Re: pesky persistent unresolved cross-references

[Shmuel Wolfson]

Sometimes this happens when you have conditional text which is hidden. 
If this is the case, AND you search for unresolved cross-references and 
there are none, you can safely ignore this warning.

-- 
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133
 

Ben Hechter wrote:
 Can't figure this one out, so I need some collective wisdom on unresolved 
 cross-references that keep reappearing like Banquo's ghost.

 Refreshed the unresolved cross-references, (links are still valid, but marker 
 type morphes from a paragraph catalog style to a numeric code). All is well 
 while the book is open, but when I reopen the book at a later time, the 
 unresolved cross-references reappear!

 Thought this might be related to random paragraph overrides, so searched and 
 removed all paragraph overrides, but to no avail.

 Thanks, gurus, for your collective wisdom!

 Ben

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Anchored frame positioning

[Andersen, Verner Engell VEA]

Hi
I have somehow changed a setting in my template so that anchored frame
positioning doesn't work as intended anylonger.
 
I select Anchoring Position At Insertion Point, and Distance above
Baseline: 0.0 pt. Sitll my frame is offset by -35 mm from the top. I
cannot force the position by changing the offset positioning in Object
Properties.
 
I suspect that this behavior has something to do with my in column
paragraphs or my master page.
 
If I insert the frame in the sidehead area the graphics frame is below
the cursor position as it should be and not above the cursor position.
 
Med venlig hilsen - Best regards
Verner Andersen
Technical Writer

Radiometer Medical ApS
Phone +45 3827 3612
Fax +45 3827 2727
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Re: Anchored frame positioning

[Yves Barbion]

Hi Verner

Check the *Line Spacing* in the *Paragraph Designer* and clear the
*Fixed *check
box.

May this will help?

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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Andersen, Verner Engell VEA 
verner.ander...@radiometer.dk wrote:

 Hi
 I have somehow changed a setting in my template so that anchored frame
 positioning doesn't work as intended anylonger.

 I select Anchoring Position At Insertion Point, and Distance above
 Baseline: 0.0 pt. Sitll my frame is offset by -35 mm from the top. I
 cannot force the position by changing the offset positioning in Object
 Properties.

 I suspect that this behavior has something to do with my in column
 paragraphs or my master page.

 If I insert the frame in the sidehead area the graphics frame is below
 the cursor position as it should be and not above the cursor position.

 Med venlig hilsen - Best regards
 Verner Andersen
 Technical Writer

 Radiometer Medical ApS
 Phone +45 3827 3612
 Fax +45 3827 2727
 verner.ander...@radiometer.dk
 



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Re: [Free Framers] FrameMaker 9 screen-refresh problems with VMWare Fusion 2 on Intel Mac with OS X 10.5.6 Leopard

[Peter Gold]

[Cross-posted to Framers (E-mail) framers@lists.frameusers.com,
FrameMaker Discussion Forum fram...@omsys.com,
adobe.framema...@forum.adobe.com]


Thanks to all who responded. Apologies for the delay in replying; I
wanted to be sure the problem was solved, which seems to be the case.

Wayne's suggestion seems to be the one that works. FrameMaker wasn't
the only thing affected; it was just the first application I tried;
its history of screen redraw issues erroneously made it the first
usual suspect. Later, I noticed that the same redraw issues existed in
Windows XP under Fusion 2 with my memory settings.

I think the principle is something like:

The memory setting for VMware Fusion controls the guest operating
system's environment - XP, in this case, and the host platform - Mac,
in this case - manages the memory needs of the application(s) running
in the VMware Fusion environment, as if it were just another Mac
application.

So, this may help me delay giving in to the hardware lust lurking in
me; I won't buy that 6GB RAM upgrade from Other World Computing right
awayG! But, there's this attractive 7200 RPM replacement notebook
drive that's...

On my MacBook Pro laptop, although it's got 512 MB of VRAM, I thought
the problem might also involve the refreshing of its 17 screen with
its many pixels, so I also lowered the Windows display setting to
16-bit color from the default 32-bit. I haven't seen any graphics look
bad enough for me to try setting it back to 32-bit, yet.

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Wayne Brissette wayn...@earthlink.net wrote:

 Peter:

 I would knock down the memory on the windows side. I know it sounds
 strange, but leaving it at 640 (the VM default) actually seems to work
 without any issues. Whereas when I increased it, it simply causes all
 sorts of odd issues similar to what you're seeing. That would be my
 first step at this point however.

Is it just me or my equipment, or payback for sins of my childhood?
I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who's having these problems, as
well as those who are using a similar setup and don't have the
problem.



Regards,

Peter
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Re: The correct shorthand for writing keyboard shortcuts

[Stuart Rogers]

Avraham Makeler wrote:
 Hi David,
 Thanks for the effort you're putting into this.
 
 Press and hold Ctrl while pressing the letter m, release both keys, and
 then press and hold Ctrl while pressing the letter f (Ctrl+M Ctrl+F).
 
 A little earlier, I got the following reply from somebody offlist:
 
 I would say ctrl+f, ctrl+m would be the best way to do that. You
 need to separate the steps is the issue.
 Hope that helps!
 
