RE: OFF-Topic: ripped paper image

2010-01-29 Thread William Gaffga
Snag-It is okay, but a bit too-bitmapped looking and inflexible for my tastes. We developed a Photoshop action that loads a masking layer (anti-aliased tear) that you position over an image (scale as needed), hit enter and 2 new layers are created, you can use either one (or both by positioning

OFF-Topic: ripped paper image

2010-01-29 Thread William Gaffga
Snag-It is okay, but a bit too-bitmapped looking and inflexible for my tastes. We developed a Photoshop action that loads a masking layer (anti-aliased tear) that you position over an image (scale as needed), hit enter and 2 new layers are created, you can use either one (or both by positioning

Re: MadCap Blaze

2008-03-20 Thread William Gaffga
leading ... kerning ... tracking ... ligatures ... this kinda stuff (and more) is something you expect from print. HTML, even with the aid of CSS, is not going to be able to give you the control of these that you would get from an app designed for print. Sharon Burton wrote: Can you help me

MadCap Blaze

2008-03-20 Thread William Gaffga
leading ... kerning ... tracking ... ligatures ... this kinda stuff (and more) is something you expect from "print". HTML, even with the aid of CSS, is not going to be able to give you the control of these that you would get from an app designed for "print". Sharon Burton wrote: > Can you help

Re: MadCap Blaze

2008-03-19 Thread William Gaffga
I downloaded it. Underwhelmed. We purchased Flare in our move away from WebWorks Publisher Pro and I am just starting to learn it. I looked at Blaze and was shocked that it looked identical to Flare and that I had no idea how to go about making a book. Never have I acquired a DTP, layout or

MadCap Blaze

2008-03-19 Thread William Gaffga
Flato, Gillian wrote: > She said that Madcap was creating a CMS first, and then it was going > to make Blaze and Flare DITA compatible. I told her that in my > opinion, that was a bad plan. They will never be competitive with > Frame until they do DITA, and no one is going to buy a CMS when

Re: Tools for converting FM docs to WikiMedia?

2008-02-20 Thread William Gaffga
There isn't really a way to go FM - Wiki, i.e. there are no tools to do so easily. You could dump out HTML from FM and just put them in the wiki but that won't get you the wiki-goodness. We were able to largely automate the process for our first foray but it was simply an ideal candidate

Tools for converting FM docs to WikiMedia?

2008-02-20 Thread William Gaffga
There isn't really a way to go FM -> Wiki, i.e. there are no tools to do so easily. You could dump out HTML from FM and just put them in the wiki but that won't get you the wiki-goodness. We were able to largely automate the process for our first foray but it was simply an ideal candidate

FM8, Vista and holding down the left mouse button

2008-01-23 Thread William Gaffga
Alrighty, Before I get annoyed with Adobe Tech Support, I will ask the question here. Has anyone experienced (and hopefully solved) a problem with FM8 under Vista in which holding down the left mouse button for more than a second or two - as in to do a drag select - and FM locks up? We are

Re: FM8, Vista and holding down the left mouse button

2008-01-23 Thread William Gaffga
After not coming up with any good hints online, I spent some time with Tech Support. It would seem that there is a conflict in background services. At first it seemed to be SnagIt - running SnagIt AFTER running FM on my machine caused the mysterious hangs to stop - but that was quickly tossed

FM8, Vista and holding down the left mouse button

2008-01-23 Thread William Gaffga
Alrighty, Before I get annoyed with Adobe Tech Support, I will ask the question here. Has anyone experienced (and hopefully solved) a problem with FM8 under Vista in which holding down the left mouse button for more than a second or two - as in to do a drag select - and FM locks up? We are

FM8, Vista and holding down the left mouse button

2008-01-23 Thread William Gaffga
After not coming up with any good hints online, I spent some time with Tech Support. It would seem that there is a conflict in background services. At first it seemed to be SnagIt - running SnagIt AFTER running FM on my machine caused the mysterious hangs to stop - but that was quickly tossed

FrameMaker to Wiki conversion

2007-07-17 Thread William Gaffga
Apologies for the cross-post. Has anyone tried or know of a good way to go from Frame to a Wiki? We are looking at moving a library of keywords for a dev tool from FM to a wiki format. This would be a one time thing. I tried googling this and one fella does a FM-HTML-Wiki conversion with a

