PPT import into FM

2010-01-10 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Converting the PPT into on or more Flash presentations, and inserting them into a FM doc :) -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Corinne Kenney wrote: > I need to convert about 1200 pages of content that is in power point into > FM9. The PPT pages are currently p

Re: Frame 9 MAJOR BUG

2009-12-30 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
For this reason and other reasons, it's a good idea to zip up each days work, and save it with the date in the filename. This way you can always revert to the previous day's work. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Galanter, Lea wrote: I'm not sure how to report

Frame 9 MAJOR BUG

2009-12-30 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
For this reason and other reasons, it's a good idea to zip up each days work, and save it with the date in the filename. This way you can always revert to the previous day's work. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Galanter, Lea wrote: > I'm not sure how to rep

Re: how to prevent empty pages in a book? (part xxviii)

2009-12-16 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
in the book file override the ones in each chapter, so I recommend just setting them at the book level unless you have a specific reason why you can't. If you need more help, please let me know. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer Jakob Fix wrote: Hello, I've now spent hours scouring

how to prevent empty pages in a book? (part xxviii)

2009-12-16 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
The Pagination settings in the book file override the ones in each chapter, so I recommend just setting them at the book level unless you have a specific reason why you can't. If you need more help, please let me know. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer Jakob Fix wrote: > Hell

Re: How To Delete Condition Tags in a Book

2009-12-09 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I think the options that have been mentioned on the list are: 1. Use a FrameScript 2. Delete them from each file manually, then save the book as a MIF and search for and delete the tags. 3. Save all the files as MIFs and delete the tags. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133

How To Delete Condition Tags in a Book

2009-12-09 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I think the options that have been mentioned on the list are: 1. Use a FrameScript 2. Delete them from each file manually, then save the book as a MIF and search for and delete the tags. 3. Save all the files as MIFs and delete the tags. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133

Upgrading FM from 7.1 to 9

2009-12-02 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
micrograms of silver. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Lea Rush wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > > I did a comparison of RH vs. Mif2Go at the beginning of the year, and the > biggest difference I found was that RH supported Natural Language search. > Does

Re: Ctrl key issues

2009-11-29 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I have this problem all the time. It seems like the Windows shortcuts are the ones that stop working. At the same time, when selecting text together with the shift key, it does not work properly. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Corinne Kenney wrote: FM 9 and FM 7.2

Ctrl key issues

2009-11-29 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I have this problem all the time. It seems like the Windows shortcuts are the ones that stop working. At the same time, when selecting text together with the shift key, it does not work properly. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Corinne Kenney wrote: > FM 9 and FM

Re: FM 7.2 and Windows 7 64-bit

2009-11-12 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
will accept 7.2 to allow an upgrade to 10, but who knows. The truth is I'm much happier with 9 than 7.2. I find it more stable and easier to use. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Susan Modlin wrote: Hi Framers, Call me old fashioned, but I'm happy with FM 7.2

FM 7.2 and Windows 7 64-bit

2009-11-12 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
will accept 7.2 to allow an upgrade to 10, but who knows. The truth is I'm much happier with 9 than 7.2. I find it more stable and easier to use. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Susan Modlin wrote: > Hi Framers, > > Call me old fashioned, but I'm happy wi

Re: Key combo for Keep with Next?

2009-10-28 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
points after the paragraph. This forces the rest of the text to the next page without making an exception to any style. Then you could use F9,e,n,ENTER to apply the style. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Jenny Greenleaf wrote: One of the things I do frequently

Key combo for Keep with Next?

2009-10-28 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
points after the paragraph. This forces the rest of the text to the next page without making an exception to any style. Then you could use "F9,e,n,ENTER" to apply the style. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Jenny Greenleaf wrote: > One of the things I

Re: Can you copy an entire master page from one document into another?

2009-10-27 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
a Save As, delete all other cross-reference formats, then import the cross-reference formats to all the other docs. Just be careful to only import the formats that you want to import. Otherwise, you could end up with a big mess. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Avraham

Can you copy an entire master page from one document into another?

