Looking for a documentation portal example

2007-04-18 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Folks, we all know the benefits of creating and publishing books using FrameMaker, especially since PDF creation is mostly harmless. Also, FrameMaker documents are a good source for HTML conversion processes, if one follows the structure or template. A company with a lot of modules (software or

Re: Looking for a documentation portal example

2007-04-19 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Hi John, I totally agree with your thoughts regrading presentation and I did not want to disregard PDF. But especially with a library full of documents, and a user base who doesn't know in which document to look for a solution, I think it is easier to built an HTML-based server-side search than

Re: FM To PowerPoint

2007-08-02 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
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Re: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
FrameMaker with Unicode I was surprised to see that level of integration with RoboHelp. - Michael Müller-Hillebrand -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Dokumentations-Technologien Adobe Certified Expert, FrameMaker Lösungen und Training

Re: Don't forget Blaze [was Re: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite]

2007-09-27 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
, it can be solved today using API programming or scripting. FrameMaker allows overrides to the size and position of text frames on every single page and you can therefore control how many lines appear. - Michael Müller-Hillebrand Am 27.09.2007 um 01:14 schrieb Hedley Finger: Here's

Re: Keyboard shortcuts in FM8 (was Re: 8.0.1 patch fixes FM Book to PDF issue)

2007-12-02 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
. This is real problem because I rely on the shortcuts for all kinds of things. Not being able to use th F9 key is a real productivity slowdown. -- Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Dokumentations-Technologien Adobe Certified Expert, FrameMaker InfoBlog: http://cap-studio.de/ Tipp: http://cap

Re: hypertext marker problem

2007-12-04 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
that you are creating an 'external' link (check for http://; in the marker text) and if that is the case add the target attribute. - Michael -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Dokumentations-Technologien Adobe Certified Expert, FrameMaker

Re: FM8 Bug: Lines not breaking after em dash and en dash

2007-12-15 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
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Re: FM8 Bug: Lines not breaking after em dash and en dash

2007-12-16 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Am 15.12.2007 um 23:20 schrieb Michael Müller-Hillebrand: I tried your scenario with 8.p266 and there are no problems: The characters you mention are correctly changed from 7.2 \= and \m in FM8 to their real appearance: – and — (not seen in monospaced fonts) and work as advertised. Oops, my

Re: Validating all hypertext links in a FM book?

2007-12-21 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
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Re: MadCap Blaze

2008-03-19 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
, I am hesitant to install .NET 3.0 and enjoy your reports! - Michael -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Dokumentations-Technologie Adobe Certified Expert, FrameMaker Lösungen und Training, FrameScript, XML/XSL, Unicode http://cap-studio.de

Re: Upgrade to Frame 8?

2008-03-26 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
with a question mark; it works fine in FrameMaker 7.2. -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Dokumentations-Technologie Adobe Certified Expert, FrameMaker Lösungen und Training, FrameScript, XML/XSL, Unicode http://cap-studio.de/ -- Tel. +49 (9131) 28747

Re: FM8 Unicode Font issues and suggestions

2008-03-29 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
of having to use CorelDraw. Any suggestions? Settings to change in FM8? Replacement Unicode fonts to use? And of COURSE we're on a deadline... -Carla -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Dokumentation Technology Adobe Certified

Re: FM updates on Adobe website not complete

2008-06-01 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
is: is there a policy about the updates presented on the support page? Regards Klaus Daube -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Dokumentation Technology Adobe Certified Expert, FrameMaker Consulting and Training, FrameScript, XML/XSL

ANN: German FrameMaker Mailing List relocated

2008-06-03 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
of messages since September 2006 on the Google Groups server. If you are interested, please visit http://groups.google.com/group/frameusers-de?hl=de Thanks, - Michael -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Dokumentation Technology Adobe

Re: Printing Error with FM

2008-06-05 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
. That is most likely the cause of your problems! -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Dokumentations-Technologie Adobe Certified Expert, FrameMaker Lösungen und Training, FrameScript, XML/XSL, Unicode http://cap-studio.de/ -- Tel. +49 (9131

