ANN: X-Pubs 2007 Announces Strict Educational Case-Study Focus
X-Pubs 2007 is focused on delivering departmental managers and team-leaders educational case studies that illustrate the best strategies to adopt when rolling out an XML Content Management or XML Publishing solution. X-Pubs has brought together a speaker list unparalleled in the field of XML content management, both from leading independent consultancies and representatives from end-user organisations that have rolled out XML and DITA solutions. This year's speakers include: Michael Priestly - Lead IBM DITA Architect Steve Manning - Rockley Group co-Author of Managing Enteprise Content Scott Abel - Global Content Management Strategist Svante Ericsson - S1000D committee member Tim Voss - Documentation Manager, Schlumberger B. Noz Urbina, XML Content Management Consultant and member of the topic-review board for X-Pubs, said, This year's conference theme picks up where X-Pubs 2006 left off. Having already had world-leading consultants like JoAnn Hackos, Ann Rockley and Scott Abel explore and dissect the business case offered by XML Content Management and XML Publishing, the talks at X-Pubs this year will have the XML experts dig deep into their actual project experiences. People have been hearing about overview and benefits presentations on XML for years. They now want to know how to actually move forward while avoiding risk and minimising costs. Is the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) flavour of XML always the best option? How has it proven itself in complex situations? What lessons can be learned from S1000D and how do we best approach compliance? What return have other companies experienced after their roll-outs, and what surprises did they face? X-Pubs has pushed hard to make sure all presentations, even those from world thought-leaders in the industry, are pragmatic and example-based to provide real answers to these questions. This critical look at XML Content Management implementations, both in the Fortune 500 and small-to-medium enterprises, hopes to enable all attendees to make the right decisions for their situation. X-Pubs 2007 takes place on June 4-5th at the Royal Berkshire Conference Centre, Reading, England. You can register now on www.x-pubs.com. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
ANN: Call for Speakers: X-Pubs 2007 - Europe's Largest XML conference, June 4-5th
Call for Speakers: X-Pubs 2007 - Europe's Largest XML conference, June 4-5th XML content management: does it really get companies the benefits they are after - at the price promised? X-Pubs organises and delivers webinars, seminars, case-studies and whitepapers from some of the industry's most valued technical minds to educate on and promote the latest content standards. Every year X-Pubs organises the X-Pubs Conference, Europe's Largest XML Publishing conference. 2007 theme: How did they do it? Submission Deadline: Speaker bios/summary (~200 words each) - Feb 20, Full presentation - May 15 Venue: Royal Berkshire Conference Centre, Reading, England (see http://www.x-pubs.com, Location for more) Submission guidelines: This conference will take a look at real customer stories, about currently rolled out XML solutions, which are starting to evolve their usage over time. X-Pubs 2006 showed us that the world is ready to start going beyond explanation of new XML technologies and benefits, and start discussing how to run a successful XML implementation, and drill into the detail that leads an implementation to delivering those benefits and their return on investment. In light of this, X-Pubs 2007 presentation proposals must be: * Be focussed on either the technical or business aspects of an *actual* implementation * Customer examples / case studies should be presented by, or jointly with, the end-solution client themselves, not just by the vendor We also welcome: * Educational, conceptual or thought-leading oriented presentations, i.e., not a commercial sales pitch * We still strongly encourage that conceptual or thought-leading presentations be delivered as much as possible in the context of, and with specific references to, a specific project involving XML (DITA, of course, and SGML if it's really an interesting one). Actual clients need not be co-presenting in this instance. Contact: http://www.x-pubs.com / [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44(0)208 722 8400 / From North America 011 44 208 722 8400 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: XML and FrameMaker
Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/mark.poston%40mekon.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Running Headers
Although this formed a part of a larger solution which was controlled using a FrameMaker plugin, I used Header/Footer markers and the respective variables ($marker1 $marker2) to achieve a similar result. On the page where your Head1 exist you could add a marker with the Head2 content. This could be performed manually or using one of the scripting tools available for FrameMaker (i.e. FrameAC or FrameScript). Regards Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gillian Flato Sent: 10 January 2007 17:00 To: Steve Rickaby; Art Campbell Cc: framers Subject: RE: Running Headers But my Head2 is not necessarily on the same page. I could have a Head1 and an introduction that is long and makes the text flow onto the next page so the Head 2 starts on the next page. So how do I compensate for that? Thank you, Gillian -Original Message- From: Steve Rickaby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:47 AM To: Art Campbell; Gillian Flato Cc: framers Subject: Re: Running Headers At 16:59 -0500 9/1/07, Art Campbell wrote: If all your heads are on the same page as the header, though, you can tell it to pick up the last Head2 on the page by modifying the variable string in the Master Page header to $paratext[+,Head2] instead of $paratext[Head2]. Yup: this '+' notation also allows you to create 'dictionary' style spanned headers, like 'Aardvark-Avocet', 'Bantam-Broiler', kind of stuff. I've used it when typesetting directories. -- Steve ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/mark.poston%40mekon. com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Translators
