Re: OT: Business insurance for independent contractors

2007-05-01 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 13:55 +1200 1/5/07, Alan Litchfield wrote: I have both general business insurance with large public liability cover and where necessary I get professional indemnity insurance. The professional indemnity insurance is the one that is really expensive. In the UK I have found that it can be, but

Re: OT: Business insurance for independent contractors

2007-05-01 Thread Kelley West
Try Interstate or Fireman's Fund Insurance. I used to work for them, and they have a large variety of professional liability insurance packages. On 4/30/07 7:43 PM, Pat Christenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are any of the independent contractors here carrying business insurance? It's been some

Re: Two problems

2007-05-01 Thread Shlomo Perets
Charles, You wrote: ... Second, and the reason I was trying to search the archives: I want to create a link in an HTML file that will go to a named destination in a PDF file. I know it can be done, and I have been able to find out how to do it to a particular page or to alter a PDF file to

RE: OT: Business insurance for independent contractors

2007-05-01 Thread Matt Sullivan
Business liability insurance is usually quite expensive for what you get, but I got great advice from an insurance pal... For those only needing self-coverage, attach a business rider to a homeowner or renter policy. If you already carry such insurance, the increase in rates is maybe 1/3 compared

Frames within Frames Question

2007-05-01 Thread James Monaco
Hello Framers, We have books with different text frames for left and right master pages (in order to leave more space in the gutter than on the outside). When you insert a graphics frame for an illustration it references the page, not the text frame. The result is that if the pagination

Re: Frames within Frames Question

2007-05-01 Thread Art Campbell
Putting the illustration in an anchored frame, not a graphic frame, would be the standard way to do this, so that it floats and adjusts to the right/left layout changes according to the parameters of the paragraph tag... And as far as twiddling the default setting, there are at least one or two

RE: Frames within Frames Question

2007-05-01 Thread Combs, Richard
James Monaco wrote: We have books with different text frames for left and right master pages (in order to leave more space in the gutter than on the outside). When you insert a graphics frame for an illustration it references the page, not the text frame. The result is that if the

one more question -Fame vs. ArborText

2007-05-01 Thread Diane Gaskill
Hi all, First, thanks to everyone who responded to my email on this topic. The information is very helpful and I really do appreciate that you took the time to respond. One of the responses I received mentioned that the company had set up a process to author in AT but was using FM to print

Re: OT: Business insurance for independent contractors

2007-05-01 Thread Pat Christenson
That's a great idea, Matt. I've contacted my insurance agent to see if this is a possibility. I'm also contacting Fireman's as Kelley suggested and I've gotten some offlist replies for which I'm grateful. FYI, I'm located in California so that may affect the whole experience. Thanks

CMS for FrameMaker

2007-05-01 Thread Rick Quatro
Hello Framers, Does anyone have a ready-list of CMS that work specifically with FrameMaker documents? Thank you very much. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL

RE: one more question -Fame vs. ArborText

2007-05-01 Thread Bernard Aschwanden
XML sort of gets around it. The content is still the same, but the way that you work with it may be different. HUGE GENERALIZATION FOLLOWS: Think of it like working with HTML files. If we both reference a local stylesheet of c:\formats.css and we customize that one file we have two different

Re: OT: Business insurance for independent contractors

2007-05-01 Thread Pat Christenson
Good news! I have a personal liability umbrella policy that my client is willing to accept in place of a business policy. But I appreciate all the ideas and info. Pat Christenson ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Converting Robohelp to Frame (or other print output...)

2007-05-01 Thread Matt Sullivan
I know this is a bit backward, but does anyone have experience or have any advice on converting Help formats (specifically Robohelp) into Frame for printing purposes? How well does it maintain xref's and stylesheets? -Matt Sullivan GRAFIX Training, Inc. An Adobe Authorized

Re: OT: Business insurance for independent contractors

2007-05-01 Thread Scott Prentice
Check out techinsurance.com. We've got both professional liability and business insurance through them and have been very happy with their service and price. If you check around, you'll get wildly differing quotes for supposedly the same coverage. From what I found, most insurance brokers

RE: Converting Robohelp to Frame (or other print output...)

2007-05-01 Thread Linda G. Gallagher
Matt, A tool called the Import Utility from the WebWorks folks can convert several formats to FM. It does a good job if everything is in one file. When you split the file into chapters, as you may want to do, You'll need to re-create links. I have to run now, but let me know if you want to know

RE: one more question -Fame vs. ArborText

2007-05-01 Thread Allen, Richard (Raytheon)
The short answer is YES XML gets around all of that. The long answer is that an application must be created in AT and a separate application must be created in FM. Setting up these applications is usually a non-trivial effort. BTW any XML compliant product, including IE, will be able to use

Two problems

2007-05-01 Thread Shlomo Perets
Charles, You wrote: >... Second, and the reason I was trying to search the archives: I want to >create a link in an HTML file that will go to a named destination in a >PDF file. I know it can be done, and I have been able to find out how to >do it to a particular page or to alter a PDF file

OT: Business insurance for independent contractors

2007-05-01 Thread Matt Sullivan
Business liability insurance is usually quite expensive for what you get, but I got great advice from an insurance pal... For those only needing self-coverage, attach a business rider to a homeowner or renter policy. If you already carry such insurance, the increase in rates is maybe 1/3 compared

