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-- Acrobat: Designing Access to Information Testing Your PDFs, August 14
-- Structured FrameMaker: Authoring, August 15
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What is this, a Trados exposure? I think we should not discuss translation
tools (there are other lists). I have been working in the localization for over
12 years now and it always comes down to the same: if the source files are not
set up properly, meaning 'designed' and formatted with
Hi everyone,
I'm currently in my second year of the MA in Tech Comms in Sheffield Hallam
here in the UK and I was hoping to pick some of your brains :o) I'm sorry
this is off topic, but the Framers List is a good way to access a large
section of technical authors! :o)
I was wondering if any of
At 17:10 -0400 7/6/06, Art Campbell wrote:
Most recent posts by Monica Valdez
On-line help is now available as a downloadable PDF - 01:46pm Jun 7,
2006 Pacific - All,
After much cajoling and patience persistence, my contact at Adobe has
convinced the powers that be that it really would be
Also interesting that it was created in March 2002. Has it just been
sitting on a shelf unused since then?
Still, I'm very pleased to see it available now.
Phil Heron
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Steve Rickaby
Sent: 08 June 2006 10:09
Robert,
What I did was to copy/paste the Arabic text from Word to FM, but in
order for it to work properly, I had to set the language settings (not
the keyboard settings, though) to Arabic. Then me and my Arabic expert
found out the keys and combinations for doing changes directly in FM.
I am afraid that I do not understand why -- other than for printing
purposes -- a single large PDF is more useful than the exact same
information available from within FrameMaker as a topic-based online help
(where the search is much more effective than Acrobat's Find function).
BTW, anyone
I have a question for everyone. I work for a company that builds 4 pieces of
equipment that are all the same but are branded differently. The only
difference in the manuals for the different brands of equipment is the 2
pages showing decal placement. What I would like to do is to make one Book
Schoen, Brady wrote:
I have a question for everyone. I work for a company that builds 4 pieces of
equipment that are all the same but are branded differently. The only
difference in the manuals for the different brands of equipment is the 2
pages showing decal placement. What I would like to do
Exactly. But the important concept is that it is content (text,
graphics)
that gets conditionalized to be hidden rather than the pages that
contain
the content.
My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com)
Intel
Parsippany, NJ
-Original
Exactly. But the important concept is that it is content (text,
graphics)
that gets conditionalized to be hidden rather than the pages
that contain the content.
My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ
Which, of
Hey guys
I am trying to decide whether or not I should do Browser-based (Web)
help or compiled (.chm) help for my Windows software. What are the
advantages and disadvantages to both?
Is one better if the the software is memory intensive?
Thanks,
Gillian Flato
Technical Writer (Software)
Gillian,
We should probably take this off this list, since it's not really a Frame
question, but here are some thoughts:
Browser-based help
- May permit more flexible design of buttons and other navigation.
- May be cross-browser, cross-platform if that's needed down the road.
- Can be served
On 8 Jun 2006, at 14:51, Steve Rickaby wrote:
Well, it is to FrameMaker users on Mac, as my experience is that the
FrameMaker 6 help reader is broken when used from Classic, and the
help files cannot be reached. It typically produces messages such as
'The file 'fm6.hlp' couldn't be opened or
Hello All,
I am looking for a good way to convert CGMs to TIFs. It would be nice to
have something that I could call with a command line so I can automate the
conversion. Any recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks!
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com
Rick,
Hi! Look at freeware Irfanview - it is very versatile, many format
conversions instantly, for a single file or batches of files. You will
love it! http://www.irfanview.com/
Judy
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Rick
Rick,
You might try looking around http://www.cgmopen.org/webcgm/filters.html.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
m] On Behalf Of Rick Quatro
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 12:16 PM
To: framers@FrameUsers.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: OT: Converting CGM
Nope. IrfanView doesn't convert to CGM. That was my first choice, until
I looked. Great tool, but unfortunately no CGM support.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
m] On Behalf Of Judy Keene
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 1:22 PM
To: Rick Quatro;
Hello all.
I'm using FrameMaker (7.1p114, on PC with Win XP SP2) for my User's
Guides then converting to HTML using WebWorks (the STANDARD version, not
PRO).
In our template we have a Figure table that automatically puts Figure
n under the graphic (with n being the auto number) each time we
Check out these converters:
http://www.cgmcentral.com/downloads.htm
http://www.sdicgm.com/sdi_convert.html
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Spreadbury, David
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 12:29 PM
To: Judy Keene; Rick Quatro;
OK, three thoughts:
If you're using what would be the Table Title as your figure title,
the above/below
setting is a property on the Table Designer dialog box, Basic tab. Ctrl-t, then
Title Position.
