Re: [Framers] Numbered List Issue

2023-03-30 Thread Alan Houser
ker's list numbering is rock-solid and reliable. Hope this helps! -Alan -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 > On Mar 30, 2023, at 7:28 PM, acr...@shaw.ca wrote: > > Win 10 with FrameMaker 20 (not the latest

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker on M1 Macs?

2021-11-19 Thread Alan Houser
ect these bumps. -Alan -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 > On Nov 15, 2021, at 9:02 AM, Alan Houser wrote: > > I know several of you are running FrameMaker 2020 on Windows 11. Is anybody > running FrameMak

Re: [Framers] Frame vs InDesign

2021-11-19 Thread Alan Houser
and publishing workflow. And migrating to InDesign won’t do any of these things. Just my thoughts, which may be totally inappropriate for your situation. -Alan -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 > On Nov 18, 2021, a

[Framers] FrameMaker on M1 Macs?

2021-11-15 Thread Alan Houser
r provides a Windows 10 disk image for ARM architectures, so Windows 11 is the only option. Success stories or ideas? Please let me know! -Alan -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 41

Re: [Framers] New Adobe Profiles - Business, Personal

2021-09-23 Thread Alan Houser
up/ultra-ewst> Disclaimer Ultra Electronics Holdings plc is registered in England and Wales, company number 02830397, whose registered office is at 35 Portman Square, London W1H 6LR. -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technica

[Framers] FrameMaker and Dropbox?

2020-06-19 Thread Alan Houser
the file to a new copy with a random three-character extension. Best workaround is to turn off Dropbox syncing when working with FrameMaker. Question: Does the FrameMaker "Dropbox" feature (File>Utilities>Save to Dropbox folder) do anything special to mitigate this issue? -Alan

[Framers] Master pages mis-applied when saving to PDF?

2019-01-03 Thread Alan Houser
DF" to modify the FM binary file in any substantial way. Is this a known issue? Or am I missing something? For what it's worth, I don't see the problem in FrameMaker 2019. -Alan -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on T

Re: [Framers] Space being removed in structured output

2018-12-11 Thread Alan Houser
I am using FM 2019 with the standard DITA applications. Thank you very much. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. r...@frameexpert.com 585-729-6746 www.frameexpert.com/store/ Save on energy at quatro.mystream.com -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, T

Re: [Framers] Arbortext v Frame

2018-11-20 Thread Alan Houser
and Engineering Solutions BAE Systems Australia -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers

Re: [Framers] Switching from InDesign to FM 11

2018-10-26 Thread Alan Houser
of InDesign experience, and I need to get him up to speed in FM 11 (unstructured) ASAP. I know the concepts are similar, so where do I start training so that I don't bore him with concepts he already understands? ⁣Sent from BlueMail ​ -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer

Re: [Framers] $STRUCTDIR equivalent for user-specific structapps folder?

2018-10-18 Thread Alan Houser
ernard -Original Message- From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+bernard=publishingsmarter@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Alan Houser Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2018 5:00 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: [Framers] $STRUCTDIR equivalent for user-specific structapps

[Framers] $STRUCTDIR equivalent for user-specific structapps folder?

2018-10-18 Thread Alan Houser
to the structapps.fm and structured application definitions that typically live in "C:\User\\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\\structure". I would like to distribute new structured application definitions in this folder and have them "just work." Thanks in advance! -Alan

Re: [Framers] Anyone have a script that duplicates Cudspan's TOCBreaker?

2018-10-17 Thread Alan Houser
, so I'm hoping someone has replicated its function. Otherwise, I'm going to have to steal myself to learning how to script (not a bad thing, but not something I really wanted to have on my plate right now). -- Lin Sims ___ -- Alan Houser Group

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker Data in Footer

2018-05-15 Thread Alan Houser
sked with (AMM, IPC, etc.) are more complex than the internal procedures manuals I've been doing and would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks Julie A. Sigrist Quality Assurance Airborne Maintenance and Engineering Services, Inc. (937) 366-2482 (Direct) -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consulta

[Framers] freeframers.org available

2018-01-09 Thread Alan Houser
ry. If you are interested in acquiring the domain, let me know and we can discuss. Please respond off-list, on or before January 12. -Alan -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 ___ Th

Re: [Framers] OT-Documenting APIs

2017-11-22 Thread Alan Houser
) is that a *lot* of Tech writing jobs here in the Vancouver, Canada, area include documenting APIs. Unfortunately, I have zero experience in this area. Given this fact, I'm wondering if anyone knows of an online course(s) I could take to how to do this. -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley

[Framers] Extendscript: Suppress console logging (FM 2017)?

