Re: Converting Framemaker to Sharepoint

2012-09-21 Thread Eargle, Lore
Is it possible, Cynthia, that your company is asking you to put everything on a wiki within SharePoint. That's the only way you could put the information there without uploading documents into SharePoint. Message: 29 Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:12:49 -0500 From: Pat Christenson pxen...@gmail.com

Re: Converting Framemaker to Sharepoint

2012-09-21 Thread Jang F.M. Graat
Hello Cindy, Maybe I am blonde but I don't get it. Your company wants authors to write content in SharePoint ??? I hadn't heard of this great new editor called SharePoint. Actually, the Microsoft SharePoint does not mention an integrated editor. They just assume everyone on this planet uses

Document revision control

2012-09-21 Thread Amy Super
Hi there, Does anyone out there use a revision control system? We are in dire need of it, as my company has recently gone up to 3 writers (from 1) and we're afraid of overwriting work. Our document repository is made up of standalone FM docs with linked images, FM books with linked images,

Re: Help with unicode and question marks

2012-09-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
Does that let you search all fonts for a particular character? On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Klaus Daube fr...@daube.ch wrote: I use BabelMap where I can switch between Combined Font and Single Font. The required symbol (U+2611 BALLOT BOX WITH CHECK) can be found - for example - in

Printed colors out of whack

2012-09-21 Thread Tim Pann
Frame 9, Win7 This may have a very simple solution but in fact I have never needed to deal with document colors in print, so I'm pretty clueless. I have a document that has imported (by reference) GRAYSCALE TIFF images. It also has the word DRAFT in large gray (typed) letters on each page.

Frame vs Word - the decision

2012-09-21 Thread laura
Hi all You may remember a while back I asked for help regarding arguments I could use to persuade my company to use Framemaker for its docs. I'm sorry to report I have lost the argument. Even though the quality of Word may have minor disadvantages, the cost and consequence of shifting to

Re: frame fails to start

2012-09-21 Thread Anjaneai Srivastava
Hi Fred, I think this is because of permission to files(System DLL) used by FrameMaker to launch, failing which it thoruws the error. Can you please check the permissions for your user account on the same-- C:/Windows/System32/. I found an article on a website --

Re: Frame 7.1/Acrobat 9: unable to generate PS or save as PDF

2012-09-21 Thread Eric-Oluf Svee
Many thanks to all of you who responded. One of the things I always liked about using Frame was the community of users: generous and helpful. After a long absence, it's nice to see that fact has not changed. In the end, I fear that I will give up on using Frame for this project, as much as

Re: Help with unicode and question marks (1 pdf)

2012-09-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
I already have utilities that let me page through 250 fonts to find a particular character. Search would save a lot of time. On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Klaus Daube fr...@daube.ch wrote: On 19 Sep 2012 at 12:03, Robert Lauriston wrote: Does that (BabelMap) let you search all fonts for a

Getting started with Context-Sensitive Help

2012-09-21 Thread Heather Thomas
First, a bit of context: our team has TCS4 with the DITA-FMx plugin. Currently, we author in Structured FM, produce the PDF User Guide from FM, and then we link the FM files into RoboHelp to produce WebHelp. I've been tasked with exploring our options for implementing Context-Sensitive

RE: Getting started with Context-Sensitive Help

2012-09-21 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
You can use a marker for CSH in your FM docs and the marker text becomes your MapID in RH. There's a bunch of ways to invoke WebHelp - see Peter Grainge's site (grainge.org) and Willam van Weldon (wvanweelden.eu) on calling help. From:

RE: Document revision control

2012-09-21 Thread Alison Craig
I'm a lone writer and have been for most of my writing career, but I've always used version control - VSS as it happens. Our RD department switched to Subversion a couple of years ago, but I didn't make the switch with them, at least not yet. I know quite a few people on this list use

Re: Batch saving files in FrameMaker 11

2012-09-21 Thread Scott Prentice
My FileTools plugin does just this. However, since it hasn't been updated for FM11 yet (or even FM8/9/10), it's not going to be of much help. I am in the process of updating this, and if you want to contact me off-list, I'll send you a development version that you can try.

RE: Document revision control

2012-09-21 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
(Just got this e-mail ... don't know what the hangup was on the list distribution. So, I don't know if it will be in time.) Hi, Amy, We use Subversion for our development teams. To verion control code, etc. However, recently, we also began storing our _other_ files on Central Desktop

RE: Batch saving files in FrameMaker 11

2012-09-21 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Salome, I have a FrameScript version that works on a book or folder (and optional subfolders). If you are interested, please contact me off-list. Thank you very much. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-283-5045 r...@frameexpert.com From:

Re: Document revision control

2012-09-21 Thread Böðvar Björgvinsson
Hi Amy, I have used Subversion / Tortoise SVN extensively and it has never failed me. The last couple of years I have been using www.assembla.com's services to. Assembla offers hosting of your files using SVN or GIT and maybe some other options too. Assembla seems to me a very reasonable option.

Getting started with Context-Sensitive Help

2012-09-21 Thread Heather Thomas
! -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120921/71c7eb38/attachment.html>

Batch saving files in FrameMaker 11

2012-09-21 Thread Abungu, Salome (TTI Mpls)
ebsite: www.thieletech.com<http://www.thieletech.com/> -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120921/f9314f54/attachment.html>

Hebrew characters

2012-09-21 Thread GREGORY ECKRICH
instead of the Hebrew. Any suggestions? Thx. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120921/87188192/attachment.html>

Frame vs Word - the decision

2012-09-21 Thread Writer
r visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/generic668%40yahoo.ca > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120921/cd1b7bba/attachment.html>

Getting started with Context-Sensitive Help

2012-09-21 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
ttp://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120921/36984a02/attachment.html>

Batch saving files in FrameMaker 11

2012-09-21 Thread Owen, Clint
An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120921/2624b9a9/attachment.html>

Document revision control

2012-09-21 Thread Alison Craig
w it's an option for integrating FM. Thoughts are greatly appreciated, as I found out today I need to have a candidate list ready by Friday. Thanks! Amy -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments

Getting started with Context-Sensitive Help

2012-09-21 Thread Scott Prentice
nths and appreciate everything I have learned here. This is a > fantastic group! > > -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120921/19d3efa0/attachment.html>

Batch saving files in FrameMaker 11

2012-09-21 Thread Scott Prentice
ite: www.thieletech.com <http://www.thieletech.com/> > > > -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120921/8743158a/attachment.html>

Document revision control

2012-09-21 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
ve a candidate list ready by Friday. Thanks! Amy -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120921/92ef5029/attachment.html>

Batch saving files in FrameMaker 11

2012-09-21 Thread Rick Quatro
chments/20120921/1682756a/attachment.html>

Frame vs Word - the decision

2012-09-21 Thread Gillian Flato
Time to look for another job. -Gillian -Original Message- From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of la...@lavadome.net Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 12:49 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Frame vs

Getting started with Context-Sensitive Help

2012-09-21 Thread Gillian Flato
ttp://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120921/88bc09a2/attachment.html>

Getting started with Context-Sensitive Help

2012-09-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
In FrameMaker, all you need to do is insert TopicAlias markers to define the help targets which will be linked to the application via the map (aka header) file. What flavor of application is it? Java, C++, Web application ...? The developers need to do some work on their side.

Document revision control

2012-09-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
Subversion is good and free. Perforce is good and not free. You don't have to convert to .mif, you can check in .fm and .book files as binaries. You can't merge binaries but who's going to merge a .mif file anyway? The one other you might want to look at is Git for Windows, which is a