another questions on XML import

2006-04-11 Thread Wim Hooghwinkel \(Scriptware\)
If the error message: Message: Entity 'lang' was not found appears, and the entity has been defined in the rules file, what can be wrong? Do I need an extra pointer in the DTD for these entitys? I defined the entity (entity lang; is fm char [;) before the #include isoall.rw statement.

Adobe FrameMaker 7.2p158 update: Polnisch, Tschechisch, Slowakisch!!

2006-04-11 Thread Reng, Winfried
Hi, Just for info: There is a new FrameMaker update. http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3332 -- Adobe FrameMaker 7.2p158 update for Windows - English, French, German, and Japanese This download updates the English, French, German, and Japanese language versions of

Re: printing framemaker documents

2006-04-11 Thread frame user
Hi all, Thanks for the solutions! Printing via a book works! On 4/10/06, frame user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is there a way to print a whole batch of framemaker files at once to pdf? So I want to automate what is usually done manually: 1) open the framemaker document 2) choose

RE: Adobe FrameMaker 7.2p158 update: Polnisch, Tschechisch, Slowa kisch!!

2006-04-11 Thread Gagne, Bernard (Bolton)
Does anyone here know what Adobe means by Code point correction? We localize our manuals into several Eastern European languages (Czech, Polish, Lithuanian, Hungarian), as well as Russian and Greek. Does this mean that previously problematic character mappings have been fixed? Berny Gagné Sr.

Re: Adobe FrameMaker 7.2p158 update: Polnisch, Tschechisch, Slowakisch!!

2006-04-11 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
On 11.04.2006 08:40, Gagne, Bernard (Bolton) schrieb/wrote: Does anyone here know what Adobe means by Code point correction? We localize our manuals into several Eastern European languages (Czech, Polish, Lithuanian, Hungarian), as well as Russian and Greek. Does this mean that previously

Re: another questions on XML import

2006-04-11 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 01:20 AM 4/11/2006, Wim Hooghwinkel \(Scriptware\) wrote: If the error message: Message: Entity 'lang' was not found appears, and the entity has been defined in the rules file, what can be wrong? Do I need an extra pointer in the DTD for these entitys? I defined the entity (entity lang;

RE: Move from Ventura to FrameMaker wise?

2006-04-11 Thread John Wilcox
From: Anonymous Poster [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a prospective client who is considering moving from Ventura to FrameMaker. Their documentation contains text and tables, is broken up by chapters, and does not have any graphics. Before proceding with the project, she would like to know if

Content Management

2006-04-11 Thread Jim Light
Here's my problem: Our company is not ready to invest in any sort of content management system. We are a small startup and we don't have the budget of larger, older companies. Yet we have a lot of text insets and graphics and stuff that are begging for a way to catalog and manage. Is there

Bleeding Thumb Tabs

2006-04-11 Thread donandjudy1
Hi, folks: Has anyone among you used Brad Anderson's Bleeding Thumb Tabs white paper? I've been struggling with it for days and need some help. To begin with, I have no idea what a placeholder or anchor frame tag is. Just a body text tag with a different name? I've tried to do my homework on

Expandable text in Web Help files

2006-04-11 Thread Frank Harper
Using FM 7.1 on a networked Windows platform. Current documentation is in unstructured FM and Web Help created with RoboHelp. The new product is being written from the ground up along with the new Help files (also in RoboHelp). We want to use the information in the Help files in our training

online help

2006-04-11 Thread Donna Bodner
Hello. I work in Framemaker version 7.1, soon to upgrade to 7.2. I am toying with the idea of creating online help for some applications that are currently documented in Framemaker as unstructured files. This documentation is complex, and on average the Frame files vary anywhere from 50 to

RE: online help

2006-04-11 Thread Gillian Flato
I use WebWorks Publisher Pro. Then I have to run my WebWorks file through Microsoft Help to compile it. WWp works with the Frame code, it single sources it, so no additional people needed, just an extra day to convert it to help. Gillian Flato -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: online help

2006-04-11 Thread Art Campbell
Look at MIF2Go, from omsys. In addition to supporting multiple help formats, it also provides a nice .rtf filter and other bells whistles. I've found it easier to work with and less buggy than webworks, but it isn't for everyone. Also... if you were just thinking of converting the files to an

Re: online help

2006-04-11 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Donna: The mechanics, as Gillian noted, once you develop a reliable process stream, don't add much effort to creating the output. However, if your requirements for content that's appropriate for help differ from content that's appropriate for your other delivery formats, you'll need to

RE: Bleeding Thumb Tabs

2006-04-11 Thread Melanie Raney
Has anyone among you used Brad Anderson's Bleeding Thumb Tabs white paper? Please post a link to the paper, if available. -- melanie raney ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Move from Ventura to FrameMaker wise?

