Moving from Frame 7.1 and Webworks to Adobe Technical Communication Suite

2008-04-02 Thread Jim Owens
Hello, I'm new to this list. A colleague forwarded kimwrites' question about migrating from FM 7.1 / WWP to ACTS. We're contemplating exactly the same migration, for the same reasons, and I've been evaluating ATCS with RH 7.0.1 for the past week. Our aim is to produce a merged

Re: Upgrade to Frame 8

2008-04-02 Thread Jim Owens
I just tried this with my trial FM 8.0p273, and it is exactly as you describe. Jeff Schweiner wrote: I've also experienced this feature and have come across a repeatable pattern of failure. Can others try this and report back whether it fails for them also? I'm experiencing problems with

Re: extract changed texts

2008-04-02 Thread Jim Owens
Hello, Gunnar. We have a REXX script that processes MIF files to extract only the changebar text. We use it to get a rough word counts for translation. You're welcome to it if you don't find anything else. To run the script you'd need to install a free REXX interpreter (I use Regina). Shmuel

Re: Moving from Frame 7.1 and Webworks to Adobe Technical Communication Suite

2008-04-03 Thread Jim Owens
into whether WWP-style end-to-end browsing can be duplicated. Jim Owens wrote: - Browse sequences: RH is supposed to be able to generate them automaticaly from the TOC, but so far it hasn't worked for me. (I have an open thread about this at the Adobe forum for FrameMaker Integration, http

Re: Moving from Frame 7.1 and Webworks to Adobe Technical Communication Suite

2008-04-03 Thread Jim Owens
TOC behaviour for context sensitive help has also been resolved. Parts of my project had been created in an earler RH version. For a project built competely in RH 7.0.1, the TOC selection is updated to match the invoked topic. Jim Owens wrote: - Context-sensitivity: In the RH output

Re: Closing big book files

2008-04-10 Thread Jim Owens
If you're using a version of Frame with an Undo feature, and you're seeing an OK to clear history? dialog for every file you save, try clearing this check box: File Preferences General Show warnings while clearing history Harold Winberg wrote: Hello Framers I am working in a Book

Re: finding Mif2Go macros to replace WWP functionality

2008-04-12 Thread JIm Owens
- Original Message - From: Jeremy H. Griffith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jim Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:02 PM Subject: Re: finding Mif2Go macros to replace WWP functionality On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:40:44 -0400, Jim Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're

Re: finding Mif2Go macros to replace WWP functionality

2008-04-14 Thread JIm Owens
- Original Message - From: Jeremy H. Griffith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Cc: Jim Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:02 PM Subject: Re: finding Mif2Go macros to replace WWP functionality We want to make the most of our existing Frame markup

ALink and KLink Related Topics in FM?

2008-04-15 Thread Jim Owens
Does anyone here have experience using FM to set up Related Topics lists based on ALinks and KLinks? I'm wondering how difficult it is to manage the subject set, and whether a KLink-based approach produces satisfactory lists. How do these methods compare to creating Related Topics lists using

Re: Stuck on Figure Autonumbering in a Multi-Document Chapter

2008-04-18 Thread Jim Owens
Your Figure number contains a second counter which you aren't incrementing or displaying ( ). It's a shot in the dark, but what happens if you remove the second counter? Pinkham, Jim wrote: Hi, Art -- Thanks for all of these ideas -- all well worth checking. Here are the early results:

Re: Stuck on Figure Autonumbering in a Multi-Document Chapter

2008-04-18 Thread Jim Owens
the issue. Appreciate the idea, Jim -Original Message- From: Jim Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 12:14 PM To: Pinkham, Jim Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Stuck on Figure Autonumbering in a Multi-Document Chapter Your Figure number

Re: Stuck on Figure Autonumbering in a Multi-Document Chapter

2008-04-18 Thread Jim Owens
incremented from one frame to the next unless you manually link the frames into a flow. Pinkham, Jim wrote: This, too, was worth a shot, but did not resolve the issue. Appreciate the idea, Jim -Original Message- From: Jim Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 18

Re: Fine tuning pagination

2008-04-22 Thread Jim Owens
You've already received many excellent suggestions for copy fitting, most of them pertaining to text. If you have exhibits such as illustrations and tables, you can also adjust the spacing above and below the frames that hold them, and around the objects in them.

