OT: Use of "please" in technical documentation and messages on screen

2009-06-26 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Andersen, Verner Engell
VEA wrote:
> Once I learned that you shouln't use the word "please" in technical
> documentation - that it was like asking the reader to do you favor.

I've just opened the Windows Help and Support Center (XP), did a
search for "please", and found 15 articles (full-text search results);
each article contains at least one instance. Looking at the first few,
none of them make me feel as though Microsoft were asking me for a
favour.

You could repeat this experiment with other help systems available to you.

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Re: OT: Use of "please" in technical documentation and messages on screen

2009-06-26 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Andersen, Verner Engell
VEA wrote:
> Once I learned that you shouln't use the word "please" in technical
> documentation - that it was like asking the reader to do you favor.

I've just opened the Windows Help and Support Center (XP), did a
search for "please", and found 15 articles (full-text search results);
each article contains at least one instance. Looking at the first few,
none of them make me feel as though Microsoft were asking me for a
favour.

You could repeat this experiment with other help systems available to you.

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Developer documentation

2009-06-25 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Carl Yorke wrote:
> Now I need to write developer documentation, which doesn't make sense to
> me.

Is that *all* they told you?

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Re: Developer documentation

2009-06-25 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Carl Yorke wrote:
> Now I need to write developer documentation, which doesn't make sense to
> me.

Is that *all* they told you?

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legal notice for new patent in docs?

2009-05-21 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:37 PM, obair  wrote:
> My boss is asking me to do some research to determine the "correct form of 
> legal notice for our patent and how it should be worded

I'd ask the legal department. Where I work, they'd have to approve it anyway.

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Re: legal notice for new patent in docs?

2009-05-21 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:37 PM, obair  wrote:
> My boss is asking me to do some research to determine the "correct form of 
> legal notice for our patent and how it should be worded

I'd ask the legal department. Where I work, they'd have to approve it anyway.

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Procedure How to Write a Manual!

2009-05-20 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Richard Melanson
 wrote:
> I just want to share this with the list and absorb the response. My boss
> today told me to "write a procedure on how to write a manual" and he
> also stated to me that anyone could be a writer, he did not understand
> what all the fuss was about tech writing, anyone could do it.

The first part about a procedure is not so far-fetched in a regulation
and standards-rich environment. The procedure won't be a literal
step-by-microcosmic step description of what happens, but it will set
out the requirements of the process and final product. Your
circumstances, however, may not be so heavy on the regulations and
standards.

That second part about "anyone can do it", though... that looks like
the tip of some kind of iceberg. Is there someone else you can talk to
in the organization who knows the context and players?

Good luck.

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Re: Procedure How to Write a Manual!

2009-05-20 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Richard Melanson
 wrote:
> I just want to share this with the list and absorb the response. My boss
> today told me to "write a procedure on how to write a manual" and he
> also stated to me that anyone could be a writer, he did not understand
> what all the fuss was about tech writing, anyone could do it.

The first part about a procedure is not so far-fetched in a regulation
and standards-rich environment. The procedure won't be a literal
step-by-microcosmic step description of what happens, but it will set
out the requirements of the process and final product. Your
circumstances, however, may not be so heavy on the regulations and
standards.

That second part about "anyone can do it", though... that looks like
the tip of some kind of iceberg. Is there someone else you can talk to
in the organization who knows the context and players?

Good luck.

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TriZetto inquiry

2009-04-27 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Will Husa  
wrote:
> I'm new to this list. Milan Davidovic recommended that I seek your advice.

Hi -- I saw Will's query over on techwr-l, did a search of my own
archive and saw the TriZetto name come up on this list, and suggested
to Will that he bring his query over here. Anyone finding this query
to be too OT for this list should yell, if at all, at me. OK?

And that said, I suppose I could have contacted people off list and
asked if they'd be interested in replying to Will. I didn't think of
it at the time, though, so here we are.

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Re: TriZetto inquiry

2009-04-27 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Will Husa  wrote:
> I'm new to this list. Milan Davidovic recommended that I seek your advice.

Hi -- I saw Will's query over on techwr-l, did a search of my own
archive and saw the TriZetto name come up on this list, and suggested
to Will that he bring his query over here. Anyone finding this query
to be too OT for this list should yell, if at all, at me. OK?

And that said, I suppose I could have contacted people off list and
asked if they'd be interested in replying to Will. I didn't think of
it at the time, though, so here we are.

TIA for helping Will out.

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Dual page numbering

2009-03-11 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:35 PM, John Sgammato  
wrote:
> Our trainer wants to include both chapter-oriented numbering AND
> absolute page numbering in training materials derived from my manuals.

A bit OT, but did your trainer say why?

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Re: Dual page numbering

2009-03-11 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:35 PM, John Sgammato  wrote:
> Our trainer wants to include both chapter-oriented numbering AND
> absolute page numbering in training materials derived from my manuals.

A bit OT, but did your trainer say why?

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How can I avoid having to rescale linked screen shots

2009-01-12 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Combs, Richard
 wrote:
> Stuart's advice is also important. After import into FM, never change
> the size of a graphic by changing its scaling percentage.

