Curmudgeon's Corner: alternate pages

I would like to congratulate the correspondents recently discussing page numbering on alternate pages for getting it right. Alternate means by turns, or alternating between one item and another item, and so on. So many people seem to think it is a synonym of alternative. Not so: you can

Re: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

Bodvar and others: At Tuesday, 25/09/2007, 07:07 PM;, you wrote: IMHO it only remains for Adobe to realise that FM is also one of the best tools for regular book layout, Well, it will be if we ALL start screaming for @ working in double-spreads, i.e. -- photographs and

Academic pricing [was Re: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite]

Anyone know if academic pricing is available? -- Hedley Stewart Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Mobile +61 412 461 558, E-mail mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers

Don't forget Blaze [was Re: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite]

Eric: At Wednesday, 26/09/2007, 11:20 PM;, you wrote: On 9/25/07, Hedley Finger [1] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it will be if we ALL start screaming for So, everyone get on it: [2]http://www.adobe.com/support/feature.html How about someone re-write

Re: Easiest way to migrate from one FM template to another

Verner: At Thursday, 8/11/2007, 07:56 PM;, you wrote: I am using unstructured Framemaker. I am going to migrate from one FM template to a new one. The migration includes new names for paragraph styles in many documents. A problem with just importing formats is that all the old formats are

Re: oldie

At Tuesday, 5/02/2008, 07:05 AM;, you wrote: raises hand I've been on it since it was hosted on uunet; I forget what year. After that I recall three volunteer admins at different universities before Brad came along... ;-) Who else? Me, me, me! I've used FM from v. 3.0 on every platform

Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, and Auld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All.

Smart Quotes is on but when I press ' or , question marks (?) appear in Gentium Basic and Minion Pro fonts, not quotes. Gentium Basic was selected for testing because it is an Unicode conforming font that supports every alphabet based on roman or cyrillic glyphs, including accents. It is

SOLVED -- Re: Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, andAuld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All

All: At Tuesday, 12/02/2008, 04:38 AM;, you wrote: Your latest message must have been transmitted in MIME format. It came through silent. :) Now that I've got everyone's attention ... somehow that paste didn't happen and I sent off an empty message. Sorry if it didn't satisfy your humger

Re: Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, and Auld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All

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RE: FrameMaker 8 won't import SVG graphics correctly

Ursula: At Friday, 22/02/2008, 02:29 AM;, you wrote: Hi, Headley Hedley I didn't see a reply to your very interesting question on the list... [FrameMaker 8 won't import SVG graphics correctly] ... did you get any useful feedback privately? An Adobe employee emailed me that this was a bug

SOLUTION -- PERHAPS [was RE: FrameMaker 8 won't import SVG graphics correctly]

All: Original SVG from Inkscape consists of a screen capture to PNG plus some thin lines and some TrueType text. @ Direct import of *.svg by FrameMaker = strange white rectangles partially obscuring part of graphic. Thickness of hair lines varies. Appears to

Modularised EDDs?

Lynne Price, Kay Whatley and others: The DITA DTDs are modularised to allow ready re-use, specialisation and maintenance. Is there any way to create a modularised EDD, with a skeleton host file and modules imported as text insets? I have been studying the Adobe documentation for developing

Re: Modularised EDDs?

. Note that this is how the structapp stub files have been implemented in DITA-FMx .. the stub files themselves are invalid, but when imported as an inset into the structapps file, work fine. Cheers, Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Hedley Finger wrote: Lynne Price

Whither RoboHelp for FrameMaker, Adobe?

