[Framers] Moving Adobe apps to a new computer

[Michael Norton]

I'm getting a new computer and need to move my tools to the new computer. This 
is being spurred by an acquisition. Anyone have any hints/advice on getting two 
versions of TCS (3 and 2015), plus CS4 Web Premier moved from one computer to 
another and having the licenses changed from one company name to another?

Both machines are running Windows 7, so that isn't an issue. And yes, for 
various reasons, I do use applications out of each suite. I currently use two 
versions of FM and RH, again for various reasons, but that could be simplified 
if I have to.




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Re: [Framers] Move Markers script

[Michael Norton]

Thanks Lin, I got an “Oops, can’t find the page” response.


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From: Lin Sims [mailto:ljsims...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 9:41 AM
To: Michael Norton <mnor...@openspan.com>
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Subject: Re: [Framers] Move Markers script

You mean this link? It works fine for me. I just downloaded the file.

http://frameautomation.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/SetBookmarkLevels.zip

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Michael Norton 
<mnor...@openspan.com<mailto:mnor...@openspan.com>> wrote:
I'm looking for a FrameScript named MoveMarkers. It was mentioned here:

http://frameautomation.com/category/freescripts/

But the link no longer works. Is this script still available and, if so, where?

Thanks.


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[Framers] Move Markers script

[Michael Norton]

I'm looking for a FrameScript named MoveMarkers. It was mentioned here:

http://frameautomation.com/category/freescripts/

But the link no longer works. Is this script still available and, if so, where?

Thanks.




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[Framers] Anyone using OneDrive as a repository?

[Michael Norton]

Anyone using Microsoft OneDrive as a repository for Frame, RoboHelp, Word, 
graphics, and PDF documentation files?

Looks like I've been given the task of moving from our current repository 
(StarTeam) to something else, preferably OneDrive. I'm mainly using StarTeam as 
a backup location, so no content management capabilities are needed. Simple 
check in/check out for one to two writers should suffice. I'm not familiar with 
OneDrive and maybe some of you are, any suggestions or critiques would be 
welcome.

Thanks



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[Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New

[Michael Norton]

Robert Lauriston wrote:

-
Unstructured FrameMaker hasn't really changed much since version 5.5.6. There 
are some useful new features layered on top, but if you know how to use any 
version you can quickly get up to speed on any other. Any competent hiring 
manager should know that.


This is true, but in some companies, you have to get past an HR or agency 
screener first and that person may only have a list of requirements to look at. 
I remember talking to a lady who obviously knew nothing about technical 
writing, but who insisted that I had to have experience with a specific version 
of Snag-It. I tried to explain to her that it was just a screen capture 
program, but she had her list and insisted I have experience with Snag-It 
version whatever before I could get an actual interview.




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[Framers] Thanks

[Michael Norton]

Thanks for getting this going again.




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Re: Adobe Customer Care-less - Yet another round

[Michael Norton]

Yes it is - and thanks to the Adobe folks who monitor this list and who are 
typically very helpful.


Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 11:31:45 -0700
From: Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Adobe Customer Care-less - Yet another round

Having knowledgeable, senior employees monitoring and posting in a public forum 
is a very efficient use of tech support resources.

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Tori Muir tm...@spot-on-creative.com wrote:
 Well.. yes and no. It's ridiculous that a paying customer of so many years  
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RE: Framemaker CMS hookup to CVS?

[Michael Norton]

Art Campbell asked:

Has anyone been able to get Frame (12) integrated with a plain ol' CVS source 
control repository through the CMS menu?
--

I got it to hook up with SharePoint. Unfortunately, SharePoint is not a very 
good source control repository for our needs. As one astute Framer noted, It's 
more proof of concept than an actual solution. So true.





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FrameMaker and SharePoint

[Michael Norton]

We are moving from an older revision control system (StarTeam) to SharePoint 
v2013. We are using unstructured Frame and will mainly use SharePoint as a 
repository for our Frame, RoboHelp, Word, and associated graphics files. We are 
currently on FrameMaker v10, but will be moving to v12 soon. I have the 
connection set up in CMS | Configuration Manager and it seems to be working OK, 
VPN willing.