 And I replied as follows:
 
 
 Great minds think alike! Lacking any other alternative, that's exactly what
 I wrote in my first draft!
 
 (And it was on that the SME wrote his take, and told me to change them all
 accordingly to Ctrl M+F.)
 
 The problem is, that ctrl+f, ctrl+m make it look as if after the ctrl+f you
 then have to first release the Ctrl key and only  then do Ctrl+M.
 
 However, lacking any other alternative *standard* alternative, this seems
 the only solution.
 
 The only other alternative would be to create our own new standard. One or
 two people suggested to me Ctrl+(M,F) - and that also seems to me to be
 correct.
 
 
 
 
 So coming back to your suggestion, David, it seems that are are all
 converging on the same solution,
 however, it's just that 'ctrl+f, ctrl+m' (with a space or a comma) gives the
 wrong impression that you have to take your finger off the Ctrl key after
 doing Ctrl+M and before doing Ctrl+F; you do not have to.
 
 I would want to define a new standard, like this:  Ctrl+(M,F).
 
 Thanks,
 
  - avi

I think you are re-inventing the wheel, as well as introducing 
ambiguity.  (Is the user supposed to press the comma key? the 
parentheses keys?  Some users are very literal.)  Microsoft's MSTP 
guidelines work perfectly well for your situation, and they are an 
industry standard.

You have said that it is irrelevant whether the CTRL key is held or 
released between operations, as long as it is held when the M and F keys 
are pressed.  Of course this is so; that's how computer keyboards work. 
  The computer pays no attention to whether a modifier key is released, 
because it receives the code from the keyboard at the moment a key is 
*pressed*.  If a modifier key (CTRL, ALT, SHIFT) is held at the same 
time as a letter key is pressed, a different code is sent.  Since it is 
irrelevant whether CTRL is released between operations, I think you do 
your readers a disservice to encumber them with invented conventions or 
instructions about what they *don't* have to do.

MSTP is consistent in using all caps for the modifier keys (CTRL, SHIFT) 
and all caps for the letter keys (which is how the letters appear on the 
keyboard).  For key sequences, the guideline is to use commas followed 
by spaces.  So the MSTP instruction would be press CTRL+M, CTRL+F.

(Adobe has a different standard that uses mixed case, probably stemming 
from its compatibility with UNIX, which is case-sensitive in ways that 
DOS and Windows weren't and aren't.)

As for the SME, I assume that writing documentation according to 
standards is not the SM in which they are E; *you* would be the E in 
that SM, and entitled to stand your ground!  ;-)

HTH,

-- 
Stuart Rogers
Technical Communicator
Phoenix Geophysics Limited
Toronto, ON, Canada
+1 (416) 491-7340 x 325

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FrameMaker 9 screen-refresh problems with VMWare Fusion 2 on Intel Mac with OS X 10.5.6 Leopard

[Peter Gold]

I've just started using this combination of tools:

FrameMaker 9.0 p196
VMWare Fusion 2
Intel Mac MacBook Pro
Mac OS X 10.5.6 ''

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Framemaker 8 DITA-OT plugin

[Rosemary O'Connor]

Hi guys
I've recently followed all the instructions to as per the adobe.com to 
install the DITA-OT plugin for Framemaker 8.
All went well until I clicked on the new Dita menu item - Generate Output
I receive the following error:

DITA-OT directory not defined in Options. Could not generate output.

Does anyone know how to define this directory somewhere? I've set all 
the required environment variables as per the documentation.

bye
Rose

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Re: TriZetto inquiry

[Milan Davidovic]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Will Husa will.h...@4techwriter.com wrote:
 I'm new to this list. Milan Davidovic recommended that I seek your advice.

Hi -- I saw Will's query over on techwr-l, did a search of my own
archive and saw the TriZetto name come up on this list, and suggested
to Will that he bring his query over here. Anyone finding this query
to be too OT for this list should yell, if at all, at me. OK?

And that said, I suppose I could have contacted people off list and
asked if they'd be interested in replying to Will. I didn't think of
it at the time, though, so here we are.

TIA for helping Will out.

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Re: The correct shorthand for writing keyboard shortcuts

[Avraham Makeler]

 You have said that it is irrelevant whether the CTRL key is held or
released between operations, as long as it is held when the M and F keys are
pressed.  Of course this is so; that's how computer keyboards work.  The
computer pays no attention to whether a modifier key is released, because it
receives the code from the keyboard at the moment a key is *pressed*.  If a
modifier key (CTRL, ALT, SHIFT) is held at the same time as a letter key is
pressed, a different code is sent.  Since it is irrelevant whether CTRL is
released between operations,
Yes, I know.


 I think you do your readers a disservice to encumber them with invented
conventions or instructions about what they *don't* have to do.

Ok, that's a point.


 MSTP is consistent in using all caps for the modifier keys (CTRL, SHIFT)
and all caps for the letter keys

Yes, thanks for pointing that out.


 (which is how the letters appear on the keyboard).

Actually - they do *not*. Which is why I made the mistake of writing them
the way I did.
But, again, thanks for pointing out that according to MS they should be
CAPS.


 For key sequences, the guideline is to use commas followed by spaces.  So
the MSTP instruction would be press CTRL+M, CTRL+F.

