FM8 and shortcut key (F9+first letter in pragraph name

2007-09-25 Thread Andersen, Verner Engell VEA
Hi I used to apply paragraphs by pressing F9+first letters in paragraph name+Enter. Suddenly this doesn't work in Framemaker 8. Do you know why - I have seen it working. Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards Verner Andersen Technical Writer

Re: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Klaus Daube
On 24 Sep 2007 at 21:29, Dov Isaacs wrote: Adobe Technical Communication Suite will be available for Microsoft(R) Windows Vista(TM) and Windows(R) XP and is expected to ship by the end of October 2007 at an estimated price of US$1,599. Users can upgrade for an estimated

Re: FM8 and shortcut key (F9+first letter in pragraph name

2007-09-25 Thread Yves Barbion
Hi Verner, Indeed, this is a bug, and I noticed it too a couple of days ago. I pressed F9, but I just got to see the paratags in the lower-left corner of my FrameMaker window for 2 seconds. Quit and restart FM8 and it works again (but I hope Adobe fixes this soon). Yves Barbion

Re: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Great news! This seems to me to be the official stamp of Adobe finally acknowledging FrameMaker for what it is first and foremost: the best all-over technical publication workhorse. IMHO it only remains for Adobe to realise that FM is also one of the best tools for regular book layout, except

Re: FM8 and shortcut key (F9+first letter in pragraph name

2007-09-25 Thread Sarah O'Keefe
The shortcut appears to *not* work when the Paragraph Designer is open. On my machine at least (Vista), closing the Para Designer caused the flashing F9 to stop. Sarah Yves Barbion wrote: Indeed, this is a bug, and I noticed it too a couple of days ago. I pressed F9, but I just got to see the

Re: FM8 and shortcut key (F9+first letter in pragraph name

2007-09-25 Thread Yves Barbion
Indeed Sarah, same behavior in Windows XP, and with the Character Designer open too. Yves Barbion Documentation Architect Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor Sarah O'Keefe wrote: The shortcut appears to *not* work when the Paragraph Designer is

Madcap software wants your opinions

2007-09-25 Thread Sharon Burton
As you may have heard, I'm the new product manager for Blaze. I'm running a survey to find out a little more about our audience and how you all work. We're also giving out 5 Madcap tee shirts to people who provide their contact info. Providing contact info is optional, but you won't be entered to

Re: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Bill Swallow
So just how tightly are FM and RH integrated? I can't recall a successful marriage of the two tools, historically. However, it's only been a short time since the two were developed under the same roof, so to speak. I'd be interested in learning more about how these two tools work together. --

RE: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Michael O'Neill
I wondered the same thing. From what it looks like to me, RoboHelp supports Framemaker in that it imports .fm and .mif files. Since they don't list Frame as a supported authoring environment, it doesn't look like it is heavily integrated (/assumption). Here's what I gleaned off the website:

Re: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Are you sure it's still available. I can't find this on Adobe's site, and the link below is no longer available. To learn more about the suite please visit www.adobe.com/technicalcommunicationsuite. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Dov Isaacs wrote: ( BW)(CA-ADOBE-SYSTEMS)(ADBE) Adobe Unveils

RE: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Mark Southee
This one should work. http://www.adobe.com/products/technicalcommunicationsuite/ Cheers Mark Mark Southee Documentation Manager SurfControl Direct: +44 01260 296139 Fax: +44 01260 296201 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.surfcontrol.com SurfControl - Enterprise Threat Protection -Original

Re: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Does not work either for me, but this one does: http://www.adobe.com/products/technicalcommunicationsuite/?promoid=BJXOA Bodvar On 9/25/07, Mark Southee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one should work. http://www.adobe.com/products/technicalcommunicationsuite/ Cheers Mark Mark Southee

Re: Adobe Acrobat 8

2007-09-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Don't expect the bugs to be fixed until 8.x, where x is greater than 0. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Danny G Green wrote: In June there was a posting about Acrobat 8 dropping pages, text, and words when produced from FrameMaker 7.2. Is anyone still having problems?