Any words to the wise from people who have already done this?

Our needs are pretty basic - IT wants us off StarTeam and we just want an 
accessible repository that a small number of writers (1-3) can easily get to.

So far, it seems a little slower than StarTeam and there is a 100 file upload 
limitation. Several of our books have more than 100 referenced graphics files. 
SharePoint doesn't seem to want to let me drag and drop folders, only files. 
This will make for a tedious transition, unless I can find a way around this 
limitation.




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RE: FrameMaker and SharePoint

[Michael Norton]

Hi Zaeem,

Thanks for replying. I'll look at these comparisons, but I fear the PTB are 
pushing this change. I'm not sure Doc will be allowed to go a separate way.

I can see some benefit in being able to check in and check out files directly 
from Frame and also update dependent files. With our current system (which is 
very old) everything is manual.

SVN, however, may be an option.



From: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) [mailto:syed.hos...@aeris.net]

Sorry to not give you answers to your specific questions, but you may want to 
consider changing to another system to make it simple.

I believe that with a small number of users, free on-line versions of Git 
hosted solutions are perhaps the best way to go.

For example, check out Github (www.github.comhttp://www.github.com) and 
BitBucket (www.bitbucket.orghttp://www.bitbucket.org) - BitBucket is free for 
up to 5 users with unlimited repositories (no file limits).

Here is a comparison of various Git hosting sites: 
www.git-tower.com/blog/git-hosting-services-compared/http://www.git-tower.com/blog/git-hosting-services-compared/

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RE: Frame and disk encryption software

[Michael Norton]

Hi Steve, thanks for replying.

And yes, this is primarily an IT problem but I also have a deadline looming. I 
have not tried saving the files in MIF format, but will. It doesn't happen to 
all files and I have seen no pattern so far. Just a few minutes ago it did it 
to a PDF file, so apparently it is not just a Frame thing.


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From: Steve Rickaby [mailto:srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 2:32 PM
To: Michael Norton
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Frame and disk encryption software

At 18:58 + 14/1/15, Michael Norton wrote:

Recently, our IT department put disk encryption software (WinMagic) on our 
machines. Since then, several times when I have tried to open a FrameMaker v10 
(.fm) file, I have gotten the Unknown File Type dialog. If I then restore a 
backup of the file stored in our version control system, FrameMaker will open 
it just fine.
 
I've tried opening the files several ways, such as via a book file, via File | 
Open, double-clicking in Windows Explorer, and so on, but that makes no 
difference. I also have FrameMaker v12 and it experiences the same problem.

I have two initial thoughts:

. It would seem to be your IT department's responsibility to fix this ;-)

. Does it occur if you save FrameMaker files in MIF (i.e. a pure text format)?

It would seem that the disk encryption is corrupting FrameMaker binaries.

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Frame and disk encryption software

[Michael Norton]

Recently, our IT department put disk encryption software (WinMagic) on our 
machines. Since then, several times when I have tried to open a FrameMaker v10 
(.fm) file, I have gotten the Unknown File Type dialog. If I then restore a 
backup of the file stored in our version control system, FrameMaker will open 
it just fine.

I've tried opening the files several ways, such as via a book file, via File | 
Open, double-clicking in Windows Explorer, and so on, but that makes no 
difference. I also have FrameMaker v12 and it experiences the same problem.

I can choose the Text option on the Unknown File Type dialog, but I just get an 
empty Frame file. The file sizes for both the bad file and a readable copy of 
that file are the same.

Has anyone else experienced this problem?



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Re: Frame 8-compatible file format?

[Michael Norton]

Hi Lise,

In FrameMaker v12, there are two options for saving in MIF format:

MIF 12.0 (*.mif)
MIF 7.0 (*.mif)

I don't have FrameMaker v8 installed, but I would think you would want files 
saved in MIF 7.0 format. I do go between FMv10 and FMv12 fairly often and that 
is the format I use.

Hope this helps.

