Re: Doc Architecture Challenge: Linking Between Books

Hi Angela, just use descriptive titles for your hyperlinks, for example: See Concepts Guide Configuring xyz. Indeed, if a user downloads a pdf of one book, and not the other, the links will not work, but I guess the user will be smart enough to download the other guide and then use the

RE: Table title alignment oddity

Hi, The table title frame spans only the text column (without sidehead area) if the table columns have only the width of the text column. If the table columns are wider than the text column, the table title frame spans the text column plus the sidehead area. Eventually your table columns are too

Re: Looking for a documentation portal example

Hi John, I totally agree with your thoughts regrading presentation and I did not want to disregard PDF. But especially with a library full of documents, and a user base who doesn't know in which document to look for a solution, I think it is easier to built an HTML-based server-side search than

RE: Another missing fonts question

At 13:44 -0600 18/4/07, Combs, Richard wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I inherited some documentation, and I get an error message The Frutiger-Black Font is not available. Does anyone know where I can download that font for free or does anyone know anything about that font. I am using FM

Re: Doc Architecture Challenge: Linking Between Books

At 09:16 +0200 19/4/07, Yves Barbion wrote: Indeed, if a user downloads a pdf of one book, and not the other, the links will not work, but I guess the user will be smart enough to download the other guide and then use the navigational aids (TOC, IX, bookmarks, ...) of the other guide. Are you

Do we an import tool to import .mif files into AuthorIT

Hi, We have been asked to used AuthorIT to generate onlinr help. Our source files are in FrameMaker, but when we want to import these files into AuthirIT we getting a lot of junk text. I wanted to konow if there is any import tool where we can import .mif files into AuthorIT. Any kind of help

better diff tool?

I've been thinking about using Framescript to do something to all edited text to make it stand out, for example, underline it or apply a condition. That would separate out the real changes from the other things that change bars pick up, but which don't really matter for reviewing updated doc.

Re: Doc Architecture Challenge: Linking Between Books

That's a good point, but I'm not delivering via CD-ROM. The user downloads the PDF from the company's website. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email

Re: switched printers -- now HelvObl prints with extra slant

On 19 Apr 2007, at 07:00, fL MORITSUGU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using FM 6.5, Mac, in Classic. I was printing to a Laserwriter Select 360, through an AsanteTalk bridge, and everything looked as it should. I've just switched to a Lexmark E120n laser printer. Now it prints Helvetica

Re: Another missing fonts question

If you inherited legacy corporate documentation, I'd bet that EMC owns the fonts already, but they just weren't installed on your system, probably because the people who set up systems don't think of fonts as part of a writer's workstation. I'd start checking with IT and other departments to find

Re: Doc Architecture Challenge: Linking Between Books

At 05:51 -0700 19/4/07, Angela Akridge wrote: That's a good point, but I'm not delivering via CD-ROM. The user downloads the PDF from the company's website. If you're responding to my point, then it should make no difference as long as the recipient stored the cross-linked PDFs in the same

Re: better diff tool?

Have you used Files Utilites Compare docs? The changes seem pretty vivid in the composite document. Art On 4/19/07, Fred Wersan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been thinking about using Framescript to do something to all edited text to make it stand out, for example, underline it or apply a

Re: Doc Architecture Challenge: Linking Between Books

So why not deliver both books both individually and either in a .PDF package (new in Acrobat 8) or in a zip file marked as the product's Documentation Set? Art On 4/19/07, Angela Akridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's a good point, but I'm not delivering via CD-ROM. The user downloads the

Re: Looking for a documentation portal example

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/default.aspx On 4/18/07, Michael Müller-Hillebrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you seen such a (public) documentation portal? I am looking around myself, but would be thankful for every link you can give me. -- Bill Swallow HATT List Owner WWP-Users

Re: Looking for a documentation portal example

I favor having both if possible, if for no other reason that Google can find and correctly index masses of HTML pages (its PDF indexing is good but doesn't seem to understand the different search priorities of entities in the document, making it like an ASCII file in terms of rankings). Chris,

RE: Adjusting dialog box sizes in Framemaker?

I've had good results with Klaus Daube's plugin. http://www.daube.ch/docu/fmaker36.html#2 The only thing I wish it would do a little better is display the full filename of source graphics in cases where Frame is looking for missing files. We have graphics spread all over different servers (ugly

Re: switched printers -- now HelvObl prints with extra slant

Hi, Art: FYI - on Mac FrameMaker, the maker.ini settings aren't in an exposed file, as they are on Windows and UNIX. They're inside the single application file. To change these settings requires using a dangerous resource editor, similar to registry editing on Windows.

Re: better diff tool?

