Interesting, I never knew about that feature either. In FM10 it shows
only those insets in open documents even if I choose a book from the
Select menu, is that the intended behavior?
Adobe should hire a competent UI designer to take all this additional
functionality that has been hidden into obscu
Right-click a .book file, select Open With, check "Always use the
selected program to open this kind of file," select FM11 (browse if
necessary), OK.
Do the same with an .fm file.
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Karen Robbins wrote:
> I recently moved from Frame 9 to 11. I updated several file
I gave up on rearranging the workspace in FM10. It wouldn't remember
where I put things and I encountered all kinds of bugs with undocked
windows and pods that went away when I used the default docked layout.
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On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:37 AM, Ian McDonald wrote:
> Hello fellow Framers,
>
> I'm looking to save small chunks of a FM9 file (9 chapter book, 600 pages)
> as XML for use in a standard text/content library.
It may be a slight exaggeration to say that no competent corporate IT
department will approve the use of Windows 8 until next year.
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I had a confusing problem with the three Zapf bullets my inherited
templates use for nested lists not rendering.
Eventually I figured out that the Type 1 font had never been installed
on my computer because the master font directory was missing the .pfb
file.
I didn't really want to install such
Is the PDF source readable in a text editor?
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:04 AM, Martha Lee wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have TCS 2.5, which I use to create a large documentation set that
> includes several manuals. I created a pdf that acts as the documentation set
> overview, and it has links (cross-ref
File > Add > Files, click the Name header to sort backwards, proceed as usual.
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Karen Robbins wrote:
> File names for my publication begin with a numeral (e.g., "1frontmatter.fm",
> "2preface.fm")--helps keep them in order more easily. Typically I might have
> 10
Yeah, it is the opposite of what you'd expect. In this case, it's
Microsoft's fault, not Adobe's.
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Karen Robbins wrote:
> That works! Thank you. But... what odd behavior even for an OS. :-)
>
> --Karen
>
>
> On Thu, Jan
I've looked at PDFs in a text editor and seen readable code. Maybe the
non-binary format is extinct as of some version of Acrobat.
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Dov Isaacs wrote:
>
> Please repeat after me, “PDF is a binary file format!” You cannot create,
> edit, or in most cases readily ex
Adobe Pi's character map is different than the Type 1 Zapf that used
to be included with FrameMaker, so without the old font the solid,
hollow, and square bullets in the template I inherited showed up as
question marks in my online help and PDF.
Maybe Adobe Pi was designed by the same morons who d
Does anyone have a comprehensive list of the three? five? FM settings
that can cause blank pages?
Every once in a while I need to clean them out of an inherited
document but I always forget to make a list.
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That seems like unnecessary extra work to me. You can get the same
results in FrameMaker:
1. open the book file
2. select the document after which you want the new documents to appear
3. select Add > Files
4. select the .fm files in reverse of the order in which you want them to appear
5. click Ad
Yes, I figured that out. I believe I called Adobe tech support about
the problem, so they should be aware of it.
You're right, there's nothing wrong with the design of Adobe Pi. The
moron was whoever did the Zapf > Pi mapping in FrameMaker 8.
The UI makeover in FM9 was wrong in so many ways that
I know a lot about OS/2. I covered operating systems for PC World from
1989 to 1993 and used every version from 1.0 to 4.0. It was
technically advanced in certain ways but utterly unsuitable for the
average users IBM somehow thought would buy it. Microsoft had no
choice but to unchain themselves fr
I wasn't suggesting editing it, just looking at the code to
troubleshoot the problem. Another option would be to look at the TPS
file. But if this is a known bug there's no reason to waste time
troubleshooting.
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain
(syed.hos...@aeris.net) wrote:
> Hi
Have you tried saving as .mif and searching for that font?
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Karen Robbins wrote:
> A file (generated file from a plain text source) keeps displaying the
> "unavailable fonts" error each time it opens.
>
> I've run Silicoin Prairie's Paragraph Tools on this file, an
Are you selecting all the documents in the book before using Show/Hide
Conditional Text?
