Wot? You're leaving us? WAS: 'Burning the bridges' sale]

Heya Hedley, So, you got rich as a TW and retired early eh? :-) Congratulations! You didn't say anything about leaving the list, but you did mention burning the bridges behind you. Well, after all, you've been on this list only 17 years (that I know of anyway). I just checked my archive (17.4K

Frame9 crashes non stop on Vista 64

Hi all! After my tenth or so reboot this morning, I'm getting slightly upset...Well especially after reading that FM 9 on Vista 64 is rock solid-bombproof. My problems occur mainly when switching from tab to tab or scrolling pages. Do (have) you encounter(ed) the same problems? Cheers,

OT: Text insets and trados translation workbench

Hi I have been using text insets in my Framemaker file to make sure that the same piece of text is writtten in the same way everywhere. It seems that our translator has translated directly into the chapter and not the text inset. Does the Trados translation workbench not support text insets?

RE: Text insets and trados translation workbench

Hi Verner, The text inset is just a frame file. It can be turned into a MIF file just like the rest of your Frame files. It looks like the translator when in a turned the text insets into text. Z ** Ann Zdunczyk President a2z

RE: Text insets and trados translation workbench

Hi Verner, The text inset is just a frame file. It can be turned into a MIF file just like the rest of your Frame files. It looks like the translator when in a turned the text insets into text. Z ** Ann Zdunczyk President a2z

Fix for Acrobat license problem in TCS

Just a quick heads-up for TCS 2 users who experience licensing problems with Acrobat: Today at Adobe's Technical Communication blog (http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/), Mahesh Kumar Gupta posted a link to a utility and a procedure for using it to fix the problem. I haven't experienced the problem

Re: Fix for Acrobat license problem in TCS

Thanks Richard, A useful link. This appears to be similar to other Adobe licensing problems. Really there is no change from what people have already said except that now they have an application that queries the database that stores the data and confirms that it is indeed lost, in which

OT: Software recommendations

Hello All I just started a new job at a software company whose product is very GUI-intense. User assistance is crucial, and our legacy versions use online Help that opens in a separate browser window. Management seem to be very open to the idea of embedded help, etc. in upcoming versions, and

FrameMaker/CMS article in UK STC Communicator

I just wanted to point out a recently posted article from the UK STC Communicator magazine. This article titled, CMS integration for FrameMaker, was written by Andy Lewis and Alex Masycheff. It discusses CMS concepts in general and the issues around CMS integration with FrameMaker. A must read

Re: OT: Software recommendations

We use DITA (authored in FM9) and create HTML output with ePublisher. Currently, we create an FM book from the DITA files, apply a template to the book, and create the PDF with Acrobat. WebWorks has added the ability to format PDF output through ePublisher, but we haven't had the chance to run

Re: OT: Software recommendations

I'd definitely look at TCS2, and then look at a couple of additional things beyond that to investigate: 1. MIF2Go can do a couple things RH can't, and vice-versa. So I'd also investigate a second HA solution that can run off FM single-source. 2. If you're also doing manuals, or they want to

RE: Software recommendations

What is wrong with working in your current version of FrameMaker, which you don't mention, so I am going to assume 7.2. What is wrong with creating the PDFs straight out of FrameMaker? Mif2Go can handle your online help problem. It produces several different flavors of Online Help, from Windows

Re: OT: Software recommendations

Hi Roger... Keep in mind that the DITA-OT and FrameMaker are not mutually exclusive. You can use the OT to generate your HTML output, but still use FM for authoring and PDF publishing. It's a bit of work to tweak the OT for HTML .. but not too bad .. tweaking the OT for PDF output (especially

Re: OT: Software recommendations

Hi Art Thanks for your reply, and Nadine too. I'm familiar with DITA and will most likely use that. I should have mentione in my OP that there are two of us here, and the only software we have at present is the single RoboHelp licence, so buying a couple of FM licences won't get us very far.