Are there hazards (other than the problem described at the start of
this thread) that this advice is intended to avoid?

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Re: How can I avoid having to rescale linked screen shots

2009-01-12 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Combs, Richard
 wrote:
> Stuart's advice is also important. After import into FM, never change
> the size of a graphic by changing its scaling percentage.

Are there hazards (other than the problem described at the start of
this thread) that this advice is intended to avoid?

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pilcrow before tag name in character catalog

2009-01-08 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Combs, Richard
 wrote:
> I'm certain that's not the case. I suspect Peter is correct -- someone
> got clever, figured out how to enter a pilcrow in a dialog box (hex
> code), and adopted this as a naming convention.

Peter's test to determine this revealed it to be a naming convention.

> It actually is a pretty clever way to distinguish char formats used only
> in autonumbers (if that's how it's being used) and not intended to be
> applied manually by writers.

It's a shame the person taking over isn't as clever...

> I assume these tags sort
> to the bottom of the list (if not, then it's not so clever), so they're
> out of the way of someone using the mouse.

They do.

Thanks again to everyone for their attention to this query...

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pilcrow before tag name in character catalog

2009-01-08 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Peter Gold  wrote:
> It is possible to use the pilcrow character in a FM format tag name.
> Perhaps the document's creator used this as a convention.

Ah...

> To verify this, select some text tagged with this format and open the
> Character Designer to see if the pilcrow appears in the Character Tag
> text box.

And it does -- thank you.

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pilcrow before tag name in character catalog

2009-01-08 Thread Milan Davidovic
And like a doofus I once again forgot to mention some details:

Unstructured Frame 7.2 on Windows XP

--Milan

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Milan Davidovic  
wrote:
> I thought that a pilcrow appearing before the tag name in character... etc.


pilcrow before tag name in character catalog

2009-01-08 Thread Milan Davidovic
(I tried Google for the answer to this one, but with no luck; if you
know how to make the answer appear, I'd be happy to know how too... )

I thought that a pilcrow appearing before the tag name in character
catalog meant that the tag in question was used in a paragraph format,
but I can't seem to make one appear there myself.

Am I interpreting the pilcrow correctly? Might there be some reason
why I can't get one to appear there myself? I made the para format,
incorporated a char format, saved, closed the doc and Frame itself and
reopened, but nothing new in the catalog.

Many thanks.

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Re: pilcrow before tag name in character catalog

2009-01-08 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Combs, Richard
 wrote:
> I'm certain that's not the case. I suspect Peter is correct -- someone
> got clever, figured out how to enter a pilcrow in a dialog box (hex
> code), and adopted this as a naming convention.

Peter's test to determine this revealed it to be a naming convention.

> It actually is a pretty clever way to distinguish char formats used only
> in autonumbers (if that's how it's being used) and not intended to be
> applied manually by writers.

It's a shame the person taking over isn't as clever...

> I assume these tags sort
> to the bottom of the list (if not, then it's not so clever), so they're
> out of the way of someone using the mouse.

They do.

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Re: pilcrow before tag name in character catalog

2009-01-08 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Peter Gold  wrote:
> It is possible to use the pilcrow character in a FM format tag name.
> Perhaps the document's creator used this as a convention.

Ah...

> To verify this, select some text tagged with this format and open the
> Character Designer to see if the pilcrow appears in the Character Tag
> text box.

And it does -- thank you.

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Re: pilcrow before tag name in character catalog

2009-01-08 Thread Milan Davidovic
And like a doofus I once again forgot to mention some details:

Unstructured Frame 7.2 on Windows XP

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On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Milan Davidovic  wrote:
> I thought that a pilcrow appearing before the tag name in character... etc.
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pilcrow before tag name in character catalog

2009-01-08 Thread Milan Davidovic
(I tried Google for the answer to this one, but with no luck; if you
know how to make the answer appear, I'd be happy to know how too... )

I thought that a pilcrow appearing before the tag name in character
catalog meant that the tag in question was used in a paragraph format,
but I can't seem to make one appear there myself.

Am I interpreting the pilcrow correctly? Might there be some reason
why I can't get one to appear there myself? I made the para format,
incorporated a char format, saved, closed the doc and Frame itself and
reopened, but nothing new in the catalog.

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OT: correct symbol to use

2008-12-16 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Alan Litchfield  
wrote:
> If you have in a line of text something like "to any of 1 (a)-(c)", is this
> more correctly set as "to any of 1 (a)...(c)"?

Take a look at the en dash; it might be what you want:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_dash#En_dash

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Re: OT: correct symbol to use

2008-12-16 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Alan Litchfield  wrote:
> If you have in a line of text something like "to any of 1 (a)-(c)", is this
> more correctly set as "to any of 1 (a)...(c)"?

Take a look at the en dash; it might be what you want:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_dash#En_dash

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Layoffs and Frame 9?

2008-12-03 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:18 PM, John Hedtke  wrote:
> Does anyone know if the Adobe layoffs are...

Adobe? Layoffs?

Googlegooglegoogle... here we go, in case anyone else hadn't heard and
wants to read up:

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=adobe+layoff&meta=

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Re: Layoffs and Frame 9?

