Adobe licensing: the gift that keeps on giving

2014-04-29 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
license but be warned: if you plan change the hardware make sure to deactivate the license before you do. Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameuser

Every coin has two sides WAS: Part 1: Why I am Dropping TCS and FrameMaker

2013-11-04 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi Diane, Thank you for your constructive feedback. I in fact have considered the points you raised. I just didn't think it feasible to cover every aspect of my decision making process in my original post. I'll go ahead and address them now. *1. No automation.* I am actually intimately famil

Part 1: Why I am Dropping TCS and FrameMaker

2013-11-01 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
I had originally offered to share my story offline with anyone who is interested. However, the outpouring of interest (i think 30 or 40 people emailed me) and the urging of several to post this to the forum has changed my decision. So here it is. For those on the FM list, I suspect the formatting

So Long and Thanks for the Fish -- Migrating from FrameMaker to Flare

2013-10-28 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
u'd like a detailed explanation and are curious to learn more, I would be happy to share those details with you offline. Feel free to email me. Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Sen

So Long and Thanks for the Fish -- Migrating from FrameMaker to Flare

2013-10-26 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
u'd like a detailed explanation and are curious to learn more, I would be happy to share those details with you offline. Feel free to email me. Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/f

RE: Windows 7 + FrameMaker 11 = BOOM!

2013-08-10 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi Ken, One option that you have is to put your files in a SVN repository. If you do this, then checked out files will be local to the person's computer and there's no issue with network latency etc. You can certainly do the check out to an external hard drive to if that's needed. Once the user i

Windows 7 + FrameMaker 11 = BOOM!

2013-08-09 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi Ken, One option that you have is to put your files in a SVN repository. If you do this, then checked out files will be local to the person's computer and there's no issue with network latency etc. You can certainly do the check out to an external hard drive to if that's needed. Once the user i

FrameMaker 10 Crashes Regularly, is unstructured FrameMaker 11 more stable

2013-08-07 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
uently, I am wondering if people have noticed whether FM 11 is significantly more stable.Since I am in unstructured, there wasn't a compelling reason for me to upgrade. However, i'll consider doing it, if it will reduce or eliminate the frequency of crahses on fr

FrameMaker 10 Crashes Regularly, is unstructured FrameMaker 11 more stable

2013-08-06 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
uently, I am wondering if people have noticed whether FM 11 is significantly more stable.Since I am in unstructured, there wasn't a compelling reason for me to upgrade. However, i'll consider doing it, if it will reduce or eliminate the frequency of crahses on framemaker. Thanks, Joseph

ExtendScript Improvements in FrameMaker 11

2013-03-28 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi all, I am using TCS 3.5. This means I use unstructured FM 10 for PDF documents and RoboHelp 9 for help systems. I looked at TCS 4.0 and so far I have found the new version underwhelming. If I had structured FM or needed some of the new SSL in Robohelp, it might be a different story. But for som

ExtendScript Improvements in FrameMaker 11

2013-03-27 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi all, I am using TCS 3.5. This means I use unstructured FM 10 for PDF documents and RoboHelp 9 for help systems. I looked at TCS 4.0 and so far I have found the new version underwhelming. If I had structured FM or needed some of the new SSL in Robohelp, it might be a different story. But for som

FrameMaker 10 does not start ("licensing expired") and FM Performance

2013-01-01 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
10 *All framemaker files are stored locally on my computer Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130101/5ad741b0/attachment.html>

Re: FrameMaker 10 does not start ("licensing expired") and FM Performance

2013-01-01 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
10 *All framemaker files are stored locally on my computer Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank

Re: FrameMaker 10 does not start ("licensing expired")

2013-01-01 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
FrameMaker but it is a completely unacceptable workaround even for the short term. I really hope Adobe comes out with a fix for this ASAP. Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list m

FrameMaker 10 does not start ("licensing expired")

2013-01-01 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
FrameMaker but it is a completely unacceptable workaround even for the short term. I really hope Adobe comes out with a fix for this ASAP. Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framer

Re: Framemaker scripting

2012-11-05 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi Harsh, Unfortunately, the official end user documentation provided by Adobe is incredibly poor, which makes learning ExtendScript significantly more difficult than it needs to be. Do you have any programming or scripting background? If you do not already have this, I would say you need a basic