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Judy Chen wrote:
> If someone could please help me, I’m having trouble turning on one specific
> conditional tag within my Frame 9 book and files. The properly
> conditionali
Some other CSS setting is higher priority.
Personally I think it's a bad idea to mess with the defaults for link
colors, so I'd fix it by deleting those from the stylesheet.
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Keith Hansen
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using FrameMaker 11 and RoboHelp 10 in Technical Com
Take the a:link and a:visited lines out of your CSS. Seems like
RoboHelp doesn't support that.
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Keith Hansen
wrote:
> I understand!
> ;-)
>
> Actually, the links can be any colors... The basic problem is still the same,
> regardless of which color I use for visit
I have TCS 3.5, save as PDF from FrameMaker 10, and generate WebHelp
with RoboHelp 9. I have the same "see " links in PDF
and WebHelp, the only difference is that RoboHelp suppresses the page
numbers.
It's not clear to me what you're trying to do.
"Currently have" makes it sound like you're migra
produce the help
> output. So, in the PDF output we do not want to include the 'For more
> information see' references to help topics (which is what these links are).
>
> Regards - Steve
>
> Steve Whalley
> Technical Author
> KSS Fuels
>
>
> -----Orig
In that case, forget about embedding links to external Excel files.
Place the spreadsheet in the document as a table, maybe as a chapter,
and use a cross-reference.
FrameMaker could probably handle that sort of thing more reliably
using its data publishing features.
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:43 A
I've found that some conversion tasks go faster when I export Word to
RTF and import that in FrameMaker, and others go faster when I copy in
Word and paste as RTF.
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The file dates on the import filters have changed, but the menu
choices have not, still includes Word 2007, which has been there since
FM8. Adobe claims no improvements, and as of FM10 I haven't seen any.
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Art Campbell wrote:
> You're two frame releases behind curr
There are a bunch of issues about that on the adobe.com RoboHelp
forums. I think the problems are mostly Microsoft's fault.
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&tbo=d&q=+site:forums.adobe.com+embed+video+chm&sa=X&ei=3X0JUdruJej7ygGHqoCYBA&ved=0CFMQrQIwAw&biw=1680&bih=933
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We've encountered JavaScript bugs in Internet Explorer 8 that break
the TOC and search in RoboHelp 9's WebHelp output.
We could fix that by upgrading to TCS 4, but that would cost $800, so
I might as well look at other options for generating web help from
unstructured FM.
I've got MIF2Go so I'm t
I hadn't tried generating web help with WebWorks in a long time. It's
very slick. The output looks very professional.
They handle context-sensitive help calls in a way I haven't seen
before. The output contains an HTML file for each TopicAlias marker,
so you can call it with /.html. Though
for my
Yes, the Firefox issues are definitely related to the oddities of our
application. The help is served by Tomcat without Apache, it's https,
the help is on a different port than some of the calls ... not a
plain-vanilla environment by any means.
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Jeremy H. Griffith w
This is a web application, https being served by Tomcat.
We've encountered browser-version-specific RoboHelp rendering bugs
with MSIE, Firefox, and Chrome. Typically if I test the help on an
Apache server it works fine, so the only way for me to troubleshoot
the issues and test potential fixes is
Once I get the output customized as necessary, I shouldn't need
support, though we do need to support new browsers.
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Johan Anglemark wrote:
> No it doesn't, but when your year is out you no longer get the quarterly
> software updates from them if you don't renew. Mo
.docx is internally a Zip archive, so you can rename the file to .zip,
extract the contents, and maybe retrieve some or all of your work.
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an to switch to WWP. It fixes the rendering bug with RoboHelp 9
output in IE8 and the output looks much better than what we've been
getting from RoboHelp.
