Utilities for FrameMaker ligatures

-style digits, and applies true small caps, and substitutes ligature glyphs for certain combinations of letters, e.g. ffl (characters) --> ffl (single glyph). Go to http://toolbox.rutgers.edu/%7Ehedrick/typography/>>. Have fun, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell

Resizing reference pages in FM 8

, and ReferencePage elements. Probably not a high priority for Adobe to fix but it sure confuses the users when they are confronted by this departure from the page sizes elsewhere in the template. Any explanations welcome, the wilder the better. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell

Resizing reference pages in FM 8 [ADDENDUM]

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Outline

ding style formats. Unfortunately, at this point it only works file by file. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. "Hedley Finger"

Outline

t used at all) has many advantages: you can use all the XML tools on the saved files but work in a friendly WYSIWYG environment. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. &

Is FM8 --> FM9 worth the money?

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Is it possible to install the trial Tech Comm Suite 2 beside TCS 1?

crafted FM8 set-up just to try out FM9. Has anybody succeeded in installing TCS2 or any of its components alongside TCS1? And successfully run each ... Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell

Anyone know where to find BeauxIX c. FM 6?

Google). Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 Skype: hedley.finger Email. "Hedley Finger"

Friends of FrameMaker: LinkedIn group for jobs

r service on Friends of FrameMaker as freely as you like and include promotional content and links not permitted on discussion forums. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +6

FrameMaker 9: Dialogues sizes

I haven't trialled FM9 yet, but if the various tiny dialogue windows are now (a) bigger and (b) resizable, those would be immense improvements. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell

'Burning the bridges' sale

[Fwd: 'Burning the bridges' sale]

also selling a lot of programming books -- see them by clicking the See other items <http://search.ebay.com.au/_W0QQsassZhedleyfingerQQhtZ-1> link under my vendor name hedleyfinger <http://myworld.ebay.com.au/hedleyfinger/> at the right upper corner of the eBay page. Regards, Hedley

How to kill annoying Adobe Update

, downloading Adobe Reader latest version and installing it would reinstall Adobe Updater. -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 Skype: hedley.finger Email.

Sheeply docked at Linux FrameMaker

, or can it run on Ubuntu? I have an ancient CD somewhere that has a trial Linux version at FM5.5.6. So does Linux rule OK or is it just Unix rules KO? Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412

Easiest way to migrate from one FM template to another

Verner: At Thursday, 8/11/2007, 07:56 PM;, you wrote: >I am using unstructured Framemaker. >I am going to migrate from one FM template to a new one. The migration >includes new names for paragraph styles in many documents. A problem with just importing formats is that all the old formats are

Curmudgeon's Corner: "alternate pages"

I would like to congratulate the correspondents recently discussing page numbering on "alternate pages" for getting it right. "Alternate" means "by turns", or "alternating between one item and another item", and so on. So many people seem to think it is a synonym of "alternative". Not so:

Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

Bodvar and others: At Tuesday, 25/09/2007, 07:07 PM;, you wrote: >IMHO it only remains for Adobe to realise that FM is also one of the >best tools for regular book layout, Well, it will be if we ALL start screaming for @ working in double-spreads, i.e. -- photographs and

Academic pricing [was "Re: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite"]

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Don't forget Blaze [was "Re: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite"]

Eric: At Wednesday, 26/09/2007, 11:20 PM;, you wrote: On 9/25/07, Hedley Finger <[1] hfinger at handholding.com.au> wrote: Well, it will be if we ALL start screaming for So, everyone get on it: [2]http://www.adobe.com/support/feature.html How

Fine tuning pagination

t is possible to print an 8-page section two-up, halving the print run. This (2 x 8 pp = 16pp) section can be slit on the folder, and then bound in with the 16 pp sections. @Finally, just accept a few blank pages at the end of the book. Can you put some house adverts for products or ser

OT: Monitor for color correction

rapolate easily to USA) and most manufacturers have good models varying from cheap and adequate to expensive. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. "Hedley Finger"

OT: Monitor for color correction

ur > temperature to the recommended D65 (6500K) with these more easily. > Samsung had several quite cheap models here in Australia (prices won't > extrapolate easily to USA) and most manufacturers have good models > varying from cheap and adequate to expensive. > Hedley Finger 28 Re

oldie

At Tuesday, 5/02/2008, 07:05 AM;, you wrote: > I've been on it since it was hosted on uunet; >I forget what year. After that I recall three volunteer admins >at different universities before Brad came along... ;-) > >Who else? Me, me, me! I've used FM from v. 3.0 on every platform except

Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, and Auld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All.