Re: FrameMaker to Wiki conversion

2007-07-17 Thread William Gaffga
William Gaffga wrote: Has anyone tried or know of a good way to go from Frame to a Wiki? We are looking at moving a library of keywords for a dev tool from FM to a wiki format. This would be a one time thing. I tried googling this and one fella does a FM-HTML-Wiki conversion with a lot

FrameMaker to Wiki conversion

2007-07-17 Thread William Gaffga
Apologies for the cross-post. Has anyone tried or know of a "good" way to go from Frame to a Wiki? We are looking at moving a library of keywords for a dev tool from FM to a wiki format. This would be a one time thing. I tried googling this and one fella does a FM->HTML->Wiki conversion

FrameMaker to Wiki conversion

2007-07-17 Thread William Gaffga
> William Gaffga wrote: >> Has anyone tried or know of a "good" way to go from Frame to a >> Wiki? We are looking at moving a library of keywords for a dev >> tool from FM to a wiki format. This would be a one time thing. I >> tried googling thi

WritersUA 2007

2007-03-30 Thread William Gaffga
Of those who were at the WritersUA conference this past week, did any of you go to the Adobe demo at the end of the day on Tuesday? I wanted to go but needed to go to the MadCap demo. If you did go, can you tell me what they talked about? Was it all RoboHelp? Thanks. Will. -- Wil Gaffga

WritersUA 2007

2007-03-30 Thread William Gaffga
Of those who were at the WritersUA conference this past week, did any of you go to the Adobe demo at the end of the day on Tuesday? I wanted to go but needed to go to the MadCap demo. If you did go, can you tell me what they talked about? Was it all RoboHelp? Thanks. Will. -- Wil Gaffga In

Re: Anything new about when the next release of Framemaker will be launched?

2007-03-29 Thread William Gaffga
Adobe was at the WritersUA conference this week in Long Beach, CA. They were saying FM 8 is due this summer. They didn't have much to say except we will should be happy with what it has. It looks like they're trying to do some integration with FM, Captivate and Acrobat in a manner similar

Re: Anything new about when the next release of Framemaker will belaunched?

2007-03-29 Thread William Gaffga
I don't. Like I said in my head at the show, yeah, sure. On Mar 29, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Dov Isaacs wrote: -Original Message- From: William Gaffga Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:41 AM To: Framers Subject: Re: Anything new about when the next release of Framemaker will belaunched

Anything new about when the next release of Framemaker will be launched?

2007-03-29 Thread William Gaffga
Adobe was at the WritersUA conference this week in Long Beach, CA. They were saying FM 8 is due this summer. They didn't have much to say except we will should be happy with what it has. It looks like they're trying to do some integration with FM, Captivate and Acrobat in a manner similar

Anything new about when the next release of Framemaker will belaunched?

2007-03-29 Thread William Gaffga
I don't. Like I said in my head at the show, "yeah, sure." On Mar 29, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Dov Isaacs wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: William Gaffga >> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:41 AM >> To: Framers >> Subject: Re: Anything ne

Re: Frame Improvements

2007-03-07 Thread William Gaffga
I'm not an Adobe employee but I'll bite. First off, that is a VERY open statement. What about table ruling does not work? I've never seen an issue where it does not work correctly, except where it was my fault, such as a manual override that I can easily clear out. Generally speaking, FM's

Frame Improvements

2007-03-05 Thread William Gaffga
I'm not an Adobe employee but I'll bite. First off, that is a VERY open statement. What about table ruling does not work? I've never seen an issue where it does not work correctly, except where it was my fault, such as a manual override that I can easily clear out. Generally speaking, FM's

Re: Frame's future

2007-02-28 Thread William Gaffga
I can't speak for the whole, but I can for this Mac fan and his Doc Group. We are currently on Macs despite creating PC software (long story, short is we used to be Mac and transitioned our code/product). We've kept Docs on the Mac due to legacy docs and ease of use and there was no real

Re: FM 7.1 Compatibility

2007-01-31 Thread William Gaffga
Oh dear god, I'd never actually use OLE, I was just listing it as the one problem that another user was experiencing. Importing by reference is the only way to go, especially if you have to do localization. As for the hardware, we'd planned on new dual core systems and our type of

FM 7.1 Compatibility

2007-01-31 Thread William Gaffga
Oh dear god, I'd never actually use OLE, I was just listing it as the one problem that another user was experiencing. Importing by reference is the only way to go, especially if you have to do localization. As for the hardware, we'd planned on new dual core systems and our type of

FM 7.1 Compatibility

2007-01-30 Thread William Gaffga
Hi all. Now that it is out, I am looking at moving (at least some of) our Doc Group to Vista. I don't particularly want to but we always do the screenshots on the latest OS. So, that will of course require some software upgrades. One person on the Adobe Forums has with mostly success ...

