RE: Importing clear, sharp images

2015-06-18 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
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RE: Importing clear, sharp images

2015-06-17 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Same here. I think SnagIt is an excellent tool and well worth the money. If the image/drawing I want to capture is large (or vectorized), I try to maximise it as much as reasonable (native, without jaggies) on the 1920x1200 screen I use before the screen capture. This makes the PNG capture

RE: FrameMaker 9 Internal error 9004 issue

2015-06-17 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Frank Ripp said: ? Maybe it is time - if I upgrade, should it be to Frame 12 or Frame 2015? Hmmm ... probably worth just going to FrameMaker 2015 in your case, I would think? The cost for either upgrade (well ... not an upgrade really, since it is a new purchase cost!) would be the same for

RE: FrameMaker 9 Internal error 9004 issue

2015-06-12 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
) No matter which button I click, an error message displays: “Internal error 9004 lots of numbers FrameMaker has detected a serious problem and must quit.” ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as syed.hos...@aeris.net. Send list messages

RE: Book Save-As PDF w/ multiple page sizes

2015-06-08 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
And, as always in this regard, I should note that YMMV. ☺ For me, the “Save As PDF” was the option that worked better for many of the older releases of FrameMaker – just had to play with the pop-up box options for each new release that came out. In FM12, both Print to Adobe PDF printer, and

RE: Sourcesafe

2015-06-05 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Or to Git ... which is even better than SVN. Z From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Simon BUCH Sent: Friday, June 05, 2015 3:34 AM To: Denis Daly; framers Subject: Re: Sourcesafe Making a manual archive is always a good practice

RE: Adobe announces FrameMaker (2015 Release)

2015-06-03 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
back to FrameMaker 7.2 from what I see. I have not tried those links, since I have those versions on disks, but it may be worth it for somebody to go look and see if they can get to old version downloads that they may need … Z From: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) Sent: Tuesday, June

RE: Adobe announces FrameMaker (2015 Release)

2015-06-02 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Yeah. The upgrade price of $399 still seems like a non-starter to me unfortunately … but I have been railing about this for a while now. Means that I will continue my “all new documents are in LaTeX, old documents edited in FrameMaker” approach. And transition the update work to LaTeX too … I

Comparing paragraph and character formats inside files of a book?

2015-04-24 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Hi, all. I did a bit of looking and am not sure I see an answer for a concern that I have. In one of my books that I created and have edited over the years, it is possible that some of the paragraph and character format definitions (and possibly the color definitions, and reference pages too)

RE: How do I get to frameusers forum????

2015-04-24 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
This is what I do too. You can create message filters in Outlook and Thunderbird easily. I assume other e-mail clients do the same thing ... Z From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Abungu, Salome Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 6:23

RE: What FM plugin suite give the most bang?

2015-04-23 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
or virus-free. The sender does not accept liability for any errors or omissions. ** SAVE PAPER - THINK BEFORE YOU PRINT! ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as syed.hos...@aeris.net

RE: What is your experience with FM12 using the 5K Retina screen?

2015-04-15 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Agreed! I use my 15.6 laptop only when I travel (which is quite a bit). When I am at my desk at work or at home, I dock my laptop and connect to twin 24 1920x1200 displays for my work. Only way my old eyes would survive long-term staring at a screen. Z From:

RE: FrameMaker and SharePoint

2015-04-08 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Sorry to not give you answers to your specific questions, but you may want to consider changing to another system to make it simple. I believe that with a small number of users, free on-line versions of Git hosted solutions are perhaps the best way to go. For example, check out Github

RE: How to Choose the Right Image File Format for Print

2015-03-20 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Fei Min said: but the TIFF figures were all fuzzy and the PNG ones weren't This _may_ be due to the fact that your screen capture program that outputs the TIFF does not place a good thumb-nail inside the file. The actual printed output may be just fine, but displays (particularly when

RE: Is the use of master pages a patent infringement?

