I'm trying to simplify a template I inherited (without changing its
appearance) in order to reduce the amount of cleanup required when
exporting to various formats.
The First page layout has three frames: a small box at the top left
that contains only the chapter number, to the right of that a
No reason. If there's some way to format the autonumber a la CSS so it
floats in the same place as the current first frame that would work
too.
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:10 PM, rebecca officer
rebecca.offi...@alliedtelesis.co.nz wrote:
Why stick with two boxes?
Cheers
Rebecca
Robert
Clever idea, but it I can't figure out how to make it work. The
ChapNum frame is 1.0 wide. If I try to set a tab stop at 1.0, saving
the paragraph tag fails with The tab position is too far to the
right.
If I set the stop to .99, the first two characters of the heading are
in the ChapNum box, and
I've got this working, though it's a kludge.
One of my goals here is to eliminate the need to break documents up
into chapter files, so I can't use $chapnum.
For the chapter number, I have a background text frame with a Running
H/F variable defined as $paranumonly[ChapName].
The ChapName
I've been cleaning up a complicated, crufty template I inherited by
starting with a very clean generic template and importing the elements
I'm actually going to use.
I'm pretty much done, but in the new template all paragraphs are
aligned at the left side head margin. The paragraph tag settings
I brought up a frame's properties in Body Pages view and Room for Side
Heads was unchecked, so I checked it, and that fixed it throughout the
document (single flow).
Is that expected behavior when you change to a master page with side heads?
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Robert Lauriston rob
I've been working 4-8 hours a day in FrameMaker 10 for the past few
weeks, first time I've used it heavily since the radical UI changes in
FM9. Are these known bugs? It's hard for me to believe they haven't
fixed them. Windows 7 64-bit SP1. I don't have any of the following
problems with any of
Yeah, I did use Apply Master Pages, seemed like it didn't update the
Room for Sideheads setting. I set it manually for one text frame on a
body page and the whole flow was updated.
I guess the trick is, if I want to switch between templates by
importing formats and running Apply Master Pages, I
I've inherited a couple of docs in FrameMaker that have for some years
been delivered in both PDF and plain text and am obliged to continue
doing that.
As far as I can see from the source, working directories, and so on,
the PDF was generated from FrameMaker, and the text version was
maintained
I checked the FM 10 help option called something like Display in
browser (as opposed to Community help which I presume is AIR Help).
Now when I try to access the help I get this error message in my
browser:
No webpage was found for the web address:
This might help (I don't think it has been updated for 10.0:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/9.0/CharacterSets/character_sets.pdf
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Alison Craig
alison.cr...@ultrasonix.com wrote:
I need to able to Find/Change:
“: “ (colon space) and replace it with
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I've inherited a couple of docs in FrameMaker that have for some years
been delivered in both
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I checked the FM 10 help option called something like Display in
browser (as opposed to Community help which I presume
Is there some way to restrict the character set in FM10 to US ASCII?
If not, how about a utility to check text files for invalid characters?
It's surprising to me how hard it is to single-source PDF and ASCII
from the same FM source.
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Using FM in unstructured mode, I haven't encountered any
significant-to-me changes since version 6 outside of the undo command
in 7.2 and the radical UI change between 8 and 9,
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Eduardo F. Cidade Sr.
ecid...@zoominternet.net wrote:
My team and I are going to
TOC paragraph tags in this project have a single Right tab stop at the
right margin.
If a heading is just the wrong length, only the page number is bumped
the next line and appears at the left margin. If it's enough longer
that a word wraps to the next line, the page number is at the right
place.
Uh, I meant putting a hard return in the heading, not a non-breaking space.
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote:
TOC paragraph tags in this project have a single Right tab stop at the
right margin.
If a heading is just the wrong length, only the page
Turns out FM10 has that built in. Save As Text Only and select
Encoding: ASCII. Any invalid characters are replaced with ?.
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote:
Is there some way to restrict the character set in FM10 to US ASCII?
If not, how about
.
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Thanks, that's
?
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote:
FM10's Save As Text Only doesn't do any indenting, so parts of the
resulting file are harder to read than users are used to.
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Lizak, Samantha
samantha_li...@mentor.com wrote:
Never
I don't think my tabs getting stripped out has anything to do with
MIF2Go. I think it's a bug in the old Word text-with-layout converter
I'm using. I changed all the autonumber formats to use spaces and it's
working fine.