Re: MIF to SGML/XML

2008-09-03 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
http://www.leximation.com/tools/mifml/ does a 100% conversion from MIF to XML. I used it to mass change unstructured FrameMaker documents to custom XML using MIFML as the starting point, followed by quite a bit of custom XSL stylesheets. - Michael Müller-Hillebrand On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9

Re: InDesign as a replacement for Framemaker

2008-09-12 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
for long XML-structured documents. - Michael -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Dokumentations-Technologie Adobe Certified Expert, FrameMaker Lösungen und Training, FrameScript, XML/XSL, Unicode http://cap-studio.de/ -- Tel. +49 (9131) 28747

Re: Commas in paragraph tags

2008-10-27 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
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Re: Commas in paragraph tags

2008-10-28 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
, the original designer would have chosen H2, Heading2... :-( There are plug-ins and solutions available to change pgf format names for documents and books in a batch process. Sorry, - Michael Am 27.10.2008 um 17:47 schrieb Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Have you tried putting a backslash

Re: Removing whitespaces from an xml file

2008-10-31 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
these whitespaces upon opening it to my framemaker? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best regards, Salvador B. Soriano Jr -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Dokumentations-Technologie Adobe Certified Expert, FrameMaker

Re: MIF2Go: specifying anchor names

2009-01-09 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
or withholding of a service or a href=#accessaccess/a to a resource to a requestor based.../p -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Dokumentations-Technologie Adobe Certified Expert, FrameMaker Lösungen und Training, FrameScript, XML/XSL, Unicode

Re: FM9 show stoppers

2009-01-27 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
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Re: FrameMaker 9.0.1 Update Now Available ... Come and Get It!

2009-03-18 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
: The FrameMaker 9.0.1 update has just been released. You can get it via the updates feature within FrameMaker (or any other current Adobe application). - Dov -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Dokumentation Technology Adobe Certified Expert

Re: [TCS Users] FM9: empty list of building blocks in Para Designer

2009-03-18 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Am 18.03.2009 um 15:19 schrieb Yves Barbion: Hi I'm using FM 9.0p230 and I see that the list of building blocks in the Paragraph Designer is ... empty! Confirmed for the German UI. - Michael -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand

Re: FM9: Hyperlinks in IOR doen't work in PDF

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
document of the book. - Michael -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Dokumentations-Technologie Adobe Certified Expert, FrameMaker Lösungen und Training, FrameScript, XML/XSL, Unicode Blog: http://cap-studio.de/ - Tel. +49 (9131) 28747

Possible to suppress Save As XML via structapps.fm setting?

2009-05-13 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
on an script that monitors the NotePreSaveXML event, but I would prefer a solution independent of additional software. Do you know of a way to configure the XMLApplication in the structapps.fm to block Save As XML? To raise an error would be acceptable. Thanks, - Michael Müller-Hillebrand

Re: FM-9.0p237 - Distiller 8.1.0 colour/font odds

2009-06-18 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
that FrameMaker is bug- free. But there is no reason to warn against using Save As PDF. - Michael -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Dokumentations-Technologie Adobe Certified Expert, FrameMaker Lösungen und Training, FrameScript, XML/XSL, Unicode

Re: Frame crashes when importing large XML file

2009-07-07 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
news: FrameMaker 9.0.2 processed the exact same XML files without a problem, 21 books in a row. Maybe you can make a test with FrameMaker 9. - Michael -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Dokumentations-Technologie Adobe Certified

Re: Keyboard Shortcut Bug in FrameMaker 9

2009-07-26 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
on? Is there a fix for this? I believe I have the most current patch for FM 9. -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Dokumentations-Technologie Adobe Certified Expert, FrameMaker Lösungen und Training, FrameScript, XML/XSL, Unicode Blog: http://cap

Re: Adobe's upgrade rort

2009-10-19 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
anyway. No I haven't asked Adobe, who there could possibly tell me. Certainly no one on the helpdesk. -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Dokumentations-Technologie Adobe Certified Expert, FrameMaker Lösungen und Training, FrameScript, XML