2015-03-18 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Agreed. This is not a legal opinion, but in my limited expertise, it (the patent) would be likely invalidated due to prior art, based on prior heartbeat. I doubt the patent holder will try to sue for these claims since an invalidation on a few claims would cast doubt on the other claims in the

RE: User's manual vs. User manual

2015-03-16 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
das dumpkopfen. Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos

RE: User's manual vs. User manual

2015-03-16 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
David Davis said: In German they get around this kind of thing by making compound nouns, so you'd have the equivalent of Usermanual (Benutzerhandbuch...?), but English prefers to leave a space. Indeed! :) Reminds me of the time I was helping a fraternity brother (fluent German speaker)

RE: User's manual vs. User manual

2015-03-13 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Same here! Z From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Craig, Alison Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 4:44 PM To: hessiansx4; Framers Subject: RE: User's manual vs. User manual Personally, I’ve always preferred User Manual. I find the

RE: Accidental Change All (am I alone?)

2015-03-11 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
I have had this happen on a few relatively rare occasions ... and have not looked into how to prevent it. But, it is one of the reasons I copy the files + book into an archive folder below the working folder before an editing session for any given document. So, yeah, I could mess up what I

RE: Print a list of variables?

2015-03-10 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
My most used tool is BookVars from Leximation ... thanks to Scott Prentice for this excellent add-on. It easily allows you to create a text file containing the variables being used, and then manage them at the book level in the future. Z From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

RE: secured PDFs

2015-03-03 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Yikes! Copyright and trademark, etc., is important – I have done internal presentations here to make sure that we are all careful about that. While it is rare for any manual information to be the basis of serious copyright legal cases, the consequences of such infringement could be harsh and

RE: secured PDFs

2015-03-03 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
We never bother to secure our PDF's. Even though much of the information we have available for our customers is often proprietary to us, worrying about people extracting a page here and there, or printing what they shouldn't, etc., seemed to be overkill. Basically, we protect our confidential

RE: Did I miss the FM12.0.4 Update Announcement?

2015-02-27 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
, David Cc: Denis Daly; Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net); framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Did I miss the FM12.0.4 Update Announcement? Syed, Are these brand new files created by FM12, or are these files you converted from an earlier version? I ask because I've discovered

RE: Did I miss the FM12.0.4 Update Announcement?

2015-02-26 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Okay, I just did some testing ... the CMYK bug at Acrobat PDF output is NOT fixed in FrameMaker 12.0.4 as far as I can tell. My output PDF still shows the problem, although I cannot tell anymore if some things were fixed, since I deleted my old test output files. FWIW, I do get a lot of error

RE: Frame vs. Flare for My Needs

2015-02-25 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Mif2Go is free now - courtesy of Jeremy's will and his family supported us in this effort. There is a small team of people getting the courage up to continue supporting it for future releases. The Omni Systems site has the info necessary to use Mif2Go. With FrameMaker 12, there is one upgrade

RE: How do you type a dash em in FM12

2015-02-24 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
In stock Word, it is usually three dashes to get to an em-dash, two dashes gets you an en-dash (a different character). This is using the auto-correct feature, and you can change its behavior pretty easily too. Plus (at least in Word 2013 and Office 2013 products) typing a space, dash, space

RE: Did I miss the FM12.0.4 Update Announcement?

2015-02-23 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
I have not seen any announcement on it - just realized it was there myself. I'll install it and give it a try. Z From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Craig, Alison Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 2:58 PM To:

RE: Did I miss the FM12.0.4 Update Announcement?

2015-02-23 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
So far, it seems to be working. I updated a largish book with about 15 files inside, and created a new PDF, etc., without issues. But, I didn't check to see if the RGB/CMYK option selection issue during the PDF output was fixed or not. Z From: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) Sent

RE: Deactivate not available for Framemaker 10

2015-02-19 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
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RE: Conditional text by paragraph tag?

