Re: Looking for your favorite FM resources
Don't forget Bernard Aschwanden And this is a good resource too: http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/category/products/framemaker -- Yves Barbion www.scripto.nu ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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: Looking for your favorite FM resources
At 12:43 p.m. 11/12/2012, Matt Sullivan wrote: I'm in the process of finishing up the FM 11 book I'm updating in conjunction with Sarah O'Keefe. The book will again contain FM and tech comm resources in an appendix. I would like to make sure I don't miss anyone's favorites! Are any of your favorite folks/organizations not listed below? Not a folk nor an organisation but PureText: http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/ is absolutely indispensible if (like mine) your documentary life revolves around converting hamburger back into steak. Helen ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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: Frame 11 Stability - Upgrade or Downgrade the new copy to Frame9? HELP
Have you (or anyone else) seen an improvement in the crashes when saving books that have files with track edits on? That one of the big things that bothers me about FM 10. I have the TCS 4 upgrade, but haven't done much with it. ~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC lindag at techcomplus dot com http://www.techcomplus.com/ www.techcomplus.com 303-450-9076 or 800-500-3144 _ From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Craig Ede Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 8:18 AM To: framers Subject: RE: Frame 11 Stability - Upgrade or Downgrade the new copy to Frame9? HELP I've had pretty good luck with FM 9, 10 and 11 and have used all three in production settings over that last 8 months. There are quirks in all of them although I would have to say the 11 is the best (now that that update has minimized the crashes). The new features and interface changes in each can be frustrating to acclimate to. However, FM 11 fixed the focus problem with the Find/Change dialog and returned the ability to call up various catalogs with hot keys, both essential features of power users who were driven mad by their removal in earlier versions. For those of us who use various versions to match the needs of clients, having to maintain installations of the various versions is a bit clumsy. My primary clients use FM5.5, 6, 7, 9, and 11 so I have various versions on different computers. (Note: Translation work necessitates, at times, return of the translated files in the clients preferred format, and with FDA controlled stuff, mifs throwing out of newer features stuff carries the potential for problems even if no new features were thought to have been used in the handling process.) I'm afraid to update my TCS3 to TCS4 for fear it will cause problems with my access to FM10. (I'm using FM 11 onsite at my current contract job, their licence on one of their computers). Of course I could just buy a whole new license for TCS 4 rather than upgrade, but that expense makes no sense to me at this point, and given that installing CS6 resulted inthe deactivation of my Acrobat license after 30 days, I don't trust Adobe's installers to leave other licenses untouched. Details of my Acrobat deactivation for those who care: Installed CS6 resulting in a non-installation of the Acrobat X component since I already had it installed for TCS3. (A window notified me that Acobat X had not been installed.) However, the deactivation of Acrobat exactly 30 days later convinces me that rather than seeing this as a non-installation, something in the CS6 installer flagged Acrobat as being in the try out mode and then deactivated it after 30 days.) Craig From: jeff.coatswo...@jonassoftware.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:40:51 -0500 Subject: RE: Frame 11 Stability - Upgrade or Downgrade the new copy to Frame 9? HELP No, FM10 was much better than FM9 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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: Looking for your favorite FM resources
http://forums.adobe.com/community/framemaker/ http://forums.adobe.com/community/robohelp/robohelp_framemaker http://lauriston.com/framemaker_tips.html On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Matt Sullivan m...@mattrsullivan.com wrote: I'm in the process of finishing up the FM 11 book I'm updating in conjunction with Sarah O'Keefe. The book will again contain FM and tech comm resources in an appendix. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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: Question about font format ... slightly off-topic, I suppose.