2008-12-03 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:18 PM, John Hedtke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know if the Adobe layoffs are...

Adobe? Layoffs?

Googlegooglegoogle... here we go, in case anyone else hadn't heard and
wants to read up:

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=adobe+layoff&meta=

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applying conditional text to a list

2008-11-04 Thread Milan Davidovic
Hi all,

I'm not trying to drive traffic to my blog, but I found it easier to
set up my question there and then ask people here to go over to have a
look.

http://altmilan.blogspot.com/2008/11/framemaker-applying-conditional-text-to.html

Your thoughts (here or there) would be most welcome.

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applying conditional text to a list

2008-11-04 Thread Milan Davidovic
Hi all,

I'm not trying to drive traffic to my blog, but I found it easier to
set up my question there and then ask people here to go over to have a
look.

http://altmilan.blogspot.com/2008/11/framemaker-applying-conditional-text-to.html

Your thoughts (here or there) would be most welcome.

Thanks.

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RANT: FrameMaker's "help" function

2008-10-03 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Deirdre Reagan  
wrote:
> Is anyone else as annoyed by FrameMaker's useless help function as I am?

I don't actually get mad anymore until I can't find the answer *anywhere*.

Is this what you're looking for?

http://www.io.com/~tcm/etwr2472/planners/frame/frame_tables.html#PageBreak

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Re: RANT: FrameMaker's "help" function

2008-10-03 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Deirdre Reagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is anyone else as annoyed by FrameMaker's useless help function as I am?

I don't actually get mad anymore until I can't find the answer *anywhere*.

Is this what you're looking for?

http://www.io.com/~tcm/etwr2472/planners/frame/frame_tables.html#PageBreak

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PDFs -- to tag or not

2008-10-03 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:41 AM,   wrote:
> My experience has been very weird with this. FrameMaker 8 (latest
> patches) and Acrobat 8 Pro (latest patches)

Interesting -- though in my case I'm on FM 7.2 and the issue I'm
facing isn't in FM or Acrobat themselves, but with another piece of
software that works with PDFs.

Thanks...

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PDFs -- to tag or not

2008-10-03 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Art Campbell  wrote:
> If the PDF is tagged, it's easier to go to specific parts/paras of it
> from outside sources. Like if you were doing context sensitive help
> and wanted to map to a specific location within the PDF.

Thanks -- can you think of any circumstances in which tags would be
*detrimental*?

I know that sounds like a weird question; the story of why I'm asking
isn't all that interesting...

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PDFs -- to tag or not

2008-10-03 Thread Milan Davidovic
I've just been reading in the FM help file about why one would select
"Generate Tagged PDF" -- but are there any circumstances under which
we'd want to clear it? I.e. is tagging sometimes undesireable?

Thanks...

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Re: PDFs -- to tag or not

2008-10-03 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:41 AM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My experience has been very weird with this. FrameMaker 8 (latest
> patches) and Acrobat 8 Pro (latest patches)

Interesting -- though in my case I'm on FM 7.2 and the issue I'm
facing isn't in FM or Acrobat themselves, but with another piece of
software that works with PDFs.

Thanks...

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Re: PDFs -- to tag or not

2008-10-03 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Art Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If the PDF is tagged, it's easier to go to specific parts/paras of it
> from outside sources. Like if you were doing context sensitive help
> and wanted to map to a specific location within the PDF.

Thanks -- can you think of any circumstances in which tags would be
*detrimental*?

I know that sounds like a weird question; the story of why I'm asking
isn't all that interesting...

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PDFs -- to tag or not

2008-10-03 Thread Milan Davidovic
I've just been reading in the FM help file about why one would select
"Generate Tagged PDF" -- but are there any circumstances under which
we'd want to clear it? I.e. is tagging sometimes undesireable?

Thanks...

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InDesign as a replacement for Framemaker

2008-09-12 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 9:59 AM, John Sgammato  
wrote:
> For example, I guess there is a plug-in that can handle cross references? 
> That would be helpful, but I don't know what it is or how to get it.

Try http://www.dtptools.com/product.asp?id=crin (only heard of it,
haven't used it)

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reply to copy/paste Greek... ?

2008-09-11 Thread Milan Davidovic
I found this post:

http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/2008-February/010852.html

but can find no reply. I've got a similar situation; any ideas of what to try?

Thanks in advance...

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reply to copy/paste Greek... ?

2008-09-11 Thread Milan Davidovic
I found this post:

http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/2008-February/010852.html

but can find no reply. I've got a similar situation; any ideas of what to try?

Thanks in advance...

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character formatting and x-ref'd text

2008-06-23 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Milan Davidovic  
wrote:
> I'm looking at some legacy document in which the character formatting
> does come across in the x-ref'd text, but I can't see how to make it
> happen in my File B. What can I check to see where the difference is
> between the two?

Just answered my own question...

In the test files I set up, the character tag I used was Emphasis (the
default one in my installation of Frame), which changed to angle to
Italic. In the legacy file I'm looking at, the character tag uses a
different font altogether.

