Gordon McLean wrote:
> As you rightly point out, FM is not a content management product. I
> am fully aware of that fact, but unfortunately it seems my
> predecessors either weren't, or (as is more likely) hadn't managed to
> take the next step forward towards 'better' single sourcing. I'm
> etern
Hmmm. Have you tried marking all paragraphs for rechecking and then
trying again? (to get to that option, click the Dictionaries button in
the spellchecker dialog box).
I'm on FM7.0, and it checks table titles.
Cheers, Rebecca
>>> "Mark Southee" 1/03/07 23:29 >>>
Thanks for that Rebecca, but th
On 3/2/07, John Sgammato wrote:
--- snipped ---
> And I have read enough about FrameMaker on the Mac. We know you're unhappy.
> Adobe knows you're unhappy. All God's chillun' must know you're unhappy.
> You have expressed your feelings about it quite well enough, thank you. The
> well-organized
At 09:21 + 2/3/07, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote:
>My advise if for them to read Joe Sutter's "747 -- Creating the
>World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation".
Thanks, Bodvar. And when you've finished that, try Tracey Kidder's 'The Soul of
a New Machine', about how Dat
Marsha,
There is nothing bad about old workhorses...
* What are the names of the ID attributes in your title or sections
elements and what is the name of the IDREF attribute in your
CrtossReference element?
* There is no easy migration from WWP8.x to Webworks ePublisher!
* You should upgrade yo
Sales figures will reveal the story.
What sells more, Photoshop or FrameMaker?
*yawns*
Gordon
This email (and any attachments) is private and confidential, and is intended
solely for the
addre
Hello,
we need to insert check boxes and radio buttons (working with FM 7.2) which are
also supposed to be working after conversion to pdf. Does anybody have any
experience with this?
Kind regards,
Martin Brocks
---
Brocks & Thiesemann GbR
Schauenburgers
"Work" to do what? Are you trying to do a form, or send email, or
something else?
To get an idea of what's possible, I'd review www.microtype.com; I
think most framers would agree that Shlomo's the leading authority on
making active PDFs from FM.
Art
On 3/2/07, Martin Brocks wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
Hi,
I'm very new to FrameMaker and this is my problem:
We have Word 2000 document with a lot of named bookmarks; with a VBA macro
we connect to an access DB and update all the bookmarks contents (the key is
the bookmark name), so that we can update the document and keep it aligned
with the DB.
No
Trevor Nicholls wrote:
> Our source documents are in XML and we edit in structured
> Frame. I have XSL processes running successfully on Open and
> Save and I have no issues with the validity of the XML which
> Frame is giving me. However I do have an issue with the
> layout. Because our XML f
Greetings,
Sometime ago, someone posted a lovely little trick where you can change
something, somewhere and configure your paste settings.
By default, if you copy something from Word and paste it into Frame, you get a
Word object or something. I want to paste text. I edited a file somewhere,
b
> It seems to me the question of "How to get a new Mac
> version of FrameMaker?" is resolved by the question
> "How to get more Macintosh users using FrameMaker?"
>
> I can't think of a way to solve that one quickly.
> Maybe we can turn this into a contest?
The first thing is that Apple has to st
You want the maker.ini file. I usually edit the copy in the FM install
directory.
Do a "find" for any of the paste flavors: TEXT, RTF, etc. to find the
appropriate line to edit. Then just reorder the formats on the line
so your favorite is first.
Art
On 3/2/07, Zoe Lawson wrote:
> Greetings,
>
What, exactly, do you mean by Frame's "perversity" in
line wrapping? What, exactly, are you comparing it
with on the XML side?
Frame's line wrapping actions are dependent upon
settings in the paragraph designer, including:
* Under Advanced (automatic hyphenation)
* Under Basic (indents).
--- T
Zo?,
Open the maker.ini file (in \Program Files\Adobe\FrameMaker7.2).
Find this line:
ClipboardFormatsPriorities=FILE, OLE 2, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIF, RTF, TEXT
Change it to:
ClipboardFormatsPriorities=TEXT, FILE, OLE 2, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIF, RTF
Phil
_
Phil
Zoe Lawson wrote:
> By default, if you copy something from Word and paste it into
> Frame, you get a Word object or something. I want to paste
> text. I edited a file somewhere, based off of suggestions
> from this list, and fixed it. Now I can't find the setting
> again. I'm having trouble fi
Thanks to Richard and Art for getting back to me so fast.
