Re: DITA File - FDK Programming

2009-12-11 Thread Scott Prentice
conrefs, but in Frame where you're building them, they are very different. If you need help on using specific functions, you should probably post to the frame_dev Yahoo group where most of the FDK developers hang out. Good luck! ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com

Re: control the size of the element tags in document

2009-12-21 Thread Scott Prentice
Other than by changing the zoom size of the whole document, I've never seen a way to do this. ...scott Jakob Fix wrote: Hi, I've been asked whether it's possible to control the font size of the element tags that are displayed in the document when View Element Boundaries (as Tags) is

Re: control the size of the element tags in document

2009-12-22 Thread Scott Prentice
Very cool. Thanks! ...scott Nakshatra Bhardwaj wrote: Hi Jakob, The maker.ini setting to achieve what you want is available under [StructureView] preferences as: ElemSize= Modify it as per your need and let us know if that's what you expected. Regards, Nakshatra

FM on a Mac

2010-01-07 Thread Scott Prentice
Just wondering if anyone has tried this .. When installing FM (8 or 9) in a VMWare image of Windows XP on a Mac .. install to a Shared folder (mounted with a drive letter) so that the installation files will be available to other images of Windows on that computer. It seems that in theory this

Re: FM on a Mac

2010-01-07 Thread Scott Prentice
, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Scott Prentice wrote: Just wondering if anyone has tried this .. When installing FM (8 or 9) in a VMWare image of Windows XP on a Mac .. install to a Shared folder (mounted with a drive

Re: FM on a Mac

2010-01-07 Thread Scott Prentice
this would fail because Win apps usually need to store some stuff on C: no matter where else you install the rest of it. Let us know what you find out in your experiments. HTH Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices Regards Jay Scott Prentice

Re: error message: SAXParseException: An exception occurred!

2010-01-13 Thread Scott Prentice
editors assuming the public ID is defined in the catalog and maps properly to a local DTD. Hopefully someone else will have a better answer .. perhaps there's a switch that tells FM to use the public ID. This worked fine in FM8. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc

Re: Printing Index Marker Symbols and Content?

2010-01-20 Thread Scott Prentice
MarkerTools from Leximation does this too .. http://www.leximation.com/tools/info/markertools.php and I believe that Index Tools Professional from Silicon Prairie Software does as well .. http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc

FrameMaker/CMS article in UK STC Communicator

2010-01-25 Thread Scott Prentice
for anyone considering this option. http://www.writepoint.com/site/downloads/Com0912Web_p46-49.pdf Cheers! ...scott -- Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch

Re: OT: Software recommendations

2010-01-25 Thread Scott Prentice
if you're looking for something comparable to FM's PDF) is a *lot* of work. I'd go with TCS2 so that you've got all of the bases covered, and as time permits, experiment with other options that may free you from proprietary processing where appropriate. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice

Re: Frame to iBook format?

2010-01-30 Thread Scott Prentice
that there will be a DITA-OT plugin to generate an EPUB deliverable .. soon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Tina Ricks wrote: Does anyone have any pointers to exporting Frame documents to the new iBook

Re: Frame to iBook format?

2010-01-30 Thread Scott Prentice
Interesting article from Scriptorium on the subject .. http://www.scriptorium.com/blog/2010/01/epub-tech-pub.html ...scott Scott Prentice wrote: Hi Tina... This format is EPUB (or Open eBook) .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats#EPUB It is basically

Re: Utilities for FM 8

2010-02-11 Thread Scott Prentice
My ToolSearch database lists all of the FM plugins that I'm aware of (plus other things) .. http://leximation.com/toolsearch/ Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Joe Malin wrote: Hi! After a 3-year hiatus I am trying to work with FM 8

Re: XML Output from FrameMaker not Pure XML?