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[Fwd: 'Burning the bridges' sale]

<< Oooops! Didn't think any lists were text-only these days. Here it is in vanilla flavour. -- Hedley >> Now that I am retired and no longer working as a technical writer, it's time to clean out the cupboards, and burn the bridges behind me. If you want a tutorial about learning to create

Wot? You're leaving us? WAS: 'Burning the bridges' sale]

Heya Hedley, So, you got rich as a TW and retired early eh? :-) Congratulations! You didn't say anything about leaving the list, but you did mention burning the bridges behind you. Well, after all, you've been on this list "only" 17 years (that I know of anyway). I just checked my archive (17.4K

Frame9 crashes non stop on Vista 64

Hi all! After my tenth or so reboot this morning, I'm getting slightly upset...Well especially after reading that FM 9 on Vista 64 is rock solid-bombproof. My problems occur mainly when switching from tab to tab or scrolling pages. Do (have) you encounter(ed) the same problems? Cheers,

OT: Text insets and trados translation workbench

Hi I have been using text insets in my Framemaker file to make sure that the same piece of text is writtten in the same way everywhere. It seems that our translator has translated directly into the chapter and not the text inset. Does the Trados translation workbench not support text insets?

Text insets and trados translation workbench

Hi Verner, The text inset is just a frame file. It can be turned into a MIF file just like the rest of your Frame files. It looks like the translator when in a turned the text insets into text. Z ** Ann Zdunczyk President a2z

Text insets and trados translation workbench

Hi Verner, The text inset is just a frame file. It can be turned into a MIF file just like the rest of your Frame files. It looks like the translator when in a turned the text insets into text. Z ** Ann Zdunczyk President a2z

Fix for Acrobat license problem in TCS

Just a quick heads-up for TCS 2 users who experience licensing problems with Acrobat: Today at Adobe's "Technical Communication" blog (http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/), Mahesh Kumar Gupta posted a link to a utility and a procedure for using it to fix the problem. I haven't experienced the

OT: Software recommendations

Hello All I just started a new job at a software company whose product is very GUI-intense. User assistance is crucial, and our legacy versions use online Help that opens in a separate browser window. Management seem to be very open to the idea of embedded help, etc. in upcoming versions, and

FrameMaker/CMS article in UK STC Communicator

I just wanted to point out a recently posted article from the UK STC Communicator magazine. This article titled, CMS integration for FrameMaker, was written by Andy Lewis and Alex Masycheff. It discusses CMS concepts in general and the issues around CMS integration with FrameMaker. A "must

OT: Software recommendations

We use DITA (authored in FM9) and create HTML output with ePublisher. Currently, we create an FM book from the DITA files, apply a template to the book, and create the PDF with Acrobat. WebWorks has added the ability to format PDF output through ePublisher, but we haven't had the chance to run

OT: Software recommendations

I'd definitely look at TCS2, and then look at a couple of additional things beyond that to investigate: 1. MIF2Go can do a couple things RH can't, and vice-versa. So I'd also investigate a second HA solution that can run off FM single-source. 2. If you're also doing manuals, or they want to

Software recommendations

What is wrong with working in your current version of FrameMaker, which you don't mention, so I am going to assume 7.2. What is wrong with creating the PDFs straight out of FrameMaker? Mif2Go can handle your online help problem. It produces several different flavors of Online Help, from Windows

OT: Software recommendations

Hi Roger... Keep in mind that the DITA-OT and FrameMaker are not mutually exclusive. You can use the OT to generate your HTML output, but still use FM for authoring and PDF publishing. It's a bit of work to tweak the OT for HTML .. but not too bad .. tweaking the OT for PDF output (especially

OT: Software recommendations

Hi Art Thanks for your reply, and Nadine too. I'm familiar with DITA and will most likely use that. I should have mentione in my OP that there are two of us here, and the only software we have at present is the single RoboHelp licence, so buying a couple of FM licences won't get us very far.

Job Opening: Semiconductor Manufacturing Technical Writer

Will only accept resumes from Candidates. No employment services or solicitations. Contract - May become Permanent Contract Description: * Duration: unspecified * Location: Onsite - Milpitas, CA * Description: Technical Writer will create Product Manufacturing Procedures, and update