Re: FM 12 Kindle Page Breaks

2014-04-21 Thread Scott Prentice
-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Art Campbell *Sent:* April-21-14 1:00 PM *To:* Scott Prentice *Cc:* Framers List; Free Framers *Subject:* Re: FM 12 Kindle Page Breaks Thanks, Rick and Scott -- the embedded tag start at top isn't working

Re: URL Checker

2014-04-29 Thread Scott Prentice
you need, if the former, you might need a bit more processing power like an FDK client. I'll be interested to see if anyone else has done this sort of thing. If you need help developing such a script/utility .. give me a holler. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc

Re: URL Checker

2014-04-30 Thread Scott Prentice
for remote (web-based) URLs using the Socket object. Cheers, ...scott On 4/29/14 5:55 PM, Scott Prentice wrote: Hi John... Interesting. First, you'd have to define what it means for a link to be valid. Are these URLs to content on a web server? If so, does valid mean that it doesn't return

Re: XML/EDD Vertical Text Placement in Structured Frame 12

2014-06-05 Thread Scott Prentice
for this situation, but if your formatting gets more complex you may need to get out the hammer. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 On 6/3/14 9:01 AM, Bjokne, Tim (Contractor) wrote: XML/EDD Vertical Text Placement in Structured Frame 12 I

Re: Jeremy H. Griffith, 1942-2014

2014-06-12 Thread Scott Prentice
touched. ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email

Re: Structured FrameMaker failure on startup

2014-06-19 Thread Scott Prentice
Wow .. Alan .. that's a good one. If this was April 1, I'd think you were joking. I can't imagine what would affect both FM11 and FM12 simultaneously. FM10 is OK? Are these part of a Tech Com Suite or standalone programs? To me that indicates that the problem lies in some shared resource of

Re: Removing custom row heights

2014-06-19 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Pat... I doubt that there are any plugins available to do this. Your best bet would be to write an ExtendScript (or have one written) that processes all files in a book and all tables in each file. Shouldn't be too much effort. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc

Re: Frame crash on Windows under parallels

2014-06-24 Thread Scott Prentice
I think that the difference here is that this probably *only* happens with FM. If it was all (or at least other) apps, then it would likely be an OS or VM issue, but if it's just FM, then there's probably something slightly incompatible being done in FM that Adobe should be aware of. Granted,

Re: OT: script to convert Images to SVG using AI

2014-06-29 Thread Scott Prentice
://www.weststreetconsulting.com/WSC_ExtendScriptSamples.htm What you're trying to do seems quite reasonable. If you need help on specific issues, post questions to the frame_dev Yahoo group .. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/frame_dev/info Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc

Re: FM12: Quirks in Find/replace using RegEx (Perl)

2014-07-07 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Klaus... Definitely a bug in that the handling of \n is inconsistent. But I'd wonder what \n is really matching on, and what type of end of line is it? Will this match on a forced return (SHIFT+ENTER) as well as an end of paragraph? And what about the end of flow? I'd feel better if \n

Re: FM12: Quirks in Find/replace using RegEx (Perl)

2014-07-07 Thread Scott Prentice
I dunno. I just don't like the fact that \n will match on a line end (of some type), while it replaces as an n .. that's not right. ...scott On 7/7/14 4:52 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) wrote: Yeah ... I have to admit that I can't argue with you on this too much. JBecause,

Re: FM12: Quirks in Find/replace using RegEx (Perl)

2014-07-07 Thread Scott Prentice
There's no reason the plain-text replacement can't add EOPs .. just need a code to do that. You can do that with a regular search/replace by searching on \p and replacing with \p\p. The \n is a forced return in the non-regex UI. It should at least do the same .. not an n. ...scott On 7/7/14

Re: FM 12 in Parallels using Win7

2014-07-13 Thread Scott Prentice
Go with 64-bit. I know of no reason to use 32. FM 12 runs fine for me in 64. ...scott Sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos or unexpected brevity. On Jul 13, 2014, at 6:31 AM, Steve Rickaby srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk wrote: I had a quick search but couldn't see that this