Smart Quotes is on but when I press ' or ", question marks (?) appear in Gentium Basic and Minion Pro fonts, not quotes. Gentium Basic was selected for testing because it is an Unicode conforming font that supports every alphabet based on roman or cyrillic glyphs, including accents. It is

Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, and Auld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All

SOLVED -- Re: Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, andAuld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All

All: At Tuesday, 12/02/2008, 04:38 AM;, you wrote: >Your latest message must have been transmitted in MIME format. It >came through silent. :) Now that I've got everyone's attention ... somehow that paste didn't happen and I sent off an empty message. Sorry if it didn't satisfy your humger

FrameMaker 8 won't import SVG graphics correctly

I am working on a personal DITA project in FrameMaker 8 with DITA-FMx, the more highly functional successor to the Adobe DITA plug-in. I created an SVG graphic graphic consisting of a screen capture of a dialogue as a PNG graphic, a few straight lines, and some text in Inkscape and saved as

FrameMaker 8 won't import SVG graphics correctly

Ursula: At Friday, 22/02/2008, 02:29 AM;, you wrote: >Hi, Headley Hedley >I didn't see a reply to your very interesting question on the >list... [FrameMaker 8 won't import SVG graphics correctly] ... did >you get any useful feedback privately? An Adobe employee emailed me that this was a

SOLUTION -- PERHAPS [was "RE: FrameMaker 8 won't import SVG graphics correctly"]

All: Original SVG from Inkscape consists of a screen capture to PNG plus some thin lines and some TrueType text. @ Direct import of *.svg by FrameMaker = strange white rectangles partially obscuring part of graphic. Thickness of hair lines varies. Appears to

Modularised EDDs?

Lynne Price, Kay Whatley and others: The DITA DTDs are modularised to allow ready re-use, specialisation and maintenance. Is there any way to create a modularised EDD, with a skeleton host file and modules imported as text insets? I have been studying the Adobe documentation for developing

Modularised EDDs?

s >of the EDD is a good approach for EDD maintenance. >Note that this is how the structapp stub files have been implemented >in DITA-FMx .. the stub files themselves are invalid, but when >imported as an inset into the structapps file, work fine. >Cheers, >Scott Prentice >Lex

"Adobe FrameMaker 8.0.4 failed to install"

in the default directory on Windows XP, which itself has had all updates installed. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. "Hedley Finger"

[Fwd: Re: "Adobe FrameMaker 8.0.4 failed to install"]

All: The saga continues ... > Hedley Finger wrote: > The Adobe Updater recognised that I didn't have the latest update. > Captivate and RoboHelp were updated successfully but not FrameMaker. > Why is this? I have also set preferences so that the updater will check > automatical

New figure object [was "Re: table and figure captions"]

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New figure object [was "Re: table and figure captions"]

t;formats". But, really, why isn't this stuff built in? [NOTE: Adobe lurkers -- aren't the plethora of plug-ins for common tasks telling you what functionality you should be incorporating?] It would be nice if a table/figure title could appear beside a table/figure, perhaps in the sidebar

Upgrade to latest Tech Comms Suite?

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PDF Creation Add-on

__ >> I bought the Technical Communications Suite with FM8, Acro 8, etc. The FM help so DO NOT uninstall Adobe PDF Creation as it is required to generate PDF files from FM documents. Who is right? Can you keep it and just use good old print to Adobe PDF virtual printer?

Whither RoboHelp for FrameMaker, Adobe?

BlueSky turned into eHelp and developed RoboHelp for FrameMaker, an intuitive GUI oriented converter to generate RoboHelp from original FrameMaker files. Then MacroMedia bought eHelp to get their hands on Captivate, preserved RoboHelp (sort of) and dumped RoboHelp for FrameMaker. Then Adobe

Para size in struct doc overriding char size

All: I am using the DITA-FMx plugin for FrameMaker with EDDs derived from the DITA DTDs/schemas. The element has a number of context-based format rules that specify various para formats dependent on context. When the context is not specified in the format rules, it simply defaults to the

More like a flicker than a Blaze

Blaze the FrameMaker killer? Don't make me laugh. What about a named style for everything? What about smart cross-references? What about variables? What about advanced search and replace for anything? What about diagnostic reports? XHTML, not even XML. No DITA. Adobe will be able to

