Hi everyone,
there are just too many of you to thank individually.
The revamping scenario is really out of my hands, so, like one of you
said,"am going to make like a tree and leave."
Hopefully, next time I contact the list for advice it will be from a new
place of work where the real benefits of t
Hey Chris - got any good recipes for Coq Aau Riesling? I need one for
our next Tech Pubs
conference on how to talk to programmers without using a baseball bat.
Gillian, I have a receipe for a dynamite pumklin pie. Let me know if you
want it.
Smitty
--
Keith L. Smyth
President
Smyth Consultin
The trend has been in that direction since the dotcom bust, when a number of
(formerly) highly paid developers found a comfortable job writing help files
more appealing than unemployment or stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart.
While it is easy for technical writers to convince themselves of the
Has anyone been able to insert a link in a FrameMaker document that after
conversion to PDF will jump to another PDF that was previously created but
not using FrameMaker? This method would not require linking with Acrobat
so that you do not have to make new links in Acrobat when updating the
Fr
"IF I CHANGE THE FRAME SIZE TO FULL-PAGE, the lines in the
graphic do print (are visible) on a hardcopy printed page and on the pdf
of the page in Acrobat,"
Jeffrey
Have you looked into the "runaround" properties of the frame, or whether
there are actually 2 frame
One word answer: Bad.
Unless they don't care if they have unreadable, unusable, documentation.
Miriam
- Original Message -
From: "mulholland4" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 3:54 PM
Subject: radical revamping of techpubs
Hi,
I would like to see what the grou
Ron --
I used it for a number of years. As time went by, it got more sophisticated,
but worse. I learned to save early and often, because it crashed with some
frequency.
The last time I used it, it actually ate a bunch of my added text -- which
turned out to be a very very bad thing.
It was g
They will get exactly what they desirve - a complete disaster.
Companies that do not know the value of technical documentation, user
documentation, in what ever form it is needed will lose business and market
share, in the same way that companies that move their customer service call
centers of
Just to throw my opinion on the fire as well, yeah, I'd say it's time to
make like a tree and get outa there. :)
It's the same old leftovers we've seen a zillion times before. The fact
that the developers are not writers >nor< native English speakers just adds
a comic twist to the incompeten
At the civil engineering firm where my wife has been one of the transportation
engineers for almost 20 years, the story is pretty much the same. That is, the
engineers are pretty proficient at road design and all that goes into it, but
their reports (such as Interstate Justification Reports, or
Answering Rene:
I would be surprised if the general thinking of the companies in most
industries determines whether or not a company has a competent tech pubs
department. Telecom may be an exception.
Answering Chris:
Your experience is apparently quite different than mine. I agree with Bill. I
Answering Rene:
I would be surprised if the general thinking of the companies in most
industries determines whether or not a company has a competent tech pubs
department. Telecom may be an exception.
Answering Chris:
Your experience is apparently quite different than mine. I agree with Bill. I
On 10 Oct 2007 at 23:06, Ragnar Han?s wrote:
> I?ve just began using FM 6 on Vista and the program runs fine after
> installing the Adobe fixes. But I cannot get the MicroType Toolbar to work
> (I downloaded the free version some years ago and have had great use of
> it). I copied the maker.ini an
Bill Swallow wrote:
> I don't buy your "few companies" generalization. Perhaps small pre-IPO
> companies and the like, but I've not met an established company that
> didn't have a solid tech writing staff in place.
Correct ... and even small, pre-IPO, companies often have competent,
professional
Bill Swallow wrote:
> I don't buy your "few companies" generalization. Perhaps small pre-IPO
> companies and the like, but I've not met an established company that
> didn't have a solid tech writing staff in place.
Correct ... and even small, pre-IPO, companies often have competent,
profession
Hi everyone,
there are just too many of you to thank individually.
The revamping scenario is really out of my hands, so, like one of you
said,"am going to make like a tree and leave."
Hopefully, next time I contact the list for advice it will be from a new
place of work where the real benefits of t
In telecom in the town I'm in, it's a rare thing to find a company (even a tier
1 telco, both American-owned and Japanese-owned) with a solid tech writing
staff in place. The vast majority of tech writing jobs at all levels in this
town in telecom are contract only, and they're almost all subjec
In telecom in the town I'm in, it's a rare thing to find a company (even a tier
1 telco, both American-owned and Japanese-owned) with a solid tech writing
staff in place. The vast majority of tech writing jobs at all levels in this
town in telecom are contract only, and they're almost all subjec
Just found this problem described on the Microtype website
(http://www.microtype.com/Acrobat.html). Deselecting "Convert smooth
lines to curves" fixes this problem, but does anyone know if that causes
any other problems?
Thanks
Dave
Dave Reynolds wrote, on 12/10/2007 11:25 a.m.:
Hi Folks
Hi Folks
A colleague is using the Frame drawing tools to draw a rectangle with
rounded corners. When this document is converted to PDF, the line
widths of the drawing in the PDF file are not consistent, and sometimes
they are curved when they should be straight. This problem appears on
the
"IF I CHANGE THE FRAME SIZE TO FULL-PAGE, the lines in the
graphic do print (are visible) on a hardcopy printed page and on the pdf
of the page in Acrobat,"
Jeffrey
Have you looked into the "runaround" properties of the frame, or whether
there are actually 2 frames
Not really addressing your problem, but I'd be slightly surprised if 6
ran on Vista at all, but why do you think you need to stay at 6 to
maintain compatibility? All versions back-save either to MIF or to
specific earlier version's FM formats. There isn't really any way that
you could not be co
Hey Chris - got any good recipes for Coq Aau Riesling? I need one for
our next Tech Pubs
conference on how to talk to programmers without using a baseball bat.
Gillian, I have a receipe for a dynamite pumklin pie. Let me know if you
want it.
Smitty
--
Keith L. Smyth
President
Smyth Consulting
Not really addressing your problem, but I'd be slightly surprised if 6
ran on Vista at all, but why do you think you need to stay at 6 to
maintain compatibility? All versions back-save either to MIF or to
specific earlier version's FM formats. There isn't really any way that
you could not be co
The trend has been in that direction since the dotcom bust, when a number of
(formerly) highly paid developers found a comfortable job writing help files
more appealing than unemployment or stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart.
While it is easy for technical writers to convince themselves of the v
On 10 Oct 2007 at 23:06, Ragnar Hanås wrote:
> I´ve just began using FM 6 on Vista and the program runs fine after
> installing the Adobe fixes. But I cannot get the MicroType Toolbar to work
> (I downloaded the free version some years ago and have had great use of
> it). I copied the maker.ini an
Has anyone been able to insert a link in a FrameMaker document that after
conversion to PDF will jump to another PDF that was previously created but
not using FrameMaker? This method would not require linking with Acrobat
so that you do not have to make new links in Acrobat when updating the
Fr
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