Re: Fine tuning pagination

2008-04-22 Thread Jim Owens
Linda G. Gallagher wrote: Steve, Micro-control of text, for example adding small amounts of negative tracking to pull a hyphenated word back from a page foot Negative tracking? Thanks! I can field this one, with some extra suggestions. In the Paragraph and Character Designers, you

Re: roundtrip documentation and help (Framemaker/Robohelp - chicken or egg?

2008-05-21 Thread Jim Owens
Based on a recent evaluation of TCS, my understanding is that the HTML cannot be round-tripped. What's more, certain things you might want in your HTML cannot be marked up in Frame. For example, if you want to use drop-down hotspots, there's no way to mark them up in FrameMaker; you have to

Re: roundtrip documentation and help (Framemaker/Robohelp - chickenoregg?

2008-05-21 Thread Jim Owens
That sounds about right to me. In the DITA world, round-tripping might mean that you could write your document in Frame, export it to XML, edit the XML in some other editor, then bring it back into Frame with the edits intact. Single-sourcing, on the other hand, is a one-way operation where

Re: Converting to Word

2008-05-22 Thread Jim Owens
If you can't buy Mif2Go (which does a very good job of converting to RTF, as I just discovered), you could try saving as HTML and then importing the HTML to Word. Dodd, Frank J wrote: I have a small set of documents that I wish to convert to Microsoft Word format. They are work instructions

Re: Of Templates and Legacy Docs

2008-05-23 Thread Jim Owens
If you're just changing the names of the tags, or consistently reassigning some tags as other tags, consider saving the files as MIF and doing a search-and-replace on the tag names. Is this a $0 solution? well, there's a cost involved in learning enough MIF to do it. If you can spare a week

Re: Of Templates and Legacy Docs

2008-05-23 Thread Jim Owens
THis link may be useful as well: http://www.freeframers.org/archive/01/msg01023.html Pinkham, Jim wrote: Thanks to all for good ideas thus far. I can give a partial answer to Rene's question based on a quick Google search: Participants in the upcoming FrameMaker Template Design seminars

Re: Optimize preview of EPS files?

2008-05-28 Thread JIm Owens
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; } It's been a while, but I believe you can use GhostScript to remove a preview from an EPS and insert another one of your choice (using a TIF you've created). I used to do this with the OS/2 version of GhostScript.

Re: Converting to XHTML

2008-05-28 Thread Jim Owens
for =split, please read =Split (capitalized) Jim Owens wrote: You need to edit the [HTMLStyles} section of the mif2htm.ini file. For example, if you want to split your FM document into HTML topics at every Heading1, Heading2, and Heading3 tag, add: [HtmlStyles] Heading1=split

Re: Converting to XHTML

2008-05-28 Thread Jim Owens
You need to edit the [HTMLStyles} section of the mif2htm.ini file. For example, if you want to split your FM document into HTML topics at every Heading1, Heading2, and Heading3 tag, add: [HtmlStyles] Heading1=split Heading2=split Heading3=split For more information, refer to the Mif2Go

Re: adding user variables to the TOC

2008-06-16 Thread Jim Owens
FWIW, the paragraph tag for our master page footer does show up in the paragraphs you can select for the TOC. You might have to add it to the catalog in Paragraph Designer. Fred Ridder wrote: Deirdre Reagan wrote: I have to create a TOC and one of items I want to list in the TOC is a user

Re: adding user variables to the TOC

2008-06-16 Thread Jim Owens
If you aren't using autonumbering for the chapter title, then you can put XX-XX-XX in the autonumbering text and set it to a white character format. Then, if the TOC reference pages specify to include $paranum in the TOC entry, the autonumber will show up in the TOC. P.S. I've confirmed Fred

saving marker and topic title during Mif2GO processing

2008-06-17 Thread Jim Owens
As part of our Help production, we need a list of context-sensitive markers and topic titles, like this: IDH_NewWidget Adding widgets IDH_EditWidget Editing widgets (The exact formatting doesn't matter; I'll be processing it anyway.) We use this information to update our help testing tool, so

