TemplateMapper Upgrade

2009-06-09 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Hello All... I have been absent for some time -- I have made fixes to known problems in TemplateMapper and would like to distribute them to the user base. If you're an existing user and are interested in an upgrade, please go to my site and register. Go to http://www.cudspan.net and

Re: Overset Manager (or a similar Framescript) for FrameMaker?

2009-06-18 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I did something similar, where I implemented a tiny language that specified the order in which to try and modify the formatting to get content to fit on a specific page (the last page). I implemented font changes, text frame changes, line space changes, and I forget what else. The language

Re: Merge Multiple Doc Styles

2009-06-21 Thread Chris Despopoulos
You could always look at TemplateMapper, but I think it's not geared entirely to your problem. Still, if you come up with a normalized template, then you *could* make a map that incorporates everything your legacy has accumulated and then map it to your template. And it handles all those

Re: Developer documentation

2009-06-25 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I'll take a crack at this... You should try to find developer docs that you can emulate. To start, you need to figure out some particulars of the dev platform -- what language (C/C++, Java, Flash, etc.), what is the dev environment (is there a specific IDE (integrated development environment)

Re: Typing conditional text

2009-06-29 Thread Chris Despopoulos
This looks like part of a bigger problem with character ranges. It's understandable that you would get this behavior where arrowing from one direction makes the transition point show one property, and from the other direction the transition point shows another. The fact that the Enter key (new

RE: Logging FrameMaker book errors in a text file

2009-07-01 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I don't think you need scripts or FDK clients. Can't you just find/change on the book? Of course, I forget the find char sequence for a Shift-Return, but I'm fairly sure it exists... (I always like to advocate the low-tech solution if at all possible.) cud Lynne Price says... Gordon,

Re: Automated way to import formats?

2009-07-16 Thread Chris Despopoulos
ShamelessPlug You can use TemplateMapper... It sets up a project to manage import from a new template into a legacy book. You create map files that manage how to import individual formats (turn LegacyBody into NewBody), and load legacy, template, and map files into a project. The project can

Re: Help: File gone berserk

2009-09-14 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Concerning missing fonts messages even though you have tried all the tricks to clear that font out of your document... There's a known issue with FrameMaker -- Maker stores font information with table formats. I think this is how it goes... If you copy/paste a table into your document, and

Re: With Apologies to RJ - just can't quite feel the love or embrace this FM9 interface

2009-11-23 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Has *anybody* tried Open All Files in Book? Don't you get all the document file windows nested within each other such that the 10th document file is a slit of a page? (Or am I suffering hallucinations?) Doesn't anybody find that a problem? Basically, it seems the new windowing paradigm

Re: With Apologies to RJ - just can't quite feel the love or

2009-11-24 Thread Chris Despopoulos
RE the problem of nested windows when you OPEN ALL in a book... The answer I got is, Always expand docs to full screen -- use the tabbed interface. This is reasonable if you want your doc windows to always be fully expanded. I use Maker documents as generated logs. I personally don't want

FM9: Resource manager bugs?

2009-12-08 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I'm glad (in an ironic sense) to see that I'm not the only person who is asking for the API to expose the GUI elements. In a more literal sense, I'm sorry to see it. Please, please, please... Expose the new GUI to the API so we can make plug-ins that interact reasonably with the user's

Re: Flowing in Structured FrameMaker

2009-12-09 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I know you can automatically assign master pages to specific elements. So if you have a backmatter element, then you can assign the backmatter master page to that element. I forget whether that auto-master page feature is sensitive enough to respond to attributes. (I don't have Maker running

Re: TCS2 Distiller license problem

2009-12-17 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I have the same problem, only with Acrobat. So far I've just been using everything but Acrobat, and not generating PDFs. Thank goodness for Reader and older versions of Maker. I haven't had the courage to try un-installing all the products and installing again. Somehow I doubt I'll ever

