FM 9 - Sort Order for Paragraphs, F8/F9 keyboard shortcuts

2009-01-21 Thread Martinek, Carla
One issue that came up during beta testing was the paragraph sort order. Some of you may have noticed that it changed in one of the FM8 patches. Many of us created templates that had style names in a particular order so that we could make easy use of keyboard shortcuts. Prior to FM8p277, these two

FrameMaker 9 Install Trouble

2009-01-21 Thread Martinek, Carla
Harrumph. I deleted the unzipped files, and unpacked the original file again. NOW it automatically launched the setup. -Carla -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Martinek, Carla Sent: Wednesday

FrameMaker 9 Install Trouble

2009-01-21 Thread Martinek, Carla
Has anyone else been able to install the new release for FM9? I downloaded the trial version yesterday, apparently successfully, and unzipped it this morning. There is no installation or setup.exe file to be found. Wonder if anyone else had the same problem? -Carla Folder/File Structure Adobe

FM 9 - Sort Order for Paragraphs, F8/F9 keyboard shortcuts

2009-01-21 Thread Martinek, Carla
One issue that came up during beta testing was the paragraph sort order. Some of you may have noticed that it changed in one of the FM8 patches. Many of us created templates that had style names in a particular order so that we could make easy use of keyboard shortcuts. Prior to FM8p277, these two

RE: FrameMaker 9 Install Trouble

2009-01-21 Thread Martinek, Carla
Harrumph. I deleted the unzipped files, and unpacked the original file again. NOW it automatically launched the setup. -Carla -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Martinek, Carla Sent: Wednesday

FrameMaker 9 Install Trouble

2009-01-21 Thread Martinek, Carla
Has anyone else been able to install the new release for FM9? I downloaded the trial version yesterday, apparently successfully, and unzipped it this morning. There is no installation or setup.exe file to be found. Wonder if anyone else had the same problem? -Carla Folder/File Structure Adobe

Esc-m-p to shrink anchored frame

2009-01-15 Thread Martinek, Carla
Nancy - You need the ShrinkwrapAsIs plugin. See http://www.martinek.us/shrinkwrap.html to download it. Note: I run it successfully with FM8, although I never bothered to update the web page to say so. -Carla -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:frame

RE: Esc-m-p to shrink anchored frame

2009-01-15 Thread Martinek, Carla
Nancy - You need the ShrinkwrapAsIs plugin. See http://www.martinek.us/shrinkwrap.html to download it. Note: I run it successfully with FM8, although I never bothered to update the web page to say so. -Carla -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:fram

Jumping to Figure Captions

2009-01-05 Thread Martinek, Carla
We had the same problem, and solved it by placing our figure captions ABOVE the figures. All figure and table captions are above the item they are referencing, which creates a consistent look throughout our docs. Why the standard has always been for table titles to be ABOVE and figure captions to b

RE: Jumping to Figure Captions

2009-01-05 Thread Martinek, Carla
We had the same problem, and solved it by placing our figure captions ABOVE the figures. All figure and table captions are above the item they are referencing, which creates a consistent look throughout our docs. Why the standard has always been for table titles to be ABOVE and figure captions to b

3rd party spell checkers, grammar checkers for FrameMaker

2008-12-15 Thread Martinek, Carla
The only grammar checker for Frame that I'm aware of is MAXit. http://www.smartny.com/maxit.htm I checked it out a couple of years ago, but never used it. -Carla *** Carla Martinek, Senior Translation Coordinator/Editor Zebra Technologies Corporation 333 Corpo

RE: 3rd party spell checkers, grammar checkers for FrameMaker

2008-12-15 Thread Martinek, Carla
The only grammar checker for Frame that I'm aware of is MAXit. http://www.smartny.com/maxit.htm I checked it out a couple of years ago, but never used it. -Carla *** Carla Martinek, Senior Translation Coordinator/Editor Zebra Technologies Corporation 333 Corpo