2017-11-22 Thread Alan Houser
my stream of unavailable font messages. The large number of streaming messages appears to slow performance considerably. If there's a way to do this, or another approach I should consider, I would be grateful to hear it. Thanks! -Alan -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant a

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

2017-06-16 Thread Alan Houser
-- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on

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

2017-06-16 Thread Alan Houser
edheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 ___ This message is from

Re: [Framers] Para tag "As Is" property?

2017-06-12 Thread Alan Houser
t think you can set this value. I'm hoping that I've just missed this feature after all these years .. can someone explain why and how? Thanks! ...scott -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 _

Re: [Framers] Crash with Internal Errors: 13054, 21985197, 21967009, 21686210

2017-05-18 Thread Alan Houser
bit, but it's a PITA not being able to use the book-based save all. -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to fram

[Framers] FM2017+Retina - Cursor/menu alignment?

2017-04-20 Thread Alan Houser
rs to clear the condition. This is intermittent, and I haven't identified the circumstances that trigger this behavior. Has anybody else seen this? -Alan -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 ___

Re: [Framers] Font Size in Index Marker Pod (FRMAKER-2451)

2017-03-20 Thread Alan Houser
chcomm/marker-dialog-fm2015-vs-2017 Regards, Stefan Gentz Adobe Worldwide TechComm Evangelist Connect with us: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | YouTube | Our Blog | Adobe TCS User Forum -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on

Re: [Framers] database access from Extendscript?

2017-02-27 Thread Alan Houser
method that lets you perform XPath 1.0 queries on the XML object. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. r...@frameexpert.com 585-366-4017 -Original Message- From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Alan Houser Sent: Monday, February

[Framers] database access from Extendscript?

2017-02-27 Thread Alan Houser
If it does not, is there a Javascript library that you've found to be workable? -Alan -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Sen

Re: [Framers] SOLVED: RE: Table Title gets dropped on save as xml

2017-02-15 Thread Alan Houser
and behaviors should be left to the EDD and read/write rules. In any event, Rick, I'm glad you arrived at a solution! -Alan On 2/15/17 10:10 PM, Rick Quatro wrote: Thanks to Alan Houser for pointing out these posts by Lynne Price: http://lists.ceph.com/pipermail/framers-frameusers.com/2006

Re: [Framers] What do you say when FrameMaker disappoints?

2017-02-10 Thread Alan Houser
t alternative solutions. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. r...@frameexpert.com 585-366-4017 -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 ___ This message is from t

Re: [Framers] Up for discussion: changing Framers' default Reply-To behavior

2017-01-26 Thread Alan Houser
eply-To-List". Having said that, I'm grateful that this list continues (thanks, Carol!), regardless of admin settings or ground rules. -Alan -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 On 1/26/17 1:43 PM, FrameUsers Admin wrot

Re: PDF problems

2015-05-21 Thread Alan Houser
you've identified the page/object that is causing the error. As David Spreadbury suggests, if the printer can tell you the page that invokes the failure, start looking there. -Alan Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532

Re: Is FM11 completely backward compatible with FM10?

2015-05-05 Thread Alan Houser
backwards compatibility. I hope this helps! -Alan Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 On 5/5/15 1:11 PM, Jim Duszynski wrote: Happy Tuesday Framers! We are adding a writer and current have FM10. I want to buy FM10

Re: Is FM11 completely backward compatible with FM10?

