Save as HTML causes unstructured FM10 to hang

2012-04-20 Thread Robert Lauriston
I have a 200-page book with a simple template and consistent formatting I can save as a monolithic .html file with no problem. I also have a 1000-page legacy book with a complicated template and inconsistent formatting, when I try to save that as .html FM10 churns away for a while, then appears to

Frame -> MindTouch: WAS RE: Save as HTML causes unstructured FM10 to hang

2012-04-23 Thread Robert Lauriston
lto:framers-bounces at > lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston > Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 3:27 PM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Re: Save as HTML causes unstructured FM10 to hang > > FWIW I've got a MIF2Go setup that exports MindTouch XHTML, I can

Disappearing Palettes

2012-04-23 Thread Robert Lauriston
I've had similar problems with FM10. Sometimes the problem is that objects are appearing behind other objects (usually a document window, sometimes another pod) instead of coming to the front. Try resizing the document window or moving it around to see if there are things hiding behind it. Eventua

automating FrameMaker 10 + RoboHelp 9 build

2012-04-23 Thread Robert Lauriston
For future reference, I posted full details in Adobe's RoboHelp > FrameMaker Integration forum: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/980779 On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote: > For future reference, with minor changes, > \Samples\ScriptsAndUtilities\Cond

Helping FM find graphics files

2012-04-24 Thread Robert Lauriston
In that case, the translation agency screwed up. They should fix the incorrect paths at no additional cost to your company. On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Menahem Rosen wrote: > They got the whole file structure to begin with. What I need to get back are > only the translated fm files.

Repetitious Loading of Image Files

2012-04-27 Thread Robert Lauriston
I think the French directory needs to contain all 100 files in order for "Update Document To Use New Path" to work. Too bad Windows doesn't have proper aliases. On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Nancy Allison wrote: > I have retaken screen shots from our UI in French, giving them the identical

FrameMaker Feature Requests

2012-04-30 Thread Robert Lauriston
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Shmuel Wolfson wrote: > - In the Find/Change dialog box: I would like the search text to be > highlighted when I press CTRL+F, so that instead of having to click in the > text box, erase the previous text and type new text, I could simply press > CTRL+F, type the t

Activating and Deactivating FM 10 License

2012-04-30 Thread Robert Lauriston
See LicenseFAQ.html in the FrameMaker program directory.

Verma on Educational pricing

2012-08-06 Thread Robert Lauriston
Maybe they're pricing FrameMaker high in order to promote sales of the TCS suite. On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Shmuel Wolfson wrote: > FrameMaker pricing has been going way up since version 10, when they started > charging $400 to upgrade only ONE version. At one point there was a rumor > that

Template for four-page brochure?

2012-08-06 Thread Robert Lauriston
Creating a standard four-page 8.5" x 11" document is the easiest if your printer can handle it. If you save as PDF, Acrobat has booklet printing options that will handle the layout. On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Nancy Allison wrote: > I need to create a template for a four-page Quick Start Card

Template for four-page brochure?

2012-08-06 Thread Robert Lauriston
When you say "printer" do you mean a print shop or a fancy large-format laser printer? In either case, you should be able to create the four-page 8.5x11 PDF and use that to print two-up double-sided on 11x17, but if you're talking about a shop, call them to make sure. On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:56

Template Override Madness

2012-08-01 Thread Robert Lauriston
You're sure the overrides aren't on the master or reference pages? When I was cleaning up some legacy docs in FM10 recently, I found that any time a character tag was applied to a whole paragraph it would show up as an override. The only way I know to stop that is a kludge: add a space at the end

templates showing usage WAS: Hello (FM 11 Documentation)

2012-08-02 Thread Robert Lauriston
First, Adobe would have to develop a template feature. You can kludge something like templates but it's clunky and undocumented, especially with regard to TOCs and other generated files. On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Craig Ede wrote: > I think David is really right on the money with these com

