Migrating features over to InDesign

What is so terribly sad is that Adobe has never really shown that it understands what FrameMaker is for. They have always had their head firmly in the designer/graphics artist/page layout camp. Scott At 8:57 AM -0700 9/29/08, Lea Rush wrote: >Damn. Thanks for the heads' up. My hope is that

FrameMaker-Acrobat-Other?

Perhaps what you need is a URL link since you are using separate files over a LAN at an HTTP location. Scott At 4:32 PM -0500 9/30/08, Peter Gold wrote: >Hi, Ben: > >Have you examined the links in the PDF with the Link tool? Perhaps >you'll find a clue that sheds light on the behavior. > >HTH >

Graphics Fundamentals

The graphics embedded in a Word file are raster graphics (bitmapped) so when you export those graphics through Mif2Go you will get either jpg or gif, depending on which format you select. There is no way to tell what the original format was. Scott Diane Gaskill wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > > We are

Adding a shadow to text in Framemaker 7.1

Tracy, What you are talking about is a graphic. Which is bad news. You would need to create the graphic for each chapter number. IF you are lucky you might find a suitable font. But I wouldn't count on it. Scott Tracy Penn wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone know how to add a shadow to the text

Any up to date comparisons of Word and Frame

I have used Word 2007. They tried to fix what wasn't broken. And no, they didn't fix either the numbering system or multi-file operations. It's still oriented toward smaller documents with less complexity. I also would avoid it for any XML work. My preference, but their past history of munging

Any up to date comparisons of Word and Frame

Another thought. You can use Notepad to program in various languages, but why would you want to? You are missing so many effective and time-saving tools. Are you producing PDF files? If so, using Word removes a boat load of time-saving automatic tools for indexing, hypertext linking, and TOC

Any up to date comparisons of Word and Frame

Your millage may vary. I found that I could get it to work, but it would blow up, either on me at a future date, or on someone else when they opened the file, and I would have to go and fix it. Scott Jon Harvey wrote: > I don't use the latest version of Word but Word 2003 had a pretty good, >

(Slightly OT) Any up to date comparisons of Word and Frame

I think it's also telling that corporations don't normally train you on "New" GUI in an app. IT tosses it over the fence and the user has to cope on their own without much support at all, and little documentation. This video isn't useful to most users. It isn't available to most users. I think

Weird autonumbering problem with Framemaker

Check that the styles with numbering formats that fall between those tables are replicating the proper stream. Someone is either off a placeholder, or resetting your numbers. Scott Eva Whitley wrote: > First off, thanks to all those who helped me with my document containing > both 81/2"x11"

Weird autonumbering problem with Framemaker

I would note, that while the series letter is very important, and will regularize the numbering stream, it seems likely that Eva is using a single stream in order to restart the numbering sequence at the start of each section/chapter without using a separate start style. If that is indeed the

Weird autonumbering problem with Framemaker

Richard, I agree with simplifying, however, that may not be possible in a corporate environement with numerous documents that use the same template. Without a lot of effort. The reasoning behind using a reset of the stream by a previous paragraph number is to automate the numbering without

Installing Acrobat 9.0 taking FOREVER??!?

I would say that it's more common to the operating system. The more you have going on in your background the more time Windows takes to do installs. And my experience has always been for long install times on Windows. I believe it to be a function of how the OS is structured and the registry.

Using Frame on a Mac running virtual Windows

I can second Amnon's statement. It is stable, and fully functional. The only caveat is that you need the maximum RAM to operate smoothly. The good news is that if you purchase your RAM from a company other than Apple you will be able to conserve on your expenditure. The RAM is vital. You will

Missing registration marks

First question, what size paper is the document or PDF? Second question, what size paper are you printing to? If they are the same size, then you won't see the registration marks. Scott On 12/4/09 7:00 PM, Branam, Linda C wrote: > > I wanted registration marks to appear on my PDF version of

FM9: Unable to create PDF when "Convert CMYK Colors to RGB" is not selected

Again we are hoist upon Microsofts petard. Microsoft has NEVER been able to print CMYK. Only Linux and the Mac platform have handled it well. Scott On 12/9/09 9:33 AM, Jacob Sch?ffer wrote: > Unfortunately the "Save As PDF" function in FM9 has some problems with the > font handling engine.

