RE: single-sourcing PDF and text with layout?

2012-02-22 Thread Lizak, Samantha
Back when we were still doing an ASCII version of the Release Notes, I developed a template that used the same paragraph tags but had different font (a fixed width) with headings in all upper case, bullets replaced with o, -, and + for the three possible levels, and a different page layout to

single-sourcing PDF and "text with layout"?

2012-02-22 Thread Lizak, Samantha
Back when we were still doing an ASCII version of the Release Notes, I developed a template that used the same paragraph tags but had different font (a fixed width) with headings in all upper case, bullets replaced with o, -, and + for the three possible levels, and a different page layout to

RE: FrameMaker and ClearCase

2011-07-26 Thread Lizak, Samantha
Hi Emelita- We looked at it, but FM files are binaries. The repository gets huge very quickly. Also, even if you store MIF instead, you still can't get any of the usual ClearCase benefits of merging or doc comparison, because MIFs (at least in older versions; this was FM6) do not preserve

FrameMaker and ClearCase

2011-07-26 Thread Lizak, Samantha
Hi Emelita- We looked at it, but FM files are binaries. The repository gets huge very quickly. Also, even if you store MIF instead, you still can't get any of the usual ClearCase benefits of merging or doc comparison, because MIFs (at least in older versions; this was FM6) do not preserve

RE: Unavailable fonts

2010-07-06 Thread Lizak, Samantha
Richard suggests just turning off the Remember missing font names. In the past, I have had unavailable fonts turn up in legacy documents where that trick did not work. If the font is in an default paragraph format of an unused table type, save the file as .mif and search on the font name. You

Unavailable fonts

2010-07-06 Thread Lizak, Samantha
Richard suggests just turning off the "Remember missing font names". In the past, I have had unavailable fonts turn up in legacy documents where that trick did not work. If the font is in an default paragraph format of an unused table type, save the file as .mif and search on the font name. You

RE: Standard font for technical documentation

2009-07-20 Thread Lizak, Samantha
Hi Mathieu- There has been a whole lot of research on this. If you are looking at reading quality, more important factors are kerning, leading, and line length. Also, the age and background of the readers has a significant effect. (For example, in a study published in the early 1990s,

Standard font for technical documentation

2009-07-20 Thread Lizak, Samantha
Hi Mathieu- There has been a whole lot of research on this. If you are looking at reading quality, more important factors are kerning, leading, and line length. Also, the age and background of the readers has a significant effect. (For example, in a study published in the early 1990s,