If that's set to No Title, though, you're using an unrelated tag to
handle the title.
You
Schoen, Brady wrote:
Is it at all possible to tag an entire page?
What I have is a Parts Drawing on the left, and the Parts
Listing on the right for each brand. The entire page is
specific to each brand, not just a word or the drawing, the
entire page. What I did was put all 8 decal
I had the same problem with multiple conditions and finally realized that
you can't apply a condition at the chapter (file) level. I ended up using
Structured FrameMaker with the Sourcerer plug-in. I used attributes at the
top level (file or section) to condition entire files. This works very
Tried the first one. There is No Title.
Checked the third one, None.
As far as the second one, I can't move it. I get a message saying
Cannot remove all body rows from a table that has heading or footing
rows. I don't see any selections for heading/footing rows in the Table
designer except for the
But the ability to use the same component files in multiple
different book files is one of the foundations of the FrameMaker
book paradigm. There are some very good reasons for using
structured FrameMaker, but it's really overkill if all you need
to do is build several variant books that only
Is it possible that the figure title has been put in a footing row?
Do you have the ViewBorders option turned on? If so, do you
see a dotted box surrounding the figure title? That dotted border
would indicate that the paragraph is inside some *some* sort of
table cell. And if that's the case,
Yes, it is a footing row. I found this when I attempted to delete the
figure caption. I got a message Cannot remove all body rows from a
table that has heading or footing rows. So, I see one alternative:
change the Table Title to Above and add the figure caption there, and
change the paragraph
OK, at least you know what to do now.
You can mostly automate the conversion of the footing row to a body
with Rick Quatro's TableCleaner plugin (www.frameexpert.com).
Then if the figure caption is a unique tag... copy an empty anchor or
body paragraph to the clipboard, search for the figure
Anyone use Rick Quatro's PageLabeler Plugin with Frame 7.2? Is it
compatible?
I'm trying to get page number prefixes on my Cover and Copyright pages
(a text prefix), but I can't seem to get it to work. Yes, I did RTM, but
either I'm not following directions properly or something else is wrong.
Yes, we all do in this group.
--- Lin Surasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone use Rick Quatro's PageLabeler Plugin with Frame 7.2? Is it
compatible?
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
EMC Corporation
where information lives
___
You are
Why not maintain, as you say four books? Are the master pages
different? Do they show the different brands (logoes or different
text)?
If that is the case, then I would suggest four book files with four
sets of files which would be referencing by text inset the fifth (and
main) set of files or
The October newsletter of the UK Chapter of STC, has a
review of Frame 7.2 by Sarah O'Keefe:
http://www.stcuk.org/newsletters/October2005/index.htm
Among other items, the reviewer mentions the new
display object propeties in the formatting bar
as extremely useful. Could FrameMaker 7.2 users
Hey, friend,
I've used it. Plugs in easy. Does it's thing slick and gives you exactly
what you got in FM doc. Just make sure you allow the first (cover) page to
be #1. As is mentioned somewhere in the documentation, Reader counts all
pages.
~ Don Spencer
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL
One thing I've picked up, when struggling to highlight and manipulate
graphics or call out frames. By going to object properties, then canceling,
you highlight the object. Then call hold down the Alt key and tapping the
arrows, you can move objects with control.
Grouping call outs and graphics,
In my Acrobat (5 Pro), I picked File > Open Web Page and pasted the URL into
the dialog box. Acrobat cheerfully downloaded it for me.
It's a 14M file.
Cheers, Rebecca
>>> "Don and Judy" 8/06/06 14:01 >>>
Art:
That puppy is so huge, I can't view it. Where to I go to simply download it?
I
Dublin area, Ireland:
-- Acrobat: Designing Access to Information & Testing Your PDFs, August 14
-- Structured FrameMaker: Authoring, August 15
-- Structured FrameMaker: Developing EDDs, August 16-17
-- Technical Indexing with FrameMaker, August 18
-- FrameMaker Template Design, August 21-22
--
What is this, a Trados exposure? I think we should not discuss translation
tools (there are other lists). I have been working in the localization for over
12 years now and it always comes down to the same: if the source files are not
set up properly, meaning 'designed' and formatted with
Hi everyone,
I'm currently in my second year of the MA in Tech Comms in Sheffield Hallam
here in the UK and I was hoping to pick some of your brains :o) I'm sorry
this is off topic, but the Framers List is a good way to access a large
section of technical authors! :o)
I was wondering if any of
At 17:10 -0400 7/6/06, Art Campbell wrote:
>Most recent posts by Monica Valdez
>On-line help is now available as a downloadable PDF - 01:46pm Jun 7,
>2006 Pacific - All,
>
>After much cajoling and patience persistence, my contact at Adobe has
>convinced the "powers that be" that it really would
Also interesting that it was created in March 2002. Has it just been
sitting on a shelf unused since then?