Hi, Plugins like mif2go can export to RTF that your Word users could make use of. You can find more info on this from www.omsys.com. You do not mention whether you will be using Structured FrameMaker ... I am presuming not. However, a solution for Word which would allow you to import structured content (XML) would be In.Vision Xpress Author (http://www.invisionresearch.com). This is a plugin for Word that provides very user friendly XML editing capabilities. I would not personally go down the PDF route but there are tools that can do a good job of it. If your intention is to re-import the Word content back into FrameMaker then the RTF import filter can get content back in for you. There is likely to be some cleanup required after import though. You could use tools such as Mekon's FrameAC to write scripts to help with this. Of course, XML would be the ideal route to take and is certainly worth considering as part of your migration to FrameMaker. With the ever growing use of DITA this is a much less painful experience than it might have been several years ago. I hope this helps you a little. Kind regards Mark Poston Senior Consultant Mekon Ltd. www.mekon.com Tel: +44 (0)20 8722 8461 Skype: mark_mekon.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andersen, Verner Engell VEA Sent: 03 January 2007 15:05 To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Translators Hi We are migrating from MS Word to Framemaker. Many of our 22 translators will use FrameMaker or Trados S-tagger. Some, however, will only us MS Word as they cannot or will not learn a new tool. How do we give them a Word file? Should we convert from the English Framemaker master files to Word? Should we buy Adobe Acrobat 8 and convert the pdf file generated from Framemaker to Word? or do you have another solution. Verner Andersen Technical Writer Radiometer Medical ApS Åkandevej 21 ● 2700 Brønshøj ● Denmark Tel. +45 38 27 36 12 Mobile. + 45 60 62 27 90 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.radiometer.com file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/vea/Application%20Data/Microsoft/Signatures/www.radiometer.com This message (including any attachments) contains confidential and/or proprietary information intended only for the addressee. Any unauthorized disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may constitute a violation of law. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by responding to this e-mail, and delete the message from your system. If you have any questions about this e-mail please notify the sender immediately. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Acro 7 Pro dies without warning
I've not heard of this problem before. It may seem obvious but have you tried a reinstall? I presume also that you had the correct rights to install software with your account. Other than that, did you completely uninstall 5 before upgrading. I seem to remember some discussion on this previously. Cheers Mark Poston Mekon Ltd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Pitt Sent: 23 November 2006 11:21 To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: OT: Acro 7 Pro dies without warning Thought I'd finished with my Acrobat woes -- but ... wrong! I upgraded my work XP Pro laptop and home PC from Acro 5 to 7.08 a couple of weeks ago. The home PC works fine now (thanks Fred!), but when I run Acro 7 on the laptop, all is OK until about one minute has passed. It then closes with no warning or other messages. I have searched through the Acro user-to-user forum and the other Adobe KB articles and have gone through all the possible causes in Troubleshoot system errors or freezes, but with no luck. I suspect there is some link with system timing on the laptop, because when I ran with a different login at a different client site today, it died consistently within about 10 seconds! Does anyone have any idea what is causing my problem and how to fix it? Specs: Dell Inspiron 9400, 2 GHz Core 2 Duo, XP Pro with all updates, 2 GHz RAM, nvidia GEForce Go 7900 GS. jjj -- _ John Pitt, technical writer 47 Gottenham St Glebe NSW 2037 Ph: 02 9692 8096 Mob: 0438 92 8096 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.pitt.net.au ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/mark.poston%40mekon. com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Macros in Frame
You can develop command line utils for FM using Mekon's FrameAC, which is an ActiveX API for FrameMaker. This would allow you to control FrameMaker, open your documents, extract the info (given that there are rules that can be applied to get it), and then create another FM document. This allows you to use VB, JavaScript, VBScript or any COM based programming language to control FrameMaker. It also allows you to use VBScipt/Jscript directly within FrameMaker. You can find out more about and request an eval FrameAC here: http://www.mekon.com/frameac/ Regards Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Surbhi Singhal Sent: 23 November 2006 11:13 To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Macros in Frame Hello Framers Greetings! I am using PC verison of Frame 7.2. Is it possible to *extract some specific data from other fm files into a main fm file* through a command run? i am not aware of any macros (other then keyboard macros) in Framemaker. Please advise. Thnx for your help Surbhi ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/mark.poston%40mekon. com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: DITA and FrameMaker
