Re: Adobe's upgrade rort

2009-10-21 Thread Klaus Daube
On 19 Oct 2009 at 9:49, Michael Müller-Hillebrand wrote: In the past there were two editions of FrameMaker: an English-only version, and an international version which could be installed with English, French, German, or Japanese UI. I don't know if that is still true. Well, let's stop the

OFF-FM [Mif2Go] - HTML pages contain wrong links to images

2009-10-21 Thread mathieu jacquet
Hi all, I do not know if a forum dedicated to Mif2Go issues exists, so I am posting my request here. I am using FM7.2 and Mif2Go on 64-bit Vista (no comment). HTML pages generated by Mif2Go contain links to images such as C:/EclipseHelpFolder/aa0fxxx.jpg. The problem is that I do not have

RE: OFF-FM [Mif2Go] - HTML pages contain wrong links to images

2009-10-21 Thread David Spreadbury
Mathiue, I periodically run into this problem. What I have done to correct it is to delete the three Mif2Go generated configuration files, mif2go.ini, projectname.lst, and projectname.prj and rerun the Setup Mif2Go step (File Setup Mif2Go). The aa, ab, etc., are references to the chapters. For

Re: retaining x-refs when moved within a book

2009-10-21 Thread Shlomo Perets
Orly, You wrote: We need to update the books we're working on by moving things around within the book. Now, if I want to move a table that is cross-referenced within the same chp to another chp (i.e. we have table 1 in chp1, will move table 1 to chap2 - but will still ref the old table

Re: Adobe's upgrade rort

2009-10-21 Thread Mike Wickham
Dov, don't read this: The price difference between feuds (read: countries) is a total discrimination and should be fought against by the UN. Especially in an age where data can be shunted around the globe with relative ease. The only barriers to pricing equality are notional, or if you like

RE: Adobe's upgrade rort

2009-10-21 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Mike, Thanks for adding some balance to this thread. Another cost of doing business is the threat and defense of litigation. For example, Microsoft is regularly being sued by the European Union. I am sure that these costs are passed on to European customers. I found it amusing when the US

Re: [TCS Users] PostScript to PDF Corruption

2009-10-21 Thread Art Campbell
The short answer is not likely. Because you didn't provide system details... you may want to look at this MS hotfix for XP that fixed some corruption issues. Is the Adobe PDF printer set as your system default? Why not just print to it and skip the manual two-step process? Art Art Campbell

Re: [TCS Users] PostScript to PDF Corruption

2009-10-21 Thread Art Campbell
Whoops -- I meant to linclude the link to the hotfix http://support.microsoft.com/?id=952909 Art Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com ... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl. -- Richard Thompson

FM 9 vs. InDesign

2009-10-21 Thread Tina Ricks
Can anyone point me to a thorough comparison list of features between FM9 and InDesign? I'm using Frame primarily for print books at a small publisher, and using it because I know it and I'm familiar with it. I currently use Frame 8, and I'm considering an upgrade to either Frame 9 or

RE: FM 9 vs. InDesign

2009-10-21 Thread Shuttleworth, Roger
Hi Tina Here is a summary that someone posted on the Framers list a few months back (with acknowledgments to the author): Comparison of FrameMaker and InDesign Generally, unless you are using heavy XML (InDesign does XML but not as advanced) or DITA (which ID does not support), it is a heated

Re: FM 9 vs. InDesign

2009-10-21 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Tina: In addition to Roger's inclusion of David Creamer's FrameMaker InDesign comparison notes, I've posted comments in the past, that you can see in the several posts on the thread at: http://www.mail-archive.com/framers@lists.frameusers.com/msg16576.html It would be helpful if you could

RE: FM 9 vs. InDesign

2009-10-21 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Tina, I have found InDesign's performance to be sluggish with long documents. Although InDesign has built-in scripting, the FrameMaker/FrameScript combination is much faster for automation. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-659-8267 r...@frameexpert.com www.frameexpert.com Can anyone

Re: OFF-FM [Mif2Go] - HTML pages contain wrong links to images

2009-10-21 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:32:41 +, mathieu jacquet bobi...@hotmail.com wrote: I do not know if a forum dedicated to Mif2Go issues exists, so I am posting my request here. That's fine; so is fram...@omsys.com. I am using FM7.2 and Mif2Go on 64-bit Vista (no comment). As a point of general

FW: Selecting all anchored Frames

2009-10-21 Thread Flato, Gillian
Anyone know how to select every anchored frame in a document at once, and change the properties, so, essentially, a global change. I have a document where each anchored frame is set to At insertion point, and I want to change them all to Below current line. Thank you, Gillian Flato

Re: FM 9 vs. InDesign

2009-10-21 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Rick: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Rick Quatro r...@rickquatro.com wrote: Hi Tina, I have found InDesign's performance to be sluggish with long documents. Are you comparing books with component chapter files, or single-file long documents? And, which release of InDesign compared to