Re: TCS2 Distiller license problem

2009-12-17 Thread Chris Despopoulos
version of the list. I'll give it a try... cud From: Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com To: Chris Despopoulos despopoulos_chr...@yahoo.com Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Sent: Thu, December 17, 2009 8:12:59 AM Subject: Re: TCS2 Distiller license problem First

Re: TCS2 Distiller license problem

2009-12-17 Thread Chris Despopoulos
as the cost to purchase it? Sigh... I have to start actually gaining a living with my time now... cud From: Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com To: Chris Despopoulos despopoulos_chr...@yahoo.com Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Sent: Thu, December 17, 2009 8:12:59

Re: TCS2 Distiller license problem

2009-12-17 Thread Chris Despopoulos
licensing is as squirrely as a Chuck Jones cartoon. cud From: Mike Wickham i...@mikewickham.com To: Chris Despopoulos despopoulos_chr...@yahoo.com; Frame Users framers@lists.FrameUsers.com Sent: Thu, December 17, 2009 10:49:59 AM Subject: Re: TCS2 Distiller

Re: TCS2 Distiller license problem

2009-12-17 Thread Chris Despopoulos
You give me too much credit. As a closet anarchist, licensing is something I have never been able to understand. Also, I don't think this is a FrameMaker issue. I don't think enough people have tried to pirate Maker to warrant the expense of super-clever licensing schemes. Unfortunately

RE: Questions about a wiki

2010-01-07 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I'm kind of playing around with WIKIs at the moment. I'm most interested in DokuWiki because it's a file-based system rather than using MySql. DokuWiki has plugins for export to different formats (OpenOffice, LaTex, and XHTML, for example). I'm not aware of import plugins yet. I think the

Acrobat Compatibility [was Importing Multiple Page PDFs into a Word doc]

2010-01-12 Thread Chris Despopoulos
So, do products like NitroPDF and Solidpdf hose your Acrobat 9 installation? I had to jump through many hoops to get Acrobat to work on my system, and would surely hate to get back into that mess. Do Acrobat and Distiller play nicely when these products are in the sand box? cud

WebDAV, URLs, and FrameMaker 9

2010-01-14 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Hi All... Is anybody using any of these capabilities? I just set up my WAMP to support DAV, and it seems interesting -- I wonder if anybody is making meaningful use out of this? Cheerscud ___ You are currently subscribed to

Re: FM Importing Figures from Database

2010-01-27 Thread Chris Despopoulos
But I don't understand how a db and FM interact. Is it possible to import a figure by reference into a FrameMaker file from a database? Can you point to a db directory the way you would to a regular Windows Explorer directory? Unless I missed it, the answers I saw to this question don't seem

Re: XML Output from FrameMaker not Pure XML?

2010-02-15 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I'd like to address the red herring (lurking if not actually swimming in this topic) about whether the file format is native XML. Because that point is immaterial... No matter what format you use for storage, the stored file has to be converted to some binary representation that your

Re: Disobedient hyperlinks

2010-02-17 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Hmmm... It seems you're right, and so this would be a limitation, if not a bug. Here's what I did: * Create a ref frame named MyPopup, and give it 5 commands. 4 commands display an alert, and one command displays a submenu. (Note: the chars display correctly in the submenu.) The submenu

Re: pure XML

2010-02-17 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Please correct me if I'm wrong... I've been out of the markup loop for too long. But... I remember in the old SGML days it was explained to me that SGML is a grammar, and not a language. The same would hold true for XML. Each DTD or Schema makes a language -- a specific implementation of

Re: pure XML

2010-02-18 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I agree with Michael on this... You can't use the FrameMaker conditional text feature with other editors because, well, you can't. So the Maker PIs make no sense and are correctly ignored by those editors. OTOH, nothing prevented you from using special show/hide attributes in Maker. As I

RE: Inserting a same marker in all files of a book

2010-02-18 Thread Chris Despopoulos
If you can't afford a script, or while you're waiting for one (assuming the marker has to be on the body page), you could always try to work up some form of find/replace where you copy the marker and replace by paste. But a plugin or script should be very simple to produce for this. I could

Indesign VB Scriptin [was FrameMaker vs InDesign book files]

2010-02-28 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Is it true that nDesign supports VB scripting? Is the handling of a document model any better than that for Word? What I mean is, in Maker you can us the API to get all the text items in a paragraph, and that breaks the pgf into all the char format changes, all the table anchors, aframe

'Revert to Saved' - how to trigger programmtically

2010-03-02 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I think you could also issue the Revert To Saved F_Code. I don't have the F_Codes in front of me so I can't verify it exactly, but there should be one for every menu command, at least. So there should be one for Revert to Saved. This is a way for the API to execute commands that don't have a

RE: FrameScript to convert table to paragraphs

2010-04-21 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I don't know how FrameScript handles this per se, but it must be similar to the FDK. You need to use the Maker document model, which includes the Maker table model. (For information, you can look at the FDK documentation -- the programmer's guide. You should have that, even if you're using

Re: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies

2010-04-26 Thread Chris Despopoulos
RE the good ole days when men were men and software was innovative. What we're witnessing is a natural part of any innovative curve. Back when FrameMaker first made waves, you could subscribe to three different magazines that printed monthly articles about new and interesting software.

Acrobat 9 Frustrations...

2010-06-02 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Yet again. I know this has been discussed, but I can't seem to find it in my searches. I have FrameMaker 8 and Acrobat 9 Pro. I'm trying to move over to a Windows 7 machine. I have replicated my original setup that worked on my XP machine. But now when I try to save a book as PDF, I get an

RE: Acrobat 9 Frustrations...

2010-06-04 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Hi Dov... Thanks for answering. I was able to generate PDF with the same combination of Maker 8 and Acrobat 9 for the same files on my XP machine. That's what led me to think about Win 7. I also never had any PDF generation problems with earlier versions of Acrobat, but with Acrobat 9 I've

RE: Acrobat 9 Frustrations...

2010-06-06 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Ha! I knew it couldn't be that FrameMaker 8 was unable to create PDF with Acrobat 9. I turns out I need to patch. Until I get the patches, the workaround is to turn on tagging in the PDF settings. Now, I can't seem to find the patches anywhere. They aren't obvious on the Adobe site. But

RE: Acrobat 9 Frustrations...

2010-06-08 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Hi all, and thanks for the help so far... Yes, I found that it's the need of a patch that has caused my Acrobat problems. Yes, I was completely blind, and failed to see the link to the patches... If it was a snake it would have bit me -- I can never find the mustard in the refrigerator,

RE: find all xrefs for an ID in FrameMaker?

2010-06-14 Thread Chris Despopoulos
So my question would be, what do you want the listing to display? Filename and page number of the XREF? Other? cud ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to

RE: FM72. Tool to quickly makes loads of cross-refs?

2010-06-15 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I agree... There's no reason for this to me a maintenance issue. I would implement a solution that flushes all the auto-generated xrefs, and re-establishes them each time I invoke the task. By keeping it clean, there's no issue... That's the standard approach to this type of thing. It

RE: RANT: FM 9.0

2010-08-04 Thread Chris Despopoulos
My fundamental problem is that the new windowing model isn't properly exposed in the API. Also, it has some problems. Open a book, then open all files in book. Especially if it has many files, you get funny results -- the document windows nest within each other. I've raised this issue a

RE: FrameMaker 9 User Interface Video

2010-08-05 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I just watched this video -- thanks for the reference. I'll say a couple of things: 1) I like some of the new features, especially the Insets browser. This is good stuff. 2) It's also good that some of the previously modal dialogs are modeless. 3) I still maintain that the notion of working

Re: RANT: FM 9.0

2010-08-06 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Bill says: If you get creative with your authoring approach you can handle most anything, and for everything else there's the API and wonderful tools like FrameScript and IXGen. If you have found a way to control pods and windows via the FDK, please let me know! I'm desperate! cud