FM 7.1 Compatibility

2007-01-30 Thread William Gaffga
Hi all. Now that it is out, I am looking at moving (at least some of) our Doc Group to Vista. I don't particularly want to but we always do the screenshots on the latest OS. So, that will of course require some software upgrades. One person on the Adobe Forums has with mostly success ...

Re: FrameMaker 7.0 for Mac?

2006-10-06 Thread William Gaffga
Adobe did indeed make a v7.0 for Mac. EBay is one option for getting a copy. If you use identical fonts on both platforms there really shouldn't be any issues. We use that same setup in a professional environment. Will. On Oct 6, 2006, at 8:12 AM, Neil Tubb wrote: Hey Framers, I use

FrameMaker 7.0 for Mac?

2006-10-06 Thread William Gaffga
Adobe did indeed make a v7.0 for Mac. EBay is one option for getting a copy. If you use identical fonts on both platforms there really shouldn't be any issues. We use that same setup in a professional environment. Will. On Oct 6, 2006, at 8:12 AM, Neil Tubb wrote: > Hey Framers, > > I use

Re: Wow, if this came to pass?!?!?!

2006-05-01 Thread William Gaffga
I read them every week as well. And I put them in the entertainment category but he does have an excellent hit rate on his predictions ... as much as 70% over several years. Of course his predictions are not based on his weekly column, but they are influenced by the column. Also, if you

Wow, if this came to pass?!?!?!

2006-05-01 Thread William Gaffga
I read them every week as well. And I put them in the entertainment category but he does have an excellent hit rate on his predictions ... as much as 70% over several years. Of course his predictions are not based on his weekly column, but they are influenced by the column. Also, if you

Re: Printing a 6 x 9 Manual

2006-03-15 Thread William Gaffga
It shouldn't be your concern. That is the printer's job. Give the provider a PDF of the manual in proper page order. Let the provider do the imposition. Will. On Mar 15, 2006, at 4:20 PM, Angela Akridge wrote: Oops, one more question. My print vendor is printing my 6 x 9 document. If the

Printing a 6 x 9 Manual

2006-03-15 Thread William Gaffga
It shouldn't be your concern. That is the printer's job. Give the provider a PDF of the manual in proper page order. Let the provider do the imposition. Will. On Mar 15, 2006, at 4:20 PM, Angela Akridge wrote: > Oops, one more question. My print vendor is printing my 6 x 9 > document. If

Re: Graphics as Bullet icons

2006-03-06 Thread William Gaffga
You're not likely to find it in a font except by pure, wild, outrageous chance as those Word template styles use GIFs for the bullets. Check your installation of Word for these support files. HTH. Will. On Mar 6, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Combs, Richard wrote: David Wollenberg wrote: I am

Graphics as Bullet icons

2006-03-06 Thread William Gaffga
You're not likely to find it in a font except by pure, wild, outrageous chance as those Word template styles use GIFs for the bullets. Check your installation of Word for these support files. HTH. Will. On Mar 6, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Combs, Richard wrote: > David Wollenberg wrote: > >> I am

Re: WebDAV Connections

2006-02-12 Thread William Gaffga
I must agree with Rick. We spent a lot of time properly setting up a WebDAV server for our small group and while the server was great FM's interaction with it was poor at best. We have given up on using it. Will. ___ You are currently subscribed

WebDAV Connections

2006-02-10 Thread William Gaffga
I must agree with Rick. We spent a lot of time properly setting up a WebDAV server for our small group and while the server was great FM's interaction with it was poor at best. We have given up on using it. Will.

Re: Cross-platform font conundrum

2006-01-23 Thread William Gaffga
The cross-platform fonts thing can be a PITA. We use the same OpenType fonts on the Mac PC for our template but the PC does not recognize one of the variants of Futura Condensed so when we bring the files to the PC (fairly rare) the fonts shift. Fortunately for us we only generate Help

Cross-platform font conundrum

2006-01-23 Thread William Gaffga
The cross-platform fonts thing can be a PITA. We use the same OpenType fonts on the Mac & PC for our template but the PC does not recognize one of the variants of Futura Condensed so when we bring the files to the PC (fairly rare) the fonts shift. Fortunately for us we only generate Help