Slightly OT: FrameScript Sale

2009-11-24 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Hi, Just in case you haven't noticed it and you are interested in exploring the possibilities of making the computer work for you (instead of waiting for you), you might want to have a look at using the FrameMaker API via a scripting environment. It is 12 years since the first version of

Re: pure XML

2010-02-17 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
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Re: Change color of interface

2010-03-27 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
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Re: Another issue with character encoding and Web Works Publisher

2010-05-20 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
the Index based on the generated Index from FrameMaker, then the Index entries are all text with a font and the mapping is fine. - Michael (who stopped consulting WWP2003 some years ago, he thought...) -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand

Re: Acrobat 9 Frustrations...

2010-06-07 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
anybody give me a pointer? The UPDATER command doesn't work because it thinks I have the wrong build of the product, for some reason... Thanks cud -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Dokumentations-Technologie Adobe Certified

Re: RANT: FM 9.0 -

2010-08-06 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Am 04.08.2010 um 07:51 schrieb Steve Johnson: And all the people who report bugs with Frame 9 are lying? Steve, No, they aren't. But some perceived bugs are (only) limitations of the software. Have they finally fixed the issue where you can't use cross-reference in text insets? This is a

Re: Java error Message when importing xml to frameMaker 8

2010-09-30 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
suggested to the OP in the Adobe Forums that her process must include some external plug-in or script which in turn requires Java. - Michael -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Dokumentation Technology Adobe Certified Expert, FrameMaker

Re: MIF to SVG

2010-12-07 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Am 07.12.2010 um 16:52 schrieb Rick Quatro: Is anyone aware of a tool for converting MIF files to SVG? My client has a mix of imported graphics and FrameMaker objects in their anchored frames. We can preserve them by using MIF for the anchored frame content when saving to XML, but now they

Re: FM 9 and SGML

2010-12-13 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Am 13.12.2010 um 15:54 schrieb Michael Johnson k7...@yahoo.com: My employer wants to know how tough it would be generate our technical manuals in SGML and submit the .SGM files to our customer directly without going through an out-of-house service provider who turns our Word and FM

Re: FM8 with SP3/FM9 SP3 or Windows7 - any problems?

2010-12-14 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Orly, not FM nor any OS or SP is the problem... the potential unreliable usage of OLE is the problem and without knowing any detail I would suggest you redesign your processes to avoid OLE. - Michael Am 14.12.2010 um 11:35 schrieb Orly Zimmerman or...@marvell.com: HI All, I was wondering

Re: Does anyone know of an efficient way to convert paragraph-based xrefs to element-based xrefs?

2011-01-14 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
A standard conversion table does that. It creates the required ID values in an attribute named Id and does not add any filename information; I understand it creates this Id attribute for every Cross-Ref marker found. The next step would be West Steet Consulting's plug-in Xref Wizard if you have

Re: WebWorks 7 Character Mapping

2011-02-08 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Brad, Starting with a certain version, WWP has an internal mapping that matches the FrameRoman encoding to Unicode (and it handles the Mac characters also). I remember that old charcater maps were kept in old form (mapping to FrameRoman), but new maps used Unicode. I am not sure how to detect

Re: A cross reference question

2011-02-19 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Brian, Check out this topic about character formats in cross-references: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/9.0/Using/WSF1381482-94EF-4951-934A-7C2F1963052C.html#WSE1540670-E2FA-4cca-BA76-DCC3CC41E8F9 - Michael Am 18.02.2011 um 22:20 schrieb Brian Chan cha...@yahoo.com: The above is a

Re: Table Elements Out of Order in Cross-Reference Dialog

2011-02-19 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Jasmine, In addition to Fred's general remark you can display the possible Xref sources in two orders: by document order or by ID. I guess your Xref dialog is set to use the latter. - Michael ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as

Re: Slightly OT: Frame 10 landscape pages not recognised in Acrobat X

2011-03-16 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
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Re: Slightly OT: Frame 10 landscape pages not recognised in Acrobat X

2011-03-16 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Am 16.03.2011 um 15:59 schrieb Debra Laroche: It's a .tif file that's the corporate logo and until recently I had no problem having it convert correctly from FrameMaker to PDF using the print to .ps file (because of the landscape pages I have in several chapters of my book). Debar,

