Conditional text in index markers

2009-04-08 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Hello Framers, In Framemaker 8.0p277, does anyone know if it is possible to apply conditional text to a part of the text in an index marker? I want some of the text only to display in my online help version, so I have a condition PDF and one online-only. thanks for your help! regards, Tom

Layout of automatic generate Index gets lost due to (unused) missing font

2009-09-30 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Dear Frame-users, Using Framemaker 7.2 (but having the same behavior in Framemaker 8) on Windows XP, the layout of our automatic generated Index gets completely lost: all styles become Times New Roman, size 12 pt. This for all PCs that have a missing font, even when that font is not used at

Inserting a same marker in all files of a book

2010-02-17 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Hi Framers, I'm guessing my issue will only be solvable by a script? Working within Framemaker 8 (Technical Suite) I need to insert a PageStyle marker (with same value) in 102 Framefiles of a book. Those files are generated by an external application and can update at any time. These pages

RE: Inserting a same marker in all files of a book

2010-02-18 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
it... Thanks anyway! Kind regards, Tom Tom De Rouck SGS Documentation Services Technical Writer Phone: +32 (0)9 242 81 77 -Original Message- From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard.co...@polycom.com] Sent: woensdag 17 februari 2010 21:23 To: de Rouck, Tom (Gent); framers

SOLVED Inserting a same marker in all files of a book

2010-02-18 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
recurring text so I can find/replace recurring text by recurringblablabla text and then find/replace blablabla by the marker. Kind regards, Tom Tom De Rouck SGS Documentation Services Technical Writer -Original Message- From: de Rouck, Tom (Gent) Sent: donderdag 18 februari 2010 11

RE: Linking to folder on network

2010-09-22 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Hello Jess, I think this is what you need: message URL file:///C:/FOLDERNAME where C and foldername should be customized to your situation of course. Please take into account that the folder is opened in the preferred browser of the user, not in Windows Explorer. Please let me know if it

setting up technical documentation workflow from scratch : about DocZone

2010-10-15 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Hi Wim, Jakobsen, I just wanted to add a small hint: if you're really going to choose DocZone because of its integrated translation support, please think twice. They're not ready yet... We are doing a translation job for the moment in that tool and a lot of programming work is still to be done

S1000D in Framemaker

2010-10-29 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Dear all, Does anyone have some experience with creation of S1000D manuals in Framemaker, no matter the Framemaker version? One of our customers and by consequence my project manager asked me to find out if we can write them via PTC products but price seems the first and main obstacle, besided

RE: Scrolling in Adobe FrameMaker 7th and 9th versions

2011-01-05 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Dear Andrew, I don't know WHY that happens but I can tell you that we often used the free Freewheel software (just Google for it) when having scrolling problems in Framemaker 7. I hope that helps, Regards, Tom De Rouck SGS Documentation Services Technical Writer

Re: Hyperlinking Between Frame and MS Word Source

2011-02-07 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Hello Angela, I don't know which 'entry points' Word generates when creating (html) output from it for a heading 1 for example, but that can easily be found out by generating a Word doc. As an emergency solution you can then use the pass through option in Frame/Webworks to type a working link

Re: Adobe ExportPDF

2011-05-09 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Hi Susan, I used Mif2Go too, but I must admit that I'm even more happy with the results we are getting from the latest Adobe Acrobat X Pro, using the Save As Word function! This depends however on the native application (if it's Frame, than you're good!). Regards, Tom Tom De Rouck SGS

Change declaration when converting FM with MIF2GO

2011-05-11 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Hi everyone, I'm trying to set up a first conversion of a structured Framemaker 8 manual (p277) to DITA XML via MIF2GO. Everything looks OK, except for the declaration 'override'. I need an override because I upload the resulting XMLs in Docato (EMC product). After upload editing is done with

Re: How do I convert my FrameMaker files to Word?

2011-06-03 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Hi Linda, Even better than MIF2GO I highly recommend the following work-around (hoping you have the latest Acrobat, X). Just create a PDF from your Framemaker file and then use the Save As Word option in Acrobat X. Normally this gives astonishing results. I hope this helps! Regards, Tom

Saving Frame 10 files in batch to Frame 7

2012-06-27 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Dear Framers, Framemaker 10 + Framemaker 7.2 + Framescript 5.2R1p248 Am I correct that for saving Framemaker 10 files to Framemaker 7, in batch, I need to pass by MIF7, right? In Framemaker 10, I have a script that saves all my Framemaker 10 files from a book to MIF7. In Framemaker 7.2, I

