RE: Training material for FrameMaker 10?

2011-11-18 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
If you are already familiar with FM, then there's no reference book that I know of for FM10; however, a good guide to FM (based on the FM8 interface) is the Scriptorium.com reference work (very cheap as a PDF download). The screens (UI) have changed in FM9+, but the functionality remains the

RE: FM 10 books

2011-12-01 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
I always recommend Scriptorium.com's FM8 Reference work - its functionality is the same as FM10 (just the screens are outdated) -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Corinne Kenney Sent: Thursday,

RE: documentation best practices

2011-12-05 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
It's called marketing ;) From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of hessiansx4 Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 5:56 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: documentation best practices I could use

RE: Is it possible to export a FM file without including all of the conditional text?

2011-12-06 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
What about printing a PDF with the conditions you want shown; then use Acrobat Pro X to turn the PDF into a Word doc? From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Laura Larson Sent: Monday, December 05,

RE: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

2011-12-06 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
As far as I know, you could do the FM to RH as an import without getting the suite (the suite gives you the power to link), but the pricing's probably better if you do the suite than just standalones. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

RE: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

2011-12-06 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Nope - linking is a TCS feature; importing can be done with or without TCS -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Scott Prentice Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 2:46 PM To: rebecca officer Cc:

RE: How to make it possible to fix copy paste from Word into FrameMaker 9 ?

2012-01-13 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Find the line ClipboardFormatsPriorities= in the [Preferences] section and change it to: ClipboardFormatsPriorities=TEXT, FILE, MIFW, MIF, RTF, OLE 2, META, EMF, DIB, BMP, UNICODE TEXT From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

RE: Utilities for format management within FrameMaker

2012-01-19 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
google framemaker plugins - whole bunch of makers listed From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Andy Smith (WFL) Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 10:07 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject:

RE: Frame 9 crashes and can't open any Frame files

2012-01-26 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Is when FM starts up or only on opening a particular doc? If on starting up, try renaming the Linguistics folder; if 1 file, try using the heroic open From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Brian

RE: FM + CMS + SMEs w/o $$$?

2012-01-26 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
IMHO FM's got an awful steep learning curve for just word processing - I'd be inclined to just keep them on Word and have them submit docs to you. Or go to something wiki-like ( cheap) like Confluence. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

RE: FrameMake 9 unresponsive

2012-02-01 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
The fact that IE appears to stop/start indicates that something is going on in the background - try using your system monitoring tools to see what processes are running when things start to act weird. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

RE: snapshot of table in FM for use as image in EPUB ebooks

2012-02-02 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
what about just doing a screen capture? From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of ray.ll...@agfa.com Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 7:37 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: snapshot of table

RE: FM 10 help hosed

2012-02-22 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Run the application from C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Help\ and go back into the Preferences page and select Community Help again. Next time Help starts up within FM, it will open using the AIR Help app. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

RE: Book window displays file path

2012-02-23 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
I thought I remembered seeing some option like that too, but I can't find where it gets toggled on/off. The icon that the help is talking about is in the book's toolbar - it just toggles the names of the files that make up the book between their file name and header text - it has no effect on

RE: Section Number Grayed Out in Book

2012-02-29 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Make sure you go to https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform and log it - Adobe's not monitoring this list for official suggestions/complaints. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On

RE: Upgrading from 9 to 10

2012-03-22 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Found them - they're hiding in the hidden Application Data folder - on my XP machine it's in C:\Documents and Settings\user_name\Application Data\Adobe\FrameMaker\9\WorkSpaces\UnStructured\ (or Structured as the case may be). Look for the .cfws and .fws files (not sure what the diff is between

RE: Automatic ligatures

2012-03-26 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
FYI - FM 10 works fine on WinXP SP3 From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Fred Ridder Sent: March-24-12 12:04 PM To: m.op...@orphee.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Automatic ligatures You wrote: I am not exactly a

