Re: [Framers] [WTF ramemaker] [Frame] Kinda wonky '17 support for Dropbox

2017-06-16 Thread Art Campbell
Turning off sync worked. No errors, no tmp files, and the files open correctly on all the Dropbox nodes. 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

Re: [Framers] Watermark over graphics?

2017-06-16 Thread David Artman
As far as I know, there's no way to make a master-page (i.e., implicitly background) image overlay body page (framed) graphics or text I the flow. If there is, I'm waiting to find out along with you! :-) Perhaps PDF TimeSavers can do the post-distillation application of a waterma

Re: [Framers] [WTF ramemaker] [Frame] Kinda wonky '17 support for Dropbox

2017-06-16 Thread Fred Ridder
The Fortune 500 corporation that acquired our 600-person company had an enterprise license for Documentum, so our only expense was a couple grand for a small server for our Documentum repository and for 25 or so seats of the FrameLink interface software. We got off easy. -FR

Re: [Framers] active URLs spanning more than one line

2017-06-16 Thread David Artman
That makes me suspect that you had a bad character encoding which, nevertheless, would render in the FM editing view, but 'fall down' during distillation. If you still have a copy of the 'bad' URL, try to paste it into Notepad++ and see if it goes weird (looking like, for example,

Re: [Framers] Is the FM '17 PreRelease area still functioning / being monitored?

2017-06-16 Thread Klaus Daube
On 16 Jun 2017 at 10:43, Art Campbell wrote: > I'm adding bugs and feature requests, but things seem to quiet... Art, I also did so until Stefan Genz told me, that nobody at Adobe will look into the beta forum after release... Hence I duplicated my reports and requests to the publich bug base s

Re: [Framers] [WTF ramemaker] [Frame] Kinda wonky '17 support for Dropbox

2017-06-16 Thread Robert Lauriston
That was a very expensive system, right? Sometimes you get what you pay for. On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 9:02 AM, Fred Ridder wrote: > About 15 years ago, our pubs group used FrameMaker with a Documentum > repository using FrameLink middleware. It worked like a champ although a > couple of our more

Re: [Framers] [WTF ramemaker] [Frame] Kinda wonky '17 support for Dropbox

2017-06-16 Thread Fred Ridder
About 15 years ago, our pubs group used FrameMaker with a Documentum repository using FrameLink middleware. It worked like a champ although a couple of our more chronologically senior writers never did manage to wrap their minds around the check-out and versioning paradigms. -FR

Re: [Framers] [WTF ramemaker] [Frame] Kinda wonky '17 support for Dropbox

2017-06-16 Thread Art Campbell
Thanks guys! Just started playing with this a couple days ago, and I was thinking turning off Sync might be my first "next step." 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

Re: [Framers] [WTF ramemaker] [Frame] Kinda wonky '17 support for Dropbox

2017-06-16 Thread Keith Soltys
I have had similar issues with Google Drive (files deleted from a book during updating) and I am pretty sure that syncing is the root of the problem. Turning off syncing while actively working on the book is a good suggestion. Regards Keith -- *Keith Soltys* Senior Technical Writer Architecture T

Re: [Framers] [WTF ramemaker] [Frame] Kinda wonky '17 support for Dropbox

2017-06-16 Thread Robert Lauriston
Has any integrated client in FrameMaker ever worked well? I'd skip the FM integration, pause sync in Dropbox while working on an FM project in a sync'd folder, and turn sync back on afterwards. On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 7:33 AM, Art Campbell wrote: > When following the instructions for working on

Re: [Framers] [Frame] Kinda wonky '17 support for Dropbox

2017-06-16 Thread Alan Houser
I have a solution for FrameMaker's Dropbox compatibility issues, but I'm afraid it only works in a niche environment. Sharing here in case it benefits anybody. I run FrameMaker in a Windows virtual machine under MacOS. Most of my MacOS filesystem is managed under Dropbox. When I installed Drop

Re: [Framers] [Frame] Kinda wonky '17 support for Dropbox

2017-06-16 Thread Alan Houser
I've been curious about what's different "under the hood" in FrameMaker's Dropbox support. I see this sort of error regularly from clients who use Dropbox as a file system. FrameMaker generally doesn't "like" shared and network folders (it's rather intolerant of network latency while saving), s

Re: [Framers] [Frame] Kinda wonky '17 support for Dropbox

2017-06-16 Thread Bernard Aschwanden
I've had issues with FM/Dropbox earlier too. FM2015. The issues seemed to be the worst when books update, and I have things like the create lock or create backup on. Even without it there are times a large book publishes (or I work with DITA and convert to an FM file) and temp files are created. Th

[Framers] [Frame] Kinda wonky '17 support for Dropbox

2017-06-16 Thread Art Campbell
When following the instructions for working on files in Dropbox from FM 17, I'm getting a herd of temp files saved with numeric extensions, and errors displaying that the file I'm working on can't be saved. Also that the file was saved but image data (Frameimage maybe?) was lost. Anyone else using