--
Lise wrote:

Framers,
A little googling did not clarify anything for me, so I thought I'd ask here.
I'm on Frame 8; none of the added features in subsequent releases seemed 
relevant enough to me to justify upgrading (and it works fine for me on Windows 
7).
The issue I have is that I need to send some manuals out for quote to be 
translated, and I want to make sure that the files they send back to me, can be 
opened in Frame 8. (I figured it's better to clarify upfront, rather than 
chance running into issues later. I have no idea what the translation companies 
are able to provide, but Murphy dictates that if I don't clarify, I'll run into 
issues.)

Now, I know you can't save a file opened in Frame 12 directly as a Frame 
8-compatible file, but it looks like you can save as .mif--can that be opened 
in Frame 8?
According to this thread, https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1379901, there are 
two different MIF versions?
What format do I need to request they return, so that I can open the translated 
files, once translated?

Thanks,
Lise
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Re: Page count even or no

[Michael Norton]

For our main user manuals and training guides, the PDFs are set up just like a 
regular book, with odd/even layouts and an even number of pages. I use roman 
numerals for the front material. As for the odd/even layouts, our design 
doesn't include a scholar's margin, so it really just affects the 
headers/footers - and shouldn't affect on-screen viewing to much. We feel that 
while some users will view these books on-line, many users will print these 
books and design them accordingly.

We also have minor documents that are typically attached to a knowledge base 
article. Most of these do not have a ToC and are single-file documents. For 
these documents I omit blank pages and there is no front material.




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Re: online FrameMaker 12 Documentation totally revamped

[Michael Norton]

Thanks for the links Maxwell. The PDF looks interesting.

As for the HTML, I understand Responsive HTML is cool and all that and has some 
applications, but I am trying to come up with a scenario where I would look up 
something in FrameMaker Help on my phone. If I need to research something in 
FrameMaker Help, I think I would open a browser in one of my two desktop 
monitors instead of trying to read it on a tiny phone screen (Galaxy S3). Is 
this capability something requested by other Frame users or is Adobe simply 
showing that it can be done via Frame?




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FM 12 - Table row delete issue

[Michael Norton]

Has anyone else run into this?


1.   Opened a document

2.   Pasted in a table from an Outlook email (a simple 2 column/12 row 
table)

3.   Began reformatting the table

-  Applied style

-  Applied tags

-  Added a header row

-  Drag/drop the heading text into the new header row

-  Highlighted old header row (now empty)

o   If I right-click and choose Cut, the Cut Table Cells dialog appears. I 
choose Remove Cells from Table and FM deletes that row. All is well.

o   If I press Delete, FrameMaker hangs.

I'm guessing that the Cut Table Cells dialog is displayed, but not brought into 
focus. Since I cannot get to the Cut Table Cells dialog to specify whether I 
want to clear the contents of the cells or delete the cells, FM is effectively 
hung and I have to kill it via Task Manager.

I'm using FrameMaker version 12.0.3.424 on a Windows 7 machine.


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RE: Workspaces

[Michael Norton]

I too would like to copy customized FM10 workspace files to FM12. I can see the 
six default .fws files in this folder:

x:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker10\fminit\WorkSpaces\Structured

but I cannot find the files that contain the customized settings. Where would 
they be? Or, am I just misunderstanding how all this works?




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RE: Is there a way to compare two books?

[Michael Norton]

Theresa asked:


Is there a way to compare the content of two books? I'd accept being able to 
compare the contents of two documents.
It would be OK to compare two pdfs.
--

Both FrameMaker and Acrobat offer book compare options.

In Frame, choose File, Utilities, Compare Books. In Acrobat, choose View, 
Compare Documents.

I would try the Frame option first. The Acrobat option notes every 
formatting/placement change, which can get bothersome.



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FM 12's Publish to WebHelp option

[Michael Norton]

While playing around with the new option to publish in a WebHelp format, I 
notice that call-out text in an anchored frame was incorrectly converted. The 
screen shot or illustration was handled correctly, as were lines from the 
call-out text to the illustration, but the text itself was mostly lost. For 
instance, in one case the text Click here to reset your password. came over 
as C.