I've started to use conditional text for different drafts. Each draft is a different color, all are underlined. I have a separate template which only has those conditional text defined, so I can apply that template without interfering with other conditional text. The PDF will the colors (or if

QuarkXPress to FrameMaker

Hi Framers, I'm looking for a conversion tool to convert QuarkXPress files to FrameMaker. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. -- Yves Barbion Documentation Architect Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor Scripto bvba Asselsstraat 65 9031 Gent Belgium T:

Re: QuarkXPress to FrameMaker

Windows 7.2 is supposed to support direct import of Quark; not sure about earlier versions. Is it not doing something you need? Art On 4/19/07, Yves Barbion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Framers, I'm looking for a conversion tool to convert QuarkXPress files to FrameMaker. Any suggestions?

Re: switched printers -- now HelvObl prints with extra slant

Thanks very much for your suggestions. I fixed it, a day and a half later, after installing the fonts through Font Book, not directly into the System 9 Fonts folder (which I thought I'd read somewhere was the same thing, but maybe not). Thanks. Louise Moritsugu From: Paul Findon [EMAIL

Re: switched printers -- now HelvObl prints with extra slant

I once saw a similar instance with a font-- where FrameMaker added an extra slant to italics. This particular font was one that I created in Fontographer because I the font family had no italic version available for purchase. Fontographer (or, more likely, my knowledge of it!) must create

Re: QuarkXPress to FrameMaker

Frame 7.2 can import QuarkXPress files, but only up to Quark version 4.1 On 4/19/07, Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Windows 7.2 is supposed to support direct import of Quark; not sure about earlier versions. Is it not doing something you need? Art On 4/19/07, Yves Barbion [EMAIL

SV: QuarkXPress to FrameMaker

I don't know of many non-Quark applications that generally can load newer QXD-files than those saved in QuarkXpress 4.1 format. However, QuarkXpress versions newer than 4.1 can save backwards (usually without significant losses). Hence, if you really think conversion to FM format offer

Re: QuarkXPress to FrameMaker

If you don't want to save Quark to an earlier version, or can't, another option may be to print it out to PDF and save the PDF as RTF. Then import that. Art On 4/19/07, Jacob Schäffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know of many non-Quark applications that generally can load newer QXD-files

RE: Table title alignment oddity - solved

Well, I didn't think was it at first, but it turns out it was! In the template file, the tables overran the main text area ever so slightly. When I made the columns a little narrower, sure enough, the table title box popped back inside the main text area. Thank you, Winfried!!

RE: QuarkXPress to FrameMaker

The filter for QuarkXPress import into FrameMaker was hacked from the equivalent InDesign filter and only supports QuarkXPress 3.x and 4.x files. Newer files (5, 6, and 7) cannot be opened in FrameMaker due to the fact that Quark encrypts their version 5, 6, and 7 documents and any software that

Re: QuarkXPress to FrameMaker

So, is there a filter for Quark tagged text (.xtg)? Cheers Alan ((Damn, I keep forgetting that on this list I have to click on Reply All, not just Reply.)) On 20/04/2007, at 8:22 AM, Dov Isaacs wrote: The filter for QuarkXPress import into FrameMaker was hacked from the equivalent

Re: QuarkXPress to FrameMaker

markzware.com makes some Quark conversion filters for 7.x and 6.x, though nothing explicitly to FrameMaker. You might query them. Also, dtptools.com has a MIF-QXP filter; http://www.dtptools.com/product.asp?id=mfqx You might query them about anything that converts in the other direction they

FrameMaker Server User Interface??

A few years ago, we installed a server-based version of Frame: No documentation, little product knowledge on the part of the Adobe customer service folks. Now, new company, same need. This time, our IT department tells us that we need software programming to build the interface for the

RE: FrameMaker Server User Interface??

this floored me since the last time it was a single CD that a one-person IT department installed in a few hours. Has the Server version changed? No, it hasn't changed. There are still things you can do with it pretty much as is, although the server form is just a license, (the software on

Adjusting dialog box sizes in Framemaker?

I use reshacker. Works well. I have the whole interface in Greek now. Michael >From: "Van Boening, Tammy" >To: >Subject: Adjusting dialog box sizes in Framemaker? >Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:23:08 -0600 > >Argh, I know that this topic has been covered before, but the archives >keep timing out

Doc Architecture Challenge: Linking Between Books

Hi Angela, just use descriptive titles for your hyperlinks, for example: See Concepts Guide > Configuring xyz. Indeed, if a user downloads a pdf of one book, and not the other, the links will not work, but I guess the user will be smart enough to download the other guide and then use the

Table title alignment oddity

Hi, The table title frame spans only the text column (without sidehead area) if the table columns have only the width of the text column. If the table columns are wider than the text column, the table title frame spans the text column plus the sidehead area. Eventually your table columns are too

