relying on the guesses of those on the list as to what might be legal, what Adobe might allow, etc. Explain your situation and see whether they might be able to make some reasonable accommodation for you, especially if you are on some volume purchase plan. If necessary, ask for a supervisor. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: Sharon Burton > Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 4:38 PM > > Because of how my employer purchases software, we can't buy from someone who > isn't Adobe when we buy Adobe software. It's a very frustrating purchasing > process. > > We were hoping if we purchase 8, then it would sort of cover us on the extra > use of the 7.2 seats in a retroactive way. We would have, in fact, enough > seats of Frame, we just wouldn't use the 8 copies until we can bring the > entire group forward at the same time. > > I can't figure out from the EULA if this is legal or not. > > sharon > > Sharon Burton > CEO, Anthrobytes Consulting > 951-369-8590 > www.anthrobytes.com > ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Madcap software wants your opinions
As you may have heard, I'm the new product manager for Blaze. I'm running a survey to find out a little more about our audience and how you all work. We're also giving out 5 Madcap tee shirts to people who provide their contact info. Providing contact info is optional, but you won't be entered to win if you don't provide it. To participate, go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=xagCIO4Hj1duIDFnjmJsnQ_3d_3d The survey closes October 6th! sharon Sharon Burton Product Manager, Blaze Madcap Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 858-320-0387 x217 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Flare v Webworks
Vendor post I'm product manager for Madcap. I can tell you that Flare nicely single sources Frame 7 and 8 files and it's all pretty easy - much easier than setting up WWP, and I'm a WWP expert. We are also offering a competitive upgrade for about $400 off the full Flare price. I strongly recommend that you consider the maintanence package, which still brings you in for much less than WWP. You can always call Sales for more info. They're nice people and can give you actual prices. Sharon Burton Product Manager Madcap Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 858-320-0387 x217 Fax: 858-320-0338 Quoting Charles Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Pat, > > The tool you are looking for is called Mif2Go, and you can find it at > http://www.omsys.com/dcl/omni.htm. > > The company is very much still in business, and its owner (?) Jeremy > Griffiths is very active on this list. It is much more reasonably priced > than WebWorks but a bit more challenging to learn. However, Jeremy is > extremely helpful and supportive if you run into problems. It should do > whatever you need (assuming all you need is what you described...). > > HTH, > Chuck Beck > > Sr. Technical Writer | Infor | Office: 614.523.7302 | > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pat Fortino > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 20:42 > To: framers@lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Flare v Webworks > > Hi, > > Sorry if this question has been answered already; I tried to find a > place to search the framer's archive for my questions, but can't find > it. Is there a way to search the archive? > > Anyway, I just talked to Webworks about upgrading my Webworks Pro 2003. > First of all, they told me there is no upgrade path; I have to pay full > price again, $1900. And that's only for a specific named user; each > extra user is ONLY $900. Totally rediculous. > > Anyway, I am a small company and cannot afford to pay $2000 for an > add-on frame utility that I use only once in a while. Can anyone suggest > an alternative. I once looked into Flare, and they claim Flare can use > the frame files as a source, so I assume I could still single source for > print and online help. > > Also, I remember a tool called miftogo, but I cannot find anything in > google about where to buy it. Is this company still in business. If so, > will it does what webworks does; eg, convert a frame book to an online > help format? > > Thanks for any help. > > Pat Fortino > writenowdesign.com >>>>>>>>>>> |<<<<<<<<<<<< > - Web Sites > - Technical Writing > - Editing > - Desktop Publishing > > Get Firefox, a Safer, Faster, and Better Browser > > > > > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/charles.beck%40infor > .com > > Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.com > > Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: MadCap Blaze
Vendor Post I've been at WritersUA and away from my personal email since Sunday. I got back late last night. I'm the product manager for Blaze. (BTW - great conference!) Some clarifications: Blaze is the younger sister of Flare 4. If you need complex print and online docs, then you want Flare 4. If you only need printed output, then you want Blaze. Everything that's in Blaze will be in Flare 4. Blaze is a fully featured print authoring and publishing system. It imports and exports Frame and Word because you may have a workflow that requires you to import from or export to these formats for some reason. We want to account for that. However, you don't *need* to export to Frame to get your output if your workflow doesn't require that. You can import existing Word or Frame documents and you're good to go. Then you can directly create PDFs or XPSs as your deliverables, with the content for those deliverables based on your Outlines. Our page design and layout in Blaze is robust so there's no need to export to Frame if your workflow doesn't require Frame as an output. One of the biggest differences in Blaze - and really, Flare - is that you are not authoring long documents, but rather you're authoring topics. Then, using Outlines, you put together the topics into the deliverables; for example, a User's Guide and an Admin Guide. There's nothing to prevent you from authoring just like you do in Word of Frame in that you can open a new topic in Blaze and then write a 200 page document in one topic. But by doing that, you lose the power of topic-based content development that easily allows content reuse across multiple deliverables for one or more projects. I strongly urge you to attend one of my online demos to learn more about the paradigm shift for Blaze. If you are not aware of the shift and just click Next in the import wizard, you are going to wind up with a mess. I go over that in the demos. (Don't try to signup for a few hours, as all the scheduled demos for the next 6 weeks are full and I have to schedule more. Give me until about 9am Pacific today, please.) As to our newly announced product Press, it's for glossy print materials, like Annual reports or other glossy printed material. It's related to our other products, but it's not the only press solution. As to DITA or CMS, check out our just announced product Team Server. It's a workflow management tool that's amazing. We have ideas about what it should do but we want your input about what you need that tool to do. I'm delighted to answer questions about Blaze or any of our products. If you could send those questions to my MadCap email, that would help me a lot. [EMAIL PROTECTED], please. sharon Sharon Burton MadCap Software Product Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://madcapsoftware.wordpress.com ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: MadCap Blaze
