"Publishing Fundamentals:
Unstructured FrameMaker 8", ISBN 9780970473349, at:
http://www.scriptorium.com/books/fm8/unstrfm8.html
In addition, they offer their workbooks for free on a wiki:
http://wiki.scriptorium.com/tiki-index.php
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
ourself if it will work for you.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
o version of Mif2Go is available at:
http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm
You might want to wait until tomorrow; we're putting
a new upgrade (53) on the site later tonight. ;-)
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
uot;insert hypertext", but wwhere do I go fromn there?
You want a hypertext marker with:
message URL mailto:name at company.com
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
find Unicode
equivalents, which *all* browsers should support.
HTH!
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
ision) and went to storing the binaries in CVS
instead.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
mat, losslessly. You do not have to
buy Mif2Go to do this, just install the demo:
http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm
The User's Guide has detailed instructions in par. 2.5.2,
"Replacing embedded graphics with referenced graphics".
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
tipleOLE=Yes
and we'll output *all* of them. This is in the User's Guide
par. 29.2.3.7, "Setting export options for OLE objects".
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
sed...
Sure, that's what you'll get by default. But try to talk the fo//person
out of it; at least, make clear that your ongoing repair time will be
billed at full rate, not provided as a free "bug fix". ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
it instead
of above it. Then you can further tweak the frame's vertical
position with "Distance above baseline", which can be negative.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
MIF it produces is almost identical to that for FM8.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
ly there is a maker.ini
setting to make it work the old (correct) way. With 277,
you're stuck with it; you can't undo the patch unless you
uninstall and reinstall from the original media. Be warned.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
way, since it allows *much* better use
of multiple languages in one document, and supports pretty
much *all* Unicode characters in the BMP (assuming you have
Unicode fonts that contain them).
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
o find it.) But when you do mention it,
that overrides the CSS for that file.
So *don't* mention it in any topic, but *do* include it by name
in the [Files] section of the .hhp. Easy one. ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
can't recover?
I do suspect you're pushing some internal limit here.
The 250 is suspiciously close to 255... the max value
of a byte, a limit a careless programmer could have
imposed unknowingly, possibly in EDD processing.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
ignore
>the message and click OK to continue processing. The Save Book dialog box
>appears.
Then I'd say you've isolated it to a validation error
introduced by the custom XSL. To check that, try using
the DocBook EDD that comes out of the box with Frame,
with no XSL. Any difference?
-- J
"). And that Mif2Go would use that marker to create a topic
>ID.
>
>Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Yes. ;-) It's fully explained in par. 8.11, "Setting up CSH for
HTML Help". CSH means "context-sensitive help", and that's what
you are talking about here.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
rt, which you
surely will need on a project of this sort...
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
!!!
Alison is absolutely right. I couldn't say it better. Don't even
consider using Frame's Word or RTF import. Bring in the content as
plain text by Copy in Word and Paste Special>Text in Frame. You
will be very glad you did.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:03:13 +0100, Steve Rickaby
wrote:
>At 15:00 -0700 13/7/09, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote:
>
>>Alison is absolutely right. I couldn't say it better. Don't even
>>consider using Frame's Word or RTF import. Bring in the content as
>>plain text by Copy i
e product build pickup directory ...
That will work, but you can also have runfm just create the PDFs
directly (using the Adobe PDF printer; it does *not* use Save As!),
and put it in your product build pickup directory. No need to
run two more bats to do that. ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni
d any other link in Frame, with a hypertext marker that
starts with "message URL". Mif2Go passed those through unaltered.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
have StartingSplit=No, so it won't split there. The
thing is, if it doesn't have Split set, SmartSplit pays no
attention to it, sees just one Split for Title, and uses it.
Another reason this can happen is if there is another para in
between, maybe an empty one, or one used to anchor a graphic
you are
ectory, see if you can
SaveAs MIF to the same directory. Sounds like a permission
problem.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
though. FM8 had the same ability, but had a problem with number
formats where the bullet char was still in Unicode, which won't work
in 7. I don't know if that was fixed in 9. Caveat emptor!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
mos/macroman.html
and also in the Frmae documentation at:
/yourframedir/OnlineManuals/Character_Sets.pdf
The code points used in Unicode are the same as
the 1252 encoding (except for U+0080-U+009F);
When you use a Cyrillic font (code page 1251),
the same relationships exist.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griff
ing from the user, since the user is usually not
there...
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
ns.
Why do we still support the FileName markers? Well,
for a while, we didn't. We removed the feature. But
there is one case where it really is needed, when an
external system requires a specific filename. So we
put the FileName markers back... with warnings. ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, a
; it
just isn't possible to remember all the ones you have used
already without any errors. It takes a computer to do that. ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
ference is small; try it
both ways, and see what you prefer.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
n *be* a workaround.
You can do all the setup with Mif2Go, even the demo version.
The .ini files you produce will work fine in the registered
version, which is identical to the demo except for the text
changes. That is really the best path to take.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Sy
ble to
locate the original.
Another possibility is to show all Word field codes,
and see if any INCLUDEGRAPHIC fields show up by the
images.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
) The
free unlimited demo is at:
http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
Converting
via runfm". The HTML Help version of the User's Guide is
included in the main download. About a dozen other versions,
including PDF and OmniHelp, are available farther down on
the same page.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
.
And you can still use Mif2Go to make on-line HTML help;
it's much faster and easier than the DITA-OT for that.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
etical,
rather than sequential, make an Index of References instead.
>Thanks for any help!
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
http://www.omsys.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/list/framers
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
to replace the embedded
image with the corresponding graphics file,
imported by reference.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
gt; References, if you prefer them alphabetical), and
select Imported Graphics as what to include.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
the affected content elsewhere in
the manual.
The User's Guide is free, available in a dozen formats
(including Frame 7) at:
http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm#Mif2Go_UG
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
insertion Point."
Yes, that's by design; it's meant for equations.
You need the free "ShrinkWrapAsIs" plugin:
http://martinek.us/shrinkwrap.html
(Thanks, Carla!)
It works in 6.0, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, and 8.
Maybe in 9 too, haven't tried it there.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
after for Little.
The Unicode BOM may also be used as an encoding
signature, but I digress... ;-) Good thing
it's Friday, eh?
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
is referencing a color that's not defined.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
time it takes to learn
how to use them. ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
large
book. And you do *not* need to purchase Mif2Go, use the
demo version:
http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
u really want to find all embedded
graphics; some may not show on the body pages. And of course
it can take a while to page through a large book... and my eyes,
at least, have been known to miss things right in front of them.
Mif2Go's export code doesn't. ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at O
//www.nitropdf.com/index.asp
Not free, the Pro version is $99. Also look at Tracker:
http://www.docu-track.com/downloads/
We use their free viewer in preference to Adobe's. Not as much
of a memory hog.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
tors, I don't want to give *both* of them to
Frame. I have a few other apps I need quick access to, like email
and Web and development IDEs. So if I wnated to use FM9 in that
environment, I would need *three* monitors. And a wider desk. Not
a possibility, so I use FM7.1 (for legacy docs) and FM8
dobe.com/community/robohelp/robohelp_html
>
>
>
>Peter Grainge
>www.grainge.org
Since you are using Frame 7.2, not Frame 9, it does not seem likely.
But still, the coincidence is interesting. Perhaps a Windows problem
to which both are v
s the same job as Automap, when used to make
PDFs from Frame 9. It worked manually, but not from
the command-line utility. This works fine on Frame 8
and earlier; no such reports for those versions, and
just the one Frame 9 failure report ... so far.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
, and we'll send a password and download
instructions for the full registered version. No proof is
needed; we use the Honor System here.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
GREP
Find/Changes, making it easier for us to apply
character styles to text pattern strings such as
?all text? between parentheses. InDesign CS4
introduces the ability to lock this pattern based
application of character styles into your Paragraph
Styles.
-- Jeremy H. G
vert to whatever the wrapper chapter is set up for.
So every chapter may be numbered "1"...
A Framescript to do the basic combining would be simple.
It's the cleanup that can't really be automated. ;-)
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
[FDK].
>Thank you very much for your support,
Quite welcome!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
quot; but element is an "li").
There are fixes for any problem, but first you need to
identify the exact problem. ;-)
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
cs in
the same dir as the HTML, you definitely want StripGraphPath=Yes.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
ause "+" has a meaning to the
copy command, and will make the whole line mean something else.
That is why you should NEVER, NEVER, NEVER use any characters
in a file or path name other than letters and digits...
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
tation\trunk\MEMS+OmniHelp\MEMSplus
That is what we run, I'll bet that it does *not* copy the files.
If you really remove the plus from the directory name, it will.
In the copy command, "+" means to concatenate the file before
the plus with the file after the plus.
-- Jere
s that in Windows.
>Quotes and apostrophes are a disaster IMO as well.
Yes, and commas, and much more. Which is why I say, "Avoid them all!"
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
could set
[BookFileCommands]
BookCommandWindow=Keep
so you could see any error messages you get from Windows,
which you can't with the Automation command.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
Floating.
Sounds like ShrinkWrapAsIs.dll. It's available (free)
from Carla Martinek's site at:
http://martinek.us/shrinkwrap.html
Put it in frame\fminit\plugins, delete .cache there
(if any), restart Frame, and enjoy. Then Esc m p
will leave your existing anchor settings unchanged.
-- Jerem
ey can
just get one or two licenses and downgrade to match
the rest of their installed base.
Definitely one of Adobe's better moves. ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
ist software, without losing the real member too.
Just hit Delete...
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
d make no
difference at all.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
ould be wrong?
Yes. On the first page of your chapters, the chapter title is
in a text frame that is not connected to the body text frame on
its page. So the body text, containing the subhead, is processed
before the title. The solution is to connect the text frame with
the title to the body tex
ook and feel
>using paragraph and character styles.
Yes, IMHO that would be better practice. About the only
case where you can't do that is if you have to rotate
the text, like poor Tori had to do, which is kind of awful
anyway in itself.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
ot;
>
>Has anyone else experienced this? Fixed it? How?
Not that we know of; nobody has ever reported it.
We can't reproduce it here; in the current Firefox,
3.6.3, Enter does the same as Find. Same thing in
Internet Explorer. What browser are you using?
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
to the changing industry.
I'm not Adobe-bashing here. But if they don't wake up
to the consequences of their current policies real soon,
the downward slide may be irreversible.
Paging Doctor Warnock...
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
http://www.leximation.com/dita-fmx/
So a good way to start is by creating some new doc
content in DITA-FMx, to get into the DITA worldview.
There's a free demo version.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith
DITA2Go site: http://www.dita2go.com/
to the author, Joseph Lorenzini, who was the person
I thought I was responding to.
I didn't even notice your comments below his sig;
I thought *that* was the earlier quote, like it
said it was.
My apologies for not reading carefully enough.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
om/group/dita-users/
Or at least read through the archives. It's informative.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith
DITA2Go site: http://www.dita2go.com/
e, it is
a *Frame* bug, not a Mif2Go bug, and indicates further breakage
in the FDK control over the UI.
I'm as frustrated as the others who have posted here recently
about the severe damage to FDK functionality introduced in 9.
We can only hope that FM 10, whenever it comes out, fixes some
of these new Fr
date.
Then close them after updating. If they are all open, you
avoid any issues Frame may have with opening them automatically.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
phics, select "Write for anchored
frames". Note that this is *not* the best-quality method,
merely the simplest. Please read User's Guide par. 3.7.4,
"Figuring out graphics export options", which explains this
in detail.
>Other info: XP, Word 2003
>
>Thank you for your help,
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
hts, and much more. The results were "good enough"
for use as WinHelp illustrations, but would not win prizes.
>So, yes, it is possible with some limitations.
Some pretty severe ones, IMHO... which is another reason
we haven't rushed to do it.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
e better quality than the
native Frame WMF used for the HTML/XML exports.
We plan to write our own SVGs at some point too,
but so far demand has not justified the substantial
programming effort required.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
ou keep the scaling
and position of the image as it was, while removing
the embedded graphic. It's quick and simple.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
n thing our customers use the RTF output for.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:02:19 -0800, Alison Craig
wrote:
>Version: FM9 (9.0p237)
>OS: XP Pro with SP3
>
>This will either be simple or impossible to fix, but
>either way, I'm stumped.
>
>I've created a cross reference that allows me to refer
>to a specific step within a list of instructions,
page x of y and so forth).
Only until the pagination changes. ;-)
>I know there are other PDF converters out there, maybe that's the route I
>should pursue.
Possibly. Or just do the whole job in Frame and forget Word. ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
r download any of a dozen versions of it, including
PDF and Frame itself, from:
http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm#Mif2Go_UG
>Thanks in advance; feel free to email me directly
>if it's too much clutter for the list.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
st be unique; it's OK for IDs in different
files to be the same.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
;, sounds kinda high. ;-) Most are free.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
these days) or else switch to
Word. ;-) They can just get one or two licenses and
downgrade to match the rest of their installed base.
Note that you *cannot* downgrade if you purchase the
copy of Frame any other way (like retail). You must
use the TLP.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
a .FM
>file or must I start from scratch and re-create it?
You can toggle read-only mode on or off with:
Esc F l k
That's Escape, Shift-F, lower-case L, lower-case K.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
will do that automatically whenever you use one.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:21:37 -0700, Alison Craig
wrote:
>FM 9 Version: 9.0p250
>Unstructured
>OS: XP Pro with SP3
>FM Experience: 12 months
>Translation/Localization Management Experience: 11 years
>Writing Team: 1 (me)
>
>I have just received my Russian User Manual translation back from
>the
o use it, just install the demo:
http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
ther EPS, or a PNG using a color map (rather than
24-bit color). You could make it go away by replacing the
EPS with a PDF, or changing the PNG to use 24-bit colors.
>shouldn't I be able to
>keep different color definitions for different templates?
I don't think so, not in the same book.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
. When one slips through, bad
things appear in the forums. They now use real
humans, not robots, to get in, so we ask for a
short statement about why you are interested;
so far, that has sorted them out nicely. ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
s (usually paragraphs whose formats designate split
>points), or paragraphs in a special format dedicated to this
>purpose.
Perhaps Rick's process avoids this, by rigorously checking
for duplicates. In that case, it's a very good answer to
the problem that some users have with non-meaningful (but
e it? The DITA user base is expanding fast,
and it can really use good toolmakers like you! ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
similar
to those they already produce for Frame in the wider
DITA community. You know who you are. ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
eplace. Or you could do it with a binary editor.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
itely easier to
maintain correctly, without winding up with missing or
extra spaces between sentences, for example. Go for it! ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
uld be in your situation to have "invisible" files open.
HTH...
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
to Greek, Czech, and Asian languages.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
s\SysWOW64
instead. We mention this on the download page, but recheck.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
t change the xref format, and that works fine. I
suspect this issue is because you're changing the numbering
properties too.
>By the way, I'm on digest, so please cc me in any response.
HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
be), your update would
get the old values. Perhaps importing the template to
the book forced a cache flush. But this is speculation;
the bottom line is, now you have a way to proceed that
works.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/
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