So, even when applied with a character tag, bold or italic formatting
does not come through on the x-ref. A different font, however, will.
Perhaps this is what Shlomo was trying to explain and I just didn't
get it.

Thanks again.

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character formatting and x-ref'd text

2008-06-23 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Shlomo Perets  wrote:
> In the context of cross-references, <$paratext> ignores character formatting
> present in the source paragraph text, except superscript, subscript and font
> family properties, which are retained only if applied through a character
> tag.

If I understand you correctly, the text in File A should appear in
File B with the formatting (applied with a tag) intact. Somehow,
though, it isn't, so something is wrong. Any idea of where I can look
to find it?

Thanks.

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Re: character formatting and x-ref'd text

2008-06-23 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Milan Davidovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm looking at some legacy document in which the character formatting
> does come across in the x-ref'd text, but I can't see how to make it
> happen in my File B. What can I check to see where the difference is
> between the two?

Just answered my own question...

In the test files I set up, the character tag I used was Emphasis (the
default one in my installation of Frame), which changed to angle to
Italic. In the legacy file I'm looking at, the character tag uses a
different font altogether.

So, even when applied with a character tag, bold or italic formatting
does not come through on the x-ref. A different font, however, will.
Perhaps this is what Shlomo was trying to explain and I just didn't
get it.

Thanks again.

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http://altmilan.blogspot.com
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Re: character formatting and x-ref'd text

2008-06-23 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Shlomo Perets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In the context of cross-references, <$paratext> ignores character formatting
> present in the source paragraph text, except superscript, subscript and font
> family properties, which are retained only if applied through a character
> tag.

If I understand you correctly, the text in File A should appear in
File B with the formatting (applied with a tag) intact. Somehow,
though, it isn't, so something is wrong. Any idea of where I can look
to find it?

Thanks.

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character formatting and x-ref'd text

2008-06-20 Thread Milan Davidovic
File A has a paragraph. Some text in this paragraph is formatted with
a character tag. In File B, I create a <$paratext> type x-ref to bring
in this paragraph. The character formatting, however, doesn't appear.
Files A and B have indentical formats, etc. (imported from A into B
just to make sure).

I'm looking at some legacy document in which the character formatting
does come across in the x-ref'd text, but I can't see how to make it
happen in my File B. What can I check to see where the difference is
between the two?

Many thanks...

-- 
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character formatting and x-ref'd text

2008-06-20 Thread Milan Davidovic
File A has a paragraph. Some text in this paragraph is formatted with
a character tag. In File B, I create a <$paratext> type x-ref to bring
in this paragraph. The character formatting, however, doesn't appear.
Files A and B have indentical formats, etc. (imported from A into B
just to make sure).

I'm looking at some legacy document in which the character formatting
does come across in the x-ref'd text, but I can't see how to make it
happen in my File B. What can I check to see where the difference is
between the two?

Many thanks...

-- 
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http://altmilan.blogspot.com
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How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

2008-06-19 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Dennis Brunnenmeyer
 wrote:
> At one point earlier this Spring, Microsoft was considering extending
> their cutoff date for XP beyond June 30th because of the uproar from
> the business community. I guess that must not have happened, but
> before you sink money into a VISTA-only machine, I'd double-check the
> validity of that rumor.

Here's some information that may be of interest:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_xp#Support_lifecycle

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Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

2008-06-19 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Dennis Brunnenmeyer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At one point earlier this Spring, Microsoft was considering extending
> their cutoff date for XP beyond June 30th because of the uproar from
> the business community. I guess that must not have happened, but
> before you sink money into a VISTA-only machine, I'd double-check the
> validity of that rumor.

Here's some information that may be of interest:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_xp#Support_lifecycle

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disagreement on overrides

2008-06-13 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Milan Davidovic  
wrote:
> Have any of you been on either side of such a difference in approach,
> and how did you go about resolving it?

OK, there are some good, constructive ideas here -- lots to think
about. Thank you.

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Re: disagreement on overrides

2008-06-13 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Milan Davidovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have any of you been on either side of such a difference in approach,
> and how did you go about resolving it?

OK, there are some good, constructive ideas here -- lots to think
about. Thank you.

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disagreement on overrides

2008-06-12 Thread Milan Davidovic
The way I've been "brought up" as a Frame user was to avoid overrides
wherever possible. I'm now working with a writer who is much more
liberal about overrides than I am. We currently work only on
unstructured Frame documents; output is PDF (to print from or for use
onscreen). Right now, we're the only two writers working on the doc
set in question.

Have any of you been on either side of such a difference in approach,
and how did you go about resolving it?

Thanks.

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disagreement on overrides

2008-06-12 Thread Milan Davidovic
The way I've been "brought up" as a Frame user was to avoid overrides
wherever possible. I'm now working with a writer who is much more
liberal about overrides than I am. We currently work only on
unstructured Frame documents; output is PDF (to print from or for use
onscreen). Right now, we're the only two writers working on the doc
set in question.

Have any of you been on either side of such a difference in approach,
and how did you go about resolving it?

Thanks.