Ok, so that seems to be the bottom line. That's the way I wrote it
originally. Not that I though that it looked great, but just there seemed no
other alternative I could find in the rule book.

And so it's left as self-understood that you don't have to take your finger
off the CTRL key in between.


 (Adobe has a different standard that uses mixed case, probably stemming
from its compatibility with UNIX, which is case-sensitive in ways that DOS
and Windows weren't and aren't.)

 As for the SME, I assume that writing documentation according to
standards is not the SM in which they are E; *you* would be the E in that
SM, and entitled to stand your ground!  ;-)

No, I have no problem with that - it's just that I also didn't like what I
wrote.


Thanks,

  - avi




On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Stuart Rogers 
srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com wrote:

 Avraham Makeler wrote:

 Hi David,
 Thanks for the effort you're putting into this.

  Press and hold Ctrl while pressing the letter m, release both keys, and

 then press and hold Ctrl while pressing the letter f (Ctrl+M Ctrl+F).

 A little earlier, I got the following reply from somebody offlist:

I would say ctrl+f, ctrl+m would be the best way to do that. You
 need to separate the steps is the issue.
Hope that helps!

 And I replied as follows:
 

 Great minds think alike! Lacking any other alternative, that's exactly
 what
 I wrote in my first draft!

 (And it was on that the SME wrote his take, and told me to change them all
 accordingly to Ctrl M+F.)

 The problem is, that ctrl+f, ctrl+m make it look as if after the ctrl+f
 you
 then have to first release the Ctrl key and only  then do Ctrl+M.

 However, lacking any other alternative *standard* alternative, this seems
 the only solution.

 The only other alternative would be to create our own new standard. One or
 two people suggested to me Ctrl+(M,F) - and that also seems to me to be
 correct.


 

 So coming back to your suggestion, David, it seems that are are all
 converging on the same solution,
 however, it's just that 'ctrl+f, ctrl+m' (with a space or a comma) gives
 the
 wrong impression that you have to take your finger off the Ctrl key after
 doing Ctrl+M and before doing Ctrl+F; you do not have to.

 I would want to define a new standard, like this:  Ctrl+(M,F).

 Thanks,

  - avi


 I think you are re-inventing the wheel, as well as introducing ambiguity.
  (Is the user supposed to press the comma key? the parentheses keys?  Some
 users are very literal.)  Microsoft's MSTP guidelines work perfectly well
 for your situation, and they are an industry standard.

 You have said that it is irrelevant whether the CTRL key is held or
 released between operations, as long as it is held when the M and F keys are
 pressed.  Of course this is so; that's how computer keyboards work.  The
 computer pays no attention to whether a modifier key is released, because it
 receives the code from the keyboard at the moment a key is *pressed*.  If a
 modifier key (CTRL, ALT, SHIFT) is held at the same time as a letter key is
 pressed, a different code is sent.  Since it is irrelevant whether CTRL is
 released between operations, I think you do your readers a disservice to
 encumber them with invented conventions or instructions about what they
 *don't* have to do.

 MSTP is consistent in using all caps for the modifier keys (CTRL, SHIFT)
 and all caps for the letter keys (which is how the letters appear on the
 keyboard).  For key sequences, the guideline is to use commas followed by
 spaces.  So the MSTP instruction would be press CTRL+M, CTRL+F.

 (Adobe has a different standard that uses mixed case, probably stemming
 from its compatibility with UNIX, which 

RE: Framemaker 8 DITA-OT plugin

[RJ Jacquez]

Hi Rosemary, it's a bit tricky, but here are the overall steps you must take to 
point FrameMaker's DITA menu to the DITA OT installation folder:

* After you have properly installed the Adobe FrameMaker 8 plug-in for DITA 
Open Toolkit (incidentally for FrameMaker 9 users, the appropriate link) is 
also on the same page: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/framemaker/

* You need to add the following code to this file:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2\Adobe FrameMaker 
9\fminit\ditafm\ditafm.ini.

Note that I'm using FrameMaker 9 from the Tech Comm Suite 2, but please 
navigate to the path above based on the version of FrameMaker you are using.

* Add this code to the ditafm.ini file:

[BuildFile]
AntCommand=ant
AntScript=ditafm-ant.xml
Count=2
DitaDir=C:\DITA-OT1.4.2.1
1=chm
2=html

* Here's where you point FrameMaker to the exact location of the DITA Open 
Toolkit installation folder.

* Relaunch FrameMaker and you should now be able to select DITA  Generate 
Output.

Sincerely,

RJ Jácquez
Senior Product Evangelist
Adobe Technical Communication Suite
Adobe eLearning Solutions
http://blogs.adobe.com/rjacquez
Twitter: @rjacquezhttp://twitter.com/rjacquez/


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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Rosemary O'Connor
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 8:53 PM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Framemaker 8 DITA-OT plugin

Hi guys
I've recently followed all the instructions to as per the adobe.com to
install the DITA-OT plugin for Framemaker 8.
All went well until I clicked on the new Dita menu item - Generate Output
I receive the following error:

DITA-OT directory not defined in Options. Could not generate output.

