RE: Adding a shadow to text in Framemaker 7.1
Hi, Thanks for everyone's advice - it was all very much appreciated. In the end I decided to follow Jona's advice, and added a background text frame in the master pages containing the chapter number with the chapter number variable formatted to 20% grey. I've had to tweak the EDD a little also, but this appears to be the least labour-intensive method. Thank you again! Tracy From: Jona Steenbrink [mailto:jsteenbr...@bluefinrobotics.com] Sent: 04 April 2009 17:54 To: Tracy Penn Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Adding a shadow to text in Framemaker 7.1 You could create a drop shadow effect by adding another background text frame behind the text frame containing the chapter number with the chapnum variable in it formatted to for example a light grey. THen shift this text frame down and to the left or right a step or two. That would approximate a shadow effect. I don't have FM open now, so maybe it'll look like total crap, but it might be worth a shot, and would be easier than creating custom graphics for lots of chapter numbers. HTH. Jona On Apr 3, 2009, at 8:21 AM, Tracy Penn wrote: Hello, Does anyone know how to add a shadow to the text in a chapter title in Framemaker 7.1? My company wants an automated chapter number in one size with a shadow, and a smaller size chapter title without a shadow on the same line... I think I've figured out how to have different sized chapter number and title on the same line, but I can't for the life of me see how to add a shadow! Please help! P.s. We use Verdana font ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as jsteenbr...@bluefinrobotics.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/jsteenbrink%40bluefi nrobotics.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. Jona Steenbrink Technical Writer Bluefin Robotics email: jsteenbr...@bluefinrobotics.com phone: 720-379-7502 AIM: pjsteenbrink Skype: jonasteenbrink www.bluefinrobotics.com ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Arbortext versus FrameMaker Compared
To answer an earlier post about Arbortext and FrameMaker. We support and know both worlds very well. The Arbortext Editor is found in most of the regulated industries, pharmaceuticals, aerospace (Airbus), telecoms, automotive (Caterpillar) and defense. Arbortext is true SGML/XML, but tends to be more complex to setup. Example, to generate a .pdf book is a major task. FrameMaker .pdf is far easier to use. There is a scripting language called ACL which uses Java or .COM. By comparison, FrameMaker has the FDK and FrameScript. Like FrameMaker, Arbortext does not support Hebrew, Thai or Arabic. If you need good Arabic publishing, InDesign Middle East edition is the only tool. You will see the two products come closer when DITA becomes the standard. They are both excellent products, but for ease of use, FrameMaker is the winner. Anyone looking for FrameMaker to Arbortext conversion, contact us off list. -- John Smart and MAXit Team SMART Communications, Inc. 115 East 57th St., 11th Floor New York, NY 10022 USA Tel: +1(212) 486-1894 +5GMT Fax: +1(212) 826-9775 jsm...@smartny.com http://www.smartny.com We make Complex Documentation Simple and Global ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Still time to sign up for the next free tools-neutral webinar
Not much of a vendor post As you know, MadCap Software is hosting a series of free tool-neutral webinars. The next one is April 9th at 9am Pacific. There's still time to sign up. Planning Topic-based Authoring: Working in a Use Case or Scenario-based Environment Presenter: John Hedtke Time and date: April 9 2009 9am Pacific Sign up: http://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/webinars.aspx You know topic-based authoring will save you time and effort in your authoring and publishing projects. If you're working in a use case or scenario development environment, you also know topic-based authoring will make your life easier. This free webinar will walk you thru planning your projects. When we're done, you'll have a firm idea of what you need to do with your projects to make sure you deliver on time and in budget and how to integrate your project into the rest of the project planning. This free webinar is being recorded, so even if the date and time don't work for you, sign up and you'll automatically get a link to the recording the next day. sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Blog: madcapsoftware.wordpress.com ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Preparing for FrameMaker ACE Exam
Hi Joseph, Recommended resources for the FM ACE exam: - Review every thing in the Adobe FrameMaker user guide. Make sure you understand everything in it. - Carefully review the Product Proficiency Exam Bulletin for FrameMaker, There will be a question on your exam on every topic listed. http://partners.adobe.com/public/en/ace/ACE_Exam_Guide_FrameMaker8.pdf You said: ?I have been using FrameMaker for over a year now and I am an expert level? It is a pretty difficult to be an expert at FrameMaker after one year. It usually takes several years of template-design experience, and weird problems solved in strange trenches to become an expert. But hey, why not go for it. You will learn a lot in the process. By the way, I don't think the exam for FrameMaker 9 is out yet. Good luck! Mary Ann Hikari Publishing ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Chomp2: a tool for chunking XML files