BlueSky turned into eHelp and developed RoboHelp for FrameMaker, an intuitive GUI oriented converter to generate RoboHelp from original FrameMaker files. Then MacroMedia bought eHelp to get their hands on Captivate, preserved RoboHelp (sort of) and dumped RoboHelp for FrameMaker. Then Adobe

Para size in struct doc overriding char size

All: I am using the DITA-FMx plugin for FrameMaker with EDDs derived from the DITA DTDs/schemas. The p element has a number of context-based format rules that specify various para formats dependent on context. When the context is not specified in the format rules, it simply defaults to the

More like a flicker than a Blaze

Blaze the FrameMaker killer? Don't make me laugh. What about a named style for everything? What about smart cross-references? What about variables? What about advanced search and replace for anything? What about diagnostic reports? XHTML, not even XML. No DITA. Adobe will be able to

Re: MadCap Blaze

Sharon: I concur with Bill. What I cannot understand is that this was trumpeted as a FrameMaker killer yet its functionality falls far below. FM is very powerful but still needs a lot of work. For one, the presence of so many indexing add-ons indicates that better indexing and index

Re: MadCap Blaze

Sharon: At Friday, 21/03/2008, 11:07 AM;, you wrote: you also have short line control, missing from FrameMaker. Is that the same as widows and orphans? Or is it when a small word, say all, turns over onto a new line at the end of a paragraph? If the latter, in FM most people just put a

RE: Start a Conflagration

Sharon and you'all: At Saturday, 22/03/2008, 12:18 AM;, you wrote: Blaze the FrameMaker killer? Don't make me laugh. Perhaps the expectations of us FrameMaker users were raised to high by maladroit early marketing bumf. And no doubt you did not expect such a negative reaction, fuelled mostly

Re: Fine tuning pagination

. This (2 x 8 pp = 16pp) section can be slit on the folder, and then bound in with the 16 pp sections. @Finally, just accept a few blank pages at the end of the book. Can you put some house adverts for products or services on these pages? Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street

burning eyes

? Or get an LCD screen that has no electrostatic field. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Convert HTML files to FrameMaker files

You can could try opening the HTML file in a late-model Word or OpenOffice.org, then save out as *.doc or *.rtf. Then you can open either in FrameMaker, complete with styles. You can use FM's style mapping to substitute desired styles. Regards, Hedley

Avoiding artefacts in Inkscape SVG -- FrameMaker, PDF

, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL

Re: FrameMaker 8.0.3 Update Now Available (POSSIBLE WORKAROUND)

was restored but at least the update ran to completion properly. (Adobe lurkers: should that be framemaker803-mul and does it matter anyway?) Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412

Re: Haven't we learnt anything about usability? [was Re: default reply-to-all ]

. I check the message I sent and discover that once again I've been fooled by Framers non-standard reply mechanism. Me, too! Sorry to me-too but I bet there are others who have fallen into this trap. -- Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3

Re: Color of table borders...

in the Table Designer. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ You are currently

Haven't we learnt anything about usability design? [was Re: default reply-to-all]

. -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob

[Fwd: Haven't we learnt anything about usability design? [was Re: default reply-to-all]]

and send the message. -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax

Adobe FrameMaker 8.0.4 failed to install

in the default directory on Windows XP, which itself has had all updates installed. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: New figure object [was Re: table and figure captions]

the plethora of plug-ins for common tasks telling you what functionality you should be incorporating?] It would be nice if a table/figure title could appear beside a table/figure, perhaps in the sidebar area of a page frame. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124

Upgrade to latest Tech Comms Suite?

. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL

Re: PDF Creation Add-on

to generate PDF files from FM documents. Who is right? Can you keep it and just use good old print to Adobe PDF virtual printer? Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley

Re: Best Indexing Tool for FrameMaker?

IXgen is idiosyncratic but offers many functions to help you get going, e.g. making automatic entries for all headings which you can then edit to make proper entries. In view of the many headings in user guides, etc. and the invariable chunking into short topics, this can help you produce a

Re: CMYK in Frame

which is good enough for most everyday non-critical colour jobs. As content gets re-used in many different contexts these days, your are future proofing your graphics by NOT storing them in CMYK. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3

Re: Outline

. Unfortunately, at this point it only works file by file. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger hfin...@handholding.com.au

Re: Outline

) has many advantages: you can use all the XML tools on the saved files but work in a friendly WYSIWYG environment. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley

Does FM9 support ligatures and true small caps?