Re: Adobe Acrobat 8

2007-09-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Don't expect the bugs to be fixed until 8.x, where x is greater than 0. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Danny G Green wrote: In June there was a posting about Acrobat 8 dropping pages, text, and words when produced from FrameMaker 7.2. Is anyone still having problems? Thanks Danny Green

RE: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread richard.melanson
WOW !!! Outstanding. Way to go Adobe ! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dov Isaacs Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:29 AM To: Frame2Acrobat E-mail List; Framers Alternative E-mail List; Framers E-mail List Subject: Adobe Unveils

RE: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Richard Levine
According to Adobe's web site, RH 7 integration is one-way .fm or .mif file import. If this is true, it is not integration in my book. --- Richard D. Levine Technical Writer Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. 5 HaSollalim St., Tel

RE: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Kelly McDaniel
Right, IMHO! Migration, not integration...Kelly. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Levine Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 9:42 AM To: 'Bill Swallow'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Lin Surasky
According to Adobe's web site, RH 7 integration is one-way .fm or .mif file import. If this is true, it is not integration in my book. Nor is it any sort of improvement on the pre-Adobe versions, which imported MIF files at least since X5, if not before then

Re: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Bill Swallow
Doesn't seem like much of an integration, and certainly isn't single-sourcing given you can't round-trip the RH content back to FM. It's a repurposing solution. On 9/25/07, Lin Surasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to Adobe's web site, RH 7 integration is one-way .fm or .mif file

Re: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Am 25.09.2007 um 16:41 schrieb Richard Levine: According to Adobe's web site, RH 7 integration is one-way .fm or .mif file import. If this is true, it is not integration in my book. No, it's more than that. It is a connection to the original FrameMaker book or document very much like

Re: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Yves Barbion
Great! I think the Tech Com suite is definitely a move in the right direction. I would add Photoshop and Illustrator to that suite as well. I'm wondering whether this can be done: * Author and maintain DITA content in FrameMaker. * Import the ditamap instead of the FM book file into the

SV: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Jacob Schäffer
As I see it: With the new Adobe Suite-concept you will effectively be able to break the single-sourcing concept if you want, i.e. apply local changes as need be for last minute corrections. However, when working disciplined as of the single-sourcing concept itself, I think the suite-concept

Another Frame 8 bug--reversed Smart Quotes

2007-09-25 Thread Tina Ricks
Hi all, I've sent the following Frame 8 bug to Adobe, but now I need to figure out how to fix it in my documents. When I bring in Word text with the RTF import (Copy Paste Special RTF), randomly, the close quote marks are reversed. I can't duplicate this in email, but imagine the open quote

Re: Another Frame 8 bug--reversed Smart Quotes

2007-09-25 Thread Stuart Rogers
Tina Ricks wrote: What I'm trying to do is search specifically for opening smart quotes, so I can find them and verify they're going the right direction. When I try this, Frame finds all quote marks, not just the opening ones, which makes this search process even more tedious. Is there any way

RE: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Combs, Richard
Bill Swallow wrote: Doesn't seem like much of an integration, and certainly isn't single-sourcing given you can't round-trip the RH content back to FM. It's a repurposing solution. If round-tripping were a prerequisite for single-sourcing, then using Acrobat Distiller and Webworks

RE: SV: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Sean Pollock
As long as the RH output can be perfected from within Frame (probably best done in xml), it's fine. If you have to output to RH, then make any large changes in RH, and then output to a preferred format (HTML help, JavaHelp, etc.), there's really no advantage.Sean Pollock Learning Media

Re: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Bill Swallow
If round-tripping were a prerequisite for single-sourcing, then using Acrobat Distiller and Webworks Publisher to create deliverables from your FM files wouldn't qualify. On the surface this would appear to be true, however Distiller and WWP are not authoring environments. The FM files remain

RE: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Combs, Richard
Bill Swallow wrote: FM+RH is still repurposing content from FM into RH then out to whatever output you choose, and unless I'm missing something, if you make changes in RH to your content, you can't repurpose the content back to FM. That's true *if* you make changes in RH to your content

Resources

2007-09-25 Thread Dunn, Hope M
Hello All- My company is looking for some Adobe Framemaker experts in the Washington DC/ Northern Virginia area for some temporary/contract work. We are coming upon our busy season and we are finding it difficult to find people who know framemaker. My company is called Ingenix and we are located

Re: FM8 and shortcut key (F9+first letter in pragraph name

2007-09-25 Thread Neeraj Jain
I guess that this problem is solved now. BTW, i checked this issue in FM 7.1. When I did not open the paragraph designer, I was able to use the shortcut functionality. Smile makes you more close; try it Thanks and Regards, N. Jain Writer 91-9810676241 http://www.neerajjain8.com |

