FrameViewer

2006-08-17 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Is FrameViewer for Windows still available? I can't find anything on Adobe's site except for a patch for it. If yes, how much does it cost? -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list

RE: FrameViewer

2006-08-17 Thread Dov Isaacs
The concept of FrameViewer was effectively replaced by Acrobat. FrameViewer has not been available for many years! - Dov -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Wolfson Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 5:23 AM To: Framers

FW: FrameMaker mit Online-Hilfe in Hebräisch /Arabisch

2006-08-17 Thread Reng, Winfried Dr.
Hi, probably in the next year we have to translate a FrameMaker book into Hebrew and Arabic and also convert the translation into an HTML Help. As FM cannot handle right-to-left languages I plan this: o Convert the FM book to Word with Mif2Go. o Get the Word file(s) translated. o Convert the

RE: can ENTITY ImportedGraphic - be omitted?

2006-08-17 Thread Wim Hooghwinkel \(Scriptware\)
Hello Lynn, thanks you for your quick response. Your suggestion to use 'the function unparsed-entity-uri' works, thanks! I can not get the corrcet syntax for FM to export only as file, not as entity. It keeps on exporting it as an entity, even when I delete the entity reference page and use the

RE: can ENTITY ImportedGraphic - be omitted?

2006-08-17 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 08:28 AM 8/17/2006, Wim Hooghwinkel \(Scriptware\) wrote: I can not get the corrcet syntax for FM to export only as file, not as entity. It keeps on exporting it as an entity, even when I delete the entity reference page and use the 'attribute entity is fm attribute' rule (FM won't import

Changing FM7.2 default parameters

2006-08-17 Thread Mark Forseth
Anyone know the name of the file, and in which Windows directory, the default-parameters file for FM7.2 lives? I'd like to change a few defaults, if editing a text file allows it. I've searched the Web, the frameusers site, and the FM7.2 online help, to no avail. Mark Forseth Imago Scientific

Re: Changing FM7.2 default parameters

2006-08-17 Thread John Posada
C:\Program Files\Adobe\FrameMaker7.2\maker.ini --- Mark Forseth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know the name of the file, and in which Windows directory, the default-parameters file for FM7.2 lives? I'd like to change a few defaults, if editing a text file allows it. I've searched the Web,

RE: Changing FM7.2 default parameters

2006-08-17 Thread Spreadbury, David
We haven't upgraded to 7.2 yet, but in 7.0 there is another maker.ini file in: \Documents and Settings\your username\Application Data\Adobe\FrameMaker\7.0 This is the ini file that is read when you launch FrameMaker. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Changing FM7.2 default parameters

2006-08-17 Thread John Posada
That one appears to be where FM stores the last-used settings and it changes everytime you either launch or save an FM session. --- Spreadbury, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We haven't upgraded to 7.2 yet, but in 7.0 there is another maker.ini file in: \Documents and Settings\your

RE: Changing FM7.2 default parameters

2006-08-17 Thread Ridder, Fred
You can also use the second maker.ini to set up user-specific preferences that will not apply to other users of the system (or other login identities you have set up for yourself). For example, you can have different UI customizations or a different set of API clients set up in a particular

RE: Changing FM7.2 default parameters

2006-08-17 Thread Spreadbury, David
John, The greatest advantage I have found in this 'other' maker.ini is the ability to have two maker.ini profiles. At work I run dual monitors off a laptop. When I use the laptop by itself, I run a batch file that swaps two maker.ini files (maker_laptop.ini and maker_desktop.ini). I have two sets

Framemaker vs. Flare

2006-08-17 Thread AJ Coots
Hello, Has anyone compared the functionality of Adobe Framemaker 7.2 with Madcap Software's (formerly Robohelp) Flare? I am trying to decide which one to go with for the documentation for my company. Framemaker seems to be the industry standard, but is Flare just as good? Any thoughts?