Re: Frame 7 documentation

2010-09-06 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I don't have Maker 7.0, but I do have Maker 7.2. Also, I can't be sure, because it was a LONG time ago, but... Isn't the Maker 7.2 help system just an online version of the 7.2 User's Guide? So if you have that help system, then you should be OK. Further, if you don't have it but know

RE: To remove local formatting from a paragraph

2010-09-28 Thread Chris Despopoulos
A few points... I have a freeware tool called HuntOverrides that gives you a list of pgfs with overrides. It generates a hypertext list of pgfs that have overrides. You can navigate to them and fix them. Find it at cudspan.net... It occurred to me to make a tool that wipes out overrides,

Java error Message when importing xml to frameMaker 8

2010-09-29 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Do you have a good Java runtime installed? I'm guessing Maker needs Java to run Xerces (funny, I always assumed they used the C++ version). Somehow it can't find a runtime. So you need to verify that you can run other Java programs on your system. (Just grasping at straws here, but that's

Re: CudSpan and other Plug-Ins for FM 9

2010-12-15 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Hi all... I have been out of the mainstream for quite a while -- apologies for any inconvenience. A quick answer is, I compiled, *briefly* tested, and posted some freeware plugins for Maker 9 on my site. (http://cudspan.net/plugins/) Try them out, but please understand that I haven't been

Re: Last paragraph in FM file cannot be modified

2010-12-23 Thread Chris Despopoulos
This is so wierd, because this JUST happened to me last night. Indeed, it's a Word document opened in Maker. For my situation, it happened to the PGF that follows a text inset... once in a table cell, so it was the last pgf in the flow, and another time in the middle of the document. I

RE: Please help me stop weeping... (sub-documents

2011-02-07 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Interesting... Rick had an answer to the clicking the button a million times issue. I frequently save Maker as HTML, and use it for a help system. I don't use structured Maker, so I don't get this problem with the missing element -- but it DOES create the unwanted links at the bottom of the

Re: framers Digest, Vol 65, Issue 3

2011-03-04 Thread Chris Despopoulos
You may need more RAM. But I will say that my experience with tables shows there's a threshold across which tables get *very* sluggish. I've created plugins that use tables to manage some data. If the data set got too big, the tables became unworkable. I'd bet 400 pages of tables will do

RE: Generating a single FM document with conditional text from several documents

2011-03-25 Thread Chris Despopoulos
What I understand that you want to do is similar to this (I'm only describing two documents for this example): Merge doc A and doc B such that the common text between then will be unconditional, and the specialized text will be conditional. For two documents you can do this with the Doc Compare

Freeware RoboHelp Merged CHM Project Tool

2011-04-07 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Hi All... Not necessarily FrameMaker, but obliquely related... I just posted a little Java app that helps create alias files and redirect files when making a merged CHM RoboHelp project. If you have tried doing this, then you know what I mean. It's got a GUI, and it creates the content

Re: FrameMaker's 25th Anniversary

2011-04-07 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Cool article, Max! Love that SunView screenshot... I remember that Reversi game fondly. cud ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank

RE: FM8 crashing like it's Word

2011-05-13 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Maker 8 introduced UNICODE, didn't it?  Anyway, I found that it was squirly with text lines in graphics.  Try to always use text frames instead.  I think this even bit me after fully updating. HTH  cud ___ You are currently

RE: Application of multiple character tags in generated

2011-05-31 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I agree with Richard Combs...  You should create your special char tag to account for the effect you get by applying two more general char tags.  But I'd go a step further.  Don't name it Italic_Bold, or anything like that.  In fact, you should never name your char tags (or any other tags) by

