Hi Marc,
Indeed, best practice is to save as MIF and use that to work with Trados.
The Trados S-Tagger filters the MIF to either tagged RTF or STF - where STF
is the most reliable. This file wil be used by the translators and after
translation filtered back to MIF. STF is translated using the Trad
My FM template contains all formats in the book. When I create a new
book I take a chapter file at set it all up from there:
Add front page, toc, chapters, glossary index and rear page. All set up
by using specific headings to call the correct master pages. I set up
the page and chapter numbering
All my screen shots in Framemaker are linked .png. When I write a new
version of the manual I simply replace all the changed screen shots with
with new ones with the same name and voila all screen shots in the
manual are updated.
Alas, when I open Framemaker they often lloks distorted and I have t
Verner,
You should be able to do a File > Save Book As, renaming the book file. This
should rename your generated files to match the book filename.
--- On Mon, 1/12/09, Andersen, Verner Engell VEA wrote:
From: Andersen, Verner Engell VEA
Subject: Easiest way to create a new book from a templat
Good Morning,
Does anyone know of a source of Book templates (free)
that a newbie might have access to, for study?
TIA
-peter
--- On Mon, 1/12/09, David Spreadbury wrote:
> From: David Spreadbury
> Subject: Re: Easiest way to create a new book from a template (unstructured
> FM8)
> To: fra
Peter,
Try the Frame Template Packs.
Although designed for Frame 5.5, they can be used just as well with more
up-to-date versions of FrameMaker.
You can get the template packs from:
http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/tempseries/
Phil Heron
-Original Message-
From: framers-boun
Thank you for the quick response.
(I have learned so much, as a result of
monitoring this List.)
- Peter
--- On Mon, 1/12/09, Phil Heron wrote:
> From: Phil Heron
> Subject: RE: Easiest way to create a new book from a template
> (unstructuredFM8)
> To: "framers"
> Cc: neat_gent at yahoo.com
> Alas, when I open Framemaker they often lloks distorted and I have to
> reimport or at least rescale them again. Is there a way to avoid this?
Don't rescale the images in FM. Create the screen shot and rescale it
to the proper size when you capture it, then import it into FM.
In other words, if
Why not open the book, select File->Save Book As, and give it a new name?
When you do, the TOC and all other generated files (TOC, IX, etc) will
rename automatically.
>
> Is there an easy way to get the book file renamed and get the generated
> files like TOC, Index and Glossary working without h
To FrameScript users:
Is there a way to determine that a directory
exists (like the command FileExist).
Thanks to all.
Stephen O'Brien
R?dacteur technique senior / Senior Technical Writer
InnovMetric Logiciels inc. / InnovMetric Software Inc.
2014, Cyrille-Duquet, suite 310
Qu?bec (Qu?bec) Ca
Andersen, Verner Engell VEA wrote:
> All my screen shots in Framemaker are linked .png. When I write a new
> version of the manual I simply replace all the changed screen shots with
> with new ones with the same name and voila all screen shots in the
> manual are updated.
>
> Alas, when I open Fr
Hello Stephen,
You can use the same command (eSys.FileExist) for files or directories. Just
use a directory name in place of a file name.
Frank Elmore
Project leader for FrameScript
- Original Message -
From: "Stephen O'Brien"
To: ;
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 10:07 AM
Subject: Fr
Thanks to all who answered. My script now runs. Great.
At 10:57 AM 12/01/2009, Frank Elmore wrote:
>Hello Stephen,
>
>You can use the same command (eSys.FileExist)
>for files or directories. Just use a directory name in place of a file name.
>
>Frank Elmore
>Project leader for FrameScript
>
>---
Andersen, Verner wrote:
> All my screen shots in Framemaker are linked .png. When I write a new
> version of the manual I simply replace all the changed screen shots
with
> with new ones with the same name and voila all screen shots in the
> manual are updated.
>
> Alas, when I open Framemaker th
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Combs, Richard
wrote:
> Stuart's advice is also important. After import into FM, never change
> the size of a graphic by changing its scaling percentage.
Are there hazards (other than the problem described at the start of
this thread) that this advice is intended
Hi,
I'm trying to create a booklet in Framemaker and thus far can't find
any tutorials or help references on how to do this.
