The Documentum documentation is pretty good, and I think they offer an end
user guide that covers all the fundamentals as well as the basics of
document management.
Working with FrameMaker and DCTM is another thing altogether. There was an
add-on application that helped but not sure if it's still
You're probably thinking of FrameLink, which was, in fact, discontinued
by its publisher (Datalogics) in early 2005. It was a great product for
unstructured FrameMaker, but they never really addressed the XML
capabilities of FM7.x and the introduction of multiple undo in FM7.2
broke the interface
Rick,
Zip and send me a sample document so I can see what you see. Thanks.
Will do.
Mike Wickham
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Using Windows XP, FrameMaker 7.2
I am trying to add a graphic or a square bullet in front of all my headings.
Example:
? 1.1 Heading 1
Is there a way to do this in FrameMaker. I placed the square box on my
references page and then tried to put it on my numbering line in the
Courtney,
We used Documentum for a number of years at two previous incarnations of
my company.
As a matter of fact, when we were looking at Content Management Systems
(back in 2000), the Documentation Department was one of the majot
internal customers and ability to handle Frame docs and books
Here's a previously posted reply:
If you don't want to mess with character codes, set your desired bullet
font as a character tag (for example, Dingbats, Wingdings) and use the
character tag in the Automnumber field. This way you can merely use the
letter that corresponds with the character in
Are you working in structured or unstructured files? You don't say.
If structured, you can define a prefix in the EDD that appears before
the autonumber, for each heading element (if you have level rules, you
may only have one to worry about). Apply appropriate format rules to
this for the
One way of messing with this would be to add a run-in heading with
Dingbats before the other headings. Only allow for it when setting the
indents and tabulature of the headings.
Bodvar
On 8/9/07, Steve Rickaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 17:14 +0200 9/8/07, Shmuel Wolfson wrote:
If you don't
Hi Nancy,
Yes, but the book's structure may not be valid.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com
Hi all,
Is it possible to mix unstructured Frame files with structured Frame files
in the same book?
Thanks,
Nancy Adams
Hi Mike,
Yes, I can verify this behavior with FrameMaker 8 on Windows XP.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com
I posted this topic a couple of days ago with no response. Probably I made
it too complicated. :) Can someone please tell me if they see the same
problem
At 10:48 -0400 9/8/07, Brenda Waltermeyer wrote:
That is exactly what it does (rubbish). I need it to be included in the
numbering string not as a character style. I already have a character style
called ZHeadNum in the Character Format under Numbering tab in the Paragraph
designer. I need to
A work around for this is to create an element that can contain ANY
content.
For example, our Book element contains a TOC element. In the EDD,
the TOC is a container with the General rule ANY.
When you add the generated toc file to the book, it's tag is
Book-Component. In the structure view for
Justification and Automatic Letter Spacing used to work together. Now,
only one or the other works. Is anyone else seeing this?
Yes, I can verify this behavior with FrameMaker 8 on Windows XP.
Dang. I hope Adobe fixes this soon. The feature is important enough to me
that I'm going to have to
On 8/9/07, Mike Feimster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now the book is valid, even
though the toc is an unstructured file.
IMO, this is an unfortunate failing of FM or simply a missing feature.
FM should be able to produce structured generated files. could be
perhaps accomplished by adding element
On Thursday, August 09, 2007 12:39 PM, Eric Dunn wrote:
| On 8/9/07, Mike Feimster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
| Now the book is valid, even though the toc is an unstructured file.
|
| IMO, this is an unfortunate failing of FM or simply a missing feature.
|
| FM should be able to produce
Dear all, especially the FM8 beta testers,
Does anyone have an idea what the files hyphens.xxx in the directory
dict are good for?
They look very similar to *.dct (user.dct, site.dct, ...) files, but
obviously are not case sensitive.
Of course these files are coded in UTF-8.
Dear all,
The FM 8 Welcome screen (in effect a Flash file) with the message
FrameMaker Complete Help-- this is a link
Get the reference guides and manuals
including Structured Documentation resources
leads to a URL, which
I've posted an overview of FrameMaker 8 with my impressions here:
http://www.scriptorium.com/palimpsest/2007/08/framemaker-8-first-impressions.html
Please feel free to comment on the blog or in this forum. The review
itself is too long to post to the list in its entirety (and it has
screen shots
Is there any way to place an anchored frame in the center of a multi-column
page? I use the two-cell table method for placing graphics and captions. The
graphic is in the top cell and the caption in the bottom cell. It works
great in-column, but I'd like to place a 1-column wide graphic and
Hi all,
I'm trying to set up my two lists so that the figure number appears in front
of the figure title (same with tables). I can't find a user variable for
figure number or table number. Am I missing something? Can I create one
myself?