FM9: Unable to create PDF when "Convert CMYK Colors to RGB" is not selected

Technically true, Jacob. However, why didn't Microsoft make it easy on everyone in the first place, since on inception of their OS printing was the major output? Why in the past 20 years didn't they correct their arrogant assumption that RGB was the only color output scheme that was needed? A

PDF to Word Conversion

I agree with the other two posters. Go from your source document to Word. It's much much easier. And then run from this client. The problems of maintaining the drawing in an updated format, and 2000 pages with, I assume, an index and table of contents, would be very, very daunting if done in

Getting earlier version of FM

I think that you should find out if they are creating SGML/XML files. If they are, then you need only save in that format. Saving in FM binary format wouldn't be necessary. If they are using FM binary then you can save backwards, or as MIF. Again if they are working in structured formats then

TimeSavers Plugin Settings

You must change your printer instance to the Postscript printer, and then print your book to file. Your result will be a .ps (postscript) file. This is the file you will distill. The Save as PDF option is the least reliable manner of making a PDF file. It's quick, but it doesn't allow the

Acrobat Distiller Settings for Images

I always use turn sampling off, and use ZIP compression. That seems to give me the optimized setting for PDF file quality vs. size. Scott Joseph wrote: > Hi All, > > When I print a framemaker book, I first save it as a PS file and then use > acrobat distiller to transform the PS file into a

Numbering question

Your heading 1 should have the numbering stream set as follows: H:< =0>< =0> This increments your heading 1 and sets following heading 2 and heading 3 to zero. heading 2: H:.< =0> heading 3: H:.. You should have a leading paragraph in each chapter that resets your numbering

MIF2Go: specifying anchor names

Jeremey speaks with much truthiness! Fulsome truthiness. Mention the cost of maintenance to keep it working correctly, and the rate, and you may indeed get them to recant this heresy! Or get a lucrative gig. Scott At 6:20 PM -0800 1/9/09, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: >On Fri, 09 Jan 2009

Outline

Exactly! Gary has hit it on the head. What you are referring to doing, Hedley, is operating in a structured environment. Outlining is an early method used to provide structure to data. SGML and XML are later methods to do that. FrameMaker in Structured mode does it quite well. Scott At 8:29

Outline

I would categorize this a perceived gains, capabilities, and costs. One very big gain and capability that structured documents give you is the ability to require only certain structures to fit after other structures. I can't comment on the capability of Enhance to require a specific

FM 8 no longer generating PDFs with bookmarks for the Acrobat Bookmarks pane

Avi, Don't use the Save as PDF. Print to a PS file and distill that. The Save As PDF function is problematic. If you have Distiller open and print the PS file to a watched folder, then it will automatically begin distilling once the file is present. Additionally, Save As PDF doesn't use the

FM 8 no longer generating PDFs with bookmarks for the Acrobat Bookmarks pane

Richard is correct in that Adobe changed the name of the printer instance, and you should always be using that as your default printer for FrameMaker. That might make Save As PDF function as you wish. However, it is not the Distiller application. That application is the sure way of making all

Error generating WebHelp/WebHelpPlus output in Flare v4.2

If only to pour gas on the fire: If you specifically state that the workflow includes FM, then it's a legal question. If it wasn't clear to readers here, then your communication wasn't adequate for your question. Problems always need complete disclosure of means and variables. As for Flare,

FrameMaker and Accessibility

I think that this can be done, but I was under the impression that it required XML. I may be mistaken. You should check the Adobe.com forums. There is an Accessibility user group there. Scott Madeleine r Dimond wrote: > We're beginning to make our documents accessible, and we'd like to work in

Structured docs or conditional text

In essence, both can do what you want. Structured language is easier to manage, but more difficult and expensive to initiate. Conditional text will work, you have to know what conditions are exclusive, which are inclusive with which scenarios, and structure the conditions that way. It can be