Has anyone tried this before and if so, how did they do it?
Regards
Angela
Hello ...
Complete FrameScript newbie here!
I wonder if there is a way of using FrameScript to go through a document
taking one course of action if the next "object" in the document is a
paragraph (Here I wish to add a text inset - and that is all working
fine)) and another course of action if
Hi everyone,
Has anyone ever done a conversion from unstructured FM to DITA XML (using
FM's paragraph tags, etc.)? If so, do you have a conversion table that I could
use. (I figured it would be a few steps ahead of beginning the conversion
table from scratch.)
Thanks!
Robyn
**Ne
Robyn,
I have done unstrctured-Structured conversions but not DITA.
?
I a previous email you mentioned you were looking at Mif2Go. Checkout Chapter
14 in the Mif2Go User Guide. It discusses just this situation.
--- On Mon, 1/12/09, RobynWright7 at aol.com wrote:
From: RobynWright7 at aol.com
S
Unless you are producing something very simple like a four page booklet,
i.e., a single sheet of paper folded in half, your best bet is to create
your document in FrameMaker in terms of logical pages, 1 through n. Then,
create PDF of the FrameMaker document, again in logical page order.
Once you a
Hi Charles,
You can do something like this, assuming the oDoc is your document object.
Get TextList InObject(oDoc.MainFlowInDoc) NewVar(tTextList)
PgfBegin TextInsetBegin;
Loop While(i <= tTextList.Count) LoopVar(i) Init(1) Incr(1)
If tTextList[i].TextType = 'PgfBegin'
Set oPgf = tTextLis
Hi Angela,
The technical term for this is "imposition"; the best way to do this is to
create a PDF from your FrameMaker file and use imposition sofware with the
PDF file. General, your printer will do this at the pre-press stage.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.co
And just as a postscript to Dov's and Rick's posts:
Unless you're doing something that you alone have total control over,
don't bother.
* If you think a customer will print the booklet, remember that
customer's printers are more likely than not to use one of the
thousands of possible paper handli
Milan Davidovic wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Combs, Richard
> wrote:
> > Stuart's advice is also important. After import into FM, never
change
> > the size of a graphic by changing its scaling percentage.
>
> Are there hazards (other than the problem described at the start of
> thi
Hi All!
FM 8.0, Windows 3.1.
Just kidding -- Windows XP.
I'm having a problem with the table on the last page of my file. I
add 10 more rows, and the rows disapper on the page -- they don't
force a new page. I've seen this before and I seem to remember it's a
simple fix, but for the life of me
Hi Marc,
Indeed, best practice is to save as MIF and use that to work with Trados.
The Trados S-Tagger filters the MIF to either tagged RTF or STF - where STF
is the most reliable. This file wil be used by the translators and after
translation filtered back to MIF. STF is translated using the Trad
My FM template contains all formats in the book. When I create a new
book I take a chapter file at set it all up from there:
Add front page, toc, chapters, glossary index and rear page. All set up
by using specific headings to call the correct master pages. I set up
the page and chapter numbering
All my screen shots in Framemaker are linked .png. When I write a new
version of the manual I simply replace all the changed screen shots with
with new ones with the same name and voila all screen shots in the
manual are updated.
Alas, when I open Framemaker they often lloks distorted and I have
Verner,
You should be able to do a File > Save Book As, renaming the book file. This
should rename your generated files to match the book filename.
--- On Mon, 1/12/09, Andersen, Verner Engell VEA
wrote:
From: Andersen, Verner Engell VEA
Subject: Easiest way to create a new book from a templa
Good Morning,
Does anyone know of a source of Book templates (free)
that a newbie might have access to, for study?
TIA
-peter
--- On Mon, 1/12/09, David Spreadbury wrote:
> From: David Spreadbury
> Subject: Re: Easiest way to create a new book from a template (unstructured
> FM8)
> To: fra
Peter,
Try the Frame Template Packs.
Although designed for Frame 5.5, they can be used just as well with more
up-to-date versions of FrameMaker.
You can get the template packs from:
http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/tempseries/
Phil Heron
-Original Message-
From: framers-boun
Thank you for the quick response.
(I have learned so much, as a result of
monitoring this List.)