Has anyone else noticed this?

The tag used for call-out text is the same tag used for text inside tables - 
and that text comes out ok.



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This is sad news. He will be sorely missed by the whole FrameMaker community, 
in addition to his personal friends and loved ones.
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Re: So Long and Thanks for the Fish

[Michael Norton]

Rick Quatro wrote:

Mike's comment is interesting light of the fact that many people are moving 
away from WSIWYG in this century. The whole XML-authoring world, with DITA, 
S1000D, DocBook, etc., is a move away from WSIWYG authoring tools. 
Increasingly, authoring content is being separated from rendering it for output 
(for example, with applications like Flare). In a sense, we are going full 
circle back to the division of labor that existing in the typesetting era. That 
is why there may be a revival in the LaTex world: it has always separated 
authoring and rendering.

As someone who started out in the days of WordPerfect 1.0 (for DG) and mark-up 
languages. The thought of going back to that environment seems strange. I too 
have been disappointed with Frame's progress under Adobe's tutelage, but I'd 
still rather use it than any other tool out there. Flare is an interesting 
option though and I hope to hear the reasons why that move was made. At a 
previous gig, we adopted Flare as our HAT and looked into moving to it 
completely. The PDF publishing capabilities we wanted were not there at that 
time and there were some issues with bugs. Perhaps that has improved now. If I 
remember correctly, Flare wasn't exactly cheap either.

The ability to format the text I'm working with and merge pictures I can see 
and annotate into it has never hindered my ability to write. Layout and design 
are part of the message I am trying to deliver.




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So Long and Thanks for the Fish

[Michael Norton]

Rick Quatro wrote:

"Mike's comment is interesting light of the fact that many people are moving 
away from WSIWYG "in this century." The whole XML-authoring world, with DITA, 
S1000D, DocBook, etc., is a move away from WSIWYG authoring tools. 
Increasingly, authoring content is being separated from rendering it for output 
(for example, with applications like Flare). In a sense, we are going full 
circle back to the division of labor that existing in the typesetting era. That 
is why there may be a revival in the LaTex world: it has always separated 
authoring and rendering."

As someone who started out in the days of WordPerfect 1.0 (for DG) and mark-up 
languages. The thought of going back to that environment seems strange. I too 
have been disappointed with Frame's progress under Adobe's tutelage, but I'd 
still rather use it than any other tool out there. Flare is an interesting 
option though and I hope to hear the reasons why that move was made. At a 
previous gig, we adopted Flare as our HAT and looked into moving to it 
completely. The PDF publishing capabilities we wanted were not there at that 
time and there were some issues with bugs. Perhaps that has improved now. If I 
remember correctly, Flare wasn't exactly cheap either.

The ability to format the text I'm working with and merge pictures I can see 
and annotate into it has never hindered my ability to write. Layout and design 
are part of the message I am trying to deliver.


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RE: Engineers as authors

[Michael Norton]

I recommend...


-  Creating a simple Word template - if Word is their tool of choice - 
which will make it easy to import their content into Frame.

-  Provide some very brief documentation on how to use this template 
(use the styles, keep it plain, don't worry about ToCs, and so on)

-  If you have a Style Guide, make it available to them (but don't 
expect much)

-  Go through a review cycle early on, where you see where there are 
going with the content and you make edits to the Word doc

-  Be available to answer questions and encourage/monitor progress

-  Set expectations that they will be providing content which you will 
then edit and publish

The first three can be done in a meeting/webex.

I've done a fair amount of this and each engineer is different. Some will do an 
excellent job and will only require minor editing. Others, not so much. Some 
think every word they write is sacred and you are just a formatter. Others are 
happy to have you help them make their pet project look good.

In many cases, the process can help you develop an even better relationship 
with an SME.




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Engineers as authors

[Michael Norton]

I recommend...


-  Creating a simple Word template - if Word is their tool of choice - 
which will make it easy to import their content into Frame.

