OT: Alternative to WWP

2008-04-07 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
l help files. How do you merge them? I don't. I view each in a browser tab, and flip back and forth as I please. If I need them side by side, I open a new browser window. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Mif2Go Question -- No .hhp file produced

2008-04-07 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
tions] WriteHelpProjectFile=Yes then a new .hhp would always be written, overwriting the previous one. It's possible he's set an HHPFileName that can't be written because it's on a nonexistent drive, or points to a directory where he lacks write permission, or is an invalid file name. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

finding Mif2Go macros to replace WWP functionality

2008-04-10 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
x27;d be happy to include them in the User's Guide, and in a macro library file that would be part of the distro. We don't actually have WWP ourselves, so we'll need the help of those migrating to Mif2Go from WWP to do that. Thank you for raising this issue! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Batch Mif to FM Conversion Tool

2008-04-28 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
license restrictions. One simple way to accomplish something close to this is to rename the .mif files to .fm. Frame doesn't care; when you open one, it opens normally, and when you save it, it saves as .fm binary over the .mif. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

ANN: Job seeking

2008-12-02 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
nk it is at least useful for us all to see how >the job market is from time to time. I think it's entirely appropriate, considering the current world economic situation. >(Please don't send any condolences -- this is not the end of the >world -- yet!) The end of one world may

Source Control for Frame

2008-12-09 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
oking for text content comparison, you could SaveAs plain text, and archive *that* in CVS or SVN. Then you'll get it working the way programmers do, which could actually be helpful. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

ANN: Job seeking

2008-12-11 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
n. >Every thought about taking over for what's-his-name at GM?.:) LOL! No thanks! He dug his own grave, but we shouldn't put all the employees who had no part in that in there with him. IMHO. All the best! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-11 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
FM7. If you do use it, test *very* thoroughly, and look in odd corners like variable definitions, xref formats, and those numbering strings. You may be fine, but it's best to find out early if you're not. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

FM 8 Apostrophe Problem

2008-12-15 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
lem, and that solved it for me. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

FM 8 Apostrophe Problem

2008-12-15 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
a non-English keyboard. If you want the >actual straight character versions, you have to use >Ctrl-` and Ctrl-'. That's the same as in FM7. For the record, I'm still using 8.0p273, because of the reported issues with p277 when it came out (posted on Framers). That may make a difference. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Graphics Fundamentals

2008-12-25 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
phics will not have their original names, because Frame discarded those on import. (Word does better; it keeps them. ;-) But they *will* be in the original format, most likely EPS in your case, and the process is very fast and automatic; you can do a full book at once. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griff

Text insets question

2008-12-31 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
space at the *end* of the line where the inset is anchored, before you import the inset. IIRC, that's the trick. All the best! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

XHTML or CALS tables?

2008-02-01 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
-) CALS is also the preferred choice in DocBook, the most mature of the common XML formats, although DocBook has added support for the HTML table model too. In Mif2Go's DocBook output from Frame, you can select either one; we have customers using both. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni

oldie (was: keep with next para)

2008-02-04 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
t universities before Brad came along... ;-) Who else? -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

maker.ini OpenDirOnStart: How can I prevent it from being updated?

2008-02-14 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ou could use: setini "C:\path\to\maker.ini" Directories OpenDirOnStart "X:\path\you\want" in your bat file before opening Frame. Note that the quotes are only needed if the paths contain any spaces. The Mif2Go demo version is available at: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

List of Effective Pages (LEP)

2008-02-16 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
-user license, $300 for a site license, and is available for FrameMaker 6.x and 7.x on Windows and Macintosh. >From Silicon Prarie, <http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/>. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Cross References:using text that is not that linked to

2008-02-19 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
referencing paragraph at the text you want to use as the hotspot. Apply a character format to the hotspot text, including the gotolink marker. Then the hotspot text will act like a cross-reference in your PDF or HTML output. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

FM8: Converting Asian FM7 files to Unicode

2008-02-01 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
Unicode encodings such as FrameRoman, JISX0208.ShiftJIS, BIG5, GB2312-80.EUC, and KSC5601-1992, which were supported in earlier versions of FrameMaker. But that only worked for GB2312, not for the other two. Anyone have any ideas? Has anyone actually managed to convert an existing FM7 Asian doc to F

cudspan dobatch plugin problem (FrameMaker crashes)