Re: Accessing a DLL file

2011-08-05 Thread Chris Despopoulos
The best way to set up table column widths (and consequently table widths) would be via the read/write rules.  That's my opinion, anyway.  You should look into using that approach.  You don't need to modify the source code, and so you don't need to talk to the programmer.  I guess that is

how to convert FrameMaker file to SGML format

2011-09-23 Thread Chris Despopoulos
To look at it as though it's something you intend to do... The first question is, what DTD are they using?  Is it a standard (DocBook, for example), or is it a DTD they created themselves?  Related to that question...  Do they need the full DTD to express the structure in your document, or can

Re: OT: Scary responsibility in job ad

2011-10-06 Thread Chris Despopoulos
The post was: A local company listed this as one of the responsibilities in a job ad for a technical writer: coach engineers to improve their writing skills It makes me laugh and cringe in equal measures. My reply is: How often do you complain that engineers don't like to give you the

Re: Script to split FrameMaker file at heading level

2012-02-09 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I created a dll plugin in Maker 7 that does this.  I could pretty easily build a Maker 9 version of it, anyway.  I doubt it would be incompatible with Maker anything-later.  All Ido is look at markers in the TOC and use that to build up smaller files. I assume a few things: * You have a book

Re: Trick for wrapping entries for indexes query

2012-03-12 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Rather than deal with all this, I made a tool called TocBreaker.  You go into your generated file (TOC or Index), and put in hard line breaks and page breaks where you want them in the file, and then save that info to the Reference page.  Then, the next time you generate, you call the feature

Re: utility to check that all heading names are unique?

2012-05-17 Thread Chris Despopoulos
And to add onto this, you could convert the generated list into a 1-column table, then sort it. On 2012-05-15 16:29, Robert Lauriston wrote: Is there a utility that will check a FrameMaker book and report duplicate heading names? You could use Special List Of Paragraphs (Alphabetical) for

Re: utility to check that all heading names are unique?

2012-05-17 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Oops.  I can write, but I can't read! From: Combs, Richard richard.co...@polycom.com To: Chris Despopoulos despopoulos_chr...@yahoo.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com framers@lists.frameusers.com Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 1:43 PM Subject: RE: utility

RE: FM10 crashes saving book as HTML, inserts rogue word

2012-06-04 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I can't say anything about the crash.  But I can say that the inconsistencies when saving as HTML may have to do with your book-wide HTML setup.  The first document in the book should have two sets of HTML setup flows, one for the document and one for the book.  Look at your ref pages in that

Re: FM10 crashes saving book as HTML, inserts rogue word - SOLVED

2012-06-05 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Good work, John... From: John Sgammato jsgamm...@imprivata.com To: Chris Despopoulos despopoulos_chr...@yahoo.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com framers@lists.frameusers.com Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 3:12 PM Subject: RE: FM10 crashes saving book as HTML

Re: comparing variables in .fm files in FM10

2012-07-10 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Slightly off topic, but I made a product that manages variables on the web.  You have a PHP web app running on your web server, and then Maker interfaces with it directly.  The variable definitions are extracted out of the document as a text file and posted onto the web site.  Then you can

RE: Unstructured to Structured: Question about retaining paragraph formats - Re-opened

2012-09-11 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I thought the idea was to format via the EDD, only.  Users should never just apply pgf formatting, because it will get lost (as you describe).  Structure demands template dictatorship on steroids...  Or rather, it imposes it.  To add new pgf formats, and to set up users to apply them, you would

Re: Unstructured to Structured: Question about retaining pragraph formats

2012-09-13 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Jang, I think we're in agreement.  I wasn't suggesting format rules over formats stored in catalogs.  I was only saying that the formatting *triggers* have to be stored in the EDD.  Maybe I didn't make the point clearly, but that was what I meant to say.  I personally prefer to use formats

Re: framers Digest, Vol 83, Issue 13

2012-09-14 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Rebecca asks: Hi guys If you're planning to roundtrip through XML, with different authors using different XML editors, you'd need to have all the formatting in the EDD, right? Or am I on completely the wrong track in my ignorance? Thanks Rebecca