Because some people don't want or need online docs. For example, one of my former clients was a cash register manufacturer. You can buy their products for about $100. There is no concept of online help for these products, as they don't come with a computer. I delivered a PDF of the manual and they sent that to the printer. They delivered a printed book with the product. Why should these people purchase a tool that does way more than they need? Flare 4 is too much for them. I don't wish to get into the DITA discussion because that's very far afield from the discussion of the Blaze beta at this moment. If you are currently doing DITA and you're happy with your tools, then good on you. MadCap will support DITA in the future. That's all I wish to publicly disclose about our plans for DITA at this time. Team Server is being developed right now. I would expect it by the end of the year. Because we want to know what you want in a product like this, and because we are developing it right now, now would be the time to talk to us about what you want in a workflow management tool. We want to build what you are looking for in this sort of tool. We have ideas but you all know your workflow needs. I never said that topic-based authoring is a new concept. But it is a shift from how most people think about docs. Thus, a discussion of this development method is relevant. For lots of good info, see JoAnn Hackos's newest book. She really explains it in detail. And, yes, our UI is very different. Some people love it, some don't. sharon Sharon Burton -Original Message- From: Bill Swallow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 8:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Frame Users; Sharon Work Subject: Re: MadCap Blaze > Some clarifications: Blaze is the younger sister of Flare 4. If you need > complex print and online docs, then you want Flare 4. If you only need > printed output, then you want Blaze. Everything that's in Blaze will be in > Flare 4. I really don't understand this, I'm not trying to be difficult... But if Flare does everything that Blaze does and more, and Flare's been out for years, why develop Blaze at all? I guess I don't see the point of spending the time, energy, and money to develop a brand new product that does a subset of what another of your products already does. > One of the biggest differences in Blaze - and really, Flare - is that you > are not authoring long documents, but rather you're authoring topics. Then, > using Outlines, you put together the topics into the deliverables; for > example, a User's Guide and an Admin Guide. The classic authoring model for FrameMaker is indeed long document authoring, but it's not so with DITA. > There's nothing to prevent you from authoring just like you do in Word of > Frame in that you can open a new topic in Blaze and then write a 200 page > document in one topic. But by doing that, you lose the power of topic-based > content development that easily allows content reuse across multiple > deliverables for one or more projects. Well, agreed. That would be just silly. For the record, I've done topic-based authoring in FrameMaker years ago. It's all about how you approach your content structure. I needed to leverage topics in different documents in different ways, so I just created a new document for every portable topic. I don't think topic based content authoring is a revolutionary concept. > I strongly urge you to attend one of my online demos to learn more about the > paradigm shift for Blaze. I don't see a paradigm shift at all, but the UI is way different than what non-Flare users would be accustomed to. But paradigm shift, no. Topic based authoring is not a new concept. > As to DITA or CMS, > check out our just announced product Team Server. It's a workflow management > tool that's amazing. We have ideas about what it should do but we want your > input about what you need that tool to do. I'm confused. Is it a product or is it an idea for a product? > I'm delighted to answer questions about Blaze or any of our products. If you > could send those questions to my MadCap email, that would help me a lot. > [EMAIL PROTECTED], please. I'll keep my questions on the list since that's where they originated. -- Bill Swallow HATT List Owner WWP-Users List Owner Senior Member STC, TechValley Chapter STC Single-Sourcing SIG Manager http://techcommdood.blogspot.com ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: MadCap Blaze
Vendor post Forgive me - these are straight questions. I really don't quite understand. What's convoluted about getting printed output out of XML, HTML, or XHTML topics in Blaze? You create topics, you define and assign style sheets to topics (you can also have multiple style sheets in one project and assign them at build time when you create the output), you create outlines that define the content for the output, you specify PDF, XPS, or HTML as the output, you output, and you're done. What other printed outputs would you want? PDF and XPS seem to be the only ones you can send to a printer for printed books... If your workflow needs you to also output to Word or Frame, we have that too, but it's not really a print output, per se. As to XML, HTML, or XHTML not being the right data format for content, it's the direction the industry is moving. Data in these formats are more extendable and reusable than in a Word format, for example... Pretty much all CMSs, for example, store data as one of these formats. We've not found much that you can do in unstructured Frame that you can't do in Blaze. But Blaze does things that Frame can't do, like Smart Cross-references. [see the docs or our website for what those are but they are very powerful] As to the docs, we have a 36 page Quick Start Guide and very extensive help system in the first beta build. This *is* a beta, so we're finishing the docs during the beta, hopefully using info you guys give us about what else needs tight docs. We would need to know what are you struggling with that needs more docs? Can you help me understand? Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > For a product that is supposedly Print oriented, HTML is a lousy > media to produce it in. There is no reason to use HTML. Even XHTML is > not the best route, nor is XML. While HTML and XHTML are presentation > based, they don't allow the same type of easy manipulation that > FrameMaker or even Word allows. > > This just isn't a paradigm that makes sense to me. There isn't an > output other than html or PDF or XPS. The means to get to your output > result is laborious and convoluted. This just doesn't seem to be a > well thought out print solution. > > And the beta did not provide me with any real documentation that I > could view with confidence. Was that a problem with the build? > > Scott ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: MadCap Blaze
In fact, we have these features and in fact you have the sort of control - and in some cases, more control - you expect from an app designed for "print". For example, you also have short line control, missing from FrameMaker. Really. Quoting William Gaffga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > leading ... kerning ... tracking ... ligatures ... this kinda stuff (and > more) is something you expect from "print". HTML, even with the aid of > CSS, is not going to be able to give you the control of these that you > would get from an app designed for "print". > > Sharon Burton wrote: >> Can you help me understand? >> ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: MadCap Blaze
It's the second, as in your example. If the words leave a line that's too short to look good, you can set how that's managed. It can either recalculate the lines above it and pull the short line up into the paragraph OR it can expand the text and send more into the last line. But it's automatic. You don't have to put a non-breaking space. And if you need to reuse that content in another layout, that non-breaking space could look icky in the second layout. Better to set rules for this and then move on. sharon Sharon Burton CEO, Anthrobytes Consulting 951-369-8590 www.anthrobytes.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hedley Finger Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:35 PM To: Frame Users Subject: Re: MadCap Blaze Sharon: At Friday, 21/03/2008, 11:07 AM;, you wrote: >you also have short line control, missing from FrameMaker. Is that the same as widows and orphans? Or is it when a small word, say "all", turns over onto a new line at the end of a paragraph? If the latter, in FM most people just put a non-breaking space before the word, e.g. "\ all", in order to bring the preceding word over onto the last line. Regards, Hedley ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: More like a flicker than a Blaze
Vendor post Actually, to clarify for those who may not know, with Flare you get both online and print in one package. With Frame, you get print or PDF. With the addition of ePub (another $1200, last I looked), you get online. You also get very responsive tech support, should you want it. If you have concerns about or would like to provide input into our pricing strategy or our product strategy, I encourage you to contact me at my madcap email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sharon Burton Product Manager MadCap Software Quoting "Flato, Gillian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I just looked at pricing. Flare is $899. FrameMaker is $899. With Frame > I get DITA and a program that works with my ePub Help software, with > Flare I get less. > > Not only does MadCap's product strategy make no sense, their pricing > strategy also makes no sense. > > Since we are the potential audience for Flare, MadCap should talk to us > before they develop their next product and decide on pricing structure. > > -Gillian > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 7:02 PM > To: Hedley Finger; Frame Users > Subject: Re: More like a flicker than a Blaze > > Truthfully, I'd use Oxygen rather than Blaze for an XHTML editor. Or > I'd use a couple of other apps, which even when taken as a group are > less expensive than would be Blaze. And have a learning curve that > isn't as steep. The requirement to design isn't one that I would give > to all authors, though the input of data I would, and that can be > done with text editors, much as is done with Arbortext apps. > > Scott > ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Closing big book files