Re: getting confused about xref variables and paragraph tags

2008-06-17 Thread Jim Owens
That big T is a marker used by the cross-references to find the target paragraph. You seem to be aware of this. If you've removed it from a paragraph, the cross-references to that paragraph will be unresolved. As far as I can tell from your description, the cross-references are still set to

Re: getting confused about xref variables and paragraph tags

2008-06-17 Thread Jim Owens
is there, patiently waiting, but updating the book doesn't seem to get these two piece to work, without that black T. I think there are several things going on that I haven't quite sorted out. But I've gotten good advice here so far, so I'll keep coming back! Deirdre On 6/17/08, Jim Owens [EMAIL

Re: Paragraph Style in Header

2008-06-18 Thread Jim Owens
On the master page, insert a Running H/F variable. Define it as $paratext[heading1] (or whatever your paragraph tag is). mathieu jacquet wrote: Hi all, I'd like my template header to be formatted this way: ChapterTitle - Heading1. Imagine I have a Heading1 on page 2 (let's say

Re: saving marker and topic title during Mif2GO processing

2008-06-18 Thread Jim Owens
Thank you, Jeremy! It's now installed and working perfectly. Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:29:55 -0400, Jim Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As part of our Help production, we need a list of context-sensitive markers and topic titles, like this: IDH_NewWidget Adding

Re: Importing Ventura files

2008-07-03 Thread Jim Owens
What version of Ventura are you trying to import from? Do you have a copy of Ventura so that you can export the files to other formats? I don't know if Corel changed the model, but Ventura 3 used source files that were in the formats of various other applications, such as Word or Wordstar.

Re: Table numbers don't continue in book

2008-07-03 Thread Jim Owens
The Numbering Properties dialog is tabbed. If you have selected Continue numbering from previous file in book, then you are on the Chapter tab. Try clicking the Paragraph tab and then selecting Continue numbering from previous paragraph in book. Joel Wilhelm wrote: I have a Book file and the

Re: Table numbers don't continue in book

2008-07-03 Thread Jim Owens
is F:Figure\ $chapnum\+n+ =0\t, which is basically the same as yours with some extras. Joel Wilhelm wrote: Jim, I should have been more specific: all the tabs have Continue From... checked. - JW On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Jim Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Table numbers don't continue in book

2008-07-03 Thread Jim Owens
This list is inever/i a waste of time! Glad we could help. Joel Wilhelm wrote: This was it - I hadn't done the Edit Update Book. Sorry for wasting your time. Thanks for the help. On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Jim Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm

Re: problem printing to PDF after system change

2008-07-04 Thread Jim Owens
It's late Friday on US Independence Day, and you won't get many answers, so I'll chime in for what it's worth (I'm in Canada). My guess is that this is a printer driver problem. I don't know how you create PDFs, but I do it the reliable way: print to a PS file, then run Distiller on the PS

Re: problem printing to PDF after system change - solved

2008-07-04 Thread Jim Owens
The PDF can contain embedded fonts. That is, if your system has Eurostile, and your document uses Eurostile, then when the PDF is created, the Eurostile information from your system can be embedded in the PDF so that your document can be displayed correctly on any system. If you don't use

Re: question about overrides

2008-07-11 Thread Jim Owens
One way to find overrides is to create a special template that is identicial to your standard template, but with all fonts set to a bright colour you don't normally use. When you apply the special template, the overrides show up as unchanged black text. David Shaked (Wernick) wrote: The main

Floating figures and tables was RE: question about overrides

2008-07-11 Thread JIm Owens
Floating figures and tables are useful for automating page breaks, but I too have encountered people who insist that the figure must always immediately follow the reference. Can anyone help me understand where this rule originated? In Framemaker, setting them up requires a bit more effort. To

Re: Tech Comm Suite Advantages?