RE: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-12 Thread Martinek, Carla
The one compelling reason I had to upgrade to FM8 was unicode support. One of my docs was a multi-lingual safety guide, and each language had to be done separately, PDF'd on localized machines, and then each language had to be assembled into the the final book. This caused problems with some of ou

Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-11 Thread Martinek, Carla
The one compelling reason I had to upgrade to FM8 was unicode support. One of my docs was a multi-lingual safety guide, and each language had to be done separately, PDF'd on localized machines, and then each language had to be assembled into the the final book. This caused problems with some of ou

RE: FM file per country for same software

2008-12-11 Thread Martinek, Carla
riginal Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Gold Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 11:53 AM To: Martinek, Carla Cc: Lynn Durell; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: FM file per country for same software Hi, Carla: With all your conditions, I

FM file per country for same software

2008-12-10 Thread Martinek, Carla
riginal Message- From: knowhowpro at gmail.com [mailto:knowhow...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Peter Gold Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 11:53 AM To: Martinek, Carla Cc: Lynn Durell; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: FM file per country for same software Hi, Carla: With all your

RE: FM file per country for same software

2008-12-10 Thread Martinek, Carla
Lynn - >From my viewpoint, you are doing the right thing now. Moving away from this method will cause you more problems down the road. However, you may need to add additional conditional text settings to accommodate your needs. (I assume you are storing the shared files on a network location acces

FM file per country for same software

2008-12-10 Thread Martinek, Carla
Lynn - >From my viewpoint, you are doing the right thing now. Moving away from this method will cause you more problems down the road. However, you may need to add additional conditional text settings to accommodate your needs. (I assume you are storing the shared files on a network location acces

RE: Paragraph catalog sort order

2008-12-09 Thread Martinek, Carla
I have reported this as a bug since FM 8 was released, and also in beta testing of FM 9. I have let Adobe developers know, in no uncertain terms, that this is a MAJOR issue. This sort order issue can invalidate a user's templates which they have used for years. Please see my entry on the Framemake

Paragraph catalog sort order

2008-12-09 Thread Martinek, Carla
I have reported this as a bug since FM 8 was released, and also in beta testing of FM 9. I have let Adobe developers know, in no uncertain terms, that this is a MAJOR issue. This sort order issue can invalidate a user's templates which they have used for years. Please see my entry on the Framemake

TOC problem with links

2008-05-08 Thread Martinek, Carla
The links in the ToC itself to the chapter title and subheadings. All generated links in the ToC except for this one file work. The file did contain text insets, but they were converted to normal text, and the broken links still happened. We also deleted the first xref marker in the file, on the

TOC problem with links

2008-05-08 Thread Martinek, Carla
Generating a book with about 15 source files. There is one file that will show up in the TOC with the correct headings, but the links are broken. Tried the following: - MIFfing the file - making a new container file and pasting the contents there - deleting the existing TOC and forcing FM to cre

RE: TOC problem with links

2008-05-08 Thread Martinek, Carla
The links in the ToC itself to the chapter title and subheadings. All generated links in the ToC except for this one file work. The file did contain text insets, but they were converted to normal text, and the broken links still happened. We also deleted the first xref marker in the file, on the

TOC problem with links

2008-05-08 Thread Martinek, Carla
Generating a book with about 15 source files. There is one file that will show up in the TOC with the correct headings, but the links are broken. Tried the following: - MIFfing the file - making a new container file and pasting the contents there - deleting the existing TOC and forcing FM to cre

FM8 Unicode Font issues and suggestions

2008-03-28 Thread Martinek, Carla
OK... weird things are happening. I've got some Spanish content where I changed the font family to Arial Unicode (from plain old Arial). Accented characters suddenly developed massive spacing around them - for example: "s ? lo" instead of "s?lo" I need to specify a Unicode f

FM8 Unicode Font issues and suggestions

2008-03-28 Thread Martinek, Carla
OK... weird things are happening. I've got some Spanish content where I changed the font family to Arial Unicode (from plain old Arial). Accented characters suddenly developed massive spacing around them - for example: "s ó lo" instead of "sólo" I need to specify a Unicod

how to change PDF comment text font size?