Re: FM 12 in Parallels using Win7

2014-07-13 Thread Scott Prentice
Ah yes .. my experience with this is through Fusion, but I'm quite sure that the 64/32-bit question is the same for both virtualization options. At the time I made this switch (7 years ago), Fusion was generally considered the better choice, and it was also the system that a couple of my

OT: Re: FM 12 in Parallels using Win7

2014-07-13 Thread Scott Prentice
, ...scott On 7/13/14 5:35 PM, Steve Rickaby wrote: At 14:31 -0700 13/7/14, Scott Prentice wrote: Ah yes .. my experience with this is through Fusion, but I'm quite sure that the 64/32-bit question is the same for both virtualization options. At the time I made this switch (7 years ago

Re: Creating Structured Frame

2014-07-15 Thread Scott Prentice
.. http://leximation.com/downloads/adobe-fm2xml-2013/ Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 On 7/14/14 10:38 PM, ROSS, Chris wrote: Hi, I am having difficulty in converting unstructured frame to structured. I can create a conversion table

Re: How to pull a variable's value from a doc using ExtendScript

2014-07-15 Thread Scott Prentice
graciously provided by Russ from West Street Consulting .. http://www.weststreetconsulting.com/WSC_ExtendScriptSamples.htm Good luck! ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 On 7/15/14 12:51 PM, Adam Hollett wrote: Hey there! I'm a technical writing student just

Re: Getting a handle on structured Frame

2014-08-12 Thread Scott Prentice
On 8/12/14 1:00 PM, Theresa de Valence wrote: On 8/12/2014 11:08 AM, Theresa de Valence wrote: Frame 12 installed 13 versions of structapps.fm on my system, either dated 12/5/2013 or the date I installed the program. There are 6 files which are 282KB. How do I choose which file to open?

Re: Getting a handle on structured Frame

2014-08-13 Thread Scott Prentice
On 8/13/14 8:33 AM, Theresa de Valence wrote: On 8/12/2014 3:11 PM, Scott Prentice wrote: Don't open any of them from the file system. You have two choices .. from the Structure Tools menu choose Edit Application Definitions to edit your local structapps file (this is most likely what you

Re: Mif2Go suddenly failing on all machines

2014-08-13 Thread Scott Prentice
If you don't get anything here, you might try the new mif2go list .. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mif2go/info ...scott On 8/13/14 12:53 PM, John Sgammato wrote: Yesterday I was generating a bunch of XHTML output with Mif2Go, when suddenly I started to fail with this error: Mif2Go

Re: Getting a handle on structured Frame (DITA)

2014-08-13 Thread Scott Prentice
when published. So you should be able to use the default apps and models exactly as they are, and just set up a publishing process that applies the right templates and formatting. Cheers, ...scott On 8/13/14 1:52 PM, Theresa de Valence wrote: On 8/13/2014 11:21 AM, Scott Prentice wrote

Re: Getting a handle on structured Frame (DITA)

2014-08-13 Thread Scott Prentice
Valence Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 4:53 PM To: Scott Prentice; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Getting a handle on structured Frame (DITA) On 8/13/2014 11:21 AM, Scott Prentice wrote: XML for sure, and personally I'd use DITA. DITA for 3 reasons .. 1) the implementation of DocBook

Help with the future of Mif2Go/DITA2Go/uDoc2Go?

2014-08-14 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi... Just sending out another email to these groups to make sure that anyone interested in helping to guide the future direction of Mif2Go, DITA2Go, and uDoc2Go has signed up for the omsys-dev Yahoo group .. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/omsys-dev/info As Jeremy had wished, the

Re: Where is the EDD created?

2014-08-14 Thread Scott Prentice
On this page are two links .. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/framemaker.html - Learn how to create a FrameMaker structured application - Structured Application Developer Reference That should provide all the information you need. ...scott On 8/14/14 9:31 AM, Theresa de Valence wrote: I'm

Re: Mif2Go suddenly failing on all machines

2014-08-14 Thread Scott Prentice
, 2014 6:15 PM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com mailto:ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: And if you do find a fix, let us know, just in case someone else runs into the same issue. On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Scott Prentice s...@leximation.com mailto:s...@leximation.com

Re: Sample EDD files

2014-08-15 Thread Scott Prentice
Check the structure applications in .. FrameMaker\Structure\XML\app folders .. you may see files that have an edd extension (or .edd.fm), and those are most likely EDDs (although that's not a requirement). Also, every structured file has an EDD inside it .. you can export the EDD from within

Re: What free Windows text editor should I use to look at MIF files?