2015-02-11 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Scott Prentice said: If you want real backups, you need to set up a mechanism for copying the current files elsewhere for safe keeping. Indeed! (As I recall, we discussed this recently) ... my approach is an Archive folder below the book folder to which I copy everything before each edit

RE: Basic question: Book revision best practices

2015-02-06 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
later too, but have not needed to.) So, I still prefer not to rename the book file itself – no reason to do so, given my use of separate folders. Z From: David Artman [mailto:da...@davidartman.com] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 7:11 AM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net); Tim Pann

RE: Basic question: Book revision best practices

2015-02-05 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Yes! I totally agree with using variables for version numbers, release dates, and the like, inside the documents – I was going to mention this too, but forgot! Similarly, NONE of the files have version numbers “encoded” in their file names. But, since the files and book for each version are in

RE: Zoom in Frame 12

2015-02-03 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Perhaps all you have to do is a few more clicks on what Craig suggested. I just tried this and it worked for me pretty easily. First, select all the files in the book. Next, use the View-Zoom-Fit Page in Window - this gets them all to the same zoom level. Next, use the View-Zoom-In (or

RE: PDF Issue

2015-01-15 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Still a bug ... no fix provided. Z From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Denis Daly Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 6:42 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: PDF Issue Hi, Does anyone have any update on the following

RE: FM 10 sometimes changes graphics paths

2015-01-14 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Winfried Reng said: However, I do not know how FrameMaker gets the path to the orginal graphics files. Does this happen only, if another file is open which points to the graphics files of the copied file? Otherwise I wonder how FrameMaker can find out where the graphics files are located. That

RE: Setup has detected . . .

2015-01-03 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
A SWAG: After you de-install the applications, please run CCleaner (free version is at www.piriform.comhttp://www.piriform.com) and see if this helps remove any issues in the Windows registry that are causing the problem you are experiencing. During registry cleaning (second tab in the app),

RE: Can FrameMaker 12 run in Linux?

2015-01-02 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Ah, darn. Thanks for the info. Z -Original Message- From: robert.lauris...@gmail.com [mailto:robert.lauris...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston Sent: Friday, January 02, 2015 9:15 AM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net); Framers Subject: Re: Can FrameMaker 12 run

Can FrameMaker 12 run in Linux?

2015-01-01 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Not having received any answers at all, I will generalize this question a bit. :) Has anyone successfully run FrameMaker 12 on any version/distribution of Linux? If so, which version and what did you do to make it possible? Please and Thanks! Z From: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net

RE: Save as PDF not working for particular directory

2014-12-22 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
consultancy; On-line and paper F: +41-44-422 86 25 E: d...@daube.ch W: www.daube.ch ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as syed.hos...@aeris.net. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers

RE: Deleting Variables at the Book Level

2014-12-18 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
I would strongly recommend using BookVars from Leximation for this purpose – best tool I have in my FrameMaker portfolio. Z From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Tony Marek (PDF) Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 12:35 PM To:

RE: why view on phone WAS: online FrameMaker 12 Documentation totally revamped

2014-12-16 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
You can sometimes tell from the PDF properties ... I always find it interesting when I see stuff that tells me that people don't trust their own [editing and other] tools! :) But in this case, the meta-data for Using-FrameMaker-12.pdf says it was created by Application: FrameMaker 12.0.3 using

RE: Text Inset vs. Variable Question (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-12-16 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
I also thoroughly endorse BookVars - it is definitely the most highly used add-on to FrameMaker for me! Z From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Mike Wickham Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 1:57 PM To:

RE: How to Create Bibliography in FM?

2014-12-11 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
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RE: What is the situation with regards to buying used versions of FrameMaker?

2014-12-08 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
support, which was a pretty radical change as regards fonts. FrameMaker 9 introduced the bad UI layer and lots of bugs that have never been fixed. On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) syed.hos...@aeris.net wrote: Once a version 7.2 license has been used

Can FrameMaker 12 run under Wine (on Ubuntu distribution of Linux)?