2008-03-17 Thread Martinek, Carla
FM 8: Edit> Preferences> General Commenting is at the top, and you can set the font and size there. -Carla - CONFIDENTIAL- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may also be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not review, use, copy,

RE: how to change PDF comment text font size?

2008-03-17 Thread Martinek, Carla
FM 8: Edit> Preferences> General Commenting is at the top, and you can set the font and size there. -Carla - CONFIDENTIAL- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may also be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not review, use, copy,

Esc m p

2008-03-12 Thread Martinek, Carla
A known bug (feature?) in FrameMaker is that if you use the Esc-m-p Shrinkwrap command, it changes the anchor of the graphic from whatever it was to At Insertion Point. A smart Frame user wrote a small FDK plugin that preserves the settings for an anchored frame when shrink wrapping. I received pe

RE: Esc m p

2008-03-12 Thread Martinek, Carla
A known bug (feature?) in FrameMaker is that if you use the Esc-m-p Shrinkwrap command, it changes the anchor of the graphic from whatever it was to At Insertion Point. A smart Frame user wrote a small FDK plugin that preserves the settings for an anchored frame when shrink wrapping. I received pe

boilerplate text on reference pages

2008-02-28 Thread Martinek, Carla
Our solution is a bit different. We ran into issues with using content from the reference pages, and found an alternative. We use AutoText from Silicon Prairie Software. I created a menu that allows us to insert pre-formatted tables, many already populated with standard phrases and text, for our

RE: boilerplate text on reference pages

2008-02-28 Thread Martinek, Carla
Our solution is a bit different. We ran into issues with using content from the reference pages, and found an alternative. We use AutoText from Silicon Prairie Software. I created a menu that allows us to insert pre-formatted tables, many already populated with standard phrases and text, for our

Annoying FrameMaker Question

2008-02-11 Thread Martinek, Carla
This utility for FM7.x did resize many of the windows, including the conditional text window. I also liked the way it streamlined and removed some of the redundant information in the screens. http://www.daube.ch/docu/fmaker36.html Unfortunately, I don't think it will work on FM6.x, but you can t

RE: Annoying FrameMaker Question

2008-02-11 Thread Martinek, Carla
This utility for FM7.x did resize many of the windows, including the conditional text window. I also liked the way it streamlined and removed some of the redundant information in the screens. http://www.daube.ch/docu/fmaker36.html Unfortunately, I don't think it will work on FM6.x, but you can t

oldie

2008-02-05 Thread Martinek, Carla
Been using Frame since FM 3.0 on Mac back in 1990/91. Don't remember when I found/first posted to the framers list, but it was a looong time ago, probably under my maiden name. Used it on Mac, Win, and Unix at various locations over the years. (Hey, Adobe -- WE WANT MAC FRAME AGAIN!!!) Was o

RE: oldie

2008-02-05 Thread Martinek, Carla
Been using Frame since FM 3.0 on Mac back in 1990/91. Don't remember when I found/first posted to the framers list, but it was a looong time ago, probably under my maiden name. Used it on Mac, Win, and Unix at various locations over the years. (Hey, Adobe -- WE WANT MAC FRAME AGAIN!!!) Was o

Keyboard shortcut for copyright symbol

2008-01-24 Thread Martinek, Carla
Here's my personal list that I've put into my AutoText menu in Frame: Copyright Symbol ... Alt+0169 Registered Symbol ... Alt+0174 Trademark Symbol ... Alt+0153 - Straight Quote Single ... Ctrl+' Straight Quote Double ... Esc " Ellipses ... Alt+0133 Bullet ... Alt+0149 Endash ... Alt+0150 Emdash

Keyboard shortcut for copyright symbol

2008-01-24 Thread Martinek, Carla
I use them all the time, since they're application-independent. Also good to know: ALT+0153 = (tm) ALT+0174 = (r) -Carla -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Glenn Voyles Sent: Thursday, January 24,