This message is staying in my inbox this time.
I thought it was in the maker.ini file, but searching for Edit or Paste didn't
work. ;-)
Thanks again!
Zo?
You're looking for the ClipboardFormatsPriorities keyword in the
maker.ini file
> Our source documents are in XML and we edit in structured
> Frame. I have XSL processes running successfully on Open and
> Save and I have no issues with the validity of the XML which
> Frame is giving me. However I do have an issue with the
> layout. Because our XML files are managed by a so
Hi Rick,
Thank you very much for the quick answer!
This is a Word document with 5 bookmarks; the bookmarks are the strings
delimited by brackets []; you can select them from the menu
Insert/Bookmarks.
Scott,
This isn't exactly true. Microsoft CHOSE not to export IE for Mac OS
X. This was done partly because Apple has their own browser, Safari, and
partly because of the rise in popularity of Firefox, Opera, Camino, and
others. The last version of IE for Mac was running quite well on Mac OS
X,
From: "Trevor Nicholls"
> Because our XML files are managed by a source control
> system, I would like to minimize the differences between revisions, and
> Frame's apparent perversity regarding line-wrapping in particular is
making
> this difficult.
>
> Is it following any rules at all?
> Can we
I agree, David. I'm thinking Adobe is taking a long
look at the future of FrameMaker and realizing that
some internal re-design may be needed to keep the code
flexible for modern (post-2000) OSs.
They're also probably wanting to do some things to the
interface to make it seem a bit slicker. Thing
There's also the probability that the CS suite porting is taking place
in the US Adobe development center but Frame is coded by Adobe India
-- so the Mac skill set may not be where the FM code is.
On 3/1/07, Steve Rickaby wrote:
> At 09:38 -0700 1/3/07, Graeme R Forbes wrote:
>
> >"Although MacOS
Hi Rick, and thanks again for your interest.
Our document is a technical manual translated in several languages; it
contains several technical terms requiring a very skilled translation. Each
document bookmark is named with the technical term; inside the DB we have a
table with all these technical
Dear Framers-
The thread regarding Frame's future has reached the end of its
usefulness. Please take further discussions on this thread topic off
line.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
Sincerely-
Michelle Anderson
List Admin
Phil, Art, Richard, et al.:
If the file format order is as listed, doesn't FM then paste even FM items as
unformatted text? I'm wondering if there's a way to order those formats so that
if it's FM source, it pastes FM but uses TEXT otherwise. Would the following
work?
ClipboardFormatsPrior
FWIW, I would still recommend using a third-party format-stripper, such as
HovText (which is a free utility) when copying and pasting from Word into
Frame, especially.
The reason? The "Paste as Text" option in Frame does not necessarily strip out
all hidden Word formatting relics, so you can st
Notice that the maker.ini item starts with the word "clipboard",
which refers to the Windows clipboard. FrameMaker only uses
the Windows clipboard when pasting content that was copied
in another application. FrameMaker-to-FrameMaker copy/pasting
uses an internal mechanism that does not go through t
1. It sounds like you just need to create a user variable for each term and
insert the variables at the appropriate spots in your document.
2. Then, make several other template documents (one for each language) that
have the same user variables, but define them with the translated
definitions.
Hi Mike,
Based on my understanding of what Max is trying to do, the FrameScript or
FDK portion would be used to "lookup" the correct translation stored in a
database.
Rick
> 1. It sounds like you just need to create a user variable for each term
> and insert the variables at the appropriate s
Regarding the internal spacing and line breaks within the XML...
The description I've always lived by is that Frame creates equivalent, not
exact XML (or SGML). I recall a few posts by Dan E relating to things that
change like entity names and XRef Id's.
Have you tried using the files in your Str
Hi Mike,
thanks for your interesting answer.
> 1. It sounds like you just need to create a user variable for each term
and insert the variables at the appropriate spots in your document.
You're right, but someway to connect directly to database would be much
easier than creating and maintening t
Hi, Massimiliano:
I believe that FrameMaker has the ability to connect to a database via
the ODBC standard (Open Data Base Connectivity.) Try searching
FrameMaker's online help, Google, and the knowledgebase at Adobe.com for
something like ODBC FrameMaker.