. But you have to remember to do this on a copy of the publication or have a good version management system that allows you to roll back to a previous version! -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461

Resizing reference pages in FM 8

. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger hfin...@handholding.com.au ___ You are currently subscribed

Resizing reference pages in FM 8 [ADDENDUM]

welcome, the wilder the better. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger hfin...@handholding.com.au -- You are subscribed to the following list

Is it possible to install the trial Tech Comm Suite 2 beside TCS 1?

crafted FM8 set-up just to try out FM9. Has anybody succeeded in installing TCS2 or any of its components alongside TCS1? And successfully run each ... Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell

Anyone know where to find BeauxIX c. FM 6?

Google). Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 Skype: hedley.finger Email. Hedley Finger hfin...@handholding.com.au ___ You

Friends of FrameMaker: LinkedIn group for jobs

on Friends of FrameMaker as freely as you like and include promotional content and links not permitted on discussion forums. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 Skype

FrameMaker 9: Dialogues sizes

I haven't trialled FM9 yet, but if the various tiny dialogue windows are now (a) bigger and (b) resizable, those would be immense improvements. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell

More than lipstick on a pig

efforts should be directed? Take a look at Cindex, Sky Index, and Macrex to get a bit of a hint. Oh, and MultiTes too for vocabulary control of team indexing. Even InDesign indexing interface is better in some respects. -- Disillusioned in Melbourne) Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent

Strange FM8 character substitution

pages for scrolling through unpaged text, but Enhance has worked well in many other projects without this phenomenon occurring. Any idea what is causing this and how to fix it? Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call

Re: [Free Framers] Re: Strange FM8 character substitution

sporadic so results might be weeks or months. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 Skype: hedley.finger Email. Hedley Finger hfin...@handholding.com.au

Is FM8 -- FM9 worth the money?

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'Burning the bridges' sale

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[Fwd: 'Burning the bridges' sale]

of programming books -- see them by clicking the See other items http://search.ebay.com.au/_W0QQsassZhedleyfingerQQhtZ-1 link under my vendor name hedleyfinger http://myworld.ebay.com.au/hedleyfinger/ at the right upper corner of the eBay page. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street

How to kill annoying Adobe Update

, downloading Adobe Reader latest version and installing it would reinstall Adobe Updater. -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 Skype: hedley.finger Email. hfin...@handholding.com.au

Sheeply docked at Linux FrameMaker

, or can it run on Ubuntu? I have an ancient CD somewhere that has a trial Linux version at FM5.5.6. So does Linux rule OK or is it just Unix rules KO? Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412

FrameMaker to ePub; ePub readers and pinned graphics

into a bicycle nut! -- PLEASE UPDATE MY ADDRESS TO hedley.fin...@gmail.com IN YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS BOOK OR CONTACTS LIST Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 Skype: hedley.finger Email

Ghostscript [was 'Re: RE(2): FM10 does not output Adobe PDF']

OR CONTACTS LIST Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 Skype: hedley.finger Email. hedley.fin...@gmail.com ___ You are currently subscribed

RE: Those old book numbering blues

are for the numbering you want to restart for each chapter, e.g. figure, table, equation numbering, etc. Is this what you want? Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley

RE: Those old book numbering blues

=0 =0=0 =0 =0 See the section Using counters in autonumber formats in the Text formatting chapter of the User Guide. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia

Re: I'm lazy

Cripes! Rick must be a bigger mover and shaker than I thought. What with .frameexpert being a top-level domain up there with uk, au, cn, de, fr, etc! http://www.frameexpert/plugins/pagelabeler/ -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http

Keycaps fonts lose their already shady characters

or character format applies the keycaps font. So can someone at Adobe tell me why FrameMaker won't handle these fonts correctly as displayed in Character Map and in the font viewer when you double-click the font file in the Windows Font folder? -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools

Fw: Keycaps fonts lose their already shady characters

of caps are slightly smaller, like small capitals. Many grovelling apologies to whoever needs some at the moment. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court

So will Adobe release RoboHelp for FrameMaker ? 8^)