- Peter
--- On Mon, 1/12/09, Phil Heron wrote:
> From: Phil Heron
> Subject: RE: Easiest way to create a new book from a template
> (unstructuredFM8)
> To: "framers"
> Cc: neat_g...@yahoo.com
>
> Alas, when I open Framemaker they often lloks distorted and I have to
> reimport or at least rescale them again. Is there a way to avoid this?
Don't rescale the images in FM. Create the screen shot and rescale it
to the proper size when you capture it, then import it into FM.
In other words, if
Why not open the book, select File->Save Book As, and give it a new name?
When you do, the TOC and all other generated files (TOC, IX, etc) will
rename automatically.
>
> Is there an easy way to get the book file renamed and get the generated
> files like TOC, Index and Glossary working without h
To FrameScript users:
Is there a way to determine that a directory
exists (like the command FileExist).
Thanks to all.
Stephen O'Brien
Rédacteur technique senior / Senior Technical Writer
InnovMetric Logiciels inc. / InnovMetric Software Inc.
2014, Cyrille-Duquet, suite 310
Québec (Québec) Ca
Andersen, Verner Engell VEA wrote:
> All my screen shots in Framemaker are linked .png. When I write a new
> version of the manual I simply replace all the changed screen shots with
> with new ones with the same name and voila all screen shots in the
> manual are updated.
>
> Alas, when I open Fr
Hello Stephen,
You can use the same command (eSys.FileExist) for files or directories. Just
use a directory name in place of a file name.
Frank Elmore
Project leader for FrameScript
- Original Message -
From: "Stephen O'Brien"
To: ;
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 10:07 AM
Subject: Fr
Thanks to all who answered. My script now runs. Great.
At 10:57 AM 12/01/2009, Frank Elmore wrote:
>Hello Stephen,
>
>You can use the same command (eSys.FileExist)
>for files or directories. Just use a directory name in place of a file name.
>
>Frank Elmore
>Project leader for FrameScript
>
>---
Andersen, Verner wrote:
> All my screen shots in Framemaker are linked .png. When I write a new
> version of the manual I simply replace all the changed screen shots
with
> with new ones with the same name and voila all screen shots in the
> manual are updated.
>
> Alas, when I open Framemaker t
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Combs, Richard
wrote:
> Stuart's advice is also important. After import into FM, never change
> the size of a graphic by changing its scaling percentage.
Are there hazards (other than the problem described at the start of
this thread) that this advice is intended
I should let Art reply as he choose to end his emails with this line from
Richard Thompson's song "1952 Vincent Black Lightning", but this is a
motorcycle. See the link below for a pic. (BTW, it is a great song!)
http://www.whiskyfun.com/Materialforlog9/Vincent-Black-Lightning.jpg
Mark E.
--
Adrianne, I have had good results with CATIA files that have been
saved/exported in the .cgm file format. I import the .cgm files into
FrameMaker.
You can unlock the imported art in FrameMaker and edit it if you need
to. Most of the time it does not need any touchup.
Unlock .cgm art with this k
Registration for "DocTrain West: Moving from unstructured to
structured content" opens this Wednesday. Conference registration
includes two days of hands-on software training and skills development
workshops and two days of conference presentations. Roster of
presenters being finalized this
On 10 Jan 2009 at 9:51, Shell, Robert wrote:
> However, the anchored frame in col. 2 of the table inserts an extra line
> above itself while the embedded text in column one does not. My clunky
> workaround is to insert a carriage return or above the text which
> lines up the graphic and text OK,
Hi,
I'm trying to create a booklet in Framemaker and thus far can't find
any tutorials or help references on how to do this.
Has anyone tried this before and if so, how did they do it?
Regards
Angela
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Hello ...
Complete FrameScript newbie here!
I wonder if there is a way of using FrameScript to go through a document
taking one course of action if the next "object" in the document is a
paragraph (Here I wish to add a text inset - and that is all working
fine)) and another course of action if
Hi everyone,
Has anyone ever done a conversion from unstructured FM to DITA XML (using
FM's paragraph tags, etc.)? If so, do you have a conversion table that I could
use. (I figured it would be a few steps ahead of beginning the conversion
table from scratch.)
Thanks!