-  Provide some very brief documentation on how to use this template 
(use the styles, keep it plain, don't worry about ToCs, and so on)

-  If you have a Style Guide, make it available to them (but don't 
expect much)

-  Go through a review cycle early on, where you see where there are 
going with the content and you make edits to the Word doc

-  Be available to answer questions and encourage/monitor progress

-  Set expectations that they will be providing content which you will 
then edit and publish

The first three can be done in a meeting/webex.

I've done a fair amount of this and each engineer is different. Some will do an 
excellent job and will only require minor editing. Others, not so much. Some 
think every word they write is sacred and you are just a formatter. Others are 
happy to have you help them make their pet project look good.

In many cases, the process can help you develop an even better relationship 
with an SME.




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Blocking local formatting when copying

[Michael Norton]

Another option is to install Pure Text. With this tool, you can copy text from 
anywhere and paste plain text into whatever application you are using. You can 
find more information about it here:

http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/





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Font suggestions for a book

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I have always been a fan of meta by Erik Spiekermann:

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/fontfont/ff-meta/

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Re: Is FrameMaker 11 going down or is it a keeper?

[Michael Norton]

I've worked in two (US) companies this year and FrameMaker was the main 
documentation tool used in both. The first company was medium-sized (around 300 
employees) before being bought by a very large company. We were using 
FrameMaker 7.2 in unstructured mode and our main output was PDF manuals. We 
were also beginning to use Flare more and more. We did not feel like Flare's 
PDF output capabilities were sufficient to use only Flare. Like the old 
RoboHelp, Madcap is better at marketing a solution than building one.

In my current company, which is around 75 employees, we have FrameMaker v10 and 
the other apps included in TCS3. This company is still transitioning from Word 
to FrameMaker. There are no plans to move to TCS4 at this point.

FrameMaker seems to be working fine for us. Pod madness takes some getting used 
to, but I like v10 alright. It is not as stable as the earlier versions I have 
used (from v3-v8), but I still prefer it to Word, Flare, or RoboHelp. I hope to 
next year look into Frame + Mif2Go for our Help needs and possibly for our 
knowledge base needs.

FrameMaker works for us and should continue to do so in the near future, but I 
would agree that Adobe's ownership has not been good for the Frame community. 
It is far more buggy than before and the doc for it kind of sucks. At one time, 
FrameMaker had great documentation and the product was rock-solid.



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[Michael Norton]

I've worked in two (US) companies this year and FrameMaker was the main 
documentation tool used in both. The first company was medium-sized (around 300 
employees) before being bought by a very large company. We were using 
FrameMaker 7.2 in unstructured mode and our main output was PDF manuals. We 
were also beginning to use Flare more and more. We did not feel like Flare's 
PDF output capabilities were sufficient to use only Flare. Like the old 
RoboHelp, Madcap is better at marketing a solution than building one.

In my current company, which is around 75 employees, we have FrameMaker v10 and 
the other apps included in TCS3. This company is still transitioning from Word 
to FrameMaker. There are no plans to move to TCS4 at this point.

FrameMaker seems to be working fine for us. Pod madness takes some getting used 
to, but I like v10 alright. It is not as stable as the earlier versions I have 
used (from v3-v8), but I still prefer it to Word, Flare, or RoboHelp. I hope to 
next year look into Frame + Mif2Go for our Help needs and possibly for our 
knowledge base needs.

FrameMaker works for us and should continue to do so in the near future, but I 
would agree that Adobe's ownership has not been good for the Frame community. 
It is far more buggy than before and the doc for it kind of sucks. At one time, 
FrameMaker had great documentation and the product was rock-solid.



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Using epilogue.os with Frame and Windows 7

[Michael Norton]

I recently upgraded to a Windows 7 machine and was trying to move over the 
custom joboptions and epilogue.ps files  I use when creating PDFs from 
FrameMaker (v10). I also have Acrobat X Pro. Putting the joboptions file onto 
the new machine was easy enough, less so for the epilogue.ps file.