From the book file, press the Shift key. While you are holding the whift key, click the File menu. Notice that you have 3 new options: Save All, Close All and one other I can't remember. sharon Quoting Harold Winberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello Framers > > > > I am working in a Book file with over 400 chapters. > > > > I am using IXgen and opening all files to perform updates. > > > > Is there a quick way to save and close the files? > > > > I am saving the book and using shift/close all files but it makes me > confirm OK save the file. > > > > It takes over a half hour. > > > > Any other way?? > > > > Thanks > > > > Les Winberg > > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.com > > Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: TOC within a chapter
A fast story: I had a client with a big manual to which we were adding stuff. Each chapter had its own TOC and the entire book had an index, TOC, LOF and LOT. Inserting cross references wasn't working because we were moving things and losing things. To get the page numbers for the entire manual correct, I had to: 1. Generate and update the entire book. 2. Manually generate each chapter TOC to get the page numbers and headings correct in the chapter TOC. This means open each chapter, generate the TOC, save and close. 3. Generate and update the entire book again to make sure the imported TOC files were all updated properly in each file. 4. Spot check to make sure step 3 didn't add pages I didn't expect and thus made the chapter level TOC out of date. 5. Possibly do steps 1 - 4 a second time. This process could take over an hour if I was trapped in steps 4 and 5. I asked Rick if he could write me a script to automate this process because it was tedious, at best. He quoted me a very fair rate that was about half what I was making on the total project. He wrote the script and gave it to me, under the theory that he could sell it to others. The moral of the story? Besides the fact that Rick is a great guy, the script saved me about 20 hours on the project. 20 hours x hourly rate... For your client, it would probably pay for Framescript and the script the first manual it's used for. sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 -Original Message- To: Butler,Darren J CTR USAF AFMC 584 CBSS/GBHAC; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TOC within a chapter Hi Darren, Those that won't buy FrameScript will have to settle for either manual method: inserting cross-references to make a chapter TOC, or using Special > Table of Contents to generate a TOC and then import it by reference into the chapter. Considering the significant time savings that a script would bring every time it is used, the "won't buy" argument doesn't make any sense to me. Any serious FrameMaker shop should consider FrameScript as an essential plugin, especially at the bargain price of $149/seat. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com Unfortunately, some of my clients do not have the FrameScript program and a few of them have no plans to purchase it. Therefore, I need a plan "B." I'm considering generating the TOC to a separate file, then importing the TOC as a text inset. Any thoughts on this? ___ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Announcing MadCap Blaze!
***Vendor post alert! Avert your eyes if these emails upset you!! ;-) It's been a long time in the works, but it's finally here: MadCap Software announces Blaze! Blaze is the perfect product for authoring and publishing complex printed materials. With Blaze, you finally have a complete product for developing long printed documents while maximizing content re-use through topic-based authoring: * Topic-based content development * Content reuse with conditional text, variables, snippets, outlines, and more * Flexibility with XML and CSS * And much more Blaze also integrates with our other products, including Flare, MadCap Lingo, Analyzer, X-edit and Capture so you can extend the power of Blaze as your needs grow. Madcap Blaze includes all the features you expect in a high-end XML-based publishing system. I'm not going to list them here but go to the website and read all the features. This product is amazing. To see what Blaze can do for you, to sign up for a free web-based demo, or to download the trial, go to http://www.madcapsoftware.com/products/blaze/. You just won't believe how easy your life can be. sharon Sharon Burton Product Manager MadCap Software Voice: 858-320-0387 x 222 Cell: 951-202-0813 Home office: 951-369-8590 [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://madcapsoftware.wordpress.com ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: ePublisher Pro vs. other generated online help
***Vendor post*** We just released Flare 4, which will do everything I suspect you need and more. You can download a trial version at www.madcapsoftware.com and sign up for a demo, if you want. The demo is good, in that it will shows you some of what the product does. We can certainly dynamically link to Frame files, not problems. We easily do multiple sets of variables, including importing the variables in your Frame files. And the conditions come thru easy pleasey. sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Callie Bertsche Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 2:59 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: ePublisher Pro vs. other generated online help Hi Framaniacs ;) I generate 10+ manuals from FrameMaker 7.2 into PDFs, with extensive single sourcing material. Currently, I've been using WebWorks ePublisher Pro 9.1 (I just did an old maintenance upgrade to 9.2, actually) to generate several thousand help pages (between different projects/products). I just received an offer from ePublisher Pro to upgrade to their 2008.2 (9.5) edition for the cost of software maintenance, since I'm on an unsupported (old) version. Primarily I'm wondering: - Do other writers with similar publishing needs consider ePubPro a competitive product? - Have other products sharpened their competitive edge since our last tool decision (a few years ago)? For instance, comparisons with MadCap or Flare? In considering a new product, I know immediately I value the following: - Dynamic connection with FrameMaker documents (ability to rescan/update files in help project file) - Ability to set variables and conditions or pass them through from the document, in a user-friendly manner, when building the help Thanks for any "help" on the help anyone has time to give! Cheers, Callie ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
MadCap Software offering Free Webinars
***Vendor post!*** MadCap Software is offering several free webinars in the month of October. These sales pitch-free webinars are filling up fast. If you want to learn more about any of these topics, click the links below to sign up. Importing FrameMaker files to Flare or Blaze October 3 at 9am Pacific Reserve your Webinar seat at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/667817804 What?s new in Flare 4? October 9 at 9am Pacific Reserve your Webinar seat at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/562186940 Planning the move to Flare or Blaze October 15 at 9am Pacific Reserve your Webinar seat at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/385144397 Doing more with less (Tools independant: this is the crazy sold out STC webinar we did in late spring) October 21 at 9am Pacific Reserve your Webinar seat at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/865719205 sharon Sharon Burton Product Manager MadCap Software Voice: 858-320-0387 x 222 Cell: 951-202-0813 Home office: 951-369-8590 [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog: http://madcapsoftware.wordpress.com ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: An opinion poll
I will be linking from my website to the white paper. The results so far are really interesting. Sent from my iPad Cell: 951-202-0813 On Jun 21, 2012, at 2:29 PM, "Lea Rush" wrote: > Will you be posting a link to your white paper once you’ve submitted it, > Sharon? I’d love to see it. > > Thanks, > Lea > > > _ > Lea Rush > Software and Documentation Specialist > Astoria-Pacific International > www.astoria-pacific.com > ph: 800-536-3111 > fax: 503-655-7367 > l...