Looking for a documentation portal example

Hi John, I totally agree with your thoughts regrading presentation and I did not want to disregard PDF. But especially with a library full of documents, and a user base who doesn't know in which document to look for a solution, I think it is easier to built an HTML-based server-side search than

Another missing fonts question

At 13:44 -0600 18/4/07, Combs, Richard wrote: >Cadel_Janice at emc.com wrote: > >> I inherited some documentation, and I get an error message >> "The "Frutiger-Black" Font is not available." Does anyone >> know where I can download that font for free or does anyone >> know anything about that

Doc Architecture Challenge: Linking Between Books

At 09:16 +0200 19/4/07, Yves Barbion wrote: >Indeed, if a user downloads a pdf of one book, and not the other, the links >will not work, but I guess the user will be smart enough to download the >other guide and then use the navigational aids (TOC, IX, bookmarks, ...) of >the other guide. Are

Do we an import tool to import .mif files into AuthorIT

Hi, We have been asked to used AuthorIT to generate onlinr help. Our source files are in FrameMaker, but when we want to import these files into AuthirIT we getting a lot of junk text. I wanted to konow if there is any import tool where we can import .mif files into AuthorIT. Any kind of help

Handling several language versions of documentation and graphics

Hi We are going to tranlate our English manuals into several languages. I have always inserted graphics by link in FrameMaker. For each manual to be translated we need 70% new language-specific drawings. For each release of a product there is a 70% reuse of drawings from the previous release

better diff tool?

I've been thinking about using Framescript to do something to all edited text to make it stand out, for example, underline it or apply a condition. That would separate out the real changes from the other things that change bars pick up, but which don't really matter for reviewing updated doc.

Doc Architecture Challenge: Linking Between Books

That's a good point, but I'm not delivering via CD-ROM. The user downloads the PDF from the company's website.

switched printers -- now HelvObl prints with extra slant

On 19 Apr 2007, at 07:00, f"L MORITSUGU" wrote: > I'm using FM 6.5, Mac, in Classic. I was printing to a Laserwriter > Select > 360, through an AsanteTalk bridge, and everything looked as it should. > > I've just switched to a Lexmark E120n laser printer. Now it prints > Helvetica > bold

Another missing fonts question

If you inherited legacy corporate documentation, I'd bet that EMC owns the fonts already, but they just weren't installed on your system, probably because the people who set up systems don't think of "fonts" as part of a writer's workstation. I'd start checking with IT and other departments to

switched printers -- now HelvObl prints with extra slant

You don't mention whether the printers are PS printers or not; if so they may have resident fonts which aren't invoked on your system. I'd set the Printer metrics line in maker.ini to ON, to get accurate screen display. And I'd also set the Adobe distiller printer instance as the default. Art

Doc Architecture Challenge: Linking Between Books

At 05:51 -0700 19/4/07, Angela Akridge wrote: >That's a good point, but I'm not delivering via CD-ROM. The user downloads >the PDF from the company's website. If you're responding to my point, then it should make no difference as long as the recipient stored the cross-linked PDFs in the same

better diff tool?

Have you used Files > Utilites > Compare docs? The changes seem pretty vivid in the composite document. Art On 4/19/07, Fred Wersan wrote: > I've been thinking about using Framescript to do something to all edited > text to make it stand out, for example, underline it or apply a > condition.

Doc Architecture Challenge: Linking Between Books

So why not deliver both books both individually and either in a .PDF package (new in Acrobat 8) or in a zip file marked as the product's Documentation Set? Art On 4/19/07, Angela Akridge wrote: > That's a good point, but I'm not delivering via CD-ROM. The user downloads > the PDF from the

Looking for a documentation portal example

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/default.aspx On 4/18/07, Michael M?ller-Hillebrand wrote: > Have you seen such a (public) documentation portal? I am looking around > myself, but would be thankful for every link you can give me. -- Bill Swallow HATT List Owner WWP-Users List Owner

Looking for a documentation portal example

> I favor having both if possible, if for no other > reason that Google can find and correctly index masses > of HTML pages (its PDF indexing is good but doesn't > seem to understand the different search priorities of > entities in the document, making it like an ASCII file > in terms of

Adjusting dialog box sizes in Framemaker?

I've had good results with Klaus Daube's plugin. http://www.daube.ch/docu/fmaker36.html#2 The only thing I wish it would do a little better is display the full filename of source graphics in cases where Frame is looking for missing files. We have graphics spread all over different servers (ugly

switched printers -- now HelvObl prints with extra slant

Hi, Art: FYI - on Mac FrameMaker, the maker.ini settings aren't in an exposed file, as they are on Windows and UNIX. They're inside the single application file. To change these settings requires using a dangerous resource editor, similar to registry editing on Windows.

better diff tool?