Upgrading to FM 9.0 and Word filters

To be truthful, the best ways to import a Word doc or export a word doc has been through the Japanese RTF filter, and by using MIF2Go. Scott Gay Alson wrote: > I've been monitoring various threads during FM 9.0's maturation process. > Before upgrading, would appreciate advice or comments from

Conditional text

Diana, How are you putting the graphics inline with the text? When I've done this, I found that putting the anchor point on the same line separated by an enspace worked for me. Scott Diana Stock wrote: > Hello all, > > > > Feel silly asking what probably is basic to the List, but I was >

Merging books: Need FM mechanisms and methodologies for merging books with large fraction of identical material

I will jump in and mention that to avoid a deadline being missed, it's appropriate to make certain you estimate ENOUGH time to do the job. What you are presenting is something that I would not contemplate in a couple of days. For a two books to be combined, both approximately 100 pages, and if

Merging books: Need FM mechanisms and methodologies for merging books with large fraction of identical material

It better to estimate the worst case, rather than best case scenario. You could find that your conversion/merge goes much faster, in which case you are a hero. If you estimate too little and miss your delivery date, you are a villain. If they go to Word, then there won't be any sharing of

Framemaker installed under Administrator

Makes you wonder if he understands what distributed computing means. He can walk over to the user's computer, manually give the user Admin rights, install the software, and then downgrade the user rights. THAT is the solution that he has. Waiting for anything else is lunacy. I wish him well in

Has anyone used Subversion for FrameMaker "document control"?

As long as you use binary files you will not be able to get differenced files. Subversion is similar to CVS. It handles text files very well and will difference them, just like CVS. If you don't use text files, and all of your FM files are binary, then you will maintain a separate copy of

FW: Requesting help with 40051-2, conditional text: SUMMARY

So does the DTD include anything for conditional text? An attribute setting that can be used? Scott Stamm, David-P45904 wrote: > 2009-09-29-02T12:25Z > > Thanks to all who responded, naming (only the first five in order of > receipt): Alan Houser, Sarah O'Keefe, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson, Nadine

Adobe's New Corporate Strategies

It's just that having an MBA doesn't automatically qualify you to lead or even manage a company. The people in charge nowdays have lost sight of what their bottom line is. They rely solely upon the bean counters to tell them, when that is only the current line expense. I'm waiting for the

[HATT] Re:Adobe's New Corporate Strategies

Just avoid Flare. I wonder about products lime Serena, et al. Scott On 4/24/10 10:16 AM, Joseph Lorenzini wrote: > > I know there are products out there that do this already. The only reason I > haven't gone over to them is product lock in. One of these days, the product > lock in is going to

Adobe's New Corporate Strategies

On 4/26/10 7:07 AM, Chris Despopoulos wrote: > And with desktop software. The next wave (you heard it here) is servers and > services. Currently, the software innovation I'm aware of is in managing > networks, whether managing an array of devices and applications, streams of > financial

OT: Is there software for burning cross-platform CDs from PC?

You can always use ISO9660 format. Roxio has Roxio Creator 2010 which should do this. But on the whole, no, there are very few Windows programs that will format HFS+ format, if any. Windows programs are inherently limited and narrow visioned as far as format is concerned. Of course the Mac

From DocBook to FrameMaker

On 7/8/10 12:50 PM, LW White wrote: The difficult part is taking the EDD and putting in your formatting rules. Once you do that it works great. Also, you can convert a flat document to structured. I've played with that, and once you figure it out its golden. Though for a single document, it

ARE: Framemaker 9 vs Microsoft Word

I rather find the apology that Word can be made to function reliably ONLY IF one reprograms it to be begging the question. It is usually thought that one buys software that functions without the user having to fix the program they just spent a few hundred dollars on. Scott On 6/3/10 12:35 PM,

Slightly OT: optimal PC for TCS2 / CS3 use

Optimal will be a Core-duo 2.66MHz or 3 and above. If you are running Win 7 which you should rather than Vista, try to go for 64-bit. 32-bit will work fine. Max your RAM 4 GB would be good, though with 64-bit you could actually use more. And a humongous hard drive. Look for 1 TB as a good

Need FM7, Mac help

Basic question here, you are using referenced files aren't you? If the files are the same resolution and size as the originals then the swap is automatic and seamless. If you have cropped the originals, then you must do the same for the new files. I'd do any cropping on the files outside of

Mac Keyboard Commands

It is my opinion that the Escape sequences work better, and are more easily remembered, rather than using the relatively unituitive Windows or Mac keystrokes. Scott At 2:18 PM -0700 6/26/07, Pat Christenson wrote: >I've been using Windows keyboard commands on Parallels/Mac with no >problem.