RE: Automatic ligatures

2012-03-28 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Ophee Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 1:05 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Automatic ligatures On 26/03/2012 10:04 PM, Jeff Coatsworth wrote: FYI - FM 10 works fine on WinXP SP3 That's already encouraging. The reason I upgraded from FM7 to FM8 was the new provision for language

RE: FM window minimizing unexpectedly

2012-03-28 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Running 2 monitors? Hitting some key combo that shrinks the windows? Alt-Tabbing between apps? Just tossing stuff out there... From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Everette, Dimi Sent: Wednesday,

RE: FM 10 - crashes and PDF bookmark settings

2012-04-03 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
I've never played with it, but I thought I read that the PDF joboptions are attached to the first document in a book. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of LGLists Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 6:37

RE: Numbering problems in a book

2012-04-05 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
The warning is just pointing out that there's a difference between the book settings the document - it can be ignored. If you set numbering by the book, update it save the book, it should be sticking. If it's not, then there's something else going on. From:

RE: Frame 10 Installation Question

2012-04-10 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
If you've already got the full version of Acrobat Distiller, then you shouldn't install the headless version that ships with standalone copies of FM. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of

RE: Text Insets with Frame10

2012-04-12 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Text insets are used when you've got the same chunk of content that gets used over over again in variety of places - the usefulness is that if something changes to the standard text, you just change the inset once let it propagate through to all the places where it's used - no editing of each

RE: Demo version of FM10

2012-04-13 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
You can't re-run the trial version again once it's been installed on a machine. You would have to use a fresh machine. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Stephen O'Brien Sent: Friday, April 13,

RE: Save as HTML causes unstructured FM10 to hang

2012-04-20 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Not using MIF2Go to produce good HTML out of FM? From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of John Sgammato Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 2:25 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Save as HTML causes

RE: Save as HTML causes unstructured FM10 to hang

2012-04-20 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
I thought someone had recommended using a FM plug in that stuck all parts of a book into 1 huge .fm file; which you could then send to HTML via MIF2Go? From: John Sgammato [mailto:jsgamm...@imprivata.com] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 2:46 PM To: Jeff Coatsworth

RE: Installing trail vesion of Framemaker 10

2012-04-23 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
What browser did she use to download the installer? Adobe recommends Firefox due to the size involved. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of White, Scott Sent: April-23-12 4:20 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject:

RE: Activating and Deactivating FM 10 License

2012-04-30 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
No, you get 2 installs activations now for FM (one for work one for home? whatever). To move a license around, just make sure that you're internet connected, deactivate, uninstall, reinstall reactivate. If you move a license around a lot of times, you may hit a limit be forced to talk to

RE: FrameMaker Feature Requests

2012-05-03 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Check out Error7103's handling of variables on the Adobe forum - he's got it down to a science. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of meg miranda Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 1:33 PM To:

RE: Updating FM10

2012-05-07 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
How did you update? Via Help Updates or the Adobe Downloads website? From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Ragnar Hanås Sent: May-06-12 9:02 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Updating FM10 Hello, I am trying to apply

RE: FrameMaker Feature Requests

2012-05-07 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Some people are looking for a RH to FM workflow (which doesn't exist - it's strictly FM to RH now) -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston Sent: May-07-12 12:22 PM To:

RE: Updating FM10

2012-05-07 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
What happens if you run it from the Help Updates menu? Does it think it's already in place? BTW - I assume you've got full admin rights to your machine, right? From: Ragnar Hanås [mailto:ragnar.ha...@betamed.se] Sent: May-07-12 4:40 PM To: Jeff Coatsworth; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject

RE: Some suggestions for improvement of FrameMaker

2012-05-08 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Yes, thanks the amazing (free) SetPrint plugin, you never have to worry about messing that up again. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Fred Ridder Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 9:01 AM To:

RE: Running page header/footer spacin question

2012-05-09 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
@Kenneth - I think Ken's talking about doing all this in FM, not RH. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Kenneth C. Benson Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 7:00 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com

RE: Running page header/footer spacin question

2012-05-09 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Sorry, my mistake - I see RH all the time think RoboHelp automatically ;) From: Fred Ridder [mailto:docu...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 9:03 AM To: Jeff Coatsworth Subject: RE: Running page header/footer spacin question I think you

RE: Archive all imported files

2012-05-17 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Bruce died last year - that's why you don't see it around anymore. There's an archive script built in FM 10, but I don't know of anything off the top of my head that works in FM 8. Google the frameusers.com site to see discussions about the Archive tool's fate.

RE: Frame RoboHelp Web app

2012-06-08 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Output formats - WebHelp, browser-based AIR Help Resources on CSH - see Peter Grainge's site www.grainge.orghttp://www.grainge.org for a wealth of RH info the Adobe Forums too. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

RE: color display, help needed

2012-06-22 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
You should also update – FM 9 is p255 From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Susan Anderson Sent: June-21-12 3:50 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: color display, help needed I use unstructured Frame, version 9 (9.0p230),

RE: Variables pod problems

2012-07-09 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
My understanding is that FM9 had some issues dealing with Win7. Upgrading is the solution, but in the meantime, you could try turning off the aero interface and see if that improves your FM issue. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On

RE: Import PDF Comments

2012-07-09 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Lots of discussion of this on the forums - the key thing is that you have to make sure that you don't modify the FM doc after creating the review PDF, otherwise you can't import their comments back into FM. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

RE: Advanced FrameMaker online Training

2012-07-12 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
I think FrontRunner Training does online stuff too - www.front-runner.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Techyy Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 7:07 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject:

RE: Minor typos and the QA guy/scrummaster

2012-07-18 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
You don't mention what format your help docs are produced in, but the implication is that it's PDF - I'd be inclined to encourage the typo-finder to copy paste the offending section into an e-mail fire it off to you for it to be fixed; that sounds like the quickest way. The other alternative

RE: FM10 to HTML

2012-07-19 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
From what I've read, FM's native export to HTML is fairly weak - most people seem to invest in MIF2GO to take their FM content and finely control the resulting HTML. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On

RE: Single sourcing in the new TCS3

2012-07-24 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
2. Many people switched from TCS 2 to 3 or 3.5 because of increased stability with the linking process and better handling of FM to RH items. With TCS4 being announced today, it will be interesting to see the upgrade percentage - I expect it will be fairly high due to the new features in RH

RE: Upgrade to TCS 4 for subscription holders

2012-07-30 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
I ended up having a live chat with them - it sounds like they're rolling out the upgrade coupons in the next 10 days. I was told to watch out for an e-mail in my LWS account. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of LGLists Sent:

RE: frame fails to start

2012-09-20 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
You may have a corrupted linguistics folder - try renaming it and start FM again -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Fred Wersan Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 8:47 AM To:

RE: FrameMaker 11 cannot print a .ps file: others on Adobe forums agree

2012-09-20 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
I'm getting the same issue too with a fresh download of TCS4 last week - FM 11.0.0.380. I created a couple of dummy files based on the Harvard outline factory template, then created a new book to include the test files. Saved everything, reopened the book and tried to print the book - crashed

RE: Getting started with Context-Sensitive Help

2012-09-21 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
You can use a marker for CSH in your FM docs and the marker text becomes your MapID in RH. There's a bunch of ways to invoke WebHelp - see Peter Grainge's site (grainge.org) and Willam van Weldon (wvanweelden.eu) on calling help. From:

RE: More bad news on TCS4: no longer includes Photoshop

2012-09-26 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
I'd have to agree with Dieter on this one Rob - a number of us beta testers of TCS made the comment about what, no PS? in TCS4, but the more I think about it as a TCS3 user, the more it makes sense - I hardly ever used PS in my workflows. I did confirm that upgrading to TCS4 does preserve your

RE: More bad news on TCS4: no longer includes Photoshop

2012-09-26 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
They're working on it - I just got an e-mail from my contact at Adobe and they've recreated the issue with a sample book I gave them. There is a workaround - flip to Structured FM and you don't get the error. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

RE: More bad news on TCS4: no longer includes Photoshop

2012-09-26 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
No, in Unstructured mode, the Print Book command crashes FM. The workaround for now is to switch to Structured FM mode to print the book. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Karen Robbins Sent:

RE: More bad news on TCS4: no longer includes Photoshop

2012-09-27 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Subject: RE: More bad news on TCS4: no longer includes Photoshop At 12:00 PM -0500 9/27/12, Jeff Coatsworth jeff.coatswo...@jonassoftware.com wrote (about the printing problem): They're working on it - I just got an e-mail from my contact at Adobe and they've recreated the issue with a sample

RE: Response from Adobe - Print to .PS issue - Cause and solution

2012-09-27 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Yes it affects that command too; but you can still print individual files and Save as PDF on the book. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Carol J. Elkins Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 3:05 PM To:

RE: Response from Adobe - Print to .PS issue - Cause and solution

2012-09-28 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Here - http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1073069 -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Karen Robbins Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 2:04 PM To: Kapil Verma; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re:

RE: FrameMaker 11 update 11.0.1

2012-10-09 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Use this link - http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5506 to grab the zip file directly -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Gay Alson Sent: October-09-12 7:39 AM To:

RE: (RESOLVED) RE: FrameMaker 11 update 11.0.1

2012-10-10 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
With zips - always unpack, then run ;) -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Gay Alson Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 2:21 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: (RESOLVED) RE: FrameMaker 11

RE: FrameMaker 11.1 Update: some notes

2012-10-11 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
FYI - If you're not running RH's source control, you can uninstall/remove those 2 services; I found in the past that if you're not using source control, they can really destabilize your RH install. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

RE: Collaborate with PDF-based roundtrip reviews?

2012-10-17 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
The one proviso is that the originating FM doc can't change in any way after the review PDF is created if you hope to merge comments back into it later. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Matt

RE: Collaborate with PDF-based roundtrip reviews?

2012-10-17 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
...@lists.frameusers.commailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.commailto:boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Coatsworth Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 2:12 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.commailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE

RE: Frame crashes when use Accept All changes

2012-10-18 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Could be a memory issue - does she get a hard error message from FM or just from Windows? Is she also using conditional text? That's had issues with tracking turned on as well. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

RE: FM openObjectId markers RoboHelp

2012-10-19 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
It does, but I think it's more like a bookmark or cross-ref than a hyperlink scenario. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Writer Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 12:21 PM To: m...@mattrsullivan.com;

RE: OWL Interface Resources

2012-10-29 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
I thought Klaus Daube had done some work on that during the beta phase. Might want to try him? -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Rick Quatro Sent: October-29-12 3:51 PM To:

RE: Frame 11 Stability - Upgrade or Downgrade the new copy to Frame 9? HELP

2012-12-07 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
I'd say go for it - FM11 seems to have solved a number of issues I was having with TCS integration. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Alison Craig Sent: December-07-12 2:47 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Frame 11

RE: Frame 11 Stability - Upgrade or Downgrade the new copy to Frame 9? HELP

2012-12-10 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
No, FM10 was much better than FM9 -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Rickaby Sent: December-09-12 7:55 AM To: Rick Quatro; 'Alison Craig'; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Frame 11

RE: Frame 11 Stability - Upgrade or Downgrade the new copy to Frame 9? HELP

2012-12-10 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Nope, they get upgraded when opened in FM11; still have to do a save as to exchange them From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Peter Hirons Sent: December-10-12 11:00 AM To: 'Art Campbell'; 'Alison Craig'; 'FrameUsers List'

RE: Book is not self-consistent

2012-12-12 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
I'd be checking if it was the ToC or the IX that was causing it to choke first. Then I would create a dummy book and gradually add file by file (generating the offending type each time) until I found the culprit .fm file. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

RE: FrameMaker 11 - Stability / Crashing on Save.. Help

2012-12-13 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
I'd be tempted to copy those FM9 Master Pages into some other location, upgrade them to FM11 and resave them. Then start a new project based on them and gradually add files, saving as you go. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

RE: 8.0.1 patch availability?

2013-01-03 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Did you first try updating through Help Updates? -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Jay Maechtlen Sent: January-03-13 12:47 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: 8.0.1 patch availability? I

RE: Make files open in correct version

2013-01-10 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
If you don't want to do it within FM, then you need to fix your file associations in Windows to launch FM 11 when double-clicking on them. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Karen Robbins Sent:

RE: dual monitor serup ? - Frame-10

2013-01-11 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Drag stuff into the position you want on both screens then save the workspace/environment - give it your own custom name -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Richard Doll Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013

RE: Beginning ExtendScript for FrameMaker 10 and 11

2013-01-11 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Are you recording it for those who can't make it out that day? -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Rick Quatro Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 10:25 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE:

RE: Frame to Robo Cross Refs: Conversion Unpredictable

2013-01-16 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Two avenues of attack for this - one is to examine the places it worked where it didn't in both the resulting RH topic source FM file - are some xrefs by paragraph and others by marker tag? Conditional text at play here? There has to be something going on in or around the xref to make it

RE: Word count at the .book level? (FM11)

2013-01-17 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Now that you're on FM11, you have ExtendScript built in for free, you know ;) Check out Rick Quattro's webinar on ExtendScript that he gave this week. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Mary

RE: Pagination FM 11

2013-02-01 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
It's called SetPrint - free indispensible to FM's. If you've still got it with FM10, just copy the bits of it into FM 11 it will work there too. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Judy Bragg

RE: Framemaker 11 crashes constantly when I generate a RH project

2013-02-05 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Your copy of FM should just be sitting there at the Splash screen when doing the linking to a RH project. I've never had any Not Responding messages happening when dealing with TCS4 on my Win7 64-bit machine or an XP SP3 machine either. Can you give us more details about your O/S and hardware?

FW: Framemaker 11 crashes constantly when I generate a RH project

2013-02-05 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
From: Craig Ede [mailto:craig...@hotmail.com] Sent: February-05-13 10:37 AM To: Jeff Coatsworth Subject: RE: Framemaker 11 crashes constantly when I generate a RH project Just to add a frame of reference, I quite often get Not responding states with FM 11 on a 64 bit Win7 machine (8 GB mem

RE: cannot generate PDF

2013-02-13 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Are you printing to the Adobe PDF printer instance or using Save As PDF? Is it working for any other docs or are they all busted? Do you have the full Acrobat version or just the headless one that ships with FM? From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

FW: cannot generate PDF

2013-02-13 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
from the hundreds of other images. I think I am using the Adobe that comes with FM. Bill From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Coatsworth Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 6:49 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE

RE: FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
I'm getting that one right after this one occurs - 11014, 7732533, 7724103, 5985284 I've figured out that it's something to do with WinXP because working on another terminal running Win7, doing exactly the same things with the same files doesn't get the error at all. I seem to run into it when

RE: FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit Really?!

2013-02-19 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
When creating a PDF, I’d be looking to eliminate the network part of things by generating to a local location (leaving all the source files/resources where they are on the network). I seem to remember reading some “best practice” that recommended generating PDFs to a local location first, then

RE: Frame 11 Appearance

2013-02-20 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
You can play around a bit with shading in the FM prefs, but it's pretty limited. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Joel Sent: February-20-13 8:50 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Frame 11 Appearance I am on Windows

RE: Frame 11 Appearance

2013-02-20 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Consistent look feel across all Adobe products = equally bad UI for all ;) -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Carol J. Elkins Sent: February-20-13 1:55 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re:

RE: Expand all elements in the Document view

2013-02-20 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Not going to do you that much good here – this list is an “under the radar” channel that Adobe dips into occasionally – I’d throw it their way via the https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform page ;) From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

RE: Zoom Level Settings in FM 11

2013-02-21 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
He **is** writing the book on all this ;) From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Matt Sullivan Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 4:06 PM To: craig...@hotmail.com Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com;

RE: Copy/paste of in-book xrefs

2013-02-28 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
I think I'd add doing an update of all xrefs into that workflow before saving closing the book. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Rickaby Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 8:07 AM To:

RE: RE: Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
What I would do is build a new .book file with all the required bits you want to see over in RH then bring that in. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013

RE: Copy of FM 9 for coworker

2013-03-13 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
If you registered your copy, you might be able to buy another license and download the software from the Adobe Licensing site - contact them. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Harvey, Peggy Sent: March-12-13 1:35 PM To:

RE: RoboHelp 10: Single Sourcing: Single Folder?

2013-03-13 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Nope, not that I've ever heard of. But what difference does it make? Those folders don't really do anything pro or con to your generated help. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Keith Hansen Sent: March-12-13 4:58 PM To:

RE: RoboHelp 10: Single Sourcing: Single Folder?

2013-03-13 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Sounds like they should use the Map ID method of CSH instead of the URL call - that would make their life oh so much better ;) From: Keith Hansen [mailto:keith.han...@opensolutions.com] Sent: March-13-13 9:56 AM To: Jeff Coatsworth; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: RoboHelp 10: Single

RE: Framemaker training

2013-03-14 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Get the guy that wrote the book! Matt Sullivan - paging Matt Sullivan! From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Yvonne Kucher Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 6:32 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com

RE: Formatting - setting font size to a percentage rather than a point size

2013-03-28 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Wouldn't that be managed all over in RH, not FM? BTW - I think you'll need TCS4 to create HTML5 multi-screen help that acts responsively. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Whalley Sent:

RE: More Font Warnings

2013-04-12 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Remember - fonts can lurk in graphics too - check the FM console for the font name that's coming up missing and then save the file as MIF and check it over to find the offending font name. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

RE: Tooltip text for hotspot doesn't show in PDF (FM 11, Windows 7)

2013-04-12 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Doesn't Shlomo's Timesavers plugin/program help in this situation? From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Rick Quatro Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 9:40 AM To: dave.st...@gdc4s.com;

RE: Frame 11 and Documentum

2013-04-18 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Sounds suspiciously like an issue in Documentum, not FM, IMHO. Have you checked out the Adobe FM CMS forum (http://forums.adobe.com/community/framemaker/cms)? Maybe someone currently using it with FM11 can offer suggestions. From:

RE: Backwards compatibity of FM 11

2013-04-23 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
You've got MIF compatibility for older versions - you would just lose any FM11 features; also watch out for the Unicode division starting in FM8; any FM prior to that doesn't support Unicode fonts From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

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

2013-04-24 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Have you been looking in the HTML5 Multiscreen forum? Another resource you might want to check out is Willam van Weelden's site (www.wvanweelden.eu) From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Martinek, Carla Sent: April-24-13 12:58 PM

RE: SOLVED: Cannot create FrameMaker structured book

2013-04-26 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
If you indicate which page in the help system (http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/index.html) should be updated, you can either make your change yourself or have one of us copy paste your text. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

RE: SOLVED: Cannot create FrameMaker structured book

2013-04-26 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
: Friday, April 26, 2013 2:08 PM To: Jeff Coatsworth Subject: RE: SOLVED: Cannot create FrameMaker structured book How does a customer/user go about making changes on an Adobe website? And if this is not possible for an arbitrary individual to do, who is the us you refer to who have

RE: SOLVED: Cannot create FrameMaker structured book

2013-04-26 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Can you give me the heading of the section? - mine says XML with FrameMaker and Create, open, and save XML files -Original Message- From: dave.st...@gdc4s.com [mailto:dave.st...@gdc4s.com] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 2:21 PM To: Jeff Coatsworth; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE

RE: SOLVED: Cannot create FrameMaker structured book

2013-04-26 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Done -Original Message- From: dave.st...@gdc4s.com [mailto:dave.st...@gdc4s.com] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 2:36 PM To: Jeff Coatsworth Subject: RE: SOLVED: Cannot create FrameMaker structured book 2013-04-26-05T18:35Z Jeff - Yep: I put my Sticky Note into the left margin aligned

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