Molly Keegan | Objective Interface Systems, Inc.
Thanks, Sarah,
Lot of things here to support my suspicion that Adobe should have
waited a couple of months with this release. We will probably see more
than a couple of patches soon.
This registering thing: does it mean that we no longer can install the
same FM on two computers like the license
I'm trying to set up my two lists so that the figure number appears in
front
of the figure title (same with tables). I can't find a user variable for
figure number or table number. Am I missing something? Can I create one
myself?
Molly,
Here's how I do it.
1. For my figure title paragraph
Molly Keegan wrote:
I'm trying to set up my two lists so that the figure number
appears in front of the figure title (same with tables). I
can't find a user variable for figure number or table number.
Am I missing something? Can I create one myself?
Assuming you're using autonumbered
I don't think this has changed in FrameMaker 8.0. In older versions,
the hyphens.* files are the standard, editable language-specific
hyphenation dictionaries as opposed to the spelling dictionaries
(*.lex binary dictionaries, *.dct editable dictionaries), the binary
hyphenation dictionaries
Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote:
This registering thing: does it mean that we no longer can install the
same FM on two computers like the license used to be (one at work or
main computer and one at home or on a laptop, IIRC)?
If the FM8 standalone license is consistent with licenses for other
The activation mechanism supports two activations such
that you can use the software per the EULA. Note that if
you need to move from a system to another (i.e., a third
system), there is a function to DE-activate on a system
which adds one back to your available activation count.
That system does
Yes, it works well in Acrobat. Or is this activation thing different
from what was in Acrobat 8?
On 8/9/07, Dov Isaacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The activation mechanism supports two activations such
that you can use the software per the EULA. Note that if
you need to move from a system to
Same
- Dov
-Original Message-
From: Bill Swallow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 3:29 PM
To: Dov Isaacs
Cc: Bodvar Bjorgvinsson; Sarah O'Keefe; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: first impressions of FrameMaker 8
Yes, it works well in Acrobat. Or is
Mike's explanation is basically correct, but I'd like to amplify and
hopefully clarify a couple of issues.
The letter label that Mike suggests using is officially called a series
label. I'd *strenuously* suggest that you not adopt Mike's usage
of thinking of the numbering series as a flow, since
Hi, Dov, et. al.
Dov Isaacs wrote:
The activation mechanism supports two activations such
that you can use the software per the EULA. Note that if
you need to move from a system to another (i.e., a third
system), there is a function to DE-activate on a system
which adds one back to your
If you in fact go over the two activation limit due to
equipment failure, call the phone number that appears on
your screen to talk with the Adobe Activation Center.
They are very understanding about such situations and
unless you abuse the privilege (such as having a hardware
failure every week),
Hi, Dov.
Dov Isaacs wrote:
If you in fact go over the two activation limit due to
equipment failure, call the phone number that appears on
your screen to talk with the Adobe Activation Center.
They are very understanding about such situations and
unless you abuse the privilege (such as having a
I think Frame licenses allowed one install on a desktop and one on a
laptop.
It was not legal to install it on two desktops - even if one was at work
and the other at home!
Micheal O'Laoghaire
KBS Documentation
Comverse Inc.
Cambridge, MA.
-Original Message-
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi all,
I have just upgraded to Framemaker version 8 (from 7.2) and I am am
having issues building one of my manuals. I have successfully updated
and built two Framemaker manuals. Unfortunately, I am having no end of
difficulty creating a third PFD using an identical method (Save AsPDF
and
The Documentum documentation is pretty good, and I think they offer an end
user guide that covers all the fundamentals as well as the basics of
document management.
Working with FrameMaker and DCTM is another thing altogether. There was an
add-on application that helped but not sure if it's still
Hi,
If you are refering to FrameLink from Datalogics, my understanding is that
this no longer exists.
It's been a few years since I looked at FrameMaker and DCTM but I believe
there used to be an ODMA client supplied with FrameMaker that could be
installed to provide basic integration with DCTM.
Rick,
> Zip and send me a sample document so I can see what you see. Thanks.
Will do.
Mike Wickham
I'm using FrameMaker 6.0p405 on a Windows XP Dell 450 workstation.
I've just been asked to supply manuals in HTML. Currently, my deliverable
is PDF.