2014-12-07 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Has anyone successfully done the above? i.e., installed FrameMaker and Acrobat using Wine under Ubuntu? And made it work pretty much cleanly? Z ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to

RE: What is the situation with regards to buying used versions of FrameMaker?

2014-12-07 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Hi, Hedley. Once a version 7.2 license has been used for an upgrade, it is no longer available for sale (or transfer of license) any more – Robert Lauriston is right about that. But, as it happens, I have some 7.2 licenses (and the original Adobe disks) which were not upgraded, so can make

RE: mouse alternative

2014-11-21 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
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RE: mouse alternative

2014-11-11 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
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RE: mouse alternative

2014-11-11 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
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RE: mouse alternative

2014-11-11 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Thanks! My son has an Apple Trackpad on his iMac, so I'll borrow it and give it a try. :) Sent from my Windows Phone From: Alan Litchfield Sent: 2014-11-11 12:03 PM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net); framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: mouse

RE: Workspaces

2014-10-30 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Stuart Rogers wrote: Ø I recommend Search Everything from http://voidtools.com/ You can search for *.fws and find all the zillion places where Adobe scatters the files. Another approach. In a DOS command window, do the following: cd \ dir /s/p *.fws This is quite fast on an SSD

RE: what to back up before reinstalling

2014-10-29 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Hmmm, instead of having to worry about all the details (although the Linguistics folder is an exception – I was not aware of that), why not simply make a complete copy of the folder that FrameMaker 12 is installed in? That is trivially simple to do. Then you have a complete copy to retrieve

RE: Sundorne SetPrint - Does it work with Frame 12?

2014-10-28 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Ummm … it works for me. Also, I just looked at the source code for SetPrint (thanks to Ian Hawkins for releasing it to the world!) and see no reason for it to fail in recent FrameMaker versions. As an FYI, you have to have a SetPrint.ini file in the same folder where you have the DLL. This

RE: Sundorne SetPrint - Does it work with Frame 12?

2014-10-28 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Your e-mail below and mine “crossed in the mail”. Sorry to jump the gun a bit. Z From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of David Spreadbury Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 11:41 AM To: Craig, Alison; framers@lists.frameusers.com

RE: OT: Adobe Fonts (and some comments/rants on the new Adobe web-site)

2014-10-27 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
!) Cheers, Theresa On 10/24/2014 11:37 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) wrote: snip ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as syed.hos...@aeris.net. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank

RE: FrameMaker: mysterious font substitution in PDF

2014-10-24 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Mike Wickham said: ... Helvetica from your computer-- or replace it with the OpenType version. I am curious as to how to get hold of [newer] OTF versions of Helvetica (and some other old Adobe fonts that I use - like Caslon Expert) without having to pay an arm and a leg for it. As I recall,

RE: FrameMaker: mysterious font substitution in PDF

2014-10-24 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
I said: ? As I recall, these fonts (with all variants) are darn expensive. For example, the current price of the Adobe Helvetic Neue Std Full Family is $961 in a package! ... eek! http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?event=displayFontPackagecode=1766 Z

RE: FrameMaker: mysterious font substitution in PDF

2014-10-24 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
for just one font (well ... one font family is more accurate) for my desire to update the font. That is why I asked about not having to pay an arm and a leg. :) Z On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) syed.hos...@aeris.net wrote: Mike Wickham said

RE: FrameMaker: mysterious font substitution in PDF

2014-10-24 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Thanks! I will take a look at those ... Z Robert Lauriston wrote: If you don't want to pay for Helvetica and can't stand Arial, there are some other free alternatives that come closer. http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/602/visually-similar-alternatives-to-helvetica

RE: Subject: OT: OMG . . . Wonderful customer service from Adobe

2014-10-24 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Gary Zimmerman wrote: I can see you're upset, Dave... ROFL ... good reference! :) Z ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to

OT: Adobe Fonts (and some comments/rants on the new Adobe web-site) .... Was RE: FrameMaker: mysterious font substitution in PDF

