RE: Translations or Localisation of Framemaker content

2009-03-06 Thread Diane Gaskill
Hi Fred, You need to hire an LSP (localization service provider - AKA translation vendor) to do the work for you. You will likely hear from a number of people on the list telling you to use the translation vendor they use because the vendor worked ok for them. While there is nothing wrong with

Re: Translations or Localisation of Framemaker content

2009-03-06 Thread bryan johnson
Dianne's right. You do need an LSP. A couple of quick things to look for as you vet providers: 1. Do they use only professional translators? ATA certified or LISA 2. Do they use only mother tongue translators living in the target country? 3. Are their editors and proofreaders professional

Re: searching for a section symbol

2009-03-06 Thread Stuart Rogers
Klaus Daube wrote: On 5 Mar 2009 at 13:59, Stuart Rogers wrote: scratches head Hmm. I only did the quickest test so didn't encounter finding all those other spaces. Does seem like \f has no effect. /scratches head Well, actually we are no searching for the section symbol § (as text),

FrameMaker to CHM

2009-03-06 Thread Jennifer Randel
Hi all, I've just been assigned the task of creating CHM files, which I've never done. I'm currently working in FM 7.2 on a WinXP box. Is there an application that I can plug into Frame to generate CHM files or will I have to recreate my docs in another application to produce CHM's? Thanks in

Yen instead of bullets

2009-03-06 Thread Anne Urban
Frame 7.0, Power Macintosh Release 7.0p492 PowerMac G5, 2G memory, 230 G HD Mac OS X 10.4.11, Frame runs in Classic version 1.9 build Dear Framers, I have put myself in a hole and am stuck here. The problem is that when I produce a PDF by distilling PostScript, or when I print directly, my

Structured Frame Help

2009-03-06 Thread roconnor1
Hi guys I haven't used Framemaker for about 7 yrs (unfortunately) and only used unstructured Frame in V5.5 Does anyone out there have some source templates, or a small book example of a structured doc? I need to get up and racing pretty quickly and I figure using an existing example is always

RE: searching for a section symbol

2009-03-06 Thread Robert Evans
Carol, The FM help and book both list \f as being the sequence for finding the end-of-flow or end-of-table-cell character (which I think is what you mean by the section symbol), so something like [0-9] \f _should_ work. However, trying it out (on FM 7, Windows XP), it does seem to work, but will

Numbering Lists for book

2009-03-06 Thread Carol Gosnell
Hi, I am sure someone knows the answer to this, but it is eluding me... I am numbering graphics and tables in a multi-chapter book. The project manager would like to generate one List of Figures and one List of Tables (sequential numbers for each list). How do I do that? Each chapter

FW: Framemaker image problem

2009-03-06 Thread Brabson, Michelle
This post is from a colleague of mine. I have a growing problem with imported images into FrameMaker 7.2. I typically work off a network. A few months ago, I started getting an odd message when I'd try to save files with images that are imported objects. (These are files I've worked on for

Overprint graphic does not overprint when printing to PDF with FrameMaker 8.0p277

2009-03-06 Thread Simon BUCH
Dear Framers, It has been quite a long time since I last accessed FrameUsers ... but I am now asking if anyone has any experience with issues regarding FM8 printing errors? The reason I ask is because I have an interesting PDF file, which was created by our customer using CADscript. The PDF

RE: Structured Frame Help

2009-03-06 Thread David Spreadbury
Rose, Try Googling for framemaker tutorials. One of the hits will take you to http://www.io.com/~tcm/etwr2472/guides/frame/frame_basics.html. A fairly decent online tutorial. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On

RE: FrameMaker to CHM

2009-03-06 Thread David Spreadbury
Jennifer, I am surprised that Jeremy hasn't jumped on this one already. Mif2Go (www.omsys.com) will give you very good chm. They have a fully functional free demo version. I might even have a configuration file that could be modified to spit out a chm straight from Frame. -Original

Re: Structured Frame Help

2009-03-06 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Rose... Sorry to have not responded sooner. If you're on FM7.1 and want to start messing around with DITA authoring, you can use our free version of DITA-FMx (supports FM7.1 and 7.2). The 0.0 version of DITA-FMx provides you with structured apps and some sample files and will let you get

Re: Structured Frame Help

2009-03-06 Thread Sarah O'Keefe
Hi Rose, All of our training materials are available here (two unstructured and three structured courses): http://wiki.scriptorium.com The examples are written for v7 but will also work in v8. As the content is editable, we hope that the community will participate in updating this resource for

Re: Structured Frame Help

2009-03-06 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:52:04 +1100, roconn...@netspace.net.au wrote: I haven't used Framemaker for about 7 yrs (unfortunately) and only used unstructured Frame in V5.5 Does anyone out there have some source templates, or a small book example of a structured doc? I need to get up and racing

Re: Yen instead of bullets

2009-03-06 Thread Mike Wickham
I've tried setting the printer to Adobe PDF 7.0 and Adobe PDF 9.0. Are these both on the same computer? Adobe doesn't support having more than one instance total of Adobe Acrobat and/or Adobe Reader and/or the Distiller that comes with FrameMaker on the same computer. Installing one can damage

Re: Numbering Lists for book

2009-03-06 Thread Mike Wickham
I am numbering graphics and tables in a multi-chapter book. The project manager would like to generate one List of Figures and one List of Tables (sequential numbers for each list). How do I do that? Each chapter begins the numbering anew and the only thing I can think of is to add a chapter

