Modification Date Variable

Hello Joe, You can use FrameScript to update the content of your user variable on specific events. If you have FrameScript, install the script below and manually insert a variable named "DocModified" into your documents. The following "events" were considered: Keyboard text changes (inserting, de

Planning to buy Adobe Products in India

In the US, unless you're upgrading, the break-even point seems to be use of three applications. For instance, if you also use Adobe Acrobat to produce PDFs, TCS would definitely be the way to go strictly on a cost basis. However, there are hooks and additional tools in the TCS that could easily ju

Modification Date Variable

Way cool Klaus -- just what I was thinking of. Art Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply.

S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

Could be, Mike. How much RAM are you running? And any other memory-hungry aps open at the same time? Art Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson

Frame9 to Acrobat9 SaveAs Woes - Followup

I made a post on this topic on February 3rd. Below the asterisks is text from that original post for reference. The responses I received pointed to issues of earlier versions, such as mixed Acrobat versions, font mapping, etc. none of which were relevant for me. I did get a response that the rast

S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

Jon, I think that may be a good line for your sig. There was another thread about this recently, and I think the answer seemed to have to do with one particular pod/windows being open when scrolling. Maybe the Marker window? I think it was easy to ID because the cursor sped up right away. Cheers,

S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

> There was another thread about this recently, and I think the answer > seemed to have to do with one particular pod/windows being open when > scrolling. Maybe the Marker window? I think it was easy to ID because > the cursor sped up right away. Except that I've closed all windows, pods, and even

OLE objects don't work anymore

Or you could download the FM9 eval, or the TCS eval and see if it works, now that it's been re-written. Art Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson

S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

So, if you sit with a pretty girl on a hot stove, you won't need a watch. Jon Harvey Manager, Desktop Documentation CambridgeSoft Corporation 100 CambridgePark Drive Cambridge, MA 02140 (617) 588-9354 -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at

Re: Planning to buy Adobe Products in India

In the US, unless you're upgrading, the break-even point seems to be use of three applications. For instance, if you also use Adobe Acrobat to produce PDFs, TCS would definitely be the way to go strictly on a cost basis. However, there are hooks and additional tools in the TCS that could easily ju

My document "properties" in template turns sideheads on for severalfiles where it is unwanted

By removing the ImportFormatsSpecial.dll and .ini from /fminit/Plugins directory I was able to duplicate the issue Verner had and that Richard's test confirmed. I then made two test files which I saved as MIF files: one importing Document Properties with FrameMaker's native import formats function

S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." Albert Einstein -Original Message- From: Flato, Gillian [mailto:gfl...@nanometrics.com] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 3:24 PM To: Ke

Re: Modification Date Variable

Way cool Klaus -- just what I was thinking of. Art Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply.

S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

Cursor tracking is inversely proportional to the amount of coffee consumed and the time allotted to complete the task...Kelly. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Mike Wickham Sent: Friday, February 06

S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

Works fine on mine. Scott White Media Production Manager Implementation Coordinator 210-704-8239 swhite at alamark.com On Feb 6, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Mike Wickham wrote: > I'm experiencing very slow cursor movement in FrameMaker 9. Is > anyone else > seeing this? > > Choose the Manage Graphics

S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

I'm experiencing very slow cursor movement in FrameMaker 9. Is anyone else seeing this? Choose the Manage Graphics workspace. Use the arrow keys to move around the text. The speed seems normal enough. Now choose any of the other workspaces (Authoring, Manage Content, Review) and use the arrow

Re: S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

Could be, Mike. How much RAM are you running? And any other memory-hungry aps open at the same time? Art Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson

Re: S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

> There was another thread about this recently, and I think the answer > seemed to have to do with one particular pod/windows being open when > scrolling. Maybe the Marker window? I think it was easy to ID because > the cursor sped up right away. Except that I've closed all windows, pods, and even

imported graphic on coloured background - thin white line around the inserted graphic

Hi, I work with FM 8.0p277 on a PC. I have a coloured background in my FM document and have added an image with the same background colour (to make the inserted image look 'transparent') by reference. I have no line around the image, just a fill with the same RGB code as the background color in t

Frame 7 and PDF: SaveAs PDF Problem

See Adobe FrameMaker 7.0p578 update for Windows at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2111 .. With FrameMaker 7.0p576 and Adobe Acrobat 6.0, the Save As PDF command will give an error "FrameMaker could not find Acrobat Distiller printer instance, which must be installed t

Re: S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

Jon, I think that may be a good line for your sig. There was another thread about this recently, and I think the answer seemed to have to do with one particular pod/windows being open when scrolling. Maybe the Marker window? I think it was easy to ID because the cursor sped up right away. Cheers,