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I have three paragraph tags, heading 1, paragraph, and Note.
heading 1: Above Pgf: 14pt, Below Pgf: 14pt, Line Space: 14pt, Fixed
paragraph: Above Pgf: 14pt, Below Pgf: 14pt, Line Space: 14pt, Fixed
Note: Above Pgf: 14pt, Below Pgf: 0pt, Line Space: 14pt, Fixed
None of these tags has a frame
For the record, FM10 MIF2Go RTF Word Save As Text with
Layout is working.
I created a second book for the text version since it has different
front matter. There's only one file in the book so I don't have to
combine output files. I pull in the text from the other book using a
text inset.
There are no extra paragraphs, trailing spaces at the end of
paragraphs, tables, or images in the document.
Format Page Layout Line Layout: nothing checked.
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Experimenting, I set the Note tag to exactly match the paragraph tag
to exactly the same settings on all tabs of the Paragraph Designer
except for Numbering. They still don't behave the same.
There are no extra paragraphs, trailing spaces at the end of
paragraphs, tables, images, or format
Aha. The extra lines were coming from three-point empty paragraphs.
Nothing to do with formatting except that somebody who worked on this
doc spent way too much time on it.
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This template that I inherited uses a code character tag to make
commands in headings appear in monofont (Courier New).
The hypertext links on the TOC entries end at the first font change.
If the first word is default font and the second is code, or
vice-versa, only the first word is a link.
Is
OK, known issue. Probably known by me a few years ago, even.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/316000
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote:
This template that I inherited uses a code character tag to make
commands in headings appear in monofont (Courier New
Is there a FrameMaker add-on or PDF post-processing utility to work
around that problem?
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote:
OK, known issue. Probably known by me a few years ago, even.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/316000
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 3
Have yiu exported to .mif and looked at the string it's not finding?
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 5:55 AM, wendy_le...@goodyear.com wrote:
Carol knows my pain.
Thanks for the suggestions, but
one flow.
no text frames.
no text insets.
no conditional text
not looking for non breaking spaces
Is there an easy way to remove an unused condition tag from all files in a book?
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(and instructive).
Best of luck.
Craig
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Very slick tool, thank you. Took me a couple of tries to figure out
the UI but it was fast and easy once I figured it out. I still had to
save the .book as .mif and delete the unused conditions there.
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Georg Eck e...@squidds.de wrote:
Hi Robert,
please download
I'm looking into automating a time-consuming build process and am
curious if anyone has done this successfully. I know how to do it
(I've done similar things in the past with DZbatcher, ANT, etc.), I
just don't want to start the project if I know that it's not possible,
or if these are the wrong
A vague notion that XML might have some benefits unsupported by any
research is not a sane reason for investing the massive amount of time
and effort required to migrate your source from one format to another.
And if you are considering migrating, you should evaluate other tools
besides
Is there any documentation of FrameMaker 10's command-line options?
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Win7 32 or 64? I've encountered many compatibility problems with the
latter, would switch to 32 if it wasn't such a pain.
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Rob Shell rsh...@iafrica.com wrote:
Hi Framers:
I have taken to watching FM9 crash using task manager and winternals.
What struck me is
For future reference, with minor changes,
FM_INSTALL_DIR\Samples\ScriptsAndUtilities\Conditional
Text\FM_Outputs_CondText.jsx that comes with FM10 handles step 2. The
rest isn't really relevant to this list.
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote:
I'm
The HyperText syntax is message URL mailto:...;
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Theresa de Valence t...@bstw.com wrote:
In a Frame to pdf document, how do I put in an email address so that
clicking on it opens the viewer's email? I.e. I know that it can be created
(e.g. t...@bstw.com), but
Here's the topic:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4307244
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Reng, Dr. Winfried wr...@tycoint.com wrote:
Hi,
In the FrameMaker forum on the Adobe web-site Kapil Verma,
the product manager for Framemaker, asked for feature requests
(see below).
If you miss
I think with FM using those hex codes is more reliable than pasting
characters into the Find/Change dialog or using the Windows
Alt-numeric keypad sequences.
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Mike Wickham i...@mikewickham.com wrote:
You can use these hex values inside the find dialogue. They can
In FM10, at least, you have to set each .fm file individually. You can
do that with one command: open the book file, select all files, bring
up the PDF options, set job options.
Did that setting used to be at the book level? I don't remember having
had to do that in FM8 and earlier.