2008-07-18 Thread Jim Owens
Be sure also to check out the Adobe user-to-user forums, especially the Robohelp Framemaker integration forum. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/index.cfm Diane Gaskill wrote: Don, It depends on what you are using the TCS for. In addition to FM and Captvate, the TCS includes a

need IBM Stryle Guide reference

2008-07-21 Thread Jim Owens
Referring to the IBM Style Guide, a correspondent has informaed me: Do not use gerunds in headings. IBM rule but my 2004 copy of the IBM Style Guide says explicitly to use gerunds in headings (under Headings and subdivisions of text). Is there a later edition in which this has changed?

Re: need IBM Stryle Guide reference

2008-07-21 Thread Jim Owens
program manager or localization vendor to keep the impact of such words to a minimum. Z -Original Message- From: Syed Zaeem Hosain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 1:00 PM To: 'Jim Owens'; Framer's List Subject: RE: need IBM Stryle Guide reference Hi, Jim. I do

MAML structapp

2008-07-22 Thread Jim Owens
I may need to create some content in Microsoft Assistance Markup Language. Is there a MAML structapp out there? ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank

Re: OT: question about usage

2008-07-23 Thread Jim Owens
Many programming languages contain functions to recognize alphabetic or numeric characters (isAlpha, isNum, isDigit). To get an idea what words other people choose, you can look up these functions on the Internet. I would drop the al suffix, but if you're addressing a programming audience,

Re: question about usage

2008-07-23 Thread Jim Owens
In this case I agree with you that number and letter are better choices. Deirdre Reagan wrote: Thanks all for the responses about alphanumeric characters and the use of that terminology. I get that 123ABC consist of alphanumerical characters. However, does 123 consist of numerical

Re: Unwanted pages

2008-07-24 Thread Jim Owens
Format Page Layout Pagination Before Saving Printing Howard Rauch wrote: This is an elementary question -- one for which I should know the answer but seem to have forgotten it. I have a number of one-page files for which Frame consistently and automatically adds a second blank page.

Re: Frame 8 and WebWorks

2008-09-03 Thread Jim Owens
WWP 2003 does not work with FM8. we switched to Mif2Go. Kristy Nolan wrote: Hi, all! Does anyone have any experience or issues running Frame 8.0 and WebWorks Publisher 2003? I just had WWP installed on my machine yesterday and it opens fine. However, I am getting an error The application

Re: RoboHelp

2008-09-04 Thread Jim Owens
I don't know of a list, but Adobe has several forums dedicated to RoboHelp. (http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/index.cfm?forumid=65) Kelly McDaniel wrote: Folks, Anyone know of a RoboHelp list? ...tnx, Kelly. ___ You are

Re: MIF to SGML/XML

2008-09-04 Thread Jim Owens
MSXML is just an extension for programming languages. It provides commands for opening XML files, finding nodes, adding nodes, that sort of thing. Microsoft maintains it, but despite this it works pretty well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have more confidence in Microsoft than I do then.

Re: Times, Times Roman, Times New Roman, and changing printers, etc.

2008-09-10 Thread Jim Owens
My Windows system has Times (Type 1), Times New Roman (Type 1), and Times New Roman (TrueType). The Times font is listed in the Fonts window under the name Times Roman, but when I view it, it is entitled Times (Type 1). When you view a font selected from the Fonts window, you see the upper

Re: SV: Times, Times Roman, Times New Roman, and changing printers, etc.

2008-09-11 Thread Jim Owens
The Times font also came with Xerox Ventura Publisher. Jacob Schäffer wrote: Dov said: Per Art's response, no, moving to the Adobe Acrobat (Adobe PDF) printer default won't solve the problem since Times is not a native font of the Distiller. I believe that anyone old enough (like me)

Re: ePublisher Pro vs. other generated online help

2008-09-26 Thread Jim Owens
I appreciate hearing from vendors on this list. When I was looking for a replacement for WebWorks Publisher 2003, I would have liked the opportunity to discuss my options with a participant from Quadralay. Welcome to the list. I look forward to your ongoing participation! Andrew VanConas