2010-02-14 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Jan... What you were told is not true. XML created by Frame is as pure as that created by any other XML editor. Whoever told you that was misinformed. Frame is a bit more work to set up for authoring XML since you need to create a structure application (unless one already exists for

Re: 300+ XML files

2010-04-29 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Yves... This message is coming from DITA-FMx. Yes .. It has been fixed in FM9. :-) ...scott Sent from my iPhone On Apr 29, 2010, at 3:27 AM, Yves Barbion yves.barb...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, after 17 years of using FrameMaker, I finally got to see a dialog box which I have never

Re: FrameMaker 9 slow and sometimes unresponsive?

2010-04-29 Thread Scott Prentice
a plugin called Structure Tools that includes this same feature .. http://www.weststreetconsulting.com/WSC_StructureTools.htm Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Writer wrote: I've noticed the same issue when I save a file. Usually, it's

Re: FrameMaker 3 files

2010-05-04 Thread Scott Prentice
and upload to my inbox .. http://leximation.com/inbox Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 subscr...@cuff.ca wrote: I've tried using FrameMaker v7.1 and its heroic open (Esc o H) to open five different FrameMaker files. It hasn't worked

Re: FrameMaker 3 files

2010-05-06 Thread Scott Prentice
. Sorry I wasn't able to help! ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 subscr...@... wrote: Just for those who might someday have to tread this path: I tried opening the v3 files in FM5.1.1, and no joy. That far back, the heroic open doesn't even exist. I

Re: eBooks

2010-05-07 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Diana... This may not be exactly what you're looking for .. but I've been successful at using the dita4publishers DITA-OT plugin to convert DITA content (authored in FM or other XML editors) to the ePub format. If you'd like more info on this, let me know. Cheers, ...scott Scott

Re: Can the spelling checker be trusted?

2010-05-24 Thread Scott Prentice
can move the cursor and have it still found. Try searching backwards. Who knows. I've not seen this behavior again in FM, so I don't think it's a serious problem, but maybe it's making a resurgence. Or maybe this is a totally different problem. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation

Re: Save FrameMaker 8.0 files to 6.0

2010-07-06 Thread Scott Prentice
It looks like there are currently 3 auctions on eBay for FM6 .. one for Windows, Mac, and Unix. Just enter FrameMaker 6 in the search field. eBay can be a good place to get old versions of software, but you do take your chance at getting something bogus. Be sure to check out the seller to see

Re: Batch Conversion of Frame Referenced Graphic Calls

2010-07-13 Thread Scott Prentice
for it. Let me know if you have any questions. ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Combs, Richard wrote: Scott Turner wrote: The alternative to making a script, is to use a full-featured text editor like TextPad. The feature you are looking

Re: Off topic - Parallels price loading

2010-08-17 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Alan... I haven't experienced this, so can't help in that area .. but unless you're wedded to Parallels, I've been using VMWare Fusion for some time now with many versions of FM and Windows OSes with no problems. I'd compare the pricing to see if they have a similar policy/pricing.

Re: plugin for tracking text insets

2010-10-01 Thread Scott Prentice
what you need. Feel free to contact me off list and I can give you an estimate. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Joseph Lorenzini wrote: Hi all, I have a master book that contains all the other books in my doc set I am looking

Re: FrameMaker 10 and 9 coexist?

2011-01-11 Thread Scott Prentice
Same workflow as with FM8 and FM9. The FM10 user would need to continue to save the document as FM9. ...scott ri...@inficon.com wrote: I currently have TCS2 (FrameMaker 9). I am seriously considering upgrading to TCS3 (FrameMaker 10), However, many of the people that I work with will

Formatting of multi-marker indexes...

2011-02-01 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi... If you create an index from multiple marker types, is there a way to apply different formatting to the resulting entries from each marker type? Like, is there a way to assign one reference page to be the formatting for the Index markers and another reference page to be the formatting

Re: Formatting of multi-marker indexes...