2009-10-27 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
a Save As, delete all other cross-reference formats, then import the cross-reference formats to all the other docs. Just be careful to only import the formats that you want to import. Otherwise, you could end up with a big mess. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Avraham

FW: Selecting all anchored Frames

2009-10-22 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
You probably can do that an AutoIt script as well. AutoIt is free. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Flato, Gillian wrote: > > > Anyone know how to select every anchored frame in a document at once, > and change the properties, so, essentially, a global ch

Re: Beware the Inadvertent Global Search and Replace

2009-10-18 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Yes, Adobe there add a warning before performing a global search and replace. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Peter Gold wrote: Hi, Bodvar: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson bod...@gmail.comwrote: Yes, with FM 7 / 7.2, but luckily without any

Beware the Inadvertent Global Search and Replace

2009-10-18 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Yes, Adobe there add a warning before performing a global search and replace. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Peter Gold wrote: > Hi, Bodvar: > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson > wrote: > >> Yes, with FM 7 / 7.2, but luckily

Re: Any advantage to upgrade-FM7.2 to FM9?

2009-09-30 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
worth an upgrade. By the way, I do find it easier to work with 9.0 than with 7.2. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer Jim Duszynski wrote: Is there any advantage to upgrade from FM 7.2 to FM 9? I am using FM9 trial now and not finding enough improvement in features to justify the c0st

Any advantage to upgrade-FM7.2 to FM9?

2009-09-30 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
think it's worth an upgrade. By the way, I do find it easier to work with 9.0 than with 7.2. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer Jim Duszynski wrote: > Is there any advantage to upgrade from FM 7.2 to FM 9? I am using FM9 trial > now and not finding enough improvement in fea

FrameMaker TOC Problem - resolved

2009-08-18 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
It seems that the problem with the page numbering in the TOC was that one paragraph was shifting to the next page when I updated the TOC, but it was not shifting to the next page in the PDF. I haven't quite figured out how that could have happened, but I solved the problem for now buy reducing

FrameMaker TOC Problem

2009-08-18 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I'm having two problems with a TOC (using Frame 9 p237). 1. The page numbers for a lot of the TOC entries are wrong. When I click on the links they go to the right pages, but not the pages listed in the TOC. It starts in the middle of one of the chapters - the page numbers in the TOC is one

FrameMaker TOC Problem - resolved

2009-08-11 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
It seems that the problem with the page numbering in the TOC was that one paragraph was shifting to the next page when I updated the TOC, but it was not shifting to the next page in the PDF. I haven't quite figured out how that could have happened, but I solved the problem for now buy reducing

FrameMaker TOC Problem

2009-08-11 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I'm having two problems with a TOC (using Frame 9 p237). 1. The page numbers for a lot of the TOC entries are wrong. When I click on the links they go to the right pages, but not the pages listed in the TOC. It starts in the middle of one of the chapters - the page numbers in the TOC is one

Cross-ref formats

2009-08-05 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I use bold for referencing sections, instead of quotation marks. It makes things much simpler as far where to put the comma, and this style seems to be popular. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Nancy Allison wrote: > Once more, this time with content! > >

Re: Can Word identify graphic file names?

2009-07-01 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
code including the path. If they are inserted in the doc (and not linked), than Word saved them in the doc itself so there is no path. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Carol J. Elkins wrote: I've been given a CD with over 1500 graphic files of all formats

Can Word identify graphic file names?

2009-07-01 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
code including the path. If they are inserted in the doc (and not linked), than Word saved them in the doc itself so there is no path. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Carol J. Elkins wrote: > I've been given a CD with over 1500 graphic files of all form

Re: Help with Saving 200+ FrameMaker 7 files in FM 9

2009-06-23 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
FrameMaker) WinWaitActive(Adobe FrameMaker) Send(!tr) Sleep(100) Send(!n) Send(!s) Sleep(200) Send({TAB 4}) $x = $x + 1 WEnd -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 jody giunta wrote: Hello, I have several hundred FrameMaker 7.0 files

Help with Saving 200+ FrameMaker 7 files in FM 9

2009-06-23 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
ile $x <= $max WinActivate("Adobe FrameMaker") WinWaitActive("Adobe FrameMaker") Send("!tr") Sleep(100) Send("!n") Send("!s") Sleep(200) Send("{TAB 4}") $x = $x + 1 WEnd -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson T

Re: Push or Click???