Framemaker scripting

2012-11-03 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi Harsh, Unfortunately, the official end user documentation provided by Adobe is incredibly poor, which makes learning ExtendScript significantly more difficult than it needs to be. Do you have any programming or scripting background? If you do not already have this, I would say you need a basic

Translation Software for Handling FrameMaker Documents

2012-10-19 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
7;t, then we'll have to use some type of manual process unfortunately. Thanks, Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send

Translation Software for Handling FrameMaker Documents

2012-10-18 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
7;t, then we'll have to use some type of manual process unfortunately. Thanks, Joseph Lorenzini -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20121018/f6ba2750/attachment.html>

Re: Need ideas - Moving large files from one folder to another without breaking links (

2012-09-30 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
cript that mimics the functionality found in Bruce Foster's archive plugin. What you are looking for here is a similar type of functionality so I am sure he could do this without too much trouble. Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are currently subscribed to

Need ideas - Moving large files from one folder to another without breaking links (

2012-09-29 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
cript that mimics the functionality found in Bruce Foster's archive plugin. What you are looking for here is a similar type of functionality so I am sure he could do this without too much trouble. Joseph Lorenzini -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed

Re: Localization Process with FrameMaker 10

2012-09-27 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
12 at 3:56 PM, Alison Craig wrote: > Joseph: > > ** ** > > **1. **When you talk about the “translator” do you mean a > professional at an LSP (Language Service Provider) or someone in-house who > speaks/writes Chinese, so you use him/her? If the latter, I don’t reco

Localization Process with FrameMaker 10

2012-09-26 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
12 at 3:56 PM, Alison Craig wrote: > Joseph: > > ** ** > > **1. **When you talk about the ?translator? do you mean a > professional at an LSP (Language Service Provider) or someone in-house who > speaks/writes Chinese, so you use him/her? If the latter, I don?t reco

Localization Process with FrameMaker 10

2012-09-26 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
track changes considering how crude and unstable they are (hello framemaker crashes) but they are better than nothing. Thanks, Joseph Lorenzini -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120926/

Localization Process with FrameMaker 10

2012-09-26 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
track changes considering how crude and unstable they are (hello framemaker crashes) but they are better than nothing. Thanks, Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fr

Re: Document Revision Control

2012-09-24 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
have framemaker do a diff on them. Its not perfect but i think its good enough. Furthermore, to avoid issues with engineering, I have my own separate repository that's dedicated solely to documentation. Engineering doesn't know or care about it. Sincerely Joseph Lorenzini Original Mess

Document Revision Control

2012-09-24 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
have framemaker do a diff on them. Its not perfect but i think its good enough. Furthermore, to avoid issues with engineering, I have my own separate repository that's dedicated solely to documentation. Engineering doesn't know or care about it. Sincerely Joseph Lorenzini Original Mess

Re: Batch saving files in FrameMaker 11

2012-09-23 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi Salome, You can easily do this with an ExtendScript. I am a novice scripter and I was able to create a script that batch saved files to MIF in FM 10 with about half an hour of work. If you don't know how to do simple scripts and you don't have time to learn, I am sure you could purchase the se

Re: Document revision control

2012-09-23 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi Amy, I strongly recommend subversion considering that you are such a small team, especially compared to the other options. In the end, it does ultimately come down to your use case, so it in some sense depends. --Perforce: have not used this personally but i believe its a high learning curve a

Batch saving files in FrameMaker 11

2012-09-22 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi Salome, You can easily do this with an ExtendScript. I am a novice scripter and I was able to create a script that batch saved files to MIF in FM 10 with about half an hour of work. If you don't know how to do simple scripts and you don't have time to learn, I am sure you could purchase the se

Document revision control

2012-09-22 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi Amy, I strongly recommend subversion considering that you are such a small team, especially compared to the other options. In the end, it does ultimately come down to your use case, so it in some sense depends. --Perforce: have not used this personally but i believe its a high learning curve a

Re: Track Edits in FrameMaker 10

2012-09-13 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi Rick, I'll just split this up into a pro and con list. :) Bottom line up front: its a decent solution if you are using it for a small team with three writers or less but it does not scale well at all in terms of content OR the number of users making edits. You'd be better off just using the com