Also, try a disk search on your compu
On 3/2/07, John Sgammato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- snipped ---
And I have read enough about FrameMaker on the Mac. We know you're unhappy.
Adobe knows you're unhappy. All God's chillun' must know you're unhappy.
You have expressed your feelings about it quite well enough, thank you. The
we
At 09:21 + 2/3/07, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote:
>My advise if for them to read Joe Sutter's "747 -- Creating the
>World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation".
Thanks, Bodvar. And when you've finished that, try Tracey Kidder's 'The Soul of
a New Machine', about how Dat
Marsha,
There is nothing bad about old workhorses...
* What are the names of the ID attributes in your title or sections
elements and what is the name of the IDREF attribute in your
CrtossReference element?
* There is no easy migration from WWP8.x to Webworks ePublisher!
* You should upgrade yo
Sales figures will reveal the story.
What sells more, Photoshop or FrameMaker?
*yawns*
Gordon
This email (and any attachments) is private and confidential, and is intended
solely for the
addre
Hello,
we need to insert check boxes and radio buttons (working with FM 7.2) which are
also supposed to be working after conversion to pdf. Does anybody have any
experience with this?
Kind regards,
Martin Brocks
---
Brocks & Thiesemann GbR
Schauenburgers
Hi
Our source documents are in XML and we edit in structured Frame. I have XSL
processes running successfully on Open and Save and I have no issues with
the validity of the XML which Frame is giving me. However I do have an issue
with the layout. Because our XML files are managed by a source contr
"Work" to do what? Are you trying to do a form, or send email, or
something else?
To get an idea of what's possible, I'd review www.microtype.com; I
think most framers would agree that Shlomo's the leading authority on
making active PDFs from FM.
Art
On 3/2/07, Martin Brocks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
I'm very new to FrameMaker and this is my problem:
We have Word 2000 document with a lot of named bookmarks; with a VBA macro
we connect to an access DB and update all the bookmarks contents (the key is
the bookmark name), so that we can update the document and keep it aligned
with the DB.
N
Trevor Nicholls wrote:
> Our source documents are in XML and we edit in structured
> Frame. I have XSL processes running successfully on Open and
> Save and I have no issues with the validity of the XML which
> Frame is giving me. However I do have an issue with the
> layout. Because our XML
Greetings,
Sometime ago, someone posted a lovely little trick where you can change
something, somewhere and configure your paste settings.
By default, if you copy something from Word and paste it into Frame, you get a
Word object or something. I want to paste text. I edited a file somewhere,
b
> It seems to me the question of "How to get a new Mac
> version of FrameMaker?" is resolved by the question
> "How to get more Macintosh users using FrameMaker?"
>
> I can't think of a way to solve that one quickly.
> Maybe we can turn this into a contest?
The first thing is that Apple has to st
You want the maker.ini file. I usually edit the copy in the FM install
directory.
Do a "find" for any of the paste flavors: TEXT, RTF, etc. to find the
appropriate line to edit. Then just reorder the formats on the line
so your favorite is first.
Art
On 3/2/07, Zoe Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr
What, exactly, do you mean by Frame's "perversity" in
line wrapping? What, exactly, are you comparing it
with on the XML side?
Frame's line wrapping actions are dependent upon
settings in the paragraph designer, including:
* Under Advanced (automatic hyphenation)
* Under Basic (indents).
--- T
Zoë,
Open the maker.ini file (in \Program Files\Adobe\FrameMaker7.2).
Find this line:
ClipboardFormatsPriorities=FILE, OLE 2, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIF, RTF, TEXT
Change it to:
ClipboardFormatsPriorities=TEXT, FILE, OLE 2, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIF, RTF
Phil
_
Phil
Zoe Lawson wrote:
> By default, if you copy something from Word and paste it into
> Frame, you get a Word object or something. I want to paste
> text. I edited a file somewhere, based off of suggestions
> from this list, and fixed it. Now I can't find the setting
> again. I'm having trouble f
Well... suppose we have a source code fragment following this kind of model:
label {
word(parameter)
long-word (parameter, parameter)
}
where the 'code' element has the #FIXED attributes 'formatted="yes"' and
'xml:space="preserve"' in the DTD.