2014-10-06 Thread Scott Prentice
Since this discussion has morphed a bit .. I'll add a bit more to the MIF/XML thread. When XML came around I always thought how nice it would be to be able to convert between MIF and XML. Since MIF does have some similarities with XML, it seemed like a reasonable thing to do. So in 2003 I

Re: wrapping DITA steps in tables

2014-10-21 Thread Scott Prentice
, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 On 10/20/14 10:15 PM, Rebecca Officer wrote: Hi everyone When we publish PDFs from our DITA source files, we want to put our tasks in tables. I think that means we want to change the steps element into a 2-column table

Re: wrapping DITA steps in tables

2014-10-21 Thread Scott Prentice
Nice .. very cool. Thanks Wim! ...scott Sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos or unexpected brevity. On Oct 21, 2014, at 1:40 PM, Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp w...@idtp.eu wrote: Hi Rebecca, interesting question. Theoretically it should be possible to 'translate’ the steps element

Re: Frame 9 Crashing - Can't Create PDFs

2014-10-23 Thread Scott Prentice
messages were written there, be sure to do it before restarting FM after a crash. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 On 10/23/14 10:08 AM, Craig, Alison wrote: Wim: There is no console.txt file on my system, but there are lots of FrameLog... text

Re: Tech Comm Suite 5

2014-11-20 Thread Scott Prentice
. The sample files and webinar on this page may be of some use .. http://leximation.com/downloads/adobe-fm2xml-2013/ Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 On 11/20/14 11:35 AM, Gillian Flato wrote: Guys, I am considering using Tech Comm Suite 5

Re: Fm book with .xml files

2014-12-04 Thread Scott Prentice
? Same way, but a bit more work. If you come up with a better option let me know! ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 On 12/4/14 1:26 PM, Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp wrote: Hi, for a project we use a FM book with .xml files (not DITA, it's customized Docbook

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

2014-12-07 Thread Scott Prentice
Once a license has been upgraded, it's no longer able to be transferred, and would not be a legal license. If you can find a new in box or better yet unopened .. I'd think that's probably fine. I doubt seriously that anyone is using FrameMaker a a lure to install viruses. Not likely worth the

Have you heard about TC Camp?

2014-12-09 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi... Do you live in the San Francisco bay area (or are you looking for a reason to visit)? TC Camp is a techcomm unconference on Saturday, Jan 24. If you've never been to an unconference, it's definitely something you should try! It can be described as the part of a regular conference

Re: structured applications on a shared drive

2014-12-09 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Yves... Yes, this generally works fine. While it can work via a UNC path (\\server\path\file), I always recommend that people use a mounted drive instead .. it is typically more stable. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 On 12/9/14 12:41

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

2014-12-12 Thread Scott Prentice
Try the non-stage versions of the URLs .. http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/12.0/Help/Using/index.html#t=using-framemaker-12%2Ffrm_getstarted_gs%2Ffrm_getstarted_gs-1.htm http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/12.0/Help/using-framemaker-12.pdf Cheers! ...scott On 12/12/14 11:17 AM,

Re: online FrameMaker 12 Documentation totally revamped; in PDF

2014-12-15 Thread Scott Prentice
Sorry if this is obvious to some .. I'm thinking it's not obvious to all. This Help system *is* responsive .. it's just that the response points seem to be at odd sizes (at least to me). If your browser window is around 1300px wide, you'll get the full set of features. At around 1000px you

Re: Page count even or no

2014-12-18 Thread Scott Prentice
imho It's my assumption that the purpose of a PDF is to represent a printed book, so I will typically include all the bits that make that PDF into a book if printed. There are still lots of people who print PDFs (or at least parts). If someone reading the PDF online has to jump over a blank

ANN: Last Call! TC Camp is tomorrow at Mission College in Santa Clara, CA!

2015-01-23 Thread Scott Prentice
*Camp is better when you bring a friend! Tell your network that you're coming!* TC Camp, the unconference for content creators, consumers, and the people who support them, is happening at Mission College in Santa Clara on Saturday, January 24, 2015. If you live in the San Francisco Bay

Re: converting FM cross references to xrefs

2015-02-05 Thread Scott Prentice
The method Alan describes works *if* the following are true .. - you're doing a 1-to-1 conversion: FM file(s) to XML file(s). If you're converting to DITA or some model where you're converting each FM file to many XML files, this method doesn't work well since the target file names are

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

2015-02-02 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Lin... I think it has to do with the ability to have spanned cells. But also I don't think that you can conditionalize a cell object. You can conditionalize the content within a cell, but you can't just remove (hide) a cell in a table. You'd have a hole. Yes, theoretically, if you didn't

ANN: TC Camp is less than 2 short weeks away!

2015-01-15 Thread Scott Prentice
If you haven't been to an unconference, you should know these aren't like regular conferences. There are no juried presentations. No powerpoint. No waiting through the next session so you can attend the one you're really interested in. You know how it is at a regular conference, the best

Re: Conditional text by paragraph tag?

2015-02-11 Thread Scott Prentice
I think that the idea of the FM backup files is to provide *something* in case the current file gets corrupted in some way. It's better to lose the last edits to a file than to have the current (possibly corrupt) file overwrite what was a good file. Perhaps instead of calling these

Re: FM12: PDF file size exploding

2015-02-17 Thread Scott Prentice
If these files started off as XML or structured files, and the others didn't, there could definitely be some extra cruft in there. You probably checked this already, but are these files still structured? I haven't noticed any significant size difference in PDFs from XML from FM11 to FM12. I

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

2015-01-27 Thread Scott Prentice
by management. Feel free to contact me off list if you'd like more info about automation options. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 On 1/27/15 11:58 AM, Mark Soiseth wrote: Hi all, We're creating documentation in PDF format from FrameMaker

Re: Script to change a paratag based on the autonumber format

2015-03-06 Thread Scott Prentice
= pgf.NextPgfInFlow; } } Cheers! ...scott On 3/6/15 9:28 AM, Scott Prentice wrote: Hi Yves... The answer to your questions is .. Yes! :-) If you're looking for the code to do it, that might take a bit more time. Some generous developer might post the code for you, I'll provide

Re: Script to change a paratag based on the autonumber format

2015-03-06 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Yves... The answer to your questions is .. Yes! :-) If you're looking for the code to do it, that might take a bit more time. Some generous developer might post the code for you, I'll provide some pseudo-code .. - iterate each paragraph in the document - check the autonumber format

Re: Print a list of variables?

2015-03-10 Thread Scott Prentice
to install. Just run the installer and get a trial auth code .. don't bother with any of the other install instructions (unless of course you want to try a DITA conversion). Cheers, Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com On 3/10/15 10:56 AM, Christenson, Pat wrote: I have book

Re: Automatic column widths on import of XML file

2015-02-23 Thread Scott Prentice
Fei Min... FM won't auto-adjust table columns in any useful way. The only way I know of is to write a script or plugin to analyze the contents of the cells and do the width adjustment based on some predefined logic (widest graphic, or amount of text, etc.). Would love to hear I'm wrong ..

Re: Automatic column widths on import of XML file

2015-02-24 Thread Scott Prentice
, Feb 23, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Scott Prentice sp14 at leximation.com http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/listinfo/framers wrote:/ / / / Fei Min.../ / / / FM won't auto-adjust table columns in any useful way. The only way I know of is to write a script or plugin to analyze the contents of the cells

Re: Automatic column widths on import of XML file

2015-02-24 Thread Scott Prentice
= 0.543in/ Colspec colnum = 2 colname = 2 colwidth = 3.984in/ b) proportional example Colspec colnum = 1 colname = 1 colwidth = 12*/ Colspec colnum = 2 colname = 2 colwidth = 88*/ (here with the default that proportions add to 100) Best regards - Tino Scott Prentice: Fei Min... Column