Still, I'm very pleased to see it available now.
Phil Heron
-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces+phil.heron=coda@lists.frameusers.com
At 10:22 +0100 8/6/06, Phil Heron wrote:
>Also interesting that it was created in March 2002. Has it just been
>sitting on a shelf unused since then?
Ah, I missed that: forgot to look at the metadata. That makes the use of
FrameMaker for Mac a lot less interesting than it might have been.
--
Robert,
What I did was to copy/paste the Arabic text from Word to FM, but in
order for it to work properly, I had to set the language settings (not
the keyboard settings, though) to Arabic. Then me and my Arabic expert
found out the keys and combinations for doing changes directly in FM.
However
I am afraid that I do not understand why -- other than for printing
purposes -- a single large PDF is more useful than the exact same
information available from within FrameMaker as a topic-based online help
(where the search is much more effective than Acrobat's Find function).
BTW, anyone
At 2:47 PM +0300 6/8/06, Shlomo Perets wrote:
>I am afraid that I do not understand why -- other than for printing
>purposes -- a single large PDF is more useful than the exact same
>information available from within FrameMaker as a topic-based online
>help (where the search is much more
At 14:47 +0300 8/6/06, Shlomo Perets wrote:
>I am afraid that I do not understand why -- other than for printing purposes
>-- a single large PDF is more useful than the exact same information available
>from within FrameMaker as a topic-based online help (where the search is much
>more
I have a question for everyone. I work for a company that builds 4 pieces of
equipment that are all the same but are branded differently. The only
difference in the manuals for the different brands of equipment is the 2
pages showing decal placement. What I would like to do is to make one Book
Schoen, Brady wrote:
> I have a question for everyone. I work for a company that builds 4 pieces of
> equipment that are all the same but are branded differently. The only
> difference in the manuals for the different brands of equipment is the 2
> pages showing decal placement. What I would like
Exactly. But the important concept is that it is content (text,
graphics)
that gets conditionalized to be hidden rather than the pages that
contain
the content.
My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com)
Intel
Parsippany, NJ
-Original
> Exactly. But the important concept is that it is content (text,
> graphics)
> that gets conditionalized to be hidden rather than the pages
> that contain the content.
>
> My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
> Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ
Which, of
In a situation where only the name changes, I find that it is *much*
more maintainable to use a variable for the product name because
you only have to make a change in one place (the variable's value
definition) when one of the names changes or when a new variant
is added to the list. If you use
Hey guys
I am trying to decide whether or not I should do Browser-based (Web)
help or compiled (.chm) help for my Windows software. What are the
advantages and disadvantages to both?
Is one better if the the software is memory intensive?
Thanks,
Gillian Flato
Technical Writer (Software)
Gillian,
We should probably take this off this list, since it's not really a Frame
question, but here are some thoughts:
Browser-based help
- May permit more flexible design of buttons and other navigation.
- May be cross-browser, cross-platform if that's needed down the road.
- Can be served
On 8 Jun 2006, at 14:51, Steve Rickaby wrote:
> Well, it is to FrameMaker users on Mac, as my experience is that the
> FrameMaker 6 help reader is broken when used from Classic, and the
> help files cannot be reached. It typically produces messages such as
> 'The file 'fm6.hlp' couldn't be
Hello All,
I am looking for a good way to convert CGMs to TIFs. It would be nice to
have something that I could call with a command line so I can automate the
conversion. Any recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks!
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com
Rick,
Hi! Look at freeware Irfanview - it is very versatile, many format
conversions instantly, for a single file or batches of files. You will
love it! http://www.irfanview.com/
Judy
-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces+jkeene=akonix@lists.frameusers.com
Rick,
You might try looking around http://www.cgmopen.org/webcgm/filters.html.
-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs.com at lists.frameusers.co
m] On Behalf Of Rick Quatro
Sent: Thursday,
Nope. IrfanView doesn't convert to CGM. That was my first choice, until
I looked. Great tool, but unfortunately no CGM support.
-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs.com at
Is it at all possible to tag an entire page?
What I have is a "Parts Drawing" on the left, and the "Parts Listing" on the
right for each brand. The entire page is specific to each brand, not just a
word or the drawing, the entire page. What I did was put all 8 decal pages
(1 Drawing page and 1
I haven't followed this from the beginning, so be easy on me.
How many pages are you talking about?
If it isn't 500 pages (doable but nasty), you could make a unique file
for each page, create a book file for each brand, and only call the
pages you want for each brand.