RE: Batch saving files in FrameMaker 11

2012-09-22 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I have a plugin that automatically saves a copy of each document as MIF...  This is a super-backup and you can then open the MIF in any version of Maker.  I just keep it running all the time.  Saves are a bit slower, but I sleep better at night.  If I get any interest, I'll put it on my site as

Re: Batch saving files in FrameMaker 11

2012-09-23 Thread Chris Despopoulos
On 22Sep2012, at 2:17 PM, Chris Despopoulos wrote: I have a plugin that automatically saves a copy of each document as MIF...  This is a super-backup and you can then open the MIF in any version of Maker.  I just keep it running all the time.  Saves are a bit

Re: save as... FM 8 Mif

2012-09-28 Thread Chris Despopoulos
It's starting to get weird, how often this subject keeps coming up.  First, Maker 10 MIF should not have any problem opening up in Maker 8.  So there's no obvious need to actually produce Maker 8 MIF.  (Unless your work flow demands that the MIF actually be version 8.)  Second, I have a

Re: FM10 unstructured to knowledgebase

2012-10-19 Thread Chris Despopoulos
JOHN SAYS: We are going to move to knowledgebase-centered doc support for our products. An attempt at a MindTouch transition met with frustration and failure. SalesForce looks no more promising. Does anyone have experience with authoring in FM and publishing to a good knowledgebase? If I do

Re: Book-Vars type program for Conditions?

2012-11-01 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Well, I guess TemplateMapper would do what you want... But that may be overkill... cud From: Gillian Flato gillian.fl...@nexenta.com To: Chris Despopoulos despopoulos_chr...@yahoo.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com framers@lists.frameusers.com Sent: Thursday

Mif Wash FYI [was Re: Table that won't sort correctly: wash-up]

2012-12-10 Thread Chris Despopoulos
What MIF wash actually does is simply ignore any garbage in the file.  MIF is pretty much a text representation of the binary format.  But MIF interpretation is loose, so if there's any garbage in there, saving as MIF *might* write the garbage out, but it will certainly not read it.  In this

Re: Is FrameMaker 11 going down or is it a keeper?

2012-12-24 Thread Chris Despopoulos
FrameMaker 11 has reached a level to convince me to use it...  Since the switch to the new GUI, I had stuck steadfastly to Maker 8, but Maker 11 includes new structure/XML support that is quite worthwhile, and the GUI seems to have improved.  It's enough to convince me to go with 11, and

Re: Sorting paragraphs

2013-01-04 Thread Chris Despopoulos
There's every reason to have this capability...  Create a bullet list and then sort it...  Add new entries and sort it again.  The work flow would be, select a range of pgfs, and execute teh sort.  Many times I have had to convert to table, sort, then un-table the table.  Even if it doesn't

Re: Crash when i print from book

2013-02-19 Thread Chris Despopoulos
No clue based on numbers, but check for font problems... What are you printing to?  PS, PDF, Other???  I crashed on PDF generation because I had an old Courier font.  I forget exactly what the problem is (I'm dumb about fonts), but it had to do with that.  I pulled out all use of that font,

Re: Expand all elements in the Document view

2013-02-21 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Go here, and look for TreePrint: http://www.cudspan.net/plugins/ It's free.  It gives you a CudSpan Doc Tools menu.  Select the root of the tree you want to expand or contract, and choose the command. The only funky command in this is collapsing all attributes in a tree.  For some reason, you

Publish Ditamap

2013-03-06 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Where did the Publish option go?  Yesterday I published my ditamap to a single Maker document.  Today the menu option is greyed out.  What could have happened?  I'm trying my best to get Maker into a DITA work flow, but it sure aint easy.  Documentation would certainly help, but it's pretty

Re: Setting up files for structured use

2013-07-17 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Hi Dave... I haven't followed this thread closely, but I have to say that is VERY unusual that there would be a problem with Maker faithfully reading the read/write rules file.  If that's what's happening, then there must be an error in your installation and/or setup of the configuration

Conrefs... Shake out white, turn BLUE!