Re: Frame 10 save to Frame 8 files

2011-03-18 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Oddly enough, you can only save as either a Version 10 or version 7 when saving as a .mif file. If your target version is FrameMaker 5, 6, or 7 use MIF7. If your target version is FrameMaker 8 or later, be sure to use MIF10. Background: The text encoding changed with the introduction of

Re: Incomplete PDF

2011-03-22 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
we rectify this for another machine. See here: http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2008/07/hotfix_for_framemaker_1.html - Michael Müller-Hillebrand -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Dokumentation Technology Adobe Certified Expert

Re: FrameMaker's 25th Anniversary

2011-04-07 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Shorter: http://bit.ly/frame25rocks Am 07.04.2011 um 18:07 schrieb Art Campbell: Interesting post at

Re: files in book which end up with 2 pages

2011-04-16 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Am 15.04.2011 um 19:43 schrieb Theresa de Valence t...@bstw.com: Every other file is set to: Double-sided, 1st Page side: read from file, delete empty pages. Theresa, try to set 1st page side to next available if you want to avoid empty pages. - Michael

Re: Missing text in PDF

2011-04-30 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Am 25.04.2011 um 19:02 schrieb venkan venkates...@newgenimaging.com: I am facing issues in Helvetica Font when converting to PDF. Most of the texts are not converted in PDF. We are getting white spaces. Please help and advice. Venkan, Please use a meaningful subject for your next post.

Re: Structured Frame Reference Guides

2011-05-10 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Specifically, I am setting up an EDD file and I can't decipher via the Adobe help files how to create an element that does not insert a paragraph break. Paragraph formats all have paragraph breaks after them, and I don't see a way to turn that off from within the EDD. Tim, Inside the

Re: Scientific names in roman not italics in running headers

2011-06-24 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Patricia, Using Running H/F with the $paratext or $marker1/2 is no option. For a good reason these system variables reference only the text, no formatting at all. The details are here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/WS2937A033-EFF3-4d85-BBB3-98214B54950D.html If the scientific

Re: OT: Batch Convert EPS to TIF

2011-08-12 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Am 12.08.2011 um 15:13 schrieb Böðvar Björgvinsson: I am not sure whether ImageMagick can manage this on its own, but ps2edit piped to ImageMagic can do this in batch, i think. ImageMagick can take advantage of an installed GhostScript. In an automated publishing environment I use

Re: Setting a thin space in a variable

2011-09-02 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
the method for typing the thin space but nothing else. -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Dokumentation Technology Adobe Certified Expert, FrameMaker Consulting and Training, FrameScript, XML/XSL, Unicode Blog [de]: http://cap

Re: font errors/problems

2011-09-15 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
, and then … poof, the font problems began. · Am running FM9.0p237. -- _ Michael Müller-Hillebrand -- http://cap-studio.de/ Adobe Certified Expert, FrameMaker Lösungen und Training, FrameScript, XML/XSL, Unicode ~ ~ Auf der tekom

Re: FrameMaker 9 keyboard weirdness

2011-10-05 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
If you are interested to have this working for international text as well, starting with FrameMaker 8 you should put UNICODE TEXT in the front position. Otherwise you would loose Cyrillic, Greek, Central European, Baltic characters -- in case you want to paste them. - Michael Müller-Hillebrand

Re: width of table footnotes?

2011-11-05 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
as you want them to happen. - Michael -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Dokumentations-Technologie Adobe Certified Expert, FrameMaker Lösungen und Training, FrameScript, XML/XSL, Unicode Blog: http://cap-studio.de/ - Tel. +49 (9131) 28747

Re: Hyperlink from Frame to Folder in Network

2011-11-09 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Gary, Just use forward slashes in pathnames. FrameMaker reserves certain letters in combination with a backslash for special characters. I seem to remember that \f is used for the florin character (a cursive f). - Michael Am 10.11.2011 um 01:09 schrieb Gary Bankston gbanks6...@gmail.com:

Re: script or software for batch updating of files to version 10

2011-12-02 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
certain it works allright. regards Bjørn -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Dokumentation Technology Adobe Certified Expert, FrameMaker Consulting and Training, FrameScript, XML/XSL, Unicode Blog [de]: http://cap-studio.de

Re: Comparing WebWorks versions

2006-01-26 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Desktop Publishing T-Mobile Customer Care Learning Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _ Michael Müller-Hillebrand http://cap-studio.de/ WebWorks Publisher Support Info http://wwp-support.info

Re: Adobe FrameMaker 7.2p158 update: Polnisch, Tschechisch, Slowakisch!!