Robyn
**
Robyn,
I have done unstrctured-Structured conversions but not DITA.
I a previous email you mentioned you were looking at Mif2Go. Checkout Chapter
14 in the Mif2Go User Guide. It discusses just this situation.
--- On Mon, 1/12/09, robynwrig...@aol.com wrote:
From: robynwrig...@aol.com
Subject
Unless you are producing something very simple like a four page booklet,
i.e., a single sheet of paper folded in half, your best bet is to create
your document in FrameMaker in terms of logical pages, 1 through n. Then,
create PDF of the FrameMaker document, again in logical page order.
Once you a
Hi Charles,
You can do something like this, assuming the oDoc is your document object.
Get TextList InObject(oDoc.MainFlowInDoc) NewVar(tTextList)
PgfBegin TextInsetBegin;
Loop While(i <= tTextList.Count) LoopVar(i) Init(1) Incr(1)
If tTextList[i].TextType = 'PgfBegin'
Set oPgf = tTextLis
Hi Angela,
The technical term for this is "imposition"; the best way to do this is to
create a PDF from your FrameMaker file and use imposition sofware with the
PDF file. General, your printer will do this at the pre-press stage.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.co
And just as a postscript to Dov's and Rick's posts:
Unless you're doing something that you alone have total control over,
don't bother.
* If you think a customer will print the booklet, remember that
customer's printers are more likely than not to use one of the
thousands of possible paper handli
Milan Davidovic wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Combs, Richard
> wrote:
> > Stuart's advice is also important. After import into FM, never
change
> > the size of a graphic by changing its scaling percentage.
>
> Are there hazards (other than the problem described at the start of
> th
Hi All!
FM 8.0, Windows 3.1.
Just kidding -- Windows XP.
I'm having a problem with the table on the last page of my file. I
add 10 more rows, and the rows disapper on the page -- they don't
force a new page. I've seen this before and I seem to remember it's a
simple fix, but for the life of me
It could be either a bad page pagination setting that breaks the
autoconnection of the flow or the table containing too few good break
points. It's more likely to be the table. Try a couple of these:
* Select some of the problem rows, right-click and check the row
format properties to see if you h
Deirdre Reagan asked:
> I'm having a problem with the table on the last page of my file. I
> add 10 more rows, and the rows disapper on the page -- they don't
> force a new page. I've seen this before and I seem to remember it's a
> simple fix, but for the life of me I can't remember what to do!
Thanks everyone for your help. I copied the table to a new blank
document and the table rolled over just fine, so it appears that my
problem is with the master pages.
My document starts on page 10004. I have three pages of figures, then
three pages of table, then three pages of figures and two mo
I'd make a guess that you have another text frame on that page,
probably one that's not auto-connected to anything.
Try poking around with the pointer tool, or maybe do a Select All on
the page. Either one would let you select or unselect objects, or move
them around so you can see if anything is
It galls me to admit this, but I really appreciate the ability to see
all the hidden markers in a Word file. It enables me to see all the
Index markers, for example, and quickly correct inconsistencies.
Is there any clever way of doing this in Frame? Or in a MIF file?
For example, I think a ch
Hi Nancy,
Google the IXGen plug in for FrameMaker.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com
>
> It galls me to admit this, but I really appreciate the ability to see
> all the hidden markers in a Word file. It enables me to see all the
> Index markers, for example,
Thanks, Rick. I've investigated -- it looks wonderful; but at $249
it's too expensive for my freelancer's budget. Is there anything else
out there?
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On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Nancy Allison wrote:
>
> It galls me to admit this, but I really appreciate the ability to see
> all the hidden markers in a Word file. It enables me to see all the
> Index markers, for example, and quickly correct inconsistencies.
>
> Is there any clever way of doing this in
MarkerTools also provides this feature.
http://leximation.com/tools/info/markertools.php
Cheers,
...scott
Scott Prentice
Leximation, Inc.
www.leximation.com
+1.415.485.1892
Nancy Allison wrote:
> Thanks, Rick. I've investigated -- it looks wonderful; but at $249
> it's too expensive f
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Nancy Allison wrote:
>
> Thanks, Rick. I've investigated -- it looks wonderful; but at $249
> it's too expensive for my freelancer's budget. Is there anything else
> out there?