2013-07-31 Thread Chris Despopoulos
A reference to an old TV commercial for powdered cleanser.  You shake out white powder and it turns blue when it gets wet.  Conclusion?  This is the cleanser you should buy! I implemented conrefs in my DITA, and FrameMaker imports them wonderfully.  Except they TURN BLUE!  This makes about as

Re: Conrefs... Shake out white, turn BLUE!

2013-07-31 Thread Chris Despopoulos
You are the bomb, and I am forever in your debt.  All this, and no dead unicorns! Thanks... From: Writer generic...@yahoo.ca To: Chris Despopoulos despopoulos_chr...@yahoo.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com framers@lists.frameusers.com Sent: Wednesday, July

Re: mapping table mystery--or is it misery?

2013-09-18 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I think I recall copy and paste from Word doing that. If you reformat then the tag will no longer exist in the catalog. Actually, copy/paste from Word can cause even more mischief. I never paste directly from Word into Maker -- I always paste into a text editor to clean the stuff out, and then

Re: Engineers as authors

2013-10-07 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I think the first step is to determine the value proposition of the product.  Then determine how much of that value must come from the engineers, and how much your group can provide.  From there the responsibilities should shake out on their own.  This may be a negotiation, but I think it's the

Re: Looking for FrameMaker SGML Help

2013-11-14 Thread Chris Despopoulos
This could be utter baloney, but it might work...  Just change the declarations to XML declarations and try opening the files.  If you don't need to round-trip back to the SGML that might just do it for you...  Sloppy and funky, but what the hey? cud

Re: ExtendScript and FDK experts, please help

2013-12-14 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Becky Says: I have recently started working with a team of people new to Frame, but who have programming experience. We are trying to automate working with xml files that use a home-grown schema. We have files set up for successful opening and formatting in Frame 11.0.2.384 on Windows 7. We

Re: ExtendScript Scripting Guide Adobe FrameMaker ...

2014-03-20 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I'm very grateful to have this documentation! I really wish Adobe would put this information into the Object Model Viewer -- Either that or give me the source files and I'll do it!  The OMV uses XML for its data.  Eating the FrameMaker dog food, there's no reason you can't EASILY convert this

Socket-based Scripts (was URL Checker)

2014-05-02 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Rick says [Snip!] I wasn't aware of the Socket object, but I just tried your script and it works great! This opens up possibilities for some interesting applications. [Snip!] Indeed, this can get real interesting.  I while ago I developed a web app to manage variable definitions, and a GUI

Re: Is there a fast way to wrap unstructured text into [Para] tags?

2014-05-21 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Save the chapter as HTML, copy it, then use Smart Paste to paste it into a DITA topic.  Every P should translate into the correct DITA paragraph element (also a p) ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list

Re: Is there a fast way to wrap unstructured text into [Para] tags?

2014-05-22 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I'd say what you're doing wrongly is saving as XML first.  Save your unstructured doc as HTML, then copy/smart-paste into the body tag of a new DITA topic.  This is just a quick way to get lots of structure for free.  If you're talking about a novel, you should really have nothing but p tags

Re: Is there a fast way to wrap unstructured text into [Para] tags?

2014-05-23 Thread Chris Despopoulos
it for everything, including databases and cleaning your closet.  :) cud From: Theresa de Valence t...@bstw.com To: Chris Despopoulos despopoulos_chr...@yahoo.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com framers@lists.frameusers.com Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 1:52 PM Subject

Re: Is there a fast way to wrap unstructured text into [Para] tags?