2014-10-24 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Fred, thanks for the links (see at the end of this post). Separately to all: please pardon the long-winded OT stuff here! So, feel free to skip reading this ... Also, please pardon (or enjoy?), some comments/rants (below) from this old grouch. I was exploring the Adobe web site for fonts and

RE: Problem with auto numbering Figures and Tables

2014-10-23 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Pardon my asking some questions that you may already have looked at: 1. Did you mean that you want the figure number to depend the previous figure number _and_ previous table number (and vice versa)? I am not sure how that works. If independent, meaning Figure X is followed by Figure

Automated cross-reference format content (for reference to tables in paragraphs)

2014-10-23 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Hi, all. I was wondering if there is a way to achieve something, but I am not seeing a good (and ideally simple) way to do so. Essentially, within a body paragraph, I want to be able to say (in the middle of other text, of course): -' ... Table XX, Title of Table, ... ' when the

RE: PDF query

2014-10-18 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Yeah, that was the general recommendation, but I always found it to be better the other way (i.e., Save to PDF gave me the output I wanted) ... YMMV, I guess. Anyway, I take Lins comment to be more of a more observation - that FrameMaker as a tool created the best PDF output. Now, fwiw, the

RE: PDF query

2014-10-18 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Same here with Save as PDF, except that with FM 12, it seems that I also need to select the RGB checkbox option to make it work correctly. The CMYK option does _not_ work properly. I will see if I can find the test documents I sent to Adobe and post them here later ... Z Robert Lauriston

RE: PDF query

2014-10-17 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
I reported a similar issue a short while back (wasn't just images though - it has problems with font colors, italic text messing up kerning and spacing, etc.). The response from an Adobe person here was that the Save as PDF using CMYK has a bug (that they have been able to reproduce). No fix

RE: No rtf output generated from Mif2Go

2014-10-01 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
The latest version of Mif2Go on the web site works for me for FrameMaker 12 ... I had to make a few minor changes to a few files (I also only use it to generate RTF) for my situation. Here are the gory details - maybe they will help, but I would be surprised, since my changes were pretty

RE: fm 12.0.3 update bug WAS: frame 12 pdf right page blank problem

2014-10-01 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Okay, I have done some testing - although not thoroughly yet! And, I am now quite confused as to what is the best way to proceed. :( 1. I do not have any .ai images in the header of the master page of any document in the book I am working on. a. So, I am not sure what impact this

RE: fm 12.0.3 update bug WAS: frame 12 pdf right page blank problem

2014-09-30 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
? Were printing to CMYK using the standard High Quality job options. (The graphics are being imported by reference.) Pretty much same for me, although I did have the View PDF ... checkbox selected. However, no imported graphics in the document at all with the exception of the logo (a PNG file,

RE: fm 12.0.3 update bug WAS: frame 12 pdf right page blank problem

2014-09-30 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
unfortunately - content is confidential. Z From: Craig Ede [mailto:craig...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 8:48 AM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net); framers Subject: RE: fm 12.0.3 update bug WAS: frame 12 pdf right page blank problem We, too, generally have the View

RE: fm 12.0.3 update bug WAS: frame 12 pdf right page blank problem

2014-09-29 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Yeah. Broke for me in 12.0.3 too - I changed to doing Print Book to the Adobe PDF printer for this release and this seems to be working for the moment. This time, I have not run through the various options yet to see which one fixes it best for my PDF generation, so didn't mention this issue

RE: Finding styles with a space after the name

2014-09-24 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
? Hmm, well, the style with the space doesn't appear in the para catalog, so I'm not sure I can apply it. I may have to go the mif route. Not my favorite thing. Please don't be worried about MIF ... it is actually very safe. Indeed, quite often, many ills with FM binaries can be discovered

RE: My work-flow for dealing with backups from FrameMaker--getting rid of backups

