Re: Simplifying a FM12 document

2015-05-27 Thread Robert Lauriston
One quick and easy way to do that is to have two files containing the tags that are different. Use the *same* tag names but different formats. Import the eBook tags before you generate an eBook, then import the regular tags afterwards. On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 12:33 PM, wrote: > 2) I want to be a

Re: remapping Frame formats

2015-05-26 Thread Robert Lauriston
Silicon Prairie's Paragraph Tools works pretty much like that, except the mapping table is in a FrameMaker file. http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Downloads.html On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Yves Barbion wrote: > Hi group > > I'm looking for a FrameMaker plugin or script to "remap" Frame

Re: Text insets : if in same FM document more than once internal x-refs do not update

2015-05-24 Thread Robert Lauriston
Not that this is relevant to Stephen's problem, but did Adobe ever fix that longstanding bug where cross-references in text insets would not work reliably, instead you had to use newlink and gotolink? ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch.

Re: Setting up page numbers that restart with chapter number

2015-05-20 Thread Robert Lauriston
If you buy direct from Adobe, you get the PDF format as well.. http://www.adobepress.com/store/adobe-framemaker-11-classroom-in-a-book-9780133373646 I guess that's distributed only as an eBook? On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Lin Sims wrote: > If you can afford about $50 and can read Kindle b

Re: Setting up page numbers that restart with chapter number

2015-05-20 Thread Robert Lauriston
Format > Document > Numbering is somewhat self-explanatory. These might be helpful: https://books.google.com/books?id=b-yEKgcQmN8C&pg=PA391&lpg=PA391&dq=continue+Numbering+From+Previous+Page+in+Book&source=bl&ots=Wkcd_vVzfl&sig=2wTCJPyZS2SFLnmA-F0fNGsdbnc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3tpcVYKeG8KFsAXWh4H4Bg&ved=

Re: creating user guides in an agile environment

2015-05-15 Thread Robert Lauriston
Yes, that's a big plus. Also being able to assign "provide information necessary to document this" tasks when the doc took too much work to complete in the same sprint. On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 11:12 AM, wrote: > ... What I liked was being able to > include document review at the end of each iter

Re: creating user guides in an agile environment

2015-05-15 Thread Robert Lauriston
Well, one thing some of the contributors got wrong is that while Scrum is a proper noun, agile is not. Some of the articles are password-protected, the ones that aren't don't suggest that it would be worth paying the ripoff membership fees to get access. On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Stuart R

Re: creating user guides in an agile environment

2015-05-15 Thread Robert Lauriston
I've worked with varying degrees of "agility" including strict, by-the-book Scrum. Documentation *must* be loosely coupled and sometimes must follow one or more sprints after the development. My major example for why this is was an update to OpenLDAP that took the developer a few days to implement

Re: : Help Creation Flow and Upgrading from version 7.2 to the

2015-05-14 Thread Robert Lauriston
In the US, upgrades to FM12 are from 10 or 11 only. Could be different in other countries. On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 11:14 PM, Caroline Tabach wrote: > As from what I recollect I cannot upgrade FrameMaker itself for so many > versions ___ You are curre

Re: Help Creation Flow and Upgrading from version 7.2 to the latest version

2015-05-13 Thread Robert Lauriston
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Shmuel wrote: > FM9 broke some keyboard shortcuts but in FM11 they work again. (I skipped > over 10, so I don't know about 10.) Here's my list of bugs from FM10 (I had most of these problems with FM9 but didn't have to use it enough to bother making a list), have

Re: Help Creation Flow and Upgrading from version 7.2 to the latest version

2015-05-12 Thread Robert Lauriston
There's no upgrade pricing from 7.2 to FrameMaker 12, but there is for TCS 5. So the price difference is only $200. On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Craig Ede wrote: > upgrade to from FM7.x to FM12 $800 > upgrade from FM 7.x to Technical Communications Suite $1200

Re: Help Creation Flow and Upgrading from version 7.2 to the latest version

2015-05-12 Thread Robert Lauriston
No, Unicode was FM8. On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 5:53 AM, Jeff Coatsworth wrote: > ... I think at 7.2 you're over the Unicode barrier already ... ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists

Re: Help Creation Flow and Upgrading from version 7.2 to the latest version

2015-05-12 Thread Robert Lauriston
Fundamentally, unstructured FrameMaker has changed very little. I've opened FM6 in recent versions and had zero problems. New features have been added but old things all work pretty much the same. FM8 switched to Unicode. Anything using the old Zapf Dingbats that was bundled with FM will need to b

Re: Frame 11 license becomes trial license

2015-05-08 Thread Robert Lauriston
Everybody using FM10 had a similar experience a few years ago when Adobe changed their licensing system. Call support. https://helpx.adobe.com/framemaker.html On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 6:05 AM, wrote: > My Frame 11 license has stopped working. This hasn't happened to any of my > colleagues. One

Re: Is FM11 completely backward compatible with FM10?

2015-05-05 Thread Robert Lauriston
Adobe used to let you use an earlier release if you bought the current release. I don't know if they still do, they changed the licensing since the last time I did that. On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Art Campbell wrote: > Just a $.02 contribution... but you may not be able buy 11, unless you'r

Re: Is FM11 completely backward compatible with FM10?

2015-05-05 Thread Robert Lauriston
You want everyone on your team to use the same version of FrameMaker. On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Jim Duszynski wrote: > We are adding a writer and current have FM10. I want to buy FM10 or FM11 but > am not sure if FM11 is completely backward compatible with FM10. Can anyone > verify that th

Re: Omnihelp merging

2015-05-05 Thread Robert Lauriston
The subprojects are referenced in the main project's configuration file and table of contents? I think the MIF2Go Yahoo list is the main source of support: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mif2go/info On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:10 AM, Anne Magee wrote: > My company has asked me to test Omnihel

Re: Update All for Paragraph Tags in TOC

2015-04-30 Thread Robert Lauriston
If the template wasn't documented well enough that you can use it successfully, I'd bet that it's not designed properly either. On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Linda Garneau wrote: > I'm going to get back to you all once I clean this up. Going to try and get > the guy who created the template i

Re: Update All for Paragraph Tags in TOC

2015-04-30 Thread Robert Lauriston
It sounds like maybe your template is not designed correctly. How many files does it include and what are their names? ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsu

Re: Update All for Paragraph Tags in TOC

2015-04-30 Thread Robert Lauriston
This is pretty confusing because neither templates nor TOCs are properly documented. 1. Make a backup of the project if you don't have one already. 2. Open the book and delete the TOC from the book. (Delete any other generated files, such as IX.) 3. Delete the TOC file (and any other generated fil

Re: Importing Formats - Why don't all Character Formats convert?

2015-04-30 Thread Robert Lauriston
Have you tried checking the remove overrides option? If a paragraph has manual formatting and you don't check that option, the manual formatting will remain. On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 7:35 AM, Linda Garneau wrote: > ... When converting styles from a new template into a current document, it > seems

Re: Update All for Paragraph Tags in TOC

2015-04-28 Thread Robert Lauriston
If your template is set up correctly, creating a new TOC using Add > Table of Contents is a lot easier way to bring your TOC into sync with the new template and ensure you don't retain some old cruft that will cause problems. If your template is properly designed, the only things you'd want to edi

Re: Update All for Paragraph Tags in TOC

2015-04-28 Thread Robert Lauriston
Create a new TOC from scratch. That will use the tags from the new template (assuming it's designed correctly). You should never edit generated entries in a TOC, any changes will be lost the next time you update. On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 6:45 AM, Linda Garneau wrote: > > I just successfully impor

Re: What FM plugin suite give the most bang?

2015-04-24 Thread Robert Lauriston
I was really impressed by Finalyser but didn't have the budget for it. I'm not sure if they're still localizing for English. http://www.squidds.de/finalyser/ On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:35 AM, wrote: > > Hi, guys...I'm using FM11 unstructured and I maintain quite a large > document set...10 book

Re: What is your experience with FM12 using the 5K Retina screen?