Mif2Go Prev and Next navigation macros

2008-11-05 Thread Jim Owens
I'd like to use these, but I'm having trouble. The latest beta revision history file for Mif2Go explains that the $_prev and $_next macros have been updated to support browsing backwards in true sequence, even across chapter breaks. (Formerly, according to the documentation, the Prev button

Re: Mif2Go Prev and Next navigation macros

2008-11-06 Thread Jim Owens
Thanks as always for the prompt response. I've tried your suggestions, but without success. To spare others, we can continue off-list until this is resolved. Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:21:53 -0500, Jim Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to use these, but I'm

Re: Mif2Go Prev and Next navigation macros

2008-11-07 Thread Jim Owens
. Mif2Go is now doing what I need. Jim Owens wrote: Thanks as always for the prompt response. I've tried your suggestions, but without success. To spare others, we can continue off-list until this is resolved. Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:21:53 -0500, Jim Owens [EMAIL

Mif2Go: controlling graphics position

2008-11-13 Thread Jim Owens
I'm producing MS HTML Help, and currently trying to position the graphics using Mif2Go. In my Frame source, some graphics are anchored run into para, and others are anchored below current line (with the anchor at the end of the paragraph). I want each run into para graphic placed beside the para,

Mif2Go: removing CRLF from CodeStore content

2008-11-17 Thread JIm Owens
I'm processing the content of a CodeStore. The content contains CRLF. I need to remove the CRLF. Should be simple, right? Just find and remove 0a and 0d, or replace n or r or some combination thereof. I have read the Mif2Go manual and tried everything I can think of,and two days later I am

Re: Re: Mif2Go: removing CRLF from CodeStore content

2008-11-17 Thread JIm Owens
in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl. -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:10 AM, JIm Owens wrote: I'm processing

Re: Mif2Go: controlling graphics position

2008-11-17 Thread Jim Owens
Thanks, this does just what I need. Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:00:40 -0500, Jim Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm producing MS HTML Help, and currently trying to position the graphics using Mif2Go. In my Frame source, some graphics are anchored run into para

Re: Mif2Go: removing CRLF from CodeStore content

2008-11-17 Thread Jim Owens
Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:12 AM, JIm Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Frame source does not contain the CRLF. It's added when Mif2Go

Re: Mif2Go: removing CRLF from CodeStore content

2008-11-17 Thread Jim Owens
For early in the paragraph, please read early in the topic. Jim Owens wrote: Thanks. I can't find anything about CodeSource in the manual. In the [HtmlStyles] section, I can assign pre or blockquote to the paragraph format; this changes the paragraph tag in the output from p to pre

Re: Mif2Go: removing CRLF from CodeStore content: Workaround

2008-11-17 Thread Jim Owens
The {HTMLOptions} setting NoWrap=Yes prevents newline characters from being included in output paragraphs. THis solves the problem for the Related Topics links. Is there any risk that some paragraphs in the Frame source will be too long for the CHM browser to handle? Jim Owens wrote

Mif2Go: removing anchors from Index entries

2008-11-24 Thread Jim Owens
We are using Mif2GO to generate CHM files for use in a merged CHM project. We need to remove the index-entry anchors from the .hhk files generated by Mif2Go. This is to address a bug in Merged Help. Normally, if an index entry points to more than one topic, the CHM Help Viewer displays a

SOLVED Re: Mif2Go: removing anchors from Index entries

2008-11-24 Thread Jim Owens
RTFM! Well, I did consult the manual -- just not the right section. [Index] KeywordRefs=File Jim Owens wrote: We are using Mif2GO to generate CHM files for use in a merged CHM project. We need to remove the index-entry anchors from the .hhk files generated by Mif2Go

FrameMaker -- removing heading rows in existing tables

2008-11-28 Thread Jim Owens
Recent online help work has exposed the fact that one of our table formats has a heading row that isn't needed. In print we never noticed, but in the Help, we're using a different background colour for heading rows, and we see a simple table with the first row in a different colour for no good