Re: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Hedley Finger
Bodvar and others: At Tuesday, 25/09/2007, 07:07 PM;, you wrote: IMHO it only remains for Adobe to realise that FM is also one of the best tools for regular book layout, Well, it will be if we ALL start screaming for @ working in double-spreads, i.e. -- photographs and

FM8 and shortcut key (F9+

2007-09-25 Thread Andersen, Verner Engell VEA
Hi I used to apply paragraphs by pressing F9++Enter. Suddenly this doesn't work in Framemaker 8. Do you know why - I have seen it working. Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards Verner Andersen Technical Writer Radiometer Medical ApS

Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Klaus Daube
On 24 Sep 2007 at 21:29, Dov Isaacs wrote: > Adobe Technical Communication Suite will be available for > Microsoft(R) Windows Vista(TM) and Windows(R) XP and is expected to > ship by the end of October 2007 at an estimated price of US$1,599. > Users can upgrade for an estimated

FM8 and shortcut key (F9+

2007-09-25 Thread Yves Barbion
Hi Verner, Indeed, this is a bug, and I noticed it too a couple of days ago. I pressed F9, but I just got to see the paratags in the lower-left corner of my FrameMaker window for 2 seconds. Quit and restart FM8 and it works again (but I hope Adobe fixes this soon). Yves Barbion Documentation

Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Great news! This seems to me to be the official stamp of Adobe finally acknowledging FrameMaker for what it is first and foremost: the best all-over technical publication workhorse. IMHO it only remains for Adobe to realise that FM is also one of the best tools for regular book layout, except

FM8 and shortcut key (F9+

2007-09-25 Thread Sarah O'Keefe
The shortcut appears to *not* work when the Paragraph Designer is open. On my machine at least (Vista), closing the Para Designer caused the "flashing F9" to stop. Sarah Yves Barbion wrote: > Indeed, this is a bug, and I noticed it too a couple of days ago. I > pressed F9, but I just got to see

FM8 and shortcut key (F9+

2007-09-25 Thread Yves Barbion
Indeed Sarah, same behavior in Windows XP, and with the Character Designer open too. Yves Barbion Documentation Architect Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor Sarah O'Keefe wrote: > The shortcut appears to *not* work when the Paragraph Designer is

Madcap software wants your opinions

2007-09-25 Thread Sharon Burton
As you may have heard, I'm the new product manager for Blaze. I'm running a survey to find out a little more about our audience and how you all work. We're also giving out 5 Madcap tee shirts to people who provide their contact info. Providing contact info is optional, but you won't be entered to

Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Bill Swallow
So just how tightly are FM and RH integrated? I can't recall a successful marriage of the two tools, historically. However, it's only been a short time since the two were developed under the same roof, so to speak. I'd be interested in learning more about how these two tools work together. --

Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Michael O'Neill
I wondered the same thing. From what it looks like to me, RoboHelp supports Framemaker in that it imports .fm and .mif files. Since they don't list Frame as a supported "authoring environment", it doesn't look like it is heavily integrated (/assumption). Here's what I gleaned off the website:

Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Are you sure it's still available. I can't find this on Adobe's site, and the link below is no longer available. "To learn more about the suite please visit www.adobe.com/technicalcommunicationsuite." Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Dov Isaacs wrote: > ( BW)(CA-ADOBE-SYSTEMS)(ADBE) Adobe Unveils

Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Mark Southee
This one should work. http://www.adobe.com/products/technicalcommunicationsuite/ Cheers Mark Mark Southee Documentation Manager SurfControl Direct: +44 01260 296139 Fax: +44 01260 296201 mark.southee at surfcontrol.com www.surfcontrol.com SurfControl - Enterprise Threat Protection

Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Does not work either for me, but this one does: http://www.adobe.com/products/technicalcommunicationsuite/?promoid=BJXOA Bodvar On 9/25/07, Mark Southee wrote: > > This one should work. > > http://www.adobe.com/products/technicalcommunicationsuite/ > > Cheers > > Mark > > Mark Southee >

Adobe Acrobat 8

2007-09-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Don't expect the bugs to be fixed until 8.x, where x is greater than 0. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Danny G Green wrote: In June there was a posting about Acrobat 8 dropping pages, text, and words when produced from FrameMaker 7.2. Is anyone still having problems?