Track Edits in FrameMaker 10

2012-09-12 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi Rick, I'll just split this up into a pro and con list. :) Bottom line up front: its a decent solution if you are using it for a small team with three writers or less but it does not scale well at all in terms of content OR the number of users making edits. You'd be better off just using the com

OT: Job Posting

2012-09-06 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi all, I am looking to fill a contract position for a technical writer. The job will be located in Oak Brook, IL. If anyone is interested, please contact me at jaloren AT gmail.com for additional details. Thanks, Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are

OT: Job Posting

2012-09-06 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi all, I am looking to fill a contract position for a technical writer. The job will be located in Oak Brook, IL. If anyone is interested, please contact me at jaloren AT gmail.com for additional details. Thanks, Joseph Lorenzini -- next part -- An HTML attachment was

Re: FrameMaker 10 Crashes When Saving a Book with Conditional Text and TT Edits

2012-09-06 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
> > Hi Roman, > Yes both of us have fully patched versions of FrameMaker 10. Thanks Joe ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email t

FrameMaker 10 Crashes When Saving a Book with Conditional Text and TT Edits

2012-09-04 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
> > Hi Roman, > Yes both of us have fully patched versions of FrameMaker 10. Thanks Joe -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

FrameMaker 10 Crashes When Saving a Book with Conditional Text and TT Edits

2012-09-03 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi All, Until quite recently, I was the sole technical writer at my company. In the last few months, a new writer was hired on. To review the edits he made to the documentation, he turned on track text edits. In addition, he occasionally applied conditional text to new text that he wrote. This mea

FrameMaker 10 Crashes When Saving a Book with Conditional Text and TT Edits

2012-08-31 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi All, Until quite recently, I was the sole technical writer at my company. In the last few months, a new writer was hired on. To review the edits he made to the documentation, he turned on track text edits. In addition, he occasionally applied conditional text to new text that he wrote. This mea

Disappearing Text in Anchored Frames

2012-07-27 Thread Joseph . Carver
h a carriage return, they too will lose that first character when the doc. is saved. This does not occur with Frame 8. It is very repeatable. Are there any workarounds for this, or is it just a known "feature"? Thanks in advance for time, replies and interest. Best Regards Joe Carver

Re: Using Extendscript to Set PDF Options in a FrameMaker Book

2012-07-02 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi all, With some extremely helpful pointers from Rick Quatro, I believe I have more or less figured out how this has to be done. The script would need to do this: 1. in the FM book, save each file to MIF. 2. add/modify MIF statements in the file. 3. save the file back to the FrameMaker format.

Using Extendscript to Set PDF Options in a FrameMaker Book

2012-07-02 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi all, With some extremely helpful pointers from Rick Quatro, I believe I have more or less figured out how this has to be done. The script would need to do this: 1. in the FM book, save each file to MIF. 2. add/modify MIF statements in the file. 3. save the file back to the FrameMaker format.

Using Extendscript to Set PDF Options in a FrameMaker Book

2012-07-01 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
s not retain any of the settings my script set. If you have any guidance on this, please let me know. See here for additional details: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1030306 Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...

Using Extendscript to Set PDF Options in a FrameMaker Book

2012-06-28 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
s not retain any of the settings my script set. If you have any guidance on this, please let me know. See here for additional details: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1030306 Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

What's your top feature request for FrameMaker 11?

2012-06-03 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
goes away so will the former unless Adobe can present a value proposition that no longer relies on vendor lock in and PDF usage. Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to

What's your top feature request for FrameMaker 11?

2012-06-02 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
goes away so will the former unless Adobe can present a value proposition that no longer relies on vendor lock in and PDF usage. Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120602/6e802194/attachment.html>

Throw Sharepoint to the Curb and Use SVN Instead

2012-05-15 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi all, I didn't pay a lot of attention to the FM 10 CMS integration with sharepoint. However, based on what I have been reading, it sounds like this is really unstable and unreliable. I am urging anyone who is going down the sharepoint route, to use SVN instead. I have been using SVN for severa

Throw Sharepoint to the Curb and Use SVN Instead

2012-05-14 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi all, I didn't pay a lot of attention to the FM 10 CMS integration with sharepoint. However, based on what I have been reading, it sounds like this is really unstable and unreliable. I am urging anyone who is going down the sharepoint route, to use SVN instead. I have been using SVN for severa

Re:archive for Frame10?