2009-06-02 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I would use Press (not Push) when the user has to physically press a button (like an ATM machine), Click when the user has to perform a mouse click, and Tap when the user has to tap with a stylus. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Garnier Garnier wrote: Hi I have

Push or Click???

2009-06-02 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I would use Press (not Push) when the user has to physically press a button (like an ATM machine), Click when the user has to perform a mouse click, and Tap when the user has to tap with a stylus. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Garnier Garnier wrote: > Hi > &g

Frame 7.2 re-installation issue

2009-05-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
installing and uninstalling the trial version of Acrobat 9, repartitioning my hard drive, etc. Does anyone have an idea of how I could solve this? Thanks -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 ___ You are currently subscribed

Frame 7.2 re-installation issue

2009-05-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
including installing and uninstalling the trial version of Acrobat 9, repartitioning my hard drive, etc. Does anyone have an idea of how I could solve this? Thanks -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133

Re: Exporting the paths of graphics used

2009-05-20 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
You could select the list, turn the text into a table, then sort it. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Susan Curtzwiler wrote: Hi, I'd like to join this email about making a list of figures in alpha order. I followed the directions below and all I got

Exporting the paths of graphics used

2009-05-20 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
You could select the list, turn the text into a table, then sort it. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Susan Curtzwiler wrote: > > Hi, > I'd like to join this email about making a list of figures in alpha order. > > I followed the directions belo

Re: Motivating end users to read the user manual

2009-05-19 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
the related sections of the manual before complaining that it doesn't work. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Garnier Garnier wrote: Hello Nancy/Shmuel/Sharon, others, Thanks for the response. I handle documentation for the EDA (Electronic Design Automation) industry

Motivating end users to read the user manual

2009-05-19 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
the related sections of the manual before complaining that it doesn't work. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Garnier Garnier wrote: > Hello Nancy/Shmuel/Sharon,& others, > > Thanks for the response. I handle documentation for the EDA (Electronic > D

Re: Motivating end users to read the user manual

2009-05-18 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
The fact is that people don't like to read. Exhaustive training material is exhaustive to read. If there are specific dos and don'ts that are *not* intuitive, make a short 1-3 page list, print it on color paper, and put it in the box with the product. That they might read. -- Regards, Shmuel

Motivating end users to read the user manual

2009-05-18 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
they might read. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Garnier Garnier wrote: > Hi listers, > > I would like some feedback on this issue which I am sure most of us face. > Please write to me directly as most of the time the mails form forums bounces > and I d

Re: OT: Technical illustrations - Outlining a line drawing

2009-05-06 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
one doesn't work - WMF, EMF and DXF. You can open DXF directly in CorelDraw. Good luck. If you need more details, let me know. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Writer wrote: I should have offered more information: I want to create an outline to the actual object

OT: Technical illustrations - Outlining a line drawing

2009-05-06 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
one doesn't work - WMF, EMF and DXF. You can open DXF directly in CorelDraw. Good luck. If you need more details, let me know. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Writer wrote: > I should have offered more information: > > I want to create an outline to the actu

Re: Mif2go - suddenly some graphics files won't import when creating HTML

2009-05-04 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
all the details. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer Susan OConnor wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm suddenly having a problem with Mif2go. All of a sudden graphics files have stopped importing on some book files when I'm creating a HTML file. Others import just fine. The graphics files

Mif2go - suddenly some graphics files won't import when creating HTML

2009-05-04 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
all the details. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer Susan OConnor wrote: > Hi Everyone, > I'm suddenly having a problem with Mif2go. All of a sudden graphics files > have stopped importing on some book files when I'm creating a HTML file. > Others import just fine. The gr

Re: pesky persistent unresolved cross-references

2009-04-27 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Sometimes this happens when you have conditional text which is hidden. If this is the case, AND you search for unresolved cross-references and there are none, you can safely ignore this warning. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Ben Hechter wrote: Can't figure

pesky persistent unresolved cross-references

2009-04-27 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Sometimes this happens when you have conditional text which is hidden. If this is the case, AND you search for unresolved cross-references and there are none, you can safely ignore this warning. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Ben Hechter wrote: > Can't fig

FrameMaker Footnotes

2009-04-02 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
book this problem does not occur. Any ideas why this is happening or how to fix it? Also, how to you adjust the size of the (superscript) number that refers to a table footnote? -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 ___ You