Frames within Frames Question

2007-05-01 Thread James Monaco
Hello Framers, We have books with different text frames for left and right master pages (in order to leave more space in the gutter than on the outside). When you insert a graphics frame for an illustration it references the page, not the text frame. The result is that if the pagination

Frames within Frames Question

2007-05-01 Thread Art Campbell
Putting the illustration in an anchored frame, not a graphic frame, would be the standard way to do this, so that it floats and adjusts to the right/left layout changes according to the parameters of the paragraph tag... And as far as twiddling the default setting, there are at least one or two

Frames within Frames Question

2007-05-01 Thread Combs, Richard
James Monaco wrote: > We have books with different text frames for left and right > master pages (in order to leave more space in the gutter than > on the outside). When you insert a graphics frame for an > illustration it references the page, not the text frame. The > result is that if the

Frames within Frames Question

2007-05-01 Thread Matt Sullivan
You'll need to place the anchor in a paragraph at the top of your desired page. Regardless of how it gets to the top, there are at least 3 ways to do this: 1-Put the anchor in the Figure/Table Title paragraph 2-Create a blank para and set the anchor position to At Insertion Point 3-Use the ol'

one more question -Fame vs. ArborText

2007-05-01 Thread Diane Gaskill
Hi all, First, thanks to everyone who responded to my email on this topic. The information is very helpful and I really do appreciate that you took the time to respond. One of the responses I received mentioned that the company had set up a process to author in AT but was using FM to print

OT: Business insurance for independent contractors

2007-05-01 Thread Pat Christenson
That's a great idea, Matt. I've contacted my insurance agent to see if this is a possibility. I'm also contacting Fireman's as Kelley suggested and I've gotten some offlist replies for which I'm grateful. FYI, I'm located in California so that may affect the whole experience. Thanks everyone

CMS for FrameMaker

2007-05-01 Thread Rick Quatro
Hello Framers, Does anyone have a ready-list of CMS that work specifically with FrameMaker documents? Thank you very much. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com

one more question -Fame vs. ArborText

2007-05-01 Thread Bernard Aschwanden
XML sort of gets around it. The content is still the same, but the way that you work with it may be different. HUGE GENERALIZATION FOLLOWS: Think of it like working with HTML files. If we both reference a local stylesheet of c:\formats.css and we customize that one file we have two different

OT: Business insurance for independent contractors

2007-05-01 Thread Pat Christenson
Good news! I have a personal liability umbrella policy that my client is willing to accept in place of a business policy. But I appreciate all the ideas and info. Pat Christenson

Converting Robohelp to Frame (or other print output...)

2007-05-01 Thread Matt Sullivan
I know this is a bit backward, but does anyone have experience or have any advice on converting Help formats (specifically Robohelp) into Frame for printing purposes? How well does it maintain xref's and stylesheets? -Matt Sullivan GRAFIX Training, Inc. An Adobe Authorized Training

OT: Business insurance for independent contractors

2007-05-01 Thread Scott Prentice
Check out techinsurance.com. We've got both professional liability and business insurance through them and have been very happy with their service and price. If you check around, you'll get wildly differing quotes for supposedly the same coverage. From what I found, most insurance brokers

Converting Robohelp to Frame (or other print output...)

2007-05-01 Thread Linda G. Gallagher
Matt, A tool called the Import Utility from the WebWorks folks can convert several formats to FM. It does a good job if everything is in one file. When you split the file into chapters, as you may want to do, You'll need to re-create links. I have to run now, but let me know if you want to know

one more question -Fame vs. ArborText

2007-05-01 Thread Allen, Richard (Raytheon)
The short answer is YES XML gets around all of that. The long answer is that an application must be created in AT and a separate application must be created in FM. Setting up these applications is usually a non-trivial effort. BTW any XML compliant product, including IE, will be able to use

Answers: CMS for FrameMaker

2007-05-01 Thread Diane Gaskill
Hi Rick, As part of my research on FM and AT, I have also been looking at CMS. And I found some good info. I know of at least three CMS systems that will work with FM and I have just begun to scratch the surface of the lists I am looking at. FM7 can be used with SiberSafe XML CMS. See the

OT: Business insurance for independent contractors

2007-05-01 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 13:55 +1200 1/5/07, Alan Litchfield wrote: >I have both general business insurance with large public liability cover and >where necessary I get professional indemnity insurance. The professional >indemnity insurance is the one that is really expensive. In the UK I have found that it can be,

Why have List AND Step paragraph tags?

2007-05-01 Thread Michael Lewis
Eli Har-Even: > . . . Does anyone have a use-case where having two sets of > numbered lists has been useful? Is there any reason for having both sets? No use case, but I can certainly imagine situations where a complex step requires an embedded list, and where a list item includes a (hopefully

OT: Business insurance for independent contractors

2007-05-01 Thread Alan Litchfield
Hi Pat > > Anyway, if anyone here is carrying it, I'd be interested to hear > about your experience. Feel free to contact me offlist. > I have both general business insurance with large public liability cover and where necessary I get professional indemnity insurance. The professional indemnity

OT: Business insurance for independent contractors

2007-05-01 Thread Kelley West
Try Interstate or Fireman's Fund Insurance. I used to work for them, and they have a large variety of professional liability insurance packages. On 4/30/07 7:43 PM, "Pat Christenson" wrote: > Are any of the independent contractors here carrying business > insurance? It's been some time since I