On Fri, Mar
It seems like in FM10, each .fm file has its own PDF settings. I had
the same confusion about why my changes weren't being saved until I
figured out I had to select all files in the book and then set the
options.
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:36 AM, LGLists li...@techcomplus.com wrote:
Hmm, don't
In my observation, with FM10, when the focus is on a book file and I
select Format Document PDF Setup, the Include Paragraphs and
Don't Include lists on both the Bookmarks and Tags tabs include all
tags from all .fm files, regardless of which file(s) I currently have
selected in the book.
I got nowhere when I was trying to understand how to create an FM10
project using XML source. Everything I found either seemed to be out
of date or was aimed at experienced users.
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Cal Callahan cala...@san.rr.com wrote:
I was just part of a FrameMaker discussion
I noticed that just yesterday in FM10. Eventually I started watching the
page numbers and manually saving and going on to the next file when it
restarted.
Seems like a bug to me, as does FM's long-standing tendency to change the
search scope from Book to Document on its own.
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012
Yes, I think that's true. If you just click buttons in the Find /
Replace box it doesn't loop.
I wish I had a copy of FM6 or 7 around to compare the old behavior.
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Lea Rush l...@astoria-pacific.com wrote:
I’ve seen it do that if I click out of the Find/Replace
I think that's more work than should be necessary, I'd try copying in
Excel, paste special in Word, copy, and paste in FrameMaker,
experimenting with various choices (HTML, RTF) when pasting in Word.
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Writer generic...@yahoo.ca wrote:
I can't test this idea
Usually my selected printer is Adobe PDF since the main thing I do
with FrameMaker is generate PDFs. I printed some redrafted pages
today, so I selected a LaserJet. I forgot to change back to Adobe PDF,
and the next time I updated the book, I got an error that FrameMaker
was recreating the TOC.
FM10 apparently deleted the TOC file and created a new one, reverting
some of the settings, such as page numbering, to defaults. I've had
this happen a few times with FM10.
Good idea on printing the PDF, given the potential problems with
changing printers.
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Combs,
I can't speak to FM10 specifically, since I installed it as part of
TCS 3.5, but I can't count how many times I've had to reinstall
Acrobat Standard / Pro after installing FrameMaker.
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Is your printer set to Adobe PDF? If not, set that and try again.
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Rob Shell rsh...@iafrica.com wrote:
... several but not all of the non generated chapters will not distill,
they crash at the same point. ...
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How big are the individual insets and how much variation is there among manuals?
Will the individual customers' manuals need to be updated or are they one-offs?
Not counting third-party add-ons, there are at least three ways to
handle such variations:
1. conditional text (much more flexible in
I posted this on the Adobe FrameMaker Scripting forum but got no
response so far.
I'm trying to automate generation of PDF and WebHelp from the same
FrameMaker source
I have a FrameMaker ExtendScript that sets conditional text for PDF,
updates the book, generates PDF, sets conditional text for
I have the same environment, but I've never seen those. The only tool
tips I see are for toolbar buttons.
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Tammy Van Boening
tamm...@spectrumwritingllc.com wrote:
Framemaker 10, Win-7, 64-bit.
I have looked at all the options under File Preferences, and I
I encountered what sounds like the same problem. The key for me is
never to change the selected printer from Adobe PDF. If I need to
print, I save as PDF and print the PDF.
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Lavoie Jean-Philippe
jpla...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I came across an interesting
I don't believe so, but you could easily write a batch file to consolidate them:
copy header.htm + ch01.htm + ch02.htm ... + footer.htm all.htm
Put the XHTML header and footer lines in header.htm and footer.htm.
Configure MIF2Go not to include the header and footer lines from the
output. I think
Am I the only person who never sees them except for toolbar buttons?
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Johan Anglemark
johan.anglem...@iar.com wrote:
Yes, same here. I've given up trying to find somewhere to turn them off.
Setting FilePreferencesInterfaceTool Tips to Hidden doesn't help.
If the links work in Acrobat Reader on a local drive on Windows, maybe
PDF Expert doesn't support named destinations. Have you tried Adobe
Reader for iPad?
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adobe-reader/id469337564?mt=8
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:47 PM, David Artman da...@davidartman.com wrote:
When
I have a 200-page book with a simple template and consistent
formatting I can save as a monolithic .html file with no problem.