@astoria-pacific.com > > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > `·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸ ><º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><º> > > NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY > > This communication is from Astoria-Pacific International and is intended to > be confidential and solely for the use of the persons or entities addressed > above. If you are not an intended recipient, be aware that the information > contained herein may be protected from unauthorized use by privilege or law, > and any copying, distribution, disclosure, or other use of this information > is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please > contact the sender by return email or telephone (503) 657-3010 immediately, > and delete or destroy all copies. Thank you for your cooperation. > > > From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Sharon Burton > Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 7:04 AM > To: framers@lists.frameusers.com > Subject: An opinion poll > > I’m running an opinion poll on how people feel about product documentation > that comes with products they buy. I’m less interested in people who answer > with their tech pubs hat on, but if you feel you can take that hat off and > answer as a consumer, I’d love you to participate. > > I’ll be putting together a white paper over the summer from the results. If > you could go to > http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e5rga573h0cr8p24/start and ask > your friends and family to also take the poll, that would be really helpful. > > No personal information is requested or gathered. I’m just looking for how > important clear and complete docs are wto people when they purchase products. > > Thank you! > > > sharon > > Sharon Burton > Content Strategy Consultant > 951-369-8590 > New book "8 Steps to Amazing Webinars" available on Amazon and BN.com > www.sharonburton.com > IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com > Twitter: sharonburton > http://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonvburton > > > > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as sha...@anthrobytes.com. > > Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.com > > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
New Opinion poll available
The results for the Consumer feelings about product instructions were so interesting <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001SD1FMrLIcf1c0o4PJcdTrDAHe2I4WUPYkswQrFHmTPB_ S34fzqKDBUcNfELKFFAZVA1nMuYQ3S5CCC4vO5MSuRTVmGmu37S-kxvsKW9SsyL3svNYo0L3XDyA aRfylQy_wdirp7ATpE2kta6suRMek9dPVD_sJcuHe402zhYcvAo=> , I want to know more about how people use social media and product instructions. I've put together an opinion poll about how people use social media to get help with products. These results will be interesting to Technical Support, Marketing, Technical Communication, Product Managers, and so many more. If you can take 5 minutes to take the poll and then socialize it on your social media, blogs, and more, that will result in a meaningful and robust data set. Of course, the results will be presented in a free webinar when the poll closes. http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e65qm9gbh4ri4w3c/start sharon Sharon Burton Content Strategy Consultant 951-369-8590 New book "8 Steps to Amazing Webinars" available on Amazon and BN.com <http://www.sharonburton.com/> www.sharonburton.com IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Twitter: <http://twitter.com/#!/sharonburton> sharonburton <http://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonvburton> http://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonvburton ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Free vendor agnostic webinar Sept 26 9am Pac
Selecting New Tools Webinar 26 September 2012 9am Pac In September, I'm giving a free webinar that goes over the information how to select a new tool(s). While I can't tell you what's right for you, I can tell you how to conduct the Needs Analysis on your own. It's not a mysterious process and you can do it for your workplace if you are thinking that new tools are the right solution for you. Seats are limited and they are going to go fast. If you're involved in technical communication, content development, or marketing content, this webinar should be of value to you. Click here to sign up <https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/871640799> and I'll see you in September! You can also copy and paste this link: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/871640799 If the time or date doesn't work for you, I'll record the webinar. If you want to get the link to the recording the next day, also sign up. sharon Sharon Burton Content Strategy Consultant 951-369-8590 New book "8 Steps to Amazing Webinars" available on Amazon and BN.com <http://www.sharonburton.com/> www.sharonburton.com IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Twitter: <http://twitter.com/#!/sharonburton> sharonburton <http://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonvburton> http://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonvburton ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: copying Save as HTML settings from one FM10 file to another
Import the reference pages you changed into the other files. sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 www.sharonburton.com Twitter: sharonburton Author of 8 Steps to Amazing Webinars, available on Amazon and bn.com From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of John Sgammato Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 9:37 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: copying Save as HTML settings from one FM10 file to another Does anyone know if there is a way to copy the Save as HTML settings from one unstructured FM10 file to another? I don't want to go through the whole procedure again for every document! john ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Table that won't sort correctly
Sounds like you have hidden tabs at the start of the lines that won't sort properly. Hidden tabs are common when importing from word. Sent from my iPad Cell: 951-202-0813 On Dec 7, 2012, at 5:58 AM, Steve Rickaby wrote: > Title says it all. Material sourced from Word (groan): I suspect gremlin > characters are messing up sort. > > I need to alpha-sort some 60 pp. Each entry starts with '[ref]' in left > column, where 'ref' is the reference marker. When sorted on col 1, the > results aren't alpha. Some sorting has taken place, but not a lot. There may > be gremlins: in many lines, positioning the insert cursor at the start of the > line and pressing the right arrow key does not advance the cursor past the > '[' until the right arrow key is pressed again. > > Copying one of the offending '[' pairs to the Find > dialog fails to find the character pair. However, searching for '^[' with > wildcards on shows that the not-sorted lines do not start with just '[', even > though that's all that is visible. Equally, lines that *have* sorted ok *do* > start with just '['. > > So: I know why it's not working, but no how to fix it. > > Helpful ideas, anyone? > > FrameMaker 7.0p757 for Mac. > -- > Steve > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as sha...@anthrobytes.com. > > Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.com > > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Free webinar, Feb 5 9am Pac
Upcoming webinar: Clear Writing, Feb 5, 9am Pacific Good communication starts with clear writing. Regardless of what you're writing, people need to understand what you're trying to say. Attend this free webinar if you are involved in: * proposals * blogs * social media * user instructions * policies and procedures * video scripts * and more Don't forget to invite people you work with who might benefit from several steps they can take to communicate more clearly. Sign up by going here: <https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/587294103> https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/587294103 The webinar will be recorded and made available the next day. If you can't make the live time or date, sign up to automatically get the recording link when it becomes available. sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 www.sharonburton.com Twitter: sharonburton Author of 8 Steps to Amazing Webinars, available on Amazon and bn.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Free webinar Feb 5 at 9am Pac