Re: FW: Selecting all anchored Frames

2009-10-21 Thread Diane Gaskill
Hi Gillian, I'm not aware of any way to do that via the FM GUI in FM8 or 9, but a simple FrameScript could do that quickly. Diane Gaskill -Original Message- From: Flato, Gillian gfl...@nanometrics.com Sent: Oct 21, 2009 3:09 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com

RE: FW: Selecting all anchored Frames

2009-10-21 Thread Flato, Gillian
But that would mean I would have to buy FrameScript, right? Thank you, Gillian Flato Technical Writer (Software) nanometrics 1550 Buckeye Dr. Milpitas, CA. 95035 (408.545.6316 7 408.232.5911 * gfl...@nanometrics.com -Original Message- From: Diane Gaskill

Frame on Vista and Win7

2009-10-21 Thread Gary Bankston
Any horror stories? Our company is about to upgrade our laptops and towers. It would sure be nice to know if FrameMaker and Adobe in the broad sense are comfortable and compatible? Any discussion would be appreciated. gb ___ You are currently

Tile page with new version number

2009-10-21 Thread Susan Curtzwiler
Hi all I am using FMKR 7.0 on Vista Enterprise Would someone please share how to get the revision number from the title page to change in the title in the list on the book file? For example: Book File partial list C:|Users/alias\docs\NameofBook_3.1_20091022 3.0 Title Page.fm

FM 7.2 Crashing

2009-10-21 Thread Alan Litchfield
Can you provide some more information please. There are many reasons why an application could crash but it is unlikely that a well formed book with well formed files will crash when you open multiple files. Alan Neeraj Jain wrote: > Hi All, > > FM 7.2 crashes all of a sudden when I open

Adobe's upgrade rort

2009-10-21 Thread Alan Litchfield
Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: > In the US versions I have laid my hands on there is the option of > several languages and, AFAIK, there is no difference between the > issues, but I have not bought anything more recent than 7.2. > > For the main question: Have I ever talked about

Adobe's upgrade rort

2009-10-21 Thread Klaus Daube
On 19 Oct 2009 at 9:49, Michael M?ller-Hillebrand wrote: > In the past there were two editions of FrameMaker: an English-only > version, and an international version which could be installed with > English, French, German, or Japanese UI. I don't know if that is still > true. Well, let's stop

OFF-FM [Mif2Go] - HTML pages contain wrong links to images

2009-10-21 Thread mathieu jacquet
Hi all, I do not know if a forum dedicated to Mif2Go issues exists, so I am posting my request here. I am using FM7.2 and Mif2Go on 64-bit Vista (no comment). HTML pages generated by Mif2Go contain links to images such as "C:/EclipseHelpFolder/aa0fxxx.jpg". The problem is that I do not have

OFF-FM [Mif2Go] - HTML pages contain wrong links to images

2009-10-21 Thread David Spreadbury
Mathiue, I periodically run into this problem. What I have done to correct it is to delete the three Mif2Go generated configuration files, mif2go.ini, projectname.lst, and projectname.prj and rerun the Setup Mif2Go step (File > Setup Mif2Go). The aa, ab, etc., are references to the chapters. For

retaining x-refs when moved within a book

2009-10-21 Thread Shlomo Perets
Orly, You wrote: > We need to update the books we're working on by moving things around within the book. > Now, if I want to move a table that is cross-referenced within the same chp to another chp > (i.e. we have table 1 in chp1, will move table 1 to chap2 - but will still ref the old

Adobe's upgrade rort

2009-10-21 Thread Mike Wickham
>> Dov, don't read this: The price difference between "feuds" (read: >> countries) is a total discrimination and should be fought against by >> the UN. > Especially in an age where data can be shunted around the globe with > relative > ease. The only barriers to pricing equality are notional, or

Adobe's upgrade rort

2009-10-21 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Mike, Thanks for adding some balance to this thread. Another cost of doing business is the threat and defense of litigation. For example, Microsoft is regularly being sued by the European Union. I am sure that these costs are passed on to European customers. I found it amusing when the US

Adobe's upgrade rort

2009-10-21 Thread Rick Quatro
Or, it could be that the lower price in the Netherlands is mandated by their government through "price controls". Rick On 19 Oct 2009 at 9:49, Michael M?ller-Hillebrand wrote: > In the past there were two editions of FrameMaker: an English-only > version, and an international version which

OFF-FM [Mif2Go] - HTML pages contain wrong links to images

2009-10-21 Thread Stuart Rogers
mathieu jacquet wrote: > Hi all, > > I do not know if a forum dedicated to Mif2Go issues exists, so I am posting > my request here. > The forum dedicated to Mif2Go is its maker, omsys.com, who is consistently lauded for timely, personal e-mail response to its customers' problems:

[TCS Users] PostScript to PDF Corruption

2009-10-21 Thread Art Campbell
The short answer is not likely. Because you didn't provide system details... you may want to look at this MS hotfix for XP that fixed some corruption issues. Is the Adobe PDF printer set as your system default? Why not just print to it and skip the manual two-step process? Art Art Campbell

[TCS Users] PostScript to PDF Corruption

2009-10-21 Thread Art Campbell
Whoops -- I meant to linclude the link to the hotfix http://support.microsoft.com/?id=952909 Art Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson

[TCS Users] Re: PostScript to PDF Corruption

2009-10-21 Thread Huntley Eshenroder
I believe Art is referring to this hotfix: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=952909 -Huntley

OFF-FM [Mif2Go] - HTML pages contain wrong links to images

2009-10-21 Thread Art Campbell
Well, actually, it's the Free Framers mailing list that carries lots of general FM questions, although there is a higher percentage of MIF2Go traffic there than on this list. http://www.omsys.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/list/framers There's also the possibility of other MIF2Go users answering

FM 9 vs. InDesign

2009-10-21 Thread Tina Ricks
Can anyone point me to a thorough comparison list of features between FM9 and InDesign? I'm using Frame primarily for print books at a small publisher, and using it because I know it and I'm familiar with it. I currently use Frame 8, and I'm considering an upgrade to either Frame 9 or InDesign.

FM 9 vs. InDesign

2009-10-21 Thread Shuttleworth, Roger
Hi Tina Here is a summary that someone posted on the Framers list a few months back (with acknowledgments to the author): Comparison of FrameMaker and InDesign Generally, unless you are using heavy XML (InDesign does XML but not as advanced) or DITA (which ID does not support), it is a heated

Running FM9 (and TCS2) on 64-bit systems

2009-10-21 Thread Martinek, Carla
What about XP 64-bit versions? We need to upgrade systems to 64-bit to access graphics out of the CAD system our engineers are using. Upgrading the entire department to FM9 if necessary right now isn't an issue, but not being able to run FM at all in XP 64-bit will be... -Carla

FM 9 vs. InDesign

2009-10-21 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Tina: In addition to Roger's inclusion of David Creamer's FrameMaker & InDesign comparison notes, I've posted comments in the past, that you can see in the several posts on the thread at: http://www.mail-archive.com/framers at lists.frameusers.com/msg16576.html It would be helpful if you

FM 9 vs. InDesign

2009-10-21 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Tina, I have found InDesign's performance to be sluggish with long documents. Although InDesign has built-in scripting, the FrameMaker/FrameScript combination is much faster for automation. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-659-8267 rick at frameexpert.com www.frameexpert.com Can

OFF-FM [Mif2Go] - HTML pages contain wrong links to images

2009-10-21 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:32:41 +, mathieu jacquet wrote: >I do not know if a forum dedicated to Mif2Go issues exists, so I >am posting my request here. That's fine; so is . >I am using FM7.2 and Mif2Go on 64-bit Vista (no comment). As a point of general interest, it seems that for 64-bit

FW: Selecting all anchored Frames

2009-10-21 Thread Flato, Gillian
Anyone know how to select every anchored frame in a document at once, and change the properties, so, essentially, a global change. I have a document where each anchored frame is set to At insertion point, and I want to change them all to Below current line. Thank you, Gillian Flato

FM 9 vs. InDesign

2009-10-21 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Rick: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Rick Quatro wrote: > Hi Tina, > > I have found InDesign's performance to be sluggish with long documents. > Are you comparing books with component chapter files, or single-file long documents? And, which release of InDesign compared to which release

FW: Selecting all anchored Frames

2009-10-21 Thread Diane Gaskill
Hi Gillian, I'm not aware of any way to do that via the FM GUI in FM8 or 9, but a simple FrameScript could do that quickly. Diane Gaskill -Original Message- >From: "Flato, Gillian" >Sent: Oct 21, 2009 3:09 PM >To: framers at lists.frameusers.com >Subject: FW:

FW: Selecting all anchored Frames

2009-10-21 Thread Flato, Gillian
But that would mean I would have to buy FrameScript, right? Thank you, Gillian Flato Technical Writer (Software) nanometrics 1550 Buckeye Dr. Milpitas, CA. 95035 (408.545.6316 7 408.232.5911 * gflato at nanometrics.com -Original Message- From: Diane Gaskill

Frame on Vista and Win7

2009-10-21 Thread Gary Bankston
Any horror stories? Our company is about to upgrade our laptops and towers. It would sure be nice to know if FrameMaker and Adobe in the broad sense are comfortable and compatible? Any discussion would be appreciated. gb

Tile page with new version number

2009-10-21 Thread Susan Curtzwiler
Hi all I am using FMKR 7.0 on Vista Enterprise Would someone please share how to get the revision number from the title page to change in the title in the list on the book file? For example: Book File partial list C:|Users/alias\docs\NameofBook_3.1_20091022 3.0 Title Page.fm