BrandA
Page 1
Page 5
Hello all.
I'm using FrameMaker (7.1p114, on PC with Win XP SP2) for my User's
Guides then converting to HTML using WebWorks (the STANDARD version, not
PRO).
In our template we have a Figure table that automatically puts "Figure
n" under the graphic (with "n" being the auto number) each time we
Try ImageMagick, http://imagemagick.org/script/index.php
It should be able to do what you need, including command line conversions.
Ian
> Hello All,
>
> I am looking for a good way to convert CGMs to TIFs. It would be nice to
> have something that I could call with a command line so I can
Check out these converters:
http://www.cgmcentral.com/downloads.htm
http://www.sdicgm.com/sdi_convert.html
-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces+grant.hogarth=reuters@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+grant.hogarth=reuters.com at lists.frameusers.com]
On Behalf Of
OK, three thoughts:
If you're using what would be the Table Title as your figure title,
the above/below
setting is a property on the Table Designer dialog box, Basic tab. Ctrl-t, then
Title Position.
If that's set to No Title, though, you're using an unrelated tag to
handle the title.
You should
Schoen, Brady wrote:
> Is it at all possible to tag an entire page?
>
> What I have is a "Parts Drawing" on the left, and the "Parts
> Listing" on the right for each brand. The entire page is
> specific to each brand, not just a word or the drawing, the
> entire page. What I did was put all
I had the same problem with multiple conditions and finally realized that
you can't apply a condition at the chapter (file) level. I ended up using
Structured FrameMaker with the Sourcerer plug-in. I used attributes at the
top level (file or section) to condition entire files. This works very
Tried the first one. There is No Title.
Checked the third one, None.
As far as the second one, I can't move it. I get a message saying
"Cannot remove all body rows from a table that has heading or footing
rows." I don't see any selections for heading/footing rows in the Table
designer except for
But the ability to use the same component files in multiple
different book files is one of the foundations of the FrameMaker
book paradigm. There are some very good reasons for using
structured FrameMaker, but it's really overkill if all you need
to do is build several variant books that only
Is it possible that the figure title has been put in a footing row?
Do you have the View>Borders option turned on? If so, do you
see a dotted box surrounding the figure title? That dotted border
would indicate that the paragraph is inside some *some* sort of
table cell. And if that's the case,
Yes, it is a footing row. I found this when I attempted to delete the
figure caption. I got a message "Cannot remove all body rows from a
table that has heading or footing rows." So, I see one alternative:
change the Table Title to "Above" and add the figure caption there, and
change the
OK, at least you know what to do now.
You can mostly automate the conversion of the footing row to a body
with Rick Quatro's TableCleaner plugin (www.frameexpert.com).
Then if the figure caption is a unique tag... copy an empty anchor or
body paragraph to the clipboard, search for the figure
When I had that problem I just created two book files. After I make one
book file, I do the following:
1. Highlight everything in the other book
2. Hit Cntrl F5 and set my conditions
3. Update my book.
That's it, simple, no problem maintaining two books.
Thanks,
Gillian Flato
-Original
Anyone use Rick Quatro's PageLabeler Plugin with Frame 7.2? Is it
compatible?
I'm trying to get page number prefixes on my Cover and Copyright pages
(a text prefix), but I can't seem to get it to work. Yes, I did RTM, but
either I'm not following directions properly or something else is wrong.
Yes, we all do in this group.
--- Lin Surasky wrote:
> Anyone use Rick Quatro's PageLabeler Plugin with Frame 7.2? Is it
> compatible?
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
EMC Corporation
"where information lives"
Why not maintain, as you say four books? Are the master pages
different? Do they show the different brands (logoes or different
text)?
If that is the case, then I would suggest four book files with four
sets of files which would be referencing by text inset the fifth (and
main) set of files or
The October newsletter of the UK Chapter of STC, has a
review of Frame 7.2 by Sarah O'Keefe:
http://www.stcuk.org/newsletters/October2005/index.htm
Among other items, the reviewer mentions the new
display object propeties in the formatting bar
as "extremely useful". Could FrameMaker 7.2 users
Hey, friend,
I've used it. Plugs in easy. Does it's thing slick and gives you exactly
what you got in FM doc. Just make sure you allow the first (cover) page to
be #1. As is mentioned somewhere in the documentation, Reader counts all
pages.
~ Don Spencer
-Original Message-
From:
One thing I've picked up, when struggling to highlight and manipulate
graphics or call out frames. By going to object properties, then canceling,
you highlight the object. Then call hold down the Alt key and tapping the
arrows, you can move objects with control.
Grouping call outs and graphics,
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