I also have a 1000-page legacy book with a complicated template and
inconsistent formatting, when I try to save that as .html FM10 churns
away for a while, then appears
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FWIW I've got a MIF2Go setup that exports MindTouch XHTML, I can paste that
into a MindTouch page
I've had similar problems with FM10. Sometimes the problem is that
objects are appearing behind other objects (usually a document window,
sometimes another pod) instead of coming to the front. Try resizing
the document window or moving it around to see if there are things
hiding behind it.
For future reference, I posted full details in Adobe's RoboHelp
FrameMaker Integration forum: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/980779
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote:
For future reference, with minor changes,
FM_INSTALL_DIR\Samples\ScriptsAndUtilities
In that case, the translation agency screwed up. They should fix the
incorrect paths at no additional cost to your company.
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Menahem Rosen menahem.ro...@objet.com wrote:
They got the whole file structure to begin with. What I need to get back are
only the
I think the French directory needs to contain all 100 files in order
for Update Document To Use New Path to work.
Too bad Windows doesn't have proper aliases.
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Nancy Allison ma...@verizon.net wrote:
I have retaken screen shots from our UI in French, giving them
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Shmuel Wolfson shmue...@gmail.com wrote:
- In the Find/Change dialog box: I would like the search text to be
highlighted when I press CTRL+F, so that instead of having to click in the
text box, erase the previous text and type new text, I could simply press
See LicenseFAQ.html in the FrameMaker program directory.
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Is there some way to search a directory tree for .fm files with change
bars, or to clear all change bars from all .fm files in a tree?
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You should probably post that to the FrameMaker forum topic, I don't
get the impression that anyone from Adobe reads this list:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4377975
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:32 AM, meg miranda megmira...@yahoo.com wrote:
My appologies, I didn't take the time to find the
I don't know about FM9, but in FM10, I can open the .book file, select
all the files, and select View Track Text Edits [Preview Final |
Preview Off].
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Alison Craig
alison.cr...@ultrasonix.com wrote:
I've looked and failed to find another apply to all in book
The two aren't exactly integrated, but I've found that RoboHelp 9
works well with FrameMaker 10 source. What problems have you
encountered?
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Jenny Hecker jenny.hec...@infor.com wrote:
I would love to see a good integration from RoboHelp - FrameMaker in TCS. ..
I've found RoboHelp 9 surprisingly painless for publishing Web help
from FrameMaker 10 source.
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:09 PM, jaloren28 for...@adobe.com wrote:
As long as one stays strictly within book-to-PDF only paradigm, FrameMaker
is awesome. The moment you go outside of that FrameMaker
You might want to check out:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/framemaker-dita/
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Katrina Owens
katrina.ow...@psymetrix.com wrote:
Hi,
I am currently evaluating a number of tech auth apps required to produce PDF
and context-sensitive Javahelp through single
Whether the free (Foundation) version is any different as regards
CMS Connection I don't know, but in general people have reported mixed
results:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4340736
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4390897
Personally I've had almost no luck getting SharePoint to do anything
Omni Systems released MIF2Go 4.0 last week. (It's an add-on for
FrameMaker, competes with Flare, RoboHelp, and WebWorks.)
This is the first major upgrade in a while. In addition to a lot of
bug fixes (many previously distributed as patches), installation is
simplified and you no longer need to
You can't do a diff between two versions of an .fm file in SharePoint, either.
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Joseph Lorenzini jalo...@gmail.com wrote:
... The only downside is that because FrameMaker files are binary, there is no
way to do SVN diffs between two different versions of the same
Is there a utility that will check a FrameMaker book and report
duplicate heading names?
I'm working on migrating from FrameMaker to Confluence, and duplicate
heading names would cause problems.
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I'm working with around a thousand pages here. That would not be practical.
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:34 AM, srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com wrote:
You could use Special List Of Paragraphs (Alphabetical) for all your
headings (or repeated Lists, one heading at a time), and then scan through
EditPad Pro's my text editor of choice, never seen that feature.
What's it called?
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Rick Quatro r...@rickquatro.com wrote:
You could generate a list of paragraphs, save it to a text file, and use a
text editor that can sort lines and show duplicates. I use
Is anyone else working on exporting from FrameMaker to Confluence 4.x,
or actually doing it using anything other than Confluence's Word
import (which is slick but has some serious bugs) or WebWorks (which
generates Confluence 3.x wiki markup rather than 4.x XHTML)?
Skimming an alphabetical list of a thousand or more headings is not a
very efficient or reliable way for me to find duplicates.
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Combs, Richard
richard.co...@polycom.com wrote:
The suggestion was to create an alphabetical list. So it will already be
sorted in
Is there some way to suppress the page numbers in a FrameMaker 10 list
of paragraphs?