2015-04-15 Thread Robert Lauriston
FrameMaker will run on a Mac only in a Windows emulator. Seems like most people use Parallels. Here's their knowledge base article on Retina displays: http://kb.parallels.com/en/114700 The native resolution of my 15-inch Retina MacBook's screen is 2880x1800, which is about 220 ppi. If I switch it

Re: Flare vs DITA

2015-04-14 Thread Robert Lauriston
Given that you're a very advanced user, you should just get the free trial of Flare and draw your own conclusions as to whether it would be cost-effective for your purposes. On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Gillian Flato wrote: > I have used unstructured Frame for 15 years. I am an advanced user

Re: Flare vs DITA

2015-04-14 Thread Robert Lauriston
If you DON'T have FrameMaker or aren't familiar with using it to author DITA, and aren't chained to DITA, Flare would probably be way, way easier. There's probably some set of requirements where structured FrameMaker would be the best and/or most cost-effective tool for the job these days, but it'

Re: Flare vs DITA

2015-04-13 Thread Robert Lauriston
; Thanks > Gillian > > >> On Apr 13, 2015, at 9:08 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote: >> >> You can write topics with any tool, but Flare sort of forces you to, >> since the source is one file per topic (at least down to some heading >> level). >> >> Flare

Re: FM7 and Zapf Dingbats

2015-04-13 Thread Robert Lauriston
You can't just paste the character in that field. You need to look up the hex code or key sequence in the FrameMaker 7 FrameMaker Character Sets (Windows) PDF. Be sure to use the FM7 version of that doc and not a later version. There may be other issues with the font installation. The last time I

Re: FM7 and Zapf Dingbats

2015-04-13 Thread Robert Lauriston
The Zapf Dingbats fix I remember was for FM8, when the switch to Unicode broke all that stuff. I don't recall FM 7.2 having any special issues with Zapf. On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Art Campbell wrote: > There was some kind of Zapf Dingbat fix released years ago, but I'm a fairly > consiste

Re: Flare vs DITA

2015-04-13 Thread Robert Lauriston
Flare's not a DITA authoring tool the way Oxygen, XMetal, or structured FrameMaker are. Oxygen is kind of like a DITA-based Flare. Flare can export DITA, but since Flare's source is not as structured, the DITA output might need some work before it would be usable. Anything you *can* do with Flare

Re: Flare vs DITA

2015-04-13 Thread Robert Lauriston
You can write topics with any tool, but Flare sort of forces you to, since the source is one file per topic (at least down to some heading level). Flare templates are extremely customizable. On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Gillian Flato wrote: > How does Flare compare to DITA? It seems like yo

Re: FrameMaker and SharePoint

2015-04-09 Thread Robert Lauriston
Source Control Explorer is a client for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Microsoft's source control system. On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 11:04 AM, David Spreadbury wrote: > Has anyone looked at or tried Microsoft Visual Studio - Source Control > Explorer. > The company I am with has adopted Visual

Re: FrameMaker and SharePoint

2015-04-08 Thread Robert Lauriston
There's no benefit to integration with a system that can't handle your projects. A lot of SharePoint's claimed capabilities are implemented more as proofs of concept than to meet the actual requirements of real-world use. The 100-file limit tells me that revision control is one of those. On Wed,

Re: FrameMaker and SharePoint

2015-04-08 Thread Robert Lauriston
Use SVN or Git instead. On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Michael Norton wrote: > We are moving from an older revision control system (StarTeam) to SharePoint > v2013. ... there is a 100 file upload limitation. ___ You are currently subscribed to framer

Re: html conversion query - columns

2015-03-30 Thread Robert Lauriston
You're using FrameMaker's built-in save as HTML feature? It's pretty lame. If you have RoboHelp, try generating WebHelp. Here's a cheat sheet on setting it up (the TCS documentation didn't cover it properly when I used it). http://lauriston.com/fm10_link_to_rh9.zip On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:15 P

Re: FrameMaker ExtendScript Webinar Materials

2015-03-30 Thread Robert Lauriston
I used ExtendScript to automate setting conditions in FrameMaker, generating a PDF, setting other conditions, and generating web help with RoboHelp. It worked for a while, then one day it stopped working. I couldn't figure out why, so I switched to FrameScript. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 12:30 PM, R