2011-02-02 Thread Scott Prentice
. It doesn't apply formatting to the whole entry, but this could do the trick. Again .. thanks Richard, for the very detailed reply to my question! ...scott Scott Prentice wrote: Hi Richard... Thanks for the very detailed explanation. I should have provided a bit more info on this. I do

Re: Formatting of multi-marker indexes...

2011-02-02 Thread Scott Prentice
if this could be done based on marker type to reference page mapping. Cheers, ...scott Combs, Richard wrote: Scott Prentice wrote: If you create an index from multiple marker types, is there a way to apply different formatting to the resulting entries from each marker type? Like

Re: Customer-friendly word for landline

2011-02-04 Thread Scott Prentice
Keep in mind your underlying reason for trying to differentiate between different types of phone systems. Just because a phone is wired doesn't mean that it's POTS .. an IP-based phone system may look just like a POTS system, but technically, isn't (is VOIP considered a landline .. I dunno).

Re: Frame Light, what's the potential market?

2011-02-22 Thread Scott Prentice
I'd like to see this as well, but also doubt that this would be something that Adobe will get behind. You'd think that Adobe's web-editor (Buzzword) would export to FM (or MIF), but no. It exports to PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, ZIP, TXT, ODT, and EPUB (hmm .. need to check that out). C'mon .. MIF is

Re: So how many of us are stuck with Frame 7.2?

2011-03-01 Thread Scott Prentice
If there's no business or functional reason to upgrade, why bother? At this point you're stuck paying the full price for an upgrade, so if FM7 provides everything that you need I'd hold out as long as possible. I think that there are plenty of people on FM7 and earlier who are perfectly happy

Re: Text insets (Martin Ley)

2011-03-08 Thread Scott Prentice
other formats. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Austin Meredith wrote: We wouldn't even be able to use FrameMaker if it weren't for insets (incorporations by reference). They work perfectly for us. Sometimes a document of ours will have

Re: Frame 10 Bug(s)/Odd behavior

2011-03-10 Thread Scott Prentice
the document. (I can get 3-5 dialogs to open for a single document.) If I click anything other than cancel, FrameMaker crashes right away.I'll see if I can reproduce this in XP as well. Thanks, Brad On Mar 10, 2011, at 12:08 PM, Scott Prentice wrote: Hi Brad... This is in an XP

Re: Fm9: Do Track Text Edits actions on all files in a book?

2011-03-22 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Yves... I've not tried it, but there is an FP_TrackChangesOn document property, which implies that you should be able to iterate over all docs in a book and set that as needed. Cheers! ...scott Yves Barbion wrote: Hi group I guess it is not possible to do Track Text Edits actions on

Re: Evaluating FM 7.2 replacement? RE: So how many of us are stuck with Frame 7.2?

2011-03-29 Thread Scott Prentice
before. I'm looking for a tool or how-to compare the pros/cons of the different software options. Any recommendations out there? -Donna From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] on behalf of Scott Prentice [s

Re: DITA CMS recommendations?

2011-04-06 Thread Scott Prentice
My personal favorites are Bluestream XDocs and SDL Trisoft .. with XDocs being very affordable. Cheers, ...scott Art Campbell wrote: Has anyone had any good or bad experiences including and using DITA documents with any particular CMSs? FM 10 is supposed to play nicely with SharePoint and

Re: OT: online help with automatic updates

2011-04-15 Thread Scott Prentice
Other than developing this system yourself, the only off-the-shelf system I know of that does this is Adobe's AIR Help. Flare does offer a WebHelp AIR output option .. not sure if they have hooked up the auto-update functionality though (I'm thinking not .. but it might be possible to hack it

Re: FrameMaker 8 and saving documents that include conrefs

2011-04-30 Thread Scott Prentice
.. first, is it there, and is the conref attribute still set to point to the topic and element being referenced? ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Abungu, Salome (TTI Mpls) wrote: Hi! I’m new to using structured FrameMaker and DITA. I have a question