Re: OLE objects don't work anymore

Or you could download the FM9 eval, or the TCS eval and see if it works, now that it's been re-written. Art Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson

RE: S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

So, if you sit with a pretty girl on a hot stove, you won't need a watch. Jon Harvey Manager, Desktop Documentation CambridgeSoft Corporation 100 CambridgePark Drive Cambridge, MA 02140 (617) 588-9354 -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@l

Re: OLE objects don't work anymore

Dear Yves Barbion,   Welcome to the club!   The OLE objects stopped working for me and other writers in our group over five months ago (FM 7.2, on XP). Frame simply refused to take them anymore due to no fault of ours.   Anytime I tried to do bring an OLE, a FrameMaker message showed up:   "An i

OLE objects don't work anymore

Dear Yves Barbion, ? Welcome to the club! ? The OLE objects stopped working for me and other writers in our group over five months ago (FM 7.2, on XP). Frame simply refused to take them anymore due to no fault of ours. ? Anytime I tried to do bring an OLE, a FrameMaker message showed up: ? "An i

S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

I've noticed that too. Funny, I thought it was just me! -Gillian -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Kelly McDaniel Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 1:17 PM To: Mike Wickham; Frame Users Subject: RE:

RE: S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." Albert Einstein -Original Message- From: Flato, Gillian [mailto:gfl...@nanometrics.com] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 3:24 PM To: Ke

RE: S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

I've noticed that too. Funny, I thought it was just me! -Gillian -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Kelly McDaniel Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 1:17 PM To: Mike Wickham; Frame Users Subject: RE: S-

RE: S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

Cursor tracking is inversely proportional to the amount of coffee consumed and the time allotted to complete the task...Kelly. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Mike Wickham Sent: Friday, February 06, 2

Re: S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

Works fine on mine. Scott White Media Production Manager Implementation Coordinator 210-704-8239 swh...@alamark.com On Feb 6, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Mike Wickham wrote: > I'm experiencing very slow cursor movement in FrameMaker 9. Is > anyone else > seeing this? > > Choose the Manage Graphics wo

S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

I'm experiencing very slow cursor movement in FrameMaker 9. Is anyone else seeing this? Choose the Manage Graphics workspace. Use the arrow keys to move around the text. The speed seems normal enough. Now choose any of the other workspaces (Authoring, Manage Content, Review) and use the arrow

Review of FrameMaker 9

Thanks Sheila. Very helpful indeed. :-) Bodvar 2009/2/4 Sheila Loring : > Hi everyone, before you upgrade to FrameMaker 9, read my review at: > http://www.scriptorium.com/palimpsest/2009/02/framemaker-9-review.html. > Feel free to leave comments on the blog. > > -- > > Sheila Loring, Senior Techn

Modification Date Variable

Hi Art, Unfortunately, I don't think your solution works in my case. This book is a features and specifications document, consisting of about 600 or so different frame files. The content of each frame file is mostly independent of one another. The update process is based on the information provi

Modification Date Variable

Joseph, You're making this too complex, although there isn't a clean way to do it automatically AND circumvent the flagging of invisible-to-users changes, which are valid. 1. Create a new file that you'll use as a template file. In it, create your own variable, and just type in the date in whatev

Planning to buy Adobe Products in India

Hi All, We plan to buy Adobe Acrobat Professional and Adobe RoboHelp. Should we buy these software individually or buy the entire Technical Communication Suite 2? We want to have maximum cost-benefit advantage. It would be really helpful if you could provide addresses/phone numbers of Adobe stor

Planning to buy Adobe Products in India

Hi All, We plan to buy Adobe Acrobat Professional and Adobe RoboHelp. Should we buy these software individually or buy the entire Technical Communication Suite 2? We want to have maximum cost-benefit advantage. It would be really helpful if you could provide addresses/phone numbers of Adobe stor

Re: Modification Date Variable

Hello Joe, You can use FrameScript to update the content of your user variable on specific events. If you have FrameScript, install the script below and manually insert a variable named "DocModified" into your documents. The following "events" were considered: Keyboard text changes (inserting, de

Modification Date Variable

You could use a variable. Keep a single page fm file with only one variable, e.g. IssueDate. Update this and import into the book. Bodvar 2009/2/5 Joseph : > Hi all, > > In one of the books I am working on, I need to insert a date into each frame > file when the text is modified. For example, if

RE: Frame 7 and PDF: SaveAs PDF Problem

See Adobe FrameMaker 7.0p578 update for Windows at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2111 .. With FrameMaker 7.0p576 and Adobe Acrobat 6.0, the Save As PDF command will give an error "FrameMaker could not find Acrobat Distiller printer instance, which must be installed t