2006-04-11 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
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Re: XSL on export

2006-09-15 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
, this behavior may be desireable for XML files. Thanks. -- Michael Müller-Hillebrand, cap studio, Erlangen, Germany http://cap-studio.de/en/ Increase Knowledge Worker's Efficiency using FrameMaker, XML/XSL, FrameScript, WebWorks Publisher

Re: Cross Refs, Structured FM, and WWP

2007-03-02 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
of the Mappings tab? * How can I get the x-refs to work? * Has this been fixed in the newest patch for ePubPro? Thanks in advance for your help, M (on digest) Marsha Lofthouse -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand

Frame 9 MAJOR BUG

2009-12-30 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Lea, Excuse my not very helpful answer, but if something goes wrong it is not necessarily the fault of the front-most application. Todays operating systems and software are very complex and Windows 7 has not yet seen a Service Pack. Like Frank said. Having said that, before shouting ?Major

MIF2Go: specifying anchor names

2009-01-09 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
As an aside, i.e. not answering the original question: I have heard such requests also, but in most cases it is a misunderstanding of the concept of an ID! I am sure you tried to talk the client out of it, but, anyway, I will give you some more reasons *not* to use descriptive IDs or

FM9 show stoppers

2009-01-27 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Am 23.01.2009 um 12:20 schrieb Klaus Daube: > The second one is a tough experience: > Backspace has become a nightmare on my 3MHz machine with 4GB of RAM. I > can not correct input in the usual manner, because i have typed to > many > times until the program reacts! Do I need to switch off UNDO

Frame crashes when importing large XML file

2009-07-08 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Am 06.07.2009 um 11:25 schrieb Diane Gaskill: > Hi everyone, > > FM8, structured > XML, DocBook 4.2 (I know, I know. Not my idea, but an OEM customer > requires > it). > WinXP Pro > 4 GB RAM > 160 GB HDD I noticed memory leaks starting with FrameMaker 7.2. Memory was not released after

Keyboard Shortcut Bug in FrameMaker 9

2009-07-26 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
I can confirm this, I noticed the effect just this week. It seems to me the effect (bug) is connected to the current document focus. There are situations where you cannot tell from looking at the screen which document and/or pod has the focus. Also I read reports that the FDK can sometimes

FM-9.0p237 - Distiller 8.1.0 colour/font odds

2009-06-19 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Am 18.06.2009 um 16:57 schrieb Art Campbell: > your sequence of PDFs and posts seems to confirm the long-standing > ideas that: > > 1.) SaveAs PDF from within FrameMaker uses a different workflow and > different options than Printing to a PDF logical printer, and When I once compared a

FrameMaker 9.0.1 Update Now Available ... Come and Get It!

2009-03-18 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
First observations: Good news: F8 and F9 support for type-ahead selection of character and pgf formats does work (again). Also, of course, Ctrl+0 for variable insertion, Ctrl+1/2/3 for element actions, Ctrl+4/5 for text condition actions. PDF graphics are no longer RGB-rasterized when

[TCS Users] FM9: empty list of building blocks in Para Designer

2009-03-18 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Am 18.03.2009 um 15:19 schrieb Yves Barbion: > Hi > > I'm using FM 9.0p230 and I see that the list of building blocks in > the Paragraph Designer is ... empty! Confirmed for the German UI. - Michael -- ___ Michael

FM9: Hyperlinks in IOR doen't work in PDF

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Am 20.03.2009 um 11:01 schrieb Yves Barbion: > I've got a hyperlinked index of references (IOR) in my FM9 book. In > my PDF, > however, the hyperlinks no longer work. > > Is anyone else seeing this? I can confirm this (German version) for List Of References as well as Index of References.