Re: FrameMaker to ePub; ePub readers and pinned graphics

2011-05-08 Thread Scott Prentice
Hey Hedley... Good to hear from you again! No .. FM9/10 can't export directly to ePub (out of the box) .. the easiest path is via RoboHelp. Unless you want to save to PDF, then use one of the many available PDF to ePub converters out there. Also, you might try downloading Calibre

Re: Conref Issue in FrameMaker 8

2011-05-25 Thread Scott Prentice
/1.1/?ditafmx_cloningtapps.html Note that this documentation was written for DITA-FMx, so it won't be exactly correct for use with the default FM8 DITA apps, but the general ideas will still apply. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Vikash

Re: FM10 performance with real-time spell checking

2011-06-07 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Keith... There's a setting in the FM10 maker.ini that enables/disables the auto-spell check feature (or appears to) .. EnableAutoSpellCheck=On Set this to Off and see how it goes. Cheers, ...scott Keith Soltys wrote: I posted a review of FM10 on my blog this morning.

Re: FM10 performance with real-time spell checking

2011-06-07 Thread Scott Prentice
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Scott Prentice Sent: 07 June 2011 17:30 To: ke...@soltys.ca Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: FM10 performance with real-time spell checking Hi Keith... There's a setting in the FM10 maker.ini that enables/disables the auto-spell

Re: Hiding deletions in with Track Text Edits

2011-06-15 Thread Scott Prentice
Yes .. programmatic changes to these conditions seem to get overridden on save, so there's really not much you can do. This is a significant problem with the track changes feature in that it's not properly supported by the FM APIs, so you can't leverage or extend them the way you can other FM

Re: FrameMaker save as xml does not convert entities

2011-06-20 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Mark... Technically, the character does not need to be an entity. Are you running into trouble with some process that's complaining about this? I think that the only characters that must be entities are .. and .. all others are optional. ...scott O'Connor, Mark (Mark) wrote: Howdy

Re: Anyone else looking at Frame WordPress (as a CMS)

2011-07-05 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Art... I've been messing around with exporting DITA from Wordpress, then opening that in FrameMaker for PDF publishing. Works pretty nice. ...scott Art Campbell wrote: Just checking in... I've been using and pushing Wordpress as a CMS for several web sites lately and have been very

Re: Anyone else looking at Frame WordPress (as a CMS)

2011-07-05 Thread Scott Prentice
in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl. -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Scott Prentice s...@leximation.com wrote

Re: Accessing a DLL file

2011-08-04 Thread Scott Prentice
the developer to get the source or to request that it be modified. DLLs aren't like resource files that can be modified. ...scott -- Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 George, Brenda (CAI) wrote: I need to change the width of tables in FrameMaker files. The files

Re: Scripting for FM10

2011-08-08 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Judy... You're probably looking for this .. http://blogs.adobe.com/tcs/2011/08/extendscript-estk/new-f-10-estk-doc.html Cheers, ...scott Judy wrote: Fellow Framers, I'm interested in learning to write scripts to run in Framemaker to automate/eliminate some of those tedious,

Re: Bruce Foster's Plugins?

2011-08-08 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Mike... I've emailed with his wife, and offered to sell them for her (among other options), but she's not interested in being involved with FM plugins at this time. ...scott Mike Wickham wrote: Does anyone know if someone will be taking over the development of Bruce Foster's plugins

Re: Bruce Foster Plug-ins

2011-08-22 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Anne... Since the owner of Bruce's plugins (his wife) isn't offering them for sale, they are no longer available for purchase. You'll have to go with other alternatives, or develop other tools instead. Cheers, ...scott Anne Magee wrote: My company has finally decided it wants to buy

Re: deleting a variable across an entire book

2011-09-02 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi John... You can use our BookVars plugin to do this .. http://leximation.com/tools/info/bookvars.php Feel free to download the 30-day trial to accomplish this task .. if that's all you need it for, there's no need to buy it! Cheers, ...scott -- Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc

Re: master index of multiple book

2011-09-22 Thread Scott Prentice
off list and I'll point you at a manual install package. Cheers, ...scott -- Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Bill Swallow wrote: It's been years since I've done this, but I think I got around this by creating one large master book using all content from

Re: FrameMaker menu bar issue

2011-10-06 Thread Scott Prentice
A custom menu item may also be defined by an FDK client. This client could be loaded through an entry in the APIClients section of the maker.ini file or by adding the DLL to the fminit/Plugins folder. If you're saying that this menu item is missing and needs to be added .. you may be looking

Re: Getting the title of each dita map to show up in output

2011-10-21 Thread Scott Prentice
and topic files into the output book, and you can set it up to include your map title (not the default). http://leximation.com/dita-fmx/ Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com Steve Nelson wrote: Hi, Using FM10. How do I get the map title to show up in my

Re: Getting the title of each dita map to show up in output

2011-10-21 Thread Scott Prentice
: Scott Prentice [mailto:s...@leximation.com] Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 4:24 AM To: Steve Nelson Cc: 'Framers' Subject: Re: Getting the title of each dita map to show up in output Hi Steve... I don't think that you can. It appears that this build process is hard-coded by FM. If you're using

Re: Proper positioning of dita topics on output

2011-10-27 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Steve... You can often get things to work well through careful use of keep w/ next/previous and widow/orphan control on the styles in the template. If there is a topic title that you always want to be at the top of a page you can use the @outputclass attribute and assign a value of top (or

Re: DITA file naming conventions

2011-11-03 Thread Scott Prentice
folder and you never have to look at the file names. No matter what file naming convention you use (unless it's unique IDs), it breaks down and causes problems eventually. Cheers, ...scott -- Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Jim Owens wrote: As far

Re: FM 8 to ePub?

2011-11-04 Thread Scott Prentice
shot, that seems like overkill. I just wrote an article for tcworld magazine that gives an overview of ePubs and related processes. It might give you some useful info .. http://www.tcworld.info/tcworld/content-strategies/article/is-there-an-epub-in-your-future/ Cheers, ...scott -- Scott

Re: Framemaker 10/Ditamap odd behavior

2011-11-09 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Steve... It sounds like this file *is* an FM file. Try forcing a save to XML (with a .ditamap extension) overwriting itself and you should be OK. this happens when FM crashes and you say OK to the prompt to open the recover file. ...scott Sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos

Re: Framemaker 10/Ditamap odd behavior

2011-11-09 Thread Scott Prentice
585.889.0288 (office) From: Scott Prentice [mailto:s...@leximation.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 10:13 AM To: Steve Nelson Cc: Framers Subject: Re: Framemaker 10/Ditamap odd behavior Hi Steve... It sounds like this file *is* an FM file. Try forcing a save to XML (with a .ditamap

Re: Xml editors?

2011-11-14 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Steve... Yes .. this should theoretically work fine. A couple issues .. - Depending on the free XML editor they may not be able to make effective use of DITA features (like conrefs, keyrefs, etc.), but if they are just creating basic content it should be fine. - Be sure that the DOCTYPE

Re: Xref page numbering not correct

2011-11-21 Thread Scott Prentice
, Inc./Ambrell 39 Main St. Scottsville, NY 14546 snel...@ambrell.com 585.889.0288 (office) -Original Message- From: Scott Prentice [mailto:s...@leximation.com] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 7:02 PM To: Steve Nelson Cc: 'Framers'; r...@frameexpert.com Subject: Re: Xref page

Re: Xref page numbering not correct

2011-11-21 Thread Scott Prentice
, NY 14546 snel...@ambrell.com 585.889.0288 (office) -Original Message- From: Scott Prentice [mailto:s...@leximation.com] Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 1:36 PM To: Steve Nelson Cc: 'Framers'; r...@frameexpert.com Subject: Re: Xref page numbering not correct Hi Steve... Hmm