2014-09-16 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
What you wrote is conceptually similar to what I do, except that I don't put the backup files into a single location on my disk drive. As I described earlier, each document's main directory has a subdir just below where I am working, so it always puts the backup files only there. Hence the

RE: My work-flow for dealing with backups

2014-09-16 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
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RE: My work-flow for dealing with backups

2014-09-16 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
NAS server at home for the five systems that I back up regularly. Fully automated (Time Machine for four Mac's and ShadowProtect for my Lenovo). Z -Original Message- From: David Boss [mailto:bossc...@rogers.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 1:27 PM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos

RE: My work-flow for dealing with backups

2014-09-16 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
- From: robert.lauris...@gmail.com [mailto:robert.lauris...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 3:49 PM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net); framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: My work-flow for dealing with backups That's a fireproof NAS

My work-flow for dealing with backups from FrameMaker sessions ... Was: RE: Best practices for converting FM to Robohelp

2014-09-05 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Sorry for the long response here, but perhaps others might benefit from what I do. Jeff Coatsworth wrote: Ø One longstanding FM grumble is the program’s desire to always maintain all its files (.book, .fm, .backup, .lck, .auto, etc.) in one location – you can never designate another place

RE: My work-flow for dealing with backups from FrameMaker sessions ... Was: RE: Best practices for converting FM to Robohelp

2014-09-05 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
start working. Z -Original Message- From: robert.lauris...@gmail.com [mailto:robert.lauris...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 11:33 AM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net); framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: My work-flow

RE: My work-flow for dealing with backups from FrameMaker sessions ... Was: RE: Best practices for converting FM to Robohelp

2014-09-05 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
, 2014 11:39 AM To: Robert Lauriston Cc: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net); framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: My work-flow for dealing with backups from FrameMaker sessions ... Was: RE: Best practices for converting FM to Robohelp I have turned off the backup feature since FM9. I

RE: My work-flow for dealing with backups from FrameMaker sessions ... Was: RE: Best practices for converting FM to Robohelp

2014-09-05 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Adam Hollett said: Ø One of the least awkward ways to work with FrameMaker files and backups is probably to use revision control software like SVN or git. I keep backups disabled in FrameMaker because I know that every commit of changes to my files is backed up and reverting is easy. Ø

RE: .tps files too big?

2014-08-19 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Wow! 2.8 Giga bytes? That is a very large single file indeed. I am not surprised that FrameMaker chokes. If you are truly creating that large a .tps file, then doing the creation of the PDF in multiple pieces and combing the resulting files in Acrobat may be the only way to proceed.

Mif2Go suddenly failing on all machines

2014-08-19 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
John, I am not sure what you mean by ?blocked? or ?unblocked?? Where is this ?Properties>Unblock? command capability? (I thought I knew Windows, but am now not sure where this is available ?) Anyway, in Windows, I can look at file properties using Windows File Manager (right click on a file

RE: Mif2Go suddenly failing on all machines

2014-08-15 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Hi, John. You can check the Windows Update history – will tell you when any Windows and other Microsoft tools updates occurred. Assuming you have Windows set for automatic updates – some will boot the machine though, so you would have seen that event (!). As I recall, the FrameMaker ones are

RE: Mif2Go suddenly failing on all machines

2014-08-14 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Hi, John. This is a complete SWAG here. Maybe it is unable to run the program “DCL.EXE” which is in the omsyshome\Omsys\system\common\bin folder (of course, omsyshome is likely different for you). So, have you made sure that your search path in Windows is set to include the

RE: Quoted speech

2014-07-31 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
-Original Message- From: Theresa de Valence [mailto:t...@bstw.com] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 7:48 AM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net); framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Quoted speech On 7/30/2014 4:49 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) wrote: Side-bar

RE: Quoted speech

2014-07-30 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Theresa wrote: Lin Sims wrote: If it were me, I'd copy one of the Australian ones into the Find box, then copy the one you want it to be into the Replace box, then click Change All, making sure Book is selected. For me that doesn't quite work. There's something in Frame which decides a