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
> I hadn't tried generating web help with WebWorks in a long time. It'
I did not find Flare's FrameMaker import clean enough to go directly
to an output format.
http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=13473
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6:38 AM, Art Campbell wrote:
> I'd go with MIF2GO (first choice) or
>
> Flare... Flare links to FM files nicely for single
Endnote?
http://endnote.com/
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Steve Rickaby
wrote:
> Do any academic editors out there know of any software that will take an
> existing reference list made up of entries in a variety of formats and render
> a list in which all references have the same format?
Save As PDF works perfectly for me so long as the currently selected
printer is Adobe PDF. I set that as the default printer and if I need
hard copy print from a PDF.
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Jeff Coatsworth
wrote:
> Jeff,
>
>
>
>I am using the Save As to generate the PDF.
That's a pretty radical change. Does FM11 not create .lck files when
you open an .fm file?
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Ken Poshedly wrote:
> I just learned from Adobe tech support (via phone call) that the permissions
> in
> FrameMaker 11.0 have been modified so that the data files should a
to
> do before. Capisce?
>
> -- Ken in Atlanta
>
>
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> To: Ken Poshedly ; framers@lists.frameusers.com;
> TECHWR-L
> Sent: Wed, February 13, 2013 12:11:02 PM
> Subject: Re: "FrameMaker has detected a p
I haven't worked anywhere without source control in years, but before
that, I encountered so many problems editing FrameMaker files on
network shared drives that I eventually decided it was easier to work
on a local copy.
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Ken Poshedly wrote:
> 1. Copied the entir
If Save As PDF isn't working for you because you have not selected
Adobe PDF or some other true Adobe PostScript printer, printing to
Adobe PDF will solve the problem, not because there's anything wrong
with Save As PDF but because you've selected Adobe PDF.
I believe there were some bugs in Save
Note that Ken and his coworker were able to reproduce the problem.
Sometimes FrameMaker has problems using source files are on network
file servers, sometimes it doesn't. If you've experienced no problems,
count yourself lucky.
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Alan T Litchfield
wrote:
> If it w
If I were working on the kind of project where the one-file-per-topic
model seemed like a plus, I'd focus on authoring tools that support
DocBook and/or DITA.
I don't think that projects so large that you need multiple writers
make that model desirable. Usually individual writers own larger
chunks
Good demonstration of how finicky FM is about networks and how hard
those problems can be to diagnose.
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Jeff Coatsworth
wrote:
> I'm getting that one right after this one occurs - 11014, 7732533, 7724103,
> 5985284
>
> I've figured out that it's something to do wi
Adobe support said working on local copies was the workaround for the problem.
That's not the same as saying that FrameMaker can't work with files on
a network drive, just a tacit admission that the implementation is
buggy. There's nothing FM11-specific about that. You can find lots of
examples on
Those Adobe 5.5.x templates are HORRIBLE. They reflect some fairly
deep misapprehensions about FrameMaker and are badly designed and full
of cruft.
Here's a clean, minimalist template with no extraneous crap. It's
intended as a guide to linking a FrameMaker project to RoboHelp but
you can just ign
Best practice is to use a version control system such as Subversion.
Gives you the performance of local files, all the advantages of
network sharing, plus additional advantages.
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 1:40 PM, rebecca officer
wrote:
> Hi Gary
>
> That's interesting. It sounds very like the probl
File > Project Settings > Edit (conversion settings for FrameMaker
documents), select the paragraph style, check Pagination.
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Nancy Allison wrote:
> I am creating a RoboHelp project out of a FrameMaker book. I can't find a way
> to break the imported .fm files int
Create two sets of master page definitions and import the one you want?
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Lise Bible wrote:
> Is there a good way to switch back and forth between A4 and 8.5x11 page
> sizes, depending on which version of a book you want to print?
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A3 is 11.693" x 16.535".
Brits are used to putting up with American English in technical
documentation, but if you had to deliver two versions, it would
probably be most efficient to handle one as a translation.
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Alison Craig
wrote:
> What if you also had to swi
es of FrameMaker
source to Confluence efficiently.
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
> Version control is the other huge sticking point. Except for a few
> unusable prototypes, I have found no wiki with document-level version
> control a la branching in Subversion or
What article?