Re: FrameMaker -- removing heading rows in existing tables

2008-11-28 Thread Jim Owens
with the colored heading row but without the heading row. Then apply this format to the table you don't want to have a heading. --- On *Fri, 11/28/08, Jim Owens /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote: From: Jim Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FrameMaker -- removing heading rows in existing tables

Re: FrameMaker -- removing heading rows in existing tables

2008-11-28 Thread Jim Owens
, select a new one-heading row table, and click Update All in the Table Designer. New tables will have the revised format. On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Jim Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I'll keep it in mind. I was hoping to update the existing table format somehow, so that we

Mif2Go FM template import: flags issue

2008-12-04 Thread Jim Owens
I'm importing a template in a Mif2Go project, with the flags set to 128 to import cross-reference formats only. For the first two chapters of the book, this works fine. FM variable values are not imported from the template, as expected. For the rest of the book, variable values are imported

Re: Paragraph catalog sort order

2008-12-08 Thread Jim Owens
FWIW, one of our writers reported that the paragraph catalog sorts differently on her home PC than her work PC. At first glance, it appeared to be a simple reverse sort, but it was her home PC so we did not investigate closely. The tag tp, table para was showing up at the bottom of the list

Re: Paragraph catalog sort order

2008-12-09 Thread Jim Owens
The writer who reported this problem tells me she solved it by uninstalling and reinstalling FrameMaker. I asked whether she applied any patches to the new install. She says that FrameMaker updates were automatically cued and applied shortly after the software was installed. Jim Owens wrote

Re: FM 9 - Sort Order for Paragraphs, F8/F9 keyboard shortcuts

2009-01-21 Thread Jim Owens
Martinek, Carla wrote: [stuff deleted] === You will notice that the F8 and F9 shortcuts DO NOT work the same as previous versions. . . . . . To get to the c7 style, I'd have to press c seven times, or c once and the down arrow six times. I might as well use the mouse

Re: Usage of WebWorks (ePublisher)

2009-04-15 Thread Jim Owens
I second John's views, and to some extent Zoe's. Mif2GO is a great tool, and it's priced right. If you want to pay a lot more, you could consider ePublisher. People seem to like it, and XML-based publishing is definitely the way of the future. WWP 7 Standard Edition is obsolete. Don't waste

Re: Usage of WebWorks (ePublisher)

2009-04-16 Thread Jim Owens
Nancy mentioned that her client insists on Webworks 7, so all other options are moot. Without knowing anything about the situation, I'd still venture that it's not in her client's interest to use something that's been discontinued. Can they be talked into a more sensible decision? Joseph

Re: Installing Acrobat 9.0 taking FOREVER??!?

2009-04-22 Thread Jim Owens
Sometimes it takes my system several minutes just to delete a 2KB file using Windows Explorer. I assume that the registry is being updated in hundreds of places. John Hedtke wrote: I'd find that utterly believable. I'm sure that my registry is full of junk. I've been thinking about doing a

Re: Compile Book_Wrong Font msg

2009-04-25 Thread Jim Owens
I had this happen just the other day. Washing as MIF didn't help. I saved as MIF, opened the MIF file in a text editor, and searched for the font name (in this case, Times-Roman). This turned up one Ffamily `Times-Roman' tag that did not seem to be wrapping any text. I removed the entire tag

Re: Inventory of Template Features

2009-05-11 Thread Jim Owens
At the end of an internal project, I usually write a short document that explains what I've done. This lets me record the reasons for my decisions, and highlight any unusual features that may need special attention. Sometimes the document is as simple as a text file. If I think others might

Re: I need a Word to Frame dictionary

2009-05-12 Thread Jim Owens
In Frame, you don't have to worry too much about this. You just set up the table to have so many header rows, and they show up on subsequent pages. It sounds like you are in the paradigm-shift phase, where you have a certain conception of how to do things, Frame isn't living up to them, and

Re: French Language Challenge

2009-05-25 Thread Jim Owens
In Frame, each paragraph tag has a designated language (on the Default Fonts page of the Paragraph Designer). If I recall correctly, the spell-checker for that language is applied. marc.creag...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Everybody, I am working on Windows XP, FrameMaker 8 unstructured on a

Saving conditional Boolean expressions?

