How do you store your information?

2007-02-26 Thread Gordon McLean
We use structured FrameMaker. We have a mature EDD, we are happy with the way things are. But it's not really any closer to single source, or modular documentation, as we still have the content stored in .FM files and organised in books. However, trying to find out the best way to store the

Re: How do you store your information?

2007-02-26 Thread Yves Barbion
Hi Gordon, you want to take a look at DITA: - http://dita.xml.org/ - http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-dita1/index.html - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DITA - http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/framemaker_ap/ Best regards -- Yves Barbion Documentation Architect

Re: Distiller 8 PDF job options not showing in FrameMaker

2007-02-26 Thread Bill Swallow
I've just upgraded to v.8 and even with this additional step I still cannot seem to get my custom job options to appear when using Save As from FM 7.2. Anyone else have major issues with getting FM 7.2 and Acro8 working together? On 1/12/07, Smith, Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As has been

Re: Distiller 8 PDF job options not showing in FrameMaker

2007-02-26 Thread Bill Swallow
We figured it out... needed to allow write access to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Adobe PDF\Extras and drop them in there. On 2/26/07, Bill Swallow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just upgraded to v.8 and even with this additional step I still cannot seem to get my custom job

Re: Distiller 8 PDF job options not showing in FrameMaker

2007-02-26 Thread Bill Swallow
Make that the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\Adobe PDF\Settings folder. Sorry, I copied/pasted from the wrong Explorer window. On 2/26/07, Bill Swallow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We figured it out... needed to allow write access to C:\Documents and Settings\All

PDF is portrait instead of landscape

2007-02-26 Thread Nantel, Elise
Hello, On my new computer (running XP), I installed Acrobat 7.0 (an upgrade from 5.0); my FM version is 7.0. I'm having the following problem: I have a 2-page landscape document. When I print to file with the Adobe PDF printer, the result is a portrait file! The content is entirely displayed

Re: prevent click zoom in acrobat and reader

2007-02-26 Thread Shlomo Perets
Further to my earlier reply: A new option introduced in Acrobat/Reader 8.0 lets you disable the activation of article threads when you click with the Hand tool: Edit Preferences, General, Basic Tools, turn off the Make Hand tool read articles option. Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 To: Jon

Third-party or "out of the box" plugins [was "re:

2007-02-26 Thread Peter Ring
With a bit of duct-tape, Excel worksheets, and Python scripts, the future is now. We use 'out-of-band' index entries to produce back-of-the-book indexes. The index is authored separately from the body text, using simple Excel worksheets as the exchange format, and associated to the body text

How do you store your information?

2007-02-26 Thread Gordon McLean
We use structured FrameMaker. We have a mature EDD, we are happy with the way things are. But it's not really any closer to single source, or modular documentation, as we still have the content stored in .FM files and organised in books. However, trying to find out the best way to store the

How do you store your information?

2007-02-26 Thread Yves Barbion
Hi Gordon, you want to take a look at DITA: - http://dita.xml.org/ - http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-dita1/index.html - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DITA - http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/framemaker_ap/ Best regards -- Yves Barbion Documentation Architect

How do you store your information?

2007-02-26 Thread Gordon McLean
Thanks Yves, I'm well aware of DITA. So let's take a step forward. Let's presume I have all my content properly chunked. What then? Is it living on a file system? How do I work with it in FrameMaker, do I NEED FrameMaker? Do I pull content from a database? I'm not worried about the low-level

Distiller 8 PDF job options not showing in FrameMaker

2007-02-26 Thread Bill Swallow
I've just upgraded to v.8 and even with this additional step I still cannot seem to get my custom job options to appear when using Save As from FM 7.2. Anyone else have major issues with getting FM 7.2 and Acro8 working together? On 1/12/07, Smith, Terry wrote: > As has been reported by Adobe,

Distiller 8 PDF job options not showing in FrameMaker

2007-02-26 Thread Bill Swallow
We figured it out... needed to allow write access to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Adobe PDF\Extras and drop them in there. On 2/26/07, Bill Swallow wrote: > I've just upgraded to v.8 and even with this additional step I still > cannot seem to get my custom job options to appear

PDF is portrait instead of landscape

2007-02-26 Thread Nantel, Elise
Hello, On my new computer (running XP), I installed Acrobat 7.0 (an upgrade from 5.0); my FM version is 7.0. I'm having the following problem: I have a 2-page landscape document. When I print to file with the Adobe PDF printer, the result is a portrait file! The content is entirely displayed