Re: [Framers] FM 2017 Feature Request: Restore color and scaling to menu icons

[Victoria Muir]

Oooo. Personally I loathe the new Acrobat UI (and have complained to Adobe 
about it), hopefully they don't decide to go that direction for FrameMaker. 

Added my comments to FRMAKER-2449 too.

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On 3/9/17, 1:39 PM, "Framers on behalf of Ian Proudfoot" 
 wrote:

I voted for FRMAKER-2449 too. I left the comment that FrameMaker has 
slavishly followed the Adobe Creative Cloud UI guidelines while being the only 
application in TCS to do so. RoboHelp uses a colourful MS ribbon interface 
while Acrobat and Captivate each follow their own unique UI styles. Then 
there's the Windows 2000 vintage style of Robo Screen Capture!

Ian

-Original Message-
From: Framers 
[mailto:framers-bounces+ian.proudfoot=itp-x.co...@lists.frameusers.com] On 
Behalf Of Lin Sims
Sent: 09 March 2017 20:50
To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. 

Subject: Re: [Framers] FM 2017 Feature Request: Restore color and scaling 
to menu icons

Which is useful, thank you, but doesn't that mean you've just changed your 
settings for everything ELSE you use, too?

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 3:37 PM, techcommtools.com 
wrote:

> Hi Lin, Keith,
>
> I agree…imagine how (not) happy I was to discover that without color, 
> I needed to redo nearly all the screenshots in my Fm book!
>
> I added my “vote” to the colored icons request at
>
> > https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/FRMAKER-2449
>
>
> However, you *can* adjust the size of your icons somewhat by adjusting 
> your Windows interface settings. See video #3 at
>  https://vimeopro.com/mattrsullivan/framemaker-2017-
> release-new-feature-videos  mattrsullivan/framemaker-2017-release-new-feature-videos>
> to watch a video I did for Adobe on the latest functionality.
>
> -Matt
> Matt R. Sullivan
> Tech Comm Tools
>
> online courses   |  
> you can book me 
>
> Author, FrameMaker - Creating and Publishing Content
>   Unstructured-FrameMaker-11/dp/0982811853/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&
> ie=UTF8=1414525942=1-1>
>
>
> >
> > Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 13:13:23 -0500
> > From: Lin Sims 
> > To: Frame Users 
> > Subject: [Framers] FM 2017 Feature Request: Restore color and scaling
> >   to  menu icons
> >
> >
> > I recently purchased FM 2017 for myself at home, and was most 
> > displeased
> to
> > see that the menu icons had been returned to the "corporate 
> > standard" of tiny and faded, so that they are difficult to 
> > distinguish. This is
> causing
> > me some eye strain, and I'm not at all happy about it.
> >
> > I've put in an official feature request with Adobe, and I'm hoping 
> > at
> least
> > some of you agree with me and would be willing to vote for the request.
> >
> > I am told that the complaints of the pre-release participants on 
> > this subject were "dismissed and belittled"; perhaps if more users 
> > let Adobe know that this is a real issue they'll listen this time. 
> > Frankly, I don't understand why they didn't listen to the testers 
> > who complained. It seems like poor customer service to me.
> >
> > Here's a link to the request if you want to vote on it.
> >
> > https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/FRMAKER-2449
> >
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Re: [Framers] Curly Quote conundrum

[Victoria Muir]

I can't speak for Tammy's work environment, but I have worked on two manuals 
where the client OK'd replacing the quote marks and the microns, but the 
majority of the font needed to stay their corporate font – similar issues to 
her observation on the quotes, and the microns in this particular font looked 
like they are italic even when they aren't, which drove their scientists bats. 

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On 2/28/17, 11:02 AM, "Framers on behalf of Robert Lauriston" 
<framers-bounces+tmuir=spot-on-creative@lists.frameusers.com on behalf of 
rob...@lauriston.com> wrote:

You could, but why not just change the font?

And if you're not free to change the font, then why would you be free
to override individual glyphs?

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 6:12 PM, Victoria Muir
<tm...@spot-on-creative.com> wrote:
> Well.. as someone who functions primarily as a designer, this doesn't 
sound so crazy to me – some fonts have godawful quote marks. But couldn't they 
be replaced/have a  character style applied  at the last minute using a Grep 
search or something?
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Re: [Framers] Curly Quote conundrum

[Victoria Muir]

Well.. as someone who functions primarily as a designer, this doesn't sound so 
crazy to me – some fonts have godawful quote marks. But couldn't they be 
replaced/have a  character style applied  at the last minute using a Grep 
search or something? 

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On 2/27/17, 5:40 PM, "Framers on behalf of Robert Lauriston" 
 wrote:

As Heiko pointed out, you're actually getting curly quotes, you just
don't like the subtle way the font designer drew them.