Re: post-processing a PDF with FM markers

2015-03-23 Thread Robert Lauriston
I've defined cross-references between FrameMaker files that worked across generated PDFs, provided the PDFs were in the same positions relative to each other in the directory structure (e.g. all in the same directory) as the FrameMaker books were. It used to be that all the files in all the books

Re: Looking for an easier way to convert FM12 files to MIF12

2015-03-06 Thread Robert Lauriston
DZbatcher will let you write a batch file that will do that. On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 10:43 AM, wrote: > This isn't a really big deal, but it would seem like there must be an easier > way to save the FM12 files as MIF12 files without having to open each file > and save it individually. ___

Re: creating multiple table of contents in one FrameMaker document

2015-03-02 Thread Robert Lauriston
See "Generate a table of contents or list for a single document" in the online help. On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Abungu, Salome wrote: > > Hi! I would like to create multiple table of contents in one document. ___ You are currently subscribed to

Re: Framemaker vs Flare for pdfs

2015-02-26 Thread Robert Lauriston
I had a similar experience with Flare 7.1. We had a really, really long list of table-related PDF bugs. On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Philo Calhoun wrote: > I tried unsuccessfully a year ago to move from FrameMaker to Flare. After > months with tech support to deal with various bugs in Flare

Re: Frame vs. Flare for My Needs

2015-02-25 Thread Robert Lauriston
Have you tried MIF2Go's Word output? It worked great for me. RoboHelp can also convert FrameMaker to Word, but I think MIF2Go is better. You might also try FrameMaker 12 (you could just use one copy as a conversion tool). If your outputs are PDF and Word, I think switching to Flare would cause mo

Re: Preface

2015-02-24 Thread Robert Lauriston
What do you mean by "preface"? What's in it? On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:16 PM, wrote: > Do you guys still add a preface to your manuals? No one reads them and they > cost money if you're translating the manuals, so I've heard that a lot of > companies are moving away from including them. What's b

Re: FM12: PDF file size exploding

2015-02-24 Thread Robert Lauriston
x27;s something that works better. Especially >> since I suspect it hasn't been looked at in a long time. Would you believe, >> it was still set to be compatible with Acrobat 4.0? >> >> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Robert Lauriston >> wrote: >>> >&g

Re: FM12: PDF file size exploding

2015-02-24 Thread Robert Lauriston
That seems bizarre. On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Lin Sims wrote: > FYI to all, I changed the image compression options from JPEG to off, since > we only use either SVGs or PNGs in our documents. > > The file size dropped dramatically. As in, it's back to what I expected. _

Re: FM12: PDF file size exploding

2015-02-23 Thread Robert Lauriston
uck with that as part of the process). > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Robert Lauriston > wrote: >> >> Are of the image compression options different? >> >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Lin Sims wrote: >> > Nope. It's off by default. I had sw

Re: FM12: PDF file size exploding

2015-02-23 Thread Robert Lauriston
sn't as useful as I'd hoped, so the > next time I created the PDF, I made sure it was off. > > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Robert Lauriston > wrote: >> >> If that happened to me, I'd still want to know where the bloat was >> coming from. P

Re: FM12: PDF file size exploding

2015-02-23 Thread Robert Lauriston
If that happened to me, I'd still want to know where the bloat was coming from. PDFs larger than 10MB still present problems for me on occasion, and files becoming 4X larger without any additional data strongly suggests that a property setting was inappropriately changed in the upgrade or some new

Re: Conditional text by paragraph tag?

2015-02-11 Thread Robert Lauriston
The idea of FrameMaker's backup files is similar to the idea of its network locking: both seemed like a good idea in the 80s. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com.

Re: Conditional text by paragraph tag?

2015-02-11 Thread Robert Lauriston
When trying a potentially destructive kludge, I save, close, and make a .zip of the project directory first. On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Fred Ridder wrote: > No, in fact I *don't* let FrameMaker generate .backup.fm files because they > aren't really backups. They are just renamed versions of

Re: converting FM cross references to xrefs

2015-02-05 Thread Robert Lauriston
For unstructured, MIF2Go (which is now free open-source) worked for me. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr.