I am seriously considering mif2go for producing the HTML.
But, before I invest the time and money, I wondering if FrameMaker 8 with
its XML
Using Windows XP, FrameMaker 7.2
I am trying to add a graphic or a square bullet in front of all my headings.
Example:
? 1.1 Heading 1
Is there a way to do this in FrameMaker. I placed the square box on my
references page and then tried to put it on my numbering line in the
Courtney,
We used Documentum for a number of years at two previous incarnations of
my company.
As a matter of fact, when we were looking at Content Management Systems
(back in 2000), the Documentation Department was one of the majot
internal customers and ability to handle Frame docs and books
Here's a previously posted reply:
If you don't want to mess with character codes, set your desired bullet
font as a character tag (for example, Dingbats, Wingdings) and use the
character tag in the Automnumber field. This way you can merely use the
letter that corresponds with the character in
At 17:14 +0200 9/8/07, Shmuel Wolfson wrote:
>If you don't want to mess with character codes, set your desired bullet
>font as a character tag (for example, Dingbats, Wingdings) and use the
>character tag in the Automnumber field. This way you can merely use the
>letter that corresponds with the
Hi all,
Is it possible to mix unstructured Frame files with structured Frame files
in the same book?
Thanks,
Nancy Adams
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Are you working in structured or unstructured files? You don't say.
If structured, you can define a prefix in the EDD that appears before
the autonumber, for each heading element (if you have level rules, you
may only have one to worry about). Apply appropriate format rules to
this for the
One way of messing with this would be to add a run-in heading with
Dingbats before the other headings. Only allow for it when setting the
indents and tabulature of the headings.
Bodvar
On 8/9/07, Steve Rickaby wrote:
> At 17:14 +0200 9/8/07, Shmuel Wolfson wrote:
>
> >If you don't want to mess
Yes! That's how you would add generated lists into a structured book
HTH
Mark Poston
On 9/8/07 15:58, "ActionA at aol.com" wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to mix unstructured Frame files with structured Frame files
> in the same book?
>
> Thanks,
> Nancy Adams
>
>
>
>
Hi Nancy,
Yes, but the book's structure may not be valid.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to mix unstructured Frame files with structured Frame files
> in the same book?
>
> Thanks,
> Nancy Adams
Hi Mike,
Yes, I can verify this behavior with FrameMaker 8 on Windows XP.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com
>I posted this topic a couple of days ago with no response. Probably I made
>it too complicated. :) Can someone please tell me if they see the same
>problem
At 10:48 -0400 9/8/07, Brenda Waltermeyer wrote:
>That is exactly what it does (rubbish). I need it to be included in the
>numbering string not as a character style. I already have a character style
>called ZHeadNum in the Character Format under Numbering tab in the Paragraph
>designer. I need to
A work around for this is to create an element that can contain ANY
content.
For example, our element contains a element. In the EDD,
the is a container with the General rule .
When you add the generated toc file to the book, it's tag is
Book-Component. In the structure view for the book
>> Justification and Automatic Letter Spacing used to work together. Now,
>> only one or the other works. Is anyone else seeing this?
> Yes, I can verify this behavior with FrameMaker 8 on Windows XP.
Dang. I hope Adobe fixes this soon. The feature is important enough to me
that I'm going to
Richard,
Yes, but
It is possible to save a file as HTML from FM8 (or FM6 for that matter)
without a tool or saving as XML, but it's unlikely that it will meet
your needs. You can also use the free version of WebWorks that shiped
with FM6, but you might find that limiting.
If you upgrade to
--- Mike Wickham wrote:
> >> Justification and Automatic Letter Spacing used
> to work together. Now,
> >> only one or the other works. Is anyone else
> seeing this?
>
> > Yes, I can verify this behavior with FrameMaker 8
> on Windows XP.
>
> Dang. I hope Adobe fixes this soon. The feature is
I think Mike's on track with his assessment; MIF2Go will give your
more options as far as output goes, and also provide more tuning and
design options within whatever format you choose. However, I think
your goal of "any browser" would point you toward FM 8 for its better
graphics handling and
On 8/9/07, Mike Feimster wrote:
> Now the book is valid, even
> though the toc is an unstructured file.
>
IMO, this is an unfortunate failing of FM or simply a missing feature.
