Re: Sample EDD files

2014-08-16 Thread Gary Schnabl
I created an EDD from the official DTDs for both DocBook 4.5 and DocBook 5 and have parked them somewhere on one of my older hard drives. I do not know whether much DocBook documentation is being done nowadays. Gary On 8/15/2014 4:44 PM, Theresa de Valence wrote: Is there a place where I

Open Office to Frame

2013-01-25 Thread Gary Schnabl
Save the OpenOffice or LibreOffice ODT document as an DOC file and simply import into FrameMaker. I have done that numerous times with FM 7.0. Gary On 1/24/2013 2:41 PM, Gillian Flato wrote: > > Anyone know a good tool for converting Open Office documents to > FrameMaker? > > *Thank You,* > >

Re: Open Office to Frame

2013-01-24 Thread Gary Schnabl
Save the OpenOffice or LibreOffice ODT document as an DOC file and simply import into FrameMaker. I have done that numerous times with FM 7.0. Gary On 1/24/2013 2:41 PM, Gillian Flato wrote: Anyone know a good tool for converting Open Office documents to FrameMaker? *Thank You,* **

OT: Conversion of .vsd to .png

2012-02-22 Thread Gary Schnabl
On 2/21/2012 3:46 PM, jburgdor wrote: > > Does anyone know of an automated method for doing drawing conversions > from .vsd to .png? > One manual method... Download LibreOffice 3.5.0 (if you do not have this office suite), and then open the Draw application to open the Visio VSD file. From

Re: OT: Conversion of .vsd to .png

2012-02-21 Thread Gary Schnabl
On 2/21/2012 3:46 PM, jburgdor wrote: Does anyone know of an automated method for doing drawing conversions from .vsd to .png? One manual method... Download LibreOffice 3.5.0 (if you do not have this office suite), and then open the Draw application to open the Visio VSD file. From

fm property values for align attribute

2011-04-17 Thread Gary Schnabl
value "char" is fm property value char;*/ /*value "justify" is fm property value justify;*/ value "left" is fm property value left; value "right" is fm property value right; } Gary -- Gary Schnabl Southwest Detroit, two miles NOR

fm property values for align attribute

2011-04-16 Thread Gary Schnabl
value char;*/ /*value justify is fm property value justify;*/ value left is fm property value left; value right is fm property value right; } Gary -- Gary Schnabl Southwest Detroit, two miles NORTH! of Canada--Windsor, that is... ___ You

Re: FM9 Newbie looking for best self training tools

2010-07-12 Thread Gary Schnabl
, waiting a bit should not hurt. Gary -- Gary Schnabl Southwest Detroit, two miles NORTH! of Canada--Windsor, that is... ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com

FM9 Newbie looking for best self training tools

2010-07-12 Thread Gary Schnabl
available. Version 10 should be released soon, along with the rest of the technical suite that have not yet been updated. Once they become available, all older FrameMaker versions should become even cheaper. So, waiting a bit should not hurt. Gary -- Gary Schnabl Southwest Detroit, two miles NORTH! of Canada--Windsor, that is...

Re: From DocBook to FrameMaker

2010-07-07 Thread Gary Schnabl
into FrameMaker without any problem. Then you can go on from there using a conversion table to lend structure to those files after importing the elements from the EDD file. Really quite simple, BTW, as long as you know how to go about it. Gary -- Gary Schnabl Southwest Detroit, two miles NORTH

From DocBook to FrameMaker

2010-07-07 Thread Gary Schnabl
import them into Word 2007 or 2010, and export them as RTF files to import into FrameMaker without any problem. Then you can go on from there using a conversion table to lend structure to those files after importing the elements from the EDD file. Really quite simple, BTW, as long as you know h

Re: Free online version of Read Me First! A Style Guide for theComputer Industry, Third Edition (3rd Edition)

2009-12-24 Thread Gary Schnabl
On 12/24/2009 9:22 AM, Jack DeLand wrote: http://books.google.com/books?id=TJSwqVS24CYCprintsec=frontcoverdq=read+me+firstcd=1#v=onepageq=f=false It says it's a limited preview, but I was able to scroll all the way from the front to the back cover. AFAIK, you cannot copy and paste from

Free online version of Read Me First! A Style Guide for theComputer Industry, Third Edition (3rd Edition)

2009-12-24 Thread Gary Schnabl
On 12/24/2009 9:22 AM, Jack DeLand wrote: > http://books.google.com/books?id=TJSwqVS24CYC=frontcover=read+me+first=1#v=onepage==false > > It says it's a "limited preview," but I was able to scroll all the way > from the front to the back cover. > AFAIK, you cannot copy and paste from an

Re: FrameMaker 8 installation files downloadable anywhere?