2015-05-05 Thread Alan Houser
), for organizations that wish to maintain a stable, predictable environment and workflow. -Alan --- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 On 5/5/15 1:53 PM, Art Campbell wrote: Just a $.02 contribution... but you may not be able buy 11

Re: Limit Find/Change

2015-04-23 Thread Alan Houser
at FrameMaker to confirm it), but it should give you or others enough detail to try the approach. -Alan --- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 On 4/22/15 4:45 PM, john.x.pos...@us.hsbc.com wrote: Hi, guys...I'm putting

Re: converting FM cross references to xrefs

2015-02-05 Thread Alan Houser
import your EDD before running the conversion table. For example, you can cross-reference a containing section, instead of a title. These are just the high points. Try it; it should work. -Alan Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412

FrameMaker on MacOS Retina display?

2015-01-15 Thread Alan Houser
change to resolve the issue. -Alan -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers

Re: Very very old FrameMaker files: file extent

2015-01-10 Thread Alan Houser
I have seen FM files with a .doc extension, as recently as FM 7 (although those files may have been migrated from older versions). So ... not an accident or fluke. -Alan --- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 On 1/10/15

Re: Mif2Go: Suppressing line break for image source HTML definitions

2015-01-06 Thread Alan Houser
I am curious ... does the MS Helpviewer render this content any differently, with or without the line break after img? From the perspective of an HTML parser, this break is insignificant and should have no effect on the HTML tree. -Alan --- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant

Re: structured application on a shared drive

2014-12-15 Thread Alan Houser
haven't tested it on FrameMaker 12. I believe the structured app files are read and retained in memory without a filesystem lock, but I would want to confirm this. Both of these issues, or their absence, should be easy to identify through testing. -Alan --- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc

Re: Docbook bookfile

2014-11-21 Thread Alan Houser
value. But that is not our world. -Alan --- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 On 11/21/14, 11:37 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote: I doubt there are many FrameMaker DocBook users, since support was just added in FM12

FrameMaker: mysterious font substitution in PDF

2014-10-24 Thread Alan Houser
? - Corrupted Acrobat Distiller settings? I would be grateful for any other ideas. -Alan -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch

Re: Getting a handle on structured Frame

2014-08-12 Thread Alan Houser
it for real work is in for a world of hurt. -Alan --- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 On 8/12/14, 12:08 PM, Theresa de Valence wrote: I started my Frame 12 experience with a new convert to ebook/pdf project. I created

Re: Help with re-install on new laptop

2014-07-28 Thread Alan Houser
to take corrective action. Have you tried these steps? -- http://helpx.adobe.com/framemaker/kb/cant-launch-framemaker-10.html -Alan --- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 On 7/28/14, 1:13 PM, Jenny Hecker wrote: Hi, I'm trying

Re: FM 12 in Parallels using Win7

2014-07-13 Thread Alan Houser
to Adobe's attention here on the list, so perhaps they will issue a patch. My colleagues who use VMware apparently do not encounter this issue. -Alan --- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532

Re: File bloat in FM

2014-07-10 Thread Alan Houser
If you haven't already, check the graphics on your master and reference pages. I once encountered an embedded 25MB version of a company logo in a page header. You should be able to delete the graphic representations in the MIF, as long as you don't break the MIF syntax. -Alan On 7/10/14,

Re: Frame crash on Windows under parallels

2014-06-24 Thread Alan Houser
believe I've raised this with Adobe, but I would be grateful if you did. -Alan --- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 On 6/24/14, 8:53 AM, Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp wrote: Hi, I often get a frame crash when scrolling a page

Re: Frame crash on Windows under parallels

2014-06-24 Thread Alan Houser
applications and use cases (and operating environments). Providing personal support is surely challenging, but the Adobe FrameMaker product team does it with aplomb. -Alan --- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 On 6/24/14, 1:24 PM

Re: Structured FrameMaker failure on startup

2014-06-22 Thread Alan Houser
...@lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Alan Houser *Sent:* Thursday, June 19, 2014 8:56 PM *To:* 'Framers' *Subject:* Structured FrameMaker failure on startup Hi All, Windows 7 running on MacOS/Parallels; FM 11 and 12 fully patched. I'm getting immediate failure of structured Framemaker 11

Structured FrameMaker failure on startup

2014-06-19 Thread Alan Houser
: - Removing the user-specific ini files ($HOME/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/FrameMaker) - Disable all third-party plugins - Disable LoadStartupScripts setting in maker.ini This happened suddenly; I don't know what might have triggered it. Any ideas? -Alan -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant

Re: fileref does not show up as attribute

2014-02-19 Thread Alan Houser
if you've specified in read/write rules to express graphic locations as filerefs). Hope this helps! -Alan --- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing Immediate Past President

Re: FW: Structured FM 11 Font Replacement issue

2013-10-23 Thread Alan Houser
Brenda, You can use the FrameMaker Fonts pod (ViewPodsFonts) to identify and replace missing fonts in your templates. -Alan 412-450-0532 On 10/23/13 2:04 PM, George, Brenda (CAI) wrote: I have attached the images that I refer to in the email below. *From:*George, Brenda (CAI) *Sent:*

FW: Structured FM 11 Font Replacement issue

2013-10-23 Thread Alan Houser
Brenda, You can use the FrameMaker Fonts pod (View>Pods>Fonts) to identify and replace missing fonts in your templates. -Alan 412-450-0532 On 10/23/13 2:04 PM, George, Brenda (CAI) wrote: > > I have attached the images that I refer to in the email below. > > *From:*George, Brenda (CAI) >

Re: Windows 7 + FrameMaker 11 = BOOM!

2013-08-11 Thread Alan Houser
I think it's fair to say that FrameMaker never crashes _for you_. However, given my (somewhat different) experience with the stability of FrameMaker 11, I'm sensitive about having our concerns dismissed. :-) Stability of FrameMaker seems to vary greatly depending on the source files being

Windows 7 + FrameMaker 11 = BOOM!

2013-08-11 Thread Alan Houser
I think it's fair to say that FrameMaker never crashes _for you_. However, given my (somewhat different) experience with the stability of FrameMaker 11, I'm sensitive about having our concerns dismissed. :-) Stability of FrameMaker seems to vary greatly depending on the source files being

Re: FrameMaker 10 Crashes Regularly, is unstructured FrameMaker 11 more stable

2013-08-07 Thread Alan Houser
It's very difficult to say whether your experience will improve with FrameMaker 11. I find FrameMaker 11 to be less temperamental than FrameMaker 10, but it's far from crash-free. Try the 30-day trial version of FrameMaker 11. You should know pretty quickly whether FM11 is more stable in your

FrameMaker 10 Crashes Regularly, is unstructured FrameMaker 11 more stable

2013-08-07 Thread Alan Houser
It's very difficult to say whether your experience will improve with FrameMaker 11. I find FrameMaker 11 to be less temperamental than FrameMaker 10, but it's far from crash-free. Try the 30-day trial version of FrameMaker 11. You should know pretty quickly whether FM11 is more stable in your

DITA/docbook vs your own schema

2013-07-08 Thread Alan Houser
I gotta generally agree with Matt. Occasionally I run into an information modeling project that I can knock off in an afternoon, but that's pretty rare. Remember that you will not only need to model "block" content (topics, headings, paragraphs, lists, etc.), but also tables, cross-references,

Frame 11 on MacBook Pro?

2013-05-13 Thread Alan Houser
doing this). I'll contact you off-list with some ideas. -Alan --- Fellow, Society for Technical Communication <http://www.stc.org>Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing Immediate Past President, Society for Technical Communication arh on Twitter 412-45

Re: TCS: Frame to Robo Cross Refs: Conversion Unpredictable

2013-01-15 Thread Alan Houser
. -Alan --- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing President, Society for Technical Communication arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 On 1/15/13 10:58 AM

TCS: Frame to Robo Cross Refs: Conversion Unpredictable

2013-01-15 Thread Alan Houser
Communication <http://www.stc.org>Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing President, Society for Technical Communication arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 On 1/15/13 10:58 AM, Keith Hansen wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm using FrameMaker 11 and RoboHelp 10

Re: Running FrameMaker on Mac workstations

2012-12-10 Thread Alan Houser
/2012/02/post-6-how-to-run-framemaker-on-mac.html An interesting tidbit...if you check the properties of Apple's PDF-format user manuals, you will still see FrameMaker 6 and 7 with surprising frequency. -Alan --- Alan Houser Group