Clear Writing: Simple steps to make your communication clear Feb 5 at 9am Pac https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/721326694 Good communication starts with clear writing. Regardless of what you're writing, people need to understand what you're trying to say. In this one hour webinar, learn specific steps and actions to make your writing clearer and convey your powerful message. You'll leave with 10 simple actions you can apply to your writing today. Your message will be clearer and easier to understand. Do yourself a favor - if you work with someone who could use some written communication tips, send this on to them and ask them to sign up. This will help them - I promise. https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/721326694 The webinar will be recorded, making the webinar available to you, even if the time does not work for you. To automatically get the link to the recording the next day, sign up as tho you were going to attend live. sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 www.sharonburton.com Twitter: sharonburton Author of 8 Steps to Amazing Webinars, available on Amazon and bn.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Free webinar 20 March 9am Pac
10 common mistakes when moving to topic-based authoring 20 March 9am Pac https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/473222183 Topic-based authoring is the most cost-effective way to develop content in the "Do more with less" world we live in. It can help reduce localization costs, reduce project schedules, and help you better meet the needs of your users. It's a potential win/win for your company and your users. Makes you want to jump right in, doesn't it? But moving to topic-based authoring can be one of the most expensive things you've ever done. In this talk, Sharon Burton will show you the top 10 mistakes made by companies and how you can avoid them. If you're thinking about making this move, you'll learn what not to do; if you made the move and you're struggling, find out how to solve your problems. Either way, you really can't afford to miss this discussion! Seats are limited to the first 100 people who attend the webinar live. The webinar will be recorded. To automatically get a link to the recording, sign up for the webinar and then don't attend live. sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 www.sharonburton.com Twitter: sharonburton Author of 8 Steps to Amazing Webinars, available on Amazon and bn.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Frame 11 Appearance
I have spent time with anyone on the TCS team I could find, complaining about the UI for older eyes. It's a perfectly suitable UI for 25 year old eyes and a perfectly wretched UI for older eyes. The low contrast tiny icons are horrible and make my head hurt after an hour or so. Stronger contrast with color would be the best. Maybe slightly larger icons, since we are there. And remember that Tech Comm is typically a second career, meaning by definition we are going to have more older eyes than we might. So, this is the wrong UI for the user base. They really need to listen to the users on this. Stop asking the 25 year old developers if they like the UI. Ask the USERS, most of whom are not 25 years old. And then don't get me started on the UI for Acrobat. The UI for Photoshop probably works for that user base. But it's a mistake to assume all Adobe products have that user base. Because we aren't. But they are taking that UI and making it the default UI for all products. It's the wrong UI for people not doing intense color work with 25 year old eyes. sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 www.sharonburton.com Twitter: sharonburton Author of 8 Steps to Amazing Webinars, available on Amazon and bn.com From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Tori Muir Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 11:18 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Frame 11 Appearance Preach it, sister! #1 thing our team HATE about Acrobat X: the Next/Previous comment buttons for PDF edits were taken away. Why, Adobe, why?! It took considerable effort to convince our clients to shift from an all-Word workflow to a Frame + PDF markup workflow, then Adobe go and make that workflow substantially less efficient. In a document with hundreds of comments, scrolling through them via the side scrollbar is a giant PITA: hard to control and prone to missing individual comments. No exaggeration, between this missing feature and the jumping around mentioned below, Acrobat X adds 20% to the time needed to work through a round of edits. But the #2 thing that is disliked is the PlaySkool-size gray-on-gray-on-gray UI elements now afflicting all Adobe apps. Color is a great way to easily distinguish between tiny icons, especially for those of us with eyeballs that have passed the half-century mark. And the chunky, clunky font is neither attractive nor easy to read. Loath though I am to praise anything emanating from Redmond, Word's interface is at present a lot better to work with. Tori Muir tm...@spot-on-creative.com | 650.430.8674 www.spot-on-creative.com On 2/20/13 10:41 AM, Karen Robbins wrote: Me too! I truly dislike the dark, drab, low-contrasty appearance of Frame and all the Adobe apps. Whatever happened to clarity, readability, contrast, and the ability to size UI text for improved accessibility? Even the best settings aren't good enough--it goes from really low contrast and poor readability to barely-tolerable contrast and still poor readability. Another bad interface is recent Acrobat (Pro). UI elements are oversized, clunky, and take up far too much screen real estate! I hate having to click, click, click all over the place to reveal and hide stuff, and have the document jump around, resize, etc. while doing so. As bad on Mac as on PC, unfortunately. (And don't get me started about Dreamweaver) --Karen ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as tm...@spot-on-creative.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/tmuir%40spot-on-creative .com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Wrong font in index page numbers
For about a billion years, Frame automatically creates the paragraph formats for the index stuff EXCEPT for the page numbers. So, go to the Reference page, find the format for the page number. Click it. You'll see it has an asterisk. Open the paragraph designer and create that format with those settings. Then update/change to your heart's content. Been that way since... Frame 3? sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 www.sharonburton.com Twitter: sharonburton Author of 8 Steps to Amazing Webinars, available on Amazon and bn.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Rickaby Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 10:51 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Wrong font in index page numbers Can someone remind me (off-list if you like) how one controls the format of page numbers in an index? I'm combining 'Index' markers and a custom marker: the format of the page numbers of the index entries formed from 'Index' markers are correct, but the page numbers (but not the body) of the index entries from the custom markers have defaulted to Times New Roman. I have tried following the procedure of putting a named character tag in the reference page entry to the left of '<$pagenum>', but without success. -- Steve ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as sha...@anthrobytes.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
New poll available
You may recall that I <http://www.sharonburton.com/consumer-feelings-about-product-documentation-r esults-are-in/> ran an opinion poll about this time last year to find out how people feel about product instructions. The results from that poll are freely <http://www.sharonburton.com/recording-of-why-your-customers-are-mad-at-you/ > available here. It's time to do it again. This year, I've added 3 questions all around the cost of a product and expectations about product instructions. My gut tells me that the more you pay for a product, the more you expect the product instructions to be clear and helpful. That's my hypothesis and I'm interested in how the results hold out. So, <http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e721s32lhd51sdli/start> to take the poll, go here ( <http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e721s32lhd51sdli/start> http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e721s32lhd51sdli/start). Please try to take off your tech comm hats and answer like a regular person who purchases products. Spread the word, tell your friends. The poll will close around the beginning of June and I'll be reporting the results in June. Thank you and stay tuned for ongoing results reports! (Please be assured that none of your personal information is tracked or requested. There is no financial advantage I receive for running this poll - in fact I lose money every time I run one. Contact me if you further concerns, please.) sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 www.sharonburton.com Twitter: sharonburton Author of 8 Steps to Amazing Webinars, available on Amazon and bn.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: how do people copy-protect their PDFs?
