RE: Compatibility of old(ish) Software with Windows 7

2014-02-22 Thread Harding, Dan
I think buying more than 4GB of RAM would be a waste of money for most tech writers. I disagree 100%. It's not just the specific application(s) you run, but also how you work, that determines how much RAM is useful. If you only ever run a single word-processing application, then yes, more

RE: Working on a joint FM doc

2014-02-22 Thread Craig Ede
Inserting a cross reference only affects the target file if there is no cross reference marker at the target location. If one already exists there, the process of cross referencing will use the one that already exists rather than creating a new one. This means you can use an unlocked (i.e. dummy)

Round-trip revisions via MS Word. Alternate methods?

2014-02-22 Thread Harding, Dan
Good morning, We have used the same authoring process for eons: Authors/editors work in MS Word, as well as preliminary indexing work. I then take the MS Word file, import into FM (unstructured) and do the final print-ready formatting, making things adhere to our publishing standards and

RE: Round-trip revisions via MS Word. Alternate methods?

2014-02-22 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Dan, Mif2Go by Omsys is a much better way to get good Word output from FrameMaker. They will tell you that there is no good tool for round-tripping between Word and FrameMaker, but if you are doing it anyway, you might as well make the Frame to Word side as good as possible. I highly recommend

RE: Round-trip revisions via MS Word. Alternate methods?

2014-02-22 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 09:40 -0500 22/2/14, Rick Quatro wrote: Mif2Go by Omsys is a much better way to get good Word output from FrameMaker. They will tell you that there is no good tool for round-tripping between Word and FrameMaker, but if you are doing it anyway, you might as well make the Frame to Word side as