2009-09-11 Thread Gary Schnabl
syed.hos...@aeris.net wrote: Hi, all. My old laptop is not functioning and I need to migrate to a new one that is now on my desk. Unfortunately, I cannot find my FrameMaker 8 disks anywhere (although I have the license info printed and saved away luckily) ... is there any place on the

FrameMaker 8 installation files downloadable anywhere?

2009-09-11 Thread Gary Schnabl
Syed.Hosain at aeris.net wrote: > Hi, all. > > My old laptop is not functioning and I need to migrate to a new one that > is now on my desk. > > Unfortunately, I cannot find my FrameMaker 8 disks anywhere (although I > have the license info printed and saved away luckily) ... is there any > place

FrameScript installation snafu

2009-08-05 Thread Gary Schnabl
FrameScript was offering a 25% discount that ended a few days ago. So, I decided to finally purchase it. Well, its menu did not install on FrameMaker nor did it install the two (or more?) help and whatever HTML files into the FS root folder as it should. Three years ago, an evaluation version

Re: Frame Maker 9 and some questions about its indexing and page limits

2009-08-04 Thread Gary Schnabl
Shell, Robert wrote: Dear Framers: I have been enjoying unparalleled stability with my FM 8.p20? running on Vista Business edition (with all updates). I have now graduated to the Professional Communications Suite 2 and also bought FrameScript. I am a very happy camper, although surveying

FrameScript installation snafu

2009-08-04 Thread Gary Schnabl
FrameScript was offering a 25% discount that ended a few days ago. So, I decided to finally purchase it. Well, its menu did not install on FrameMaker nor did it install the two (or more?) help and whatever HTML files into the FS root folder as it should. Three years ago, an evaluation version

Frame Maker 9 and some questions about its indexing and page limits

2009-08-04 Thread Gary Schnabl
Shell, Robert wrote: > Dear Framers: > I have been enjoying unparalleled stability with my FM 8.p20? running on > Vista Business edition (with all updates). I have now graduated to the > Professional Communications Suite 2 and also bought FrameScript. I am a very > happy camper, although

Re: Request Info on DocBook

2009-07-23 Thread Gary Schnabl
Garnier Garnier wrote: Hello Listers, I am about to explore DocBook. I am sure some of the listers must be using it or have used it in the past. Could you please share your experience? Went through some of the details over the net and it seems a good tool to switch to but involves a

Re: Request Info on DocBook

2009-07-23 Thread Gary Schnabl
Art Campbell wrote: Gary, Hasn't 5.1 been released to fix the problems that 5.0 had? I was hearing about it, but don't use it (yet) so I haven't tracked it down. Art Found this while searching for 5.1: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 15 April 2009 View: New views

Re: Request Info on DocBook

2009-07-23 Thread Gary Schnabl
Garnier Garnier wrote: Hello Listers, I am about to explore DocBook. I am sure some of the listers must be using it or have used it in the past. Could you please share your experience? Went through some of the details over the net and it seems a good tool to switch to but involves a

Request Info on DocBook

2009-07-23 Thread Gary Schnabl
Garnier Garnier wrote: > Hello Listers, > > I am about to explore DocBook. I am sure some of the listers must be using it > or have used it in the past. Could you please share your experience? Went > through some of the details over the net and it seems a good tool to switch > to but involves

Request Info on DocBook

2009-07-23 Thread Gary Schnabl
Art Campbell wrote: > Gary, > Hasn't 5.1 been released to fix the problems that 5.0 had? I was > hearing about it, but don't use it (yet) so I haven't tracked it down. > > Art > > Art Campbell > I did not know that 5.1 was available. The DTD nonnormative version of 5.0 was admittedly