I've started to use conditional text for different drafts. Each draft is a different color, all are underlined. I have a separate template which only has those conditional text defined, so I can apply that template without interfering with other conditional text. The PDF will the colors (or if

QuarkXPress to FrameMaker

Hi Framers, I'm looking for a conversion tool to convert QuarkXPress files to FrameMaker. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. -- Yves Barbion Documentation Architect Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor Scripto bvba Asselsstraat 65 9031 Gent Belgium T:

QuarkXPress to FrameMaker

Windows 7.2 is supposed to support direct import of Quark; not sure about earlier versions. Is it not doing something you need? Art On 4/19/07, Yves Barbion wrote: > Hi Framers, > > I'm looking for a conversion tool to convert QuarkXPress files to > FrameMaker. Any suggestions? > > Thanks in

Handling several language versions of documentation and graphics

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

switched printers -- now HelvObl prints with extra slant

Thanks very much for your suggestions. I fixed it, a day and a half later, after installing the fonts through Font Book, not directly into the System 9 Fonts folder (which I thought I'd read somewhere was the same thing, but maybe not). Thanks. Louise Moritsugu >From: Paul Findon >To:

switched printers -- now HelvObl prints with extra slant

I once saw a similar instance with a font-- where FrameMaker added an extra slant to italics. This particular font was one that I created in Fontographer because I the font family had no italic version available for purchase. Fontographer (or, more likely, my knowledge of it!) must create

QuarkXPress to FrameMaker

Frame 7.2 can import QuarkXPress files, but only up to Quark version 4.1 On 4/19/07, Art Campbell wrote: > > Windows 7.2 is supposed to support direct import of Quark; not sure > about earlier versions. > Is it not doing something you need? > > Art > > On 4/19/07, Yves Barbion wrote: > > Hi

SV: QuarkXPress to FrameMaker

I don't know of many non-Quark applications that generally can load newer QXD-files than those saved in QuarkXpress 4.1 format. However, QuarkXpress versions newer than 4.1 can save backwards (usually without significant losses). Hence, if you really think conversion to FM format offer

QuarkXPress to FrameMaker

If you don't want to save Quark to an earlier version, or can't, another option may be to print it out to PDF and save the PDF as RTF. Then import that. Art On 4/19/07, Jacob Sch?ffer wrote: > I don't know of many non-Quark applications that generally can load newer > QXD-files than those

Table title alignment oddity - solved

Well, I didn't think was it at first, but it turns out it was! In the template file, the tables overran the main text area ever so slightly. When I made the columns a little narrower, sure enough, the table title box popped back inside the main text area. Thank you, Winfried!!

QuarkXPress to FrameMaker

The filter for QuarkXPress import into FrameMaker was hacked from the equivalent InDesign filter and only supports QuarkXPress 3.x and 4.x files. Newer files (5, 6, and 7) cannot be opened in FrameMaker due to the fact that Quark encrypts their version 5, 6, and 7 documents and any software that

QuarkXPress to FrameMaker

No. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: Alan Litchfield [mailto:alan at alphabyte.co.nz] > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 5:42 PM > Subject: Re: QuarkXPress to FrameMaker > > So, is there a filter for Quark tagged text (.xtg)? > > Cheers > Alan > > ((Damn, I keep forgetting

QuarkXPress to FrameMaker

markzware.com makes some Quark conversion filters for 7.x and 6.x, though nothing explicitly to FrameMaker. You might query them. Also, dtptools.com has a MIF->QXP filter; http://www.dtptools.com/product.asp?id=mfqx You might query them about anything that converts in the other direction they

QuarkXPress to FrameMaker

From: "Art Campbell" > If you don't want to save Quark to an earlier version, or can't, another option may be to print it out to PDF and save the PDF as RTF. Or just Save RTF (or Word) directly out of Quark. That, I think, will get you styled text. Kenneth Benson

FrameMaker Server "User Interface"??

A few years ago, we installed a server-based version of Frame: No documentation, little product knowledge on the part of the Adobe customer service folks. Now, new company, same need. This time, our IT department tells us that we need "software programming to build the interface for the

FrameMaker Server "User Interface"??

> this floored me since the last time it > was a single CD that a one-person IT > department installed in a few hours. > Has the Server version changed? No, it hasn't changed. There are still things you can do with it pretty much as is, although the "server" form is just a license, (the

FrameMaker Server "User Interface"??

No change to the FrameMaker Server product, but obviously your IT department is trying to setup a workflow beyond that which your previous company implemented (even if the base "need" is perceived to be the same). - Dov > -Original Message- > From: