Re: FM-MIF conversion (Was: RE: framers Digest, Vol 64, Issue 24)

2011-03-01 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
e away one copy for every two or three we sold. Last few years, it's ten free for every one sold. Lots of pain out there these days, and that's where we choose to put our support. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ __

Re: So how many of us are stuck with Frame 7.2?

2011-03-01 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
tsourcing "development" to India. I'm just sad that the product I've appreciated, supported, and recommended since version 3.0 has come to this... -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ Y

Re: FM-MIF conversion (Was: RE: framers Digest, Vol 64, Issue 24)

2011-03-01 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
, from the book, to get the version of the File menu that acts on all files in the book. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list

Re: Key Repeat rate?

2011-05-02 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
is oXygen, at: http://oxygenxml.com not free, but a lot less than Frame. For outputs to HTML, Word, and Help systems, it integrates nicely with our DITA2Go, which *is* free: http://dita2go.com HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith DITA2Go site: http://www.dita2go.com/ ___

Re: FM 10 and Win 7 -- any "gotchas"/problems?

2011-05-11 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
There is no problem at all with Win 7, except that you need to install the files that used to go into \windows\system32 to \windows\syswow64 instead for the 64-bit version. That info is on the Web site right under the download links. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omn

Re: Change declaration when converting FM with MIF2GO

2011-05-11 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ot;conhead", you'd use: conhead=xmlns:xsa3="http://dita.oasis-open.org/architecture/2005/"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../catalog/concept.xsd" except you'd have to hav

Re: FM8 crashing like it's Word

2011-05-15 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
e demo version of Mif2Go. It adds "Wash via MIF" to the File menu; use Shift-File to wash the whole book in one shot. No charge. http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm#Mif2Go_Downloads -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ _

Re: Chinese translation has garbage for index entries (also Mif2Go issue)

2011-05-17 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
index entry, in FM 7 MIF, we can look at the encoding more closely. It's easy to spot the double-encoding when you know exactly what you are looking for. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You a

Re: Custom Table Footnote options

2011-07-03 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
r the chars: \x2663 \x2666 \x2665 \x2660 for the solid symbols, \x2667 \x2662 \x2661 \x2664 for the hollow ones. >I'm currently using FM8 from TCS1 on WinXP SP2 For FM8 and above, Unicode code points should work. Haven't tested this specific usage, though. ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at

Re: Frame -- Mif2Go -- HTML Help Workshop Problem

2011-07-05 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
t Full; see User's Guide par. 8.8.1, "Choosing how to generate HTML Help contents and index". Missetting that would make a .hhc that has only the contents of the last file run. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Re: Anyone else looking at Frame >> WordPress (as a CMS)

2011-07-14 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
d value (CSV) file. >4. Import the CSV into WordPress, assigning tags, categories, post >types and other bits and pieces on import. WordPress doesn't import HTML? CSV is a very old and limited format... Does WordPress use it internally, or does it use its own XML format, as I'd e

Re: Anyone else looking at Frame >> WordPress (as a CMS)

2011-07-14 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
DITA2Go does the same fast, thorough job that Mif2Go does... and it is free, available at: http://dita2go.com which is itself a Drupal site. ;-) Enjoy! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscr

Re: Anyone else looking at Frame >> WordPress (as a CMS)

2011-07-14 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:13:36 -0500, "Jeremy H. Griffith" wrote: >In fact, if you go to drupal.org and search for >"import HTML files", you get 279986 hits. The >module above is just the first one. If you set >the filter to "Modules", you have only 258

Re: Anyone else looking at Frame >> WordPress (as a CMS)

2011-07-14 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
tp://www.alfresco.com/products/networks/community/ Free for non-commercial use only. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to f

Re: How to enter Unicode Character in FrameMaker 10?

2011-08-24 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ck the Advanced view box, select Unicode as the char set, after it type 2192 in the box, click Select, click Copy, then in Frame Paste Special as Unicode. No keyboard method I know of. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.oms

Re: How to enter Unicode Character in FrameMaker 10?

2011-08-26 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
; Hex Input... or Alt + f u >i. Interesting, thanks! It seems to have been added in FM9; it's not present in Frame 8. And if you are wondering how to make the Character Palette go away, since it has no close box or button, just hit Esc. ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni

Re: How to enter Unicode Character in FrameMaker 10?

2011-08-26 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
o Arial Unicode MS, which does have that glyph, and see if the symbol appears then. (You could change the font just for the one char, with a Character Format.) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are curre

Re: Japanese sort order in indexes

2011-10-17 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
u have all the kanji, and have the Japanese version of the SortOrderIX entry on the index reference page, you should be good to go. If you can't find the kanji sort order, let me know and I'll dig through archives here for one we used while testing. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at

Re: Japanese sort order in indexes

2011-10-19 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:34:55 +0900, Makoto Nagasawa wrote: >Hello Celine, > >On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: >> >> The problem with Japanese is that it is not sorted >> by the Unicode character order of the displayed >> glyphs (whic

Re: FM 8 to ePub?

2011-11-06 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
e documents to ePub? Again, I'd have a look at what's available from Calibre: http://calibre-ebook.com/ All the best to you! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ar

Re: Applying Paragraph Tags with F9 Not Working in Frame 10

2011-11-16 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:40:08 -0600, Linda Pelton wrote: >Is there a workaround of some sort to get these >function keys to reliably work? Yes. Upgrade from Frame 10 to Frame 8. ;-) Seriously, many many people have... -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.oms

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

2011-12-06 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
F than Frame's native output, which is almost worthless for docs with figs and tables, IMHO. About half our customers get it for Word docs alone... -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed

Re: How to use some characters of 'symbola'

2012-01-08 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
they will be hard to work with. I'd suggest a character-sized image instead, in an in-line anchored frame. Maybe someday Frame will *really* support the full Unicode Standard, but I am not optimistic about that. I brought it up in the last two betas I was in, and the only response was I wa

Re: HTML Generation and Alinks

2012-01-27 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
.1.1, "Using markers for CSH destinations". The Mif2Go User's Guide can be accessed on line at: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/ohusergd/ Or can be downloaded from: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm#Mif2Go_UG HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ __

Re: Getting graphics out of a file

2012-02-20 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
whatever they were. Note that you do not need to purchase Mif2Go to do this; the Demo version will do the job nicely. You can do a whole book in one operation. http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ __

Re: Framemaker 8 hangs

2012-02-21 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
l (in order) whatever patches you are missing from Adobe's site. No need to use compatibility settings for Frame 8! HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@ma

Re: FM --> MIF2Go --> Kindle?

2012-02-21 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
hours for the first 200-page book, and an hour for the second one. Note: Most of that time was spent tweaking CSS. The different e-readers are totally inconsistent in their support, even of the simplest things like left-margin. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.

Re: single-sourcing PDF and "text with layout"?

2012-03-12 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
l ask about alternative Text with Layout converters on a >Word-geek forum. The Mif2Go User's Guide might be easier... ;-) >In the meantime, any other suggestions on getting >"text with layout" out of FrameMaker? -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. htt

Cross References in Text Insets

2012-04-12 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
intain pretty fast, but it is possible. For detailed step-by-step instructions, see par. 2.5.4, "Setting up cross references to and from text insets", in the Mif2Go User's Guide, which contains lots of helpful info even if you are not using Mif2Go: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/ohuser

Re: Text insets

2012-04-14 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
that could be done by a very simple plugin, or maybe just a FrameScript or ExtendScript. I'd write it myself as a freebie if I had time. Any other FDK folks out there who want to? -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Re: Mif2Go XHTML output question

2012-04-18 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
e same ChapNum and SectNum, so every chapter is Chapter 1. But if those details don't matter, go for it. ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-a

Re: Mif2Go XHTML output question

2012-04-19 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ounds like a better answer than our current one, and we'd be happy to recommend it in the Mif2Go docs. What is its name? -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail

Re: Save FrameMaker 10 files to be read in Word

2012-04-19 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
like it, a single-seat license is only $295. Mif2Go is also free for the unemployed, underemployed consultants, academics, most nonprofits, and FOSS developers and documenters: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/offer.htm HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni System

Re: Save as HTML causes unstructured FM10 to hang

2012-04-20 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
r maybe a plugin, to make a single Frame file from your book. Then convert that one file with Mif2Go, which has no problem with files thousands of pages long, and you can give MindTouch what they want. I think that is your most cost-effective solution if the CHM doesn't work for them. --

Re: Save as HTML causes unstructured FM10 to hang

2012-04-20 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
putting the chapters into a new file as insets. A plugin or script is really the only way to do it that can preserve links, and that's not a trivial task since the same link IDs can occur in multiple files. Calling Rick... ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http

ANN: Mif2Go Version 4, Update 54, released

2012-05-02 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ere. We'll then set your account status so you can download the new Mif2Go demo version. (We've already notified our current customers.) All the best! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___ You are currently s

Re: Resources to help a newbie create DITA documents in FrameMaker 10

2012-05-18 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ditamaps and bookmaps, and supports almost all DITA 1.2 features including keyrefs. To get it, sign up on: http://dita2go.com If "free" isn't important, WebWorks lets you include DITA, Frame, and Word sources in the very same project, the only tool I know of that does t

Re: Would like to get comments from people about my flow changes (Was RE: Resources to help a newbie create DITA documents in FrameMaker 10)

2012-05-18 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
etty quickly. When Robert is done, we'll probably bundle all his required settings into one, Confluence=Yes. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@ma

Re: FM 8 on Win 7 x64 - Installation error - flash.ocx not part of Windows 7

2012-06-12 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
have FM8 installed on Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit, and did not see any such problem. It works fine; in fact, it's the version I use routinely rather than suffer through FM9, which I also have on the same machine... Is your FM8 fully patched, to 8.0p277? If not, I'd do that first... -- Jer

Re: problem with PDF batch processing (cudspan batch + watched folder)

2006-05-17 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
uy Mif2Go to do it. You do need to download and install our demo version (at least the plugin parts): http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm Full instructions on using runfm (a command-line app, so you can include it in .bat files) are in the User's Guide (WinHelp version in the demo, other v

Re: Find not finding

2006-05-19 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
uot;. You don't need to buy Mif2Go to use it; just download the demo and install the plugin: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm It works on entire books as well as single files, way faster than you can do it by hand. Enjoy! -- Jeremy H.

Re: OT: autonumbering in Word

2006-05-19 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
e have several customers who do exactly that. It's even possible to do it in what used to be an all-Word shop. After all, if they get working Word files, why do they care *how* they were created? >Unfortunately, since bullets use the same mechanism in Word, you >still have to live

Re: Applying a character format to page number in index

2006-06-01 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ks are to the left of the page >numbers, so the page numbers themselves are not active links. The >appearance of the file is fine. Right. The hypertext marker comes at the start of the para, before the tab. If you apply the format normally, then the marker is included in the formatted area. We

Re: Identifying the type of imported by copy files

2006-06-06 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
hics... but WMFs are not viewable on the Mac. The next best choice would be to have Mif2Go use Frame's graphics export filters, in Windows, to produce bitmaps that *are* usable on Mac, like JPEGs. That would not require that you have the original application that was used to create the graph

Re: mif2go

2006-06-12 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
es much difference. As you know, such settings are remembered in the .ini file, and nowhere else. Rebooting without determining just what you have mis-set is not going to be helpful. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ _

Re: table sort order

2006-06-22 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
the text, but the fixed spaces work. I did test this, and it worked in FM 7.1b023. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Se

Re: Mif2Go HTML setting

2006-06-29 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
x27;t permit them. With our .bat, the IT folks can see exactly what will happen, and adjust the instructions as needed to comply with their policies. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ __

Re: OT: Syntax for if/then statement

2006-06-29 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
kes. You don't have to look for specific refs for geekspeak, this is just plain bad grammar. Look at a grammar reference. You don't use "and" to separate a conditional clause from the rest of its sentence! I'd seriously wonder if this person were qualified to edit *anything*. ;

Re: referenced graphics

2006-06-29 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
will be unable to embed, and you will get a reference instead. This is *not* recommended, but it does work. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as

Re: Print book - separate print jobs

2006-06-30 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ith any names you please. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank

Re: Structured FrameMaker and MS Word XML Import

2006-08-03 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ker doc without any authorial review, now do you? HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PR

Re: FW: FrameMaker mit Online-Hilfe in Hebräi sch/Arabisch

2006-08-17 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ndle Hebrew or Arabic? > >What do you do when you have to translate into >Hebrew or Arabic and convert into an online help? I'm not sure, but I'll bet our Mif2Go trainer/reseller in Israel knows: Steve Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HTH! -- Jeremy H.

Re: Mif2Go Help

2006-09-03 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
the line breaks, please send us a one-page test case, as described in Appendix D of the User's Guide, and we'll look into the problem promptly. >Any help would be greatly appreciated. We're always glad to help. ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL P

Re: Adobe Release: DITA and S1000D **Direct Link**

2006-09-08 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
?e=labs%5Fframemaker%5Fap leads to a page that asks for Project Lightroom info. And when you try to make selections, they don't take. Attempts to continue send you back to "correct" your response. You can't download anything. Is this typical of the QA of the Application Pack? Gah!