OpenType. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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: Looking for your favorite FM resources
Hi Matt, Oddly, your email didn't get to me, and it doesn't seem to be in my spam filter, either. Maybe it's taking the the long way around. I have no website of my own. Jeremy and Shlomo, out of pure kindness of heart, host the list for me so I don't have to handle emails asking for it. Anyone who wants to host it on their web site is also welcome to do so; all I ask is that no changes are made to content or name. Lin On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Matt Sullivan m...@mattrsullivan.com wrote: Hi Jeremy, Thanks for the reply, sorry for the typo…that's what I get for going off of memory! I already updated the url based on the sunset message I got at the omsys.com address. The address listed now is http://mif2go.com. Is that what you'd like? I did already list you, flare, ePublisher and robohelp as tools for conversion to online. Sundorne and a few others don't seem to maintain a web presence anymore. Any thoughts on whether they're still around? I did see Lin's list on your site, and sent her an email earlier today asking if the list was posted other than on omsys and microtype sites. (If possible, I'd like to give her direct traffic for her fine list) FOF was an excellent suggestion as well, expect to see a cross posting there soon (and you probably already saw the one in the FM user forum) -Matt Matt Sullivan technical communication | online training | eLearning twitter: @mattrsullivan phone: 714 960-6840 On Dec 10, 2012, at 4:37 PM, Jeremy H. Griffith jer...@omsys.com wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:43:33 -0800, Matt Sullivan m...@mattrsullivan.com wrote: Here is a list of folks I've slated for inclusion: frameusers.com (duh) adobe.com/products/framemaker Sarah O'Keefe, scriptorium Scott Prentice, leximation Scott Abel, content wrangler Jeremy Griffiths, MIF2go That would be: Jeremy H. Griffith (no s on the end), Omni Systems, Mif2Go (capitalization). Rick Quatro, Carmen Publishing, FrameScript/ExtendScript FrameScript There's Frank Elmore here, and a Euro company too, don't remember the name offhand. HATT techwr-l (Tech whirlers) wwp-users (WebWorks and ePublisher). FM integration (google group) CudSpan Tools. IXgen Silicon Prairie Software tcs-us...@googlegroups.com Add: Shlomo Perets, Microtype, TimeSavers Ian Hawkins, Sundorne, SetPrint and IndexRef WebWorks, ePublisherPro Madcap, Flare Friends of FrameMaker, a LinkedIn group. And have a look at Lin Sim's canonical reference to Frame plugins, hosted at: http://mif2go.com/framemaker-resources HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. jer...@omsys.comhttp://mif2go.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as m...@mattrsullivan.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/matt%40mattrsullivan.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 ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
progressindication.swf in the FM10 installation directory
Hi folks, Does anybody know what this progressbar file is used for? It sits under C:\Program Files\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker10\fminit\progressbar Sometimes, when Framemaker performs a lengthy and time-consuming operation, I get the Framemaker (Not Responding) message, even if it does not get stuck completely. I think, using a progress bar instead of this stupid and misleading message would be more appropriate. When seeing this message, an inexperienced user may just try to exit Framemaker instead of waiting a bit longer. Thanks, Roman___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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: Frame 11 Stability - Upgrade or Downgrade the new copy to Frame9? HELP
I'd be interested in hearing about that too. I've given up on the track edits feature in FM10 because of crashes. Regards Keith From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of LGLists Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 3:54 PM To: 'Craig Ede'; 'framers' Subject: RE: Frame 11 Stability - Upgrade or Downgrade the new copy to Frame9? HELP Have you (or anyone else) seen an improvement in the crashes when saving books that have files with track edits on? That one of the big things that bothers me about FM 10. I have the TCS 4 upgrade, but haven't done much with it. ~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC lindag at techcomplus dot com www.techcomplus.comhttp://www.techcomplus.com/ 303-450-9076 or 800-500-3144 NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY This e-mail, including all materials contained in or attached to this e-mail, contains proprietary and confidential information solely for the internal use of the intended recipient. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or otherwise and ensure that it is permanently deleted from your systems, and do not print, copy, distribute or read its contents. AVIS DE CONFIDENTIALIT? Le pr?sent courriel, y compris tous les documents qu'il contient ou qui y sont joints, renferme des renseignements exclusifs et confidentiels destin?s uniquement ? l'usage interne du destinataire pr?vu. Si vous avez re?u le pr?sent courriel par erreur, veuillez nous aviser imm?diatement, notamment par retour de courriel, et vous assurer qu'il est supprim? de fa?on permanente de vos syst?mes; veuillez ?galement vous abstenir d'imprimer, de copier, de distribuer ou de lire son contenu. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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: Frame 11 Stability - Upgrade or Downgrade the new copy to Frame 9? HELP
That would almost make it worth paying for FM11, except on principle I'm not going to pay to get back old features that were removed by upgrades. On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Craig Ede craig...@hotmail.com wrote: FM 11 fixed the focus problem with the Find/Change dialog and returned the ability to call up various catalogs with hot keys, both essential features of power users who were driven mad by their removal in earlier versions. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
Cross-reference to a previous file
Hello All FM11.0.1.382 on Windows Vista. I have a FM book that is divided into parts, with divider files that indicate where a part begins. After the divider file comes the first chapter in that part. I want to insert a running header/footer to catch the title from the divider file and put it in the following chapter files' headers. So for example: book part 1: Inventory chapter 1: Setting up inventory In the header for chapter 1 I want to pick up the word Inventory from my divider file. I understand that, using $paratext[paratag] in the running H/f I can define the paratag to use, and FrameMaker searches backwards until it comes across a matching paragraph. But does it search preceding files, or just the current file? (Because in my testing it only seems to find things in the current file.) Thanks. Roger Shuttleworth London, Canada ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
odd FM10 search bug?