RE: Changing FM7.2 default parameters

2006-08-17 Thread John Posada
David...What do you do, when you want to launch the specific configuration, launch the appropriate batch file which does the INI swap then calls the EXE to start FM? Or do you do it in two steps; run the right batch file, then launch FM. --- Spreadbury, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John,

Re: Paragraph tag with Frame below

2006-08-17 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 01:46 PM 3/22/2006, T.W. Smith wrote: Use master page mappings. Create a new left master page. Call it LeftAllTheTime or something. Set it up so that it is always used by pages that contain text, such as map it to headings, body text, graphics anchors, etc. Redefine the Left master page to

Re: Framemaker vs. Flare

2006-08-17 Thread John Posada
Has anyone compared the functionality of Adobe Framemaker 7.2 with Madcap Software's (formerly Robohelp) Flare? I am trying to decide which one to go with for the documentation for my company. Framemaker seems to be the industry standard, but is Flare just as good? Any thoughts?

Re: Framemaker vs. Flare

2006-08-17 Thread Art Campbell
And in addition to John's accurate comments, do you want to bet your job and company on the first release of a new product (Blaze)? Or are you just talking about online help delivery with Flare? Art On 8/17/06, John Posada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone compared the functionality of

Bookmarks in PDF without numbers

2006-08-17 Thread Stephen O'Brien
Hi, I create my PDF docs from FM 6 by printing to a PS printer and distill using Acrobat Distiller (on Windows XP). I would like to lighten the bookmarks in my PDF docs by removing the numbering...but keep the numbering in the text as my x-refs say See Section 2.2.2... Any hints as to how

Re: Framemaker vs. Flare

2006-08-17 Thread Sean Pollock
With Adobe having purchased Macromedia some time ago and announcing continued support for RoboHelp (see [1]http://www.winwriters.com/articles/rh2/index.html), which earlier Macromedia had purportedly wanted to drop, it will be interesting to see what will come out. My guess is Adobe

RE: Framemaker vs. Flare

2006-08-17 Thread AJ Coots
Hmmm, I am making process sheets for circuit board assembly. I need a standard format, as all the engineers have to this point been making their own documentation and now I'm here to standardize it all. We are in print right now (MS Word) but I want to be able to expand to go online with the

Framemaker vs. Flare

2006-08-17 Thread AJ Coots
Let me re-phrase the question: Has anyone here used Madcap Flare? A.J. Coots Documentation Specialist 16640 SW 72nd Ave. Portland, Oregon 97224-7756 Direct: 503 597 0765 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ You are currently subscribed to

RE: Framemaker vs. Flare

2006-08-17 Thread AJ Coots
Hardly a conviction...simply what the sales staff told me. I'm an babe-in-the-woods about all this. Just hoping for some guidance from the more experienced of you out there in cyber space. It looks like Flare is not very well known, even by it's own sales staff! A.J. Coots Documentation

Re: Framemaker vs. Flare

2006-08-17 Thread Art Campbell
;- ) I think we all have been mislead by sales guys occasionally. If you're making initial startup decisions for your company or department though, you increase your risk substantially if you go exclusively with any new product or technology. Nobody ever got fired for recommending Microsoft,

RE: Framemaker vs. Flare

2006-08-17 Thread Robert Shelton
Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of AJ Coots Let me re-phrase the question: Has anyone here used Madcap Flare? If you're looking for feedback from people who use Flare, you might want to ask this question on the HATT (Help Authoring

Color definition problems

2006-08-17 Thread Gillian Flato
Gurus, When I create a graphic in Adobe Illustrator and I enter the CMYK color definition of 100,0,76,15, it displays as dark green. When I enter those same CMYK settings in the Color definition area of Frame, it comes up as a Kelly green. They aren't even close. What is the problem? Why are

Re: FW: FrameMaker mit Online-Hilfe in Hebräi sch/Arabisch

2006-08-17 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:15:22 +0200, Reng, Winfried Dr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: probably in the next year we have to translate a FrameMaker book into Hebrew and Arabic and also convert the translation into an HTML Help. As FM cannot handle right-to-left languages I plan this: o Convert the FM

FrameViewer

2006-08-17 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Is FrameViewer for Windows still available? I can't find anything on Adobe's site except for a patch for it. If yes, how much does it cost? -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson

can ENTITY ImportedGraphic - be omitted?