2012-04-14 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
dollars. You can contact him at r...@frameexpert.com. Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to

archive for Frame10?

2012-04-14 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
dollars. You can contact him at rick at frameexpert.com. Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120414/892a7459/attachment.html>

OT: Job Posting

2012-04-03 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
position. If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, please contact me at jaloren AT gmail.com. I can forward you a detailed job posting. Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com.

OT: Job Posting

2012-04-03 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
position. If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, please contact me at jaloren AT gmail.com. I can forward you a detailed job posting. Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/p

Re: Unstructured to structured FM?

2012-03-25 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
f you are interested. Joe On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Joseph Lorenzini wrote: > Hi Laura, > > I'd recommend talking to Sarah O'Keefe at Scriptorium Publishing. I'd also > take a look at these: > > http://www.scriptorium.com/structure.pdf > http://www.scrip

Re: Unstructured to structured FM?

2012-03-25 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
NFS? - If you need to *collaborate *with departments across the company, then why not look at using a wiki? Note that all of the suggestions I have provided is significantly cheaper than converting to structured XML authoring and will NOT disrupt your current workflow. Any

Unstructured to structured FM?

2012-03-24 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
f you are interested. Joe On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Joseph Lorenzini wrote: > Hi Laura, > > I'd recommend talking to Sarah O'Keefe at Scriptorium Publishing. I'd also > take a look at these: > > http://www.scriptorium.com/structure.pdf > http://www.scrip

Unstructured to structured FM?

2012-03-24 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
NFS? - If you need to *collaborate *with departments across the company, then why not look at using a wiki? Note that all of the suggestions I have provided is significantly cheaper than converting to structured XML authoring and will NOT disrupt your current workflow. Any

Re: FrameMaker 10 Crashes when I do a Find and Replace of a character format

2012-02-21 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi Richard, A framemaker engineer has reached out to me and we are currently in the process of troubleshooting the problem. If we end up identifying what the problem is and a workaround, I'll be sure to notify the list serve. Please keep in mind that the "Character Format" option in the find dial

FrameMaker 10 Crashes when I do a Find and Replace of a character format

2012-02-21 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi Richard, A framemaker engineer has reached out to me and we are currently in the process of troubleshooting the problem. If we end up identifying what the problem is and a workaround, I'll be sure to notify the list serve. Please keep in mind that the "Character Format" option in the find dial

Phantom character format override in FrameMaker 10

2012-02-20 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
then it does find an override. I am at a loss as to why one paragraph format causes a "character format override" to be found while the other does not. I have verified that the text inset does NOT contain a character format override. Any ideas? Thanks, Joseph Lorenzini ___

Phantom character format override in FrameMaker 10

2012-02-19 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
then it does find an override. I am at a loss as to why one paragraph format causes a "character format override" to be found while the other does not. I have verified that the text inset does NOT contain a character format override. Any ideas? Thanks, Joseph Lorenzini -- ne

FrameMaker 10 Crashes when I do a Find and Replace of a character format

2012-02-18 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi all: If I do a find and replace of a character format across an entire book, Framemaker sucks up all the memory on my system and then crashes. I was wondering if anyone else has seen this behavior. Steps to Reproduce 1. create a large book that contains several hundred pages and many framemak

FrameMaker 10 Crashes when I do a Find and Replace of a character format

2012-02-16 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi all: If I do a find and replace of a character format across an entire book, Framemaker sucks up all the memory on my system and then crashes. I was wondering if anyone else has seen this behavior. Steps to Reproduce 1. create a large book that contains several hundred pages and many framemak

File Info. - Automatic Population

2012-02-14 Thread Joseph . Carver
Hello, Is there anything built into Framemaker that will allow for the automatic population of (some of) the File Info meta data fields? We are using Frame 9 + 10 in our group here. Any help is very greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Regards Joe Carver -- Joseph R. Carver Technical

Batch PDF processing for enabling commenting in acrobat reader

2011-12-20 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
nting and Measuring. Is there any way to turn this into a batch process that will automatically convert all the PDFs in a single folder? Thanks, Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list me