Chomp2: a tool for chunking XML files Several years ago (at the STC 50th conference) I demonstrated a round-trip XML project, with topic-level XML files inserted in a FrameMaker document using insets. In the demo I used Chomp, an xml chunking tool my husband created for me. Since then, he's added a few features so I can use it for my DITA projects. It's handy if you are using the FrameMaker DITA EDD for structured writing, say, at the chapter level, and later you want to convert to XML and break up your chapter into topic level files for mapping. Also handy if you're converting a chapter-length unstructured document to structured, then want to chunk down to topic-level files. You can use Chomp2 for free for two weeks, if you find it useful, it's yours for ten bucks. For more info, check my website: http://www.hikaripub.com/pages/chomp2.htm Mary Ann Howell Hikari Publishing ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: [Free Framers] Re: Strange FM8 character substitution
Michael: * IMPORTANT: while Enhance can be installed onto FrameMaker 8, it is not supported. Users have reported application instability when running Enhance on FM8. * Enhance 2.04 released. Now supports FrameMaker 7.0 and Windows XP. Most obvious from what you experience the plug-in Enhance has problems with non-ASCII characters, and those are treated differently in Unicode-FrameMaker. The instability that I have experienced is that occasionally the Enhance window will not launch or it dies. As the content is stored in the FM document, no harm is done. The ASCII/ISO Latin/Unicode conversions are probably a problem as you suggest, but there are many examples of the same characters that were not converted. Curiously, when these characters are part of an xref format or variable, they are also corrupted in the same way, suggesting that it is an FM8 problem, as you cannot monkey with variables and xrefs from within Enhance. Adobe support spotted the post and wrote suggesting I check my SmartQuotes settings in maker.ini. I have set the required quote characters to SmartQuotes=‘’“” instead of using the \x? notation. Let's see if that works. Very sporadic so results might be weeks or months. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 Skype: hedley.finger Email. Hedley Finger hfin...@handholding.com.au ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Strange FM8 character substitution
Sounds as if you're using the old style character coding and not the Unicode characters required by FM8... 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. DoD 358 On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Hedley Finger hfin...@handholding.com.au wrote: Sporadically, any phrase enclosed in ‘single quotes’ becomes ‚Äôsingle quotes‚Äô in my FrameMaker 8.0p277 files (Windows XP SP3). The en rule becomes ‚Äì and other similar character substitutions also occur. I am drafting chapters in Enhance for FrameMaker as it approximates Word's Normal pages for scrolling through unpaged text, but Enhance has worked well in many other projects without this phenomenon occurring. Any idea what is causing this and how to fix it? Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 Skype: hedley.finger Email. Hedley Finger hfin...@handholding.com.au ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as art.campb...@gmail.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/art.campbell%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Strange FM8 character substitution
Sporadically, any phrase enclosed in ?single quotes? becomes ???single quotes??? in my FrameMaker 8.0p277 files (Windows XP SP3). The en rule becomes ??? and other similar character substitutions also occur. I am drafting chapters in Enhance for FrameMaker as it approximates Word's Normal pages for scrolling through unpaged text, but Enhance has worked well in many other projects without this phenomenon occurring. Any idea what is causing this and how to fix it? Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 Skype: hedley.finger Email. "Hedley Finger"
Adding a shadow to text in Framemaker 7.1
Hi, Thanks for everyone's advice - it was all very much appreciated. In the end I decided to follow Jona's advice, and added a background text frame in the master pages containing the chapter number with the chapter number variable formatted to 20% grey. I've had to tweak the EDD a little also, but this appears to be the least labour-intensive method. Thank you again! Tracy From: Jona Steenbrink [mailto:jsteenbr...@bluefinrobotics.com] Sent: 04 April 2009 17:54 To: Tracy Penn Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Adding a shadow to text in Framemaker 7.1 You could create a drop shadow effect by adding another background text frame behind the text frame containing the chapter number with the chapnum variable in it formatted to for example a light grey. THen shift this text frame down and to the left or right a step or two. That would approximate a shadow effect. I don't have FM open now, so maybe it'll look like total crap, but it might be worth a shot, and would be easier than creating custom graphics for lots of chapter numbers. HTH. Jona On Apr 3, 2009, at 8:21 AM, Tracy Penn wrote: Hello, Does anyone know how to add a shadow to the text in a chapter title in Framemaker 7.1? My company wants an automated chapter number in one size with a shadow, and a smaller size chapter title without a shadow on the same line... I think I've figured out how to have different sized chapter number and title on the same line, but I can't for the life of me see how to add a shadow! Please help! P.s. We use Verdana font ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as jsteenbrink at bluefinrobotics.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/jsteenbrink%40bluefi nrobotics.com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. Jona Steenbrink Technical Writer Bluefin Robotics email: jsteenbrink at bluefinrobotics.com phone: 720-379-7502 AIM: pjsteenbrink Skype: jonasteenbrink www.bluefinrobotics.com