2006-04-11 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
On 4/11/06, John Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ventura Publisher was a feature-rich product long before FM was bought from Frame by Adobe, but after several years on nondevelopment by Xerox (after purchasing VP from Ventura Software), the market share was easily taken over by FM. Corel

RE: Content Management

2006-04-11 Thread Joe Malin
Hoo-boy! I am using Plone (www.plone.org). Free, and lots of users, but not easy to learn. There are other free ones out there. Most of them are very general-purpose; they organize *anything*. Plone, for example, is just a framework for storing and indexing content. It has its own database and

maker.ini entries for Line End Options dialogue

2006-04-11 Thread hedley . finger
All: Does anybody know if there are any maker.ini entries that will set the defaults of the Line End Options dialogue? This dialogue is accessed by clicking the Set Line End Style button on the tools palette. I want the default Cap Style to be Butt. And is it possible to set your own custom

FM/PDF evening presentations in Boston MA (April 27, May 1, May 4)

2006-04-11 Thread Shlomo Perets
I will be holding three evening presentations in Boston. There is no charge for attending, but space is limited. Please contact me if you would like to reserve a place. -- Better PDFs with FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers Thursday, April 27 (6pm-7:30pm) Demonstration/discussion of different

another questions on XML import

2006-04-11 Thread Wim Hooghwinkel (Scriptware)
If the error message: " Message: Entity 'lang' was not found " appears, and the entity has been defined in the rules file, what can be wrong? Do I need an extra pointer in the DTD for these entitys? I defined the entity (entity "" is fm char "[";) before the #include "isoall.rw" statement.

printing framemaker documents

2006-04-11 Thread frame user
Hi all, Thanks for the solutions! Printing via a book works! On 4/10/06, frame user wrote: > > Hi all, > > Is there a way to print a whole batch of framemaker files at once to pdf? > > So I want to automate what is usually done manually: > 1) open the framemaker document > 2) choose print > 3)

Adobe FrameMaker 7.2p158 update: Polnisch, Tschechisch, Slowa kisch!!

2006-04-11 Thread Gagne, Bernard (Bolton)
Does anyone here know what Adobe means by "Code point correction"? We localize our manuals into several Eastern European languages (Czech, Polish, Lithuanian, Hungarian), as well as Russian and Greek. Does this mean that previously problematic character mappings have been fixed? Berny Gagn? Sr.

Move from Ventura to FrameMaker wise?

2006-04-11 Thread John Wilcox
> From: "Anonymous Poster" > I have a prospective client who is considering moving from Ventura to > FrameMaker. Their documentation contains text and tables, is broken up > by chapters, and does not have any graphics. Before proceding with the > project, she would like to know if there are

Bleeding Thumb Tabs

2006-04-11 Thread donandjudy1
Hi, folks: Has anyone among you used Brad Anderson's "Bleeding Thumb Tabs" white paper? I've been struggling with it for days and need some help. To begin with, I have no idea what a "placeholder" or "anchor frame" tag is. Just a body text tag with a different name? I've tried to do my homework

Expandable text in Web Help files

2006-04-11 Thread Frank Harper
Using FM 7.1 on a networked Windows platform. Current documentation is in unstructured FM and Web Help created with RoboHelp. The new product is being written from the ground up along with the new Help files (also in RoboHelp). We want to use the information in the Help files in our training

online help

2006-04-11 Thread Gillian Flato
I use WebWorks Publisher Pro. Then I have to run my WebWorks file through Microsoft Help to compile it. WWp works with the Frame code, it single sources it, so no additional people needed, just an extra day to convert it to help. Gillian Flato -Original Message- From:

online help

2006-04-11 Thread Art Campbell
Look at MIF2Go, from omsys. In addition to supporting multiple help formats, it also provides a nice .rtf filter and other bells & whistles. I've found it easier to work with and less buggy than webworks, but it isn't for everyone. Also... if you were just thinking of converting the files to an

online help

2006-04-11 Thread Martha J Davidson
I also use WebWorks. Creating online help from FrameMaker source is a bit more complex than just running the source files through a WebWorks template. It involves some amount of planning and organizing your source files, choosing a help format you want to produce, and creating a WebWorks

online help

2006-04-11 Thread Spreadbury, David
I use Mif2Go to create JavaHelp directly from the Frame source files. No additional software required. No additional employee resources required. Very short learning curve, to get your configuration file the way you want it. After that, it is a piece of cake. -Original Message- From:

online help

2006-04-11 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Donna: The mechanics, as Gillian noted, once you develop a reliable process stream, don't add much effort to creating the output. However, if your requirements for content that's appropriate for help differ from content that's appropriate for your other delivery formats, you'll need to

Bleeding Thumb Tabs

2006-04-11 Thread Melanie Raney
> Has anyone among you used Brad Anderson's "Bleeding Thumb > Tabs" white paper? Please post a link to the paper, if available. -- melanie raney

Move from Ventura to FrameMaker wise?

2006-04-11 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
On 4/11/06, John Wilcox wrote: > Ventura Publisher was a feature-rich product long before FM was bought from > Frame by Adobe, but after several years on nondevelopment by Xerox (after > purchasing VP from Ventura Software), the market share was easily taken over > by FM. Corel bought VP and

Content Management

2006-04-11 Thread Joe Malin
Hoo-boy! I am using Plone (www.plone.org). Free, and lots of users, but not easy to learn. There are other free ones out there. Most of them are very general-purpose; they organize *anything*. Plone, for example, is just a framework for storing and indexing content. It has its own database and