Re: converting FM cross references to xrefs

2015-02-05 Thread Robert Lauriston
Structured or unstructured FM? On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Robert Carel wrote: > Does anyone have a sample conversion table that converts FrameMaker cross > references to XML? ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.co

Re: NOT a "How Do I". Query re conditionaling table columns

2015-02-02 Thread Robert Lauriston
I think it's basically for the same reason that you can't easily comment out a table column in HTML. Unlike a table row, a column is not a continuous set of elements. It's one set of elements for each row in the table. Implementing column-level conditions would thus be a much larger challenge than

Re: Third party tool to automatically created PDF from a FrameMaker book file

2015-01-28 Thread Robert Lauriston
The free utility DZBatcher makes it easy to script generation of PDFs from FrameMaker. http://www.miramo.com/dzbatcher2.html As Scott notes, using that in a continuous integration system would require a license for FM Server. It's also probably a dumb idea based on a lack of insight into the diff

Re: Restart page number with "1" multiple times in a file

2015-01-23 Thread Robert Lauriston
Stop using the $chapnum variable and just set n=1 wherever you want to restart. On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Margaret Bustion wrote: > > Is it possible to restart with number “1” multiple times in a single file. > Each page number uses the chapter number as a prefix, but there are 500 > cha

Re: FrameMaker on MacOS Retina display?

2015-01-19 Thread Robert Lauriston
The native resolution of my 15-inch Retina MacBook's screen is 2880x1800, which is about 220 ppi. If I switch it to that mode, everything is unreadable and lots of UI elements are too small to click accurately. This mode is occasionally useful for editing large graphics. The default mode is 1440x9

Re: FrameMaker on MacOS Retina display?

2015-01-15 Thread Robert Lauriston
Try SwitchResX and choose one of the HiDPI settings. On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Alan Houser wrote: > Colleagues, > > I'm migrating from a 13" MacBook Pro to a 13" Retina MacBook Pro. On the new > system, much of the FrameMaker user interface text (top-level menus, dialog > box text, etc.) i

Re: FM 10 sometimes changes graphics paths

2015-01-14 Thread Robert Lauriston
I suspect what's happening here is that FM won't accept the relative path because it does not exist. If you put the file in F:\Customer\project\translation\incoming\x\x\x\x it would probably preserve it. On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote: > "FrameMaker sto

Re: FM 10 sometimes changes graphics paths

2015-01-14 Thread Robert Lauriston
"FrameMaker stores relative paths whenever possible so that it can find an imported file even when you move both the document and the source file—as long as you keep the files in the same relative locations." http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/11.0/Using/WSd817046a44e105e21e63e3d11ab7f7960b-7e

Re: Generating web-based help

2015-01-07 Thread Robert Lauriston
An .exe file is not web help, and if clicking a help button in a web application prompted me to run an .exe file I would probably assume it was malware. On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Sharp, Amy wrote: > This question was posed Nov. 10, so I'm late responding -- I let messages > pile up. > > I

Re: Mif2Go: Suppressing line break for image source HTML definitions

2015-01-06 Thread Robert Lauriston
I don't know of such an option. You could run it through HTML Tidy or some other utility. On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Celine Deguire wrote: > Hello > > From Framemaker 11 on Windows 7, for conversion to HTML then later to XHTML > (for use with MS Helpviewer), the img src definitions are brok

Re: Frame 8-compatible file format?

2015-01-06 Thread Robert Lauriston
FrameMaker just ignores any MIF tags it doesn't recognize, so there should be no problem opening MIF 12 in FM8. I've gone between many different FM versions and never had a problem. As Rick notes FM 12 > MIF 12 > FM 8 is a better choice than FM 12 > MIF 7 > FM 8. __

Re: Setup has detected . . .