Frame's future

Its as valid as any officer of a company doing something for worse reasons. His justification may not be exemplary, however it is not malfeasance. Since it is somewhere around the middle ground I see no reason to take him to task for it. Scott At 5:38 AM -0800 3/1/07, John Posada wrote: > >

FrameMaker/MSWord workflow

Yes it is feasible. It has some serious problems that may occur. The file that you import will need a lot of clean-up, depending upon what inconsistancies are introduced during editing. Scott At 3:04 PM +0100 3/1/07, Studio Smalbro wrote: >Would anybody have any experience running a

Frame's future @ Mac/UNIX

Considering that Microsoft couldn't seem to port Internet Explorer to OS X, it must be insurmountable. Scott At 5:12 PM + 3/1/07, Paul Findon wrote: >Steve Rickaby wrote: > >> >"Although MacOS X has UNIX underpinnings, the difficult >>>stuff relating to user interfaces, font access,

Frame's future @ Mac/UNIX

It's basically the same reasons that they decided that they didn't want to do it in the first place, several years ago. The real reason is that the user base was too small for their desired ROI. I suppose that the only way Adobe could put this to bed would be to display their figures on

Frame's future

At 9:40 AM + 3/2/07, Gordon McLean wrote: >Sales figures will reveal the story. > >What sells more, Photoshop or FrameMaker? > >*yawns* > >Gordon Precisely, and you should be prepared for the day when FrameMaker is killed off by Adobe. If this tool is important to you, you should be very,

Frame's future @ Mac/UNIX

At 9:37 AM -0600 3/2/07, Sam Beard wrote: >Scott, > >This isn't exactly true. Microsoft CHOSE not to export IE for Mac OS >X. This was done partly because Apple has their own browser, Safari, and >partly because of the rise in popularity of Firefox, Opera, Camino, and >others. The last version

Frame's future

At 8:29 PM -0500 3/4/07, Sean Pollock wrote: >Why be afraid of Frame's possible demise? XML is the future, and Frame is >just a tool, and should never be the source. There will be (actually, >already are) new tools, Frame ain't all that anyway. Seems like I've been >using it forever--I look

Translation question

Gillian, Your VP doesn't want one those jobs done. There are more than enough man-hours to be full-time at either one of those positions. So which doesn't he want done, translation or training? Robert McNamara insisted on making the F111 a triple mission aircraft, reconnaissance, fighter,

converting Frame to Word

Yes, there is a better way. But they have decided not to go that route. MIF2Go is the best way to translate to RTF. DO NOT USE Word's master document. It has been broken since inception. Y can make it function properly, but it requires the user to follow proced ure extermely

Process for Creating a Structured Frame Application

At 3:38 PM -0400 5/30/07, ActionA at aol.com wrote: >Hi all, > >1. Convert the unstructured Frame documents by: >a. Creating a conversion table >b. Once I apply the conversion table to the unstructured files, I need to >manually tweak the document to finish any left over problems. You need to

OS X 10.4.11 -- can't import files from Word

Though if you have an Intel Mac an upgrade to OS X 10.5 will give you Bootcamp, and the ability to run Windows natively. I know that begs the question, as then you have to have a copy of Windows, and a copy of FM for Windows. At least it allows you to move back and forth. The other method is

Strangeness with Autonumbers

I have found that when using a numbering stream it is best to put ALL placeholders in. Therefore your formats should read: H1 A:<$chapnum>.< =0>< =0> H2 A:<$chapnum>..< =0> H3 A:<$chapnum>... Additionally, ensure that you haven't used this number stream with the desginator (in my

