RoboHelp Help

2010-01-22 Thread Tony Marek
Does anyone know if there is a similar RoboHelp mailing list? I don't have a specific question yet, but I'll be working on Frame-to-HTML Help soon. I'm sure I'll need to learn from an educated, helpful crowd such as you Framers. Thanks, Tony in San Jose -- *Tony marek */Technical

Re: RoboHelp Help

2010-01-22 Thread Jim Owens
Tony Marek wrote: Does anyone know if there is a similar RoboHelp mailing list? There is a browser-based Adobe user-to-user forum; also one for the TCS.. I found both helpful when I was evaluating RoboHelp. http://forums.adobe.com/community/robohelp

RE: RoboHelp Help

2010-01-22 Thread David Spreadbury
You can also try joining and posting your questions to h...@yahoogroups.com. David Spreadbury Sr. Technical Writer -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Tony Marek Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 11:49 AM

Re: RoboHelp Help

2010-01-22 Thread Tony Marek
Thanks much, David. We'll check it out. ~Tony David Spreadbury wrote: You can also try joining and posting your questions to h...@yahoogroups.com. David Spreadbury Sr. Technical Writer -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

Re: Conditional Text Issue

2010-01-22 Thread Huntley Eshenroder
There are several different approaches, these are a few of my favorites: - if chapter-level content stays together, you can create different book files for each UM or QG and insert the relevant files as necessary - a more granular approach is to use text-insets; create text-insets for

Re: RoboHelp Help

2010-01-22 Thread Art Campbell
Probably want to look at the Tech Comm Suite Users Group at http://groups.google.com/group/TCS-Users?hl=en 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

Question about renamed FrameMaker tags and WebWorks

2010-01-22 Thread Dixon, Paul
I'm in a job where I've inherited responsibility for the FrameMaker templates, as well as WebWorks stationery. I'm an expert FrameMaker user, but a novice WebWorks user. Anyway, we renamed some of the paragraph and character tags in the FrameMaker templates. Since they no longer match the

Re: RoboHelp Help

2010-01-22 Thread Robert Courtney
You can put questions out to techwr-l group. There are a lot of members who use robohelp there. You can go to the website to sign up for the feed. Robert Courtney Technical Writer PDSI – Principal Decision Systems International O: (800) 850-7374 ext 1283 F: (714) 703-3000 E:

Do Not Update Property Settings Lost in RH7 After Updating Content from FM8

2010-01-22 Thread CDMiller
I have an integrated FM8-RH7 project. When I set the topic properties to no update and then update the content from FM, some of the topics consolidate into one large topic. This consolidation causes the subtopics of the book to become one single ongoing topic. Other book subtopics with the same

OFF-Topic: ripped paper image

2010-01-22 Thread Flato, Gillian
Does anyone know of a tool that allows you to erase part of a graphic where when you run the brush through the graphic, the remaining visible graphic looks like you ripped a piece of the graphic out of the middle? So I want a tool that leaves a jagged edge behind. Thank you, Gillian

RE: OFF-Topic: ripped paper image

2010-01-22 Thread Ed
Sounds like something you'd want to do using either Photoshop or the GIMP. You can download some Photoshop brushes from places like deviantart.com that look like ripped paper. Creativepro.com is also doing a weekly column called free for all

Re: OFF-Topic: ripped paper image

2010-01-22 Thread Art Campbell
SnagIt Editor has this (may be just for borders; I haven't used it), and you can do it with any number of Photoshop frames 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: Question about renamed FrameMaker tags and WebWorks

2010-01-22 Thread Writer
Paul, you might want to post your question on the Yahoo WWP group (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wwp-users). It would be helpful to know what version of WebWorks you're using, whether it's Pro or Express. Overall, if you rescan your FM files in Pro, the names of the new tags should appear

Re: Question about renamed FrameMaker tags and WebWorks

2010-01-22 Thread Bill Swallow
Go into your Project Mappings and remap the renamed tags to the correct tags in WebWorks. It doesn't matter what you name them sa long as you remember to map them. See WWP's Help for info about paragraph and character mapping. On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Dixon, Paul

RE: OFF-Topic: ripped paper image

2010-01-22 Thread Will Husa
Art is correct. You want Snagit. The ripped edge is one of its cool features. Will = Will Husa Technical Writer Your source for user-friendly documentation Phone: 708-927-3569 www.4techwriter.com -Original Message- From:

RE: OFF-Topic: ripped paper image

2010-01-22 Thread Matt Sullivan
For those with RoboHelp or the TCS, I believe the included RoboScreenCapture has that feature as well. -Matt Matt Sullivan 714 585-2335 cell /txt/sms 714 960-6840 office skype: mattrsullivan mattrsullivan.wordpress.com linkedin.com/in/mattrsullivan

Re: OFF-Topic: ripped paper image

2010-01-22 Thread Jing Torralba
I'm using SnagIt for this. You can use the feature at the time you're doing the capture or when you edit the image. It's in the Effects Edge Effects menu, and one of the choices is Torn Edge. From here you can select which edge (top, bottom, left, right), the torn size, background color

RE: OFF-Topic: ripped paper image

2010-01-22 Thread Fred Ridder
I'm using SnagIt for this. You can use the feature at the time you're doing the capture or when you edit the image. It's in the Effects Edge Effects menu, and one of the choices is Torn Edge. From here you can select which edge (top, bottom, left, right), the torn size, background

RE: OFF-Topic: ripped paper image

2010-01-22 Thread Pinkham, Jim
With The Gimp, I believe the technique described here would work: http://www.sxc.hu/blog/post/1165. Rather than deleting the second half of the image, one could move it off to one side or to a separate layer, I suspect, and then, when done with the first half, apply similar edge-effect technique

Problems with updating unresolved internal xrefs in FrameMaker 7.2p158

2010-01-22 Thread Ankur Srivastava
Have you checked the Master pages for unresolved xrefs ? regards, Ankur On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Lief Erickson wrote: > Hi Linda-- > > Are any of the references to text that is hidden? If so, the x-ref will > appear to be broken. It will resolve just fine when the text is showing, but >

FDK & MinGW

2010-01-22 Thread Andrey 'ABacus' Bondarenko
Is it possible to compile FDK client with MinGW package? Does FM recognize it in run-time? -- Best regards Andrey 'ABacus' Bondarenko mailto: abacus at beriev.com -==- #define QUESTION ((bb) || !(bb)) -= (C) 1601 William Shakespeare =-

Problems with updating unresolved internal xrefs in FrameMaker 7.2p158

2010-01-22 Thread Baruch Brodersen
Hi Linda, Both source and target cross references must share the same conditional text tag or they will *report* as unresolved if either are hidden in the final book. To see if there are really unresolved xrefs present (and not just reported ones), add a list or index of unresolved cross

RoboHelp Help

2010-01-22 Thread Tony Marek
Does anyone know if there is a similar RoboHelp mailing list? I don't have a specific question yet, but I'll be working on Frame-to-HTML Help soon. I'm sure I'll need to learn from an educated, helpful crowd such as you Framers. Thanks, Tony in San Jose -- *Tony marek */Technical

RoboHelp Help

2010-01-22 Thread Jim Owens
Tony Marek wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a similar RoboHelp mailing list? There is a browser-based Adobe user-to-user forum; also one for the TCS.. I found both helpful when I was evaluating RoboHelp. http://forums.adobe.com/community/robohelp

RoboHelp Help

2010-01-22 Thread David Spreadbury
You can also try joining and posting your questions to HATT at yahoogroups.com. David Spreadbury Sr. Technical Writer -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Tony Marek Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010

RoboHelp Help

2010-01-22 Thread Tony Marek
Thanks much, David. We'll check it out. ~Tony David Spreadbury wrote: > You can also try joining and posting your questions to HATT at > yahoogroups.com. > > > David Spreadbury > Sr. Technical Writer > > > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com >

Conditional Text Issue

2010-01-22 Thread Alison Craig
Version: FM9 (9.0p237) OS: XP Pro with SP3 Caveat: I've only been using FM for about 6 or 7 months and I am a documentation department of 1. We've just released our first User Manuals (UMs) in FrameMaker. Before applying any conditions, I had an up front discussion with my boss and his boss

Conditional Text Issue

2010-01-22 Thread Huntley Eshenroder
There are several different approaches, these are a few of my favorites: - if chapter-level content stays together, you can create different book files for each UM or QG and insert the relevant files as necessary - a more granular approach is to use text-insets; create text-insets for