There are various sound business reasons for charging different prices
for software in different countries.
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Alan T Litchfield
wrote:
> I have complained on this list before about price gouging by Adobe, but this
> article (albeit about music, refer
What's the limitation of autonumbers that would make it impractical?
I've done line numbers in code listings that way.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Tori Muir wrote:
> It turns out there's an additional wrinkle to this: client now wants line
> numbers to be contiguous through the entire, 470+
If the line height is consistent, you could put numbers in a separate
frame with a separate text flow.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Tori Muir wrote:
> Ummm... If I have a paragraph that wraps to 8 lines, I get how it would
> number the top line, but how does it number the other 7?
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Nothing I've read suggests to me that FM11 is professional-grade.
Something's very wrong with Adobe's quality control.
I'd like to dump FM10 but haven't found a practical alternative.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Rick Quatro wrote:
> Hi Harpreet,
>
> OK, this does work, but it is totally un
Thinking about the bizarre UI bugs Rick Quatro reported today, I'm
wondering how the product got to this sad state.
FM started out on Unix, and a lot of dialogs seem like they haven't
changed since then, or at least not since the original Mac and Windows
ports in 1990 and 1992. But that stuff was
That's one of the reasons I prefer to put all my content into a single
.fm file. My books typically have only three or four files:
booknameFM.fm for front matter used only for PDF, booknameTOC.fm, and
sometimes booknameIX.fm.
Once upon a time computers weren't powerful enough to handle a
200-page
1. I have to copy a bunch of unformatted tables from a wiki into an
unstructured FrameMaker 10 document, which will be delivered as PDF.
(Someday we'll just leave them on the wiki but there are various
practical reasons we can't.) Here's my workflow.
- copy a table in browser
- paste as text in FM
I see that there's a Copy Special > Copy Table Column Width command.
Unfortunately it works for only one column at a time, but that'll
still be faster than what I was doing.
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I create two identical styles, e.g. Heading 2 and Heading 2 Break (or
Nobreak, depending on which is the most common), and define them
differently in RoboHelp.
Using markers is extra work and could cause problems if you have to
switch to another tool.
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I can say from experience that my method is quick, easy, and gives you full
control.
On Mar 1, 2013 8:26 AM, "Robert Lauriston" wrote:
> I create two identical styles, e.g. Heading 2 and Heading 2 Break (or
> Nobreak, depending on which is the most common), and define them
I found the RoboHelp FM integration forum helpful.
http://forums.adobe.com/community/robohelp/robohelp_framemaker
Though if you have the budget, this would be the time to switch to a
different tool.
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Adobe's OWL UI doesn't look or feel much like Office 2010 to me.
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 8:19 PM, wrote:
> The interface on all the other products, even those that support the Mac OS
> are slavishly devoted to Microsoft design efforts.
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The big plus with using paragraph tags is that you are defining
general rules with exceptions, so can make global changes.
For example, if you have been breaking at Heading 1 and Heading 2, but
want to add breaks for Heading 3, it's one change in RoboHelp, plus
applying Heading 3 Nobreak in FrameM
Select all files in the book, Format > Document > PDF Setup, select
the appropriate PDF Job Option, and click Set.
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Thomas Scalise
wrote:
> I am running FrameMaker 10 and Adobe Distiller 11 on WIN 7 Professional. I
> have a simple manual with a Title Page, a TOC,
http://www.dtptools.com/product.asp?id=mfid
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Alison Craig
wrote:
> I don’t use InDesign at all, so can someone tell me if it’s possible to open
> FM9 files in InDesign?
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How about exporting from FM to Word and using a master document to
combine all the parts?
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There was an application called FrameViewer but it was discontinued long ago.
If you have FrameMaker source and don't have a copy of FrameMaker, you
can install a free trial version.
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 5:07 AM, Christin CG. Gudme wrote:
>
> Is there a FrameMaker Reader/Viewer?