FrameMaker Footnotes

2009-04-02 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
book this problem does not occur. Any ideas why this is happening or how to fix it? Also, how to you adjust the size of the (superscript) number that refers to a table footnote? -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133

Repeating Footnotes in FrameMaker

2009-03-18 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
: (Pretend the numbers are superscript.) Pants 1 Shirts 1 Sweaters 1 Apples 2 Oranges 2 1 You can find these in the clothing section. 2 You can find these in the fruit section. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 ___ You

Repeating Footnotes in FrameMaker

2009-03-18 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
or example: (Pretend the numbers are superscript.) Pants 1 Shirts 1 Sweaters 1 Apples 2 Oranges 2 1 You can find these in the clothing section. 2 You can find these in the fruit section. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133

FM, single-sourcing 101

2009-03-12 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
are not that hard to learn, and you could implement it at your own pace. Good luck. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Joel wrote: I am using Frame 8. I have a set of seven manuals that are close to 100 pages each. Many sections of these manuals are identical, some sections

FM, single-sourcing 101

2009-03-12 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
are not that hard to learn, and you could implement it at your own pace. Good luck. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Joel wrote: > I am using Frame 8. I have a set of seven manuals that are close to 100 > pages each. Many sections of these manuals are identical, some se

Re: Visually Identifying Marker Tags

2009-03-10 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
You could take this idea further and create a few character styles for markers, each one with a diffeent color. Then run a few search search and replaces replacing marker of type XX and pasting the character format. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Stuart Rogers wrote

Visually Identifying Marker Tags

2009-03-10 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
You could take this idea further and create a few character styles for markers, each one with a diffeent color. Then run a few search search and replaces replacing marker of type XX and pasting the character format. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Stuart Rogers wrote

Re: [Techshoret] Re: FrameMaker index question

2009-02-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
wish Adobe could figure out how to simplify their interfaces. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Shlomo Perets wrote: Shmuel, You wrote: When I make an index in FM, only the page number is hyperlinked. Someone asked me to make the text in the index also hyperlinked

[Techshoret] Re: FrameMaker index question

2009-02-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
wish Adobe could figure out how to simplify their interfaces. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Shlomo Perets wrote: > Shmuel, > > You wrote: > > > When I make an index in FM, only the page number is hyperlinked. > > Someone asked me to make th

FrameMaker index question

2009-02-23 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
When I make an index in FM, only the page number is hyperlinked. Someone asked me to make the text in the index also hyperlinked. Is this possible, and if so, how would I do this? -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 ___ You

Re: FrameMaker index question

2009-02-23 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Good point. In general, you don't want this. But we have some manual that have an index consisting of a list of functions. In these cases, it would be preferable to have the function name hyperlinked as well. Is there any automatic way of doing this? -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical

FrameMaker index question

2009-02-23 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
When I make an index in FM, only the page number is hyperlinked. Someone asked me to make the text in the index also hyperlinked. Is this possible, and if so, how would I do this? -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133

FrameMaker index question

2009-02-23 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Good point. In general, you don't want this. But we have some manual that have an index consisting of a list of functions. In these cases, it would be preferable to have the function name hyperlinked as well. Is there any automatic way of doing this? -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical

Re: Replace a para tag throughout book?

2009-02-19 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Good point Fred. But you could take a dummy file which only has the new par tag (and no other par tags) and import the par tags from that file to all the files in the book. Then do the search and replace. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Fred Ridder wrote: Responding

Replace a para tag throughout book?

2009-02-19 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Good point Fred. But you could take a dummy file which only has the new par tag (and no other par tags) and import the par tags from that file to all the files in the book. Then do the search and replace. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Fred Ridder wrote

Re: PDF to Word Conversion

2009-02-09 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
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Re: OT :: Frame Voice to Text software

2009-02-09 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
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Re: PDF to Word Conversion

2009-02-09 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
PDF XChange Viewer is a really easy-to-use (free) tool for commenting on PDFs. It's something that you do not have to teach the reviewers. It's self explanatory. And you do not have to allow users to comment on the PDF in order to use this tool. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052

PDF to Word Conversion

2009-02-09 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
net/ -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133