I can copy the epilogue.ps file into my \Data directory:

C:\Users\me\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe PDF\Distiller\Data\epilogue.ps

But it looks like Distiller is only using the file in the \All Users directory:

C:\Users\All Users\Adobe\Adobe PDF\Distiller\Data\epilogue.ps

And even though I have administrator privileges and am the only user on the 
machine, I cannot  overwrite, edit, or delete the version of epilogue.ps  in\ 
All Users. I did not see an option in the joboptions file that let you specify 
the location of epilogue.ps, which might be nice.

So how do you get Distiller to use a customized version of epilogue.ps in 
Windows 7?

Thanks.
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[Michael Norton]

I recently upgraded to a Windows 7 machine and was trying to move over the 
custom joboptions and epilogue.ps files  I use when creating PDFs from 
FrameMaker (v10). I also have Acrobat X Pro. Putting the joboptions file onto 
the new machine was easy enough, less so for the epilogue.ps file.

I can copy the epilogue.ps file into my \Data directory:

C:\Users\me\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe PDF\Distiller\Data\epilogue.ps

But it looks like Distiller is only using the file in the \All Users directory:

C:\Users\All Users\Adobe\Adobe PDF\Distiller\Data\epilogue.ps

And even though I have administrator privileges and am the only user on the 
machine, I cannot  overwrite, edit, or delete the version of epilogue.ps  in\ 
All Users. I did not see an option in the joboptions file that let you specify 
the location of epilogue.ps, which might be nice.

So how do you get Distiller to use a customized version of epilogue.ps in 
Windows 7?

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Frame 10 XML/translation question

[Michael Norton]

Our company will be translating some manuals from English to Japanese. The 
translation service only accepts HTML and XML input and outputs the result in 
those same formats. I am currently using Frame 7.2. I understand Frame 10.0 
works in XML. 

 

I realize you can't give me an absolute answer, but how easy would it be to 
pull the translated output (in XML format) back into Frame for publishing as 
PDFs?

 

Are there any major issues with taking this approach?

 

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Our company will be translating some manuals from English to Japanese. The 
translation service only accepts HTML and XML input and outputs the result in 
those same formats. I am currently using Frame 7.2. I understand Frame 10.0 
works in XML. 



I realize you can't give me an absolute answer, but how easy would it be to 
pull the translated output (in XML format) back into Frame for publishing as 
PDFs?



Are there any major issues with taking this approach?



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Adding a PDF form to a FrameMaker manual

[Michael Norton]

I'm trying to add a Feedback form to our FrameMaker manuals. These manuals are 
published as PDF files. We are using FrameMaker 7.2 and Acrobat 8.0.

 

I have a PDF form designed and can attach it to a PDF manual. I can also set up 
a bookmark which will display the form as an attachment, but I would prefer to 
pull it into the FrameMaker book and have it built in every time I print the 
book. I've tried inserting the PDF form into the book file several ways, such 
as an inset in an FM file or on a master page, but nothing seems to give me a 
form with working fields in the resulting PDF.

 

Preferably, I would like to end up with a PDF manual that has a bookmark named 
Send us your comments.  If you click on that bookmark, you go directly to the 
PDF form which you can then fill in and email to a pre-selected email address. 
Since the content of the form itself will not change and since we have a large 
number of manuals, I would like to make this as automatic as possible.

 

Is there any way to do this?

 

Thanks for any ideas.
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I'm trying to add a Feedback form to our FrameMaker manuals. These manuals are 
published as PDF files. We are using FrameMaker 7.2 and Acrobat 8.0.



I have a PDF form designed and can attach it to a PDF manual. I can also set up 
a bookmark which will display the form as an attachment, but I would prefer to 
pull it into the FrameMaker book and have it built in every time I print the 
book. I've tried inserting the PDF form into the book file several ways, such 
as an inset in an FM file or on a master page, but nothing seems to give me a 
form with working fields in the resulting PDF.



Preferably, I would like to end up with a PDF manual that has a bookmark named 
"Send us your comments".  If you click on that bookmark, you go directly to the 
PDF form which you can then fill in and email to a pre-selected email address. 
Since the content of the form itself will not change and since we have a large 
number of manuals, I would like to make this as automatic as possible.



Is there any way to do this?



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