2006-08-17 Thread Wim Hooghwinkel (Scriptware)
Hello, when FM saves an XML file, it writes the graphics as entitys in the header of the XML. Can this be changed - to keep the graphic references in the XML body? Problem is, that we want to use some XSLT to preprocess or postprocess the XML files and it seems to be impossible to keep the

FrameViewer

2006-08-17 Thread Dov Isaacs
The concept of FrameViewer was effectively replaced by Acrobat. FrameViewer has not been available for many years! - Dov > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces+isaacs=adobe.com at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces+isaacs=adobe.com at lists.frameusers.com] >

FW: FrameMaker mit Online-Hilfe in Hebräisch/Arabisch

2006-08-17 Thread Reng, Winfried Dr.
Hi, probably in the next year we have to translate a FrameMaker book into Hebrew and Arabic and also convert the translation into an HTML Help. As FM cannot handle right-to-left languages I plan this: o Convert the FM book to Word with Mif2Go. o Get the Word file(s) translated. o Convert the

can ENTITY ImportedGraphic - be omitted?

2006-08-17 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 05:45 AM 8/17/2006, Wim Hooghwinkel \(Scriptware\) wrote: >when FM saves an XML file, it writes the graphics as entitys in the >header of the XML. > >Can this be changed - to keep the graphic references in the XML body? > >Problem is, that we want to use some XSLT to preprocess or postprocess

can ENTITY ImportedGraphic - be omitted?

2006-08-17 Thread Wim Hooghwinkel (Scriptware)
Hello Lynn, thanks you for your quick response. Your suggestion to use 'the function unparsed-entity-uri' works, thanks! I can not get the corrcet syntax for FM to export only as file, not as entity. It keeps on exporting it as an entity, even when I delete the entity reference page and use the

can ENTITY ImportedGraphic - be omitted?

2006-08-17 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 08:28 AM 8/17/2006, Wim Hooghwinkel \(Scriptware\) wrote: >I can not get the corrcet syntax for FM to export only as file, not as >entity. It keeps on exporting it as an entity, even when I delete the >entity reference page and use the 'attribute "entity" is fm attribute' >rule (FM won't import

Changing FM7.2 default parameters

2006-08-17 Thread Mark Forseth
Anyone know the name of the file, and in which Windows directory, the default-parameters file for FM7.2 lives? I'd like to change a few defaults, if editing a text file allows it. I've searched the Web, the frameusers site, and the FM7.2 online help, to no avail. Mark Forseth Imago Scientific

Changing FM7.2 default parameters

2006-08-17 Thread John Posada
C:\Program Files\Adobe\FrameMaker7.2\maker.ini --- Mark Forseth wrote: > Anyone know the name of the file, and in which Windows directory, > the > default-parameters file for FM7.2 lives? I'd like to change a few > defaults, if editing a text file allows it. I've searched the Web, > the >

Changing FM7.2 default parameters

2006-08-17 Thread Stuart Rogers
Mark Forseth wrote: > Anyone know the name of the file, and in which Windows directory, the > default-parameters file for FM7.2 lives? I'd like to change a few > defaults, if editing a text file allows it. I've searched the Web, the > frameusers site, and the FM7.2 online help, to no avail. See

Changing FM7.2 default parameters

2006-08-17 Thread Spreadbury, David
We haven't upgraded to 7.2 yet, but in 7.0 there is another maker.ini file in: \Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Adobe\FrameMaker\7.0 This is the ini file that is read when you launch FrameMaker. -Original Message- From:

Changing FM7.2 default parameters

2006-08-17 Thread John Posada
That one appears to be where FM stores the "last-used" settings and it changes everytime you either launch or save an FM session. --- "Spreadbury, David" wrote: > We haven't upgraded to 7.2 yet, but in 7.0 there is another > maker.ini > file in: > > \Documents and Settings\\Application >

Changing FM7.2 default parameters

2006-08-17 Thread Ridder, Fred
You can also use the second maker.ini to set up user-specific preferences that will not apply to other users of the system (or other login identities you have set up for yourself). For example, you can have different UI customizations or a different set of API clients set up in a particular

Changing FM7.2 default parameters

2006-08-17 Thread Spreadbury, David
John, The greatest advantage I have found in this 'other' maker.ini is the ability to have two maker.ini profiles. At work I run dual monitors off a laptop. When I use the laptop by itself, I run a batch file that swaps two maker.ini files (maker_laptop.ini and maker_desktop.ini). I have two sets

Framemaker vs. Flare

2006-08-17 Thread AJ Coots
Hello, Has anyone compared the functionality of Adobe Framemaker 7.2 with Madcap Software's (formerly Robohelp) Flare? I am trying to decide which one to go with for the documentation for my company. Framemaker seems to be the industry standard, but is Flare just as good? Any thoughts?