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If a bunch of files that used to be in FrameMaker format are now in
Word format, someone converted them. FM11 has nothing to do with it.
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Peter Schorer wrote:
> hundreds of the old Frame files ...
> have been converted into Microsoft Word files! That wasn't done
>
FrameMaker would be of zero use to me and many other people if they
changed their source format, since that would break all the add-ons
that make it valuable.
FrameMaker already supports (more or less) a standard source format, DITA XML.
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Robert Leif wrote:
> This
It's more efficient to apply the character format before inserting the
hyperlink, since it stays highlighted.
I'm sure it's possible to automate that with ExtendScript or
FrameScript, or maybe with a free Windows keystroke macro recorder
utility.
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:41 AM, wrote:
> Over t
Exactly how are you "inserting" the images into the FrameMaker document"?
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Steve Rickaby
wrote:
> When the images are inserted into the FrameMaker document and
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Maybe FrameMaker 7 is passing part of the drop shadow information
unchanged because of something added to Illustrator after 2002 that it
doesn't know how to process.
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Steve Rickaby
wrote:
> At 11:55 -0700 12/3/13, Robert Lauriston wrote:
>
>>Ex
Agreed.
I can also vouch for URL help calls being more difficult when there
are multiple folders.
Another reason I'm migrating to WebWorks is that you can do map ID
calls with a simple URL, no code required in the application beyond
what's generated by WW.
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Jeff C
There's a copy of TCS 3.5 (which includes FM9) for sale here:
http://www.softwaremedia.com/adobe/technical-communications-suite/technical-communication-suite-35.html?ovchn=FRO&ovcrn=65134506&ovtac=CMP&ovcpn=technical-communication-suite-3.5-adobe-65134506&utm_campaign=GGL_Prod_Listing&utm_source=G
Oops, that's the one with FM10. TCS 2 and 2.5 included FM9.
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
> There's a copy of TCS 3.5 (which includes FM9) for sale here:
>
> http://www.softwaremedia.com/adobe/technical-communications-suite/technical-communication-
If a figure is close to the cross-reference, why have a cross-reference at all?
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Steve Rickaby
wrote:
> Blindingly obvious possibly, but it's taken me a couple of decades to think
> of it.
>
> When optimising figure positioning to move figures as close to the
> c
4, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Steve Rickaby
wrote:
> At 09:52 -0700 14/3/13, Robert Lauriston wrote:
>
>>If a figure is close to the cross-reference, why have a cross-reference at
>>all?
>
> Here are some reasons:
>
> . Convention
>
> . Readability
>
> . Discriminati
Does anyone use Crucible for reviewing draft documentation?
If so, what format do you use? My source is in FrameMaker and I have
WebWorks ePublisher, RoboHelp, and MIF2Go, so I can export a wide
variety of formats.
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Hmm. Structured FrameMaker and XML source might work. Maybe I'll give
that a try.
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Laura Lemay wrote:
>
> I haven't used crucible, but we use both review board and gerrit for doc
> reviews, which are similar systems. From looking through the crucible screen
> sh
You have both FM10 and a beta of FM12 on your system? That could be
your problem right there.
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Klaus Daube wrote:
> May I add to my problem report:
>
> From a beta version of the future FM i can create PDF by Save as PDF with no
> problem...
> I have only now test
FrameMaker's not so good for people who can't live with rules-defined output.
InDesign's the page layout application of choice for those who need
fine control over page layout for books that are going to be
professionally printed.
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Steve Rickaby
wrote:
> Page bal
You could have a third book including all non-generated files from
both books and incorporate its TOC and index by reference in the two
real books.
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:53 PM, wrote:
> Hi, guys...
>
> I have a 1,500+ FM11 book that is divided into two volumes. The book has a
> TOC and Inde
Before you saved as PDF, did you forget to select the Adobe PDF printer?