Running FrameMaker on Mac workstations

2012-12-10 Thread Alan Houser
tidbit...if you check the properties of Apple's PDF-format user manuals, you will still see FrameMaker 6 and 7 with surprising frequency. -Alan --- Fellow, Society for Technical Communication <http://www.stc.org>Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publ

Re: seeking an ace in the San Diego area

2012-08-31 Thread Alan Houser
Matt Sullivan. matt -at- grafixtraining.com. Done. -Alan --- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing President, Society for Technical Communication arh on Twitter

FrameMaker 11 Review

2012-08-29 Thread Alan Houser
Colleagues, I've posted my review of FrameMaker 11 here -- http://groupwellesley.com/2012/08/26/a-look-at-adobe-framemaker-11/ -Alan -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing

FrameMaker 11 Review

2012-08-29 Thread Alan Houser
Colleagues, I've posted my review of FrameMaker 11 here -- http://groupwellesley.com/2012/08/26/a-look-at-adobe-framemaker-11/ -Alan -- Fellow, Society for Technical Communication <http://www.stc.org>Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing Pre

Updating book-wide paragraphs/elements?

2011-11-23 Thread Alan Houser
ot cleared/updated. I'm running Windows Vista. I noticed this behavior after I installed the 10.0.2 patch, but I'm not certain the two are connected. Is anybody else seeing this? -Alan -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant a

Re: Training for FrameMaker 10 and S1000D

2011-11-22 Thread Alan Houser
, O'Neill and Associates, Hebco come to mind in the U.S.), and hire a trainer/consultant to customize the FrameMaker 10 S1000D support to meet your particular workflow and business requirements. -Alan --- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc

Training for FrameMaker 10 and S1000D

2011-11-22 Thread Alan Houser
/consultant to customize the FrameMaker 10 S1000D support to meet your particular workflow and business requirements. -Alan --- Fellow, Society for Technical Communication <http://www.stc.org>Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing Vice President, S

width of table footnotes?

2011-11-05 Thread Alan Houser
vious work-around? I could possibly re-implement table footnotes in FrameScript, but would prefer to do that only as a last resort. -Alan -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing Vice President, S

Re: I can PDF individual files in book, but NOT the whole book

2011-11-01 Thread Alan Houser
as PDF' is fixed in FrameMaker 10? Just interested... --- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing Vice President, Society for Technical Communication arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 (Google

Re: I can PDF individual files in book, but NOT the whole book

2011-10-31 Thread Alan Houser
Hi Clara, Selecting a book by clicking the book window is unreliable in FrameMaker 10. Try selecting the book via Window Composite Documents. Then you should have better luck saving the book to PDF. -Alan --- Alan Houser

I can PDF individual files in book, but NOT the whole book

2011-10-31 Thread Alan Houser
Hi Clara, Selecting a book by clicking the book window is unreliable in FrameMaker 10. Try selecting the book via Window > Composite Documents. Then you should have better luck saving the book to PDF. -Alan --- Fellow, Society for Technical Communication <http://www.stc.org>Alan Hou

So how many of us are stuck with Frame 7.2?

2011-03-01 Thread Alan Houser
of 2012. http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/27/apple-versus-microsoft-share/ I know the "FrameMaker on Mac" horse was beaten to death long ago, but perhaps it's time for Adobe to consider reviving the horse... -Alan --- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc. 412-363-3481 www.groupwel

Re: Space at beginning of title

2010-12-16 Thread Alan Houser
space' in the text field, without quotes) Check Use Wildcards This should be sufficient, unless you've used spaces elsewhere at the beginning of paragraphs. (Unlikely, and not good practice). -Alan --- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc. 412-363-3481 www.groupwellesley.com On 12/16/2010

Space at beginning of title

2010-12-16 Thread Alan Houser
ter 'caret space' in the text field, without quotes) Check "Use Wildcards" This should be sufficient, unless you've used spaces elsewhere at the beginning of paragraphs. (Unlikely, and not good practice). -Alan --- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc. 412-363-3481 www.groupwell