2015-01-03 Thread Robert Lauriston
Did you apply the Acrobat 9.2 update? Did you check the Programs and Features control panel to make sure that some newer version of Reader or Acrobat is not installed? ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list

Re: Suggested workflows for single-sourcing with FrameMaker -> RoboHelp + P4V

2015-01-02 Thread Robert Lauriston
Source control *should not* be relevant to single-sourcing except insofar as you might automate builds with scripts. I've never had a problem using .fm files with source control. If you're converting to .mif on the theory that P4 requires it, that's not true. I did not find RoboHelp 9 at all sour

Re: RoboHelp or Frame to confluence

2015-01-02 Thread Robert Lauriston
I find Confluence vastly superior to using Word's track changes or PDF comments, though it can't integrate with FrameMaker (or Flare) directly. FrameMaker > Word > Confluence is the best kludge I've found. https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/19789/converting-from-framemaker-to-confluence-4 C

Re: Can FrameMaker 12 run in Linux?

2015-01-02 Thread Robert Lauriston
Doesn't look like it, which doesn't surprise me: https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/search?name=framemaker&search=app: https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/search/?name=adobe+acrobat&search=app On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) wrote: > > Has

Re: How to create PDF without forced line-break

2014-12-26 Thread Robert Lauriston
Linefeeds should not cause problems for text-to-speech software. Adobe Reader's Read Out Loud feature ignores them. Adobe has some information on accessibility: http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/acrobat.html On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 5:45 PM, OISHIHIROFUMI wrote: > Do you have any ideas

Re: Viewing prior posts

2014-12-23 Thread Robert Lauriston
Yes, at least theoretically. http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/ On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Steve Madison wrote: > Is it possible to view posts made to the list within the past few months….or > even further back? ... > Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and in

Re: Unicode Character Pallette in Frame 12.3/W8.1

2014-12-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
red by > creating a sample text string in a test file before attempting to insert > special characters into and adjacent to the string. > > -Original Message- > From: robert.lauris...@gmail.com [mailto:robert.lauris...@gmail.com] On > Behalf Of Robert Lauriston > Sent:

Re: Unicode Character Pallette in Frame 12.3/W8.1

2014-12-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
Are you certain you have all the same fonts installed on the second machine? On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Charles Richardson wrote: > I use the Character Palette successfully on a W8.1/64-bit machine running > FM11 (11.0.2.384) to enter special characters. No previous problems with > FM10.

Re: FrameMaker documentation

2014-12-19 Thread Robert Lauriston
I believe the Asian-language doc for FrameMaker 7 was made obsolete by support for Unicode added in FM8. It's online: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/8.0/chinese_korean.pdf The newly revised FM12 docs cover that under "Asian language support." On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 1:16 AM, Klaus Daube

Re: Page count even or no

2014-12-17 Thread Robert Lauriston
When it's my choice, no facing pages, no blank pages, the cover is page 1. On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Gillian Flato wrote: > Do you guys still follow print protocols and produce PDFs with an even number > of pages per chapter, or no, since everyone reads PDFs online and hardly > anyone pr

Re: why view on phone WAS: online FrameMaker 12 Documentation totally revamped

2014-12-16 Thread Robert Lauriston
Microsoft reportedly didn't use FrameMaker or RoboHelp to create online help: http://www.techwr-l.com/archives/0308/techwhirl-0308-00155.html#.VJCxcydg6iM Microsoft Press has used FrameMaker for some books and probably still does. They did the MMoS4 in InDesign. __

Re: why view on phone WAS: online FrameMaker 12 Documentation totally revamped

2014-12-16 Thread Robert Lauriston
The named destinations show that the Using FrameMaker PDF was generated by FrameMaker. The help source shows it was generated with RoboHelp. On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Fred Ridder wrote: > I'm curious about one thing (well, more than just one; but one thing in the > current context...): >

Re: why view on phone WAS: online FrameMaker 12 Documentation totally revamped

2014-12-16 Thread Robert Lauriston
Sure, it makes sense to generate all of the output formats and make them available as samples. But choosing Responsive HTML instead of WebHelp as the format for the primary copy of the help on adobe.com just serves to highlight its limitations. On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Craig Ede wrote: >