Batch PDF processing for enabling commenting in acrobat reader

2011-12-19 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
nting and Measuring. Is there any way to turn this into a batch process that will automatically convert all the PDFs in a single folder? Thanks, Joseph Lorenzini -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers

Re: hotkey bug in FrameMaker 10

2011-11-22 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
e On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Owen, Clint wrote: > ** > Joseph, > > With FM10 and WinXP what you describe is true if you don't move the > curser. If you move the curser to a new location after opening the > Paragraph, Character, or Table designer you can open either of th

hotkey bug in FrameMaker 10

2011-11-21 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
e On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Owen, Clint wrote: > ** > Joseph, > > With FM10 and WinXP what you describe is true if you don't move the > curser. If you move the curser to a new location after opening the > Paragraph, Character, or Table designer you can open either of th

hotkey bug in FrameMaker 10

2011-11-18 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
not use a hotkey to bring up the paragraph designer. The converse is true as well, where if i have brought up the paragraph designer then a hot key cannot bring up the character designer. Anyone else seeing this? Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are

hotkey bug in FrameMaker 10

2011-11-18 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
not use a hotkey to bring up the paragraph designer. The converse is true as well, where if i have brought up the paragraph designer then a hot key cannot bring up the character designer. Anyone else seeing this? Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini -- next part -- An HTML attachment

Acrobat Pro X is Slow

2011-09-23 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
at this is after TWO reinstalls of the entire TCS 3.5 suite. At this point, I am thinking about just using Acrobat Reader 9 to review comments, which I find pathetic. I find it unbelievable that adobe would release product with this amount instability. Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini PS Can someone exp

Re: Importing PDF Comments into FrameMaker 10

2011-09-23 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
into FrameMaker. its not as if a reviewer is going to know that a variable is the PDF and he should avoid editing it so it can show up as track text edits in FM. Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail

Acrobat Pro X is Slow

2011-09-22 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
at this is after TWO reinstalls of the entire TCS 3.5 suite. At this point, I am thinking about just using Acrobat Reader 9 to review comments, which I find pathetic. I find it unbelievable that adobe would release product with this amount instability. Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini PS Can someone exp

Importing PDF Comments into FrameMaker 10

2011-09-22 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
into FrameMaker. its not as if a reviewer is going to know that a variable is the PDF and he should avoid editing it so it can show up as track text edits in FM. Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.

Importing PDF Comments into FrameMaker 10

2011-09-21 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
a why. Did see this post but its not exactly on point. In any case, it sounds like importing PDF comments is pretty bug in FM 10, which is really frustrating for such an important feature. http://forums.adobe.com/message/3926495#3926495 Sincerely, Joseph Lore

Importing PDF Comments into FrameMaker 10

2011-09-21 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
a why. Did see this post but its not exactly on point. In any case, it sounds like importing PDF comments is pretty bug in FM 10, which is really frustrating for such an important feature. http://forums.adobe.com/message/3926495#3926495 Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini -- next

FrameMaker 10 Generates Read Only PDFs

2011-09-20 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
ve Acrobat open!! I have to reboot my machine in order to delete the PDF. I find this to be absolutely ridiculous. If anyone can provide suggestions about how to troubleshoot this issue, please let me know Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are

unstable printing process for FrameMaker 10

2011-09-20 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
problems. Here are my system specs: Windows 7, 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo CPU 4 GB of RAM Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscri

FrameMaker 10 Generates Read Only PDFs

2011-09-20 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
ve Acrobat open!! I have to reboot my machine in order to delete the PDF. I find this to be absolutely ridiculous. If anyone can provide suggestions about how to troubleshoot this issue, please let me know Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini -- next part -- An HTML attachment wa

unstable printing process for FrameMaker 10

2011-09-20 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
problems. Here are my system specs: Windows 7, 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo CPU 4 GB of RAM Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110920/0dacf862/attachment.html>

Classes for FrameMaker 10

2011-09-04 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
not saying that a webinar is out of the question but in my experience learning in person is far superior. I work in the Chicago land area, if the classes were provided there that's a big plus to me. Sincerely Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are currentl