Request Info on DocBook

2009-07-23 Thread Gary Schnabl
Art Campbell wrote: > Gary, > Hasn't 5.1 been released to fix the problems that 5.0 had? I was > hearing about it, but don't use it (yet) so I haven't tracked it down. > > Art > Found this while searching for 5.1: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 15 April 2009 View: New views

Request Info on DocBook

2009-07-23 Thread Gary Schnabl
Garnier Garnier wrote: > Hello Listers, > > I am about to explore DocBook. I am sure some of the listers must be using it > or have used it in the past. Could you please share your experience? Went > through some of the details over the net and it seems a good tool to switch > to but involves

Re: What are the Ideal fonts for Windows and Linux?

2009-07-21 Thread Gary Schnabl
Garnier Garnier wrote: Hello Listers, I have a question: Which is the ideal font that is supported by all browsers, and on Windows and Linux? The html page that I am working on does not use any specific fonts or size. The Heading uses the H2 tag and the body uses the body tag.

Re: Standard font for technical documentation

2009-07-21 Thread Gary Schnabl
syed.hos...@aeris.net wrote: For standard typefaces embedded in print PDF documents, I use Palatino Linotype for serifs, the new (free) Inconsolata-dk for monospaced, and any of a number of sans-serif typefaces--usually Arial, Verdana, Calibri., etc. Hi, Gary. Did you mean

What are the Ideal fonts for Windows and Linux?

2009-07-21 Thread Gary Schnabl
Garnier Garnier wrote: > Hello Listers, > > I have a question: > > Which is the ideal font that is supported by all browsers, and on Windows and > Linux? > > The html page that I am working on does not use any specific fonts or size. > The Heading uses the H2 tag and the body uses the

Standard font for technical documentation

2009-07-21 Thread Gary Schnabl
Reng, Dr. Winfried wrote: > Hi, > > >> My _personal_ preference leans to the new MS fonts (Cambria, >> I think it >> was) that were released with Vista, based on having edited two papers >> that used them and from an IEEE Spectrum article about the >> research involved >> in their creation.

Standard font for technical documentation

2009-07-21 Thread Gary Schnabl
Syed.Hosain at aeris.net wrote: >> For standard typefaces embedded in print PDF documents, I use Palatino >> > Linotype for serifs, the new (free) Inconsolata-dk for monospaced, and > any of a number of sans-serif typefaces--usually Arial, Verdana, > Calibri., etc. > > Hi, Gary. > > Did you

Re: Customer Support in Adobe is non-existent

2009-07-15 Thread Gary Schnabl
Garnier Garnier wrote: Hello Framers, Indeed sad to note that Adobe does not bother to resolve customer issues. We have licensed version of Acrobat Pro 9.0 and our IT has filed a case ticket as per the vendor/customer policy. Its over 10 days now but Adobe has not responded yet. I am

Customer Support in Adobe is non-existent

2009-07-15 Thread Gary Schnabl
Garnier Garnier wrote: > Hello Framers, > > Indeed sad to note that Adobe does not bother to resolve customer issues. We > have licensed version of Acrobat Pro 9.0 and our IT has filed a case ticket > as per the vendor/customer policy. Its over 10 days now but Adobe has not > responded yet. I

Re: FM8 version of XML Cookbook ?

2009-06-09 Thread Gary Schnabl
Diane Gaskill wrote: Hi Framers, I have the FM7 version of the XML cookbook and I am wondering if there is a version for FM8 or FM9. Or am I wishing too hard? Thanks lots. Diane Gaskill Hitachi Data Systems I had corrected a whole manure pile full of errors in the FM7 (and only?)

FM8 version of XML Cookbook ?

2009-06-05 Thread Gary Schnabl
Diane Gaskill wrote: > Hi Framers, > > I have the FM7 version of the XML cookbook and I am wondering if there is a > version for FM8 or FM9. Or am I wishing too hard? > > Thanks lots. > > Diane Gaskill > Hitachi Data Systems > I had corrected a whole manure pile full of errors in the FM7 (and