I'm using FM10 Find with Document scope to search for a string that appears five times in the current document, the first three in running text, the last two in a table. Find seemed to come up with seven instances, which made me think there was a duplicate copy of the table. After a very confused few minutes I figured out that Find was actually looping back to search the table twice, so the seven hits are 1-2-3-4-5-4-5. Anybody else encountered this? ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
managing feedback on work in progress from multiple SMEs
I'm working in an agile shop where the developers are mostly on Linux or treating Macs as Linux boxes. Source is in FM10. It would be nice to be able to do the doc task for each user story when the developers finish with it, but I've had problems with people not getting their comments back to me quickly, and ending up with having to piece comments together from various drafts. In some cases I got conflicting comments on the same stuff. No big deal to sort out but a big waste of scarce time. Sending out PDFs of only the pages with changes a particular person made avoids most of those problems, but it's a lot of extra work. Acrobat shared review is problematic since I'm continuously updating the FrameMaker source, though at least there would be only one draft in circulation at any one time. I could wait until all of a sprint's updates for a particular document are done before sending it out for review, but that might lead to a serious crunch. Has anyone come up with better technique for managing this sort of workflow? ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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: Cross-reference to a previous file
Current file only, unless that's changed with FM11 (and I doubt it). Where I work, we have a sort-of-similar issue, and we solved it by using cross-references. It means you'll have to remember to check that you're pointing to the right files if you add any new ones in, but it beats typing everything in (and you'd have to manually update that way, too). On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Roger Shuttleworth shutti...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All FM11.0.1.382 on Windows Vista. I have a FM book that is divided into parts, with divider files that indicate where a part begins. After the divider file comes the first chapter in that part. I want to insert a running header/footer to catch the title from the divider file and put it in the following chapter files' headers. So for example: book part 1: Inventory chapter 1: Setting up inventory In the header for chapter 1 I want to pick up the word Inventory from my divider file. I understand that, using $paratext[paratag] in the running H/f I can define the paratag to use, and FrameMaker searches backwards until it comes across a matching paragraph. But does it search preceding files, or just the current file? (Because in my testing it only seems to find things in the current file.) Thanks. Roger Shuttleworth London, Canada ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
Looking for your favorite FM resources
Don't forget Bernard Aschwanden And this is a good resource too: http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/category/products/framemaker -- Yves Barbion www.scripto.nu -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20121211/e420de24/attachment.html>
Looking for your favorite FM resources
At 12:43 p.m. 11/12/2012, Matt Sullivan wrote: >I'm in the process of finishing up the FM 11 book I'm updating in conjunction >with Sarah O'Keefe. > >The book will again contain FM and tech comm resources in an appendix. > >I would like to make sure I don't miss anyone's favorites! > >Are any of your favorite folks/organizations not listed below? Not a "folk" nor an organisation but PureText: http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/ is absolutely indispensible if (like mine) your documentary life revolves around converting hamburger back into steak. Helen
Looking for your favorite FM resources
Hi Matt, Oddly, your email didn't get to me, and it doesn't seem to be in my spam filter, either. Maybe it's taking the the long way around. I have no website of my own. Jeremy and Shlomo, out of pure kindness of heart, host the list for me so I don't have to handle emails asking for it. Anyone who wants to host it on their web site is also welcome to do so; all I ask is that no changes are made to content or name. Lin On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Matt Sullivan wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > > Thanks for the reply, sorry for the typo?that's what I get for going off of > memory! > > I already updated the url based on the "sunset" message I got at the > omsys.com address. The address listed now is http://mif2go.com. Is that what > you'd like? > > I did already list you, flare, ePublisher and robohelp as tools for > conversion to online. > > Sundorne and a few others don't seem to maintain a web presence anymore. Any > thoughts on whether they're still around? > > I did see Lin's list on your site, and sent her an email earlier today > asking if the list was posted other than on omsys and microtype sites. (If > possible, I'd like to give her direct traffic for her fine list) > > FOF was an excellent suggestion as well, expect to see a cross posting there > soon (and you probably already saw the one in the FM user forum) > > > > -Matt > > Matt Sullivan > technical communication | online training | eLearning > > twitter: @mattrsullivan > phone: 714 960-6840 > > On Dec 10, 2012, at 4:37 PM, "Jeremy H. Griffith" wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:43:33 -0800, Matt Sullivan > wrote: > > Here is a list of folks I've slated for inclusion: > frameusers.com (duh) > adobe.com/products/framemaker > Sarah O'Keefe, scriptorium > Scott Prentice, leximation > Scott Abel, content wrangler > Jeremy Griffiths, MIF2go > > > That would be: Jeremy H. Griffith (no "s" on the end), > Omni Systems, Mif2Go (capitalization). > > Rick Quatro, Carmen Publishing, FrameScript/ExtendScript > FrameScript > > > There's Frank Elmore here, and a Euro company too, > don't remember the name offhand. > > HATT > techwr-l (Tech whirlers) > wwp-users (WebWorks and ePublisher). > FM integration (google group) > CudSpan Tools. > IXgen > Silicon Prairie Software > TCS-Users at googlegroups.com > > > Add: > > Shlomo Perets, Microtype, TimeSavers > Ian Hawkins, Sundorne, SetPrint and IndexRef > WebWorks, ePublisherPro > Madcap, Flare > Friends of FrameMaker, a LinkedIn group. > > > And have a look at Lin Sim's canonical reference > to Frame plugins, hosted at: > > http://mif2go.com/framemaker-resources > > HTH! > > -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. > http://mif2go.com/ > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as matt at mattrsullivan.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/matt%40mattrsullivan.com > > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > > > > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims.ML 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/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > -- Lin Sims
Question about font format ... slightly off-topic, I suppose.
On 10/12/2012 7:50 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) wrote: > Hi, all. > ... > For some of my recent font purchases, I received both OpenType and > TrueType format files. I.e., the font came in both .TTF and .OTF file > versions. ...> > Given my setup (Windows 7 Pro, FM 11, Acrobat XI, PDF output files, > etc.), what font format would you install for use? I.e., would you > install the OTF or TTF font or both (why)? > OpenType. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenType http://tinyurl.com/casws2d HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited 3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3 Toronto, ON, Canada M1W 3K5 +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com
progressindication.swf in the FM10 installation directory
Hi folks, ? Does anybody know what this progressbar file is used for? It sits under C:\Program Files\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker10\fminit\progressbar ? Sometimes, when Framemaker performs a lengthy and time-consuming operation, I get the "Framemaker (Not Responding)" message, even if it does not get stuck completely. I think, using a progress bar instead of this stupid and misleading?message would be more appropriate. When seeing this message, an inexperienced user may just try to exit Framemaker instead of waiting a bit longer. ? Thanks, Roman -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20121211/d6047b18/attachment.html>
Frame 11 Stability - Upgrade or Downgrade the new copy to Frame9? HELP
I'd be interested in hearing about that too. I've given up on the track edits feature in FM10 because of crashes. Regards Keith From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of LGLists Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 3:54 PM To: 'Craig Ede'; 'framers' Subject: RE: Frame 11 Stability - Upgrade or Downgrade the new copy to Frame9? HELP Have you (or anyone else) seen an improvement in the crashes when saving books that have files with track edits on? That one of the big things that bothers me about FM 10. I have the TCS 4 upgrade, but haven't done much with it. ~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC lindag at techcomplus dot com www.techcomplus.com<http://www.techcomplus.com/> 303-450-9076 or 800-500-3144 NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY This e-mail, including all materials contained in or attached to this e-mail, contains proprietary and confidential information solely for the internal use of the intended recipient. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or otherwise and ensure that it is permanently deleted from your systems, and do not print, copy, distribute or read its contents. AVIS DE CONFIDENTIALIT? Le pr?sent courriel, y compris tous les documents qu'il contient ou qui y sont joints, renferme des renseignements exclusifs et confidentiels destin?s uniquement ? l'usage interne du destinataire pr?vu. Si vous avez re?u le pr?sent courriel par erreur, veuillez nous aviser imm?diatement, notamment par retour de courriel, et vous assurer qu'il est supprim? de fa?on permanente de vos syst?mes; veuillez ?galement vous abstenir d'imprimer, de copier, de distribuer ou de lire son contenu. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20121211/280f2866/attachment.html>
Frame 11 Stability - Upgrade or Downgrade the new copy to Frame 9? HELP
That would almost make it worth paying for FM11, except on principle I'm not going to pay to get back old features that were removed by "upgrades." On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Craig Ede wrote: > FM 11 fixed the focus problem with the Find/Change > dialog and returned the ability to call up various catalogs with hot keys, > both essential features of power users who were driven mad by their removal > in earlier versions.