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table and figure captions

2008-06-11 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Jerilynne Knight
 wrote:
> I create a table format specifically to hold graphics.

Is this in structured or unstructured Frame? If the latter, can anyone
see a problem with doing it in the former?

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Re: table and figure captions

2008-06-11 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Jerilynne Knight
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I create a table format specifically to hold graphics.

Is this in structured or unstructured Frame? If the latter, can anyone
see a problem with doing it in the former?

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Basic question- Visio to Frame

2008-05-29 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Art Campbell  wrote:
> If I were you, I'd print to a PDF from Visio or SaveAs a graphic
> format from Visio and import the resulting file as a referenced file.

When I had to do this (a couple of years ago), I was advised to save
the Visio diagram as a .wmf file, and then import that.

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Re: Basic question- Visio to Frame

2008-05-29 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Art Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I were you, I'd print to a PDF from Visio or SaveAs a graphic
> format from Visio and import the resulting file as a referenced file.

When I had to do this (a couple of years ago), I was advised to save
the Visio diagram as a .wmf file, and then import that.

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Re: Marketing a product: which language for the documentation

2008-05-26 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:51 AM, mathieu jacquet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do you have any idea of official (governmental) documents about this kind of 
> issue (Europe and/or US)?

What regulations does your client's product have to comply with?
Knowing that should point you in the right direction.

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Marketing a product: which language for the documentation

2008-05-26 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:51 AM, mathieu jacquet  
wrote:
> Do you have any idea of official (governmental) documents about this kind of 
> issue (Europe and/or US)?

What regulations does your client's product have to comply with?
Knowing that should point you in the right direction.

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RE turkish sortorder

2008-05-20 Thread Milan Davidovic
Problem solved; the answer is in the User Guide, and it's fairly
clear. I had to look up the Danish alphabet, then use it on the
reference page to re-order the index group titles and to replace the
<$alphabetics> building block.

Of course, if someone knows an easier way I could have done this, or
knows of any pitfalls inherent in changing sort order (other than the
obvious one of getting the order wrong), you response would be
helpful.

Thanks again...   Milan


On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Milan Davidovic  
wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Anneke von den Hoff
>  wrote:
>> Hi Ann,
>> Thank you very much for the example.
>> I have implemented your example in my document and it works fine!
>
> My inbox does not show the response to which you refer; I've got a
> similar problem with Danish.


RE turkish sortorder

2008-05-20 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Anneke von den Hoff
 wrote:
> Hi Ann,
> Thank you very much for the example.
> I have implemented your example in my document and it works fine!

My inbox does not show the response to which you refer; I've got a
similar problem with Danish.

Can we have responses to such questions ON the list, please?

Many thanks...

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Re: RE turkish sortorder

2008-05-20 Thread Milan Davidovic
Problem solved; the answer is in the User Guide, and it's fairly
clear. I had to look up the Danish alphabet, then use it on the
reference page to re-order the index group titles and to replace the
<$alphabetics> building block.

Of course, if someone knows an easier way I could have done this, or
knows of any pitfalls inherent in changing sort order (other than the
obvious one of getting the order wrong), you response would be
helpful.

Thanks again...   Milan


On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Milan Davidovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Anneke von den Hoff
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi Ann,
>> Thank you very much for the example.
>> I have implemented your example in my document and it works fine!
>
> My inbox does not show the response to which you refer; I've got a
> similar problem with Danish.
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Re: RE turkish sortorder

2008-05-20 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Anneke von den Hoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Ann,
> Thank you very much for the example.
> I have implemented your example in my document and it works fine!

My inbox does not show the response to which you refer; I've got a
similar problem with Danish.

Can we have responses to such questions ON the list, please?

Many thanks...

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Framemaker Class

2008-05-07 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Deirdre Reagan
 wrote:
> Just to be clear, I'm looking for names of companies.  I can travel to
> Atlanta, Birmingham, and Washington DC. (and other places in the
> Southeast)

Try searching here:

http://partners.adobe.com/public/partnerfinder/tp/show_find.do

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Re: Framemaker Class

2008-05-07 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Deirdre Reagan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just to be clear, I'm looking for names of companies.  I can travel to
> Atlanta, Birmingham, and Washington DC. (and other places in the
> Southeast)

Try searching here:

http://partners.adobe.com/public/partnerfinder/tp/show_find.do

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Large FM File

2008-05-01 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Neil Tubb  
wrote:
> I was always taught that
> splitting it out one file per chapter was the safest and best way to go,
> but I've just seen an example of the one large file approach. Does
> anyone else do this? Just curious.

I'm also curious -- did someone offer you a rationale for the OHF (one
huge file)?

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Re: Large FM File

2008-05-01 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Neil Tubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was always taught that
> splitting it out one file per chapter was the safest and best way to go,
> but I've just seen an example of the one large file approach. Does
> anyone else do this? Just curious.

I'm also curious -- did someone offer you a rationale for the OHF (one
huge file)?

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site down

2008-04-30 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Bill Swallow  
wrote:
> It's been down for months. But never fear, it'll be back up
>  "Monday"... We just don't know which Monday yet. ;-)

Is there an "official" date that it has been down since? Just curious...

