Re: [Framers] Questions about tech docs in an Agile environment (may be off-topic)

I would say that checkin comments on code should be written in such a way that they can be used for release notes. Force standards for the checkin comments. Then the build machine can be setup to extract the comments and spit out at least a text document containing the notes. 'Quickstart'

Re: [Framers] database access from Extendscript?

Hi Scott, Are there built-in FDK functions for accessing ODBC? Thanks. Rick -Original Message- From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Scott Prentice Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 4:30 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject:

Re: [Framers] database access from Extendscript?

OK, got it. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Scott Prentice Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 8:28 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: [Framers] database access from Extendscript? Hi Rick...

Re: [Framers] Curly Quote conundrum

As Heiko pointed out, you're actually getting curly quotes, you just don't like the subtle way the font designer drew them. I'd live with it or change fonts. Overriding certain glyphs with another font is crazy. On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Tammy Van Boening

Re: [Framers] database access from Extendscript?

Hi Rick... Not FDK .. but the MS function SQLExecDirect() (and friends). It works quite well. ...scott On 2/27/17 5:12 PM, Rick Quatro wrote: Hi Scott, Are there built-in FDK functions for accessing ODBC? Thanks. Rick -Original Message- From: Framers

Re: [Framers] Curly Quote conundrum

Well.. as someone who functions primarily as a designer, this doesn't sound so crazy to me – some fonts have godawful quote marks. But couldn't they be replaced/have a character style applied at the last minute using a Grep search or something? Tori Muir tm...@spot-on-creative.com On

[Framers] database access from Extendscript?

Colleagues, I'm a bit spoiled by the FrameScript database utilities, and am trying to do similar database publishing with Extendscript. For those on the list who have worked with both, does Extendscript provide any database I/O capabilities? (I believe the answer is "no"). If it does not, is

[Framers] Questions about tech docs in an Agile environment (may be off-topic)

My company has a very large suite of products and I'm the only tech writer. Software is developed in an agile environment, with some products releasing new features every 2 weeks. The largest product updates quarterly. I can easily spend almost a month on its release notes. We are using

Re: [Framers] Questions about tech docs in an Agile environment (may be off-topic)

Can you write the release notes in such a way that the content can be embedded as an insert into the user guide? Can you automate the production flow to some extent? Can time consuming tasks like repagination that do not affect content be hived of to a non-technical assistant? Could you get a less

Re: [Framers] database access from Extendscript?

Hi Alan, The short answer is no, ExtendScript doesn't have any built-in ODBC capabilities. The closest you can get is to see if your database content can be exported to XML and then use ExtendScript to parse and import the XML to FrameMaker. ExtendScript has a built-in XML object that is pretty

Re: [Framers] database access from Extendscript?

Hmm. You can connect to ODBC through the FDK .. could probably expose that to an ExtendScript call. Of course, if you're going to do part of it in FDK, you might as well do all of it there. I wonder if it's possible to make Ajax calls from ExtendScript .. probably not. But if that was

[Framers] Curly Quote conundrum

FM 10, Win 7, AvenirNext LT Pro font for Table Body and Sans Pro Source for text body. (Required by the client). For Table Body: I can get straight double quotes inserted just fine, but I want curly quotes. With Smart Quotes turned off, I am trying to insert curly double quotes in the file. For

Re: [Framers] Curly Quote conundrum

Looks like that's how Avenier Next LT is designed. 201c and 201d use the same glyph. https://www.linotype.com/1129827/avenir-next-light-product.html On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Tammy Van Boening wrote: > FM 10, Win 7, AvenirNext LT Pro font for Table Body

Re: [Framers] database access from Extendscript?

Thanks, Rick. Appreciated. Most of my automated publishing projects are XML-based. But on occasion (like this one) the client wants to go directly from an ODBC connection. Alas, there are still good reasons to use FrameScript! -Alan On 2/27/17 3:45 PM, Rick Quatro wrote: Hi Alan, The

[Framers] SVG2PDF filter

Hi! Anyone got problems using the svg2pdf filter in FM2015? I have to choose dpi. Is that because it is converted to PDF? Anyway, it seems the svg graphic has to have a given size in width x height. If it is width="100%" height="100%" Fm makes all graphics 152,4 mm if I choose 72 dpi. I

Re: [Framers] Curly Quote conundrum

Hi Robert, hi Tammy, the two glyphs are quite similar, but not the same. The left double quote is a little thicker at the bottom (66), the right double quote is a little thicker at the top (99). Both glyphs in Avenir are pointing from down left to up right, so they look very much alike. There is

Re: [Framers] Curly Quote conundrum

Well, that's just flat out useless - OK, guess I will just have to copy and paste the curly quotes from the body font and different fonts be d***d. . . Thanks Robert. Tammy Van Boening Owner/Principal Spectrum Writing, LLC www.spectrumwritingllc.com TammyVB *AT* spectrumwritingllc *DOT* com