FM should be able to produce structured generated files. could be
perhaps accomplished by adding element information
On Thursday, August 09, 2007 12:39 PM, Eric Dunn wrote:
| On 8/9/07, Mike Feimster wrote:
|
| > Now the book is valid, even though the toc is an unstructured file.
|
| IMO, this is an unfortunate failing of FM or simply a missing feature.
|
| FM should be able to produce structured generated
I've posted an overview of FrameMaker 8 with my impressions here:
http://www.scriptorium.com/palimpsest/2007/08/framemaker-8-first-impressions.html
Please feel free to comment on the blog or in this forum. The review
itself is too long to post to the list in its entirety (and it has
screen shots
Is there any way to place an anchored frame in the center of a multi-column
page? I use the two-cell table method for placing graphics and captions. The
graphic is in the top cell and the caption in the bottom cell. It works
great in-column, but I'd like to place a 1-column wide graphic and
Steve,
That is exactly what it does (rubbish). I need it to be included in the
numbering string not as a character style. I already have a character style
called ZHeadNum in the Character Format under Numbering tab in the Paragraph
designer. I need to include it some where for my Heading numbers.
Hi all,
I'm trying to set up my two lists so that the figure number appears in front
of the figure title (same with tables). I can't find a user variable for
figure number or table number. Am I missing something? Can I create one
myself?
Molly Keegan | Objective Interface Systems, Inc.
Thanks, Sarah,
Lot of things here to support my suspicion that Adobe should have
waited a couple of months with this release. We will probably see more
than a couple of patches soon.
This registering thing: does it mean that we no longer can install the
same FM on two computers like the license
> I'm trying to set up my two lists so that the figure number appears in
> front
> of the figure title (same with tables). I can't find a user variable for
> figure number or table number. Am I missing something? Can I create one
> myself?
Molly,
Here's how I do it.
1. For my figure title
Molly Keegan wrote:
> I'm trying to set up my two lists so that the figure number
> appears in front of the figure title (same with tables). I
> can't find a user variable for figure number or table number.
> Am I missing something? Can I create one myself?
Assuming you're using
I don't think this has changed in FrameMaker 8.0. In older versions,
the hyphens.* files are the standard, editable language-specific
hyphenation dictionaries as opposed to the spelling dictionaries
(*.lex binary dictionaries, *.dct editable dictionaries), the binary
hyphenation dictionaries
Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote:
> This registering thing: does it mean that we no longer can install the
> same FM on two computers like the license used to be (one at work or
> main computer and one at home or on a laptop, IIRC)?
If the FM8 standalone license is consistent with licenses for other
The activation mechanism supports two activations such
that you can use the software per the EULA. Note that if
you need to move from a system to another (i.e., a third
system), there is a function to DE-activate on a system
which adds one back to your available activation count.
That system does
Yes, it works well in Acrobat. Or is this activation thing different
from what was in Acrobat 8?
On 8/9/07, Dov Isaacs wrote:
> The activation mechanism supports two activations such
> that you can use the software per the EULA. Note that if
> you need to move from a system to another (i.e., a
Same
- Dov
> -Original Message-
> From: Bill Swallow [mailto:techcommdood at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 3:29 PM
> To: Dov Isaacs
> Cc: Bodvar Bjorgvinsson; Sarah O'Keefe; framers at frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: first impressions of FrameMaker 8
>
> Yes, it
Hi, Dov, et. al.
Dov Isaacs wrote:
> The activation mechanism supports two activations such
> that you can use the software per the EULA. Note that if
> you need to move from a system to another (i.e., a third
> system), there is a function to DE-activate on a system
> which adds one back to your
If you in fact go over the two activation limit due to
equipment failure, call the phone number that appears on
your screen to talk with the Adobe Activation Center.
They are very understanding about such situations and
unless you abuse the privilege (such as having a hardware
failure every week),
Hi, Dov.
Dov Isaacs wrote:
> If you in fact go over the two activation limit due to
> equipment failure, call the phone number that appears on
> your screen to talk with the Adobe Activation Center.
> They are very understanding about such situations and
> unless you abuse the privilege (such as
I think Frame licenses allowed one install on a desktop and one on a
laptop.
It was not legal to install it on two desktops - even if one was at work
and the other at home!
Micheal O'Laoghaire
KBS Documentation
Comverse Inc.
Cambridge, MA.
-Original Message-
From:
hi all,
I have just upgraded to Framemaker version 8 (from 7.2) and I am am
having issues building one of my manuals. I have successfully updated
and built two Framemaker manuals. Unfortunately, I am having no end of
difficulty creating a third PFD using an identical method (Save As>PDF
and
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