RE: Keyboard shortcut for copyright symbol

2008-01-24 Thread Martinek, Carla
Here's my personal list that I've put into my AutoText menu in Frame: Copyright Symbol ... Alt+0169 Registered Symbol ... Alt+0174 Trademark Symbol ... Alt+0153 - Straight Quote Single ... Ctrl+' Straight Quote Double ... Esc " Ellipses ... Alt+0133 Bullet ... Alt+0149 Endash ... Alt+0150 Emdash

RE: Keyboard shortcut for copyright symbol

2008-01-24 Thread Martinek, Carla
I use them all the time, since they're application-independent. Also good to know: ALT+0153 = (tm) ALT+0174 = (r) -Carla -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn Voyles Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAI

Has anyone used certain languages in FrameMaker 8

2007-12-19 Thread Martinek, Carla
I had my translators run a test a few months ago, and they pulled in several code pages and languages into a single document, with no problems. I had 30 different languages, including Eastern and Western European languages, Cyrillic, and multiple Asian languages (zhcn, zhtw, ko, ja). Unfortunatel

RE: Has anyone used certain languages in FrameMaker 8

2007-12-19 Thread Martinek, Carla
I had my translators run a test a few months ago, and they pulled in several code pages and languages into a single document, with no problems. I had 30 different languages, including Eastern and Western European languages, Cyrillic, and multiple Asian languages (zhcn, zhtw, ko, ja). Unfortunatel

Scroll Back Bug - still around in FM8?

2007-12-17 Thread Martinek, Carla
Has anyone run into the infamous Scroll Back Bug in FM 8? (which was nicely circumvented by Rick Quatro's runaroundnone.dll in FM7.2 and earlier). We just officially upgraded to FM 8, and as I look to install and/or upgrade the various plugins and such that we've purchased, I wondered if I should

Scroll Back Bug - still around in FM8?

2007-12-17 Thread Martinek, Carla
Has anyone run into the infamous Scroll Back Bug in FM 8? (which was nicely circumvented by Rick Quatro's runaroundnone.dll in FM7.2 and earlier). We just officially upgraded to FM 8, and as I look to install and/or upgrade the various plugins and such that we've purchased, I wondered if I should

HTML to Frame plugins/utilities?

2007-11-16 Thread Martinek, Carla
I'm having a brain cramp... is there anything out there that helps import HTML files decently into Frame? <> Thanks, Carla - CONFIDENTIAL- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may also be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not rev

HTML to Frame plugins/utilities?

2007-11-16 Thread Martinek, Carla
I'm having a brain cramp... is there anything out there that helps import HTML files decently into Frame? <> Thanks, Carla - CONFIDENTIAL- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may also be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not

Frame's lame callouts

2007-11-15 Thread Martinek, Carla
One thing to consider if you have callouts that will need translating is the expansion in the length of the callout. What terms might fit in the space allotted in English may or may not in other languages. If they don't fit, then the translators will need to manually resize the callout frame (extra

RE: Frame's lame callouts

2007-11-15 Thread Martinek, Carla
One thing to consider if you have callouts that will need translating is the expansion in the length of the callout. What terms might fit in the space allotted in English may or may not in other languages. If they don't fit, then the translators will need to manually resize the callout frame (extra

Easiest way to migrate from one FM template to another

2007-11-08 Thread Martinek, Carla
ember 08, 2007 10:40 AM To: Martinek, Carla; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Easiest way to migrate from one FM template to another Carla Martinek said: > > A quick search brings up Chris' TemplateMapper (and other) files posted > on the freeframers site http://www.freef

Easiest way to migrate from one FM template to another

2007-11-08 Thread Martinek, Carla
A quick search brings up Chris' TemplateMapper (and other) files posted on the freeframers site http://www.freeframers.org/freeware/cud/ . Shlomo links to this as well from the Microtype site http://www.microtype.com/links.html. -Carla - CONFIDENTIAL- This email and any files transmitted with i