2009-06-18 Thread Jim Owens
Is there a way in FM8 or FM9 to save and re-use conditional expressions created using the Build expression dialog box? I'm using FM8 and I can't find a way to do this. I'm hoping the capability has been added for FM9. ___ You are currently

Mif2Go: adding watermark to CHM

2009-07-06 Thread Jim Owens
I'm trying to add a draft watermark to our CHM output. Following the CSS method described in the Mif2GO documentation (Section 22.11), I've succeeded in adding a watermark to the HTML files, as viewed in Internet Explorer. However, the watermark does not appear in the CHM topics. A quick

Re: Mif2Go: adding watermark to CHM

2009-07-06 Thread Jim Owens
something I'm missing? Jim Owens wrote: I'm trying to add a draft watermark to our CHM output. Following the CSS method described in the Mif2GO documentation (Section 22.11), I've succeeded in adding a watermark to the HTML files, as viewed in Internet Explorer. However, the watermark does

Re: Mif2Go graphics question

2009-09-14 Thread Jim Owens
I have no idea whether it will make a difference, but your GraphCopyFiles statement has a space following the equals sign. Have you tried removing it? ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to

Re: Mif2Go graphics question

2009-09-14 Thread Jim Owens
Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: Also, if you use StripGraphPath=No, and don't set a GraphPath, you are saying to preserve the original paths from the Frame files. Those are unlikely to work. If you are putting the graphics in the same dir as the HTML, you definitely want StripGraphPath=Yes.

Mif2Go: LOT and LOF accessible by search in HTML Help output

2009-10-28 Thread Jim Owens
This is a weird one -- any clues would be appreciated. I'm generating HTML Help using Mif2GO and two conditionalized Frame 9 books. I don't want the LOT or LOF in the outputs, so I've set UseFrameGenFiles=No. Nevertheless, when I search for terms such as figure or table in the Help, the

Re: Mif2Go: LOT and LOF accessible by search in HTML Help output

2009-10-28 Thread Jim Owens
That's a useful workaround, but the LOT and LOF shouldn't show up in the output, and usually they don't. Whatever caused the problem, it may have gone away. The output folders contain HTML files for the LOT or LOF, and these files are picked up by the HHP project, but the LOT and LOF files

Re: Mif2Go: LOT and LOF accessible by search in HTML Help output

2009-10-28 Thread Jim Owens
I suspect that while fumbling around in the new FM9 interface, I accidentally generated Mif2Go output for the LOF and LOT instead of the book. I can never tell what's selected in this interface. Am I the only one? Jim Owens wrote: I'll put it down to a user error of some sort, delete them

Re: How to create CHM from NDOC

2009-11-09 Thread Jim Owens
Do you have to use NDOC? Most people now use Sandcastle to process .NET code comments into Help. Nidhi Bansal wrote: Hi, I have to create CHM file of the .Net code comments taking NDoc3 2.0 as a code documentation generator tool. Can anyone provide me with the steps of how to create the

Re: Switching to RoboHelp for large-scale Frame-to-HTML Help Project

2009-12-10 Thread Jim Owens
I'll second that. It's well worth looking at. (another satisified Mif2Go customer) David Spreadbury wrote: Well, I will jump in and ask why not try Mif2Go. Book size doesn't matter. Should handle all your context sensitive requirements without a problem. Assistance, if needed, is an email

Re: Switching to RoboHelp for large-scale Frame-to-HTML Help Project

2009-12-14 Thread Jim Owens
Lots of time might be overstating it. Every new tool requires time to learn and set up. Getting working help from Mif2Go doesn't take very long at all -- maybe a couple of days to figure out what you need to do, and then do it. Customizing the output to your presferences takes longer. With

Re: How to find Unavailable Fonts

2010-01-11 Thread Jim Owens
syed.hos...@aeris.net wrote: I saved those two files in MIF format and searched for FFamily and only see the following unique entries for font familes: That search may not have been definitive. According to the MIF Reference (MIF Document Statements Character Formats PgfFont and Font

Re: RoboHelp Help

2010-01-22 Thread Jim Owens
Tony Marek wrote: Does anyone know if there is a similar RoboHelp mailing list? There is a browser-based Adobe user-to-user forum; also one for the TCS.. I found both helpful when I was evaluating RoboHelp. http://forums.adobe.com/community/robohelp

Re: Mif2Go exclude page numbers from x-refs?