Adobe Acrobat 8

2007-09-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Don't expect the bugs to be fixed until 8.x, where x is greater than 0. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Danny G Green wrote: > In June there was a posting about Acrobat 8 dropping pages, text, and > words when produced from FrameMaker 7.2. Is anyone still having > problems? > > Thanks > > Danny

Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread richard.melan...@us.tel.com
WOW !!! Outstanding. Way to go Adobe ! -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+richard.melanson=us.tel.com at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+richard.melanson=us.tel@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Dov Isaacs Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:29 AM To:

Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Richard Levine
According to Adobe's web site, RH 7 "integration" is one-way .fm or .mif file import. If this is true, it is not integration in my book. --- Richard D. Levine Technical Writer Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. 5 HaSollalim St., Tel

Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Kelly McDaniel
Right, IMHO! Migration, not integration...Kelly. -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+kmcdaniel=pavtech@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+kmcdaniel=pavtech.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Richard Levine Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 9:42 AM To: 'Bill

Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Lin Surasky
> According to Adobe's web site, RH 7 "integration" is one-way > .fm or .mif file import. If this is true, it is not > integration in my book. > Nor is it any sort of improvement on the pre-Adobe versions, which imported MIF files at least since X5, if not before then

Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Bill Swallow
Doesn't seem like much of an integration, and certainly isn't single-sourcing given you can't round-trip the RH content back to FM. It's a repurposing solution. On 9/25/07, Lin Surasky wrote: > > > According to Adobe's web site, RH 7 "integration" is one-way > > .fm or .mif file import. If this

Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Am 25.09.2007 um 16:41 schrieb Richard Levine: > According to Adobe's web site, RH 7 "integration" is one-way .fm > or .mif > file import. If this is true, it is not integration in my book. No, it's more than that. It is a connection to the original FrameMaker book or document very much

Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Yves Barbion
Great! I think the Tech Com suite is definitely a move in the right direction. I would add Photoshop and Illustrator to that suite as well. I'm wondering whether this can be done: * Author and maintain DITA content in FrameMaker. * Import the ditamap instead of the FM book file into the

SV: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Jacob Schäffer
As I see it: With the new Adobe Suite-concept you will effectively be able to break the single-sourcing concept if you want, i.e. apply local changes as need be for last minute corrections. However, when working disciplined as of the single-sourcing concept itself, I think the suite-concept

Another Frame 8 bug--reversed Smart Quotes

2007-09-25 Thread Tina Ricks
Hi all, I've sent the following Frame 8 bug to Adobe, but now I need to figure out how to fix it in my documents. When I bring in Word text with the RTF import (Copy > Paste Special > RTF), randomly, the close quote marks are reversed. I can't duplicate this in email, but imagine the open quote

Another Frame 8 bug--reversed Smart Quotes

2007-09-25 Thread Stuart Rogers
Tina Ricks wrote: > > What I'm trying to do is search specifically for opening smart quotes, so I > can find them and verify they're going the right direction. When I try this, > Frame finds all quote marks, not just the opening ones, which makes this > search process even more tedious. Is there

Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Combs, Richard
Bill Swallow wrote: > Doesn't seem like much of an integration, and certainly isn't > single-sourcing given you can't round-trip the RH content back to FM. > It's a repurposing solution. If round-tripping were a prerequisite for single-sourcing, then using Acrobat Distiller and Webworks

SV: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Sean Pollock
As long as the RH output can be perfected from within Frame (probably best done in xml), it's fine. If you have to output to RH, then make any large changes in RH, and then output to a preferred format (HTML help, JavaHelp, etc.), there's really no advantage.Sean Pollock Learning & Media

Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Bill Swallow
> If round-tripping were a prerequisite for single-sourcing, then using > Acrobat Distiller and Webworks Publisher to create deliverables from > your FM files wouldn't qualify. On the surface this would appear to be true, however Distiller and WWP are not authoring environments. The FM files

Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Combs, Richard
Bill Swallow wrote: > FM+RH is still repurposing content from FM > into RH then out to whatever output you choose, and unless > I'm missing something, if you make changes in RH to your > content, you can't repurpose the content back to FM. That's true *if* you make changes in RH to your

Resources

2007-09-25 Thread Dunn, Hope M
Hello All- My company is looking for some Adobe Framemaker experts in the Washington DC/ Northern Virginia area for some temporary/contract work. We are coming upon our busy season and we are finding it difficult to find people who know framemaker. My company is called Ingenix and we are located

FM8 and shortcut key (F9+

2007-09-25 Thread Neeraj Jain
I guess that this problem is solved now. BTW, i checked this issue in FM 7.1. When I did not open the paragraph designer, I was able to use the shortcut functionality. Smile makes you more close; try it Thanks and Regards, N. Jain Writer 91-9810676241 http://www.neerajjain8.com |