Batch Update of FM file templates

2012-08-03 Thread Robert Lauriston
Doesn't ring a bell, but Silicon Prairie's utilities are functionally similar. http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/ On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Nancy Allison wrote: > Hi, all. > > I used to know how to update FM file templates in a batch, but I need a > refresher. The process went like thi

FM10 paragraph / character tag display disappearing

2012-08-06 Thread Robert Lauriston
I've been having a problem lately where the paragraph / character tag display at the lower left corner is replaced by a ParaID display. Sometimes it's a big problem not being able to see what tags have been applied. Suggestions?

chapnum appears twice in PDF bookmarks

2012-08-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
I had to duplicate an existing page layout with the chapter number above the title. My goal was to make the paragraph tags compatible with Word, Confluence 4 XHTML, and MindTouch XHTML for cleaner export. Autonumber for the chapter title paragraph tag (in my template, Heading1) increments the chap

FM11: "Print book to PDF" no longer works

2012-08-22 Thread Robert Lauriston
Sounds like a bug in FM11. Why not just use Save as PDF? I think whatever problems led people to avoid it were fixed long ago. On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Yves Barbion wrote: > Hi group > > This is what I do in Fm 11: > > Open a book. > Choose File > Print Book. > Select the Generate Acrob

Tech writing for web apps - style guides?

2012-08-23 Thread Robert Lauriston
I use Microsoft MS4. It covers all that stuff. On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Amy Super wrote: > Hi all, > > My company is working on web-based applications. In the past, we?ve used the > Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications as our style guide for > installed apps, but I?m look

How to reset Frame's Default Configuration

2012-08-23 Thread Robert Lauriston
To restore FrameMaker to its defaults, close the application, delete or rename maker.ini, and restart. http://helpx.adobe.com/framemaker/kb/troubleshoot-system-errors-freezes-framemaker.html On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Thomas, Lynn wrote: > > I inadvertently converted my user variables to t

New, comprehensive and illustrated REVIEW of FrameMaker 11

2012-08-23 Thread Robert Lauriston
So for non-structured users I see object styles and putatively improved keyboard shortcuts. http://framegurus.wordpress.com/2012/08/19/framemaker-11-beyond-expectations/

Framemaker Publish WebHelp via RH feature

2012-08-23 Thread Robert Lauriston
The Publish thing didn't seem properly implemented to me, or at least it's not designed for my purposes. I created a project in RoboHelp 9 with all the content in FrameMaker 10. I also wrote an ExtendScript to automate WebHelp generation. On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 6:14 AM, John Garison wrote: > Hi

Tips/tools/resources for converting unstructured to structured

2012-08-23 Thread Robert Lauriston
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4094654 Also check this list's archive for "Resources to help a newbie create DITA documents in FrameMaker 10." Probably you'll want to subscribe to framemaker-dita at yahoogroups.com On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Pat Christenson wrote: > I'm about to start

MindTouch > FrameMaker migration ideas

2012-08-23 Thread Robert Lauriston
I have developers drafting stuff in a MindTouch Core wiki that needs to be incorporated into unstructured FrameMaker documents. MindTouch Core has no native export function. The source is XHTML. Best bet I've found is copying from IE in WYSIWYG mode and pasting as RTF. Formatting is largely preser

Tips/tools/resources for converting unstructured to structured

2012-08-24 Thread Robert Lauriston
If you're converting from unstructured to structured, would that not be the time to adopt DITA? On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:25 AM, David Spreadbury wrote: > Maxwell, > Thank you very much. I have been following this thread because I have one > product line that is almost entirely Unstructured and w

MindTouch > FrameMaker migration ideas

2012-08-24 Thread Robert Lauriston
Does "Smart Paste" work in unstructured mode? The template I'm stuck with is extremely complex so porting it to structured would be too time-consuming. If we were using Confluence, I wouldn't need to do this at all, I'd just tweak Confluence's PDF output so it looked right. On Fri, Aug 24, 2012