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Re: site down

2008-04-30 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Bill Swallow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's been down for months. But never fear, it'll be back up
>  "Monday"... We just don't know which Monday yet. ;-)

Is there an "official" date that it has been down since? Just curious...

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import only one

2008-04-25 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Milan Davidovic  
wrote:
>  Is there a way (including scripts, plugins, etc.) of importing only
>  the one that I want?

Many good suggestions on and off list -- thanks to everyone who replied.

I've got two scenarios:

- the desired format does not exist in the current document.
- the desired format exists in name only in the current document (i.e.
the settings are wrong).

I think from the various answers I've gotten I can work out efficient
solutions for each. Thanks again.

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import only one

2008-04-25 Thread Milan Davidovic
I couldn't think of good terms for searching for this answer using
Google -- suggestions are welcome...

I'm in Frame 7.2 on Windows. When I want to import, say, one paragraph
format from another FrameMaker file into the one I'm working in, I go
File > Import > Formats and then select Paragraph Formats, importing
*all* the paragraph formats from that other file.

Is there a way (including scripts, plugins, etc.) of importing only
the one that I want?

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Re: import only one

2008-04-25 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Milan Davidovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  Is there a way (including scripts, plugins, etc.) of importing only
>  the one that I want?

Many good suggestions on and off list -- thanks to everyone who replied.

I've got two scenarios:

- the desired format does not exist in the current document.
- the desired format exists in name only in the current document (i.e.
the settings are wrong).

I think from the various answers I've gotten I can work out efficient
solutions for each. Thanks again.

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import only one

2008-04-25 Thread Milan Davidovic
I couldn't think of good terms for searching for this answer using
Google -- suggestions are welcome...

I'm in Frame 7.2 on Windows. When I want to import, say, one paragraph
format from another FrameMaker file into the one I'm working in, I go
File > Import > Formats and then select Paragraph Formats, importing
*all* the paragraph formats from that other file.

Is there a way (including scripts, plugins, etc.) of importing only
the one that I want?

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Long running headers

2008-04-21 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Lester C. Smalley
 wrote:
> Another trick is to make TWO header text frames - one on each side of
>  the master page (tall enough for two lines of text), and two header
>  paragraph format Header Left and Header Right, so I can independently
>  set font properties, justification, spacing, etc. for the different
>  pieces of data I'm pulling in from the text.

That's a good one for my upcoming project -- many thanks for that...

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Long running headers

2008-04-21 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Rick Quatro  
wrote:
> Make the master page text frame tall enough so that you can see the second
> line.

And sure enough -- in checking the text frame in question against
others, it is indeed higher. Many thanks...

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Long running headers

2008-04-21 Thread Milan Davidovic
I've inherited this Frame book. There's a master page that has two
running header variables in the header, one for the chapter title and
the other for the current heading 1. On one of the pages in the
manual, both the chapter title and the heading 1 are long. Whoever
last modified this book managed to get the text for the heading 1 to
wrap so that it looks something like this:

Blah blah blah blah blahYadda yadda yadda
   yadda yadda yadda

but I don't know where to look to see how they did this. It has come
undone so that the second line of the text on the right has
disappeared. I must restore this. Changing the text of either the
chapter title or the heading is not an option, and att this time in
the project I prefer not to get into playing with font sizes.

Your wisdom and guidance, please & thanks.

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Re: Long running headers

2008-04-21 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Lester C. Smalley
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> Another trick is to make TWO header text frames - one on each side of
>  the master page (tall enough for two lines of text), and two header
>  paragraph format Header Left and Header Right, so I can independently
>  set font properties, justification, spacing, etc. for the different
>  pieces of data I'm pulling in from the text.

That's a good one for my upcoming project -- many thanks for that...

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Re: Long running headers

2008-04-21 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Rick Quatro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Make the master page text frame tall enough so that you can see the second
> line.

And sure enough -- in checking the text frame in question against
others, it is indeed higher. Many thanks...

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Long running headers

2008-04-21 Thread Milan Davidovic
I've inherited this Frame book. There's a master page that has two
running header variables in the header, one for the chapter title and
the other for the current heading 1. On one of the pages in the
manual, both the chapter title and the heading 1 are long. Whoever
last modified this book managed to get the text for the heading 1 to
wrap so that it looks something like this:

Blah blah blah blah blahYadda yadda yadda
   yadda yadda yadda

but I don't know where to look to see how they did this. It has come
undone so that the second line of the text on the right has
disappeared. I must restore this. Changing the text of either the
chapter title or the heading is not an option, and att this time in
the project I prefer not to get into playing with font sizes.

Your wisdom and guidance, please & thanks.

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Fonts for Turkish?

2008-04-03 Thread Milan Davidovic
On 4/3/08, Milan Davidovic  wrote:
>  Are any of you creating documents in Turkish? If so, what font(s) are you 
> using?

Many thanks to all who replied on and off-list. My first line of
attack is to try Dieter's idea and get the fonts we already have
working more fully for us.

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Re: Fonts for Turkish?