We want to preserve the line b
Thanks to Richard and Art for getting back to me so fast.
This message is staying in my inbox this time.
I thought it was in the maker.ini file, but searching for Edit or Paste didn't
work. ;-)
Thanks again!
Zoë
You're looking for the ClipboardFormatsPriorities keyword in the
maker.ini file
> Our source documents are in XML and we edit in structured
> Frame. I have XSL processes running successfully on Open and
> Save and I have no issues with the validity of the XML which
> Frame is giving me. However I do have an issue with the
> layout. Because our XML files are managed by a so
Hi Rick,
Thank you very much for the quick answer!
This is a Word document with 5 bookmarks; the bookmarks are the strings
delimited by brackets []; you can select them from the menu
Insert/Bookmarks.
>From a VB macro you write something like this:
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("ARTICOLO1").Select
S
Scott,
This isn't exactly true. Microsoft CHOSE not to export IE for Mac OS
X. This was done partly because Apple has their own browser, Safari, and
partly because of the rise in popularity of Firefox, Opera, Camino, and
others. The last version of IE for Mac was running quite well on Mac OS
X,
From: "Trevor Nicholls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Because our XML files are managed by a source control
> system, I would like to minimize the differences between revisions, and
> Frame's apparent perversity regarding line-wrapping in particular is
making
> this difficult.
>
> Is it following any rule
I agree, David. I'm thinking Adobe is taking a long
look at the future of FrameMaker and realizing that
some internal re-design may be needed to keep the code
flexible for modern (post-2000) OSs.
They're also probably wanting to do some things to the
interface to make it seem a bit slicker. Thing
There's also the probability that the CS suite porting is taking place
in the US Adobe development center but Frame is coded by Adobe India
-- so the Mac skill set may not be where the FM code is.
On 3/1/07, Steve Rickaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 09:38 -0700 1/3/07, Graeme R Forbes wrote:
Hi Rick, and thanks again for your interest.
Our document is a technical manual translated in several languages; it
contains several technical terms requiring a very skilled translation. Each
document bookmark is named with the technical term; inside the DB we have a
table with all these technical
Dear Framers-
The thread regarding Frame's future has reached the end of its
usefulness. Please take further discussions on this thread topic off
line.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
Sincerely-
Michelle Anderson
List Admin
___
Phil, Art, Richard, et al.:
If the file format order is as listed, doesn't FM then paste even FM items as
unformatted text? I'm wondering if there's a way to order those formats so that
if it's FM source, it pastes FM but uses TEXT otherwise. Would the following
work?
ClipboardFormat
FWIW, I would still recommend using a third-party format-stripper, such as
HovText (which is a free utility) when copying and pasting from Word into
Frame, especially.
The reason? The "Paste as Text" option in Frame does not necessarily strip out
all hidden Word formatting relics, so you can st
Notice that the maker.ini item starts with the word "clipboard",
which refers to the Windows clipboard. FrameMaker only uses
the Windows clipboard when pasting content that was copied
in another application. FrameMaker-to-FrameMaker copy/pasting
uses an internal mechanism that does not go through
1. It sounds like you just need to create a user variable for each term and
insert the variables at the appropriate spots in your document.
2. Then, make several other template documents (one for each language) that
have the same user variables, but define them with the translated
definitions.
Hi Mike,
Based on my understanding of what Max is trying to do, the FrameScript or
FDK portion would be used to "lookup" the correct translation stored in a
database.
Rick
1. It sounds like you just need to create a user variable for each term
and insert the variables at the appropriate spo
Regarding the internal spacing and line breaks within the XML...
The description I've always lived by is that Frame creates equivalent, not
exact XML (or SGML). I recall a few posts by Dan E relating to things that
change like entity names and XRef Id's.
Have you tried using the files in your Str
Hi Mike,
thanks for your interesting answer.
> 1. It sounds like you just need to create a user variable for each term
and insert the variables at the appropriate spots in your document.
You're right, but someway to connect directly to database would be much
easier than creating and maintening t
Hi, Massimiliano:
I believe that FrameMaker has the ability to connect to a database via
the ODBC standard (Open Data Base Connectivity.) Try searching
FrameMaker's online help, Google, and the knowledgebase at Adobe.com for
something like ODBC FrameMaker.
Also, try a disk search on your com
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