Re: Xref page numbering not correct

2011-11-21 Thread Scott Prentice
files or XML files? If you created XML files, the xrefs will all pretty much say page 1. Nadine *From:* Scott Prentice s...@leximation.com *To:* Steve Nelson snel...@ambrell.com *Cc:* 'Framers' framers

Re: Xref page numbering not correct

2011-11-21 Thread Scott Prentice
Right .. if he created the book with XML components, then there's no conversion and no relinking of xrefs .. but I was under the impression that he used the Save As FM Components from the map. That should generate a book and FM components from the XML files and relink any references from the

Re: Xref page numbering not correct

2011-11-21 Thread Scott Prentice
(office) -Original Message- From: Scott Prentice [mailto:s...@leximation.com] Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 3:02 PM To: Writer Cc: Steve Nelson; 'Framers'; r...@frameexpert.com Subject: Re: Xref page numbering not correct Right .. if he created the book with XML components, then there's

Re: generate a list of paragraph tag properties?

2011-11-22 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Bjørn... I'm not aware of such a feature in FM. You could do something with FrameScript (or ExtendScript in FM10) .. or might be a good idea for a plugin. Cheers, ...scott Studio Smalbro wrote: I need to generate a list of paragraph tag properties used in a document. I know how to

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

2011-12-01 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Bjørn... In ExtendScript (and FrameScript) you can set properties on the Open function to ignore missing fonts and bad references (among other things) .. so that could be a viable option. ...scott Bjørn Smalbro wrote: I have a client who wishes to update some thousand framemaker files

Multiple sets of page numbers...

2011-12-03 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi... I thought this was possible, but I'm not figuring it out on my own .. maybe someone can point me in the right direction? I've got a book with multiple parts. My client wants to have two sets of page numbers on each page .. one the total page count (from the start of the book) and the

Re: Multiple sets of page numbers...

2011-12-03 Thread Scott Prentice
part, and the b number continues on through the whole book. Thanks! ...scott Scott Prentice wrote: Hi... I thought this was possible, but I'm not figuring it out on my own .. maybe someone can point me in the right direction? I've got a book with multiple parts. My client wants to have two

Re: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

2011-12-06 Thread Scott Prentice
I'm pretty sure that you can link RH to FM even if you're not using TCS .. download the trial and give it a test to see how it works for you. Also Webworks ePublisher can export to EPUB. Other less expensive options may be .. - save the FM files to Word, then use Calibre to convert from RTF

Apple iBooks Author and FrameMaker?

2012-01-19 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi... I have been playing with the new Apple iBooks Author application to see how well (or not) it consumes FrameMaker source content. I've documented my observations here .. http://blog.leximation.com/2012/01/apple-ibooks-author-and-adobe-framemaker/ Yeah .. probably not a common

FrameMaker to Apple Pages (then to iBooks Author)

2012-01-28 Thread Scott Prentice
you may want to save from FM to Pages is so you can get your content into the Apple iBooks Author application (it only imports a Pages file). Cheers! ...scott -- Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 ___ You

Re: FrameMaker to Apple Pages (then to iBooks Author)

2012-01-29 Thread Scott Prentice
. The current beta plugin is more of a proof of concept to test the process. Cheers, ...scott Sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos or unexpected brevity. On Jan 29, 2012, at 5:42 AM, Steve Rickaby srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk wrote: At 17:52 -0800 28/1/12, Scott Prentice wrote

Re: FrameMaker to Apple Pages (then to iBooks Author)

2012-01-29 Thread Scott Prentice
(for character styles as well). Might still make sense to be able to go from FM to Pages directly without going through a DOC file .. but we'll see. Cheers, ...scott On 1/29/12 7:54 AM, Scott Prentice wrote: Hi Steve... Yes, IBA does import Word as well, but in my early testing I found

Re: Frame to eBook

2012-02-10 Thread Scott Prentice
is that you can use this to get from FM to Pages then import into iBooks Author or export from Pages to EPUB. http://leximation.com/tools/info/fm2pages.php If you're interested in playing with this, contact me off-list. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com

Re: FM -- MIF2Go -- Kindle?