RE: Easiest way to migrate from one FM template to another

2007-11-08 Thread Martinek, Carla
er 08, 2007 10:40 AM To: Martinek, Carla; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Easiest way to migrate from one FM template to another Carla Martinek said: > > A quick search brings up Chris' TemplateMapper (and other) files posted > on the freeframers site http://www.freeframe

RE: Easiest way to migrate from one FM template to another

2007-11-08 Thread Martinek, Carla
A quick search brings up Chris' TemplateMapper (and other) files posted on the freeframers site http://www.freeframers.org/freeware/cud/ . Shlomo links to this as well from the Microtype site http://www.microtype.com/links.html. -Carla - CONFIDENTIAL- This email and any files transmitted with

Easiest way to migrate from one FM template to another

2007-11-08 Thread Martinek, Carla
Hallo, Verner: There are several options for doing this. 1. FrameScript (Rick Quatro will surely chime in on this one... :-) 2. Paragraph Tools and Character Tools from Silicon Prairie http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/ 3. ToolBox from Systec http://www.systec-gmbh.com/en/sites/toolbox.php

RE: Easiest way to migrate from one FM template to another

2007-11-08 Thread Martinek, Carla
Hallo, Verner: There are several options for doing this. 1. FrameScript (Rick Quatro will surely chime in on this one... :-) 2. Paragraph Tools and Character Tools from Silicon Prairie http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/ 3. ToolBox from Systec http://www.systec-gmbh.com/en/sites/toolbox.php

Tracing the Lineage of Text Insets

2007-11-07 Thread Martinek, Carla
Jim - You don't need to run the archive plug-in on each book. What you can do is generate an LOR (List of References) file. Showing text insets is one of the options you can select when you create that file. You're still going to have to touch multiple files and/or books, no matter what you do.

RE: Tracing the Lineage of Text Insets

2007-11-07 Thread Martinek, Carla
Jim - You don't need to run the archive plug-in on each book. What you can do is generate an LOR (List of References) file. Showing text insets is one of the options you can select when you create that file. You're still going to have to touch multiple files and/or books, no matter what you do.

How would you organize these documents?

2007-10-22 Thread Martinek, Carla
-Original Message- How would you maintain these files? Conditional text? Separate books? Short Answer: Yes to both. Long Answer: You're thinking about this the correct way. Break apart your content into topical files (or modules). Then, within the modules, use conditio

RE: How would you organize these documents?

2007-10-22 Thread Martinek, Carla
-Original Message- How would you maintain these files? Conditional text? Separate books? Short Answer: Yes to both. Long Answer: You're thinking about this the correct way. Break apart your content into topical files (or modules). Then, within the modules, use conditio

FM8: Renaming a para format throughout a book?

2007-08-17 Thread Martinek, Carla
These programs will also perform this function: - Paragraph Tools from Silicon Prairie (http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/) - Toolbox from Systec (http://tinyurl.com/2p4yuo) -Carla - CONFIDENTIAL- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may also be legally privile

RE: FM8: Renaming a para format throughout a book?

2007-08-17 Thread Martinek, Carla
These programs will also perform this function: - Paragraph Tools from Silicon Prairie (http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/) - Toolbox from Systec (http://tinyurl.com/2p4yuo) -Carla - CONFIDENTIAL- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may also be legally privil

deleting color definitions

2007-06-25 Thread Martinek, Carla
The free version of Toolbox has an option to either Delete All or Delete Unused colors from either a file or book. You can also do the same with paragraph & character formats, user-defined variables, x-ref formats, and table formats. http://www.systec-gmbh.com/en/sites/toolbox.php The paid versi

RE: deleting color definitions

2007-06-25 Thread Martinek, Carla
The free version of Toolbox has an option to either Delete All or Delete Unused colors from either a file or book. You can also do the same with paragraph & character formats, user-defined variables, x-ref formats, and table formats. http://www.systec-gmbh.com/en/sites/toolbox.php The paid versi

FM v. RoboHelp

2007-06-20 Thread Martinek, Carla
Lin - When you make your argument, specify your deliverables. That includes printable PDFs, with TOC, Indexes, and an attractive, readable format that pleases the customer and shows off the company to its best advantage. If RH cannot produce the required deliverables, then it is not the right too

RE: FM v. RoboHelp

2007-06-20 Thread Martinek, Carla
Lin - When you make your argument, specify your deliverables. That includes printable PDFs, with TOC, Indexes, and an attractive, readable format that pleases the customer and shows off the company to its best advantage. If RH cannot produce the required deliverables, then it is not the right too

Text insets: to be or not to be?