Re: FM and Adobe Experience Manager

2015-05-06 Thread Scott Prentice
to! From: Scott Prentice s...@leximation.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Date: 05/06/2015 12:17 PM Subject:Re: FM and Adobe Experience Manager Sent by:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com Hi John... I have played with AEM+FM .. not really used it in a working

Re: FM and Adobe Experience Manager

2015-05-06 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi John... I have played with AEM+FM .. not really used it in a working environment, but done some setup and validation. What are you looking for? ...scott On 5/6/15 8:15 AM, john.x.pos...@us.hsbc.com wrote: Hi, guys...looking for anyone who has successfully implemented a Framemaker

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

2015-04-15 Thread Scott Prentice
There are a number of people on this list (I believe) who have dealt with issues using FM12 on retina MacBook Pro laptops. I know it's not exactly the same thing, but it's well beyond the compatible resolution for FM. You might search the archives for retina or perhaps those people will chime

Re: Dialog boxes being cut off

2015-06-16 Thread Scott Prentice
This can happen for a number of reasons. One fix you can try is this .. 1) Exit FrameMaker 2) Go to %appdata%\Adobe\FrameMaker\12 3) Delete or rename the ModalDialogPosition.ini file 4) Restart FM .. fixed? ...scott On 6/16/15 10:02 AM, Donnell, Heather wrote: Hi there, Apologies if this

[Framers] Do you have Mif2Go info to share?

2016-01-08 Thread Scott Prentice
[resending to Framers list] Hi... I've set up a WordPress blog for the community to share information (setup/installation/??) about Omni Systems products, such as Mif2Go. If you've been able to install Mif2Go on FM12 and/or FM2015, can you write up what's needed to make that work? Or do you

Re: [Framers] Mif2Go conversion to Word

2016-01-05 Thread Scott Prentice
http://mif2go.com Support for FM12/2015 is, from what I understand, not great. I believe that some have successfully been able to get it to work. Check the mif2go Yahoo group for details. If you want to help with the future development of Mif2Go, you can download the source from GitHub ..

Re: [Framers] ExtendScript for save as text, for Git usage ?

2016-06-07 Thread Scott Prentice
I wouldn't wish that on anyone. While MIF is a wonderful format for an ASCII description of a FM file, it's really not intended for human consumption. First off, it's not linear. Each FM object is defined in a section, and within that section the objects are declared in reasonably orderly

Re: [Framers] Import script for portions of Word documents

2016-05-31 Thread Scott Prentice
I'm pretty sure that you'd have to have the ExtendScript open up the Word doc in FM, then locate the portion you're interested in, copy it to the clipboard and paste it into the FM file (and close the Word doc without saving). A bit clunky, but certainly doable. You'd need some type of

Re: [Framers] import xml into FrameMaker 12?

2016-05-26 Thread Scott Prentice
Thanks Lin. DITA-FMx can help you get FM files from DITA XML, although it's really intended as a replacement for the built-in DITA support in FM. Bjørn .. when you say "convert and publish xml files into FM 12," what do you mean? Does your client want to convert the XML files into FM files

[Framers] ANN: TC Summer Camp!

2016-06-22 Thread Scott Prentice
You may have heard of TC Camp, the techcomm unconference, held for the past 4 years in the San Francisco bay area .. well, we are taking it on the road and holding a TC Summer Camp on Saturday, July 30 in the Washington DC area! If you're in the area or within an easy drive (or train) to

Backup folder in Frame 7.0?