OT - Using a Defect Tracking System to Create a Glossary

2012-08-27 Thread Robert Lauriston
What was the problem with Confluence? Here's a new hosted service specifically for that purpose: http://www.cloudwords.com/2012/08/cloudwords-takes-the-global-glossary-to-the-cloud/

OT: Windows 7 operating systems, Windows Explorer failing to display files

2012-08-27 Thread Robert Lauriston
Did you refresh the display for the directory? That has always fixed those problems for me. On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:18 AM, wrote: > 2012-08-27-01T16:20Z > > Framers using Windows 7 operating systems: > > My setups: At work: Windows 7 Enterprise SP 1; at home: Windows 7 Home > Premium SP 1

FrameMaker 11 Review

2012-08-29 Thread Robert Lauriston
Good work, thanks. On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Alan Houser wrote: > > Colleagues, > > I've posted my review of FrameMaker 11 here -- > http://groupwellesley.com/2012/08/26/a-look-at-adobe-framemaker-11/

FM8? 9? > FM10 errors

2012-08-30 Thread Robert Lauriston
I'm updating a project that was last updated with FM8 or 9. Updating the book or saving as PDF fails with these errors: Could not open [book]TOC.fm, because it uses unavailable fonts. FrameMaker will create a new version of [book]TOC.fm. If you save this new version, you will overwrite the existi

FrameMaker vs InDesign

2012-08-31 Thread Robert Lauriston
I currently use FrameMaker to single-source PDF, online help (with RoboHelp), Word (with MIF2Go), text with layout (with MIF2Go and Word), and XHTML (with MIF2Go). I'm pretty fed up with FrameMaker 10 but InDesign's not among the practical alternatives. What I'd really like is a copy of FrameMaker

FM8? 9? > FM10 errors

2012-08-31 Thread Robert Lauriston
For the record, the errors went away when I deleted and recreated the TOC and imported all formats from a current project. On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote: > I'm updating a project that was last updated with FM8 or 9. > > Updating the book or saving as

FM10: how to embed a *.swf movie

2012-12-03 Thread Robert Lauriston
I'm not sure what you mean by "typeset." Is the localized manual no longer in FM10? On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:51 AM, info wrote: > Hi All, > > I am a new member of this list, so I am not familiar with it. Please bear > with me, for the time being, if I do something wrong. > > I have now one quest

What is a "PI marker" or "programming instruction marker"

2012-12-03 Thread Robert Lauriston
Oxygen to create a .chm was like using Notepad to create a large web site seems way off base to me. It's more like using Dreamweaver. On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: > On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:21:18 -0800, Robert Lauriston > wrote: > >>I don't see a

TCS 4 as DITA out-of-the-box solution

2012-12-03 Thread Robert Lauriston
Ready, shoot, aim! Scriptorium's updating their book for FM11 but they're not done yet. http://www.scriptorium.com/books/unstructured-framemaker-11/ On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:44 PM, John Sgammato wrote: > Remembering Gillian's original question: > > "Has anyone used TCS v4.x as a complete DITA

TCS 4 as DITA out-of-the-box solution

2012-12-04 Thread Robert Lauriston
My bad. Is the most recent book on structured publishing with FrameMaker actually "Structured Publishing from the Desktop: Frame Technology's Framemaker," published in 1992? On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) wrote: > Robert Laurist

FrameMaker (dita) and SVN

2012-12-05 Thread Robert Lauriston
There's no integration but it's easy to use and works fine. I've found the TortoiseSVN client problematic. I recommend using either the command-line client or the free version of SmartSVN. Checking out files just creates local copies, it does not lock them as in some other source control systems.