2012-02-22 Thread Scott Prentice
The best way to get nice output on all platforms (applications and devices) is to aim very low with your formatting. If you use HTML that would have worked way back in the early days of the web, it'll probably look decent on all platforms. Don't try to set any formatting other than that which

Re: Framemaker 10 and DITA

2012-05-09 Thread Scott Prentice
to author the DITA files has no bearing on the tool you use to generate the output in this case. If you're looking for more opinions on FrameMaker and DITA, you might try posting to the framemaker-dita Yahoo group. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com

Re: Resources to help a newbie create DITA documents in FrameMaker 10

2012-05-17 Thread Scott Prentice
I'm not terribly surprised about this. No, there's nothing very useful that ships with the product. There's a lot out there in blogs and wikis and maillists .. but unless you know where to look or who to ask, you're probably out of luck. Yes .. posting to the FM forum should have provided more

Re: Resources to help a newbie create DITA documents in FrameMaker 10

2012-05-17 Thread Scott Prentice
gave me any clue of how to create a project from scratch or port an existing unstructured FrameMaker doc. On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Scott Prentice wrote: I'm not terribly surprised about this. No, there's nothing very useful that ships with the product. There's a lot out there in blogs

Re: Resources to help a newbie create DITA documents in FrameMaker 10

2012-05-18 Thread Scott Prentice
the Adobe web site and did not find it ... may not have looked carefully enough. Thanks! Z -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Writer Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 6:04 PM To: Scott Prentice; framers

Re: Resources to help a newbie create DITA documents in FrameMaker 10

2012-05-18 Thread Scott Prentice
expensive free software ever created .. ! Cheers, ...scott On 5/18/12 11:02 AM, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2012 10:01:28 -0700, Scott Prentice wrote: To step back a bit .. the DITA-OT is a library of XSLT and Java code that lets you create may types of output (HTML, CHM, Eclipse

Re: Would like to get comments from people about my flow changes (Was RE: Resources to help a newbie create DITA documents in FrameMaker 10)

2012-05-18 Thread Scott Prentice
Well .. *if* you switched to DITA, there are lots of options for getting very clean HTML (already discussed). If you stay with unstructured FM, you don't want to get the HTML directly from FM (as you've found) .. it can probably be fixed up a bit from what you're seeing, but that option is not

Re: maker.ini files for FM version 6

2012-05-31 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Klaus... I've got FM 4 installed and believe I can install 5.5.6 if needed. Will investigate and send what I can. Cheers, ...scott Sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos or unexpected brevity. On May 31, 2012, at 6:59 AM, Klaus Daube fr...@daube.ch wrote: On 31 May 2012 at 13:30,

Re: Is there interest in an update to the List of Plugins?

2012-07-06 Thread Scott Prentice
directly, I can set you up with access to do so (other than the entries that are directly managed by vendors), but if you'd prefer to maintain your own spreadsheet, I completely understand. Please contact me off-list (or on) if you have any questions. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation

Re: Is there interest in an update to the List of Plugins?

2012-07-06 Thread Scott Prentice
On 7/6/12 10:55 AM, Lin Sims wrote: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Scott Prentices...@leximation.com wrote: Actually, the Tool Search page at leximation.com is here .. http://leximation.com/toolsearch/ I do try to keep it up to date, but I'm sure it's a bit behind. It's set up so

Re: Finding broken links in a PDF (An Update!)

