Conference: Technical Communication UK, 2009

://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ While the conference is primarily aimed at UK/European delegates, anyone is welcome to attend. Best regards, Martin Ley -- Martin Ley, BSc FISTCTel: 01638 744173 Em-Dash Publications Mob: 07803 297354 84 High

Motivating end users to read the training manual

Hi Gariner, I produce training manuals for a company in Cambridge. I suggest that you try and organise some training sessions for the engineers themselves, based around your documentation (or perhaps create a special 'engineer-friendly' version which doesn't make them feel they're being

Frame 9 crashes printing book file to AdobePDF

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FrameMaker 9 Issues

it can't be - it must be Frame-specific. Any clues as to what's going on? Martin Martin Ley, Em-Dash Publications 84 High Street, Burwell, CAMBRIDGE, CB25 0HD T +44 1638 744173 M +44 7803 297354 W em-dash.com E

Subject: RE: FrameMaker 9 Issues

Solved: I had edited my maker.ini file, but not realised that Wordpad is not the best tool for the job - it destroyed the file's UTF-8 format, which was causing my problems. Restored from a backup, and everything is hunky-dory again. So, when editing maker.ini, ensure you use something like

Cambridge UK, job for technical author

decided that they have enough work for a full-time author. If you decide to apply, please mention that you heard about the job from me. Martin Ley Martin Ley, Em-Dash Publications 84 High Street, Burwell, CAMBRIDGE, CB25 0HD

Frame/PDF crashing again after Acrobat update - reapply hotfix

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Frame/InDesign

getting fairly complicated Frame book files working in InDesign. Conditional builds, text insets, variables, markers, tables, etc etc. light blue touchpaper stand well back await flack Martin Martin Ley, Em-Dash

Conditional text in Frame 9

Folks, I'm running FrameMaker 9 (all the updates) on XP SP3, and have noticed a conditional text gotcha: I have an entire paragraph in one condition. If I place the cursor at the end of that paragraph and hit return, the end-of-paragraph character (pilcrow) goes unconditional, but the _new_

Re: Conditional text in Frame 9

Hi Rick, Sounds like a plan - thanks for getting back to me on this. I won't go off list yet, as others may be interested or have more comments (apologies if you get this twice, therefore). If we can crack it, though, I would be definitely interested in a FrameScript. Your initial suggestions

Text insets

Desktop for Mac. Old (dead drive) Mac had 8GB RAM. This one only has 3GB (so reconfigured Parallels to cope). Martin Ley Martin Ley, Em-Dash Publications 84 High Street, Burwell, CAMBRIDGE, CB25 0HD T +44 1638 744173

FrameMaker 9 Issues

it can't be - it must be Frame-specific. Any clues as to what's going on? Martin Martin Ley, Em-Dash Publications 84 High Street, Burwell, CAMBRIDGE, CB25 0HD T +44 1638 744173 M +44 7803 297354 W em-dash.com E

Subject: RE: FrameMaker 9 Issues

Solved: I had edited my maker.ini file, but not realised that Wordpad is not the best tool for the job - it destroyed the file's UTF-8 format, which was causing my problems. Restored from a backup, and everything is hunky-dory again. So, when editing maker.ini, ensure you use something like

Conference: Technical Communication UK, 2009

://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ While the conference is primarily aimed at UK/European delegates, anyone is welcome to attend. Best regards, Martin Ley -- Martin Ley, BSc FISTCTel: 01638 744173 Em-Dash Publications Mob: 07803 297354 84 High

Motivating end users to read the training manual

Hi Gariner, I produce training manuals for a company in Cambridge. I suggest that you try and organise some training sessions for the engineers themselves, based around your documentation (or perhaps create a special 'engineer-friendly' version which doesn't make them feel they're being

Frame 9 crashes printing book file to AdobePDF

try uninstalling those, to see if it helps (but I doubt it). Thanks in advance, Martin -- Martin Ley, BSc FISTC Em-Dash Publications 84 High Street Burwell Cambridge CB25 0HD martin at em-dash dot com --

Frame/PDF crashing again after Acrobat update - reapply hotfix

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Cambridge UK, job for technical author

decided that they have enough work for a full-time author. If you decide to apply, please mention that you heard about the job from me. Martin Ley Martin Ley, Em-Dash Publications 84 High Street, Burwell, CAMBRIDGE, CB25 0HD

Frame/InDesign

getting fairly complicated Frame book files working in InDesign. Conditional builds, text insets, variables, markers, tables, etc etc. Martin Martin Ley, Em-Dash Publications 84 High Street, Burwell, CAMBRIDGE, CB25 0HD

Conditional text in Frame 9

Folks, I'm running FrameMaker 9 (all the updates) on XP SP3, and have noticed a conditional text gotcha: I have an entire paragraph in one condition. If I place the cursor at the end of that paragraph and hit return, the end-of-paragraph character (pilcrow) goes unconditional, but the _new_

Conditional text in Frame 9

Hi Rick, Sounds like a plan - thanks for getting back to me on this. I won't go off list yet, as others may be interested or have more comments (apologies if you get this twice, therefore). If we can crack it, though, I would be definitely interested in a FrameScript. Your initial suggestions

Text insets

Desktop for Mac. Old (dead drive) Mac had 8GB RAM. This one only has 3GB (so reconfigured Parallels to cope). Martin Ley Martin Ley, Em-Dash Publications 84 High Street, Burwell, CAMBRIDGE, CB25 0HD T +44 1638 744173