ebooks? All these issues are solved if you publish to Amazon and bn.com. They manage all the DRM and selling and all that stuff. sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 www.sharonburton.com Twitter: sharonburton Author of 8 Steps to Amazing Webinars, available on Amazon and bn.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Carol J. Elkins Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 3:26 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: how do people copy-protect their PDFs? Hi Alison, So far, the only response has been from someone who uses LiveCycle Designer for forms but has no experience with it for ecommerce. Like you, I use Acrobat security for PDFs to prevent changing the docs or copying the content to clipboard, but it cannot prevent copying the entire file. For instance, Company Z has in the past purchased 200 PDF versions of a book of regulatory standards. My client wants to prevent Company Z from simply making copies of the PDF instead of buying all 200 copies. Multiply that by thousands of ecommerce customers to understand the potential revenue that can be lost. My client also wants to begin selling individual standards in addition to books of standards, much like IEEE does with its Xplore Digital Library Subscription Service (http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/subscriptions/ieee_ standards_online_subscription_information.pdf). I have no clue where to begin to research how to accomplish the DRM for this, but I know it is not something in a Technical Writer's general tool kit. Several years ago I read about dongles, encryption, and password management systems, but from a user's perspective they are a burden. I want to find a resource/service that makes it easy to purchase and download a PDF and hard/impossible to copy the PDF. Minimally, I'd like to be able to tell my client how other companies do this; if it is impossible to protect the PDF, then at least he'll know he's in good company. If anyone knows of other solutions to accomplish this, I'd appreciate your insight. I'm treading way outside my skillset here but would like to be able to give my client some basic direction. I wanted to ask fellow Framers first; then I'll move on to the LiveCycle forum or whatever direction you folks point me in. Carol At 03:21 PM 5/6/2013, Alison Craig wrote: >I think that's an excellent question. Could you post answers on-list or >forward copies to me? > >Right now I just use standard Adobe Acrobat security for my Frame >generated PDFs (I need printable and digital manuals for the Medical >Device industry). But we all know how easy that is to crack. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as sha...@anthrobytes.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey
I like the part where you have to create an account, including password and give up info about your company. #Fail sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 www.sharonburton.com Twitter: sharonburton Author of 8 Steps to Amazing Webinars, available on Amazon and bn.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Christenson, Pat Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 10:46 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey Glad to see question about FrameMaker on Macintosh. But -- spelling errors in the survey? Misleading layout? Not impressed, Adobe. Pat ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as sha...@anthrobytes.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
The 2013 Consumer Opinion poll results are available
As you may know, I've run the Consumer Opinion poll about product instructions for the last 2 years. The updated results are available now in two versions on my website(http://bit.ly/15K8rAK): The free version <http://www.sharonburton.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ConsumerPollResults2 012-2013.pdf> shows you the data, compiled into tables and graphs. The free version doesn't include any discussion or analysis of the content. The free version also doesn't include the comments people made for nearly all questions. The <http://www.amazon.com/Consumer-Feelings-Instructions-2012-2013-ebook/dp/B00 E256AJ4/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1374528154&sr=1-1&keywords=sha ron+burton> paid version* is a reasonable $6.99 and includes discussion and analysis. It also contains all the comments from both this year and from last year. This lets you see a large group of comments about what people think about product instructions and products that they purchase. The comments alone should give you a place to start analyzing where and how you may be making your customers angry and upset. I'll probably do a webinar in the next 6 weeks talking about these results and what I think they mean for us tech comm professionals. * This ebook is available on all localized Amazon sites. In case you think I'm tracking your email when you go to my website or in some way am going to monitor you and then in some way make money, I'm not. For a complete discussion about how much money I actually lose running these polls, go to A Note About These Polls in this post: http://www.sharonburton.com/?p=1673 Hope this is helpful to you guys! sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 www.sharonburton.com Twitter: sharonburton Author of 8 Steps to Amazing Webinars, available on Amazon and bn.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: anchored text frames in sideheads
Try using a table and putting the text in the table. It's the only way I've ever found to make that all work. That may screw up publishing to the KB, tho. Sent from my iPhone 951-202-0813 I am available when online thru Skype at Sharon.v.burton. > On Aug 12, 2014, at 6:43 AM, John Sgammato wrote: > > I just posted a question about importing formats from a sidehead-enabled > template. > Here's a related question: > Assuming we can make the sidehead template work, we'd like to be able to put > some content over there, while keeping it in Text Flow A. That works fine for > a single paragraph - the following non-sidehead paragraph appears in the main > column just where we left off: > >1 text text text > sidehead text2 text text text >3 text text text > > But if the sidehead text includes multiple paragraphs, then the subsequent > main column paragraphs are pushed below the level of the last sidehead para: > > 1 text text text > sidehead text > sidehead text > sidehead text > sidehead text 2 text text text > 3 text text text > > The sort of content we would put in the sidebar is Before You Begin, This > Section Includes, etc. > > We need to keep it in Text Flow A because ultimately it all goes into a > knowledgebase with all the same content, but no sideheads. > > I tried anchoring a text frame to the main column text and positioned over > there, but I cannot put any content into it. I define it as a text frame, but > it always reverts to a graphic frame. > > Has anyone done this successfully? > -- > > John Sgammato, Documentation Architect > e john.sgamm...@actifio.com c 508.927.2083 > t @actifiodocs > 333 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451 > > > Radically simple copy data management > . > > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as sha...@anthrobytes.com. > > Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.com > > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: importing master pages, but not getting Room for Sideheads (FM12 unst)
Long standing bug. I recall this in frame 4. Sent from my iPhone 951-202-0813 I am available when online thru Skype at Sharon.v.burton. > On Aug 12, 2014, at 7:23 AM, Kurt Kroeber wrote: > > To elaborate John's point on the importing of formats from one file to > another, the problem seems to stems from the fact that when the template is > applied to another document almost all of the formats are applied except for > one -- the Room for Side Heads object property is disabled for the text frame > on the body page. However, all of the template format settings look fine on > the master pages. Even when I reapplied the master page this still did not > change the Room for Side Heads text object property on the body page. To > resolve this problem, I selected the Object Properties for the text frame on > the body page and enabled Room for Side Heads. This manual updating of the > text object property seemed to do the trick. > > I am not sure if this Room for Side Heads object property issue is with > FrameMaker; it should accept 100% of the object property settings from a > template file. > > Thanks, > > Kurt > > >> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 9:37 AM, John Sgammato >> wrote: >> Our Marketing group wants us to use new templates that have room for a >> sidebar. We won't actually use the sidebar for anything, and it's OK for >> titles, images, and tables to extend into the sidebar. We may put notes over >> there. >> We have been able to do this with the Room for Sideheads feature, and we're >> pretty happy with the look. But when we import formats from one file to >> another, all the formats come over as expected except for the sideheads >> setting. >> Is this a bug? A feature we don't understand? Has anyone dealt with this? >> How can we import that sidehead setting along with the rest of the settings? >> >> -- >> >> John Sgammato, Documentation Architect >> e john.sgamm...@actifio.com c 508.927.2083 >> t @actifiodocs >> 333 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451 >> >> >> Radically simple copy data management >> . >> >> >> ___ >> >> >> You are currently subscribed to framers as kurt.kroe...@actifio.com. >> >> Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. >> >> To unsubscribe send a blank email to >> framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com >> or visit >> http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/kurt.kroeber%40actifio.com >> >> Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit >> http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > > > > -- > Kurt Kroeber Principal Technical Writer > e kurt.kroe...@actifio.com c 617-803-9952 > t @actifiodocs > 333 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451 > > > Copy data virtualization. Free data from infrastructure, get more resiliency, > agility, and cloud. > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as sha...@anthrobytes.com. > > Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.com > > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: TOC Element that will not behave
Try seeing if the misbehaving style has an asterisk next to the name. If so, it may not actually exist in the paragraph catalog. Try adding it to the catalog. I've seen this in Index stuff before. sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 www.sharonburton.com Twitter: sharonburton Author of 8 Steps to Amazing Webinars, available on Amazon and bn.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 2:07 PM To: Thomas Scalise; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: TOC Element that will not behave Duplicate entries on the reference pages, or the entry is not tagged correctly? On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Thomas Scalise wrote: > The format (IndexTitleTOC) is applied to the Index.Title when it appears in the TOC. However, the Index.Title reverts to some earlier definition of the IndexTitleTOC format. No matter what I do, it always returns to a format different from the rest of the same-level items in the TOC. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as sha...@anthrobytes.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
TOC & IX files don't exist?