Classes for FrameMaker 10

2011-09-03 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
not saying that a webinar is out of the question but in my experience learning in person is far superior. I work in the Chicago land area, if the classes were provided there that's a big plus to me. Sincerely Joseph Lorenzini -- next part -- An HTML attachment was

Mysterious Master Page Overrides in FrameMaker 9

2011-06-10 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
eting each page that overrides on it (that are invisible to my naked eye!!) Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a b

Mysterious Master Page Overrides in FrameMaker 9

2011-06-10 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
eting each page that overrides on it (that are invisible to my naked eye!!) Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110610/377a188f/attachment.html>

FrameMaker 9 Crashing

2011-06-02 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
specs: Technical Communication 2.0 FrameMaker 9.0p255 Windows 7 Enterprise, 64-bit 4 GB of RAM Intel Core 2 Duo Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send

FrameMaker 9 Crashing

2011-06-02 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
specs: Technical Communication 2.0 FrameMaker 9.0p255 Windows 7 Enterprise, 64-bit 4 GB of RAM Intel Core 2 Duo Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Joseph Lorenzini -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail

Re: bugs in FM 9's conditional build expressions

2011-05-26 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi Baruch, Here is the information you requested. Operating System: Windows 7 Enterprise 4 GB Memory 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo CPU FrameMaker: Version: 9 Patch: 255 Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Baruch Brodersen wrote: > Hi Joseph, > > Please prov

bugs in FM 9's conditional build expressions

2011-05-25 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi Baruch, Here is the information you requested. Operating System: Windows 7 Enterprise 4 GB Memory 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo CPU FrameMaker: Version: 9 Patch: 255 Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Baruch Brodersen wrote: > Hi Joseph, > > Please prov

bugs in FM 9's conditional build expressions

2011-05-24 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
condition indicators don't seem to work. Anyone have an idea why? Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank e

bugs in FM 9's conditional build expressions

2011-05-24 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
condition indicators don't seem to work. Anyone have an idea why? Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110524/7b228e2c/attachment.html>

OT: job posting

2011-04-27 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
one with more than a couple of years of experience. If anyone is interested, please contact me offline and I'll provide all the details. Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail

OT: job posting

2011-04-27 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
one with more than a couple of years of experience. If anyone is interested, please contact me offline and I'll provide all the details. Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send

Training and Tools for DITA

2011-04-07 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
into DITA and 2) that help with DITA authoring in general, though I believe FrameMaker's out of the box capabilities are pretty decent. Also, are there some good DITA tutorials out there? Cost is an issue for my colleague so closer to free would be preferable :). Sincerely, J

Training and Tools for DITA

2011-04-07 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
into DITA and 2) that help with DITA authoring in general, though I believe FrameMaker's out of the box capabilities are pretty decent. Also, are there some good DITA tutorials out there? Cost is an issue for my colleague so closer to free would be preferable :). Sincerely, J

OT: Any opinions on creating online help?

2011-03-30 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
n't get into those here. Hope that helps. Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110330/2397470a/attachment.html>

Re: OT: Any opinions on creating online help?

2011-03-30 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
n't get into those here. Hope that helps. Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubsc

DPI Recommendation for Images

2011-03-22 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi all, I'd like to get people's opinion on what they think is the best choice for DPI. Right now I import images into FrameMaker at a DPI of 144. This means that the PDF must be zoomed to 150% if the image pixels are to match the monitor pixels (i.e. it would be like zooming it to 100%). However

DPI Recommendation for Images

2011-03-22 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi all, I'd like to get people's opinion on what they think is the best choice for DPI. Right now I import images into FrameMaker at a DPI of 144. This means that the PDF must be zoomed to 150% if the image pixels are to match the monitor pixels (i.e. it would be like zooming it to 100%). However

OT:Tool and Company Recommendations for Documentation Project

2011-02-27 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
e should look at? I suggested that he just contract this work out so he can avoid the hassle of documentation Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.fra

OT:Tool and Company Recommendations for Documentation Project

2011-02-27 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
e should look at? I suggested that he just contract this work out so he can avoid the hassle of documentation Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110227/afa68445/attachment.html>

SVN Diffs in FrameMaker

2010-11-03 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
s. I tried it before with tortoise svn and while it did diff the mif files, it failed to display human readable text. Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Steve Johnson wrote: > So don't do that? You're saying that multiple writers work on the same > files and

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