Recent Book on FrameMaker Structured Publishing

2012-12-05 Thread Robert Lauriston
That was the Sarah O'Keefe book I was thinking of when I mistakenly posted the link to Unstructured Framemaker 11. On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Graham, Jasmine S wrote: > For what it's worth, a quick look at Amazon shows some copies of this book > still available The interface may have c

FrameMaker (dita) and SVN

2012-12-06 Thread Robert Lauriston
My problem with TortoiseSVN was that my local files would be out of sync with the repository despite repeated commits. On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:28 AM, Steve Johnson wrote: > I've worked with many people in three jobs, writers and engineers > alike ... myself included ... who use TortoiseSVN witho

Looking for your favorite FM resources

2012-12-10 Thread Robert Lauriston
http://forums.adobe.com/community/framemaker/ http://forums.adobe.com/community/robohelp/robohelp_framemaker http://lauriston.com/framemaker_tips.html On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Matt Sullivan wrote: > I'm in the process of finishing up the FM 11 book I'm updating in > conjunction with Sara

Question about font format ... slightly off-topic, I suppose.

2012-12-10 Thread Robert Lauriston
OpenType.

Frame 11 Stability - Upgrade or Downgrade the new copy to Frame 9? HELP

2012-12-11 Thread Robert Lauriston
That would almost make it worth paying for FM11, except on principle I'm not going to pay to get back old features that were removed by "upgrades." On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Craig Ede wrote: > FM 11 fixed the focus problem with the Find/Change > dialog and returned the ability to call up v

odd FM10 search bug?

2012-12-11 Thread Robert Lauriston
I'm using FM10 Find with Document scope to search for a string that appears five times in the current document, the first three in running text, the last two in a table. Find seemed to come up with seven instances, which made me think there was a duplicate copy of the table. After a very confused

managing feedback on work in progress from multiple SMEs

2012-12-11 Thread Robert Lauriston
I'm working in an agile shop where the developers are mostly on Linux or treating Macs as Linux boxes. Source is in FM10. It would be nice to be able to do the doc task for each user story when the developers finish with it, but I've had problems with people not getting their comments back to me q

Cross-reference to a previous file

2012-12-11 Thread Robert Lauriston
Another way to work around that is to consolidate everything into a single file. On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Lin Sims wrote: > Current file only, unless that's changed with FM11 (and I doubt it). > > Where I work, we have a sort-of-similar issue, and we solved it by > using cross-references.

"Use Condition Indicators setting is inconsistent"

2012-12-12 Thread Robert Lauriston
It means that some of the documents in a book are set to show condition indicators (change bars / underline / text color / whatever) and some aren't. The way FM's conditional text is implemented is complicated and confusing.

Rucksprung durch Technik: reverse hyperjump key?

2012-12-13 Thread Robert Lauriston
I don't understand how a hyperlink on a master page could know where "back" would be at any given moment. On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Brad Anderson wrote: > Steve, > > We used to set up a "giant" BACK hyperlink along the left or right margin of > the master pages of our documents. This wou

Madcap Flare vs Framemaker

2012-12-17 Thread Robert Lauriston
FrameMaker's stronger for PDF. RoboHelp works fine for generating help from FrameMaker files though I prefer MIF2Go as it's more flexible. Flare's help search engine is weak or at least was up to 7.1. I don't much care for the way it forces you to put each topic in a separate file. FrameMaker has

Madcap Flare vs Framemaker

2012-12-18 Thread Robert Lauriston
Using the phrase "one of the 'keeper' releases" seems like agreeing with me that FM has gone downhill. FM steadily if slowly improved from 1998 to 2007 (5.5.6 to 8). Adobe completely screwed it up with version 9 (2009) and is still trying to recover lost ground as far as stability and usability. I

Madcap Flare vs Framemaker

2012-12-18 Thread Robert Lauriston
RoboHelp's exported HTML is messy and I don't like the way it insists on putting topics from each document in a FrameMaker book in a separate directory in the generated help. It works OK for generating help from FrameMaker, but given that Laura has only one small project in RH, I would suggest usi

How to force capital letters in a generated Index?