2008-01-04 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
d to install the demo version: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm We use it ourselves for producing the User's Guide PDFs and other formats. If you set up a .bat file with the runfm command, and put a shortcut to it on your desktop, you get one-click production of your PDFs, possibly several

Converting Framemaker to Word

2008-01-08 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
han with Word's broken default numbering method. And it's *very* fast. Try the free unlimited demo version (which replaces random words with phrases from Jabberwocky) and see for yourself: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Converting Framemaker to Word

2008-01-10 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
header/footer usages. >Once it's set up, it works very fast and does a good job. Thanks again! ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Table Footnote question

2008-01-12 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
irst to Row First. Your footnotes will be renumbered accordingly. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

including automatic numbering in cross references and TOC entries

2008-01-30 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
they appear without the "To". How can >I tell FM to include the autonumber "To"? Your xref format includes the token <$paratext>. Add the token <$paranum> just before it. For the index entry, I presume you mean the text automatically put into the marker

pulling an image from an FM file

2008-06-01 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
uts, montages, etc., are retained, but the resolution is generally much worse than the original was. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

best graphic type to use for WINhelp4

2008-06-07 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
resolution at which they were taken, 96DPI; more or less will result in unreadable text. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

saving marker and topic title during Mif2GO processing

2008-06-17 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
liasTitle=No This is implemented in the beta h285i.zip, now available at our download sites. We credited you for the idea in hist52h.txt. Download the beta, unzip it, and copy the dwhtm.dll in it to your \windows\system32 dir over the existing copy. Thank you very much for this enhancement suggestion! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Pop-up on hypertext in a pdf document/hypertext?

2008-06-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
;, shows a popup link. Naturally, you have to allow the popups in your browser for them to work. If you want a popup in non-Help HTML, you need to use JavaScript. Mif2Go also supports inclusion of arbitrary JS wherever you want. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Possible MIF -> FM bug in FM 8.02 (p273)

2008-03-08 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
e, since the line breaks are reset anyway upon loading the MIF. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Possible MIF -> FM bug in FM 8.02 (p273)

2008-03-12 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:45:45 -0500, "Alison Carrico" wrote: >This could end up being an issue for my company. Do you know if it >happens with v7 MIFs when opened with v8? Since the bug specifically affects UTF-8 sequences, and those are not used in Frame 7 MIF, it seems unlik

FM abruptly closes with no save

2008-03-18 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ity" on Mif2Go is that it can have just such undesirable side effects. Just a thought about where to look, Adobe. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Export a FM book to single Word file?

2008-03-20 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
Frame files in Word. In addition, Mif2Go produces top-quality HTML and XML (including DocBook and DITA), plus numerous Help formats, from unstructured as well as structured Frame, and can be fully automated. It's also fast and inexpensive. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Extracting copied-in graphics from documents

2008-05-02 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ility". Word *does* retain the names of the graphics it embeds, so you will get back WMFs containing Word's internal representation of each image named "originalname.wmf". HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Extracting copied-in graphics from documents

2008-05-02 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm it is *free*, with our blessings. What's not to like? ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

PDF Generation with runfm.exe of OmniSystems Inc.

2008-05-06 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
27;t work that way, runfm won't work either. You can also tell runfm to write even more diagnostics by adding: -diag to your command line, and you can save the messages to a file: -log logfile.txt New messages are appended to the file, so you can use the same file for many sessions. If you specify -log with no name, we use mif2go.log in the current directory. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Mif2Go - FM graphic sizing issue when outputting to HTML

2008-05-06 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ely, then re-import as above. See par. 29.2.3.2, "Exporting embedded graphics before converting". HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

default "reply-to-all" (was Re: FrameMaker 8.0.3 Update Now Available (POSSIBLE WORKAROUND))

2008-05-14 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
to detect and prevent such loops, not every listowner has implemented them, and one such incident can cause most of the listmembers to depart fast... never to return. As a listadmin myself, I consider that a Very Bad Idea. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

What version of Frame to Get Started ?

2008-05-15 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
mple. If they claim "new", and you cannot register with Adobe because it wasn't, file a claim against them with eBay, PayPal, *and* your credit-card provider immediately on grounds of fraud. Lots of people have shrinkwrap machines. ;-) eBay gives new meaning to "caveat emptor"... -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

What version of Frame to Get Started ?

2008-05-15 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
or can't/won't take a credit card *directly*, forget it. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

roundtrip documentation and help (Framemaker/Robohelp - chicken or egg?