2012-07-12 Thread Scott Prentice
in the underlying DITA file, but the fm-xrefs convert when open in FM. You may want to use the dita-fmx-users Yahoo group for DITA-FMx related questions. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 On 7/12/12 2:21 PM, Lin Sims wrote: And, of course, as soon as I

ANN: FrameMaker 11 Review: XML and Structured Authoring

2012-07-24 Thread Scott Prentice
If you're looking for one person's opinions on FrameMaker 11, here's my review .. http://blog.leximation.com/2012/07/179/ It would be great to hear your opinions as well! Cheers, ...scott ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as

Re: ANN: FrameMaker 11 Review: XML and Structured Authoring

2012-07-24 Thread Scott Prentice
it's still in progress? :o ...scott On 7/24/12 11:20 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote: 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

Re: FrameMaker 11 - No educational pricing?

2012-07-30 Thread Scott Prentice
There's a link on the right side of the FrameMaker page for Student Teacher Pricing as well as the Education Store .. http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker.html Where are you seeing something that indicates that they aren't offering educational pricing? ...scott On 7/30/12 5:50 AM,

Re: FrameMaker 11 - No educational pricing?

2012-07-30 Thread Scott Prentice
-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Scott Prentice *Sent:* Monday, July 30, 2012 12:22 PM *To:* framers@lists.frameusers.com *Subject:* Re: FrameMaker 11 - No educational pricing? There's a link on the right side of the FrameMaker page

Re: FM-11 released version

2012-08-07 Thread Scott Prentice
Klaus... That is my understanding as well. ...scott On 8/7/12 5:26 AM, Klaus Daube wrote: Friends, Romans, countrymen [Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3. Scene II] After the download of Adobe_FrameMaker_11-AkamaiDLM.exe which installs at an obscure place on my system and coming back to the

ANN: Beta MarkerTools and FileTools for FM10/11...

2012-09-02 Thread Scott Prentice
read about these plugins here .. http://leximation.com/tools/info/filetools.php http://leximation.com/tools/info/markertools.php .. but to test on FM8 or later, you'll need to contact me directly. Cheers, ...scott -- Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892

Re: FrameMaker 11 in XML

2012-09-04 Thread Scott Prentice
, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 On 9/3/12 12:14 PM, Robert Leif wrote: After reading the two interesting reviews of FrameMaker11, I still have two questions. 1)Can I directly import elements from XML schemas, particularly, those created in XSD (XML

FM11 reviews...

2012-09-04 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi... Just in case you've missed it, here's a list of FM11 reviews .. http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2012/08/consolidated-list-of-framemaker-11-reviews.html No .. Alan's review isn't on there .. yet. Cheers, ...scott ___ You are currently

Re: Unstructured to Structured: Question about retaining paragraph formats - Re-opened

2012-09-11 Thread Scott Prentice
Also .. it wasn't clear to me (I may have missed it) if these structured files are sourced as XML or FM binaries. If structured FM binaries, local (non-EDD) formatting will generally stick around, but can revert to the EDD-defined formats under certain situations. Personally, I find that the

Re: FrameMaker 11 in XML

2012-09-14 Thread Scott Prentice
the CSS properties that are honored and how they map to FM properties. I'm still trying to wrap my head around how this all works, but will probably write up a blog post on it with more details. If you want more info, feel free to contact me. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc

Re: Diverse templates and Structure

2012-09-15 Thread Scott Prentice
that helps. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 On 9/14/12 1:41 PM, Doris Pavlichek wrote: Hi all - At my company, we are preparing to go from unstructured FM10 to structured FM10. Because of all of the messages on this board and generally accepted best

Re: FrameMaker 11 cannot print a .ps file: others on Adobe forums agree

2012-09-20 Thread Scott Prentice
Rob... Nobody is a bit strong. I can print a book to PS from FM11 without trouble. When I try to print an earlier version FM book to PS, nothing happens unless I open all of the files in that book (no crash, just nothing). It does appear that there are a number of print to PS/PDF issues

Re: Batch saving files in FrameMaker 11

2012-09-21 Thread Scott Prentice
://leximation.com/tools/info/filetools.php Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 On 9/21/12 8:54 AM, Abungu, Salome (TTI Mpls) wrote: Does anyone know of a way to save several files in FM 11 to a different FM version? Say, FM 10? I know that you can right

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