Does anyone know how to define this directory somewhere? I've set all
the required environment variables as per the documentation.

bye
Rose

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Re: Working with MIFs in Frame

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:53:33 -0700, Shane Lawrence shane.lawre...@aecinc.com 
wrote:

I currently use a program to dynamically generate a book and several .mif 
files for its content. I have an index that needs to be generated, and of 
course, Frame doesn't like it when I try to 'Update Book and generate lists 
and indexes'. It states 'Couldn't update this book, because it contains no 
openable nongenerated files.' I have to open all files in book, then save all 
files in book (as fm) and confirms each file. It's a lot of clicking and I'm 
hoping to find a way around this.

Is there a way in Framemaker to batch convert all of these files back to fm, 
or a method to continue to work purely with mif files? The mif files actually 
have the .fm extension already.

The free Mif2Go demo version will do that for you.  No 
need to purchase Mif2Go for this; just download the demo 
from:
  http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm

Install the plugin (the two DLLs that go in your
\frame\fminit\plugins directory), delete .cache there
(if it is present), and start Frame.  Open your book,
and with Shift down, select File  Wash via MIF.  This
actually opens the .fm files (it's fine that they are 
really MIF), resaves as MIF, reopens those, and saves
them as .fm, all in a second or two, for the whole book.

HTH!

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  jer...@omsys.com  http://www.omsys.com/
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Frame-to-PDF mini-docs

[Carol J. Elkins]

Using Frame 7.0, AcrobatPro 7.0, Mif2Go. I have books consisting of 
chapters that contain several thousand individual documents. Each doc 
begins consistently with a paratag for the doc title so it is easy to 
define where a new doc starts. I've been asked to output individual 
PDFs of each document. I'll probably need to do this once every 
couple of years. The hard way would be to take the whole-book PDF and 
manually extract each document to an individual file. Is there an easier way?

Carol

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RE: Frame-to-PDF mini-docs

[Linda G. Gallagher]

Carol,

I've not actually done it recently, but the FM print window has a drop-down
list called Print Book As. I believe if you select Separate Print Job for
Each Document, you will get what you want. It would probably be best to
place the resulting .ps files in a watched folder, so Distiller will
automatically distill each one. 


~
Linda G. Gallagher
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lindag at techcomplus dot com
www.techcomplus.com
303-450-9076 or 800-500-3144
User guides, online help, FrameMaker and
WebWorks ePublisher templates




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Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 2:30 PM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Frame-to-PDF mini-docs

Using Frame 7.0, AcrobatPro 7.0, Mif2Go. I have books consisting of 
chapters that contain several thousand individual documents. Each doc 
begins consistently with a paratag for the doc title so it is easy to 
define where a new doc starts. I've been asked to output individual 
PDFs of each document. I'll probably need to do this once every 
couple of years. The hard way would be to take the whole-book PDF and 
manually extract each document to an individual file. Is there an easier
way?

Carol

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Re: Frame-to-PDF mini-docs

[Art Campbell]

If I'm hearing you correctly, you have chapter level Frame files made
up of small documents concatenated together. And you have a book
containing a herd of these chapters. And you want to output the most
finely-grained level as individual PDFs, right?

If the small documents still exist as independent files, I'd think
about creating a meta-book containing those, and create
pseudo-chapters within the book file instead of using hard files. Then
just output to individual PDF files by selecting Individual Files on
the print dialog box.

Another way to go would be to upgrade to FM 9; I think the ability to
nest folders as sections would also let you do this.

Another route may exist through MIF2Go... I think you could set up an
export to MIF, RTF, or HTML that would create break points on your
DocTitle paratags. Generate a PDF of those files (probably using
Acrobat's watched folders), and you're good.

And yet another route would be to create a JavaScript in Acrobat, that
extracts sections based on your DocTitle tags... I think it's
possible, but I've only read the tip of the iceberg on this. There's
some info on the Acrobat web site on how to do this, but I believe the
capability is in Acrobat 9; maybe 8 too.

Good luck,
Art


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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Carol J. Elkins
celk...@awrittenword.com wrote:
 Using Frame 7.0, AcrobatPro 7.0, Mif2Go. I have books consisting of
 chapters that contain several thousand individual documents. Each doc
 begins consistently with a paratag for the doc title so it is easy to
 define where a new doc starts. I've been asked to output individual
 PDFs of each document. I'll probably need to do this once every
 couple of years. The hard way would be to take the whole-book PDF and
 manually extract each document to an individual file. Is there an easier way?

 Carol

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Re: Frame-to-PDF mini-docs

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:54:22 -0400, Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com 
wrote:

Another route may exist through MIF2Go... I think you could set up an
export to MIF, RTF, or HTML that would create break points on your
DocTitle paratags. Generate a PDF of those files (probably using
Acrobat's watched folders), and you're good.

Mif2Go doesn't split up MIF or RTF outputs, only HTML/XML outputs.
So you would need to convert to, say, HTML, then make PDFs of the
HTML files, either directly (using Acrobat, if it can do that, or 
another tool that does that), or indirectly (importing the HTML 
files to Frame or Word, and making the PDFs from there).  The 
Mif2Go part is easy, but the next step may require scripting of
some sort (JS, VBA, FrameScript) to avoid a lot of manual work.

