RE: Generated list of variables

2013-04-25 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, itl offers some FrameScript scripts in the Extended Pack of their i-frame collection. One script creates a variable report: http://www.i-frame.itl.info/en/feature-description/i-frame-modules/extended-pack/report-variable-definitions.html itl also offers these scripts as indivdual scripts. Be

RE: jpg images

2013-04-25 Thread Helen Borrie
At 06:04 p.m. 26/04/2013, Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) wrote: >transparent backgrounds (which GIF does not support) FWIW, GIF does support transparent backgrounds. I prefer it over png for web-based, non-photo graphics. I prefer tiff for any ink/paper job. Helen _

RE: jpg images

2013-04-25 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Unfortunately, GIF only uses 256 colors in any given image (selected from a larger palette though). So, _not_ what I would use for high-quality photographs, but it _could_ be used for screen captures as long as there aren't too many colors in that screen. I have tested JPEG output for screen ca

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2013-04-25 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Unfortunately, GIF only uses 256 colors in any given image (selected from a larger palette though). So, _not_ what I would use for high-quality photographs, but it _could_ be used for screen captures as long as there aren't too many colors in that screen. I have tested JPEG output for screen ca

RE: Generated list of variables

2013-04-25 Thread Combs, Richard
> files, you could import the variables from each book file into a temporary Should have said: "from each file in the book" Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 -- rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-903-6372 --

Generated list of variables

2013-04-25 Thread Combs, Richard
> files, you could import the variables from each book file into a temporary Should have said: "from each file in the book" Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 -- rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-903-6372 --

RE: Generated list of variables

2013-04-25 Thread Combs, Richard
gr...@hedgewizard.net wrote: > Is there a way to generate a list of variables used in a book? > I don't see anything in the native functionality. It could be done with a script (FrameScript or ExtendScript). For a file, you could save it as MIF, open that in a text editor, and pull out the vari

Generated list of variables

2013-04-25 Thread Combs, Richard
grant at hedgewizard.net wrote: > Is there a way to generate a list of variables used in a book? > I don't see anything in the native functionality. It could be done with a script (FrameScript or ExtendScript). For a file, you could save it as MIF, open that in a text editor, and pull out the va

RE: jpg images

2013-04-25 Thread Combs, Richard
Robert Lauriston wrote: > JPEG with the highest quality setting is fine for most screen shots, > though I usually see smaller files from PNG or GIF. And a butter knife works fine as a screwdriver if the blade fits the slot well. But it's not what you should use if a screwdriver is available. :-

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2013-04-25 Thread Combs, Richard
Robert Lauriston wrote: > JPEG with the highest quality setting is fine for most screen shots, > though I usually see smaller files from PNG or GIF. And a butter knife works fine as a screwdriver if the blade fits the slot well. But it's not what you should use if a screwdriver is available. :-)

Skip to Next Table Command?

2013-04-25 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 25/04/2013 8:17 PM, grant at hedgewizard.net wrote: > Generate a list of tables with hyperlinks, and then use that to jump! > Bingo! Good one, Grant. s. -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Ltd. Toronto, ON Canada M1W 3K5 +1 416 491 7340 x 325

RE: Skip to Next Table Command?

2013-04-25 Thread gr...@hedgewizard.net
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Generated list of variables

2013-04-25 Thread gr...@hedgewizard.net
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Re: jpg images

2013-04-25 Thread Robert Lauriston
JPEG with the highest quality setting is fine for most screen shots, though I usually see smaller files from PNG or GIF. On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Matt Sullivan wrote: > > All versions of structured Frame support JPEG files. > > JPEG is a lossy bitmap format, so photos represent well, but

Re: FM 11/RH10 > Multiscreen HTML Output - making changes to the default Desktop output

2013-04-25 Thread Robert Lauriston
No, HTML 5 doesn't seem close to ready for prime time to me, at least if you have a lot of users on MSIE. Plus after evaluating RoboHelp 10 I decided to switch to WebWorks ePublisher. Though I'm not going to use its HTML5 output any time soon, either. On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Matt Sulliva

Skip to Next Table Command?

2013-04-25 Thread gr...@hedgewizard.net
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Skip to Next Table Command?

2013-04-25 Thread Stuart Rogers
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Skip to Next Table Command?

2013-04-25 Thread Stuart Rogers
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Re: Skip to Next Table Command?

2013-04-25 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 25/04/2013 8:17 PM, gr...@hedgewizard.net wrote: Generate a list of tables with hyperlinks, and then use that to jump! Bingo! Good one, Grant. s. -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Ltd. Toronto, ON Canada M1W 3K5 +1 416 491 7340 x 325 _

Multiscreen HTML Output - making changes to the default Desktop output

2013-04-25 Thread Carol J. Elkins
There are several problems with the HTML5 layouts supplied with RH10: ~They are not consistently formatted across mobile device layouts; a client wanting output for all mobile devices will have to put up with different color schemes, different "branding," etc. for each device he wants to output

Multiscreen HTML Output - making changes to the default Desktop output

2013-04-25 Thread Carol J. Elkins
There are several problems with the HTML5 layouts supplied with RH10: ~They are not consistently formatted across mobile device layouts; a client wanting output for all mobile devices will have to put up with different color schemes, different "branding," etc. for each device he wants to outpu

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2013-04-25 Thread Stuart Rogers
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RE: Skip to Next Table Command?