RE: Saving Frame 10 files in batch to Frame 7

2012-06-28 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Junior Project Manager From: Georg Eck [mailto:e...@squidds.de] Sent: woensdag 27 juni 2012 19:57 To: de Rouck, Tom (Gent); framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Ann: Saving Frame 10 files in batch to Frame 7 Hi Tom, please test following feature in Finalyser: You will find following menu

RE: Saving Frame 10 files in batch to Frame 7

2012-06-28 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
: woensdag 27 juni 2012 19:11 To: de Rouck, Tom (Gent); framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Saving Frame 10 files in batch to Frame 7 I'm not sure if this is a bug in Fm10 or if that is the way it is designed to work. XRefAltText, XRefClientName, XRefClientType and XRefSrcElemNoUniqueId are all

Re: FrameMaker 10 does not start (licensing expired)

2013-01-02 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Dear Anjaneai, Is there a solution yet? As Shlomo, I tried your suggested solution 1 and 2 without success. Again, just like Shlomo, I don't want to try solution 3. Just as a note: simply setting the date back to 2012 makes the license issue disappear. But this is something I can do as I have

Store and reapply format overrides

2013-01-04 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Hello all, For a long time now I've been looking for a solution to archive Framemaker 7.2 books with a lot of text insets, often inserted with a paragraph override on the anchor (e.g. top of column). When I use the Archive book plugin all these overrides are lost. So I was wondering if someone

Set-up in Framemaker to link to PDF in attachment

2013-11-29 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone knows if there's a hypertext marker pattern (or alternative) in Framemaker 8 (Win7) to create a working link in the resulting PDF to a PDF that was manually added in attachment. We tried with message URL but then the linked PDF has to be in the correct

RE: Set-up in Framemaker to link to PDF in attachment

2013-11-29 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
folder. Regards, Tom Tom De Rouck SGS Documentation Services Junior Project Manager From: Yves Barbion [mailto:yves.barb...@gmail.com] Sent: vrijdag 29 november 2013 10:16 To: de Rouck, Tom (Gent) Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Set-up in Framemaker to link to PDF in attachment Dag

Conditional text in index markers

2009-04-08 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Hello Framers, In Framemaker 8.0p277, does anyone know if it is possible to apply conditional text to a part of the text in an index marker? I want some of the text only to display in my online help version, so I have a condition "PDF" and one "online-only". thanks for your help! regards, Tom

Layout of automatic generate Index gets lost due to (unused) missing font

2009-09-30 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Dear Frame-users, Using Framemaker 7.2 (but having the same behavior in Framemaker 8) on Windows XP, the layout of our automatic generated Index gets completely lost: all styles become Times New Roman, size 12 pt. This for all PCs that have a missing font, even when that font is not used at

Inserting a same marker in all files of a book

2010-02-17 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Hi Framers, I'm guessing my issue will only be solvable by a script? Working within Framemaker 8 (Technical Suite) I need to insert a PageStyle marker (with same value) in 102 Framefiles of a book. Those files are generated by an external application and can update at any time. These pages

Inserting a same marker in all files of a book

2010-02-18 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
it... Thanks anyway! Kind regards, Tom Tom De Rouck SGS Documentation Services Technical Writer Phone: +32 (0)9 242 81 77 -Original Message- From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard.co...@polycom.com] Sent: woensdag 17 februari 2010 21:23 To: de Rouck, Tom (Gent); framers

SOLVED Inserting a same marker in all files of a book

2010-02-19 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
ntain some recurring text so I can find/replace "recurring" text by "recurringblablabla" text and then find/replace "blablabla" by the marker. Kind regards, Tom Tom De Rouck SGS Documentation Services Technical Writer -----Original Message- From: de Rouck,

setting up technical documentation workflow from scratch : about DocZone

2010-10-15 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Hi Wim, Jakobsen, I just wanted to add a small hint: if you're really going to choose DocZone because of its integrated translation support, please think twice. They're not ready yet... We are doing a translation job for the moment in that tool and a lot of programming work is still to be done

S1000D in Framemaker

2010-10-29 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Dear all, Does anyone have some experience with creation of S1000D manuals in Framemaker, no matter the Framemaker version? One of our customers and by consequence my project manager asked me to find out if we can write them via PTC products but price seems the first and main obstacle, besided

Linking to folder on network

2010-09-22 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Hello Jess, I think this is what you need: message URL file:///C:/FOLDERNAME where "C" and "foldername" should be customized to your situation of course. Please take into account that the folder is opened in the preferred browser of the user, not in Windows Explorer. Please let me know if it

Hyperlinking Between Frame and MS Word Source

2011-02-07 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Hello Angela, I don't know which 'entry points' Word generates when creating (html) output from it for a heading 1 for example, but that can easily be found out by generating a Word doc. As an emergency solution you can then use the "pass through" option in Frame/Webworks to type a working

Scrolling in Adobe FrameMaker 7th and 9th versions

2011-01-05 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Dear Andrew, I don't know WHY that happens but I can tell you that we often used the free "Freewheel" software (just Google for it) when having scrolling problems in Framemaker 7. I hope that helps, Regards, Tom De Rouck SGS Documentation Services Technical Writer

How do I convert my FrameMaker files to Word?