OT :: Frame & Voice to Text software

2009-02-09 Thread Shmuel Wolfson

PDF to Word Conversion

2009-02-09 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
PDF XChange Viewer is a really easy-to-use (free) tool for commenting on PDFs. It's something that you do not have to teach the reviewers. It's self explanatory. And you do not have to "allow" users to comment on the PDF in order to use this tool. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Techni

Re: Screen Capture

2009-01-26 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I like HyperSnap. It's an excellent screen capture program and has very good editing options. If you want to go the free route, MWSnap is the best free one I've seen so far. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Brian Lamborn wrote: All, Not really a FrameMaker

Screen Capture

2009-01-26 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I like HyperSnap. It's an excellent screen capture program and has very good editing options. If you want to go the free route, MWSnap is the best free one I've seen so far. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Brian Lamborn wrote: > All, > > Not really a F

Adobe announces FrameMaker 9 and Technical Communication

2009-01-21 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
That's one thing, but they also put together various dialog boxes to make things easier. Watch the presentation and the video which is linked from the middle of the presentation. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Art Campbell wrote: > It means that the interface

Re: Adobe announces FrameMaker 9 and Technical Communication

2009-01-20 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Here's a presentation on what's new in TCS2: http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/newintcs2/ It looks nice. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Carrie Baker wrote: I looked at their announcement. What do you think they mean by New intunitve User Interface? and then Work more

Adobe announces FrameMaker 9 and Technical Communication

2009-01-20 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Here's a presentation on what's new in TCS2: http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/newintcs2/ It looks nice. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Carrie Baker wrote: > I looked at their announcement. > What do you think they mean by > "New intunitve User Interface&qu

Easiest way to rename all linked graphics without having to rescale?

2009-01-07 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Notepad++ is free and you it has search and replace within entire folders and subfolders. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 David Spreadbury wrote: > Verner, > Probably the best way is through MIF. > > You could use a program like TextPad, sh

Re: Placing icons in side heads

2009-01-04 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
(one for each of the icons). Define the par tags with a reference graphic above or below the par. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Leah wrote: FM 7.0 ; Windows XP In one of our products, users can choose between 2 programming syntaxes. Until now we have produced 2

Placing icons in side heads

2009-01-04 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
(one for each of the icons). Define the par tags with a reference graphic above or below the par. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Leah wrote: > FM 7.0 ; Windows XP > > In one of our products, users can choose between 2 programming syntaxes. > Until now we h

Fixing lots of X-refs

2008-12-31 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
In Annoyance 3, do you mean select the document or select the paragraph? I would love it if the list of paragraphs would be alphabetic. That's a very request from Adobe. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 John Sgammato wrote: > I am whiling away a snowy Boston

Fixing lots of X-refs

2008-12-31 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
This would be a nice item to place on a the Adobe wish list. They should be ordered alphabetically or by the way they are listed in the book. Anything is better than a random order. The same with the paragraphs in the list on the right. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133

Re: Which files are critical for backing up?

2008-12-30 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
the book to Word or Help, there are all sorts of files types there. IMHO you can delete all of them except for the INI files. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Avraham Makeler wrote: Hi all, My client backs up it FM files to VSS. I need to know which files are critical

Which files are critical for backing up?

2008-12-30 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
the book to Word or Help, there are all sorts of files types there. IMHO you can delete all of them except for the INI files. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Avraham Makeler wrote: > Hi all, > > My client backs up it FM files to VSS. > > I need to k

FrameMaker hyperlinks

2008-12-28 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
When I follow a link to another file in the FM book, it usually does not close the current file. Other times it does close the current file. Is this a bug or a feature, and how do I disable closing the current file? -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133

FrameMaker hyperlinks

2008-12-28 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
When I follow a link to another file in the FM book, it usually does not close the current file. Other times it does close the current file. Is this a bug or a feature, and how do I disable closing the current file? -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133

Re: the values of Variables: only per document and not per book?

2008-12-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
that were defined differently in one doc than the other. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Avraham Makeler wrote: Hi all, I am new to this group, and pretty new to FrameMaker (but I was a Word 2003 guru, so that helps a bit...). My question is ... I am taking over

the values of Variables: only per document and not per book?