Re: FW: Framemaker image problem

2009-03-06 Thread Art Campbell
The reference to SP3 that you mentioned... a security fix in SP3 breaks objects imported with OLE. So those types of imports break. The other graphics are probably imported as files, by reference, and don't use OLE. The fix is to replace the OLE objects by converting them to graphics and

RE: searching for a section symbol

2009-03-06 Thread Les Smalley
The \f  (end-of-flow) special character search does not work correctly inside a table in FrameMaker (at least, not on Windows) for at least versions 5 through 8.   However, you can use the hex equivalent - enter \x0b as the search text (wildcards not needed) to find the end-of-flow in the

Highlighting specific components in a graphic in a PDF

2009-03-06 Thread Shlomo Perets
Carla, You wrote: >Situation: >- Maintenance Manual for a printer. >- Framemaker 8 source files on WinXP. >- 2-D exploded diagram graphics pulled from the CAD system. Each diagram >has parts from multiple kits in it. Files created in CorelDraw and/or >Illustrator. >- Documents distributed via

Translations or Localisation of Framemaker content

2009-03-06 Thread Diane Gaskill
Hi Fred, You need to hire an LSP (localization service provider - AKA translation vendor) to do the work for you. You will likely hear from a number of people on the list telling you to use the translation vendor they use because the vendor worked ok for them. While there is nothing wrong with

Translations or Localisation of Framemaker content

2009-03-06 Thread bryan johnson
Dianne's right. You do need an LSP. A couple of quick things to look for as you vet providers: 1. Do they use only professional translators? ATA certified or LISA 2. Do they use only mother tongue translators living in the target country? 3. Are their editors and proofreaders professional

searching for a section symbol

2009-03-06 Thread Stuart Rogers
Klaus Daube wrote: > On 5 Mar 2009 at 13:59, Stuart Rogers wrote: > >> >> Hmm. I only did the quickest test so didn't encounter finding all those >> other spaces. Does seem like \f has no effect. > > Well, actually we are no searching for the section symbol ? (as text), but > for the text

FrameMaker Plugin for Converting Text Insets and Variables To Text

2009-03-06 Thread Joseph
Hi all, My technical publications team primarily uses text insets to single source content across 8 documents, which combine consist of about 2,000 pages. When we prepare are documentation for publication, there is another group in our company that needs access to the Frame source and needs the

Overprint graphic does not overprint when printing to PDF with FrameMaker 8.0p277

2009-03-06 Thread Simon BUCH
Dear Framers, It has been quite a long time since I last accessed FrameUsers ... but I am now asking if anyone has any experience with issues regarding FM8 printing errors? The reason I ask is because I have an interesting PDF file, which was created by our customer using CADscript. The PDF

Structured Frame Help

2009-03-06 Thread David Spreadbury
Rose, Try Googling for framemaker tutorials. One of the hits will take you to http://www.io.com/~tcm/etwr2472/guides/frame/frame_basics.html. A fairly decent online tutorial. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com]

FrameMaker to CHM

2009-03-06 Thread David Spreadbury
Jennifer, I am surprised that Jeremy hasn't jumped on this one already. Mif2Go (www.omsys.com) will give you very good chm. They have a fully functional free demo version. I might even have a configuration file that could be modified to spit out a chm straight from Frame. -Original

Structured Frame Help

2009-03-06 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Rose... Sorry to have not responded sooner. If you're on FM7.1 and want to start messing around with DITA authoring, you can use our free version of DITA-FMx (supports FM7.1 and 7.2). The 0.0 version of DITA-FMx provides you with structured apps and some sample files and will let you get

Structured Frame Help

2009-03-06 Thread Sarah O'Keefe
Hi Rose, All of our training materials are available here (two unstructured and three structured courses): http://wiki.scriptorium.com The examples are written for v7 but will also work in v8. As the content is editable, we hope that the community will participate in updating this resource for

Structured Frame Help

2009-03-06 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:52:04 +1100, roconnor1 at netspace.net.au wrote: >I haven't used Framemaker for about 7 yrs (unfortunately) and only used >unstructured Frame in V5.5 > >Does anyone out there have some source templates, or a small book example of a >structured doc? I need to get up and

Yen instead of bullets

2009-03-06 Thread Mike Wickham
> I've tried setting the printer to Adobe PDF 7.0 and Adobe PDF 9.0. Are these both on the same computer? Adobe doesn't support having more than one instance total of Adobe Acrobat and/or Adobe Reader and/or the Distiller that comes with FrameMaker on the same computer. Installing one can

Numbering Lists for book

2009-03-06 Thread Mike Wickham
> I am numbering graphics and tables in a multi-chapter book. The project > manager would like to generate one List of Figures and one List of > Tables (sequential numbers for each list). > > How do I do that? Each chapter begins the numbering anew and the only > thing I can think of is to add a

FW: Framemaker image problem

2009-03-06 Thread Art Campbell
The reference to SP3 that you mentioned... a security "fix" in SP3 breaks objects imported with OLE. So those types of imports break. The other graphics are probably imported as files, by reference, and don't use OLE. The fix is to replace the OLE objects by converting them to graphics and

searching for a section symbol

2009-03-06 Thread Les Smalley
The \f? (end-of-flow) special character search does not work correctly inside a table in FrameMaker (at least, not on Windows) for at least versions 5 through 8.?? However, you can use the hex equivalent - enter \x0b as the search text (wildcards not needed) to find the end-of-flow in the