Re: why view on phone WAS: online FrameMaker 12 Documentation totally revamped

2014-12-16 Thread Robert Lauriston
Nobody walks around while using FrameMaker. My guess is they chose Responsive HTML over WebHelp for the same reason they dropped topics, used larger type and screen shots, added page breaks, and posted a URL to pages not visible to the public. On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Craig Ede wrote: >

Re: online FrameMaker 12 Documentation totally revamped; in PDF

2014-12-15 Thread Robert Lauriston
esktop made any more sense. On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Mike Wickham wrote: > I'm viewing on a monitor, not a phone. For me, the TOC button moves to the > bottom of the screen when window size is reduced. > > Mike Wickham > > On 12/15/2014 12:53 PM, Robert Lauriston wrot

Re: online FrameMaker 12 Documentation totally revamped; in PDF

2014-12-15 Thread Robert Lauriston
That seems like really bad UI to me. Not only does the TOC disappear, there's nothing you can click on to get it. Is that the default appearance of FrameMaker's / RoboHelp's Responsive HTML5 output? To me it looks amateurish and ugly, the kind of bad design that I was happy to lose when I migrated

Re: online FrameMaker 12 Documentation totally revamped; in PDF and HTML5

2014-12-12 Thread Robert Lauriston
The word "endnote" does not appear in the new PDF, so that's pretty definitely gone. On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Mike Wickham wrote: > Are you sure the items are missing? ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. S

Re: online FrameMaker 12 Documentation totally revamped; in PDF and HTML5

2014-12-12 Thread Robert Lauriston
> > This is covered in the FM manual topic "Create and maintain endnotes": > > http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/WSd817046a44e105e21e63e3d11ab7f7561e-7f49.html > > > > On Friday, December 12, 2014 2:03 PM, Robert Lauriston > wrote: > > > The searc

Re: online FrameMaker 12 Documentation totally revamped; in PDF and HTML5

2014-12-12 Thread Robert Lauriston
The search seems to be broken, e.g. the results for "footnote" do not include this "Create and edit footnotes" topic: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/WS6C3D24E6-2965-48bb-B6CF-50D1439AEB01.html Or maybe you just cut some content. Searching for "endnote" finds nothing. Something's wr

Re: online FrameMaker 12 Documentation totally revamped; in PDF and HTML5

2014-12-12 Thread Robert Lauriston
That obfuscated link resolves to http://help.stage.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/12.0/Help/Using/index.html which is presumably your internal-only staging area. If you remove the "stage." it works correctly. On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Maxwell Hoffmann wrote: > Here are the direct links to th

Re: How to Create Bibliography in FM?

2014-12-12 Thread Robert Lauriston
This is covered in the FM manual topic "Create and maintain endnotes": http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/WSd817046a44e105e21e63e3d11ab7f7561e-7f49.html On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote: > Don't use the footnote feature. Create a bibliograp

Re: How to Create Bibliography in FM?

2014-12-11 Thread Robert Lauriston
Don't use the footnote feature. Create a bibliography_entry paragraph format including an autonumber, then use a cross-reference in running text. Then you can cross-reference the same entry as many times as you like. On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Orly Zimmerman wrote: > HI All, > > I have bee

Re: Persist a variable to the next file

2014-12-08 Thread Robert Lauriston
Do you have some compelling reason to split chapters between files? On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 2:14 PM, wrote: > Nothing complicated about it: > > <$paratext[ChapterTitle]> > > I don't think the issue is the composition of the variable...it works fine > when the page has a paragraph tag Chapter Titl

Re: What is the situation with regards to buying used versions of FrameMaker?

2014-12-08 Thread Robert Lauriston
et) wrote: > Once a version 7.2 license has been used for an upgrade, it is no longer > available for sale (or transfer of license) any more – Robert Lauriston is > right about that. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-arch

Re: What is the situation with regards to buying used versions of FrameMaker?

