RE: [OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Peter Hirons
So free support isn't really free ! Peter -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of William Abernathy Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 11:37 PM To: Yves Barbion Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re:

Re: [OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Yves Barbion
There is no such thing as a free lunch, Peter. ;-) By the way, the price ratio seems to be the same for other products too: the prices in the US store are 53 % of the prices in the European store! Hmmm, I'm wondering is there is anyone buying FrameMaker 9 Server in Europe, priced at 10746 EUR

S1000D in Framemaker

2010-10-29 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Dear all, Does anyone have some experience with creation of S1000D manuals in Framemaker, no matter the Framemaker version? One of our customers and by consequence my project manager asked me to find out if we can write them via PTC products but price seems the first and main obstacle, besided

RE: [OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Tim J. Slager
No I haven't asked Adobe, who there could possibly tell me? Darryl, maybe? tims :) -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Alan T Litchfield Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 2:41 PM To: Yves Barbion Cc:

Re: FM 7.0 Locks up on Windows 7

2010-10-29 Thread Mike
I have noticed something similar with my FM 7 and Windows 7 setup. Often, I will get a Not Responding notification in the FM title bar. It looks like FM is locked, but after awhile, control does eventually return to FM. On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Owen, Clint

RE: [OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Layton, Debbie
How quaint. Roman Numerals for a software release. Will the documentation be created using Old English Text? I'm very curious why Marketing chose to do that. Debbie Layton Technical Writer Customer Publications 503.582.6822 debbie.lay...@xerox.com -Original Message- From:

RE: [OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread John Hogan
As near as I can tell from their website, Adobe have abandoned the 3-D functionality altogether in version 10. So a big chunk of extended is gone from Acrobat X Pro anyway. Maybe they should pay us to make the switch from Acrobat 9 Pro Extended to Acrobat X Pro! Oh well. John -Original

Scale or change dpi to make a screen shot filt within printer margins

2010-10-29 Thread Andersen, Verner Engell VEA
Hello I have several screen shots in my A4 manual that are too big to be printed within the margins of my A4 paper. How do I reduce the dimension of the screen shot to make it print within the marigins? Do I resize or do I change the dpi settings? Of course I still want the scren shot to print

RE: [OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Steve Pawlowskis
If Adobe offered version 20 for really old operating systems would it be Acrobat DOS XX ? Steve Pawlowskis Technology Coordinator Kaufman Company, Inc. 19 Walkhill Road Norwood MA 02062 Phone:617.218.1765 Mobile: 774.437.1409 Toll Free:800.338.8023 ext. 165 Fax:

Re: [OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Bill Swallow
Well, RoboHelp started getting wonky with regard to versions after 1999. Versions went: 7 2000 9 2002 X3 X4 X5 6 7 8 9 Notice two version 7s and two version 9s, each roughly 10 years apart. I've learned not to think on these things too hard. It hurts. Bill On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:59 PM,

Re: [OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Bill Swallow
That would be the most interesting software in the world. On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Steve Pawlowskis ste...@kaufmanco.com wrote: If Adobe offered version 20 for really old operating systems would it be Acrobat DOS XX ? -- Bill Swallow Twitter: @techcommdood Blog:

Re: Scale or change dpi to make a screen shot filt within printer margins

2010-10-29 Thread Bill Swallow
Change the import DPI. This will retain the image quality while reducing the size of the image by incorporating more dots per inch. So long as you don't exceed 600 DPI for the image, it will print just fine on your 600 DPI printer. If you resize the image, in a photo editor or some such

RE: [OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
If Adobe offered version 20 for really old operating systems would it be Acrobat DOS XX ? Steve Pawlowskis Technology Coordinator ROFL! Maybe that is what they were drinking when they came up with Acrobat X. :) :) Z ___ You are currently

Re: [OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread bernard
I don't PDF often, but when I do, I use DOS XX Bernard - Original Message - From: techcommd...@gmail.com To: ste...@kaufmanco.com Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Sent: 10/29/10 9:51 AM Subject: Re: [OT] Adobe's pricing policy That would be the most interesting software in the world.

Re: [Bulk] Re: [OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Writer
Not if it's pronounced Dos Ten Ten. Nadine --- On Fri, 10/29/10, Bill Swallow techcommd...@gmail.com wrote: From: Bill Swallow techcommd...@gmail.com Subject: [Bulk] Re: [OT] Adobe's pricing policy To: Steve Pawlowskis ste...@kaufmanco.com Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com

RE: Scale or change dpi to make a screen shot filt within printer margins

2010-10-29 Thread Combs, Richard
Andersen, Verner wrote: How do I reduce the dimension of the screen shot to make it print within the marigins? Do I resize or do I change the dpi settings? Of course I still want the scren shot to print fine on my 600 dpi printer I always set the dpi upon import. Since FM shows the pixel

Re: [OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Art Campbell
Because it works for Apple. Art Campbell               art.campb...@gmail.com   ... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl. -- Richard Thompson                                                       No disclaimers apply.                              