Changing FM7.2 default parameters

2006-08-17 Thread John Posada
David...What do you do, when you want to launch the specific configuration, launch the appropriate batch file which does the INI swap then calls the EXE to start FM? Or do you do it in two steps; run the right batch file, then launch FM. --- "Spreadbury, David" wrote: > John, > The greatest

Paragraph tag with Frame below

2006-08-17 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 01:46 PM 3/22/2006, T.W. Smith wrote: >Use master page mappings. > >Create a new left master page. Call it "LeftAllTheTime" or something. Set it >up so that it is always used by pages that contain text, such as map it to >headings, body text, graphics anchors, etc. > >Redefine the Left master

Framemaker vs. Flare

2006-08-17 Thread John Posada
> Has anyone compared the functionality of Adobe Framemaker 7.2 with > Madcap Software's (formerly Robohelp) Flare? > > I am trying to decide which one to go with for the > documentation for my company. Framemaker seems to be the > industry standard, but is Flare just as good? Any thoughts?

Framemaker vs. Flare

2006-08-17 Thread Art Campbell
And in addition to John's accurate comments, do you want to bet your job and company on the first release of a new product (Blaze)? Or are you just talking about online help delivery with Flare? Art On 8/17/06, John Posada wrote: > > Has anyone compared the functionality of Adobe Framemaker

Bookmarks in PDF without numbers

2006-08-17 Thread Stephen O'Brien
Hi, I create my PDF docs from FM 6 by printing to a PS printer and distill using Acrobat Distiller (on Windows XP). I would like to lighten the bookmarks in my PDF docs by removing the numbering...but keep the numbering in the text as my x-refs say See Section 2.2.2... Any hints as to how to

Framemaker vs. Flare

2006-08-17 Thread Sean Pollock
With Adobe having purchased Macromedia some time ago and announcing continued support for RoboHelp (see [1]http://www.winwriters.com/articles/rh2/index.html), which earlier Macromedia had purportedly wanted to drop, it will be interesting to see what will come out. My guess is

Framemaker vs. Flare

2006-08-17 Thread AJ Coots
Hmmm, I am making process sheets for circuit board assembly. I need a standard format, as all the engineers have to this point been making their own documentation and now I'm here to standardize it all. We are in print right now (MS Word) but I want to be able to expand to go online with the

Framemaker vs. Flare

2006-08-17 Thread AJ Coots
Let me re-phrase the question: Has anyone here used Madcap Flare? A.J. Coots Documentation Specialist 16640 SW 72nd Ave. Portland, Oregon 97224-7756 Direct: 503 597 0765 Email: aj.coots at veris.com

Framemaker vs. Flare

2006-08-17 Thread AJ Coots
Hardly a conviction...simply what the sales staff told me. I'm an babe-in-the-woods about all this. Just hoping for some guidance from the more experienced of you out there in cyber space. It looks like Flare is not very well known, even by it's own sales staff! A.J. Coots Documentation

Framemaker vs. Flare

2006-08-17 Thread Art Campbell
;- ) I think we all have been mislead by sales guys occasionally. If you're making initial startup decisions for your company or department though, you increase your risk substantially if you go exclusively with any new product or technology. Nobody ever got fired for recommending Microsoft, Sun,

Framemaker vs. Flare

2006-08-17 Thread Robert Shelton
Original Message- > From: framers-bounces+rshelton=opentext.com at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces+rshelton=opentext.com at lists.frameusers.com]On > Behalf Of AJ Coots > > Let me re-phrase the question: Has anyone here used Madcap Flare? > If you're looking for feedback

Color definition problems

2006-08-17 Thread Gillian Flato
Gurus, When I create a graphic in Adobe Illustrator and I enter the CMYK color definition of 100,0,76,15, it displays as dark green. When I enter those same CMYK settings in the Color definition area of Frame, it comes up as a Kelly green. They aren't even close. What is the problem? Why are they

FW: FrameMaker mit Online-Hilfe in Hebräisch/Arabisch

2006-08-17 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:15:22 +0200, "Reng, Winfried Dr." wrote: >probably in the next year we have to translate a >FrameMaker book into Hebrew and Arabic and also >convert the translation into an HTML Help. As FM >cannot handle right-to-left languages I plan this: >o Convert the FM book to Word