As a workaround I could format them with tabs and use that to strip them.
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I've evaluated a number of DocBook and DITA authoring tools. With
Oxygen XML, which is the easiest I've tried, I created a sample
project and generated output within ten minutes. It took me somewhat
longer in XMetal but it wasn't hard.
FrameMaker 10 is by far the most opaque putative DocBook /
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Is anyone else working on exporting from FrameMaker to Confluence 4.x, or
actually doing it using anything other than Confluence's Word
That sounds like manual coding with a text editor. I expect more from
an authoring tool.
I know enough about DocBook and DITA that I could be immediately
productive with Oxygen XML or XMetal. In contrast, FrameMaker looks
like two weeks or more of downtime while dealing with the lack of
Oh yeah, of course. At the end of the reference pages for the
generated paragraph list file there's an APL page that defines the
output. Thanks.
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:53 PM, MamaRed Knight
jerilynne.kni...@gmail.com wrote:
Robert...I'm not a version 10 user AND if the logic from previous
Are you using Confluence 3.x or 4.x? The work I've been doing is
irrelevant to 3.x, which requires wiki markup.
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Syed Zaeem Hosain
(syed.hos...@aeris.net) syed.hos...@aeris.net wrote:
Thanks, Jeremy. I will take a look at his efforts to do this.
I already have
Thanks but that was for Confluence 3.x wiki markup rather than 4.x
XHTML, and as you can see from the comments at the bottom of the page
the project was abandoned without achieving its goal.
I'm pretty sure I've found everything there is online regarding
FrameMaker and Confluence migration /
I was only evaluating FrameMaker 10's XML / DocBook / DITA features to
see if it made sense to use XML source instead of .fm for new
projects.
Nobody pointed me to DITA-FMx. Sounds like it would be worth
evaluating if I needed to do DITA.
If I did not already own FrameMaker the need to buy a
Excel has a find duplicates feature, that works fine for my purposes.
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Search your hard drive and see if FrameMaker's saving the scripts in
some unexpected place.
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:32 PM, eric_isaac...@selinc.com wrote:
What is the point of the Favourite Scripts portion of the Script Library in
Frame 10 if the scripts disappear when I reopen Frame?! Am I
How about importing formats to all files in the book with the remove
overrides option checked?
This seems like a bug in the Font pod.
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Nancy Allison ma...@verizon.net wrote:
Hi, all.
I've just discovered the nifty Fonts pod in FrameMaker 10 (we jumped from 7.1
In which MIF attributes are the old font names lingering?
This really sounds like a bug.
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Nancy Allison ma...@verizon.net wrote:
Solution!
1. Save the file to .mif.
2. Open .mif in Notepad.
3. Replace old font name with new font name.
4. Save .mif.
5. Open
What are you doing when you get that message? Are you working with
files on a network drive or CD-ROM?
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Rob Shell rsh...@iafrica.com wrote:
FrameMaker can't create new file for writing
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I've inherited a 1000-page unstructured FrameMaker doc that's
delivered as PDF and RoboHelp-generated WebHelp. The RoboHelp project
has no content other than the FrameMaker book.
Some of the content was not turning up in searches. On investigation,
it appears that one of my predecessors wrote
Sounds like FrameMaker has lost track of Acrobat 9. You probably need
to reinstall or repair Acrobat.
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Alison Craig
alison.cr...@ultrasonix.com wrote:
When I try Save as PDF I get the following message: To execute Save as PDF
command you must have Acrobat
If you're talking about the drawing tools:
http://www.prismnet.com/~tcm/etwr2472/guides/frame9/frame_graphics.html
The tools are relatively crude. I prefer to create drawings in another
program and import them.
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Deirdre Clancy
deirdre.nicfhlanncha...@gmail.com
In FrameMaker 10.0.2.419, date building blocks work only in system
variables. In user variables, they display as literals minus the first
angle bracket, e.g. $monthname.
Anybody else seen this?
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Oh, wait, that's just standard documented behavior, you can't use
building blocks in user variables. It's been so long since I needed to
modify a date format that I forgot.
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote:
In FrameMaker 10.0.2.419, date building
As I said in my original post, Webworks generates Confluence 3.x wiki
markup rather than Confluence 4.x XHTML.
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Georg Eck e...@squidds.de wrote:
Hi Robert,
WebWorks ePublisher would be a great decision:
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