2007-06-07 Thread Martinek, Carla
-Original Message- The first couple of pages of the Preface contain the doc info (audience, scope, purpose, structure, etc.), and the stuff that's shared among the docs is in the latter 3/4 of the Preface. Would it work to split it into two files (the first part with all the doc-specific s

RE: Text insets: to be or not to be?

2007-06-07 Thread Martinek, Carla
-Original Message- The first couple of pages of the Preface contain the doc info (audience, scope, purpose, structure, etc.), and the stuff that's shared among the docs is in the latter 3/4 of the Preface. Would it work to split it into two files (the first part with all the doc-specific s

FrameMaker.next

2007-05-18 Thread Martinek, Carla
Oh, yeah... two more things I remembered from the demos: 1 - you can embed a 3D image in Frame, and the user can manipulate it in Acro Reader 8. They can change the lighting, rotate the object, change it to wireframe, among other things. 2 - you can embed a Flash object directly in Frame. The s

How to keep track of 80 conditional text tags... (was RE: FrameMaker.next)

2007-05-18 Thread Martinek, Carla
-Original Message- From: Diane Gaskill My question is Why?? I suppose this is a little OT, but I cannot imagine needing more than 10 conditions, even when you create PDF for both computer screens and handhelds, and also help, as well as have 3 or 4 models of a product described in the sam

RE: FrameMaker.next

2007-05-18 Thread Martinek, Carla
Oh, yeah... two more things I remembered from the demos: 1 - you can embed a 3D image in Frame, and the user can manipulate it in Acro Reader 8. They can change the lighting, rotate the object, change it to wireframe, among other things. 2 - you can embed a Flash object directly in Frame. The s

How to keep track of 80 conditional text tags... (was RE: FrameMaker.next)

2007-05-18 Thread Martinek, Carla
-Original Message- From: Diane Gaskill My question is Why?? I suppose this is a little OT, but I cannot imagine needing more than 10 conditions, even when you create PDF for both computer screens and handhelds, and also help, as well as have 3 or 4 models of a product described in the sam

surreptitious mountains

2007-05-17 Thread Martinek, Carla
Egads, did I do that??? And I'm the Editor for our group... I blame it on jet lag -- oh, wait, I never left the Central time zone. OK, I fall back on my original claim of informtion overload. My brain is too full and its leeking. ;-) -Carla -Original Message- From: framers-bounces

FrameMaker.next

2007-05-17 Thread Martinek, Carla
As previously stated, these are just "sneak peak" previews, and nothing is guaranteed to make it in the final build. For one, I'm pretty sure that they said that the DITA support will be built in, and you won't have to download the DITA App Pack and install it. Improved conditional text handlin

RE: surreptitious mountains

2007-05-17 Thread Martinek, Carla
Egads, did I do that??? And I'm the Editor for our group... I blame it on jet lag -- oh, wait, I never left the Central time zone. OK, I fall back on my original claim of informtion overload. My brain is too full and its leeking. ;-) -Carla -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: FrameMaker.next

2007-05-17 Thread Martinek, Carla
As previously stated, these are just "sneak peak" previews, and nothing is guaranteed to make it in the final build. For one, I'm pretty sure that they said that the DITA support will be built in, and you won't have to download the DITA App Pack and install it. Improved conditional text handlin

FrameMaker.next

2007-05-17 Thread Martinek, Carla
I sat in on a couple of the Adobe previews at the conference, and I'm seriously looking forward to Framemaker.next. We're 'thisclose' to converting to XML/Dita, and the feature improvements and support I saw coming from Adobe in the next version make me confident that staying in FM will be a smart