Modification Date Variable

Hi Bodvar, Thanks for the suggestion, however I am not sure that would work in my situation. There are about 600 different frame files. Each frame file's date could be different from all the other files. The reason for this is that these files are modified at different times. As a result, the dat

Re: Modification Date Variable

Hi Art, Unfortunately, I don't think your solution works in my case. This book is a features and specifications document, consisting of about 600 or so different frame files. The content of each frame file is mostly independent of one another. The update process is based on the information provi

sort order in an index

Worked like a charm! Thanks, Richard. I converted all my Index markers to Comment markers, abandoned my IOM, and instead created an LOM, as you suggested. Looks great. It seems that I can also create an alphabetical version of this same list, so I can see it sorted either way (by page and by bug nu

The next free MadCap tool-s neutral webinar is Feb 12

Vendor alert but not real vendor-y As you know, MadCap is hosting a free series of Tech Comm-related, generally, tools-neutral, webinars. Building the business case for topic-based authoring. Feb 12, 9-10am Pacific This webinar will walk you through defining the problem, gathering app

The next free MadCap tool-s neutral webinar is Feb 12

Vendor alert but not real vendor-y As you know, MadCap is hosting a free series of Tech Comm-related, generally, tools-neutral, webinars. Building the business case for topic-based authoring. Feb 12, 9-10am Pacific This webinar will walk you through defining the problem, gathering app

Frame9 to Acrobat9 SaveAs Woes - Followup

I made a post on this topic on February 3rd. Below the asterisks is text from that original post for reference. The responses I received pointed to issues of earlier versions, such as mixed Acrobat versions, font mapping, etc. none of which were relevant for me. I did get a response that the rast

Re: Modification Date Variable

Joseph, You're making this too complex, although there isn't a clean way to do it automatically AND circumvent the flagging of invisible-to-users changes, which are valid. 1. Create a new file that you'll use as a template file. In it, create your own variable, and just type in the date in whatev

inter-file cross-reference issue

As someone else said, this is a known limitation of insets, xrefs, and PDFs. Another solution that I use is a FrameScript that atomically does the file "flattening" for you. I've used it a lot. If you're interest, contact Rick Quatro (rick at frameexpert.com). Just a satisfied customer. ~

Re: Modification Date Variable

Hi Bodvar, Thanks for the suggestion, however I am not sure that would work in my situation. There are about 600 different frame files. Each frame file's date could be different from all the other files. The reason for this is that these files are modified at different times. As a result, the dat

RE: inter-file cross-reference issue

As someone else said, this is a known limitation of insets, xrefs, and PDFs. Another solution that I use is a FrameScript that atomically does the file "flattening" for you. I've used it a lot. If you're interest, contact Rick Quatro (r...@frameexpert.com). Just a satisfied customer.

Clarification on Handling Large Book Files

Just as a postscript to this If you're not making your own backup of your working files occasionally for your own use, you're making a huge leap of faith that everything is always going to work perfectly well in the server room and the IT department. Ask me how I felt when I discovered that th

Frame reference book

I will be watching for replies to this request. I am also rebuilding my knowledge with Frame. I could share this with my coworker, we both have been using Word for too long and now converting our files to Frame. Any easy reference books about Frame would be helpful. Thank You. Sue _

Re: Clarification on Handling Large Book Files

Just as a postscript to this If you're not making your own backup of your working files occasionally for your own use, you're making a huge leap of faith that everything is always going to work perfectly well in the server room and the IT department. Ask me how I felt when I discovered that th

RE: My document "properties" in template turns sideheads on for severalfiles where it is unwanted

By removing the ImportFormatsSpecial.dll and .ini from /fminit/Plugins directory I was able to duplicate the issue Verner had and that Richard's test confirmed. I then made two test files which I saved as MIF files: one importing Document Properties with FrameMaker's native import formats function

Re: Review of FrameMaker 9

Thanks Sheila. Very helpful indeed. :-) Bodvar 2009/2/4 Sheila Loring : > Hi everyone, before you upgrade to FrameMaker 9, read my review at: > http://www.scriptorium.com/palimpsest/2009/02/framemaker-9-review.html. > Feel free to leave comments on the blog. > > -- > > Sheila Loring, Senior Techn

Re: Modification Date Variable

You could use a variable. Keep a single page fm file with only one variable, e.g. IssueDate. Update this and import into the book. Bodvar 2009/2/5 Joseph : > Hi all, > > In one of the books I am working on, I need to insert a date into each frame > file when the text is modified. For example, if