Possible to suppress Save As XML via structapps.fm setting?

2009-05-13 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Good morning colleagues, I have a structured application with some XSL preprocessing that removes certain data from the XML source when opened by FrameMaker. Now I want to make sure that the user does not accidentally save this document/book as XML again. Currently I present a warning based

Slightly OT: FrameScript Sale

2009-11-24 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Hi, Just in case you haven't noticed it and you are interested in exploring the possibilities of making the computer work for you (instead of "waiting" for you), you might want to have a look at using the FrameMaker API via a scripting environment. It is 12 years since the first version of

Adobe's upgrade rort

2009-10-19 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Wow, I learn new vocabulary on this list. My dictionary tells me: > rort |r?rt| > noun Austral., informal > 1 [often with adj. ] a fraudulent or dishonest act or practice : a > tax rort. > 2 a wild party. I assume you are not talking about the admission fee to a wild upgrade party ;-) The

FrameMaker 8 installation files downloadable anywhere?

2009-09-12 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
See here, at Adobe: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4549 I am not sure if it is the latest patch release (8.0p277), so if it is not, you need to apply patch installers, all listed here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=22=Windows Good luck,

FM9 Crashes

2010-08-04 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Try: %appdata%\Adobe\FrameMaker\9 - Michael Am 04.08.2010 um 14:26 schrieb Rick Quatro: > I just started having the same problem yesterday. What is the name/location > of the user dictionary? Thank you very much. > > Rick Quatro > Carmen Publishing Inc. > 585-659-8267 > rick at

RANT: FM 9.0 -

2010-08-06 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Am 04.08.2010 um 07:51 schrieb Steve Johnson: > And all the people who report bugs with Frame 9 are lying? Steve, No, they aren't. But some perceived bugs are (only) limitations of the software. > Have they finally fixed the issue where you can't use cross-reference in text > insets? This is

MIF to SVG

2010-12-07 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Am 07.12.2010 um 16:52 schrieb Rick Quatro: > Is anyone aware of a tool for converting MIF files to SVG? My client has a > mix of imported graphics and FrameMaker objects in their anchored frames. We > can preserve them by using MIF for the anchored frame content when saving to > XML, but now

FM 9 and SGML

2010-12-14 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Am 13.12.2010 um 15:54 schrieb Michael Johnson : > My employer wants to know how tough it would be generate our technical > manuals in SGML and submit the .SGM files to our customer directly without > going through an out-of-house service provider who turns our Word and FM > offerings into

FM8 with SP3/FM9 SP3 or Windows7 - any problems?

2010-12-14 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Orly, not FM nor any OS or SP is the problem... the potential unreliable usage of OLE is the problem and without knowing any detail I would suggest you redesign your processes to avoid OLE. - Michael Am 14.12.2010 um 11:35 schrieb Orly Zimmerman : > HI All, > I was wondering if anyone

pure XML

2010-02-17 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Am 17.02.2010 um 16:33 schrieb Sarah O'Keefe: > So, if you use the original FrameMaker model of conditional text, you > will have interoperability problems. There are other features with > similar issues. Isn't "interoperability" more a question of process design than of product features?

Acrobat 9 Frustrations...

2010-06-07 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Hi Chris, I listed them once and hope the links still work: http://cap-studio.de/wp/index.php/2008/06/framemaker-804/ - Michael Am 07.06.2010 um 01:21 schrieb Chris Despopoulos: > Ha! I knew it couldn't be that FrameMaker 8 was unable to create PDF with > Acrobat 9. I turns out I need to

Change color of interface

2010-03-27 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Lou, The only option you have is to change the "UI Brightness", i.e. the type of gray used for the UI. This option can be found at File > Preferences > Interface Especially for beamer presentations you have to have the lightest gray, which may also pull you out of your depression ;-) -