Re: Software Need - Advice and Recommendations Requested

2006-09-18 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
vel. However, if this >functionality is not found within a piece of software, we would still >consider its use. As in importing a Frame template with the right vars? We can add that too. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ ___

Re: "MIF"ed Newbie

2006-10-05 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ties in the Frame files. That works fine in the free demo version too. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list mess

Re: Generierte Verzeichnisse bei Suche ignorieren

2006-10-20 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
rt: Stellen Sie ein zweites Buch ohne die erzeugten Akten in ihm, her und suchen Sie in diesem Buch. Mit freundlichen Grüßen -- Jeremy H. Griffith, Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed

Re: Fw: third party vendors

2006-11-22 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
"Michael Zaichenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:35:56 +0100 HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PRO

Re: Copy into document graphics vs. Import by Reference

2006-12-09 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
or demerits, IMHO. To me, the sudden appearance of grey boxes where images used to be, which can be fixed only by re-importing those images (if you are fortunate enough to remember where they are and what they are named), is much worse. And that can happen at any time. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at

Re: External xrefs from FM to... CHM or HTML

2006-12-12 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ormat (which can be all "as is") to the hotspot text; the marker must also be within the span of the char format. See the Frame docs for more on the many kinds of hypertext markers available. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems

Re: External xrefs from FM to... CHM or HTML

2006-12-12 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ative) path to it that will be valid on all users' machines. Registering the .chm doesn't help. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers a

Re: [Techshoret] MIf2Go question

2006-12-25 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
fecting the original Frame files. This is all explained in the User's Guide, par. 2.3, "Importing formats from a conversion template". HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ __

Re: Translators and Word vs FM

2007-01-05 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
liminates the problem, as credit-card companies automatically handle the exchange at market rates. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PR

Re: Looking for an editable output from Frame 7.2

2007-01-11 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
or if you want to support multiple Word versions conveniently. >There are other limitations I don't recall offhand. But if you just want >a Frame format mirrored in Word, for temporary use, Mif2Go does well. >Definitely try it first to see if it will work for you and yours. Than

Re: How long to learn FrameScript?

2007-01-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
g the WinAPI and ODBC, for example. The FDK is a more advanced tool, but it's best used by an *experienced* C/C++ programmer who already has a suitable IDE on hand: VS4 or later for Windows, CodeWarrior 6 for Mac Classic (FDK 7.0 is the last Mac version), or native cc for Unix. HTH! -- J

Re: Weird Frame to PDF problem

2007-01-26 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
hosing me up. Frame has *never* worked properly with network drives. Sad, considering it was born on UNIX, but true. Work on a local drive, then copy the end result to the network. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ __

Re: Weird Frame to PDF problem

2007-01-26 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
locally. If the problem goes away, she can continue with her project. If it doesn't, she needs to continue troubleshooting. It's a quick and easy test to make. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ __

Re: Expanding text in Framemaker

2007-02-08 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
you could include that in the macro too, and just have the text for the expanded part in Frame. Or use a button. This is why we don't provide a "canned" method (and why Microsoft doesn't either); this is best designed to fit your specific needs. HTH!

Re: Reasons to Structure

2007-02-13 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
specially for lone writers, the setup costs (time and consultants) are likely to exceed the benefits, much like a CMS (Content Management System) can. There are excellent consultants around, many on this list, for whom it is a breeze. If you decide to go this way, hire one. It will prevent much anguish and h

Re: Reasons to Structure

2007-02-14 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
rote the first screen-oriented editor for CP/M (and the first Z-80 symbolic debugger), wrote software for the first "affordable" ($9,995) dedicated word processor, and did typesetting on an XDS-940 mainframe driving a Mergenthaler V-I-P photocomposer. I&#

Re: rant moan fm to word rant moan

2007-02-19 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
rint RTF". >So, I guess I'm asking for any suggestions or tips in improving the Mif2Go >output. I'm trawling through their help file at the moment but, as ever, I'm >sure someone out there has some top tips? All this is explai

Re: Cross Refs, Structured FM, and WWP

2007-02-28 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
nces to >work. Structured xrefs are different from unstructured ones internally. I'm rather surprised that WWP doesn't support them, but if that is the case, you may want to know that Mif2Go always has... no added work required, it's automatic. -- Jeremy H. Griff

Re: Cross Refs, Structured FM, and WWP

2007-03-01 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ally change workflow. There's some initial setup, but thereafter it's essentially the same. And Mif2Go's included automation tool, runfm, can simplify it further; the corresponding WWP tool, AutoMap, costs $20K, IIRC... ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL

Re: Frame Improvements

2007-03-08 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
totally agree. In fact, I think there's a much better chance that Rick's plugin will fix the OP's problem than that Wash Via MIF will... -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ _

Re: Framescript capabalities

2007-03-22 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
handy way to do this is... with Word.Once you're sure you have the right one for the anchored frame before you, select the image (not the frame!) in Frame, and use File | Import to replace it. That way you don't have to resize, and any Frame additions (li

Re: Left-brain/right-brain: FrameMaker and XHTML

2007-03-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
x27;t imagine what benefit structure would bring to something as free-form as a Web site... ;-) HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMA

Re: Table anchors and extra spaces in sideheads ...

2007-03-30 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
he next para's space above negative too, the same as the space below the upper para, to get the overlap. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as

Re: Mif2Go question

2007-04-24 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
isted in the User's Guide, Appendix D, and send it to the address given there (*not* the one in this post) inside a single .zip file. Then we'll identify and fix the problem promptly. Thanks! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com

Re: ANN: Mif2Go supports DITA from UNstructured FrameMaker

2007-05-02 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
XML as you like it. No other workflow gives you so much, so easily, at such a low cost in both time and money. Try it yourself; the free unlimited demo is at: <http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm>. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[

What next for Mif2Go?

2007-05-06 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ring conversion. We have lots more, but what really counts is what *you* want. Please do tell us! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROT

Re: FrameMaker.next

2007-05-17 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
it's *more* than 16. ;-) >How in heck to you keep track of 80 tags, Carla? That's the problem, all right. Managing it all. I've been sorely tempted to write a free plugin to do that, where you could have boolean logic that included more than "OR". Perhaps thi

Re: Confused about hexadecimal codes

2007-05-19 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
nt from the standard ANSI set. We use mapping tables in Mif2Go. Note that for "dingbats" fonts, the mapping is *different* from that for "normal" fonts. ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ _

Re: PDF Content reuse with Frame + DITA?

2007-05-20 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
licate markers with different text, >and conditionalize each marker accordingly. However this >is difficult to maintain ... -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subs

Re: Cross-reference break after sorting Table - Frame 7.2

2007-06-04 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
at the docs for it (and for the rest of cud's tools there) are in CudSpanDocs.pdf there. And Leximation has MarkerTool: http://www.leximation.com/tools/info/markertools.php HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ _

Re: Link on Index References in PDF

2007-06-29 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
own systems. The one time we asked for help with a problem, we got an instant fix of the plugin a day later. Highly recommended. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscrib

Re: Paragraph numbering issue

2007-07-09 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
x27;t tested it, but that sounds right. >Nonetheless, the R: series doggedly resets at the chapter breaks. *Where* did you set the numbering properties? The settings made from the book file override those made from the chapter file. Sounds like the book could be resetting the paragraph

Re: Save book as postcript

2007-07-20 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ts (including PDF), at: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm You do need to install it; runfm uses the plugin to run the projects. See Chapter 32, "Converting via runfm", for the details. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ _

Report FrameMaker 9 plugin compatibilities here

2009-01-24 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
no problems. The MIF it produces is almost identical to that for FM8. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

FM8 Updates (was: Re: difficulties using italics for index entries in FM 8.0)

2009-01-26 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
"improvement" is in FM9, but thankfully 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/

Looking for software to convert Framemaker 7 sources to clean HTML (for HTML Help) supporting multiple languages

2009-01-28 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
Frame 8 anyway, 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/

Mif2Go: adding watermark to CHM

2009-07-06 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
27;t parse the CSS to 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/

Frame crashes when importing large XML file

2009-07-06 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
rom which Frame 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/

Frame crashes when importing large XML file

2009-07-06 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
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 differe

Creating a Topic ID in FrameMaker for generating HTML help using Mif2Go

2009-07-07 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
"HelpTopic"). 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/

Importing HTML files into FrameMaker 8.p257 or thereabouts: some questions

2009-07-09 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
about their tech support, which you surely will need on a project of this sort... HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Importing a Word Doc into Frame v9.0

2009-07-13 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
sults. +1!!! 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/

Importing a Word Doc into Frame v9.0

2009-07-14 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
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

What is the optimum way to generate PDF?

2009-07-15 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
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

opening program files from an html file

2009-07-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ny 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/

Mif2Go SmartSplit function

2009-07-29 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
s at the start, but you 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,

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