2008-09-29 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Jack... I've got a plugin that will create the backup in a specified folder (in an absolute or relative location). One of these days I'll get around to posting it to my website, but if you (or anyone else) are interested in a "beta" version, contact me offlist. Cheers, ...sc

Changing Track Revisions display

2008-09-29 Thread Scott Prentice
of any "normal" ways to change their appearance. ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Keith Soltys wrote: > Frame 8 includes a Track Text Edits feature that is similar to Microsoft > Word's Track Changes. Inserted text shows up as

Conditional text in index markers

2009-04-08 Thread Scott Prentice
Our MarkerTools plugin allows you to add "variables" to marker text. This adds some overhead to your workflow, but it does provide a "conditional-like" functionality .. http://leximation.com/tools/info/markertools.php Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc

FM 9 p230 - 3 Level Indexing Error

2009-04-30 Thread Scott Prentice
! ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Jeff Coatsworth wrote: > Just another update on this issue - still occurs under the new patch > (p237). I wait in hope ;>) > > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com

FM 9 p230 - 3 Level Indexing Error

2009-04-30 Thread Scott Prentice
and multi-level index entries, this won't help. Again .. very sorry for the noise. I really need to make a point to carefully read emails before replying. :( ...scott Jeff Coatsworth wrote: > Does it work with unstructured FM? > > -Original Message- > From: Scott Prentic

Automating a Check for TradeMarks

2009-08-03 Thread Scott Prentice
with this yet so don't really know. If you do need such a plugin developed, I'd be glad to do it for you. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Joseph Lorenzini wrote: > Hi all, > > I am producing documentation using unstructured FrameM

DITA FM8_OpenToolkit

2009-08-05 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Paul... The following DITA/FrameMaker Community KB article should help .. http://kb.leximation.com/dfm/?kbid=7 Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Paul Wilbraham wrote: > Framers > > > > I am trying to insta

Bookmap

2009-08-05 Thread Scott Prentice
1 features. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Bertrand Lefort wrote: > Hello, > > I am a new user of Framemaker. We are currently implementing Framemaker and > DITA to manage or systems documentation for users. > >

FM9: Resource manager bugs?

2009-12-07 Thread Scott Prentice
en opening a map (using FMx or standard FM DITA) I'd immediately switch to the "Document View". Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Yves Barbion wrote: > Hi FM9/DITA users > > I'm using FM 9.0p250 with DITA-FMx 1.1 on Windows

FM9: Resource manager bugs?

2009-12-08 Thread Scott Prentice
Yes .. I've been asking for this for a while. In particular, it would be nice to be able to specify that a custom modeless dialog should NOT be opened in a pod (when it's too big to fit). Also, it would be great to be able to open a DITA map in document view instead of the resource manager.

DITA File - FDK Programming

2009-12-11 Thread Scott Prentice
tandard DITA 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 Lexim

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)

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 > >

Framemaker SDK and Framescript

2009-02-12 Thread Scott Prentice
Some additional info on options for FM automation .. http://leximation.com/framemaker_automation.php Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Brewster, Christopher C wrote: > I'm a long-time Word user and have written countless large and sm

Book to .mif plugin

2009-02-26 Thread Scott Prentice
And Leximation has a plugin called FileTools, which lets you export a book to many formats as well as lots of other file-related features. http://leximation.com/tools/info/filetools.php Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Mike Wickham

See all open markers?

2009-01-12 Thread Scott Prentice
MarkerTools also provides this feature. http://leximation.com/tools/info/markertools.php Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Nancy Allison wrote: > Thanks, Rick. I've investigated -- it looks wonderful; but at $249 > it's too exp

See all open markers?

2009-01-13 Thread Scott Prentice
There are a number of Marker-related plugins .. 10 are listed in our Tool Search database .. http://leximation.com/toolsearch/?type=P=FM=marker (If anyone knows of others .. please let me know!) Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Shlomo

Report FrameMaker 9 plugin compatibilities here

2009-01-20 Thread Scott Prentice
rst plugin to update for FM9, and hope to have a beta of DITA-FMx 1.1 for FM9 available within a month. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Mike Wickham wrote: > A question that comes up with each new FrameMaker release is, "are my ol

New Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 and new AdobeeLearning Suite

2009-01-20 Thread Scott Prentice
to deploy a Help system using AIR, you'll need to invest in a digital certificate ($200 to $300 USD), but that's all. The AIR technology is open source and freely available (you can download the AIR and Flex SDKs and build your apps). 5) Yes! 6) Not sure .. ? Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice

PDF Documentation

2009-01-22 Thread Scott Prentice
more user-friendly format (CHM/HTML). Searching in a PDF is a fairly useless operation as well, which is another reason I prefer to use other types of online docs. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Kelly McDaniel wrote: > Quick Survey: > &g