2008-12-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
things that were defined differently in one doc than the other. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Avraham Makeler wrote: > Hi all, > > I am new to this group, and pretty new to FrameMaker (but I was a Word 2003 > guru, so that helps a bit...). > > My que

Set file order in directory?

2008-12-24 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
This is a Windows Issue. FileBox eXtender is a free program that has this feature. It's on the File Boxes tab in the preferences. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson > Nancy Allison wrote: > >> Hi, everyone. >> >> I am working on a large manual with many graphics that are

Re: Can't open FrameMaker 7.2 - resolved

2008-12-08 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Wolfson Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 2:08 AM To: Framers Subject: Can't open FrameMaker 7.2 I can't seem to open FrameMaker today. When I try to open Frame, it starts to open and the splash

Can't open FrameMaker 7.2 - resolved

2008-12-08 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
ftware. > > - Dov > > >> -Original Message- >> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at >> lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of >> Shmuel Wolfson >> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 2:08 AM >> To:

Can't open FrameMaker 7.2

2008-12-07 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
have the disk for 7.0. If I install 7.0 will Frame download updates for 7.2? Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated? -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages

Can't open FrameMaker 7.2

2008-12-07 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
have the disk for 7.0. If I install 7.0 will Frame download updates for 7.2? Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated? -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133

Re: Default anchored frame settings

2008-12-03 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Why don't you try the Auto-text plug-in here: http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html It's only $10. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 Mike Wickham wrote: Looking for a solution, my web search turns up ImpGraph Plugins: http://home.comcast.net/~bruce.foster/ImpGraph.htm

Default anchored frame settings

2008-12-03 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Why don't you try the Auto-text plug-in here: http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html It's only $10. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 Mike Wickham wrote: >> Looking for a solution, my web search turns up ImpGraph Plugins: >> >> http://home.comcast

Re: User Defined Hotkeys

2008-12-01 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
You can edit the cmds.cfg file if you want to change the ESCAPE shortcut sequences. The file is very hard to read in Notepad, but when you open it in a good text editor (Crimson, SciTE, or Notepad++) it's much easier to read. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 Klaus Daube wrote: On 18

User Defined Hotkeys

2008-12-01 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
You can edit the "cmds.cfg" file if you want to change the ESCAPE shortcut sequences. The file is very hard to read in Notepad, but when you open it in a good text editor (Crimson, SciTE, or Notepad++) it's much easier to read. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 Klaus D

Re: Offtopic: Questionnaire about documentation

2008-11-26 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
insufficiently explained. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 Andersen, Verner Engell VEA wrote: Hi I am going to send out a questionnaire to our customers about documentation. I am interested in good advice, maybe a template or a sample questionnaire. I am interested in knowing whether

Offtopic: Questionnaire about documentation

2008-11-26 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
insufficiently explained. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 Andersen, Verner Engell VEA wrote: > Hi > I am going to send out a questionnaire to our customers about > documentation. > > I am interested in good advice, maybe a template or a sample > questionnaire. > > I am inter

Re: Sorting: Ignoring periods

2008-11-03 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Why don't you just replace the period with a tiny graphic that looks like a period. You could put it on your reference page. Not the cleanest solution, but it's original :) -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Rick Quatro wrote: Hi Darren, Instead of a list of paragraphs, you could use FrameScript

Sorting: Ignoring periods

2008-11-03 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Why don't you just replace the period with a tiny graphic that looks like a period. You could put it on your reference page. Not the cleanest solution, but it's original :) -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Rick Quatro wrote: > Hi Darren, > > Instead of a list of paragraphs, you

Madcap and FrameMaker?

2008-10-30 Thread Shmuel Wolfson

Madcap and FrameMaker?

2008-10-30 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
about them. I have not actually used Flare or structured Frame. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson >> Lately I read some postings on MadCap products. I'm not familiair with >> those, just wondering how MadCap compares to FrameMaker. Is it competive >> with Framemaker (Ad

Re: Reasons for using graphic and table anchor tags

2008-10-23 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
, Shmuel Wolfson - Linda G. Gallagher wrote: Framers, I don't need convincing; I use specific tags to anchor all of my graphics and tables, but sometimes I find it hard to explain why. What are some of your reasons for always anchoring tables and graphics to specific para tags? When I

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