2012-12-18 Thread Robert Lauriston
Maybe export the FM documents to MIF and use a search and replace utility to edit the markers? On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Studio Smalbro wrote: > I am generating an Index in FrameMaker 11, but the index words have been > inserted in the markers with a mix of capital letters and small lette

Madcap Flare vs Framemaker

2012-12-19 Thread Robert Lauriston
How solid TCS is for single-sourcing depends on your requirements. FrameMaker is solid for PDF, and FrameMaker plus RoboHelp is solid for WebHelp and HTML Help, but it's bad for Word, wiki XHTML, wiki markup, or plain text. I use MIF2Go for those. On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Bill Swallow wr

Madcap Flare vs Framemaker

2012-12-19 Thread Robert Lauriston
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Bill Swallow wrote: > I've not had an issue with messy HTML nor with controlling output file > nesting. How do you make RoboHelp not create a separate subdirectory in WebHelp output for each document in a FrameMaker book? Or you just don't care that it does that

Is FrameMaker 11 going down or is it a keeper?

2012-12-20 Thread Robert Lauriston
One clue to who's still using FM is which content management systems they integrate. Documentum is almost exclusively used by very large organizations. http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/cms-integration.html Another is how much focus recent releases have had on DITA and translation.

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2012-12-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
I've had far fewer problems with FM10 once I gave up on rearranging windows and dialog boxes, though that means I waste a lot of time collapsing dialog boxes to show the full paragraph tag list. Adobe's profound incompetence is I think best shown by their redoing the UI but not changing the fixed-

Madcap Flare vs Framemaker

2012-12-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
I found ExtendScript unreliable. A build script that had been working fine for months stopped working one day and given the lack of documentation and support I gave up on it. I bought FrameScript and it seems solid. On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Matt Sullivan wrote: > I've had 3 clients thi

automatically splitting a heading between two frames

2012-02-14 Thread Robert Lauriston
I'm trying to simplify a template I inherited (without changing its appearance) in order to reduce the amount of cleanup required when exporting to various formats. The First page layout has three frames: a small box at the top left that contains only the chapter number, to the right of that a rec

automatically splitting a heading between two frames

2012-02-15 Thread Robert Lauriston
No reason. If there's some way to format the autonumber a la CSS so it floats in the same place as the current first frame that would work too. On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:10 PM, rebecca officer wrote: > Why stick with two boxes? > > Cheers > Rebecca > >>>>

automatically splitting a heading between two frames

2012-02-15 Thread Robert Lauriston
Clever idea, but it I can't figure out how to make it work. The ChapNum frame is 1.0" wide. If I try to set a tab stop at 1.0", saving the paragraph tag fails with "The tab position is too far to the right." If I set the stop to .99", the first two characters of the heading are in the ChapNum box,

automatically splitting a heading between two frames

2012-02-15 Thread Robert Lauriston
I've got this working, though it's a kludge. One of my goals here is to eliminate the need to break documents up into chapter files, so I can't use <$chapnum>. For the chapter number, I have a background text frame with a Running H/F variable defined as <$paranumonly[ChapName]>. The ChapName aut

lost sideheads on import

2012-02-15 Thread Robert Lauriston
I've been cleaning up a complicated, crufty template I inherited by starting with a very clean generic template and importing the elements I'm actually going to use. I'm pretty much done, but in the new template all paragraphs are aligned at the left side head margin. The paragraph tag settings ar

lost sideheads on import

2012-02-15 Thread Robert Lauriston
I brought up a frame's properties in Body Pages view and Room for Side Heads was unchecked, so I checked it, and that fixed it throughout the document (single flow). Is that expected behavior when you change to a master page with side heads? On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Robert Laur

workarounds for FM10 UI bugs?