Take a look at our cost analysis -- it's a little dusty but the basic
numbers still work reasonab
Nancy Allison wrote:
> It galls me to admit this, but I really appreciate the ability to see
> all the hidden markers in a Word file. It enables me to see all the
> Index markers, for example, and quickly correct inconsistencies.
>
> Is there any clever way of doing this in Frame? Or in a MIF fi
Art Campbell wrote:
> I'd make a guess that you have another text frame on that page,
> probably one that's not auto-connected to anything.
>
> Try poking around with the pointer tool, or maybe do a Select All on
> the page. Either one would let you select or unselect objects, or move
> them aroun
I fixed it!
I autoconnected the first page to the second page and the table on the
last page miraculously rolled over to a new page.
I don't know why that worked, but I'm glad it did!
Thanks everyone for your help.
Deirdre
On 1/12/09, Stuart Rogers wrote:
> Art Campbell wrote:
> > I'd make a
It could be either a bad page pagination setting that breaks the
autoconnection of the flow or the table containing too few good break
points. It's more likely to be the table. Try a couple of these:
* Select some of the problem rows, right-click and check the row
format properties to see if you h
Deirdre Reagan asked:
> I'm having a problem with the table on the last page of my file. I
> add 10 more rows, and the rows disapper on the page -- they don't
> force a new page. I've seen this before and I seem to remember it's a
> simple fix, but for the life of me I can't remember what to do!
Thanks everyone for your help. I copied the table to a new blank
document and the table rolled over just fine, so it appears that my
problem is with the master pages.
My document starts on page 10004. I have three pages of figures, then
three pages of table, then three pages of figures and two mo
I'd make a guess that you have another text frame on that page,
probably one that's not auto-connected to anything.
Try poking around with the pointer tool, or maybe do a Select All on
the page. Either one would let you select or unselect objects, or move
them around so you can see if anything is
It galls me to admit this, but I really appreciate the ability to see
all the hidden markers in a Word file. It enables me to see all the
Index markers, for example, and quickly correct inconsistencies.
Is there any clever way of doing this in Frame? Or in a MIF file?
For example, I think a ch
Hi Nancy,
Google the IXGen plug in for FrameMaker.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com
>
> It galls me to admit this, but I really appreciate the ability to see
> all the hidden markers in a Word file. It enables me to see all the
> Index markers, for example,
Thanks, Rick. I've investigated -- it looks wonderful; but at $249
it's too expensive for my freelancer's budget. Is there anything else
out there?
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Nancy Allison wrote:
>
> It galls me to admit this, but I really appreciate the ability to see
> all the hidden markers in a Word file. It enables me to see all the
> Index markers, for example, and quickly correct inconsistencies.
>
> Is there any clever way of doing this in
MarkerTools also provides this feature.
http://leximation.com/tools/info/markertools.php
Cheers,
...scott
Scott Prentice
Leximation, Inc.
www.leximation.com
+1.415.485.1892
Nancy Allison wrote:
> Thanks, Rick. I've investigated -- it looks wonderful; but at $249
> it's too expensive f
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Nancy Allison wrote:
>
> Thanks, Rick. I've investigated -- it looks wonderful; but at $249
> it's too expensive for my freelancer's budget. Is there anything else
> out there?
Take a look at our cost analysis -- it's a little dusty but the basic
numbers still work reasonab
Nancy Allison wrote:
> It galls me to admit this, but I really appreciate the ability to see
> all the hidden markers in a Word file. It enables me to see all the
> Index markers, for example, and quickly correct inconsistencies.
>
> Is there any clever way of doing this in Frame? Or in a MIF fil
Art Campbell wrote:
> I'd make a guess that you have another text frame on that page,
> probably one that's not auto-connected to anything.
>
> Try poking around with the pointer tool, or maybe do a Select All on
> the page. Either one would let you select or unselect objects, or move
> them aroun
I fixed it!
I autoconnected the first page to the second page and the table on the
last page miraculously rolled over to a new page.
I don't know why that worked, but I'm glad it did!
Thanks everyone for your help.
Deirdre
On 1/12/09, Stuart Rogers wrote:
> Art Campbell wrote:
> > I'd make a
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