SOLVED: Re: Menu item "Fonts" lost in Format drop down menu

Ahhh, well, we all have had these little lapses in memory. At least it wasn't as bad as forgetting to plug-in the computer before you called the help desk. mea culpa. Scott At 1:11 PM + 8/19/08, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: >Sorry, all. I forgot that I had set Klaus M?ller's handy itl

Relative path links to outside documents

It's been years since I've used this and I've inherited several docs that now use cross-references to another document. Since they are cross-referncing a heading in another document in FrameMaker the hypertext link is to that chapter file. In the PDF this is resolving out to an absolute path

PDF Bookmarks from Frame Source

Don't include the *TOC tags in your generation of PDFs. You can choose which ones during your setup for PDF markers to include or exclude. Scott At 1:54 PM -0500 12/4/08, Duncan, Gary wrote: >Hi everyone, > > > >We create PDFs from Frame sources and include PDF bookmarks for chapter >titles

Source Control for Frame

At 1:53 PM -0600 12/9/08, Donald M Rinderknecht wrote: >Hi Gillian, > >Other than the diff report (which I assume provides more details than >just a time/date stamp) is SVN useful? > >I've been wanting some centralized document management for our >FrameMaker (and other) files for a long time. We

Template organization

Nancy, In this instance you can eat your cake, and have it too. In the book file, select the TOC file and from the menu select Format > Document > Numbering, then select the Chapter tab. Select Text format, and type your text in it. In this case TOC. Or whatever you want. This value will be

Template organization

If you use a specific template file for the first chapter, the first Appendix, and one for Index, Glossary, and TOC, and a one for the following chapter files and following Appendix files, you can set the Document numbering for each and don't have to mess with them again. They will

PDF-ing FM files under SVN

We use TortiseSVN and FrameMaker. The only files sent to the repository are the source FM files, the graphic files, and the PDF file. All others, (*.backup, PS files, etc.) are not included. Scott At 12:27 PM + 12/15/08, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: >I don't seem to find any list committed

Accessibility tagging FrameMaker to PDF

I am beset with a particularly clueless implementation of Accessibility requirements. The company I work for is required to support Section 508, yet the instructions they have produced are basically waving their hands over the subject without concrete guidelines. So I'm having to define these

FrameMaker license question for older versions

In a word. No. Why can't you save it in FM 7.2 format? FM 8.0 can do that. Scott At 3:18 AM -0600 12/15/08, Kamen, Sara wrote: >Hi listers, > >I have a new FrameMaker 8.0 license (not an upgrade), but for a specific >project, I require FM 7.2. > >If I uninstall FM 8.0, can I use the same

Importing Books into CMS - Graphic Linking Issue

The only way to do this effectively is to save all the files as MIF, then run a grep program to search and replace the characters that get stripped out with an acceptable character or to remove it. If your grep program is capable you can do an internal search of the MIF files (they are text)

How does working with structured Frame differ from regular Frame? (LONG)

The answer is many fold, but you should first understand that anytime you place visual formatting or organization on a document you have established the basic elements of structuring. With no expertise or knowledge of structured language, it would be cheaper, faster, and easier for you to have

Accessibility

Sorry to say, I don't think that there is an easy way to collect the Alternate Text. You might try saving as MIF and see if that does it. Then you'd at least be able to spell check from a text editor. I don't think there is a way to set the language outside of the PDF itself. Scott At 6:33 PM

Word to Frame

Yes, using Silicon Prairie Software's Paragraph Tools is the easiest way to convert on tag to another. Scott At 1:25 PM -0800 2/22/08, Jennifer Randel wrote: >Hi all, >Wouldn't it be just as easy to use Silicon Prairie Software's >Paragraph Tools as it is to create that macro? > >~Jennifer

MS Word vs. Frame

Basically they are incompetent with either tool, and your worst case scenario is that they are hopeless. This is what expert staff is supposed to do. I once had an employer comment on a recommendation to switch to structured Frame, since I was the only expert they had, with "...what do we do

