Carrying the Title of a Book forward [was Variables]

2006-01-31 Thread Scott Prentice
You might want to check out BookVars .. it may provide what you're looking for .. http://www.leximation.com/tools/info/bookvars.php ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 John Posada wrote: >I could live with that. I'd even buy a plug

Problems with special characters

2006-07-05 Thread Scott Prentice
e CharDiaeresis CharArrowUp DiphthongAE ObliqueO CharDegree CharPlusMinus CharSecond CharGreaterEqual CharYen CharProportional CharPartialDiff CharBigBullet CharDivision CharNotEqual Regards, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com Phil Heron wrote: > Mathieu, > > Alt+

Workaround for marker character limit?

2006-07-05 Thread Scott Prentice
your client is interested in developing a plugin, give me a call and we can talk more about the options. Regards, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Kay Ethier at Bright Path wrote: > Hi all: > > Anyone have a workaround/plug-in for FrameMaker&#x

Odd console message on boot-up

2006-07-09 Thread Scott Prentice
Template=TextImport, T65, T65, ADBI, Pagemaker 6.5.x Template, Pagemaker (T65) Import, filters\ImportUtility.dll, all, ^.t65 Good luck. ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 hedley.finger at myob.com wrote: > All: > > When I boot up FrameMake

sorting translated tables

2006-07-25 Thread Scott Prentice
FrameScripter, this would probably be a nice little script to rename all markers of a given type to another "temporary" marker type. Good luck! ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Sales at Bright Path wrote: > Hi Bill: > > Unfortuna

Help vertically centering text in FM..

2006-06-03 Thread Scott Prentice
scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Andy Kelsall wrote: > Hello, > >I can't for the life of me figure out how to vertically align text > in FM. I have a page where I would > like to align the text vertically, but after poking aroun

Plugin to map styles

2006-06-13 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Pat... We've got BookVars and BookXRefs (http://www.leximation.com/tools/) .. but sorry, no table or conditional style mapping. ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Pat Christenson wrote: > On Jun 13, 2006, at 4:20 PM, Linda G. Gallagh

ANN: New plugin lists all shortcuts in Frame...

2006-06-21 Thread Scott Prentice
http://leximation.com/tools/info/listshortcuts.php And best of all, it's free! Enjoy! ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892

template mapping/perl scripting questions

2006-03-03 Thread Scott Prentice
want to have backups before trying this). The plugin has a 30-day trial, so you can make sure it does what you want before buying it .. or if you can get the job done in 30 days, there's no need to buy it! :) Good luck! ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415

Bullet points

2006-03-03 Thread Scott Prentice
Actually .. the baseline shift can be done through FrameMaker with a free plugin that we offer .. http://www.leximation.com/tools/info/extracharformat.php ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Steve Rickaby wrote: >At 09:39 -0500 3/3/06, Ro

Index Professional Tool

2006-03-06 Thread Scott Prentice
While you're at it, you may want to check out our MarkerTools plugin .. http://www.leximation.com/tools/info/markertools.php which provides many nice marker editing and management functions .. 30-day trial lets you try it out to make sure it does what you need. ...scott Scott Pre

Index Professional Tool

2006-03-06 Thread Scott Prentice
And, there's also MarkerWorker and Marker Madness. All of the indexing/marker tools mentioned so far are listed in our Tool Search database (with prices and descriptions for quick review). See .. http://www.leximation.com/toolsearch/?kwds=marker Cheers! ...scott Scott Prentice Lexim

Re: Can the spelling checker be trusted?

2010-05-24 Thread Scott Prentice
w far away from the word you 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.

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 se

Re: Batch Conversion of Frame Referenced Graphic Calls

2010-07-13 Thread Scott Prentice
or 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 for i

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. Cheers

Re: FDK question

2010-09-29 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Andrey... I believe this has been discussed on the "frame_dev" Yahoo list .. you might try posting there. Cheers, ...scott Andrey 'ABacus' Bondarenko wrote: Hi, Is there anybody who try to build FDK client with tools other than Visual Studio? --- Best regards Andrey 'ABacus' Bonda

Re: plugin for tracking text insets

2010-10-01 Thread Scott Prentice
at does exactly 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 a

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 contin

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
based on the marker type. 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

Re: Formatting of multi-marker indexes...