MadCap Blaze

Sharon: I concur with Bill. What I cannot understand is that this was trumpeted as a FrameMaker killer yet its functionality falls far below. FM is very powerful but still needs a lot of work. For one, the presence of so many indexing add-ons indicates that better indexing and index

MadCap Blaze

Sharon: At Friday, 21/03/2008, 11:07 AM;, you wrote: >you also have short line control, missing from FrameMaker. Is that the same as widows and orphans? Or is it when a small word, say "all", turns over onto a new line at the end of a paragraph? If the latter, in FM most people just put a

Start a Conflagration

Sharon and you'all: At Saturday, 22/03/2008, 12:18 AM;, you wrote: >Blaze the FrameMaker killer? Don't make me laugh. Perhaps the expectations of us FrameMaker users were raised to high by maladroit early marketing bumf. And no doubt you did not expect such a negative reaction, fuelled mostly

Choosing colour profiles for PDF files

that the PDF file is merely a surrogate for the printing press and that no further profile is applied when the plates are burned? Any advice from those more knowledgeable than me is greatly appreciated. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809

Convert HTML files to FrameMaker files

You can could try opening the HTML file in a late-model Word or OpenOffice.org, then save out as *.doc or *.rtf. Then you can open either in FrameMaker, complete with styles. You can use FM's style mapping to substitute desired styles. Regards, Hedley

Avoiding artefacts in Inkscape SVG --> FrameMaker, PDF

ffects other editors or tools. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. "Hedley Finger"

FrameMaker 8.0.3 Update Now Available (POSSIBLE WORKAROUND)

ter anyway?) Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. "Hedley Finger"

Haven't we learnt anything about usability? [was "Re: default "reply-to-all" "]

y no one has > responded. I check the message I sent and discover that once again > I've been fooled by Framers non-standard reply mechanism. > Me, too! Sorry to me-too but I bet there are others who have fallen into this trap. -- Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC

Color of table borders...

it is added. The new ruling style then becomes available in the Table Designer. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. "Hedley Finger"

Haven't we learnt anything about usability design? [was "Re: default "reply-to-all"]

before sending this I noticed that the message was addressed to "Combs, Richard" and not the list. Okay, let's correct the address yet again and send the message. -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob

[Fwd: Haven't we learnt anything about usability design? [was "Re: default "reply-to-all"]]

ger, just before sending this I noticed that the message was addressed to "Combs, Richard" and not the list. Okay, let's correct the address yet again and send the message. -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone firs

CMYK in Frame

ing for the entire which is good enough for most everyday non-critical colour jobs. As content gets re-used in many different contexts these days, your are future proofing your graphics by NOT storing them in CMYK. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +6

Best Indexing Tool for FrameMaker?

IXgen is idiosyncratic but offers many functions to help you get going, e.g. making automatic entries for all headings which you can then edit to make proper entries. In view of the many headings in user guides, etc. and the invariable chunking into short topics, this can help you produce a

FrameMaker to ePub; ePub readers and pinned graphics

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Ghostscript [was 'Re: RE(2): FM10 does not output Adobe PDF']

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Re: [Framers] Questions about tech docs in an Agile environment (may be off-topic)

Can you write the release notes in such a way that the content can be embedded as an insert into the user guide? Can you automate the production flow to some extent? Can time consuming tasks like repagination that do not affect content be hived of to a non-technical assistant? Could you get a less

Re: [Framers] FM 2017 Feature Request: Restore color and scaling to menu icons

Stefan: Usability trumps calming. Hedley On 17 March 2017 at 10:40, Stefan Gentz wrote: > Hi all, > > we heard you! > > Thanks for all your feedback on the new icon design. We do appreciate your > feedback. > > As you might imagine, we did not take the decision to go for a

Re: [Framers] OT/PSA for the creative writers on this list

Tammy: Will the Six Word Mystery Novel be on again this year? My entry: Beginning, middle, morgue. Tammy's lonely life. Regards, Hedley On Tue, 3 Oct 2017 at 02:50, Tammy Van Boening < tamm...@spectrumwritingllc.com> wrote: > Rocky Mountain Mystery Writers of America's First Annual Six-Word

[Framers] Installable FrameMaker

I've been away for a very long time. Is it possible to download FM with a licence and install it on your own computer? Or is only available by (crippling) monthly subscription? Regards to friends old and new. Hedley -- 1/17 Glyndon Road, Camberwell VIC 3124, Australia hedley.fin...@gmail.com

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