Re: High quality images

2007-01-30 Thread T.W. Smith
Hi, CAVEAT: Dov does not like this content, and I respect his judgement. Nonetheless, I believe there's good information here on the whole. two points: 1) Take a look at Screen Captures 102 here: http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/magazine/technical/screencapgraphicshomepage.html . 2) Drawing

Re: FM 7.1 Compatibility

2007-01-30 Thread T.W. Smith
No. I wouldn't move a production machine to Vista for at least another 9 months. I'd run SnagIt on the test box and document on XP. However, FM has always had issues with OLE, I recommend avoiding it on any and all OSes. On 1/30/07, William Gaffga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. Now that

Re: FM 7.1 Compatibility

2007-01-30 Thread T.W. Smith
- From: T.W. Smith Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 7:37 PM To: William Gaffga Cc: Framers List Subject: Re: FM 7.1 Compatibility No. I wouldn't move a production machine to Vista for at least another 9 months. I'd run SnagIt on the test box and document on XP. However, FM has always had

High quality images

2007-01-30 Thread T.W. Smith
Hi, CAVEAT: Dov does not like this content, and I respect his judgement. Nonetheless, I believe there's good information here on the whole. two points: 1) Take a look at Screen Captures 102 here: http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/magazine/technical/screencapgraphicshomepage.html . 2) Drawing

FM 7.1 Compatibility

2007-01-30 Thread T.W. Smith
No. I wouldn't move a production machine to Vista for at least another 9 months. I'd run SnagIt on the test box and document on XP. However, FM has always had issues with OLE, I recommend avoiding it on any and all OSes. On 1/30/07, William Gaffga wrote: > > Hi all. > > Now that it is out, I

FM 7.1 Compatibility

2007-01-30 Thread T.W. Smith
- Dov > > > > -Original Message- > > From: T.W. Smith > > Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 7:37 PM > > To: William Gaffga > > Cc: Framers List > > Subject: Re: FM 7.1 Compatibility > > > > No. > > > > I wouldn't mo

Re: Upgrading to 7.2 will Webworks Standard still work?

2007-01-17 Thread T.W. Smith
I don't have FM 7.2, only 7.1. However, based on what I've heard, here's my thoughts: The good news is, 7.2 includes WWP 8 SE, not WWP 7 SE. That's also the bad news. WWP 8 is better than 7 in a host of ways that you mostly cannot realise with the standard edition, and to add insult to injury

[ANN] Adobe Announces RoboHelp 6

2007-01-17 Thread T.W. Smith
Does it run on the new version of Windows? On 1/16/07, Scott Abel wrote: > > Received this in my inbox. It certainly ends the "RoboHelp is dead" > discussion and will cause competitors to find a new sales strategy as > they can no longer rely on the "RoboHelp replacement" message. > > Cheers, >

Upgrading to 7.2 will Webworks Standard still work?

2007-01-17 Thread T.W. Smith
I don't have FM 7.2, only 7.1. However, based on what I've heard, here's my thoughts: The good news is, 7.2 includes WWP 8 SE, not WWP 7 SE. That's also the bad news. WWP 8 is better than 7 in a host of ways that you mostly cannot realise with the standard edition, and to add insult to injury the

Re: [ANN] Adobe Announces RoboHelp 6

2007-01-16 Thread T.W. Smith
Does it run on the new version of Windows? On 1/16/07, Scott Abel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Received this in my inbox. It certainly ends the RoboHelp is dead discussion and will cause competitors to find a new sales strategy as they can no longer rely on the RoboHelp replacement message.

Re: TOC wrap

2006-09-12 Thread T.W. Smith
I know you answered this already, and others have offered advice on handling this, but I think it reasonable to set a limit to the length of headings. Long headings lose readability, anyway, so suggesting a rule that improves readability and accommodates the TOC seems fair. After all, you don't

TOC wrap

2006-09-12 Thread T.W. Smith
I know you answered this already, and others have offered advice on handling this, but I think it reasonable to set a limit to the length of headings. Long headings lose readability, anyway, so suggesting a rule that improves readability and accommodates the TOC seems fair. After all, you don't

Acrobat PDX question

2006-08-31 Thread T.W. Smith
Hi, I thought one of us might know the answer to this Acrobat question. (I know this is not an Acrobat forum, so please forgive me the off-topic post.) I have Acrobat 7 Pro all patched up, Windows XP all patched up (and FM 7.1, though it has nout to do with the question.) I have a PDX catalog

