Acrobat moves callouts in anchored frames

2013-09-25 Thread Daniel Salter
I am working on a FrameMaker 7 (Win 8) document with callouts in anchored frames set up so that they can be dragged into precise position alongside text in the main flow. Seems kind of old school, but it works beautifully for this document -- except that Acrobat arbitrarily shifts all the call

MediaWiki to FrameMaker?

2011-07-12 Thread Daniel Salter
Greetings! I wonder if anyone could advise on the curiously backward-sounding task of exporting content from MediaWiki to (unstructured) FrameMaker? Any ideas would be most welcome... A tool that would coax xml out of Mediawiki seems like a starting place, as I believe the rest of the journey

MediaWiki and OLH?

2011-08-30 Thread Daniel Salter
Greetings! Am currently engaged in a project to move software documentation from FrameMaker to MediaWiki, and imagine some of you have enjoyed similar pleasures... I am wondering whether anyone could advise about a method of generating online help (formerly webhelp produced using FM and RoboHe

Re: Applying Paragraph Tags with F9 Not Working in Frame 10

2011-11-22 Thread Daniel Salter
On 11/19/2011 8:35 AM, Craig Ede wrote: Wouldn't it make sense for the focus be on whatever window your cursor is over, rather than having to click in something. That's the way I remember UNIX being. (Which took some getting used to, BTW.) But that was a*VERY* keyboard shortcut friendly OS. Crai

MediaWiki and OLH?

2011-08-29 Thread Daniel Salter
Greetings! Am currently engaged in a project to move software documentation from FrameMaker to MediaWiki, and imagine some of you have enjoyed similar pleasures... I am wondering whether anyone could advise about a method of generating online help (formerly webhelp produced using FM and RoboHe

MediaWiki to FrameMaker?

2011-07-12 Thread Daniel Salter
Greetings! I wonder if anyone could advise on the curiously backward-sounding task of exporting content from MediaWiki to (unstructured) FrameMaker? Any ideas would be most welcome... A tool that would coax xml out of Mediawiki seems like a starting place, as I believe the rest of the journey

Applying Paragraph Tags with F9 Not Working in Frame 10

2011-11-22 Thread Daniel Salter
On 11/19/2011 8:35 AM, Craig Ede wrote: > Wouldn't it make sense for the focus be on whatever window your cursor is > over, rather than having to click in something. That's the way I remember > UNIX being. (Which took some getting used to, BTW.) But that was a*VERY* > keyboard shortcut friendly OS.

Acrobat moves callouts in anchored frames

2013-09-25 Thread Daniel Salter
I am working on a FrameMaker 7 (Win 8) document with callouts in anchored frames set up so that they can be dragged into precise position alongside text in the main flow. Seems kind of old school, but it works beautifully for this document -- except that Acrobat arbitrarily shifts all the call