2008-05-21 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
nctionality for print and PDF outputs. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Disappearing Paragraph Tags from status bar

2008-05-22 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
leared and you get the normal status bar back. Maybe you only removed one DLL, m2gframe.dll, so that the plugin was left in a broken state? -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Mif2Go Prev and Next navigation macros

2008-11-05 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
. Is there a way I can do this? It's not really necessary. We had a similar system before the rewrite of the <$_prev>/<$_next> code, and it was hard to maintain. That's one of the main reasons we made this enhancement. If you continue to have any problem with this, please send us a trimmed-down test case, like a book with two or three one-page files, so we can help you further. Include the .book, .fm, .mif, both .inis, .prj, and *all* output files (including the log), all in one .zip. We'll look into it promptly. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Mif2Go: removing CRLF from CodeStore content

2008-11-17 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
he result would be assigned to the var at the start of the macro var expression. We've already built this, but would like to test it with your case before posting a new beta. Could you kindly send us a one-page test case, including the .fm, .mif, .prj, both .inis, and all output files,

MIF2Go issues

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
te any help. Your mif2htm.ini file looks fine. If you still have any problems, do write us directly. ;-) HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Odd keyboard behavior

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
non-English keyboard. If you want the actual straight character versions, you have to use Ctrl-` and Ctrl-'. That's the same as in FM7. Other characters in the 80-9F range are handled more gracefully. If you use the Ctrl-q sequences, you get the real Unicode character, mostly in the U+2000 area. Ctrl-q is your new best friend. ;-) HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Odd keyboard behavior

2008-10-16 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
for me, and seeing what Frame puts in the MIF, it's hard to understand how it could work for anyone... If you want to send me a Frame file with an example of some you put in that way, I'll see if there's a difference viewing it here. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Odd keyboard behavior

2008-10-16 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:37:02 -0700, "Jeremy H. Griffith" wrote: >If you >want to send me a Frame file with an example of some you put in >that way, I'll see if there's a difference viewing it here. Dr. Winifred Reng sent me one, and provided the clue that nailed th

Odd keyboard behavior

2008-10-16 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
d it doesn't for me. Totally reproducible. >BTW: I am using the U.S. version 8.0p277, in English only, on a Windows >XP SP3 system.) I'm still using 8.0p273, because of the reported issues with p277 when it came out (posted on Framers). Maybe they fixed it then... -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Underlining index entries

2008-10-22 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
e page named IX, and find the line(s) containing <$pagenum>. Apply a character format to that whole line with the properties you want. Save, regenerate the IX from the book, and all your page numbers (but not the index entry text) will have the properties you set. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

MadCap Flare

2008-10-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
urcing from Frame, like ePP, and unlike RH (even in TCS) or Flare. Not to mention being way less expensive than any of them... HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Two-column layout and large graphics

2008-10-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
the left column below the graphic, then continue to top of the right >column, then below the graphic in the right column. > >Is there a way to do that in FM? Not that I know of. But another possibility would be to set such graphics to go always to the top (or bottom) of the page. Then t

Two-column layout and large graphics

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
d standby is to use a one-celled table to package the frame and the caption, if the more limited table placement options work for you. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

ADVANCED QUESTION

2008-10-29 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
our job. You can get the handle of the topmost window there, but Windows itself has no idea what Frame is displaying at that point, and Frame won't tell you in the FDK. Hmmm... ;-) Good luck! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Batch production of PDFs

2008-10-31 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
e wasn't a free utility around to send an email with an attachment from the command line... ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Unable to Build FM Book from Ditamap using Framemaker 8 and XP SP3

2008-10-31 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
s a 30-day free trial, and provides excellent support. Highly recommended for anyone seriously using DITA in structured Frame. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Server-based (hosted) documentation and user comments (DocBook?)

2008-10-31 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ion on that point, see: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/message/12132 HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

MIF to SGML/XML

2008-09-03 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
, and you may get more precise assistance. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

InDesign as a replacement for Framemaker

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
o do was copy from their colleague? Guess what; it doesn't happen. We have more license purchases for *additional* copies than for singles. If you treat people as honest, they *are*. If you treat them like criminals, well... you say more about yourself than about them. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

ePublisher Pro vs. other generated online help

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
and we think produces better output. Try the free unlimited demo, and see for yourself: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm >Thanks for any "help" on the help anyone has time to give! HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

FM8 HTML output

2008-09-13 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ys.com/dcl/download.htm And Mif2Go comes with the best free support in the industry; who else fixes bugs on the spot (not "in the next version"), and adds features you ask for overnight? See the history.txt file there for numerous examples of those enhancements, with the names of those