RE: Mif2Go, DITA2Go, uDoc2Go: now open source

2014-07-27 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Steve Rickaby wrote: Carolyn Stallard wrote: Omni Systems is closed. As Jeremy Griffith wished, source code will be made available for all three software tools. Scott Prentice has very kindly agreed to set up projects for this purpose on SourceForge. This is all very heart-warming:

RE: FrameMaker to HTML

2014-07-16 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Rober Lauriston wrote: The tighter your budget, the worse the effects of false economies. Yes, indeed. People who are used to getting great development tools such as Eclipse and Git for free commonly make the false assumption that there are similar free tools for documentation. It's part

OT: Providing quality documentation when in startup mode

2014-07-16 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Please pardon my off-topic (i.e., to FrameMaker) response here. But, I wouldn't mind hearing from others on my comments below - feel free to keep it off-line to me if you want. Robert Lauriston wrote: Typically, we are overhead, and startups need to focus on selling something first. Yes, my

RE: Providing quality documentation when in startup mode

2014-07-16 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Because, fundamentally, I have always believed that the *quality* of documentation, particularly external technical stuff, is a reflection on the quality of the *rest* of the company. BTW, when I look at documentation for a product, it gives me an indication of whether I want to do business

RE: OT: Providing quality documentation when in startup mode

2014-07-16 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
I didn't write that, Sean (techwordsm...@gmail.com) did. Ah! Sorry about that ... e-mail editing error on my part. Same goes for the importance of UI design. Yes! One of my favorite books (for web-site UI and look-and-feel):

RE: FM12: Quirks in Find/replace using RegEx (Perl)

2014-07-07 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Hi, Fred. Hmmm ... I understand your point, but am not sure I would entirely agree with the reasoning. Yes, FrameMaker (and other programs like Word) do put in additional information besides the EOP glyph itself. But, this is a relatively commonly used/desired function - certainly in simple

RE: FM12: Quirks in Find/replace using RegEx (Perl)

2014-07-07 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
, as you note, this could cause a mess with documents whose paragraphs have already been changed to some other paragraph format, etc. Z From: Fred Ridder [mailto:docu...@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 10:18 AM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net); fr...@daube.ch; framers

RE: Copying Word text to FM unstructured 12.

2014-06-16 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
What I like to do is save the Word file as Plain Text from Word 2013 ... this is one of the options within Word to output file formats. This makes every paragraph in the Word document stay as a single line in the text file. When I read this text file into FrameMaker, the single line converts

RE: Jeremy H. Griffith, 1942-2014

2014-06-11 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
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RE: FrameMaker 9 on Windows 7 Ultimate

2014-06-06 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
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RE: FrameMaker 9 on Windows 7 Ultimate

2014-06-05 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
I ran FrameMaker – forget which version though, but was probably FM 8 – on a Alienware 17” M7700 system some years ago with Windows 7 Ultimate without any problems. Fast machine at that time for sure! So, I would be surprised if the hardware is in any way an issue. Are the files you are trying

RE: FrameMaker 9 on Windows 7 Ultimate

2014-06-05 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
. Z From: M Lee [mailto:marthale...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 11:11 AM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: FrameMaker 9 on Windows 7 Ultimate Hi Syed, All the files I'm trying to open are local. What's annoying

RE: Can't activate FM 11...

2014-05-13 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
As I recall, FrameMaker prompts you every time you start the program to either continue in trial mode, or enter a serial number. Does that not show up? Z From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Karen Robbins Sent: Tuesday, May 13,

RE: Using a backslash (\) in Hypertext marker

2014-05-08 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Did Adobe lose the About pathnames in commands topic somewhere along the way? In a pathname, folder levels are separated by a slash (/), even in Windows. http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/8.0/help.html?content=Chap17-Hypertext-Viewonly-Docs_11.html Forward slashes still work fine in

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