Arbortext versus FrameMaker Compared
To answer an earlier post about Arbortext and FrameMaker. We support and know both worlds very well. The Arbortext Editor is found in most of the regulated industries, pharmaceuticals, aerospace (Airbus), telecoms, automotive (Caterpillar) and defense. Arbortext is true SGML/XML, but tends to be more complex to setup. Example, to generate a .pdf book is a major task. FrameMaker .pdf is far easier to use. There is a scripting language called ACL which uses Java or .COM. By comparison, FrameMaker has the FDK and FrameScript. Like FrameMaker, Arbortext does not support Hebrew, Thai or Arabic. If you need good Arabic publishing, InDesign Middle East edition is the only tool. You will see the two products come closer when DITA becomes the standard. They are both excellent products, but for ease of use, FrameMaker is the winner. Anyone looking for FrameMaker to Arbortext conversion, contact us off list. -- John Smart and MAXit Team SMART Communications, Inc. 115 East 57th St., 11th Floor New York, NY 10022 USA Tel: +1(212) 486-1894 +5GMT Fax: +1(212) 826-9775 jsmart at smartny.com http://www.smartny.com "We make Complex Documentation Simple and Global"
Still time to sign up for the next free tools-neutral webinar
Not much of a vendor post As you know, MadCap Software is hosting a series of free tool-neutral webinars. The next one is April 9th at 9am Pacific. There's still time to sign up. Planning Topic-based Authoring: Working in a Use Case or Scenario-based Environment Presenter: John Hedtke Time and date: April 9 2009 9am Pacific Sign up: http://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/webinars.aspx You know topic-based authoring will save you time and effort in your authoring and publishing projects. If you're working in a use case or scenario development environment, you also know topic-based authoring will make your life easier. This free webinar will walk you thru planning your projects. When we're done, you'll have a firm idea of what you need to do with your projects to make sure you deliver on time and in budget and how to integrate your project into the rest of the project planning. This free webinar is being recorded, so even if the date and time don't work for you, sign up and you'll automatically get a link to the recording the next day. sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvburton at yahoo.com Blog: madcapsoftware.wordpress.com
Preparing for FrameMaker ACE Exam
Hi Joseph, Recommended resources for the FM ACE exam: - Review every thing in the Adobe FrameMaker user guide. Make sure you understand everything in it. - Carefully review the Product Proficiency Exam Bulletin for FrameMaker, There will be a question on your exam on every topic listed. http://partners.adobe.com/public/en/ace/ACE_Exam_Guide_FrameMaker8.pdf You said: ?I have been using FrameMaker for over a year now and I am an expert level? It is a pretty difficult to be an expert at FrameMaker after one year. It usually takes several years of template-design experience, and weird problems solved in strange trenches to become an expert. But hey, why not go for it. You will learn a lot in the process. By the way, I don't think the exam for FrameMaker 9 is out yet. Good luck! Mary Ann Hikari Publishing
Chomp2: a tool for chunking XML files
Chomp2: a tool for chunking XML files Several years ago (at the STC 50th conference) I demonstrated a round-trip XML project, with topic-level XML files inserted in a FrameMaker document using insets. In the demo I used Chomp, an xml chunking tool my husband created for me. Since then, he's added a few features so I can use it for my DITA projects. It's handy if you are using the FrameMaker DITA EDD for structured writing, say, at the chapter level, and later you want to convert to XML and break up your chapter into topic level files for mapping. Also handy if you're converting a chapter-length unstructured document to structured, then want to chunk down to topic-level files. You can use Chomp2 for free for two weeks, if you find it useful, it's yours for ten bucks. For more info, check my website: http://www.hikaripub.com/pages/chomp2.htm Mary Ann Howell Hikari Publishing
Strange FM8 character substitution
Sounds as if you're using the old style character coding and not the Unicode characters required by FM8... 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. DoD 358 On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Hedley Finger wrote: > > Sporadically, any phrase enclosed in ?single quotes? becomes ???single > quotes??? in my FrameMaker 8.0p277 files (Windows XP SP3). The en rule > becomes ??? and other similar character substitutions also occur. I am > drafting chapters in Enhance for FrameMaker as it approximates Word's > Normal pages for scrolling through unpaged text, but Enhance has worked > well in many other projects without this phenomenon occurring. > > Any idea what is causing this and how to fix it? > > Regards, > Hedley > > -- > > Hedley Finger > > 28 Regent Street ? Camberwell VIC 3124 ? Australia > Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 ? Fax: (call phone first) > Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 ? Skype: hedley.finger > Email. "Hedley Finger" > > > > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as art.campbell at gmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/art.campbell%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >