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Re: Frame-to-PDF mini-docs

[Carol J. Elkins]

Thanks Art and Jeremy. You definitely summed up my problem well. A 
Frameuser wrote me offline to suggest that ARTS PDF Split  Merge 
Lite would do the job by splitting at the bookmark level. Because I 
use two other ARTS plugins for PDFs, I have confidence in the 
company, so that is probably a good solution.

Carol

At 02:54 PM 4/27/2009, Art Campbell wrote:
If I'm hearing you correctly, you have chapter level Frame files made
up of small documents concatenated together. And you have a book
containing a herd of these chapters. And you want to output the most
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pesky persistent unresolved cross-references

[Shmuel Wolfson]

Sometimes this happens when you have conditional text which is hidden. 
If this is the case, AND you search for unresolved cross-references and 
there are none, you can safely ignore this warning.

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Ben Hechter wrote:
> Can't figure this one out, so I need some collective wisdom on unresolved 
> cross-references that keep reappearing like Banquo's ghost.
>
> Refreshed the unresolved cross-references, (links are still valid, but marker 
> type morphes from a paragraph catalog style to a numeric code). All is well 
> while the book is open, but when I reopen the book at a later time, the 
> unresolved cross-references reappear!
>
> Thought this might be related to random paragraph overrides, so searched and 
> removed all paragraph overrides, but to no avail.
>
> Thanks, gurus, for your collective wisdom!
>
> Ben
>
> Ben Hechter 
> bhechter at objectives.ca
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Anchored frame positioning

[Andersen, Verner Engell VEA]

Hi
I have somehow changed a setting in my template so that anchored frame
positioning doesn't work as intended anylonger.

I select Anchoring Position "At Insertion Point", and Distance above
Baseline: "0.0 pt". Sitll my frame is offset by -35 mm from the top. I
cannot force the position by changing the offset positioning in "Object
Properties".

I suspect that this behavior has something to do with my "in column"
paragraphs or my master page.

If I insert the frame in the sidehead area the graphics frame is below
the cursor position as it should be and not above the cursor position.

Med venlig hilsen - Best regards
Verner Andersen
Technical Writer

Radiometer Medical ApS
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Anchored frame positioning

[Yves Barbion]

Hi Verner

Check the *Line Spacing* in the *Paragraph Designer* and clear the
*Fixed *check
box.

May this will help?

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> Hi
> I have somehow changed a setting in my template so that anchored frame
> positioning doesn't work as intended anylonger.
>
> I select Anchoring Position "At Insertion Point", and Distance above
> Baseline: "0.0 pt". Sitll my frame is offset by -35 mm from the top. I
> cannot force the position by changing the offset positioning in "Object
> Properties".
>
> I suspect that this behavior has something to do with my "in column"
> paragraphs or my master page.
>
> If I insert the frame in the sidehead area the graphics frame is below
> the cursor position as it should be and not above the cursor position.
>
> Med venlig hilsen - Best regards
> Verner Andersen
> Technical Writer
>
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> Phone +45 3827 3612
> Fax +45 3827 2727
> verner.andersen at radiometer.dk
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[Free Framers] FrameMaker 9 screen-refresh problems with VMWare Fusion 2 on Intel Mac with OS X 10.5.6 "Leopard"

[Peter Gold]

[Cross-posted to "Framers (E-mail)" ,
FrameMaker Discussion Forum ,
adobe.framemaker at forum.adobe.com]


Thanks to all who responded. Apologies for the delay in replying; I
wanted to be sure the problem was solved, which seems to be the case.

Wayne's suggestion seems to be the one that works. FrameMaker wasn't
the only thing affected; it was just the first application I tried;
its history of screen redraw issues erroneously made it the first
usual suspect. Later, I noticed that the same redraw issues existed in
Windows XP under Fusion 2 with my memory settings.

I think the principle is something like:

The memory setting for VMware Fusion controls the guest operating
system's environment - XP, in this case, and the host platform - Mac,
in this case - manages the memory needs of the application(s) running
in the VMware Fusion environment, as if it were just another Mac
application.

So, this may help me delay giving in to the hardware lust lurking in
me; I won't buy that 6GB RAM upgrade from Other World Computing right
away! But, there's this attractive 7200 RPM replacement notebook
drive that's...

On my MacBook Pro laptop, although it's got 512 MB of VRAM, I thought
the problem might also involve the refreshing of its 17" screen with
its many pixels, so I also lowered the Windows display setting to
16-bit color from the default 32-bit. I haven't seen any graphics look
bad enough for me to try setting it back to 32-bit, yet.

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Wayne Brissette  
wrote:

> Peter:
>
> I would knock down the memory on the windows side. I know it sounds
> strange, but leaving it at 640 (the VM default) actually seems to work
> without any issues. Whereas when I increased it, it simply causes all
> sorts of odd issues similar to what you're seeing. That would be my
> first step at this point however.

>>Is it just me or my equipment, or payback for sins of my childhood?
>>I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who's having these problems, as
>>well as those who are using a similar setup and don't have the
>>problem.
>


Regards,

Peter
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The correct shorthand for writing keyboard shortcuts

[Stuart Rogers]

Avraham Makeler wrote:
> Hi David,
> Thanks for the effort you're putting into this.
> 
>>> Press and hold Ctrl while pressing the letter m, release both keys, and
> then press and hold Ctrl while pressing the letter f (Ctrl+M Ctrl+F).
> 
> A little earlier, I got the following reply from somebody offlist:
> 
> I would say "ctrl+f, ctrl+m" would be the best way to do that. You
> need to separate the steps is the issue.
> Hope that helps!
> 
> And I replied as follows:
> 
> 
> Great minds think alike! Lacking any other alternative, that's exactly what
> I wrote in my first draft!
> 
> (And it was on that the SME wrote his take, and told me to change them all
> accordingly to Ctrl M+F.)
> 
> The problem is, that ctrl+f, ctrl+m make it look as if after the ctrl+f you
> then have to first release the Ctrl key and only  then do Ctrl+M.
> 
> However, lacking any other alternative *standard* alternative, this seems
> the only solution.
> 
> The only other alternative would be to create our own new standard. One or
> two people suggested to me Ctrl+(M,F) - and that also seems to me to be
> correct.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> So coming back to your suggestion, David, it seems that are are all
> converging on the same solution,
> however, it's just that 'ctrl+f, ctrl+m' (with a space or a comma) gives the
> wrong impression that you have to take your finger off the Ctrl key after
> doing Ctrl+M and before doing Ctrl+F; you do not have to.
> 
> I would want to define a new standard, like this:  Ctrl+(M,F).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  - avi

I think you are re-inventing the wheel, as well as introducing 
ambiguity.  (Is the user supposed to press the comma key? the 
parentheses keys?  Some users are very literal.)  Microsoft's MSTP 
guidelines work perfectly well for your situation, and they are an 
industry standard.

You have said that it is irrelevant whether the CTRL key is held or 
released between operations, as long as it is held when the M and F keys 
are pressed.  Of course this is so; that's how computer keyboards work. 
  The computer pays no attention to whether a modifier key is released, 
because it receives the code from the keyboard at the moment a key is 
*pressed*.  If a modifier key (CTRL, ALT, SHIFT) is held at the same 
time as a letter key is pressed, a different code is sent.  Since it is 
irrelevant whether CTRL is released between operations, I think you do 
your readers a disservice to encumber them with invented conventions or 
instructions about what they *don't* have to do.

MSTP is consistent in using all caps for the modifier keys (CTRL, SHIFT) 
and all caps for the letter keys (which is how the letters appear on the 
keyboard).  For key sequences, the guideline is to use commas followed 
by spaces.  So the MSTP instruction would be "press CTRL+M, CTRL+F."

(Adobe has a different standard that uses mixed case, probably stemming 
from its compatibility with UNIX, which is case-sensitive in ways that 
DOS and Windows weren't and aren't.)

As for the SME, I assume that writing documentation according to 
standards is not the SM in which they are E; *you* would be the E in 
that SM, and entitled to stand your ground!  ;-)

HTH,

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TriZetto inquiry

[Milan Davidovic]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Will Husa  
wrote:
> I'm new to this list. Milan Davidovic recommended that I seek your advice.

Hi -- I saw Will's query over on techwr-l, did a search of my own
archive and saw the TriZetto name come up on this list, and suggested
to Will that he bring his query over here. Anyone finding this query
to be too OT for this list should yell, if at all, at me. OK?

And that said, I suppose I could have contacted people off list and
asked if they'd be interested in replying to Will. I didn't think of
it at the time, though, so here we are.

TIA for helping Will out.

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The correct shorthand for writing keyboard shortcuts

[Avraham Makeler]

>> You have said that it is irrelevant whether the CTRL key is held or
released between operations, as long as it is held when the M and F keys are
pressed.  Of course this is so; that's how computer keyboards work.  The
computer pays no attention to whether a modifier key is released, because it
receives the code from the keyboard at the moment a key is *pressed*.  If a
modifier key (CTRL, ALT, SHIFT) is held at the same time as a letter key is
pressed, a different code is sent.  Since it is irrelevant whether CTRL is
released between operations,
Yes, I know.


>> I think you do your readers a disservice to encumber them with invented
conventions or instructions about what they *don't* have to do.

Ok, that's a point.


>> MSTP is consistent in using all caps for the modifier keys (CTRL, SHIFT)
and all caps for the letter keys

Yes, thanks for pointing that out.


>> (which is how the letters appear on the keyboard).

Actually - they do *not*. Which is why I made the mistake of writing them
the way I did.
But, again, thanks for pointing out that according to MS they should be
CAPS.


>> For key sequences, the guideline is to use commas followed by spaces.  So
the MSTP instruction would be "press CTRL+M, CTRL+F."

Ok, so that seems to be the bottom line. That's the way I wrote it
originally. Not that I though that it looked great, but just there seemed no
other alternative I could find in the rule book.

And so it's left as self-understood that you don't have to take your finger
off the CTRL key in between.


>> (Adobe has a different standard that uses mixed case, probably stemming
from its compatibility with UNIX, which is case-sensitive in ways that DOS
and Windows weren't and aren't.)

>> As for the SME, I assume that writing documentation according to
standards is not the SM in which they are E; *you* would be the E in that
SM, and entitled to stand your ground!  ;-)

No, I have no problem with that - it's just that I also didn't like what I
wrote.


Thanks,

  - avi




On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Stuart Rogers <
srogers at phoenix-geophysics.com> wrote:

> Avraham Makeler wrote:
>
>> Hi David,
>> Thanks for the effort you're putting into this.
>>
>>  Press and hold Ctrl while pressing the letter m, release both keys, and

>>> then press and hold Ctrl while pressing the letter f (Ctrl+M Ctrl+F).
>>
>> A little earlier, I got the following reply from somebody offlist:
>>
>>I would say "ctrl+f, ctrl+m" would be the best way to do that. You
>> need to separate the steps is the issue.
>>Hope that helps!
>>
>> And I replied as follows:
>> 
>>
>> Great minds think alike! Lacking any other alternative, that's exactly
>> what
>> I wrote in my first draft!
>>
>> (And it was on that the SME wrote his take, and told me to change them all
>> accordingly to Ctrl M+F.)
>>
>> The problem is, that ctrl+f, ctrl+m make it look as if after the ctrl+f
>> you
>> then have to first release the Ctrl key and only  then do Ctrl+M.
>>
>> However, lacking any other alternative *standard* alternative, this seems
>> the only solution.
>>
>> The only other alternative would be to create our own new standard. One or
>> two people suggested to me Ctrl+(M,F) - and that also seems to me to be
>> correct.
>>
>>
>> 
>>
>> So coming back to your suggestion, David, it seems that are are all
>> converging on the same solution,
>> however, it's just that 'ctrl+f, ctrl+m' (with a space or a comma) gives
>> the
>> wrong impression that you have to take your finger off the Ctrl key after
>> doing Ctrl+M and before doing Ctrl+F; you do not have to.
>>
>> I would want to define a new standard, like this:  Ctrl+(M,F).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>  - avi
>>
>
> I think you are re-inventing the wheel, as well as introducing ambiguity.
>  (Is the user supposed to press the comma key? the parentheses keys?  Some
> users are very literal.)  Microsoft's MSTP guidelines work perfectly well
> for your situation, and they are an industry standard.
>
> You have said that it is irrelevant whether the CTRL key is held or
> released between operations, as long as it is held when the M and F keys are
> pressed.  Of course this is so; that's how computer keyboards work.  The
> computer pays no attention to whether a modifier key is released, because it
> receives the code from the keyboard at the moment a key is *pressed*.  If a
> modifier key (CTRL, ALT, SHIFT) is held at the same time as a letter key is
> pressed, a different code is sent.  Since it is irrelevant whether CTRL is
> released between operations, I think you do your readers a disservice to
> encumber them with invented conventions or instructions about what they
> *don't* have to do.
>
> MSTP is consistent in using all caps for the modifier keys (CTRL, SHIFT)
> and all caps for the letter keys (which is how the letters appear on the
> keyboard).  For key sequences, the guideline is to use commas followed by
> spaces.  So the MSTP 

Framemaker 8 DITA-OT plugin

[RJ Jacquez]

Hi Rosemary, it's a bit tricky, but here are the overall steps you must take to 
point FrameMaker's DITA menu to the DITA OT installation folder:

* After you have properly installed the Adobe FrameMaker 8 plug-in for DITA 
Open Toolkit (incidentally for FrameMaker 9 users, the appropriate link) is 
also on the same page: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/framemaker/

* You need to add the following code to this file:
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2\Adobe FrameMaker 
9\fminit\ditafm\ditafm.ini".

Note that I'm using FrameMaker 9 from the Tech Comm Suite 2, but please 
navigate to the path above based on the version of FrameMaker you are using.

* Add this code to the ditafm.ini file:

[BuildFile]
AntCommand=ant
AntScript=ditafm-ant.xml
Count=2
DitaDir=C:\DITA-OT1.4.2.1
1=chm
2=html

* Here's where you point FrameMaker to the exact location of the DITA Open 
Toolkit installation folder.

* Relaunch FrameMaker and you should now be able to select DITA > Generate 
Output.

Sincerely,

RJ J?cquez
Senior Product Evangelist
Adobe Technical Communication Suite
Adobe eLearning Solutions
http://blogs.adobe.com/rjacquez
Twitter: @rjacquez


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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Rosemary O'Connor
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Subject: Framemaker 8 DITA-OT plugin

Hi guys
I've recently followed all the instructions to as per the adobe.com to
install the DITA-OT plugin for Framemaker 8.
All went well until I clicked on the new Dita menu item - Generate Output
I receive the following error:

DITA-OT directory not defined in Options. Could not generate output.

Does anyone know how to define this directory somewhere? I've set all
the required environment variables as per the documentation.

bye
Rose

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Working with MIFs in Frame

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:53:33 -0700, Shane Lawrence  wrote:

>I currently use a program to dynamically generate a book and several .mif 
>files for its content. I have an index that needs to be generated, and of 
>course, Frame doesn't like it when I try to 'Update Book and generate lists 
>and indexes'. It states 'Couldn't update this book, because it contains no 
>openable nongenerated files.' I have to open all files in book, then save all 
>files in book (as fm) and confirms each file. It's a lot of clicking and I'm 
>hoping to find a way around this.
>
>Is there a way in Framemaker to batch convert all of these files back to fm, 
>or a method to continue to work purely with mif files? The mif files actually 
>have the .fm extension already.

The free Mif2Go demo version will do that for you.  No 
need to purchase Mif2Go for this; just download the demo 
from:
  http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm

Install the plugin (the two DLLs that go in your
\frame\fminit\plugins directory), delete .cache there
(if it is present), and start Frame.  Open your book,
and with Shift down, select File > Wash via MIF.  This
actually opens the .fm files (it's fine that they are 
really MIF), resaves as MIF, reopens those, and saves
them as .fm, all in a second or two, for the whole book.

HTH!

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/

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[Carol J. Elkins]

Using Frame 7.0, AcrobatPro 7.0, Mif2Go. I have books consisting of 
chapters that contain several thousand individual documents. Each doc 
begins consistently with a paratag for the doc title so it is easy to 
define where a new doc starts. I've been asked to output individual 
PDFs of each document. I'll probably need to do this once every 
couple of years. The hard way would be to take the whole-book PDF and 
manually extract each document to an individual file. Is there an easier way?

Carol

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Making Information Understandable
Phone: 719-948-3773
mailto:celkins at awrittenword.com
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[Linda G. Gallagher]

Carol,

I've not actually done it recently, but the FM print window has a drop-down
list called Print Book As. I believe if you select Separate Print Job for
Each Document, you will get what you want. It would probably be best to
place the resulting .ps files in a watched folder, so Distiller will
automatically distill each one. 


~
Linda G. Gallagher
TechCom Plus, LLC
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www.techcomplus.com
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Using Frame 7.0, AcrobatPro 7.0, Mif2Go. I have books consisting of 
chapters that contain several thousand individual documents. Each doc 
begins consistently with a paratag for the doc title so it is easy to 
define where a new doc starts. I've been asked to output individual 
PDFs of each document. I'll probably need to do this once every 
couple of years. The hard way would be to take the whole-book PDF and 
manually extract each document to an individual file. Is there an easier
way?

Carol

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Making Information Understandable
Phone: 719-948-3773
mailto:celkins at awrittenword.com
http://www.awrittenword.com
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[Art Campbell]

If I'm hearing you correctly, you have chapter level Frame files made
up of small documents concatenated together. And you have a book
containing a herd of these chapters. And you want to output the most
finely-grained level as individual PDFs, right?

If the small documents still exist as independent files, I'd think
about creating a meta-book containing those, and create
pseudo-chapters within the book file instead of using hard files. Then
just output to individual PDF files by selecting "Individual Files" on
the print dialog box.

Another way to go would be to upgrade to FM 9; I think the ability to
nest folders as sections would also let you do this.

Another route may exist through MIF2Go... I think you could set up an
export to MIF, RTF, or HTML that would create break points on your
DocTitle paratags. Generate a PDF of those files (probably using
Acrobat's watched folders), and you're good.

And yet another route would be to create a JavaScript in Acrobat, that
extracts sections based on your DocTitle tags... I think it's
possible, but I've only read the tip of the iceberg on this. There's
some info on the Acrobat web site on how to do this, but I believe the
capability is in Acrobat 9; maybe 8 too.

Good luck,
Art


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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Carol J. Elkins
 wrote:
> Using Frame 7.0, AcrobatPro 7.0, Mif2Go. I have books consisting of
> chapters that contain several thousand individual documents. Each doc
> begins consistently with a paratag for the doc title so it is easy to
> define where a new doc starts. I've been asked to output individual
> PDFs of each document. I'll probably need to do this once every
> couple of years. The hard way would be to take the whole-book PDF and
> manually extract each document to an individual file. Is there an easier way?
>
> Carol
>
> **
> Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC
> Making Information Understandable
> Phone: 719-948-3773
> mailto:celkins at awrittenword.com
> http://www.awrittenword.com
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[Jeremy H. Griffith]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:54:22 -0400, Art Campbell  
wrote:

>Another route may exist through MIF2Go... I think you could set up an
>export to MIF, RTF, or HTML that would create break points on your
>DocTitle paratags. Generate a PDF of those files (probably using
>Acrobat's watched folders), and you're good.

Mif2Go doesn't split up MIF or RTF outputs, only HTML/XML outputs.
So you would need to convert to, say, HTML, then make PDFs of the
HTML files, either directly (using Acrobat, if it can do that, or 
another tool that does that), or indirectly (importing the HTML 
files to Frame or Word, and making the PDFs from there).  The 
Mif2Go part is easy, but the next step may require scripting of
some sort (JS, VBA, FrameScript) to avoid a lot of manual work.

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/

Frame-to-PDF mini-docs

[Carol J. Elkins]

Thanks Art and Jeremy. You definitely summed up my problem well. A 
Frameuser wrote me offline to suggest that ARTS PDF Split & Merge 
Lite would do the job by splitting at the bookmark level. Because I 
use two other ARTS plugins for PDFs, I have confidence in the 
company, so that is probably a good solution.

Carol

At 02:54 PM 4/27/2009, Art Campbell wrote:
>If I'm hearing you correctly, you have chapter level Frame files made
>up of small documents concatenated together. And you have a book
>containing a herd of these chapters. And you want to output the most
>finely-grained level as individual PDFs, right?