2012-02-17 Thread Robert Lauriston
I've been working 4-8 hours a day in FrameMaker 10 for the past few weeks, first time I've used it heavily since the radical UI changes in FM9. Are these known bugs? It's hard for me to believe they haven't fixed them. Windows 7 64-bit SP1. I don't have any of the following problems with any of th

lost sideheads on import

2012-02-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
Yeah, I did use Apply Master Pages, seemed like it didn't update the Room for Sideheads setting. I set it manually for one text frame on a body page and the whole flow was updated. I guess the trick is, if I want to switch between templates by importing formats and running Apply Master Pages, I sh

single-sourcing PDF and "text with layout"?

2012-02-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
I've inherited a couple of docs in FrameMaker that have for some years been delivered in both PDF and plain text and am obliged to continue doing that. As far as I can see from the source, working directories, and so on, the PDF was generated from FrameMaker, and the text version was maintained by

FM 10 help hosed

2012-02-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
I checked the FM 10 help option called something like "Display in browser" (as opposed to "Community help" which I presume is AIR Help). Now when I try to access the help I get this error message in my browser: "No webpage was found for the web address: file:///C:/Users/rlauriston/AppData/Roaming/

Find/Change - Non-Breaking Space and Thin Space

2012-02-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
This might help (I don't think it has been updated for 10.0: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/9.0/CharacterSets/character_sets.pdf On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Alison Craig wrote: > > I need to able to Find/Change: > > ?: ? (colon space) and replace it with ?NBSP: ? (where NBSP would b

single-sourcing PDF and "text with layout"?

2012-02-22 Thread Robert Lauriston
Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at > lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston > Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:45 PM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: single-sourcing PDF and "text wi

FM 10 help hosed

2012-02-22 Thread Robert Lauriston
framers-bounces at > lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston > Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 5:47 PM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: FM 10 help hosed > > I checked the FM 10 help option called something like "Display in > browser" (as o

Survey about the impact of cloud technology on knowledge workers

2012-07-05 Thread Robert Lauriston
There seem to be some false assumptions in there. Cloud technology often has nothing to do with mobile devices. Lots of people use Rally and Salesforce just as they would desktop applications. On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Doris Pavlichek wrote: > Hi all - > > Please take a few minutes to par

Single sourcing from Frame and a wiki ... or something ...

2012-07-05 Thread Robert Lauriston
I've spent much of the past year trying to figure out a similar transition. Short answer, the tools aren't mature enough for a $20K budget. Long answer: Confluence 4.x and MindTouch Core are the two wikis I've found that seem workable. Migrating large amounts of existing FrameMaker content to eit

Single sourcing from Frame and a wiki ... or something ...

2012-07-05 Thread Robert Lauriston
So far as I have been able to tell, the switch from wiki markup to XHTML source in Confluence 4 broke all the tools for getting content in and out, and I'm not aware of any work going on to remedy that. Confluence 4 has a MS Word import feature, but it has some showstopper bugs: the TOC is scrambl

Single sourcing from Frame and a wiki ... or something ...

2012-07-06 Thread Robert Lauriston
Something I didn't make clear in my earlier post: MindTouch Core is free and supported only through a user forum. MindTouch TCS is a commercial hosted version with support and some extra features. TCS was what I was referring to when I said that MindTouch has unlimited free "community" users who c

comparing variables in .fm files in FM10

2012-07-06 Thread Robert Lauriston
I inherited this book so I don't know what kind of messes are lurking in the source, so I want to check that all the variables in two .fm files are the same before I modify one to update the other. The obvious thing seemed to be to bring up the Variables pod and switch between the two files to see

Import PDF Comments

2012-07-06 Thread Robert Lauriston
I just noticed that command next to Import Formats. Anybody used it?

comparing variables in .fm files in FM10

2012-07-09 Thread Robert Lauriston
I inherited this project and it'll take me a while to figure out what the correct variables are. In the meantime, I need to start updating it for the next release, and I have to avoid accidentally causing errors by overwriting inconsistently used variables. I have SnagIt so that's an option. On S

Support needed!