... seeing as how Adobe acquired the code when it took over Macromedia. Or will Adobe just open-source it? -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park

maker.ini entries for Line End Options dialogue

arrows? Examining the maker.ini files in my home directory and in the FrameMaker directory doesn't reveal any obvious or even obscure entries. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC

Re: Exporting RTF or MIF from InDesign

Of course, if export to FM from InDesign was implemented, certain wild-eyed types would immediately assume that Adobe were going to discontinue InDesign in favour of FrameMaker. Moo-err-h-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! [think Vincent Price]. -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes

RE: Technical Writing Suite From Adobe

, and Word. Sob! Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151 Australia mailto:hedleyDOTfingerATmyobDOTcom Tel. +61 3 9222

Re: FrameMaker convert to CMYK on output to PDF? Convert to CMYK via Plug-in during Pre Press?

it with a stick). For example, l Link‘$paratext’ on page\ $pagenum/ where / is equivalent to Default Para Font. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley

Opening all text insets in all components in a book ... phew!

me Adobe are working on this right now for the mythical (?) v 8.0. You can imagine the benefits for spell-checking, etc. globally over the entire content of a publication, and other global tasks, e.g. fixing cross-references, etc. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools

File type has changed (???) when Open Source text inset

of FM -- result: no File type changed. Anybody got a handle on this one? Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood

RE: Methodology for Source Code Control

the size of the repository to balloon. Actually, Subversion would we worth looking at as an FM version control system. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court

RE: Going nutso' with a phantom cross-reference

your SQA (whatever that is -- I came in late). Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151 Australia

Re: how to enlarge conditional text window

, Hedley P.S. Hacking the dialogues is so easy (at least up to FM 7.1) that you wonder why Adobe hasn't assigned the work-experience programmer to do it for ALL those annoyingly tiny dialogues. -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http://myob.com/au

Re: how to enlarge conditional text window

help myself.] Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151 Australia mailto:hedleyDOTfingerATmyobDOTcom Tel. +61

How to download Adobe updates

When I launch FM on Windows XP, an alert informs me that FM is checking for updates, but then an error message states that a file could not be downloaded. This is probably because of IT admin's firewall policies. Are there alternative ways of getting these updates? -- Hedley Finger Technical

RE: Can User Variable value be changed at book level?

$volnum to a fixed value for all the selected components in the group. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood

Re: Cond Text in a text inset

of condition indicators, and whether condition indicators are on or off will override those in the text inset, whatever their state in the text inset. That is, provided you have allowed the host formats to override those in the text inset when you import it. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Training

Acrobatlateral thinking : Implement simultaneous multiple releases [was RE: Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0]

running. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151 Australia mailto:hedleyDOTfingerATmyobDOTcom Tel. +61 3

RE: Acrobatlateral thinking : Implement simultaneous multiple releases [was RE: Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0]

, just as I do with FrameMaker 7.0. Regards, Hedleyu -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151 Australia

Where is www.frameusers.com?

Firefox (where do they get these names?) and Internet Explorer v. 7 are just showing a blank page for http://www.frameusers.com/, not even the Site under reconstruction message. What gives? Or have I been transported to an alternative universe where it no longer exists? -- Hedley Finger

RE: Difference between us and international english Framemaker

we standardize on? Both. Use conditions. Regards, Hedley * A.k.a. the right way. ** A.k.a. the wrong way. -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business

Re: Grouping Definitions

...) Hedley -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151 Australia mailto:hedleyDOTfingerATmyobDOTcom Tel. +61 3 9222 9992 x 7421, Mob

Re: Ipsum Lorem?