2008-04-03 Thread Milan Davidovic
On 4/3/08, Milan Davidovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  Are any of you creating documents in Turkish? If so, what font(s) are you 
> using?

Many thanks to all who replied on and off-list. My first line of
attack is to try Dieter's idea and get the fonts we already have
working more fully for us.

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Fonts for Turkish?

2008-04-03 Thread Milan Davidovic
Tried this already on techwr-l, with no replies. As I'm working in
Frame perhaps some of you can reply.

Are any of you creating documents in Turkish? If so, what font(s) are you using?

Thanks.

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Fonts for Turkish?

2008-04-03 Thread Milan Davidovic
Tried this already on techwr-l, with no replies. As I'm working in
Frame perhaps some of you can reply.

Are any of you creating documents in Turkish? If so, what font(s) are you using?

Thanks.

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also working with images

2008-02-13 Thread Milan Davidovic
On 2/4/08, Mike Wickham  wrote:
> If you're on the Windows platform, and creating documents for press, EPS is
> really the only way to go for color graphics. With every other graphics
> format, Frame passes the graphics through the Windows GDI when creating
> Postscript. CMYK graphics are converted to RGB in the process and colors may
> change. EPS is passed around the Windows GDI and maintains original colors.

Slightly OT, but for comparison purposes -- does InDesign do this as well?

Thanks.

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Re: also working with images

2008-02-13 Thread Milan Davidovic
On 2/4/08, Mike Wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you're on the Windows platform, and creating documents for press, EPS is
> really the only way to go for color graphics. With every other graphics
> format, Frame passes the graphics through the Windows GDI when creating
> Postscript. CMYK graphics are converted to RGB in the process and colors may
> change. EPS is passed around the Windows GDI and maintains original colors.

Slightly OT, but for comparison purposes -- does InDesign do this as well?

Thanks.

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also working with images

2008-02-03 Thread Milan Davidovic
I've inherited responsibility for some Frame docs. Almost all of the
images are .eps created in Illustrator and .jpg modified in Photoshop
(there are matching.psd files for the .jpg files). These images are
imported by reference, and the Frame docs only get PDF'd (no Help,
web, etc.).

What about using the .ai and .psd files directly?

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also working with images

2008-02-03 Thread Milan Davidovic
I've inherited responsibility for some Frame docs. Almost all of the
images are .eps created in Illustrator and .jpg modified in Photoshop
(there are matching.psd files for the .jpg files). These images are
imported by reference, and the Frame docs only get PDF'd (no Help,
web, etc.).

What about using the .ai and .psd files directly?

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taking an image out of an anchored frame

2007-11-21 Thread Milan Davidovic
On 11/20/07, Milan Davidovic  wrote:
> Have I come across something useful or something I should avoid? And
> if I wanted to read what others have said about this on the Web, what
> search terms would you suggest? "Remove * from anchored frame" gives
> me nothing on Google.

Many thanks to Stuart Rogers, Mike Wickham, and Maxwell Hoffmann for
their timely and thorough replies.

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Re: taking an image out of an anchored frame

2007-11-21 Thread Milan Davidovic
On 11/20/07, Milan Davidovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have I come across something useful or something I should avoid? And
> if I wanted to read what others have said about this on the Web, what
> search terms would you suggest? "Remove * from anchored frame" gives
> me nothing on Google.

Many thanks to Stuart Rogers, Mike Wickham, and Maxwell Hoffmann for
their timely and thorough replies.

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taking an image out of an anchored frame

2007-11-20 Thread Milan Davidovic
I see that I can import an image (File > Import > File), move it
outside the anchored frame, delete the anchored frame, and then have
this apparently unanchored image just sitting there. I seem to be able
to move it anywhere, though in some places it will cause the insertion
point to move.

Have I come across something useful or something I should avoid? And
if I wanted to read what others have said about this on the Web, what
search terms would you suggest? "Remove * from anchored frame" gives
me nothing on Google.

Thanks.

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http://stctorcomp.blogspot.com


taking an image out of an anchored frame

2007-11-20 Thread Milan Davidovic
I see that I can import an image (File > Import > File), move it
outside the anchored frame, delete the anchored frame, and then have
this apparently unanchored image just sitting there. I seem to be able
to move it anywhere, though in some places it will cause the insertion
point to move.

Have I come across something useful or something I should avoid? And
if I wanted to read what others have said about this on the Web, what
search terms would you suggest? "Remove * from anchored frame" gives
me nothing on Google.

Thanks.

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http://stctorcomp.blogspot.com
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adding blank pages without affecting page numbers

2007-09-19 Thread Milan Davidovic
Hi all,

Just to wrap this up, I decided to go with Rick's idea (below). Once
I've added the pages, I don't have to think about them any more, and
I'm more likely to have to regenerate PDFs of the book in which this
file resides than to have to make changes to this particular file that
affect pagination.

That said, the other ideas have provided me good food for thought;
thank you very much for the time you took to write them up and post
them to the list or send them to me privately.

--Milan



On 9/19/07, Rick Quatro  wrote:
> Hi Milan,
>
> Here is a FrameMaker solution you can try for fun (at your own risk).
> Assuming you don't anticipate much page flow and you are using unstructured
> FrameMaker, try this:
>
> 1) Open the document.
>
> 2) Press Esc p z and click Freeze.

etc.