If you are using Frame 7, you can open the book and then rename the TOC and IX files to be the same name as the book right in Frame. So BobTOX would be DougTOC. I do this all the time and it works fine. General steps when I rename a book: Open book in Frame. File/Save as new name. Still in Frame, right+click TOC file. Rename to newbooknameTOC. DO the same for the IX. Gen/update. Life is good. sharon Sharon Burton CEO, Anthrobytes Consulting 951-369-8590 www.anthrobytes.com Immediate Past President of IESTC
FrameMaker 7.2 keeps crashing on undo
I'm seeing this exact error in Frame 7.1 and, believe it or not, Acrobat 7.x - both with the latest downloads. Same or almost identical error message in both products. I am losing my mind on this. It's seemingly random in that the same activities make it happen but those activities don't always make it happen. Any idea anyone has would be super. I lose work every day with this one. All the members in my group are seeing this. sharon Sharon Burton CEO, Anthrobytes Consulting 951-369-8590 www.anthrobytes.com Immediate Past President of IESTC -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+sharon=anthrobytes@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+sharon=anthrobytes.com at lists.frameusers.com]On Behalf Of Karen West Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 8:03 AM To: framers at frameusers.com Subject: FrameMaker 7.2 keeps crashing on undo I've just upgraded from 7.0 to 7.2 and every time I do an undo Frame (unstructured) crashes. So much for fixing the find/replace crash in 7.0, this one is worse and is driving me mad. I'm using 7.2b144 and I've now stopped using undo (so single undo in 7.0 was better) but I still forget occasionally and then FrameMaker fails with an Internal error 7204 and an Application error: "The instruction at ... referenced memory at x. The memory could not be "read". Click on OK to terminate the program. Is this happening to anyone else, does Adobe know about it? TIA Karen West Technical Writer Cyberscience Corp (UK) http://cyberscience.com
More...Error message: can't rename file. The newer version has anodd suffix
Do you have write access on the network drive? Sounds like you don't... sharon Sharon Burton CEO, Anthrobytes Consulting 951-369-8590 www.anthrobytes.com Immediate Past President of IESTC -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+sharon=anthrobytes@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+sharon=anthrobytes.com at lists.frameusers.com]On Behalf Of The red fox Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 3:12 PM To: Framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: More...Error message: can't rename file. The newer version has anodd suffix More info on this issue. After much frustration, I tried a few things and have learned that this issue only happens when I am accessing the files from our network server. I tested this by creating a new test book on the server and adding a few chapters to it. Same problem. I then copied the test book directory to my local hard drive and had no problem. I was immediately able to save each chapter. At this point, bottom line is I cannot save any files when i am accessing them from the network server. I continuously get the below error message. Also I tried using both FM 6.0 and 7.2. I have the same problem with both, so it's not an FM version issue. I have not worked on these files in about 6 months, but the path to them has not changed as they have many text insets. I cannot imagine what would have changed on our network to cause this. Anyone have any idea? My concern is moving the files because of the high number of text insets with x-ref's!
MORE SPAM TO LIST MEMBERS
Not to make you crazy, but there are bots who just try combinations of letters and numbers and send out thousands of spams. Then they track the ones that don't get a bounce to verify valid addresses. Your address is an easy one to generate this way. My fiance had an earthlink account just for backup - he never used it. 30 days after opening the account, he was getting about 100 spams a day. We closed it. sharon Sharon Burton CEO, Anthrobytes Consulting 951-369-8590 www.anthrobytes.com Immediate Past President of IESTC -Original Message- Subject: Re: MORE SPAM TO LIST MEMBERS I don't mean to beat this to death, but I submitted my unsubscribe command and am just now getting time to accept the confirmation (which I will do after sending this message). But just a couple quick things. On January 1st, I changed email addresses, and I have been very careful about where I've posted that address. I have now gotten exactly >>two<< spam messages so far this year, and both are from this Indian Framemaker spammer. I responded each time and told him to unsubscribe me, but he continues to spam me, and many others on this list (who responded to me). If he is this unethical, he'll probably sell the addresses. I just started using Framemaker this year, and I have subscribed to exactly two online resources: this list, and Adobe's online forum. Adobe's forum hides email addresses, this list does not (nor should it). The most likely way this guy got my email, then, is from this list. I'm disappointed that the leadership of this list won't take action against this guy, so I'm sorry to go. Thanks to all for the excellent advice everyone gave me here, and sorry to have caused problems for anyone. John Huntington
I'm looking for a senior writer in So Cal
I'm looking for a strong senior writer in So Cal. Strong Frame, strong WWP and strong writing are what I need to add to my developing tech pubs group. No relocation is available. You can contact me at sharon.burton at wonderware.com. POSITION TITLE: SENIOR TECHNICAL WRITER LOCATION: LAKE FOREST, CA Send your resume to employment at wonderware.com Want to be part of a technical writing group that produces world class documentation? Want to work in a company that values product documents? Want to work in an environment where your ideas about how it should be done can be done? If you are really good at what you do, then WonderwareR is looking for you. SUMMARY: . Plan, design, develop, and maintain high-quality product documentation deliverables for multiple software projects. . Develop product documentation that conforms to company and industry standards, and proactively contribute to improving processes and standards. . Communicate with various functional groups to identify, schedule, and deliver technical documentation and other project-related deliverables. . Support other technical writers. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: . Deliver product documentation (75%) . Support localization of the documentation (10%) . Participate in the improvement of departmental processes, standards, and tools (5%) . Improve product knowledge through formal training and self-directed learning (10%) REQUIRED SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE: . Adobe FrameMaker . Adobe Acrobat . WebWorks Publisher Professional - any recent version but ePublisher and/or Automap especially good . Logical thinking with good organizational skills . Working knowledge of technical writing best practices for producing task-oriented documentation. . Successful experience working in a structured documentation team. EXPERIENCE: . 3 or more years of technical writing experience in shrink-wrap software development. . Experience in establishing departmental processes and standards. . Experience in single sourcing to Microsoft HTML Help and web-based Help. . Experience creating documentation from initial concept to finished product. . Experience creating software product document sets Relocation not available
RE: Thought for the day
Sign on door at local medical clinic: This is not a patient door. sharon Sharon Burton Content Consultant www.anthrobytes.com 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Twitter: sharonburton http://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonvburton ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Imported Word docs - table heading row of long tables is not repeated for further pages of the table