RE: FrameMaker.next

2007-05-17 Thread Martinek, Carla
I sat in on a couple of the Adobe previews at the conference, and I'm seriously looking forward to Framemaker.next. We're 'thisclose' to converting to XML/Dita, and the feature improvements and support I saw coming from Adobe in the next version make me confident that staying in FM will be a smart

Geeky Friday Humor

2007-04-20 Thread Martinek, Carla
My favorite plate, seen a few years ago here in Chicago: AU DIGR -Carla - CONFIDENTIAL- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may also be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not review, use, copy, or distribute this message.

RE: Geeky Friday Humor

2007-04-20 Thread Martinek, Carla
My favorite plate, seen a few years ago here in Chicago: AU DIGR -Carla - CONFIDENTIAL- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may also be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not review, use, copy, or distribute this message

Handling several language versions of documentation and graphics

2007-04-19 Thread Martinek, Carla
Do not worry about changing the structure of your graphics as they are used/stored on your network. Instead, use the Archive plug-in to make an archive of your COMPLETED doc before you send it to the translators. You can purchase Archive for $25 at http://home.comcast.net/~bruce.foster/Archive.ht

RE: Handling several language versions of documentation and graphics

2007-04-19 Thread Martinek, Carla
Do not worry about changing the structure of your graphics as they are used/stored on your network. Instead, use the Archive plug-in to make an archive of your COMPLETED doc before you send it to the translators. You can purchase Archive for $25 at http://home.comcast.net/~bruce.foster/Archive.ht

Anything new about when the next release of Framemaker willbelaunched?

2007-03-20 Thread Martinek, Carla
-Original Message- From: Bill Swallow Agreed. I was surprised to see their announcement of 1st half of 2007, to be honest. They usually hold their cards close. Which realistically, at least in my mind, means we won't see it until the end of Q3 at the earliest. But we could be pleasantly

RE: Anything new about when the next release of Framemaker willbelaunched?

2007-03-20 Thread Martinek, Carla
-Original Message- From: Bill Swallow Agreed. I was surprised to see their announcement of 1st half of 2007, to be honest. They usually hold their cards close. Which realistically, at least in my mind, means we won't see it until the end of Q3 at the earliest. But we could be pleasantly

Conditions that won't go away - solution(s)

2007-03-08 Thread Martinek, Carla
Summary of the problem and solution: 1. I used a Framescript to change all text tagged with OLDTAG to being tagged with NEWTAG. No text in any of the files is tagged with OLDTAG at this time. 2. As the condition OLDTAG still existed in each file, I deleted that unused condition

RE: Conditions that won't go away - solution(s)

2007-03-08 Thread Martinek, Carla
Summary of the problem and solution: 1. I used a Framescript to change all text tagged with OLDTAG to being tagged with NEWTAG. No text in any of the files is tagged with OLDTAG at this time. 2. As the condition OLDTAG still existed in each file, I deleted that unused condition

Conditions that won't go away

2007-03-07 Thread Martinek, Carla
OK, I'm stumped. Here's the situation: I used Framescript to rename a conditional tag before I send a set of book files out to someone else (renamed it to something making more sense.) For this email, consider the tags as OLDTAG and NEWTAG. I then deleted all unused condition tags using the P

Conditions that won't go away

2007-03-07 Thread Martinek, Carla
OK, I'm stumped. Here's the situation: I used Framescript to rename a conditional tag before I send a set of book files out to someone else (renamed it to something making more sense.) For this email, consider the tags as OLDTAG and NEWTAG. I then deleted all unused condition tags using the PGF

how to manage multilingual documentation with frequent updates

2007-02-02 Thread Martinek, Carla
Work with a translation vendor that uses Trados (now part of SDL), and specifically the X-Translate module. Content that is a 100% match is not touched at all, resulting in reduced costs. You pay only for translations on the new content, and DTP/QA time for the entire book. I currently do this w