Cross-reference to a previous file
Hello All FM11.0.1.382 on Windows Vista. I have a FM book that is divided into parts, with divider files that indicate where a part begins. After the divider file comes the first chapter in that part. I want to insert a running header/footer to catch the title from the divider file and put it in the following chapter files' headers. So for example: book part 1: Inventory chapter 1: Setting up inventory In the header for chapter 1 I want to pick up the word "Inventory" from my divider file. I understand that, using <$paratext[paratag]> in the running H/f I can define the paratag to use, and FrameMaker searches backwards until it comes across a matching paragraph. But does it search preceding files, or just the current file? (Because in my testing it only seems to find things in the current file.) Thanks. Roger Shuttleworth London, Canada
odd FM10 search bug?
I'm using FM10 Find with Document scope to search for a string that appears five times in the current document, the first three in running text, the last two in a table. Find seemed to come up with seven instances, which made me think there was a duplicate copy of the table. After a very confused few minutes I figured out that Find was actually looping back to search the table twice, so the seven hits are 1-2-3-4-5-4-5. Anybody else encountered this?
managing feedback on work in progress from multiple SMEs
I'm working in an agile shop where the developers are mostly on Linux or treating Macs as Linux boxes. Source is in FM10. It would be nice to be able to do the doc task for each user story when the developers finish with it, but I've had problems with people not getting their comments back to me quickly, and ending up with having to piece comments together from various drafts. In some cases I got conflicting comments on the same stuff. No big deal to sort out but a big waste of scarce time. Sending out PDFs of only the pages with changes a particular person made avoids most of those problems, but it's a lot of extra work. Acrobat shared review is problematic since I'm continuously updating the FrameMaker source, though at least there would be only one draft in circulation at any one time. I could wait until all of a sprint's updates for a particular document are done before sending it out for review, but that might lead to a serious crunch. Has anyone come up with better technique for managing this sort of workflow?
Cross-reference to a previous file
Current file only, unless that's changed with FM11 (and I doubt it). Where I work, we have a sort-of-similar issue, and we solved it by using cross-references. It means you'll have to remember to check that you're pointing to the right files if you add any new ones in, but it beats typing everything in (and you'd have to manually update that way, too). On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Roger Shuttleworth wrote: > Hello All > > FM11.0.1.382 on Windows Vista. > > I have a FM book that is divided into parts, with divider files that > indicate where a part begins. After the divider file comes the first chapter > in that part. I want to insert a running header/footer to catch the title > from the divider file and put it in the following chapter files' headers. So > for example: > book > part 1: Inventory > chapter 1: Setting up inventory > > In the header for chapter 1 I want to pick up the word "Inventory" from my > divider file. > > I understand that, using <$paratext[paratag]> in the running H/f I can > define the paratag to use, and FrameMaker searches backwards until it comes > across a matching paragraph. But does it search preceding files, or just the > current file? (Because in my testing it only seems to find things in the > current file.) > > Thanks. > > Roger Shuttleworth > London, Canada > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims.ML 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/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims
Cross-reference to a previous file
Another way to work around that is to consolidate everything into a single file. On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Lin Sims wrote: > Current file only, unless that's changed with FM11 (and I doubt it). > > Where I work, we have a sort-of-similar issue, and we solved it by > using cross-references. It means you'll have to remember to check that > you're pointing to the right files if you add any new ones in, but it > beats typing everything in (and you'd have to manually update that > way, too).