I've used Rick's Table Cleaner and it's worth much more than $60. With a few clicks, you can clean every table in a Frame file that you've imported from Word. The tool paid for itself in the first hour I used it. I was importing 100+ long Word files into Frame for a conversion project for a client. I imported, ran Table Cleaner on each file and all the tables were fixed. It took about 3 minutes. To fix them manually (at that time in that version of Frame) involved destroying each table and rebuilding it manually. Since there were tables about every 3 pages... Yes, the tool is wonderful and worth every penny. If you are selling your utilities for less, perhaps they are not as powerful or as immediately timesaving. Or perhaps you could charge more and didn't think of it. But Table Cleaner is worth every cent. sharon Sharon Burton Content Consultant www.anthrobytes.com 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Twitter: sharonburton Blog:anthrobytes.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonvburton -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Avraham Makeler Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 10:29 PM To: Baruch Brodersen Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Imported Word docs - table heading row of long tables is not repeated for further pages of the table >> Rick Quattro's Table Cleaner plugin Thought I would sleep on this before responding... well here goes... $60 for just o-n-e utility...? $60 is the price of many complete applications -- ok not an MS app or an Adobe app, but an app. I have written a number of complete Word VBA programs and until now it never occured to me to ask more than about $20. Oh well ... Supply & Demand... if it sells... it sells... avraham On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Baruch Brodersen wrote: > Hi Avi, > Rick Quattro's Table Cleaner plugin makes short work of this. Simply select > the row or rows you want to repeat, and choose Table > Convert Select Rows > > Body to heading Rows. > Short of that, you might try a) applying a table format to the imported > table, and b) add a header row (Table > Add Rows or Columns > Add a Header a > Header Row), c) copy and paste the original cells into that, then delete the > original row. > > -- > B a r u c h B r o d e r s e n > T e c h n i t e x t D o c u m e n t a t i o n > 8 7 7 7 2 1 6 9 8 8 > > >> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Avraham Makeler >> wrote: >> >> > Hi all, >> > >> > RE: Imported Word docs - table heading row of long tables is not >> > repeated for further pages of the table >> > >> > Using: FM 7.2. >> > Importing from: Word 2003 >> > > >> >> >> >> -- Regards, avraham ~ 054-3084886 "Mercy on all, coz everyone's fighting some sort of battle" ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as sha...@anthrobytes.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: type vs enter
Will your audience be able to make that leap? This one is all about audience. If they are fairly sophisticated, then enter. If not, then type. sharon Sharon Burton Content Consultant www.anthrobytes.com 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Twitter: sharonburton Blog:anthrobytes.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonvburton -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Clara Hall Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 12:21 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: type vs enter Hello all, I need/would like to give the argument that it is better to say "Enter the information in the text field" vs. "type the information in the text field". this is for an online training course. As far as I am concerned, type is archaic and no longer used when talking about online interactive lessons. Having said that, what do you think? and is there a valid stance I can take to make my point, or is this all personal preference. Clara Hall Technical Documentation Manager Aerospace Technologies Group, Inc. (561) 244-7372 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: RANT: FM 9.0 -
And speaking as a 40-mumbley-aged person, the contrast of the black text on the grey interface sucks, even with my reading glasses. I hate playing with all the pods that fly about. I don't like the focus changing unexpectedly, I just dislike having to pay so much attention to my interface, as it takes away from authoring effort and breaks my concentration. In general, I really dislike the new interface. It doesn't look like a Windows app and it's hard to use. sharon Sharon Burton Content Consultant www.anthrobytes.com 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Twitter: sharonburton Blog:anthrobytes.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonvburton Darren Butler wrote: > Why Adobe would want to emulate Microsoft is beyond me. What's next, a > dancing paper clip? > > We actually purchased 9.0 then down-graded (yes, you can do that) to > FM8. High volume shop, NO time for an (un)learning curve. > > Are there any menu-to-ribbon road maps that one might recommend? > Eventually, a CMS upgrade will force us to go the FM9. [snip] Their intent was to emulate other *Adobe* apps with floating toolbars and dockable dialogs. Over the years, Adobe had made only small changes to the original circa 1990 user interface that they bought from Frame Technologies in 1995, and many people had complained that the UI didn't look sufficiently Adobe-like. The fact that FrameMaker 9.0 has a UI that looks and acts similarly to Adobe's flagship apps should be a great benefit to the minuscule handful of new users who come to FrameMaker from tools like Photoshop or Illustrator or InDesign, but its value to experienced FrameMaker users is (at best) debatable. -Fred Ridder ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as sha...@anthrobytes.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Want to learn more about Author-it?
Vendor post We're doing live webinars at Author-it. If you can't attend live, these should be recorded for future viewing. To see what we have planned, go to http://www.author-it.com/index.php?page=online_events Coming up: 12-Oct-10 7am Pacific Author-it for Single-sourcing to PDF and Online Help In this hour long event, learn more about the power of Author-it for single-sourcing to PDF and online help. We cover Author-it terms and concepts, importing legacy content, creating new content, creating multiple deliverables from one set of source files, and publishing. Additionally, we'll talk about content reuse and managing content across different products and versions. Ask questions from the presenter to understand how these tasks might be used in your company. At the end of the hour, you'll see how Author-it can help you be more productive in your single-source workflow. https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/236951128 sharon Sharon Burton Product Evangelist, Author-it 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Twitter: sharonburton Blog: www.author-it.com/blog ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Content trends survey
***Vendor post*** Author-it wolld like know what your content trends and needs are for the next 2 years or so. Towards that end, we've created a survey. You can take the 10 question survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QSN8M2G. We're not reporting IP addresses, although you can only take the survey 1 time from each IP address. Personal information about you is not required to participate in the survey. We're also giving a prize if you'd like to identify yourself. After the survey closes, one winner will be selected to win EITHER a free license for Author-it OR one free training session in the next six months. It's the winner's choice. To participate in the prize drawing, you must provide your contact information at the end of the survey. Please feel free to share the link and tell your friends. The survey closes at the end of December, just before midnight US time, I believe. sharon Sharon Burton Product Evangelist, Author-it 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Twitter: sharonburton Blog: www.author-it.com/blog <http://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonvburton> http://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonvburton ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