Re: adding blank pages without affecting page numbers

2007-09-19 Thread Milan Davidovic
Hi all,

Just to wrap this up, I decided to go with Rick's idea (below). Once
I've added the pages, I don't have to think about them any more, and
I'm more likely to have to regenerate PDFs of the book in which this
file resides than to have to make changes to this particular file that
affect pagination.

That said, the other ideas have provided me good food for thought;
thank you very much for the time you took to write them up and post
them to the list or send them to me privately.

--Milan



On 9/19/07, Rick Quatro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Milan,
>
> Here is a FrameMaker solution you can try for fun (at your own risk).
> Assuming you don't anticipate much page flow and you are using unstructured
> FrameMaker, try this:
>
> 1) Open the document.
>
> 2) Press Esc p z and click Freeze.

etc.
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adding blank pages without affecting page numbers

2007-09-19 Thread Milan Davidovic
On 9/19/07, Milan Davidovic  wrote:
> Does anyone know of something I can set up in the Frame file so that I
> don't have to remember to add the pages in Acrobat?

Hi all -- I'm getting various replies onlist and off; I'm replying
offlist because the replies don't add much to the discussion. I'll
summarize for the list later.

Thanks to everyone so far.

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adding blank pages without affecting page numbers

2007-09-19 Thread Milan Davidovic
I'm working on a legacy doc (unstructured; Frame 7.2); the author is
no longer available for consultation.

In the Frame file, I have six pages, numbered x of 6. I have a PDF of
this file (the previously approved and released version, which I am
now revising); each of these pages is followed by a blank page. Let's
assume that these are needed -- I don't know why, and there isn't time
to find out.

Does anyone know of something I can set up in the Frame file so that I
don't have to remember to add the pages in Acrobat? As far as I can
tell, the addition of blank pages was done manually. I tried adding
Disconnected Pages in Frame, but it affects the page count.

Many thanks.

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Re: adding blank pages without affecting page numbers

2007-09-19 Thread Milan Davidovic
On 9/19/07, Milan Davidovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know of something I can set up in the Frame file so that I
> don't have to remember to add the pages in Acrobat?

Hi all -- I'm getting various replies onlist and off; I'm replying
offlist because the replies don't add much to the discussion. I'll
summarize for the list later.

Thanks to everyone so far.

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adding blank pages without affecting page numbers

2007-09-19 Thread Milan Davidovic
I'm working on a legacy doc (unstructured; Frame 7.2); the author is
no longer available for consultation.

In the Frame file, I have six pages, numbered x of 6. I have a PDF of
this file (the previously approved and released version, which I am
now revising); each of these pages is followed by a blank page. Let's
assume that these are needed -- I don't know why, and there isn't time
to find out.

Does anyone know of something I can set up in the Frame file so that I
don't have to remember to add the pages in Acrobat? As far as I can
tell, the addition of blank pages was done manually. I tried adding
Disconnected Pages in Frame, but it affects the page count.

Many thanks.

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Training

2007-07-08 Thread Milan Davidovic
--- Mike Derryberry  wrote:
> I am in the market for introductory and advance
> Framemaker training for about 10 students.

Are you looking for a first-hand recommendation or
just someone in the vicinity? If the latter, you could
start here:

http://partners.adobe.com/public/partnerfinder/tp/show_find.do

However, my search for something directly in Dallas
didn't return any results. But perhaps a nearby city
would have something.


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Re: Training

2007-07-08 Thread Milan Davidovic
--- Mike Derryberry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am in the market for introductory and advance
> Framemaker training for about 10 students.

Are you looking for a first-hand recommendation or
just someone in the vicinity? If the latter, you could
start here:

http://partners.adobe.com/public/partnerfinder/tp/show_find.do

However, my search for something directly in Dallas
didn't return any results. But perhaps a nearby city
would have something.


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anticipating a move to Structured Frame

2007-03-16 Thread Milan Davidovic
--- russ at weststreetconsulting.com wrote:
> I'd like to point out that structured Frame does not
> necessarily mean topic-based authoring, XML,
> information mapping, or DITA. You can get lots of
> benefit from it without any of those things.

Such as facilitating compliance with house style?


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anticipating a move to Structrued Frame

2007-03-16 Thread Milan Davidovic
--- "Ridder, Fred"  wrote:
> But the point remains that the best way to prepare 
> depends greatly on what your goals and objectives
> are.

Would it be possible to discuss "good" ways rather
than "best" ones and keep it all at a fairly high
level?

Or perhaps everything at the high level has already
been said and we can move on.

Thanks...

PS. "Structrued"... I just saw that: ack!

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anticipating a move to Structrued Frame

2007-03-16 Thread Milan Davidovic
--- Marcus Carr  wrote:
> Why do you want to go to structured data?

Good question (and good thoughts on the question), but
that's a different topic. For the purposes of this
topic, let's imagine that the reasons are sound.

And in case I forget to mention it later, thanks for
all your answers.

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