2013-04-25 Thread Alison Craig
I’ll take him up on that as soon as my new bosses devise a budget for such things (and I have high hopes they will, although it might take a few months before everything is sorted out). Alison From: Stuart Rogers [mailto:srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 3:07 PM To:

Re: Skip to Next Table Command?

2013-04-25 Thread Stuart Rogers
I'll bet Rick Quatro could knock off an Extendscript to do that in oh, about 14 seconds... sr On 2013-Apr-25 6:01 PM, Alison Craig wrote: I got that advice off-list – and it works, except there is the extra step of esc t m t to get to the beginning of the first cell. It would be nicer if

Skip to Next Table Command?

2013-04-25 Thread Alison Craig
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RE: Skip to Next Table Command?

2013-04-25 Thread Alison Craig
I got that advice off-list – and it works, except there is the extra step of esc t m t to get to the beginning of the first cell. It would be nicer if there was just a command to go to the beginning of the first cell of the next table. Thanks, Alison From: Stuart Rogers [mailto:srog...@phoenix

Skip to Next Table Command?

2013-04-25 Thread Alison Craig
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Re: Skip to Next Table Command?

2013-04-25 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 2013-Apr-25 4:34 PM, Alison Craig wrote: FM 9 Version: 9.0p255 Unstructured OS: Windows 7, 64 bit Is there a “skip to next table” command? I’m using Silicon Prairie tools to check everything in my books for overrides (tedious to say the least) and it would be so much simpler to check th

Modifying Image Paths

2013-04-25 Thread Judy Bragg
Well, that gives me a few options to choose from. Thanks so much for your help!! Judy Bragg Technical Writer HYPACK, Inc. 860-635-1500 On 4/25/2013 3:32 AM, Harro de Jong wrote: > Judy Bragg > > >> My company is soon to begin working with translation software. >> Until now, my images have been

OT: Book Suggestion - Fonts

2013-04-25 Thread Alison Craig
This is off topic, but I wanted to share a book I just read. As technical writers, many of you will be interested in fonts. Just my Type by Simon Garfield is informative, interesting and sometimes very funny. The hard cover version is about $20 dollars, but it's also available in paperback and

OT: Book Suggestion - Fonts

2013-04-25 Thread Alison Craig
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Skip to Next Table Command?

2013-04-25 Thread Alison Craig
FM 9 Version: 9.0p255 Unstructured OS: Windows 7, 64 bit Is there a "skip to next table" command? I'm using Silicon Prairie tools to check everything in my books for overrides (tedious to say the least) and it would be so much simpler to check the tables is there was a keyboard command to move

Skip to Next Table Command?

2013-04-25 Thread Alison Craig
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Re: jpg images

2013-04-25 Thread Stuart Rogers
Didn't actually mean it as a correction, more a wholehearted agreement with added emphasis. (LOTS of it ;-) We are def. on the same page. Stuart On 2013-Apr-25 2:57 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) wrote: Correction totally agreed with, of course!! :) Z *From:*framers-boun...

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2013-04-25 Thread Stuart Rogers
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Generated list of variables

2013-04-25 Thread gr...@hedgewizard.net
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RE: jpg images

2013-04-25 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Correction totally agreed with, of course!! :) Z From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Stuart Rogers Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 9:34 AM Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: jpg images On 2013-Apr-25 12:06 PM, Syed Zaee

Re: Modifying Image Paths

2013-04-25 Thread Judy Bragg
Well, that gives me a few options to choose from. Thanks so much for your help!! Judy Bragg Technical Writer HYPACK, Inc. 860-635-1500 On 4/25/2013 3:32 AM, Harro de Jong wrote: Judy Bragg My company is soon to begin working with translation software. Until now, my images have been filed i

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2013-04-25 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
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2013-04-25 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Dick, Any "modern" version of FrameMaker should support jpegs; at least 7.2 and higher. jpegs are suitable for printing photographs but are less than ideal for line art, text, etc. Also, the jpeg format supports compression, so your quality may depend on any compression settings that may have b

Re: jpg images

2013-04-25 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 2013-Apr-25 12:06 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) wrote: Bottom line: JPEG's are fine for pictures... To be more explicit, "JPEG's are fine for PHOTOGRAPHS." To provide a helpful mnemonic, the "JPEG" file format (abbreviated to "JPG" in earlier Microsoft OS) was developed

Re: jpg images

2013-04-25 Thread Matt Sullivan
And there you have it…all the reasons I hosted jpegisbad.com for a few years as a joke! -MattMatt R. Sullivan co-author Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 11 P: 714.798.7596 | C: 714.585.2335 | m...@mattrsullivan.com @mattrsullivan LinkedIn facebook mattrsullivan.com  On Apr 25, 2013

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2013-04-25 Thread Matt Sullivan
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RE: jpg images

2013-04-25 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
As you have already seen the other messages, this is just an endorsement to *avoid* JPEG for anything that contain pixels that are next to each other and have sharp color transitions ... as happens with lines and drawings and text, etc. No matter what "quality" you save the JPG with such conten

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2013-04-25 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
As you have already seen the other messages, this is just an endorsement to *avoid* JPEG for anything that contain pixels that are next to each other and have sharp color transitions ... as happens with lines and drawings and text, etc. No matter what "quality" you save the JPG with such conten

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2013-04-25 Thread Richard Doll
all, ?what version(s) of Framemaker (structured) supports and processes jpeg format images? and ?what is the impact of their use in ink-on-paper (high quality 300dpi) printing? best to all, dick doll 317.539.4857 sgmlindy at tds.net

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2013-04-25 Thread Robert Lauriston
JPEG with the highest quality setting is fine for most screen shots, though I usually see smaller files from PNG or GIF. On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Matt Sullivan wrote: > > All versions of structured Frame support JPEG files. > > JPEG is a lossy bitmap format, so photos represent well, but

FM 11/RH10 > Multiscreen HTML Output - making changes to the default Desktop output

2013-04-25 Thread Robert Lauriston
No, HTML 5 doesn't seem close to ready for prime time to me, at least if you have a lot of users on MSIE. Plus after evaluating RoboHelp 10 I decided to switch to WebWorks ePublisher. Though I'm not going to use its HTML5 output any time soon, either. On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Matt Sulliva

Re: FM 11/RH10 > Multiscreen HTML Output - making changes to the default Desktop output

2013-04-25 Thread Matt Sullivan
Robert, have you used the HTML5 layouts and found them less than satisfying? -MattMatt R. Sullivan co-author Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 11 P: 714.798.7596 | C: 714.585.2335 | m...@mattrsullivan.com @mattrsullivan LinkedIn facebook mattrsullivan.com  On Apr 24, 2013, at 10:40

RE: jpg images

2013-04-25 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Dick, Any "modern" version of FrameMaker should support jpegs; at least 7.2 and higher. jpegs are suitable for printing photographs but are less than ideal for line art, text, etc. Also, the jpeg format supports compression, so your quality may depend on any compression settings that may have b

FM 11/RH10 > Multiscreen HTML Output - making changes to the default Desktop output

2013-04-25 Thread Matt Sullivan
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Re: jpg images

2013-04-25 Thread Matt Sullivan
All versions of structured Frame support JPEG files.JPEG is a lossy bitmap format, so photos represent well, but diagrams and screen shots will likely disappoint you. -MattMatt R. Sullivan co-author Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 11 P: 714.798.7596 | C: 714.585.2335 | m...@mattrsu

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2013-04-25 Thread Matt Sullivan
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2013-04-25 Thread Richard Doll
all, ¿what version(s) of Framemaker (structured) supports and processes jpeg format images? and ¿what is the impact of their use in ink-on-paper (high quality 300dpi) printing? best to all, dick doll 317.539.4857 sgmli...@tds.net ___ You ar

Modifying Image Paths

2013-04-25 Thread Harro de Jong
Judy Bragg > My company is soon to begin working with translation software. > Until now, my images have been filed in a chapter subfolder. Since our images > will > not be localized, I'm moving the images to a location where they can be > accessed > by each language by the same path. That way,

RE: Modifying Image Paths

2013-04-25 Thread Harro de Jong
Judy Bragg > My company is soon to begin working with translation software. > Until now, my images have been filed in a chapter subfolder. Since our images > will > not be localized, I'm moving the images to a location where they can be > accessed > by each language by the same path. That way,

Re: FM 11/RH10 > Multiscreen HTML Output - making changes to the default Desktop output

2013-04-25 Thread Robert Lauriston
Sounds like the HTML 5 layout is not compatible with WebHelp skins: "A screen layout has two key components, a set of screen layout pages and a CSS. The screen layout pages define the content and the structure. The CSS defines the layout and the skin." http://help.adobe.com/en_US/robohelp/robohtm

Re: TOC of document names in a book

2013-04-25 Thread Robert Lauriston
Put the document name in a paragraph at the beginning of the document and format it with the highest-level paragraph tag included in the TOC. On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:24 PM, Rod Fee wrote: > Hi team, > > So I have a whole lot of documents in one book. > > I want to insert a table of contents (A

RE: Convert A3 to A4 format

2013-04-25 Thread Heidi Bailey
Hi Rod, I frequently have to change page size, as the project managers discuss options for brochures, quick starts... If you don't want to develop a different template, you could give the following a bash (as suggested to me by my excellent partner): 1. Calculate the size of the text frames (i

Convert A3 to A4 format

2013-04-25 Thread Heidi Bailey
Hi Rod, I frequently have to change page size, as the project managers discuss options for brochures, quick starts... If you don't want to develop a different template, you could give the following a bash (as suggested to me by my excellent partner): 1. Calculate the size of the text frames (i