2014-05-23 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Word = HTML = Structured Maker.  I think there's more promise in that use case. From: Rick Quatro r...@rickquatro.com To: 'Chris Despopoulos' despopoulos_chr...@yahoo.com; 'Theresa de Valence' t...@bstw.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com Sent: Friday, May 23

Re: Flare vs DITA

2015-04-14 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I'm sorry, but at a certain level this question is either too general (would require a collection of books to answer) or nonsensical (no context to base the comparison on).  I think the first question should be, what are you trying to achieve?  If all you want is an in-house process for a

Re: Flare vs DITA

2015-04-15 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Using Maker eliminates FO.  Instead, you set up a Maker template, and work in near WYSIWYG.  If you will use Maker, definitely, use structured Maker.  You could use a simplified structure -- not necessarily DITA.  For example, why not use XHTML?  Then you can make your PDF look like whatever

Maker 12 on Mac -- DITA to PDF, Links Broken

2015-06-10 Thread Chris Despopoulos
An odd problem...  I have a DITA publication, and I save as a Composite Document.  All is fine, except I have some hypertext links  implemented as markers on codeph text.  (That translates to text with a specific text format, ao it shold work like any hypertext marker.)  When I look at them in

Re: Maker 12 on Mac -- DITA to PDF, Links Broken

2015-06-10 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Did that, got the T-shirt.  No joy.  Also, the destination is external...  They're all links to external URLs.  This option just adds data to the potential destinations within the given PDF file. From: Rick Quatro r...@rickquatro.com To: 'Chris Despopoulos' despopoulos_chr...@yahoo.com

Re: [Framers] ExtendScript for save as text, for Git usage ?

2016-06-09 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Coming in late, but I want to chime in on MIF.  As I recall, MIF also includes object IDs, and they get generated every time you open a file.  Note that each object in your document has two IDs...  The ObjectID, which is what you usually use to access the object in a script or the FDK, and the

FM9: Resource manager bugs?

2009-12-08 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I'm glad (in an ironic sense) to see that I'm not the only person who is asking for the API to expose the GUI elements. In a more literal sense, I'm sorry to see it. Please, please, please... Expose the new GUI to the API so we can make plug-ins that interact reasonably with the user's

Flowing in Structured FrameMaker

2009-12-09 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I know you can automatically assign master pages to specific elements. So if you have a backmatter element, then you can assign the backmatter master page to that element. I forget whether that auto-master page feature is sensitive enough to respond to attributes. (I don't have Maker running

TCS2 Distiller license problem

2009-12-17 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I have the same problem, only with Acrobat. So far I've just been using everything but Acrobat, and not generating PDFs. Thank goodness for Reader and older versions of Maker. I haven't had the courage to try un-installing all the products and installing again. Somehow I doubt I'll ever

TCS2 Distiller license problem

2009-12-17 Thread Chris Despopoulos
version of the list. I'll give it a try... cud From: Art Campbell <art.campb...@gmail.com> To: Chris Despopoulos Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Sent: Thu, December 17, 2009 8:12:59 AM Subject: Re: TCS2 Distiller license problem First, the license u

TCS2 Distiller license problem

2009-12-17 Thread Chris Despopoulos
as the cost to purchase it? Sigh... I have to start actually gaining a living with my time now... cud From: Art Campbell <art.campb...@gmail.com> To: Chris Despopoulos Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Sent: Thu, December 17, 2009 8:12:59 AM Subject: Re

TCS2 Distiller license problem

2009-12-17 Thread Chris Despopoulos
licensing is as squirrely as a Chuck Jones cartoon. cud From: Mike Wickham <i...@mikewickham.com> To: Chris Despopoulos ; Frame Users Sent: Thu, December 17, 2009 10:49:59 AM Subject: Re: TCS2 Distiller license problem > I don't have any Acrobat

TCS2 Distiller license problem

2009-12-17 Thread Chris Despopoulos
You give me too much credit. As a closet anarchist, licensing is something I have never been able to understand. Also, I don't think this is a FrameMaker issue. I don't think enough people have tried to pirate Maker to warrant the expense of super-clever licensing schemes. Unfortunately

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