Re: Training in XML, XSLT, XSL-FO

2010-08-30 Thread Alan Houser
training organization, ask for the instructor's name and bio/credentials. Some companies operate as training brokers -- they sell seats, then line up an instructor. -Alan --- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc. 412-363-3481 www.groupwellesley.com On 8/30/2010 11:37 AM, dave.st

Training in XML, XSLT, XSL-FO

2010-08-30 Thread Alan Houser
training organization, ask for the instructor's name and bio/credentials. Some companies operate as training brokers -- they sell seats, then line up an instructor. -Alan --- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc. 412-363-3481 www.groupwellesley.com On 8/30/2010 11:37 AM, Dave.Stamm

Re: WebDav and FM 8

2009-03-03 Thread Alan Houser
provides some details about the improved FM9 WebDav support. http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2009/01/adobe_framemaker_9_is_here_1.html -Alan --- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc. 412-363-3481 www.groupwellesley.com Joseph wrote: Hi all, My company is considering switching

Re: Desperately Need Legal FrameMaker 8!

2009-02-18 Thread Alan Houser
resentment and pursuit of non-Adobe-sanctioned sales channels. Adobe knows its markets far better than I do, but I bet Adobe could still sell plenty of FM8 seats, with acceptably low cannibalization of FM9 sales, if FM8 remained in the price book. -Alan --- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc

Desperately Need Legal FrameMaker 8!

2009-02-18 Thread Alan Houser
can lead to customer resentment and pursuit of non-Adobe-sanctioned sales channels. Adobe knows its markets far better than I do, but I bet Adobe could still sell plenty of FM8 seats, with acceptably low cannibalization of FM9 sales, if FM8 remained in the price book. -Alan --- Alan Houser, Presi

Re: Layoffs and Frame 9?

2008-12-04 Thread Alan Houser
of approximately 18 months is documented elsewhere. FrameMaker 8 was released in July 2007. RoboHelp 7 and Adobe Technical Communication Suite were released in October 2007. -Alan --- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc. 412-363-3481 www.groupwellesley.com

Layoffs and Frame 9?

2008-12-04 Thread Alan Houser
of approximately 18 months is documented elsewhere. FrameMaker 8 was released in July 2007. RoboHelp 7 and Adobe Technical Communication Suite were released in October 2007. -Alan --- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc. 412-363-3481 www.groupwellesley.com

Re: Color of table borders...

2008-05-18 Thread Alan Houser
Hi Scott, Through the GUI? Table-Custom Ruling Shading lets you change properties of ruling styles, or create new ruling styles with different properties. -Alan --- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc. 412-363-3481 www.groupwellesley.com Scott Prentice wrote: Hi... I think I

Color of table borders...

2008-05-18 Thread Alan Houser
Hi Scott, Through the GUI? Table->Custom Ruling & Shading lets you change properties of ruling styles, or create new ruling styles with different properties. -Alan --- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc. 412-363-3481 www.groupwellesley.com Scott Prentice wrote: > H

Re: What version of Frame to Get Started ?

2008-05-15 Thread Alan Houser
for the current upgrade price of $299USD. I would second Rick Quatro's recommendation to purchase an upgrade, if economically feasible for you. If not, go with 7.2. -Alan --- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc. 412-363-3481 www.groupwellesley.com Peter Courlis wrote: Good Morning, I want

What version of Frame to Get Started ?

2008-05-15 Thread Alan Houser
s eligible for the current upgrade price of $299USD. I would second Rick Quatro's recommendation to purchase an upgrade, if economically feasible for you. If not, go with 7.2. -Alan --- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc. 412-363-3481 www.groupwellesley.com Peter Courlis wrote: > Good Mornin

default reply-to-all (was Re: FrameMaker 8.0.3 Update Now Available (POSSIBLE WORKAROUND))

2008-05-14 Thread Alan Houser
. It goes to the sender. With two mouse clicks, you correct the oversight and direct your reply to the list. A default reply-to-all listserv configuration is evil. -Alan --- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc. 412-363-3481 www.groupwellesley.com Hedley Finger wrote: SENT THIS JUST

Re: FM Classes in Southern California?

2008-04-04 Thread Alan Houser
You want to call Matt Sullivan with GRAFIX Training, Inc. www.grafixtraining.com. 888-882-2819. Highly recommended! -Alan --- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc. 412-363-3481 www.groupwellesley.com Martin Simon wrote: Hi Framers, Happy Friday! Is anyone aware of any FM

FM Classes in Southern California?