FM9 DITA integration

2009-01-27 Thread Scott Prentice
I don't think that there is anything in FM9 that makes it easier to get into DITA or structured authoring. It offers support for the DITA 1.1 specification, but migration is still the same effort that it has been in earlier versions. ...scott John Sgammato wrote: > I have been hoping FM9

WEBINAR: Using FrameMaker and DITA with XDocs Content Management System

2009-07-09 Thread Scott Prentice
Inc. Nenad Furtula, VP Sales and Marketing, Bluestream Database Corp. Scott Prentice, President, Leximation Inc. *Title:* /Using FrameMaker and DITA with XDocs Content Management System/ *Date:* Thursday, July 30, 2009 *Time:* 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PD

WEBINAR: Using FrameMaker and DITA with XDocs Content Management System

2009-07-09 Thread Scott Prentice
... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 > Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson > No disclaimers apply. >DoD 358 > > > >

Soliciting hardware recommendations

2009-07-14 Thread Scott Prentice
them like Mac apps. Seems like the ideal situation to me. Granted .. I've just started messing with this and there may be some serious problems that I'm overlooking. I'd love to hear if others have gone this direction. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com

Framemaker vs XMetal for structured authoring

2009-07-29 Thread Scott Prentice
.. http://leximation.com/dita-fmx/webinar.php Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Writer wrote: > I haven't used XMetal, but we do use FM9 to author DITA XML, and > ePublisher (XML adapter) to create online help. We author XML

Minimize all Frame windows at once?

2009-03-05 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Nancy... I'm not aware of a way to do this using standard FM commands. Our plugin FileTools provides a "Minimize All" command that does this. Grab the 30-day trial and see if it does what you want .. http://leximation.com/tools/info/filetools.php Cheers, ...scott Scot

Structured Frame Help

2009-03-06 Thread Scott Prentice
Toolkit plus lots of nice authoring features. If you're using DITA-FMx (any version) you can email us for help. :) Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 roconnor1 at netspace.net.au wrote: > Hi guys > I haven't used Framemaker for about

[TCS Users] FM9: some more bugs

2009-03-19 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Yves... Note that the DITA-FMx crash is something that we're working on, and does not look like (at this point) a specific problem with FM9. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Yves Barbion wrote: > Hi Mahesh > >

Book window position (was .. Re: Thumbs down: FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen)

2009-03-27 Thread Scott Prentice
Actually it *is* FM that saves the book window position and size. This info is stored in the book file itself, but isn't saved unless you actually make a change to the book file which requires that it be updated. Just moving and resizing the book won't require a save, but if you move and/or

Variable Plugin and Strategies

2009-05-12 Thread Scott Prentice
in getting a manual installer, please let me know. ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Joseph Lorenzini wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently started at a new position. The documentation set is almost all in > FrameMaker (which is good) but the templ

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

2009-05-13 Thread Scott Prentice
. ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Michael M?ller-Hillebrand wrote: > Good morning colleagues, > > I have a structured application with some XSL preprocessing that > removes certain data from the XML source when opened by FrameMaker. > >

custom text plugin wanted

2009-11-24 Thread Scott Prentice
e. Adding the ability to create and manage custom toolbars would be a bit of work, and could probably be a plugin of its own. If you don't find such a tool (I'm not aware of one), I'd be happy to look into developing it. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.189

custom text plugin wanted

2009-11-25 Thread Scott Prentice
an email off list. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Jakob Fix wrote: > Hi Scott, > > I will try your advice about unwrapping the root element and see if > that works, although this won't be a satisfactory solution for the > authors

serious problem with users FM 9

2009-11-26 Thread Scott Prentice
If you import your stub file into the structapps.fm file in the main FM install dir rather than the structapps file in the user appdata area it should be available to all users on a compter. With FM9 there are two structapps files. ...scott Sent from my iPhone On Nov 26, 2009, at 4:47 AM,

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 wrote: > Ah, after 17 years of using FrameMaker, I finally got to see a > dialog box > which I have never seen before. It says:

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, i

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. Cheers,

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 tryin

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

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