2011-02-02 Thread Scott Prentice
d be great 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

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 j

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 w

Re: Text insets (Martin Ley)

2011-03-08 Thread Scott Prentice
me wrong, Frame's text insets are great .. but this is certainly available in many 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 (in

Re: Frame 10 Bug(s)/Odd behavior

2011-03-10 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Brad... This is in an XP VM (Fusion) on a MacBook Pro .. 1) Can't reproduce. I can't get in more than one click before the dialog comes up. Either I'm too slow or the system is too fast. 2) I've got no problem with FM staying on top in either maximized or windowed state. Clicking other ap

Re: Frame 10 Bug(s)/Odd behavior

2011-03-10 Thread Scott Prentice
if you want to save 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 Br

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 o

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

2011-03-29 Thread Scott Prentice
and not a techie, and I've never evaluated a software app for our business processes 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.f

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 D

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
the element that's been conreffed .. 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 structure

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 (http://cali

Re: Conref Issue in FrameMaker 8

2011-05-25 Thread Scott Prentice
/docs.leximation.com/dita-fmx/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.

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. http://www

Re: FM10 performance with real-time spell checking

2011-06-07 Thread Scott Prentice
s.frameusers.com [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 enabl

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 f

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: H

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 pleas

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

2011-07-05 Thread Scott Prentice
ell art.campb...@gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply.

Re: Accessing a DLL file

2011-08-04 Thread Scott Prentice
need to contact 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 Fr

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, repeti

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 fo

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 Bru

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 Lexim

Re: master index of multiple book

2011-09-22 Thread Scott Prentice
ll on FM8 or newer, send me an email 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

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 fo

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

2011-10-21 Thread Scott Prentice
XSLT used to aggregate the map 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

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

2011-10-21 Thread Scott Prentice
om 585.889.0288 (office) -Original Message- From: 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

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" (o

Re: DITA file naming conventions

2011-11-03 Thread Scott Prentice
n one 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: >

Re: FM 8 to ePub?

2011-11-04 Thread Scott Prentice
a one-time 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

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 or

Re: Framemaker 10/Ditamap odd behavior

2011-11-09 Thread Scott Prentice
89.0288 (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 extensi

Re: Structured FM, DITA, and DOCX

2011-11-14 Thread Scott Prentice
ot tried this myself yet, but I'm sure it works reasonably well. Just how you'd incorporate that into a workflow might be up for discussion. (If you're interested in exploring this word2dita plugin, I'd be happy to help out .. contact me off list. :) Cheers,

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

2011-11-18 Thread Scott Prentice
aker-dita Yahoo group .. you'll find more people who are likely to have the answer to your question. Cheers! ...scott -- Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Steve Nelson wrote: Hi, I'm using FM10 and dita 1.2 template/edd. For some reason(s), cross

Re: Xref page numbering not correct

2011-11-21 Thread Scott Prentice
l Writer Ameritherm, 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 S

Re: Xref page numbering not correct

2011-11-21 Thread Scott Prentice
39 Main St. Scottsville, 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 numb

Re: Xref page numbering not correct

2011-11-21 Thread Scott Prentice
create FM files or XML files? If you created XML files, the xrefs will all pretty much say page 1. Nadine *From:* Scott Prentice *To:* Steve Nelson *Cc:* 'Framers' ; r...@frameexpert.com *Sent:*

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
14546 snel...@ambrell.com 585.889.0288 (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 .

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 gene

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 a

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
ot; number gets reset for each 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 b

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 to

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 scen

FrameMaker to Apple Pages (then to iBooks Author)

2012-01-28 Thread Scott Prentice
The reason 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 ___

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

2012-01-29 Thread Scott Prentice
ethod. 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 wrote: > At 17:52 -0800 28/1/12, Scott Prentice wrote: > >> The reaso

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

2012-01-29 Thread Scott Prentice
rve style names (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

Re: Frame to eBook

2012-02-10 Thread Scott Prentice
intent 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

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 c

Re: Is it possible to embed a webpage in FM?

2012-05-08 Thread Scott Prentice
Never seen it but theoretically possible. Would be a bit of work though. I've considered trying to integrate AIR with the FDK which might be one way to do this. Other options are possible. ...scott Sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos or unexpected brevity. On May 8, 2012, at 10:24 AM

Re: Framemaker 10 and DITA

2012-05-09 Thread Scott Prentice
that you're using FM 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 Lexim

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 mor

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

2012-05-17 Thread Scott Prentice
s been supplanted by the "Structured Application Developer Reference." Neither those docs nor the sample files bundled with FrameMaker 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 wro

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

2012-05-18 Thread Scott Prentice
than I am about FM 10 might have more to say about that. Nadine - Original Message ----- From: "Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)" To: Writer; Scott Prentice; "framers@lists.frameusers.com" Cc: Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 11:45:29 AM Subject: RE: Resources to help a newbie cr

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

2012-05-18 Thread Scott Prentice
ar "Plug-in"? BTW, thanks for helping this complete DITA novice here! I learn so much from this list all the time ... :) Z -Original Message- From: Writer [mailto:generic...@yahoo.ca] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 9:05 AM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net); Scott Prentice;

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

2012-05-18 Thread Scott Prentice
the most 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 (HTM

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" wrote: > On 31 May 2012 at 13:30, Paul Wilbra

Re: Need Help Mac to PC

2006-05-19 Thread Scott Prentice
luck with the move! ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Mary Haas wrote: Hello Framers, I will soon be converting my Mac Frame 7 documents to Frame 7 on the PC. My Mac is getting old and the organization wants the jobs on PC. My documents are both p

Re: [spam] Re: 7.2 crash on exit

2006-05-25 Thread Scott Prentice
Do you have any plugins installed? If so, you might try uninstalling them and see if the crash goes away. ...scott Grant Hogarth wrote: And as for the other... My suspicion is that you are running out of memory. Grant -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Help vertically centering text in FM..