2010-04-01 Thread Jim Owens
You need to set up an FM template with different cross-reference definitions, and then instruct Mif2Go to use that template. John Sgammato wrote: I am generating online OmniHelp from FM9 files. The X-refs in the manuals say See x on page . I want to keep the and lose the on page

Re: Online help generator using FM8

2010-04-22 Thread Jim Owens
Besides Webworks Publisher, other options include Mif2Go (which we use) -- fast, powerful, highly configurable, extensively documented, and reasonably priced, but better for those with some scripting or programming experience; and Adobe RoboHelp (included with FrameMaker in Adobe's Technical

Re: Pgf numbering strangeness

2010-09-30 Thread Jim Owens
Finding rogue paragraph numbering can be a little less tedious if you save as MIF, open the MIF in a text editor, and search for PgfAutoNum Yes or PgfNumFormat tags. Fred Ridder wrote: . . . What Cynthia needs to look for is rogue paragraphs that increment the first counter in the S:

Re: off topic: e-drawings, eps files, frame and pdf

2010-10-15 Thread Jim Owens
I had to bring in a Solidworks file for an illustration recently. I tried it a few ways. If I recall correctly, I ended up printing from Solidworks to Adobe PDF. In my case, I had to open the PDF in Illustrator for some edits and then save it again as PDF. Then I brought the PDF into the

Re: off topic: e-drawings, eps files, frame and pdf

2010-10-18 Thread Jim Owens
For what it's worth, I worked with the Solidworks free viewer, and it seemed pretty powerful, although not very intuitive. After playing around with it for a couple of hours, I was able to create narrow sections to isolate the views I wanted. From a single 3D Solidworks file, I was able to

Re: FrameMaker and RoboHelp

2010-11-01 Thread Jim Owens
Adobe has a FrameMaker Integration Forum for FM-RoboHelp issues. http://forums.adobe.com/community/robohelp/robohelp_framemaker On 2010-11-01 13:01, Martha Lee wrote: Hi All, I'm looking for some resources to learn how to use RoboHelp with FrameMaker. (...)

Re: Space at beginning of title

2010-12-16 Thread Jim Owens
1. Save as MIF. 2. Open MIF file in text editor. 3. Replace String ` with String ` (without the double quotes). Note that the opening single quote character is `, not '. This will remove leading spaces anywhere they're found. It shouldn't cause any problems, but have a backup in case.

Re: Space at beginning of title

2010-12-16 Thread Jim Owens
Hold that advice! MIF sometimes includes word spaces at the start of a string segment. On 2010-12-16 10:28, Jim Owens wrote: 1. Save as MIF. 2. Open MIF file in text editor. 3. Replace String ` with String ` (without the double quotes). Note that the opening single quote character

Re: OT: Scary responsibility in job ad

2011-10-06 Thread Jim Owens
I'm seeing some interest in this kind of thing from our local Agile Scrum Master. There aren't enough writers to go to all the scrums , so (the thinking goes) maybe the engineers could create some content, which the writers could edit. On 2011-10-06 12:51, Writer wrote: A local company listed

Re: DITA file naming conventions

2011-11-03 Thread Jim Owens
As far as possible, make sure the file name matches the title of the topic. So if your topic is Inserting the Widget then your file name would be inserting_the_widget.xml. I realize this may cause problems later if the title changes, but that doesn't happen often and you can usually make

Re: DITA file naming conventions

2011-11-03 Thread Jim Owens
For what it's worth, the DITA Style Guide recommends using names that match the titles. It also recommends using the extensions .dita and .ditamap, instead of .xml. That way, you have more control over which tool opens the file, and you can distinguish the files from other xml files used in

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