RE: [Bulk] Re: [OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Butler, Darren J CTR USAF AFMC WR-ALC/ENGLTB
Dos Ten Ten: The first puppy born to Rin and Lassie -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Writer Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 10:09 AM To: Steve Pawlowskis; Bill Swallow Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com

Re: [OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Richard Doll
from Collins English Dictionary . . . X (symbol) 1. indicating a film that may not be shown to anyone under 18 years of age. 2. denoting an unknown 3. (on letters, cards, etc.) a kiss 4. (on ballot papers, etc.) a choice 5. (on examination papers, etc.) an error 6. for Christ:

RE: [OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Fei Min Lorente
Sorry about perpetuating a rumour. It must have been Acrobat X, not FrameMaker X, but I can't find the email. I don't have time to beta test--probably a good thing since I didn't know what it was anyway. Fei Min p.s. My discussion list posting was delayed by hours so I only found out about my

Re: [OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Milton, Cynthia
Classification: SERCO-PUBLIC Not just Adobe. Regardless of exchange rates, it's always been the case that the dollar price is more or less the same numerical value as the sterling price. Thus anything costing $100 in the US costs £100 over here (which is sometimes twice the actual price). VAT

Hyptertext Links Break in PDF

2010-10-29 Thread Nancy Allison
Hi. I've looked up this issue online. A lot of the discussions I have found are about Frame 8 and later, but we are using FrameMaker 7.1b023 and Distiller 6.0.1 in Windows XP SP3. That's not going to change in time for this document. Problem: My coworker and I have **identical Distiller

Re: Hyptertext Links Break in PDF

2010-10-29 Thread Art Campbell
You may want to start with updating your FM install to the final patch version -- p116, from http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=22platform=Windows Also, you don't mention if you've installed the Microsoft Hotfix for all Postscript printers under XP -- which fixes lots of

Re: Hyptertext Links Break in PDF

2010-10-29 Thread Steve Johnson
It doesn't seem like your setups are identical at all. What does this mean: When I send her one of my Frame documents, in which all the hyperlinks work correctly... Esp. in light of: When I generate a PDF using my copy of Distiller, the links are also broken You need to start with what works

Re: S1000D in Framemaker

2010-10-29 Thread Liz Fraley
I suggest you go read the thread on S1000D users on this topic: http://groups.google.com/group/s1000dusers/browse_thread/thread/4150e5db66e4b877/690c6dd0e40a6d7b?lnk=gstq=framemaker#690c6dd0e40a6d7b On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:30 AM, de Rouck, Tom (Gent) tom.dero...@sgs.com wrote: Dear all,

[OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Alan T Litchfield
On 29/10/2010, at 8:08 AM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) wrote: > I got my e-mail from Adobe about this sometime last week as I > recall. I believe the shipping date is Nov 1, but forget where I saw > that. > > And, I have no idea why it is "X" instead of "10". :) > > My

[OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Alan T Litchfield
Well, I have to thank Dov for clarifying the numbering thing because I thought "Acrobat X (pronounced 10)" meant a return to version two! 8^0. Alan On 29/10/2010, at 10:14 AM, Spectrum Writing wrote: > How about the software application formerly known as Adobe > Framemaker? (Ya' > know,

[OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Peter Hirons
So "free" support isn't really free ! Peter -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of William Abernathy Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 11:37 PM To: Yves Barbion Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com

[OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Yves Barbion
There is no such thing as a free lunch, Peter. ;-) By the way, the price ratio seems to be the same for other products too: the prices in the US store are 53 % of the prices in the European store! Hmmm, I'm wondering is there is anyone buying FrameMaker 9 Server in Europe, priced at 10746 EUR

S1000D in Framemaker

2010-10-29 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Dear all, Does anyone have some experience with creation of S1000D manuals in Framemaker, no matter the Framemaker version? One of our customers and by consequence my project manager asked me to find out if we can write them via PTC products but price seems the first and main obstacle, besided

Scale or change dpi to make a screen shot filt within printer margins

2010-10-29 Thread Andersen, Verner Engell VEA
Hello I have several screen shots in my A4 manual that are too big to be printed within the margins of my A4 paper. How do I reduce the dimension of the screen shot to make it print within the marigins? Do I resize or do I change the dpi settings? Of course I still want the scren shot to print

[OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Steve Pawlowskis
If Adobe offered version 20 for really old operating systems would it be Acrobat DOS XX ? Steve Pawlowskis Technology Coordinator Kaufman Company, Inc. 19 Walkhill Road Norwood MA 02062 Phone:617.218.1765 Mobile: 774.437.1409 Toll Free:800.338.8023 ext. 165 Fax:

[OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Bill Swallow
Well, RoboHelp started getting wonky with regard to versions after 1999. Versions went: 7 2000 9 2002 X3 X4 X5 6 7 8 9 Notice two version 7s and two version 9s, each roughly 10 years apart. I've learned not to think on these things too hard. It hurts. Bill On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:59 PM,

[OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Bill Swallow
That would be the most interesting software in the world. On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Steve Pawlowskis wrote: > If Adobe offered version 20 for really old operating systems would it be > Acrobat DOS XX ? -- Bill Swallow Twitter: @techcommdood Blog: http://techcommdood.com LinkedIn:

Scale or change dpi to make a screen shot filt within printer margins

2010-10-29 Thread Bill Swallow
Change the import DPI. This will retain the image quality while reducing the size of the image by incorporating more dots per inch. So long as you don't exceed 600 DPI for the image, it will print just fine on your 600 DPI printer. If you resize the image, in a photo editor or some such

[OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
> If Adobe offered version 20 for really old operating systems would it be > Acrobat DOS XX ? > Steve Pawlowskis > Technology Coordinator ROFL! Maybe that is what they were drinking when they came up with "Acrobat X". :) :) Z

[OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread bern...@publishingsmarter.com
I don't PDF often, but when I do, I use DOS XX Bernard - Original Message - From: techcommd...@gmail.com To: SteveP at kaufmanco.com Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Sent: 10/29/10 9:51 AM Subject: Re: [OT] Adobe's pricing policy > That would be the most interesting software in the

[Bulk] Re: [OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Writer
Not if it's pronounced Dos Ten Ten. Nadine --- On Fri, 10/29/10, Bill Swallow wrote: > From: Bill Swallow > Subject: [Bulk] Re: [OT] Adobe's pricing policy > To: "Steve Pawlowskis" > Cc: "framers at lists.frameusers.com" > Date: Friday, October 29, 2010, 9:42 AM > That would be the most

Scale or change dpi to make a screen shot filt within printer margins

2010-10-29 Thread Combs, Richard
Andersen, Verner wrote: > How do I reduce the dimension of the screen shot to make it print within > the marigins? Do I resize or do I change the dpi settings? > Of course I still want the scren shot to print fine on my 600 dpi > printer I always set the dpi upon import. Since FM shows the

[OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Art Campbell
Because it works for Apple. Art Campbell ? ? ? ? ? ? ? art.campbell at gmail.com ? "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? No disclaimers apply. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

[Bulk] Re: [OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Butler, Darren J CTR USAF AFMC WR-ALC/ENGLTB
Dos Ten Ten: The first puppy born to Rin and Lassie -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Writer Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 10:09 AM To: Steve Pawlowskis; Bill Swallow Cc: framers at

[OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Richard Doll
from Collins English Dictionary . . . X (symbol) 1. indicating a film that may not be shown to anyone under 18 years of age. 2. denoting an unknown 3. (on letters, cards, etc.) a kiss 4. (on ballot papers, etc.) a choice 5. (on examination papers, etc.) an error 6. for Christ:

[OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Fei Min Lorente
Sorry about perpetuating a rumour. It must have been Acrobat X, not FrameMaker X, but I can't find the email. I don't have time to beta test--probably a good thing since I didn't know what it was anyway. Fei Min p.s. My discussion list posting was delayed by hours so I only found out about my

[OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Milton, Cynthia
Classification: SERCO-PUBLIC Not just Adobe. Regardless of exchange rates, it's always been the case that the dollar price is more or less the same numerical value as the sterling price. Thus anything costing $100 in the US costs ?100 over here (which is sometimes twice the actual price). VAT

Hyptertext Links Break in PDF

2010-10-29 Thread Nancy Allison
Hi. I've looked up this issue online. A lot of the discussions I have found are about Frame 8 and later, but we are using FrameMaker 7.1b023 and Distiller 6.0.1 in Windows XP SP3. That's not going to change in time for this document. Problem: My coworker and I have **identical Distiller

Hyptertext Links Break in PDF

2010-10-29 Thread Art Campbell
You may want to start with updating your FM install to the final patch version -- p116, from http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=22=Windows Also, you don't mention if you've installed the Microsoft Hotfix for all Postscript printers under XP -- which fixes lots of distiller

Hyptertext Links Break in PDF

2010-10-29 Thread Steve Johnson
It doesn't seem like your setups are identical at all. What does this mean: "When I send her one of my Frame documents, in which all the hyperlinks work correctly..." Esp. in light of: "When I generate a PDF using my copy of Distiller, the links are also broken" You need to start with what

S1000D in Framemaker

2010-10-29 Thread Liz Fraley
I suggest you go read the thread on S1000D users on this topic: http://groups.google.com/group/s1000dusers/browse_thread/thread/4150e5db66e4b877/690c6dd0e40a6d7b?lnk=gst=framemaker#690c6dd0e40a6d7b On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:30 AM, de Rouck, Tom (Gent) wrote: > Dear all, > > Does anyone have