There was some kind of Zapf Dingbat fix released years ago, but I'm a
fairly consistent upgrader so I haven't looked for it for maybe a decade or
more. Look at the FM updates pages...
Art Campbell
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... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52
Might have been this: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/395627
sr.
On 2015-Apr-13 12:25 PM, Art Campbell wrote:
There was some kind of Zapf Dingbat fix released years ago, but I'm a
fairly consistent upgrader so I haven't looked for it for maybe a
decade or more. Look at the FM updates
The Zapf Dingbats fix I remember was for FM8, when the switch to
Unicode broke all that stuff.
I don't recall FM 7.2 having any special issues with Zapf.
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com wrote:
There was some kind of Zapf Dingbat fix released years ago, but
You can't just paste the character in that field. You need to look up
the hex code or key sequence in the FrameMaker 7 FrameMaker Character
Sets (Windows) PDF. Be sure to use the FM7 version of that doc and not
a later version.
There may be other issues with the font installation. The last time I
I was explaining text insets in FM and was asked if Word does anything
similar. Does it? I did a cursory online search but didn't come up with any
usable information.___
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Thanks everyone.
Sorry I wasn’t clear. I’ve used DITA for about two years authoring with Oxygen
and EasyDITA. I outsourced my script writing to a third party. That’s the
problem with DITA. To get the docs and help to look professional, you have to
outsource script writing and that’s expensive.
If your docs are translated, ask your translation service what they
think about Flare vs. DITA.
You can get a 30-day free trial of Flare. Import your DITA and see how
it compares. There can be a steep learning curve at first but once you
find all the features you need it's very flexible.
On Mon,
Hello,
I believe you can get results in Word, if you use a tool called SmartDocs, a
content management and reuse solution for Microsoft Word.
www.thirtysix.net
Veronica
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Veronica Kutt
President
Front Runner Training, a div. of Front Runner Publishing Solutions
Gillian, I'm really unclear why you think you need to get someone to write
scripts for you. Getting a PDF from FM with or without Dita FMx is not hard.
Time-consuming, but not hard. I haven't looked at the new output capabilities
in FM 12, but they give you other options. As you already know,
If I recall correctly (and it has been quite a few years since I last
used FM7), I believe that FM7 was the last version that did not support
Unicode and therefore required you to use decimal character numbers
rather than the hex codes that Unicode uses. But either way, it is 100%
correct that
Not as Framemaker does it. Closest function is embedding another file, or
putting a text from in place of a graphic. They are then static. I don't trust
Word to reference anything reliably.
On Apr 13, 2015, at 13:15, hessiansx4 hessian...@yahoo.com wrote:
I was explaining text insets in FM
If you are interest in switching to topic-based authoring, and you are
using Frame already, it might be easier to stick with Frame and switch
to Structured Frame, which I believe is also topic-based authoring.
(Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.)
--
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
Hello Framers.
I'm having problems with FM 7.2 on WXP Pro and Zapf Dingbats font.
I'm building a serie of bulleted lists and I want to use the arrow and
other symbols. After I paste the character in the Autonumber format field
and update the paragraph format, a different Zapf symbol appears in
On 2015-Apr-13 4:25 AM, Davide Piva wrote:
Hello Framers.
I'm having problems with FM 7.2 on WXP Pro and Zapf Dingbats font.
I'm building a serie of bulleted lists and I want to use the arrow and
other symbols. After I paste the character in the Autonumber format
field and update the paragraph
I think you answered your own question -- if you do need custom scripts to
do DITA and the company can't afford it, it can't afford it.
Given that you probably know FM better than Flare, I'd do FM over Flare
because unstructured Flare isn't going to buy you much, if anything, and
there's still a
Gillian asked:
How does Flare compare to DITA? It seems like you get all of the advantages of
topic-baesd authoring, without having to have someone write scripts for you.
Has anyone tried modifying their templates? How easy or difficult is that. How
is their help file making product?
IMHO,
Hi Gillian
Why would you have to hire someone to write scripts if you do DITA?
Just like Art, I'd use FM with DITA-FMx. If you know how to create
unstructured Fm templates, you can easily learn how to modify the
component templates that come with DITA-FMx. Actually, the process is
quite simple:
Flare's not a DITA authoring tool the way Oxygen, XMetal, or
structured FrameMaker are. Oxygen is kind of like a DITA-based Flare.
Flare can export DITA, but since Flare's source is not as structured,
the DITA output might need some work before it would be usable.
Anything you *can* do with
My apologies for the format; I seem to be thinking in bullets this morning.
* Flare is a tool; DITA is a standard (or collection of standards).
* You can use Flare to produce DITA
(http://webhelp.madcapsoftware.com/flare11/Content/DITA/About_DITA.htm)
* There are multiple other tools that can
You can write topics with any tool, but Flare sort of forces you to,
since the source is one file per topic (at least down to some heading
level).
Flare templates are extremely customizable.
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Gillian Flato gill6...@comcast.net wrote:
How does Flare compare to
It could be that you have not added wherever the fonts are stored to the
FrameMaker Font path.
IIRC, in 7.2 there was an option under FilePreferences that allowed you to
specify the path(s) that FM would look for the font files.
You can also edit the maker.ini file directly to add the path.
You should probably visit the DITA.XML website (http://dita.xml.org). According
to its site: DITA XML.org is the official community gathering place and
information resource for the DITA OASIS Standard, an XML architecture for
designing, writing, managing, and publishing information.
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