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Rick Quatro wrote:
> Hi Framers,
>
> I have a FrameMaker 10 document that uses a custom TTF symbols font. The
> symbols display fine in my FrameMaker document. When I Save As PDF, the
> symb
You don't need to install anything to run ExtendScript scripts with
FM11, do you?
http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2011/10/extendscript-of-the-week-deleting-unused-formats-in-a-book.html
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Here's the ExtendScript I linked to earlier. The DeleteUnused...Fmt
functions would seem to make it pretty simple. You could maybe create
a giant scratch book containing all your .fm files and run the script
once.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/scripting/WSfbe285cf4bf3fffd-491bdbc212f9bbd9
Conflicts between extensions were more common in those days. FileMaker
for Windows originally had the same .fm extension as FrameMaker.
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Steve Rickaby
wrote:
> The only question remains as to why Word and FrameMaker documents had the
> same extent, when their int
I had to phone them.
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eem Hosain
(syed.hos...@aeris.net) wrote:
> Robert Lauriston wrote:
>> I had to phone them.
>
> Ok-a-a-y ... I am confused now. I just spoke with an Adobe sales rep who
> claims that they are no longer offering the Upgrade Plan for Acrobat and
> FrameMaker ... huhn!?!?
>
&g
Around a year ago I spent 4-5 months evaluating wikis with the goal of
migrating from FrameMaker. Confluence 4 and MindTouch were by far the
most practical, since they're based on XHTML rather than wiki markup.
One big challenge was converting thousands of pages of legacy docs. I
got MIF2Go workin
Confluence 4's import path is supposed to be MS Word, but there are
several bugs that make it unusable: cross-references are broken,
numbers are converted to plain text instead of ordered lists, and each
node of the TOC is sorted alphabetically.
I think Atlassian is in a catch-22 as regards the te
If it were that simple, someone would have done it already. The
hundreds or thousands of target URLs need to be defined during import
based on topic names and used when converting the internal
cross-references.
https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/19789/converting-from-framemaker-to-confluence-
The standard iOS terms are tap, drag, flick, swipe, double tap, pinch,
and touch and hold. Somebody put some thought into making them
unambiguous. (The difference between flick and swipe is hard to
explain, but meaningful to experienced users.)
See "Apps Respond to Gestures, Not Clicks" in Apple's
Use one of the Current Date variables, definition modified to
<$monthname> <$year>.
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:01 AM, Timothy DeWees wrote:
> I have a document that changes very frequently, sometimes every month. The
> client likes to have a “version” in the header, such as “March 2013
> Version”,
That's what I suggested. Note that you can't use those in user-defined
variables, you need to edit one of the system date variables. Current
Date (Short) is probably the best choice. You could also use
Modification Date (Short), or the (Long) versions of either.
Modification Date can be problematic
You can't include variables in cross-reference definitions. You could
probably use the <$volnum> building block to accomplish that.
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:29 AM, wrote:
> Hi, guys...I have an FM11 book that is composed of two document books, with
> each book having multiple volumes, them each
I'm starting to migrate my source from CVS to Subversion, which made
me realize that despite being thrown together in Adobe's Technical
Communication Suite, there's no overlap between the integrated version
control. FrameMaker supports SharePoint and Documentum, RoboHelp
supports Subversion and MS
I believe the Publish command comes with TCS, but when I played with
it the workflow seemed wrong.
The simple workflow where you just create a RoboHelp project and link
to (rather than import) FrameMaker source is not documented very well,
if at all. I created a cheat sheet for my own future refer
Why pay anything to upgrade FrameMaker? Adobe hasn't added any
features that I'd pay for since FM8 added Unicode support. I never do
anything new with it so I never need support.
What requirements do you have that FM9's not meeting?
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Tori Muir wrote:
> Question: M
Why do you feel a need to stop using FrameMaker just because you don't
want to send Adobe any more money?
I own a number of old Adobe apps that still work fine. I use Photoshop
5 and Acrobat 8 all the time. I still have FrameMaker 6 and
Illustrator 7, though haven't had reason to install them on m
Odd that performance has degraded over time. You might try
defragmenting the hard drive, though with modern hardware that really
shouldn't cause much trouble.
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