Reference graphic to Character format

2008-09-15 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
char p to a graphic: n = x25a0 p = You can download the free unlimited demo version of Mif2Go, and the User's Guide in numerous formats, from: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Odd cross-ref substitution 7.2

2008-09-15 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ed doc; if the markers and anchors took up space, the rendering would be thrown off. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

ePublisher Pro vs. other generated online help

2008-09-18 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
e free copies, with full support, to the unemployed and academics, is that the corporate world supports us very well indeed. >So that's the sad story. Because webworks is the only game in town, >they can get away with their Draconian licensing practices. Only as long as *you* choose to support those practices. ;-) All the best! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

conversion tables

2008-09-24 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
horough. You can download the User's Guide in numerous formats (including DocBook itself ;-) from the same page. The same method, BTW, works nicely for moving from unstructured to structured Frame using DITA. We worked with members of both OASIS TC's developing it... HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

FW: Russian Frame->ePublisher problem

2008-09-24 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
it (free): http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm It's a lot less expensive than the ePP upgrade, and does more for you. IMHO. ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Mif2Go Content Models

2008-09-25 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
lesson on why programmers should not write docs. Mea culpa! The primary Mif2Go doc, the 1000-page User's Guide, is much better, because it was written by a real TW. Imagine that! ;-) Please feel free to write us directly if you have any other problems! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

ePublisher Pro vs. other generated online help

2008-09-25 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
example, I'm not going to post about FrameScript because I know Rick will, and he's the expert on it. But I will post about FM8 Unicode issues that are unrelated to conversion because I know those very well. Thank you, Rick, for a clear and cogent analysis! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Problem printing Unicode Character

2008-09-26 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
code page system was made to provide access to characters within an 8-bit space, and it required remapping of various groups of Unicode characters to fit into that space. Frame 7 and earlier supported that, but Frame 8 does not. Even if you have to replace some fonts, it's best to move on. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

FrameVector graphics

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
p://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm In the User's Guide, see par. 29.2, "Converting and exporting graphics", for more considerations and instructions on that. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Importing files into FM8

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
Explorer window, right? Try reversing the name sequence in Explorer by clicking on the Name header before you select them. When I do that here, I get them added to the book in the same order as in the Explorer window, regardless of how I select them (click/ shift-click or multiple ctrl-clicks). H

Graphics Fundamentals

2009-04-03 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
save it in its originally-imported (into Frame) format, with a new name. Just try it and see what happens. You don't have to know the format in advance, just tell Mif2Go to export everything, including OLE objects, and see what you get. ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Framescript to remove all images (but leave the AFrames)

2009-04-08 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
thers with this issue, it also works fine in the demo version; you don't need to buy a copy of Mif2Go to use it for this purpose. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Framescript to remove all images (but leave the AFrames)

2009-04-09 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
he referenced graphics will have *exactly* the same settings as the embedded ones do. You will not see any visible difference at all. But your Frame file will be a lot smaller, and more stable. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Using the FDK to manipulate Graphics in FrameMaker 7x...

2009-04-09 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
export the OLE facets with Mif2Go (which can be done using the free demo version), you can rename them form .ole to .vsd and they will work. >Thanks for any info or experiences... HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Usage of WebWorks (ePublisher)

2009-04-16 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ular HTML output, then create the index, toc, project file, alias and map files by hand, or at best do it with HTML Help Workshop, which is almost as bad. If the client is merely trying to save money by using a "free" tool, we'll *give* her a copy of Mif2Go. Nobody should have to

Usage of WebWorks (ePublisher)

2009-04-17 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
t what they were demanding. Perhaps. ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Usage of WebWorks (ePublisher)

2009-04-17 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
few seconds for my program to fix them up. They went back to work on the easier-to-use system... much happier. My point? It's *not* that easier is worse. It's that every tool has its use, and if you master them all, you are better off than those who limit themselves to one. Even if you

Usage of WebWorks (ePublisher)

2009-04-17 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
get me started... ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Working with MIFs in Frame

2009-04-27 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
MIF. This actually opens the .fm files (it's fine that they are really MIF), resaves as MIF, reopens those, and saves them as .fm, all in a second or two, for the whole book. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Frame-to-PDF mini-docs

2009-04-27 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
TML files to Frame or Word, and making the PDFs from there). The Mif2Go part is easy, but the next step may require scripting of some sort (JS, VBA, FrameScript) to avoid a lot of manual work. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Cross-ref formats