RoboHelp Help

2010-01-22 Thread Art Campbell
Probably want to look at the Tech Comm Suite Users Group at http://groups.google.com/group/TCS-Users?hl=en 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

Question about renamed FrameMaker tags and WebWorks

2010-01-22 Thread Dixon, Paul
I'm in a job where I've inherited responsibility for the FrameMaker templates, as well as WebWorks stationery. I'm an expert FrameMaker user, but a novice WebWorks user. Anyway, we renamed some of the paragraph and character tags in the FrameMaker templates. Since they no longer match the

RoboHelp Help

2010-01-22 Thread Robert Courtney
You can put questions out to techwr-l group. There are a lot of members who use robohelp there. You can go to the website to sign up for the feed. Robert Courtney Technical Writer PDSI ? Principal Decision Systems International O: (800) 850-7374 ext 1283 F: (714) 703-3000 E: robertcourtney at

"Do Not Update" Property Settings Lost in RH7 After Updating Content from FM8

2010-01-22 Thread CDMiller
I have an integrated FM8-RH7 project. When I set the topic properties to no update and then update the content from FM, some of the topics consolidate into one large topic. This consolidation causes the subtopics of the book to become one single ongoing topic. Other book subtopics with the same

OFF-Topic: ripped paper image

2010-01-22 Thread Flato, Gillian
Does anyone know of a tool that allows you to erase part of a graphic where when you run the brush through the graphic, the remaining visible graphic looks like you ripped a piece of the graphic out of the middle? So I want a tool that leaves a jagged edge behind. Thank you, Gillian Flato

OFF-Topic: ripped paper image

2010-01-22 Thread Ed
Sounds like something you'd want to do using either Photoshop or the GIMP. You can download some Photoshop brushes from places like deviantart.com that look like ripped paper. Creativepro.com is also doing a weekly column called "free for all"

OFF-Topic: ripped paper image

2010-01-22 Thread Art Campbell
SnagIt Editor has this (may be just for borders; I haven't used it), and you can do it with any number of Photoshop frames 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

Question about renamed FrameMaker tags and WebWorks

2010-01-22 Thread Writer
Paul, you might want to post your question on the Yahoo WWP group (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wwp-users). It would be helpful to know what version of WebWorks you're using, whether it's Pro or Express. Overall, if you rescan your FM files in Pro, the names of the new tags should appear

Question about renamed FrameMaker tags and WebWorks

2010-01-22 Thread Bill Swallow
Go into your Project Mappings and remap the renamed tags to the correct tags in WebWorks. It doesn't matter what you name them sa long as you remember to map them. See WWP's Help for info about paragraph and character mapping. On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Dixon, Paul wrote: > Anyway, we

OFF-Topic: ripped paper image

2010-01-22 Thread Will Husa
Art is correct. You want Snagit. The ripped edge is one of its cool features. Will = Will Husa Technical Writer Your source for user-friendly documentation Phone: 708-927-3569 www.4techwriter.com -Original Message- From:

OFF-Topic: ripped paper image

2010-01-22 Thread Matt Sullivan
For those with RoboHelp or the TCS, I believe the included RoboScreenCapture has that feature as well. -Matt Matt Sullivan 714 585-2335 cell /txt/sms 714 960-6840 office skype: mattrsullivan mattrsullivan.wordpress.com linkedin.com/in/mattrsullivan

OFF-Topic: ripped paper image

2010-01-22 Thread Jing Torralba
I'm using SnagIt for this. You can use the feature at the time you're doing the capture or when you edit the image. It's in the Effects > Edge Effects menu, and one of the choices is Torn Edge. From here you can select which edge (top, bottom, left, right), the "torn" size, background

OFF-Topic: ripped paper image

2010-01-22 Thread Fred Ridder
> I'm using SnagIt for this. You can use the feature at the time you're doing > the capture or when you edit the image. > > It's in the Effects > Edge Effects menu, and one of the choices is Torn Edge. > From here you can select which edge (top, bottom, left, right), the "torn" > size,

OFF-Topic: ripped paper image

2010-01-22 Thread Pinkham, Jim
With The Gimp, I believe the technique described here would work: http://www.sxc.hu/blog/post/1165. Rather than deleting the second half of the image, one could move it off to one side or to a separate layer, I suspect, and then, when done with the first half, apply similar edge-effect technique