RE: how to manage multilingual documentation with frequent updates

2007-02-02 Thread Martinek, Carla
Work with a translation vendor that uses Trados (now part of SDL), and specifically the X-Translate module. Content that is a 100% match is not touched at all, resulting in reduced costs. You pay only for translations on the new content, and DTP/QA time for the entire book. I currently do this w

FrameMaker & RTL languages

2007-01-16 Thread Martinek, Carla
Getting Frame to work in Arabic involves hacking the registry, among other things. I don't know the specific details that my translators used, but it was fairly complex and troublesome. They use it for some small (1-2 pages) items that we need done, but for anything longer they convert it to InDe

RE: FrameMaker & RTL languages

2007-01-16 Thread Martinek, Carla
Getting Frame to work in Arabic involves hacking the registry, among other things. I don't know the specific details that my translators used, but it was fairly complex and troublesome. They use it for some small (1-2 pages) items that we need done, but for anything longer they convert it to InDe

ATTN: Brad -- I need to go nomail, can't get my password to work

2006-12-22 Thread Martinek, Carla
Brad, please contact me. I'm trying to set my subscription to nomail while I'm gone on vacation, else everyone will receive "out of office" posts from my account. Apparently the password I had on file isn't working, and there is no way to get a reminder because the site is down. Regards, Carla

ATTN: Brad -- I need to go nomail, can't get my password to work

2006-12-22 Thread Martinek, Carla
Brad, please contact me. I'm trying to set my subscription to nomail while I'm gone on vacation, else everyone will receive "out of office" posts from my account. Apparently the password I had on file isn't working, and there is no way to get a reminder because the site is down. Regards, Carla

renaming styles at the book level

2006-12-12 Thread Martinek, Carla
There are multiple ways you can do this: FrameScript (http://www.framescript.com/) There is a free script available called ChangePgfFormat.fsl, but you need to pay for FrameScript. However, there's a lot of other things you can do with FrameScript, so it is definitely worth a look.

RE: renaming styles at the book level

2006-12-12 Thread Martinek, Carla
There are multiple ways you can do this: FrameScript (http://www.framescript.com/) There is a free script available called ChangePgfFormat.fsl, but you need to pay for FrameScript. However, there's a lot of other things you can do with FrameScript, so it is definitely worth a look.

Frame track changes plugin

2006-12-11 Thread Martinek, Carla
http://www.intech.com/solutions/trackchanges/ - CONFIDENTIAL- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may also be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not review, use, copy, or distribute this message. If you receive this email in error,

RE: Frame track changes plugin

2006-12-11 Thread Martinek, Carla
http://www.intech.com/solutions/trackchanges/ - CONFIDENTIAL- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may also be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not review, use, copy, or distribute this message. If you receive this email in error,

bookmarks

2006-11-28 Thread Martinek, Carla
Here's a question: can I change what text shows in the bookmarks when the PDF generates? In our programming code documentation, they want the code on the first line, and the explanation/title on the second line. ^CM Change Memory Letter Designation Description... Format... It's no

bookmarks

2006-11-28 Thread Martinek, Carla
Here's a question: can I change what text shows in the bookmarks when the PDF generates? In our programming code documentation, they want the code on the first line, and the explanation/title on the second line. ^CM Change Memory Letter Designation Description... Format... It's no

List of unused User Variables?

2006-11-21 Thread Martinek, Carla
ToolBox from Systec will delete unused variables. http://www.systec-gmbh.com/en/sites/toolbox.php Download the installer, and then do not select any of the modules to install. What installs at that point is the "free" utilities, which include the option to delete unused: - Paragraph Formats - C

RE: Conferences

2006-10-28 Thread Martinek, Carla
Hmm... LavaCon in Hawai'i is a good option. :-) http://www.lavacon.org/ I seriously thought about extending my vacation to stay for the conference this year (my last day in Hawai'i was the first day of the conference earlier this month). Also one of the Frame Chatauquas or DITA 2007 would be

<    1   2   3   >