2011-06-03 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Hi Linda, Even better than MIF2GO I highly recommend the following work-around (hoping you have the latest Acrobat, X). Just create a PDF from your Framemaker file and then use the Save As Word option in Acrobat X. Normally this gives astonishing results. I hope this helps! Regards, Tom

Adobe ExportPDF

2011-05-09 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Hi Susan, I used Mif2Go too, but I must admit that I'm even more happy with the results we are getting from the latest Adobe Acrobat X Pro, using the Save As Word function! This depends however on the native application (if it's Frame, than you're good!). Regards, Tom Tom De Rouck SGS

Change declaration when converting FM with MIF2GO

2011-05-11 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Hi everyone, I'm trying to set up a first conversion of a structured Framemaker 8 manual (p277) to DITA XML via MIF2GO. Everything looks OK, except for the declaration 'override'. I need an override because I upload the resulting XMLs in Docato (EMC product). After upload editing is done with

Saving Frame 10 files in batch to Frame 7

2012-06-27 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Dear Framers, Framemaker 10 + Framemaker 7.2 + Framescript 5.2R1p248 Am I correct that for saving Framemaker 10 files to Framemaker 7, in batch, I need to pass by MIF7, right? In Framemaker 10, I have a script that saves all my Framemaker 10 files from a book to MIF7. In Framemaker 7.2, I

Saving Frame 10 files in batch to Frame 7

2012-06-28 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
in. Best regards, Tom De Rouck SGS Documentation Services Junior Project Manager From: Georg Eck [mailto:e...@squidds.de] Sent: woensdag 27 juni 2012 19:57 To: de Rouck, Tom (Gent); framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Ann: Saving Frame 10 files in batch to Frame 7 Hi Tom, please test follow

Saving Frame 10 files in batch to Frame 7

2012-06-28 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
anager Phone: +32 (0)9 242 81 77 From: Frank Elmore [mailto:fr...@elmsoftonline.com] Sent: woensdag 27 juni 2012 19:11 To: de Rouck, Tom (Gent); framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Saving Frame 10 files in batch to Frame 7 I'm not sure if this is a bug in Fm10 or if that is the way it i

FrameMaker 10 does not start ("licensing expired")

2013-01-02 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Dear Anjaneai, Is there a solution yet? As Shlomo, I tried your suggested solution 1 and 2 without success. Again, just like Shlomo, I don't want to try solution 3. Just as a note: simply setting the date back to 2012 makes the license issue disappear. But this is something I can do as I have

Store and reapply format overrides

2013-01-04 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Hello all, For a long time now I've been looking for a solution to archive Framemaker 7.2 books with a lot of text insets, often inserted with a paragraph override on the anchor (e.g. top of column). When I use the Archive book plugin all these overrides are lost. So I was wondering if someone

Set-up in Framemaker to link to PDF in attachment

2013-11-29 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone knows if there's a hypertext marker pattern (or alternative) in Framemaker 8 (Win7) to create a working link in the resulting PDF to a PDF that was manually added in attachment. We tried with "message URL" but then the linked PDF has to be in the

Set-up in Framemaker to link to PDF in attachment

2013-11-29 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
folder. Regards, Tom Tom De Rouck SGS Documentation Services Junior Project Manager From: Yves Barbion [mailto:yves.barb...@gmail.com] Sent: vrijdag 29 november 2013 10:16 To: de Rouck, Tom (Gent) Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Set-up in Framemaker to link to PDF in attachment Dag

[Framers] Framemaker 2015: text insets crashing constantly

2016-04-12 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Hello everyone, Using Framemaker 2015 (latest patch 2 installed) on Windows we experience constant crashes when importing text insets. The book and frame files are not legacy files, they were created in Framemaker 2015. Yes, our path is quite deep but when we copy the complete setup and test

[Framers] Linking to text insets: page number?

2016-04-22 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Hello everyone, Using Framemaker 2015 (latest patch 3 installed) on Windows. We want to use Framemaker as a little CMS: big container book file with about 5 Frame container files with a lot of text inset files. Is there any way to display the page number of the position of a text inset in the