You can install a Lorem Ipsum generator in Firefox called Dummy Lipsum. -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151

FrameMaker 5.5.6 Word InDesign help needed

assist in this conversion please contact Mary Ann directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or by calling mobile 0425 794 949 (+61 425 794 949). Thanks, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia

Re: FM 7.1 Compatibility

Will: he had some OLE issues but that is not surprising. You don't need OLE. Import graphics by reference. If you double-click on them, they will open in the associated graphics program. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty

RE: Asking a favor

an acronym he/she would also write what it stands for in parentheses at least once The approved nomenclature for acronym is TLA or YAA -- Three-Letter Acronym or Yet Another Acronym. 8^) Hope this amuses, if not helps. -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB

Re: First Hurdle

. Otherwise, you should look at Advantica Sourcerer or West Street ABCM (= A Better Condition Manager? H), which both apply conditional attributes the proper XML way. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au

Re: Frame's future

that there is a crying need for a decent indexing interface on a par with Cindex or Sky Index. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East

Third-party or out of the box plugins [was re: Frame's future]

page numbers but if, say, the pagination is radically different in a new edition (think of the various paperback, hardcover and coffee-table edition of Dava Sobel's Longitude) the index has to be manually recompiled! Truly! -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB

Re: Third-party or out of the box plugins [was re: Frame's future]

the bonnet, Google doesn't work too well with your Haynes repair manual.. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood

Re: Third-party or out of the box plugins [was re: Frame's future]

to information retrieval. But EVERYBODY knows how to use a back-of-the-book index -- even if it is on-line! And they will probably print out just the pages they need to fix the warp drive. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http

Re: Character format enhancement, Was: Find / Replace special

relative to the host size Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151 Australia

Re: Structured Frame saving XML

matter. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151 Australia mailto:hedleyDOTfingerATmyobDOTcom Tel. +61 3 9222

RE: Structured Frame saving XML

As well as the other suggestions re read/write rules, perhaps you could turn Smart Spaces off. -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East

Re: looking for a way to automate alignment in tables

-- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151 Australia mailto:hedleyDOTfingerATmyobDOTcom Tel. +61 3 9222 9992 x 7421, Mob. (cell

Hyperlink marker gotcha to be aware of

-known limit. -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151 Australia mailto:hedleyDOTfingerATmyobDOTcom Tel. +61 3 9222 9992 x

The living dead: RoboHelp for FrameMaker walks among us!

http://www.adobe.com/support/robohelpframemaker/downloads.html No doubt this link had already been posted on the lists and I'm the last to know -- as usual. -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC

Re: Job Opening: Long-Term Contract Publications Production

might be doing some other work for someone else in the 10-15 hours per week beyond your 30 hours? Are they going to drop that and come in whenever at your whim? Get real. -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371

Re: Footnote placement improvement for practical and aesthetic reasons

but until a few things are fixed (like interfacing to BiblioText, etc) it ain't going to happen. In fact, press a few more buttons and you can get me ranting about how FrameMaker should always work in double spreads -- balancing facing short pages would be a good start. -- Hedley Finger Training

What is the situation with regards to buying used versions of FrameMaker?

FrameMaker 7.2 was the last version I used, but the licence belonged to my employer. Now I want to start using it again but don't want to pay for 12.0. But there may be people out there who have successively upgraded to 12.0 who still have a 10.0, 9.0, or 8.0 installer CD in a drawer which is no

Re: What is the situation with regards to buying used versions of FrameMaker?

official at Adobe who can give a definitive answer. I am now living on a pension so cannot afford either the educational or full price of a new release. Regards, Hedley On 8 December 2014 at 09:59, Hedley Finger hedley.fin...@gmail.com wrote: FrameMaker 7.2 was the last version I used

More than lipstick on a pig

efforts should be directed? Take a look at Cindex, Sky Index, and Macrex to get a bit of a hint. Oh, and MultiTes too for vocabulary control of team indexing. Even InDesign indexing interface is better in some respects. -- Disillusioned in Melbourne) Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent

Strange FM8 character substitution

pages for scrolling through unpaged text, but Enhance has worked well in many other projects without this phenomenon occurring. Any idea what is causing this and how to fix it? Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call

[Free Framers] Re: Strange FM8 character substitution

tead of using the \x? notation. Let's see if that works. Very sporadic so results might be weeks or months. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel: +61 3 9809 1229 Fax: (call phone first) Mobile (cell): +61 412 461 558 Skype: hedley.finger Email. "Hedley Finger"

Does FM9 support ligatures and true small caps?

. But you have to remember to do this on a copy of the publication or have a good version management system that allows you to roll back to a previous version! -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +6

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