2014-12-07 Thread Robert Lauriston
Adobe's KB article on license transfers: http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/transfer-product-license.html On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Hedley Finger wrote: > FrameMaker 7.2 was the last version I used, but the licence belonged to my > employer. Now I want to start using it agai

Re: seeking an elegant solution, somewhat OT

2014-11-26 Thread Robert Lauriston
I could use that too. I haven't found anything more elegant than a spreadsheet. I have an entry for every third-party .jar file and for new releases compare that column with the latest contents of the /lib directory to see if there's anything new. Most use Apache 2.0 or Eclipse 1.0. I also have Ap

Re: [RMX:NL] Re: Printing RoboHelp Topics by Filename

2014-11-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
If the report is complete, no reason. I'd check it once against a file listing to make sure. I wouldn't take anything RoboHelp purports to do on faith. On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Slager Timothy J wrote: > I'm not sure why you would want to mess with a command window, when you can > easily

Re: On the lookout for a new FM template

2014-11-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
I've seen very few FrameMaker templates outside of those bundled with the application, and most if not all of the ones I've seen reflected bad practices. On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Mikey Shine wrote: > I've never heard of any site like that. > > > > On Nov 21, 2014, at 2:06 PM, Steve Madis

Re: Docbook bookfile

2014-11-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
be better off trying to develop a docbook specialization of > DITA .. but that will have it's own special problems! > > ...scott > > On 11/21/14 8:37 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote: > > I doubt there are many FrameMaker DocBook users, since support was > just added in FM12.

Re: Docbook bookfile

2014-11-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
I doubt there are many FrameMaker DocBook users, since support was just added in FM12. In structured mode it should not convert XML to .fm. If you don't have FM12, I suggest downloading an eval copy. On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:42 AM, Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp wrote: > Now when I open a docbook book

Re: Tech Comm Suite 5

2014-11-20 Thread Robert Lauriston
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Gillian Flato wrote: > 2. What’s a good, relatively low-cost CMS to use with Tech Comm Suite 5? What do you want the CMS to do? > 3. How easy is it to convert unstructured Frame docs to DITA docs to be used > in Frame? Depends on how the unstructured FrameMak

Re: Docbook bookfile

2014-11-20 Thread Robert Lauriston
FrameMaker 12 is alleged to support DocBook. On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp wrote: > Hi, are there any docbook users out there …? > > I want to make a docbook book file with referenced 'chapters' (xml). To be > maintained in Framemaker as XML. Is that possible at all? >

Re: Break link in graphics imported by reference in FM 12?

2014-11-18 Thread Robert Lauriston
I think embedded graphics have caused FrameMaker users as many problems over the years as files on network drives have. Can you get your company to move your graphics from file servers to Subversion or some other revision control system? Then you can work with local copies and you won't have to mo

Re: mouse alternative

2014-11-11 Thread Robert Lauriston
y/UKBD > > Mike Wickham > > On 11/11/2014 12:40 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote: >> >> I use them with Kinesis Freestyle 2 keyboards with the VIP3 lifter >> attachment. I place the two parts of the keyboard about 6.5" apart. >> >> >> http://www.e

Re: mouse alternative

2014-11-11 Thread Robert Lauriston
ase. At my desk, I dock the laptop and have a larger Microsoft > wireless mouse. > > But, would like to try a trackpad - small for travel would be nice. > > Z > > -Original Message- > From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.

Re: mouse alternative

2014-11-11 Thread Robert Lauriston
I move my trackball from one side to the other occasionally to avoid exacerbating any pain on one side. On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Christenson, Pat wrote: > Also I trained myself to mouse left-handed. I'm naturally right-handed and a > chiropractor pointed out that my right hand is overwor

Re: mouse alternative

2014-11-11 Thread Robert Lauriston
Using a mouse makes my shoulder stiff and after a half hour or so I'm in serious pain. I don't think that gizmo would help. I switched to trackballs over 20 years ago. On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Stuart Rogers wrote: > Hi all, > > From time to time, people have mentioned problems with RSI du

Re: Test

2014-11-11 Thread Robert Lauriston
I'm seeing it on the framers list. On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 8:10 AM, Steve Madison wrote: > Is this the email address to send out Framemaker questions? If not, what is > the correct email? > > > > Thanks > > > > Steve > > > > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: > This e-mail messa

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