MadCap Blaze

I have been waiting with baited breath ever since the rumors of MadCap Blaze came forth, that a replacement to FrameMaker was in the works. I just downloaded the public beta. Has anyone else done so? If so I wonder if anyone else shares my disappointment. Blaze appears to be a variant of

MadCap Blaze

For a product that is supposedly Print oriented, HTML is a lousy media to produce it in. There is no reason to use HTML. Even XHTML is not the best route, nor is XML. While HTML and XHTML are presentation based, they don't allow the same type of easy manipulation that FrameMaker or even Word

MadCap Blaze

The problem is that XML and by extention XHTML describe content, not presentation or formatting. HTML is designed to present data in a formatted state (XHTML is designed to allow the content author to define the structure and presentation). But HTML does not have the control built into it for

More like a flicker than a Blaze

Truthfully, I'd use Oxygen rather than Blaze for an XHTML editor. Or I'd use a couple of other apps, which even when taken as a group are less expensive than would be Blaze. And have a learning curve that isn't as steep. The requirement to design isn't one that I would give to all authors,

Wild Card Searches

The Frame search (wild card) feature is based upon grep. It's not a real implementation, or a full implementation in any stretch of the imagination. It's not fully documented as a search engine because it's only a small feature of the program. However, if you spend sometime studying how grep

Wild Card Searches

Klaus, You are correct. I ascribed the full features of grep to the FrameMaker wildcard search. There is no way to make a full pattern search with wildcards, though you can approximate it, and you will get some false positives. And you cannot replace the pattern with another pattern, you

Questions on EDD

It would also help if you use a Character Tag for the formatting of that special formatting. Remember that the formatting of your unstructured FrameMaker should actually follow structured rules. You should not be using overrides. If you format in a structured manner, then when you convert to

Commas in paragraph tags

Look at Silicon Prairie Software's Paragraph's Tool. http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/ It will do batch tag replacement. And it's extremely cost effective. Scott At 1:11 PM -0400 10/27/08, Charles Beck wrote: >I am aware of several cleanup tools that allow you to clean up an >entire

Standard tags for technical templates

I'd say that S and S+ are duplicates if they both behave the same. And further I'd reformat the template so that you only have one tag for numbering at that level. The reste for the numbering being in the body, heading, and other tags. It's much more elegant, and removes the problem of missing

Standard tags for technical templates

However, XML and HTML don't use a separate tag to start a numbering list. It simplifies the conversion. And if using XML it is the preferred way to format your markup. Less problems in indicating the first point of the numbering stream. Scott At 4:37 PM -0400 10/28/08, Lin Sims wrote: >On

Madcap and FrameMaker?

They are two entirely different animals. The marketing hoopla from MadCap would have you believe that Flare is a direct competitor to FrameMaker. This is not true. MadCap products are transformational tools, primarily. Their entire cause for being was centered around transforming formatted

fonts in Frame

Is it a Postscript font, OpenType or TrueType font? What is your current screen resolution? Scott At 11:47 AM -0400 10/31/08, Joel wrote: >I'm asking this again because I've had no replies: > >I'm on Frame 8, Win XP. The Adobe fonts are showing up terribly in Frame. >Myriad Pro, for example, is

It's going to be brilliant, apparently.

As far as I can tell, it still isn't going head to head with FrameMaker. It's still aimed at layout, magazines, brochures, and layout intensive markets, not technical writing. Scott At 11:03 AM +0100 9/3/08, Paul Findon wrote: >Adobe to unveil CS4 on 23 September. > >Will InDesign CS4 be a

FM7 and OLE

This is a default behavior in FrameMaker, and one that many users detest. Fortunately, the programmers made it a behavior that can be customized. Open the Maker.ini file in your FrameMaker directory. Search for the string ClipboardFormatsPriorities The list of formats behind this property

Best Indexing Tool for FrameMaker?