2006-06-03 Thread Scott Prentice
scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Andy Kelsall wrote: Hello, I can't for the life of me figure out how to vertically align text in FM. I have a page where I would like to align the text vertically, but after poking around FM and doing a Google s

Re: Plugin to map styles

2006-06-13 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Pat... We've got BookVars and BookXRefs (http://www.leximation.com/tools/) .. but sorry, no table or conditional style mapping. ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Pat Christenson wrote: On Jun 13, 2006, at 4:20 PM, Linda G. Gallagher

ANN: New plugin lists all shortcuts in Frame...

2006-06-21 Thread Scott Prentice
http://leximation.com/tools/info/listshortcuts.php And best of all, it's free! Enjoy! ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list mes

Re: Problems with special characters

2006-07-05 Thread Scott Prentice
e CharDiaeresis CharArrowUp DiphthongAE ObliqueO CharDegree CharPlusMinus CharSecond CharGreaterEqual CharYen CharProportional CharPartialDiff CharBigBullet CharDivision CharNotEqual Regards, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com Phil Heron wrote: Mathieu, Alt+242 was the code f

Re: Workaround for marker character limit?

2006-07-05 Thread Scott Prentice
your client is interested in developing a plugin, give me a call and we can talk more about the options. Regards, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Kay Ethier at Bright Path wrote: Hi all: Anyone have a workaround/plug-in for FrameMaker's limi

Re: Odd console message on boot-up

2006-07-09 Thread Scott Prentice
.x Template=TextImport, T65, T65, ADBI, Pagemaker 6.5.x Template, Pagemaker (T65) Import, filters\ImportUtility.dll, all, ^.t65 Good luck. ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All: When I boot up FrameMaker 7.2b144, the console

Re: sorting translated tables

2006-07-25 Thread Scott Prentice
;re a FrameScripter, this would probably be a nice little script to rename all markers of a given type to another "temporary" marker type. Good luck! ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Sales at Bright Path wrote: Hi Bill: Unfortunately, this i

Re: Indexing Multiple Books?

2006-08-01 Thread Scott Prentice
If you want a little help with building the uber-book .. you can use our ComboBook plugin (it's free) .. http://www.leximation.com/tools/info/combobook.php Cheers! ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Steve Rickaby wrote: At 10:52 -0700 1

Re: Phantom index entries

2006-08-03 Thread Scott Prentice
consistent problem with the marker text, you may be able to use Perl of some search/replace tool to process the exported marker list before importing. The 30-day trial should give you enough time to clean up your files without needing to buy it. Good luck! ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc

Re: A Plugin for scrubbing files before localization

2006-08-24 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi John... Clean Import by ElectroPubs .. http://www.electropubs.com/downloads.html .. may do most of what you need. I've not personally used this so can't say for sure, but it's worth checking out. ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892

Re: Open XML with Framemaker via a command line

2006-09-06 Thread Scott Prentice
t file. So all you need in your batch file is .. "\framemaker.exe" "\" There are some batch processing plugins available .. DoBatch, DZBatcher, and Mif2Go (demo or full versions) comes with a plugin called RunFM that does batch processing. ...scott Scott Prentice Lexim

Re: Importing images from a CAD system

2006-09-08 Thread Scott Prentice
If you want to maintain the vector quality, you should save your CAD files to EPS. If this can't be done directly from Solidworks, you should be able to get a printer driver that will generate the EPS file. ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485

Re: Indexing recommendations

2006-10-04 Thread Scott Prentice
needing to select each marker individually. This dialog is big enough to see all of the text in a marker, and in addition to many other features, lets you insert Frame variables into markers. You can download a fully functional version and try it for 30 days for free. Cheers! ...scott Scot

Re: XML roundtripping - attributes with more than one value

2006-10-28 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Daniel... I'm pretty sure that "Strings" values are space-delimited .. at least whenever I've worked with them they have been. I don't think you'll have much success maintaining a newline in an attribute value. ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.

Re: List of unused User Variables?

2006-11-21 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Diane... Information is available at the following URL .. http://www.leximation.com/tools/info/bookvars.php Use the 30-day trial to see if it does what you need. Thanks, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Diane Gaskill wrote: John, What

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