2009-08-04 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ator is exclaiming instead. Use the one that describes the situation more accurately. I'd even revise the first one so as to remove all doubt, as: ---I don't know why she said "No!". which makes it clear that the speaker, not the narrator, was doing the exclaiming. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Cross-ref formats

2009-08-05 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
saving to discard the template changes from it. Mif2Go then proceeds with the conversion using the MIF. So you never forget to apply a template. ;-) It also does updates and generates the book before conversions, if you set it to. Those changes *do* persist. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffit

Upgrading FM from 7.1 to 9

2009-12-02 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
gnificant... but that's your call. ;-) HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Disappearing anchored frames: strange FrameMaker bug

2009-12-04 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
void the sort of pain you are experiencing now. It may seem to take longer to do it that way, but it gives you a nice stable document, and that's well worth it. Even at this point, you might still consider that, but after you've put a lot of work in it's harder to bring yourself to

Disappearing anchored frames: strange FrameMaker bug

2009-12-07 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 08:44:33 +, Steve Rickaby wrote: >At 13:44 -0800 4/12/09, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: > >> >the only unusual thing about this book is that >>>the source files were brought in from Word via RTF >> >>That could very likely be the culprit

DITA File - FDK Programming

2009-12-11 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
on: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/frame_dev/ I'm not familiar with the APIs for structure, but many others there are. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Something that makes no sense in spell check

2009-12-22 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ace. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Footnote Out of Sequence

2009-02-02 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ve amount for space above the table. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Frame reference book

2009-02-05 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
Frame 8, "Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 8", ISBN 9780970473349, at: http://www.scriptorium.com/books/fm8/unstrfm8.html In addition, they offer their workbooks for free on a wiki: http://wiki.scriptorium.com/tiki-index.php HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

PDF to Word Conversion

2009-02-09 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
m and see for yourself if it will work for you. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Replace a para tag throughout book?

2009-02-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
imited demo version of Mif2Go is available at: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm You might want to wait until tomorrow; we're putting a new upgrade (53) on the site later tonight. ;-) HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

converting email addresses to hyperlink

2009-01-01 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
uot;insert hypertext", but wwhere do I go fromn there? You want a hypertext marker with: message URL mailto:name at company.com HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

FrameMaker/ePublisher issue

2009-01-05 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
s Wood references to find Unicode equivalents, which *all* browsers should support. HTH! HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Opinions on FrameMaker Content Management Systems

2009-01-07 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
every revision) and went to storing the binaries in CVS instead. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Does FM crash on Large files on a regular basis?

2009-01-08 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
rmat, losslessly. You do not have to buy Mif2Go to do this, just install the demo: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm The User's Guide has detailed instructions in par. 2.5.2, "Replacing embedded graphics with referenced graphics". HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Does FM crash on Large files on a regular basis?

2009-01-08 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ase you can set: [GraphExport] MultipleOLE=Yes and we'll output *all* of them. This is in the User's Guide par. 29.2.3.7, "Setting export options for OLE objects". HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

MIF2Go: specifying anchor names

2009-01-09 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ased... Sure, that's what you'll get by default. But try to talk the fo//person out of it; at least, make clear that your ongoing repair time will be billed at full rate, not provided as a free "bug fix". ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Alignment of graphic and text elements in a table format

2009-01-10 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
nstead of above it. Then you can further tweak the frame's vertical position with "Distance above baseline", which can be negative. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Saving Frame files as HTML - with graphics as jpg

2006-03-21 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
7;d still need to convert the EPS graphics separately to get decent resolution. However, we name graphics by their Frame ObjectIDs, which do not change unless you *copy* and paste the graphic into another location (*cut* and paste keeps the same ID). So you would avoid surprises. ;-) HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

MS Manual of Style -- this month's guest at the Hmmm... corner

2006-03-30 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:56:18 -0800, "Gillian Flato" wrote: >Actually, I know that the Microsoft Tech Writers >use Frame and not Word. And many have a site license for Mif2Go, too... ;-) Not our biggest customer (that's Lucent), but in the top five... -- Jeremy H. Grif

Tool for XML -> Online Help

2006-05-02 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
n information: http://www.helpstuff.com That said, for single-sourcing from Frame, there are really two choices: Mif2Go (our product), and WebWorks Pro. Both have free eval versions, and you may want to try both: http://www.omsys.com/ http://www.quadralay.com/ HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

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