I like this one also, for two reasons, it's simple, and it's inexpensive. That makes this tool VERY cost-effective. Scott At 8:05 AM -0500 9/4/08, Michael O'Neill wrote: >I use Index Tools Professional from Silicon Prairie Software. By and >large, I am happy with it. It has sped up indexing

MIF to SGML/XML

I wouldn't advise anyone to use MSXML. It's a proprietary format. I know, that's an oxymoron in conjunction with XML in general, but it's true. Add to that Microsoft's penchant for adding extraneous, gratuitous, and bloated code to it's conversion output and it would seem counter-productive

MIF to SGML/XML

You have more confidence in Microsoft than I do then. Scott At 10:16 AM -0400 9/4/08, martin.smith at golehtek.com wrote: >Hi all, > >Rick isn't talking about using the Word XML document format in this >case. He is talking about using the MSXML Active X control that is >built into windows. >

Smart way to achieve goal in FM

I'd make a table format and set it up that way. Then you don't have any manual operations other than adding an additional row cell to break across pages. Scott At 2:08 PM -0400 9/12/08, Art Campbell wrote: >The way I'd deal with it is your table method. The usual way to allow >or force

Problem with run-in heads

Your post confuses me a bit. As I read it, you have two separate columns on the page, do you mean your master page has two columns? If so, then the run-in headings won't work. If you are using a single column master page with a run-in heading and a paragraph following it, then Stuart's comment

FrameMaker vs. InDesign, round CS4

Sarah, Every time I try the demo of InDesign I can't get past the part where I make a page and look for where the text entry starts. As in, where is the cursor for text? It still feels like a page layout program, it still acts like a page layout program, it still wants you to obsess over page

FrameMaker vs. InDesign, round CS4

Sarah, As a final thought, I'll add this. Any tool that won't automatically add pages to the text flow when I come to the end of a page is an automatic no-go. If I have to add text boxes to the page in order to enter text, it's a no-go. Even Adobe compares it against Xpress, and NOT

FrameMaker vs. InDesign, round CS4

It's still not ready for prime time. At least not for technical documentation. It's still an Xpress style layout program for magazines and brochures, not long documents. The paradigm of it's tools and how you go about things are based upon the paste up board of a graphic designer. Don't tell me

FrameMaker vs. InDesign, round CS4

I'm sorry to report that after doing the procedure you listed below, I still couldn't enter text without drawing a text box within the margins. This is exactly why it isn't more than a page layout program. It fails to provide me with a default page that can be used to write upon without having

Runnning Windows on Mac news

At 3:58 PM -0700 4/13/06, Pat Christenson wrote: >The NY Times had an article today about Parallels Workstation, a >beta software that allows you to run OS X and Windows (any version, >not just XP) simultaneously on an intel-powered Mac. You don't have >to reboot when you switch. You can

Wow, if this came to pass?!?!?!

At 12:09 PM +0100 4/30/06, Steve Rickaby wrote: >At 20:12 -0700 29/4/06, Dov Isaacs wrote: > >>That piece is total and ridiculous speculation on his part. > >Of course it is - Cringley is paid to do just that. It's load of fun, too. > >>And it just won't happen! A very large number of Adobe

Keyboard Shortcuts

I would suggest using the Unix keyboard shortcuts since they use escape and control. They are also very complete. At 6:20 PM -0700 5/9/06, Pat Christenson wrote: >Hi all - > >I love keyboard shortcuts. On Windows, I use the Alt-first initial >of the menu-first initial of the command shortcuts

That mouse wheel question, AGAIN!

At 6:41 PM -0800 3/9/06, Pat Christenson wrote: >Does anyone know which driver to use when running under Mac OS X/Classic? > >Thanks. > >Pat > >On Mar 9, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Doug wrote: > >>MS Intellimouse driver version 4.1 works great, though Freewheel is >>just as good, and isn't Microsoft. >>

OT: Question about Rational SODA tool

At 12:47 PM -0600 9/5/06, Tammy.VanBoening at jeppesen.com wrote: >My bad - as a technical writer, I should have been much more clear - she >is being told that Framemaker is going bye-bye at her organization because >the powers that be insist Rational Soda will do the same thing - not >Framemaker

Importing HTML into FrameMaker?

You could use a MIF converter. Though if it were only for a few pages wi the Ma save it out for result in parargraph tags r instructions. Scott On Fri Apr 20 11:15 , Pat Christenson sent: Hi all - I have a client who wants to import HTML docs into

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