2012-07-11 Thread Robert Lauriston
Excellent argument. The Microsoft Manual of Style 4th Ed. (464 pp.) is done in InDesign. On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Lynn Gold wrote: > The final selling point was a file I found on the Internet that showed > Microsoft Press using FrameMaker. I was able to say "Even *Microsoft* > doesn't u

Finding broken links in a PDF

2012-07-12 Thread Robert Lauriston
A free option might be to set up DITA to generate Web help and use one of the many free HTML link checkers. On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Lin Sims wrote: > Has Adobe added a tool for finding broken links in a PDF yet? If so, > where is it? One of my coworkers is looking at a document that is >

about the paragraph object Pgf

2012-07-13 Thread Robert Lauriston
The MIF tag defines a paragraph tag. It includes all the properties defined with the Paragraph Designer plus more that aren't exposed in the FrameMaker UI. http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/9.0/MIF_Reference/MIF_Reference.pdf On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Amy Zhao wrote: > Hi, > > > > A

about the paragraph object Pgf

2012-07-13 Thread Robert Lauriston
In MIF, defines a paragraph. defines a paragraph tag (style). FrameScript uses different terms?

Can't Get "Delete Empty Pages" to stick

2012-07-13 Thread Robert Lauriston
In the Pagination dialog, is 1st Page Side set to Next Available?

FM10 to HTML

2012-07-19 Thread Robert Lauriston
MIF2Go is much more flexible than the native HTML export and well worth the $295. On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Robert Leif wrote: > When FM10 and the previous versions save a file to HTML, the numbered > cross-references are replaced by see followed by the content of the > reference. Is ther

Single sourcing in the new TCS3

2012-07-24 Thread Robert Lauriston
My source is 100% in FrameMaker 10, generate PDF user guide directly and WebHelp with RoboHelp 9. The content is identical except the online help does not have the title or copyright pages. It's pretty painless, I accept almost all the defaults in RoboHelp, only made a couple of minor tweaks to de

ANN: FrameMaker 11 Review: XML and Structured Authoring

2012-07-24 Thread Robert Lauriston
When I looked at doing DITA or DocBook with FrameMaker 10 earlier this year, the main problem was the lack of documentation. Has Adobe provided some in FM11? On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Scott Prentice wrote: > If you're looking for one person's opinions on FrameMaker 11, here's my > review

Indexing problem report back

2012-07-25 Thread Robert Lauriston
If you copy the complex formatting back to the reference pages the problem comes back? On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Rob Shell wrote: > Dear Framers: > Thanks for the suggestions, very helpful. I never found the error. > What I did finally was delete all the reference pages in my template file

Hello

2012-07-25 Thread Robert Lauriston
Are there any improvements to the user guide that don't regard new or changed features? The DITA documentation doesn't appear to be any more helpful for new users. On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Gyanesh Talwar wrote: > Hi All, > > I am thrilled to be writing to the group where I have learned so

Hello

2012-07-26 Thread Robert Lauriston
Mike's complaint is that the docs are not comprehensive at the lowest level. I'm more concerned about the docs not being comprehensive at the highest level. What are the five (?) different settings I need to check to eliminate blank pages? What is best practice for creating a template to standard

PDF Links

2012-07-30 Thread Robert Lauriston
I think SharePoint does not support byte serving / fast Web view. The administrator might be able to add it by installing iFilter. On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Anderson, Ben wrote: > Now, when I open a PDF in that shared drive folder, all of the TOC and Index > entries work. But, if I load t

date building blocks in user variables

2012-06-01 Thread Robert Lauriston
In FrameMaker 10.0.2.419, date building blocks work only in system variables. In user variables, they display as literals minus the first angle bracket, e.g. $monthname>. Anybody else seen this?

date building blocks in user variables

2012-06-01 Thread Robert Lauriston
Oh, wait, that's just standard documented behavior, you can't use building blocks in user variables. It's been so long since I needed to modify a date format that I forgot. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote: > In FrameMaker 10.0.2.419, date building b

FrameMaker > Confluence 4.x?