Hi, Just to confirm ... the FrameMaker Adapter for the DITA Open Toolkit developed by Mekon and XMetaL is for print only. It is not designed to be used as a DITA authoring tool due to the changes we make to improve how the XML can be formatted, and to support specialisations without the need to extend the FrameMaker application itself. One of the nice features of the FrameMaker Adapter is that it creates FrameMaker files that can be used with other tools like WebWorks/ePublisher Pro. Kind regards Mark Poston Mekon Limited -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 July 2006 18:28 To: Spreadbury, David Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: DITA and FrameMaker Based on the descriptions and the sourceforge notes, it seems to me that the XMetal add-in is to simply use FrameMaker as a PDF output engine. The free Adobe plug-in that is due out shortly lets you use FrameMaker as your authoring environment. Eric L. Dunn Senior Technical Writer ___ This e-mail communication (and any attachment/s) may contain confidential or privileged information and is intended only for the individual(s) or entity named above and to others who have been specifically authorized to receive it. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, use or disclose the contents of this communication to others. Please notify the sender that you have received this e-mail in error by reply e-mail, and delete the e-mail subsequently. Please note that in order to protect the security of our information systems an AntiSPAM solution is in use and will browse through incoming emails. Thank you. _ Ce message (ainsi que le(s) fichier/s), transmis par courriel, peut contenir des renseignements confidentiels ou protégés et est destiné à l?usage exclusif du destinataire ci-dessus. Toute autre personne est par les présentes avisée qu?il est strictement interdit de le diffuser, le distribuer ou le reproduire. Si vous l?avez reçu par inadvertance, veuillez nous en aviser et détruire ce message. Veuillez prendre note qu'une solution antipollupostage (AntiSPAM) est utilisée afin d'assurer la sécurité de nos systems d'information et qu'elle furètera les courriels entrant. Merci. _ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/mark.poston%40mekon.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: DocBook
If you can hold off a couple of weeks Adobe will be releasing a Frame DITA application of their own. It'll be in beta form in a couple of weeks. This might give the both the opportunity to work within structured FrameMaker AND to evaluate how DITA could fit into your workflow. Regards Mark Poston Mekon Ltd Skype: mark_mekon.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Malin Sent: 12 July 2006 21:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: DocBook Well, once again I have neutrino-sized particles of bandwidth with which to investigate structured Frame. I have chosen to start with DocBook rather than DITA, just because I've worked in structured Frame with a DTD that was based on full DocBook. Question is, which version of DocBook should I use in order to get the most leverage from the resources included in Frame 7.1 (note the version)? Any advice? And yes, I *know* that DITA is the way to go. I'm not even committing to do structured Frame in production; I just want to experiment. I have already written some production docs in unstructured FM 7.1, sticking like glue to my own standardized templates for *everything* (including equations!). My initial thought is to convert these unstructured docs to structured by crafting an EDD based on the unstructured templates. Joe ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/mark.poston%40mekon. com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Frame files won't distill
Have you tried creating the PDF without tags? This can be turned off from the PDF Settings tab. Mark Poston Mekon Limited www.mekon.com Tel: +44 (0)20 8722 8461 Skype: mark_mekon.com (work) / miplap_mark (home) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wendy McGovern Sent: 03 March 2006 20:52 To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Frame files won't distill Help! I have two files of a huge book that refuse to distill to PDF. One is the generated Table of Contents for the book and the other is the subject matter index that has zillions of cross-references to the page numbers of the entries. There are no unresolved cross references in any of the book files, and the rest of the book's files distilled to PDF just fine. The error log for the Table of Contents says [ pdfmark err info: Empty parent stack ]% on page 14 and [ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: pdfmark; ErrorInfo: StPop ]%% after the last page line. The error log on the subject index has after the line for the last page [ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: pdfmark; ErrorInfo: _objdef A208898.1 ]%% Is there any listing of error codes somewhere that would let me figure out what these mean so that I can fix the problem? Or is there some way to jump to the problem spots to identify them? I have no clue why these are refusing to PDF. The only time I ever had problems with PDFing was for files that had a graphic that caused a glitch in the file. Neither of the problem files have graphics in them. Working with Frame 7.1 (Windows XP Pro, files on server), Acrobat 5. Wendy McGovern Publications Editor Pennsylvania Bar Institute 5080 Ritter Road Mechanicsburg, PA 17055-6903 1-800-932-4637, ext. 2257 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/mark.poston%40mekon. co m Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