Another issue with character encoding and Web Works Publisher

2010-05-20 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Am 20.05.2010 um 13:11 schrieb Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp: > Hi, > > Additional to my other query, here' another one, for those who work with WWP > 2003. > > I'm not a frequent WWP user, so not very familiar with that tool. > I'm compiling a help project based on Russian FrameMaker files (FM 7.2,

Cross Refs, Structured FM, and WWP

2007-03-02 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Marsha, There is nothing bad about old workhorses... * What are the names of the ID attributes in your title or sections elements and what is the name of the IDREF attribute in your CrtossReference element? * There is no easy migration from WWP8.x to Webworks ePublisher! * You should upgrade

Automating the application of Master Pages

2007-05-05 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Well, one different opinion here: I like it very much to have a single template for all documents in a book. It is also the way FrameMaker Structure Applications work, so it is a good preparation for your future migration to structured FrameMaker. Rick's comment about the deletion of extra pages

Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Am 25.09.2007 um 16:41 schrieb Richard Levine: > According to Adobe's web site, RH 7 "integration" is one-way .fm > or .mif > file import. If this is true, it is not integration in my book. No, it's more than that. It is a connection to the original FrameMaker book or document very much

Don't forget Blaze [was "Re: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite"]

2007-09-27 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Hedley, What percentage of the FrameMaker audience do you think is waiting for such a ?feature?? What company will care to implement that as a standard function of their software? Sorry, I cannot resist to tell you, that *if* you can come up with an algorithm for that ?problem? of yours,

installing Frame 8

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
I have to chime in here. Am 02.04.2008 um 20:23 schrieb Peter Gold: > There have been issues related to FM8's UniCode support. Yes. > One example I > recall is that some Acrobat Bookmarks are garbled by UniCode that > didn't appear in FM 7.x conversions does appear in FM8 conversions. I do

FM updates on Adobe website not complete

2008-06-01 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Hi Klaus, I collected all available updates on my website: Due to unknown processes it takes a while for all stuff to finally appear on the website. One can easily imagine that there is no direct access to the adobe.com website

ANN: German FrameMaker Mailing List relocated

2008-06-03 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
This applies to German reading FrameMaker users that might not have received a message about the new home for a "frameusers-de" mailing list. After the latest failing of the previous, privately hosted list server (talk at framemaker.de) we took advantage of the silently existing mirror of

Printing Error with FM

2008-06-05 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Loosely connected to this: Is there a list available which Illustrator versions/levels were supported by which FrameMaker versions? From time to time I am confronted with people having Illustrator CS2/3 but still use FrameMaker 7.0 (or 6.0, like Apple). So they need some advice to save

Illustrator EPS compatibility

2008-06-05 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
[I had a bad feeling dropping a message with a "loosely connected" topic into another thread.] When saving Illustrator files as EPS you have the choice to select the Illustrator version, including a warning that you may loose some features when saving as an older versions. I also remember

MadCap Blaze

2008-03-19 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Am 19.03.2008 um 17:05 schrieb Rick Henkel: > Flare has more than Blaze. Kind of like Flare : Blaze :: > Acrobat : Reader They must have something up their sleeve... or why did they once position Blaze as FrameMaker killer? You wouldn't expect a serious company to exaggerate things like

Upgrade to Frame 8?

2008-03-26 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Hi Yves, it works with the "old" Nederlands dictionary (assuming it should be hyphenated as technologie-?n) and so it reminds me of the problems with the change from German to German (neu) -- the "new" dictionaries were of serious low quality. It seems to be a technical problem with the

FM8 Unicode Font issues and suggestions

2008-03-29 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Carla, you hit a problem that can usually be avoided easily. Adobe confirmed there is a problem with Arial Unicode MS in http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/documentLink.do? micrositeId=MS_Customer=kb402970 But in the first place: Why did you not continue to use "plain old" Arial? It *is* a

Commas in paragraph tags

2008-10-28 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Okay, now I tried it and it does not work with the backslash. It will not help you, but the pgf format name is not well chosen anyway: Using "H2 Heading2" would have anabled easy access to the format using the Ctrl+9 (or F9) shortcut to select pgf formats from the status area. But of

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