2012-06-04 Thread Robert Lauriston
As I said in my original post, Webworks generates Confluence 3.x wiki markup rather than Confluence 4.x XHTML. On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Georg Eck wrote: > Hi Robert, > > WebWorks ePublisher would be a great decision: > > Find a trail here: http://www.webworks.com/Tour/Try_ePublisher > Note

tools for FrameMaker doc overhaul

2012-06-04 Thread Robert Lauriston
I'm getting ready to do a thorough makeover on a huge user guide / online help project in FrameMaker 10. One of the things I plan to do is simplify and standardize the paragraph and character tags so they will map cleanly to Confluence 4.x XHTML. Silicon Prairie's Character Tools and Paragraph Too

generate a list of all paragraph tags in a book?

2012-06-04 Thread Robert Lauriston
Anybody have a fast and easy way to generate a list of all paragraph tags in a book? The trick in http://www.adobe.com/products/adobemag/archive/pdfs/98auqafm.pdf works, but I have to remove dupes from the list.

generate a list of all paragraph tags in a book?

2012-06-04 Thread Robert Lauriston
Oops, the trick in http://www.adobe.com/products/adobemag/archive/pdfs/98auqafm.pdf does not list any tags used only on master or reference pages. On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote: > Anybody have a fast and easy way to generate a list of all paragraph > tags in

FrameMaker > Confluence 4.x?

2012-06-05 Thread Robert Lauriston
Carmen Publishing Inc. > 585-283-5045 > rick at frameexpert.com > > > > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 11:54 AM &g

FrameMaker > Confluence 4.x?

2012-06-05 Thread Robert Lauriston
Webworks ePublisher Designer does not work properly with Confluence 4.x. The imported pages look fine but when you edit a page it's an uneditable mess.

Graphics

2012-06-05 Thread Robert Lauriston
Here are a couple of tutorials on placing images: http://www.webworks.com/Documentation/Reverb/index.html#page/03.Preparing%2520and%2520Publishing%2520Content/Preparing%2520FrameMaker%2520Files.1.16.htm http://www.prismnet.com/~tcm/etwr2472/guides/frame9/frame_frames.html#aframes Best practice i

generate a list of all paragraph tags in a book?

2012-06-05 Thread Robert Lauriston
I couldn't find any way to do it with FrameMaker, I got Silicon Prairie's Paragraph Tools. On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote: > Oops, the trick in > http://www.adobe.com/products/adobemag/archive/pdfs/98auqafm.pdf does > not list any tags used only on

FM10 crashes saving book as HTML, inserts rogue word - SOLVED

2012-06-05 Thread Robert Lauriston
Interesting that 64-bit Windows solves a problem with a 32-bit app. I've had exclusively the opposite experience. On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:12 PM, John Sgammato wrote: > I ran the conversion while watching task manager on my Win7 32-bit P4 > machine, and watched processor load skyrocket up to 95

FYI: Deal for upgrading from FM7.x to FM10 ends June 15

2012-06-06 Thread Robert Lauriston
The offer is "Adobe FrameMaker 7.X customers can receive a savings of 30% on the FULL version of FrameMaker 10 software purchased through Adobe Customer Service, or a participating reseller worldwide." Adobe charges $999, 30% off that is $699. Amazon charges $634. Personally I'd stick with 7 unle

Deal for upgrading from FM7.x to FM10 ends June 15

2012-06-06 Thread Robert Lauriston
It resolves to http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/fm-upgrade.html. It's a legit offer, just not the best one out there. adobe.ly appears to be an Adobe URL shortener a la bit.ly. On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Lea Rush wrote: > Not with a link that has a country code originating in Libya.

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