2008-04-04 Thread Alan Houser
You want to call Matt Sullivan with GRAFIX Training, Inc. www.grafixtraining.com. 888-882-2819. Highly recommended! -Alan --- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc. 412-363-3481 www.groupwellesley.com Martin Simon wrote: > > Hi Framers, > > Happy Friday! > > Is a

Re: FM8 crashing when book building

2007-12-17 Thread Alan Houser
did, noting that all template files have identical ref pages: lots of old stuff on them, including equations, callout numbers, etc. Anyone else seen this? Any other ideas appreciated. Thanks. Kanti -- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc. 412-363-3481

Re: FM8 crashing when book building

2007-12-17 Thread Alan Houser
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FM8 crashing when book building

2007-12-17 Thread Alan Houser
te. Someone suggested looking at > reference pages, which I did, noting that all template files have > identical ref pages: lots of old stuff on them, including equations, > callout numbers, etc. > > Anyone else seen this? > > Any other ideas appreciated. > > Thanks. > >

FM8 crashing when book building

2007-12-17 Thread Alan Houser

Keyboard shortcuts in FM8 (was Re: 8.0.1 patch fixes FM Book to PDF issue)

2007-12-02 Thread Alan Houser
problem because I rely on the shortcuts for all kinds of things. Not being able to use th F9 key is a real productivity slowdown. Does anyone know of a workaround that will make the F9 key behave? Thanks, Diane -- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc. 412-363-3481

Re: Conversion of Frame 7.0 docs [using Frame 8.0] into PDF

2007-10-25 Thread Alan Houser
closes. The internal error message is Internal Error 8004, 7744902, 7026295, 7005868. Framemaker has detected a serious problem and must quit. If anyone has encountered such a scenario and knows a workaround solution, please let me know. Thanks Regards. Nihar -- Alan Houser, President Group

Conversion of Frame 7.0 docs [using Frame 8.0] into PDF

2007-10-25 Thread Alan Houser
er which the Frame 8.0 automatically closes. > > The internal error message is "Internal Error 8004, 7744902, 7026295, > 7005868. Framemaker has detected a serious problem and must quit." > > If anyone has encountered such a scenario and knows a workaround solution, > please let me k

Re: Adobe Acrobat 8

2007-09-23 Thread Alan Houser
Acrobat 8 dropping pages, text, and words when produced from FrameMaker 7.2. Is anyone still having problems? Thanks Danny Green -- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc. 412-363-3481 www.groupwellesley.com ___ You are currently subscribed

Adobe Acrobat 8

2007-09-23 Thread Alan Houser
out Acrobat 8 dropping pages, text, and > words when produced from FrameMaker 7.2. Is anyone still having > problems? > > Thanks > > Danny Green -- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc. 412-363-3481 www.groupwellesley.com

Re: Importing PPT slideshows

2007-09-09 Thread Alan Houser
wondering about a good way to do this. Creating the PDFs and cropping them each time there's an update seems a bit onerous. I've also done some OLE with PPT and Frame, but it made the file load very slowly and it was difficult to work in. -- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc. 412-363-3481

Importing PPT slideshows

2007-09-09 Thread Alan Houser
that I'd convert, so I'm also wondering about a good way to do this. > Creating the PDFs and cropping them each time there's an update seems a bit > onerous. > > I've also done some OLE with PPT and Frame, but it made the file load very > slowly and it was difficult to work in.

Re: FM8 backward compatibility

2007-09-06 Thread Alan Houser
, are there still compatibility issues we need to be concerned about? Jon Harvey Manager, Desktop Documentation CambridgeSoft Corporation 100 CambridgePark Drive Cambridge, MA 02140 (617) 588-9354 -- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc. 412-363-3481 www.groupwellesley.com

Re: Word to FrameMaker: automate?

2007-09-06 Thread Alan Houser
). I was wondering what the options are to automate step 1? I guess Framescript can do this (Rick?), any other options? Kind regards -- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc. 412-363-3481 www.groupwellesley.com ___ You are currently

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