Re: Generating web-based help

2015-01-13 Thread Sharp, Amy
Good point, Robert. Our app is internal and it opens automatically. You're right; it might not work for external users. Amy ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com.

RE:Generating web-based help

2015-01-07 Thread Sharp, Amy
This question was posed Nov. 10, so I'm late responding -- I let messages pile up. I had the exact same issue with a three-year-old CHM that worked great from a server until we went to update the help. Lo and behold, MS had changed the rules. I was lucky enough to find a way around it, using

Re: A giggle from the Adobe website

2014-10-28 Thread Sharp, Amy
My personal feeling is that documentation from Adobe has declined, and is threatening to approach the Microsoft level. I think Microsoft has a leg up on Adobe docs, albeit a skinny leg. Even before Adobe bought the company, FM docs were, shall we say, less than robust. They remind me of

RE: My work-flow for dealing with backups from FrameMaker--getting rid of backups

2014-09-16 Thread Sharp, Amy
I like having backups available in case of crashes or other emergencies, so I don't want to turn them off. As it's also my habit to save different versions of an active FrameMaker project in different folders, backups are only required for those emergencies. That makes a lot of clutter in the

[EXTERNAL]RE: My work-flow for dealing with backups from FrameMaker--getting rid of backups

2014-09-16 Thread Sharp, Amy
Syed, Good stuff. This is why it's so nice to have a little DOS in your pocket so you can customize it for the way you work. Jaime, Are you copying *.*? That copies everything. I don't know of an exclusionary command with copy, but it may exist-I'm not an expert, I just troll the web until I