I'd live with it or change fonts. Overriding certain glyphs with
another font is crazy.

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Tammy Van Boening
 wrote:
> Well, that's just flat out useless - OK, guess I will just have to copy 
and
> paste the curly quotes from the body font and different fonts be d***d. . 
.
>
> Thanks Robert.
>
> Tammy Van Boening
> Owner/Principal
> Spectrum Writing, LLC
> www.spectrumwritingllc.com
> TammyVB  *AT*  spectrumwritingllc  *DOT*  com
> -Original Message-
> From: Framers
> 
[mailto:framers-bounces+tammyvb=spectrumwritingllc@lists.frameusers.com]
> On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 4:12 PM
> To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software.
> Subject: Re: [Framers] Curly Quote conundrum
>
> Looks like that's how Avenier Next LT is designed. 201c and 201d use the
> same glyph.
>
> https://www.linotype.com/1129827/avenir-next-light-product.html
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Tammy Van Boening
>  wrote:
>> FM 10, Win 7, AvenirNext LT Pro font for Table Body and Sans Pro
>> Source for text body. (Required by the client).
>>
>> For Table Body:
>> I can get straight double quotes inserted just fine, but I want curly
>> quotes. With  Smart Quotes turned off, I am trying to insert curly
>> double quotes in the file. For the left curly double quote, I use the
>> command of
>> CTRL+q R and the quote is double, but it is still facing the wrong
>> CTRL+direction
>> - it looks like a right curly double quote. For the right curly double
>> quote, I use the command of CTRL+q S and that appears just fine.  So,
>> I tried with Smart Quotes turned on just and no go. . . the same result.
>>
>> FWIW, when using the Sans Pro Source font , with Smart Quotes turned
>> on, I can get proper facing curly quotes no problem.
>>
>> Why would the font make a difference and any advice about getting
>> curly quotes to work with the required Table Font would be sincerely
> appreciated.
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Re: [Framers] Linking to a specific page in a PDF file

[Victoria Muir]

I would be interested in this webinar — thanks for offering, Jang!

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On 5/12/16, 12:26 PM,
"framers-bounces+tmuir=spot-on-creative@lists.frameusers.com on behalf
of j...@jang.nl" 
 wrote:

>I have used a reliable method for cross-deliverable linking in PDF using
>Hypertext markers. One set of markers defines the named destinations,
>using "newlink XXX". With this method, I set the markers to have names I
>can figure out without resorting to investigating tons of destinations in
>Acrobat Pro. Also, I can avoid creating named destinations for
>everything, which blows up the size of the PDF files.
>
>On the referencing side, I use Hypertext markers with the text "gotolink
>XXX" if it is in the same PDF or "openlink DDD:XXX" in case it is a
>separate PDF document. There are a couple of snags when PDFs are created
>from books with multiple chapters, each with their own named
>destinations, but this can be made to work.
>
>Of course I am much too lazy to enter all these markers manually, so I
>have scripted everything. Works wonderfully.
>
>If there is enough interest in this, I can convince Adobe to organize a
>webinar where I explain and demo this technique. The same markers are
>also used for HTML5 marking, where multiple deliverables are created from
>separate books and still jump to the right locations in these separate
>HTML5 products.
>
>Let me know if you want to see this.
>
>
>Jang F.M. (Yes, those are my middle names) Graat
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Re: [Framers] Taking and inserting screen captures in FrameMaker 2015

[Victoria Muir]

I’ll third that — it’s so easy to use it pays for itself rapidly.

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On 3/30/16, 10:13 AM, "Framers on behalf of John Sgammato"
 wrote:

>I'll enthusiastically second SnagIt - it's my tool of choice for capturing
>and processing many screen captures.
>
>On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Pat Christenson <
>pat.christen...@morningstar.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm using SnagIt with FM2015 and find it very easy to use. I've set up a
>> keyboard shortcut to launch it and that helps.
>>
>> Pat Christenson
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+pat.christenson=
>> morningstar@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Waldenga-???
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 7:59 PM
>> To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
>> Subject: [Framers] Taking and inserting screen captures in FrameMaker
>>2015
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anyone know of a screen capture plugin for FM2015?
>> (Or some another convenient method for taking and inserting screen
>> captures?)
>>
>> The SnagIt plugin with FM9 makes it easy to take, save, and insert a
>> screen capture.
>>
>> I have not found an equally convenient tool or method for FM2015.
>>
>> Adobe's RoboScreenCapture tool in Tech Comm Suite 2015 requires extra
>> steps and seems buggy when saving captures.
>> Judging from the 2006-2007 copyright dates I do not expect Adobe to
>>update
>> it soon.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Steve Waldenga
>> MitraStar Technology Corp.
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