Acrobat PDX question

2006-08-31 Thread T.W. Smith
Hi, I thought one of us might know the answer to this Acrobat question. (I know this is not an Acrobat forum, so please forgive me the off-topic post.) I have Acrobat 7 Pro all patched up, Windows XP all patched up (and FM 7.1, though it has nout to do with the question.) I have a PDX catalog

Re: Eps problem

2006-08-10 Thread T.W. Smith
Rebecca, I'm not sure what you are trying to say. The quality with which the image displays in FrameMaker only matters if FrameMaker is the deliverable. FrameMaker does not display the EPS vector but displays a low-res preview image, a TIFF. The person who creates the EPS decides what the

Eps problem

2006-08-10 Thread T.W. Smith
Rebecca, I'm not sure what you are trying to say. The quality with which the image displays in FrameMaker only matters if FrameMaker is the deliverable. FrameMaker does not display the EPS vector but displays a low-res preview image, a TIFF. The person who creates the EPS decides what the

Re: wmf files across platforms

2006-08-09 Thread T.W. Smith
Hi, Agreed: use EPS as it is cross platform. WMF and EMF are really for Windows. On 8/7/06, Combs, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem transferring wmf files from a PC to a Mac. WMF stands for Windows Metafile Format. I'm not a Mac user, but I

wmf files across platforms

2006-08-09 Thread T.W. Smith
Hi, Agreed: use EPS as it is cross platform. WMF and EMF are really for Windows. On 8/7/06, Combs, Richard wrote: > > elizfee at abacom.com wrote: > > > I have a problem transferring wmf files from a PC to a Mac. > > WMF stands for Windows Metafile Format. I'm not a Mac user, but I > believe

Re: Upgrading to Frame 7.2

2006-08-04 Thread T.W. Smith
Hi, If you had WWP, you would have to install it *after* FrameMaker. I believe Acrobat can be installed before FM 7.x, just make sure to skip FrameMaker's installation of the PDF printer and Adobe Distiller. You'll have to install FrameMaker before FrameScript and IXGen, for they need to know

Upgrading to Frame 7.2

2006-08-04 Thread T.W. Smith
Hi, If you had WWP, you would have to install it *after* FrameMaker. I believe Acrobat can be installed before FM 7.x, just make sure to skip FrameMaker's installation of the PDF printer and Adobe Distiller. You'll have to install FrameMaker before FrameScript and IXGen, for they need to know

Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-30 Thread T.W. Smith
I thought having Adobe Acrobat was pretty much a necessity for technical writers? Still, Visio 2003 does, I think, save as SVG. Perhaps FrameMaker 7.1+ can use that? As for PDF or EPS, I think PDF is more processing and overhead for FrameMaker; you might care if you use a ton of PDFs. == T.

OT: Syntax for if/then statement

2006-06-29 Thread T.W. Smith
I think there's two things going on here. But, the editor should be open to discussion because she's a member of the team. Anyway: 1) If X then Y is fine. The conditional clause can be introduced that way. However, where I think the editor is going is the need for coordinating conjunctions to

Custom PDF page sizes in XP

2006-04-18 Thread T.W. Smith
This is OT because am asking about creating PDFs using Acrobat 7 Pro from MS Word 2002 in Windows XP, but this is the best place I can think to ask after getting no response from the U2U forums. I ahve an 8x6 page size in Word and it's a pain to create an 8x6 PDF from that. Does anyone have the

Custom PDF page sizes in XP

2006-04-18 Thread T.W. Smith
This is OT because am asking about creating PDFs using Acrobat 7 Pro from MS Word 2002 in Windows XP, but this is the best place I can think to ask after getting no response from the U2U forums. I ahve an 8x6 page size in Word and it's a pain to create an 8x6 PDF from that. Does anyone have the

My Graphics are Resizing Themselves

2006-03-29 Thread T.W. Smith
Nope. Never happened to me. You running some FrameScript or other, maybe pulling graphics from a different directory than you think you are, etc? On 3/25/06, Bill Swallow wrote: > > I'm not sure why this is happening but I've been using PNGs for years > and have never come across this problem

Re: Paragraph tag with Frame below

2006-03-22 Thread T.W. Smith
A better trick that was told to me on the Adobe U2U forums, by I believe Sheila Carlisle or maybe Peter Gold, several years ago was this: Use master page mappings. Create a new left master page. Call it LeftAllTheTime or something. Set it up so that it is always used by pages that contain text,

Paragraph tag with Frame below

2006-03-22 Thread T.W. Smith
A better trick that was told to me on the Adobe U2U forums, by I believe Sheila Carlisle or maybe Peter Gold, several years ago was this: Use master page mappings. Create a new left master page. Call it "LeftAllTheTime" or something. Set it up so that it is always used by pages that contain