Structured Frame Help
Hi guys I haven't used Framemaker for about 7 yrs (unfortunately) and only used unstructured Frame in V5.5 Does anyone out there have some source templates, or a small book example of a structured doc? I need to get up and racing pretty quickly and I figure using an existing example is always the easiest way. I have Framemaker 7.1 right now but will be moving to V8.0 next week and utilising the DITA mapping as well. So rather than panicking I'm screaming for help. any help is appreciated. bye for now Rose This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Structured Frame Help
Rose, Try Googling for framemaker tutorials. One of the hits will take you to http://www.io.com/~tcm/etwr2472/guides/frame/frame_basics.html. A fairly decent online tutorial. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of roconn...@netspace.net.au Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 5:52 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Structured Frame Help Hi guys I haven't used Framemaker for about 7 yrs (unfortunately) and only used unstructured Frame in V5.5 Does anyone out there have some source templates, or a small book example of a structured doc? I need to get up and racing pretty quickly and I figure using an existing example is always the easiest way. I have Framemaker 7.1 right now but will be moving to V8.0 next week and utilising the DITA mapping as well. So rather than panicking I'm screaming for help. any help is appreciated. bye for now Rose This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as dspre...@yahoo.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/dspreadb%40yahoo.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Structured Frame Help
Hi Rose... Sorry to have not responded sooner. If you're on FM7.1 and want to start messing around with DITA authoring, you can use our free version of DITA-FMx (supports FM7.1 and 7.2). The 0.0 version of DITA-FMx provides you with structured apps and some sample files and will let you get into DITA authoring in Frame. It doesn't offer all of the features that are in the 1.0 version of DITA-FMx (but provides more authoring features than you'll find in FM8). When you do get FM8 up and running, you might want to check out DITA-FMx 1.0 which provides integrated access to the Open Toolkit plus lots of nice authoring features. If you're using DITA-FMx (any version) you can email us for help. :) Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 roconn...@netspace.net.au wrote: Hi guys I haven't used Framemaker for about 7 yrs (unfortunately) and only used unstructured Frame in V5.5 Does anyone out there have some source templates, or a small book example of a structured doc? I need to get up and racing pretty quickly and I figure using an existing example is always the easiest way. I have Framemaker 7.1 right now but will be moving to V8.0 next week and utilising the DITA mapping as well. So rather than panicking I'm screaming for help. any help is appreciated. bye for now Rose This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Structured Frame Help
Hi Rose, All of our training materials are available here (two unstructured and three structured courses): http://wiki.scriptorium.com The examples are written for v7 but will also work in v8. As the content is editable, we hope that the community will participate in updating this resource for v9. Regards, Sarah O'Keefe roconn...@netspace.net.au wrote: Hi guys I haven't used Framemaker for about 7 yrs (unfortunately) and only used unstructured Frame in V5.5 Does anyone out there have some source templates, or a small book example of a structured doc? I need to get up and racing pretty quickly and I figure using an existing example is always the easiest way. I have Framemaker 7.1 right now but will be moving to V8.0 next week and utilising the DITA mapping as well. So rather than panicking I'm screaming for help. any help is appreciated. bye for now Rose This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as oke...@scriptorium.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/okeefe%40scriptorium.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Sarah O'Keefe Scriptorium Publishing Services, Inc. oke...@scriptorium.com www.scriptorium.com Blog: http://www.scriptorium.com/palimpsest ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Structured Frame Help
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:52:04 +1100, roconn...@netspace.net.au wrote: I haven't used Framemaker for about 7 yrs (unfortunately) and only used unstructured Frame in V5.5 Does anyone out there have some source templates, or a small book example of a structured doc? I need to get up and racing pretty quickly and I figure using an existing example is always the easiest way. I have Framemaker 7.1 right now but will be moving to V8.0 next week and utilising the DITA mapping as well. So rather than panicking I'm screaming for help. If you want to move to DITA in structured Frame, there are two basic methods. With Frame alone, you can prepare a conversion table and get DITA 1.0 structure in Frame 7.x and 8. If you want DITA 1.1, which we highly recommend over 1.0, you need Frame 9, *or* Leximation's DITA-FMx, which now supports 1.1 in FM7.2, FM8 and FM9 (but not in FM 7.1). Actually, you need DITA-FMx in any case, just to fix Frame's numerous DITA bugs: http://leximation.com/dita-fmx/beta.php (And Scott's support is excellent!) You can also use Mif2Go to convert UNstructured Frame files (from any version since 5.5.6) to DITA 1.1 (or 1.0, if necessary). Most people seem to find that much easier than the conversion-table route (where you can't get to 1.1 without FM9 in any case). There's a free unlimited demo version of Mif2Go at: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm So what we'd suggest is use Mif2Go to get from your FM 7.1 docs to DITA 1.1, then when you have Frame 8, use DITA-FMx 1.0 to move the DITA files into (and out of) structured Frame. Once you are in structured Frame, you'll want to make your PDFs within Frame, not via the DITA-OT, unless you also want to become an XSLT and Java programmer. g And you can still use Mif2Go to make on-line HTML help; it's much faster and easier than the DITA-OT for that. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. jer...@omsys.com http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Structured Frame Help
Rose, Try Googling for framemaker tutorials. One of the hits will take you to http://www.io.com/~tcm/etwr2472/guides/frame/frame_basics.html. A fairly decent online tutorial. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of roconnor1 at netspace.net.au Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 5:52 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Structured Frame Help Hi guys I haven't used Framemaker for about 7 yrs (unfortunately) and only used unstructured Frame in V5.5 Does anyone out there have some source templates, or a small book example of a structured doc? I need to get up and racing pretty quickly and I figure using an existing example is always the easiest way. I have Framemaker 7.1 right now but will be moving to V8.0 next week and utilising the DITA mapping as well. So rather than panicking I'm screaming for help. any help is appreciated. bye for now Rose This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as dspreadb at yahoo.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/dspreadb%40yahoo.com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Structured Frame Help
Hi Rose... Sorry to have not responded sooner. If you're on FM7.1 and want to start messing around with DITA authoring, you can use our free version of DITA-FMx (supports FM7.1 and 7.2). The 0.0 version of DITA-FMx provides you with structured apps and some sample files and will let you get into DITA authoring in Frame. It doesn't offer all of the features that are in the 1.0 version of DITA-FMx (but provides more authoring features than you'll find in FM8). When you do get FM8 up and running, you might want to check out DITA-FMx 1.0 which provides integrated access to the Open Toolkit plus lots of nice authoring features. If you're using DITA-FMx (any version) you can email us for help. :) Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 roconnor1 at netspace.net.au wrote: > Hi guys > I haven't used Framemaker for about 7 yrs (unfortunately) and only used > unstructured Frame in V5.5 > > Does anyone out there have some source templates, or a small book example of > a > structured doc? I need to get up and racing pretty quickly and I figure using > an existing example is always the easiest way. > > I have Framemaker 7.1 right now but will be moving to V8.0 next week and > utilising the DITA mapping as well. So rather than panicking I'm screaming > for > help. > > any help is appreciated. > bye for now > Rose > > > > > This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au > >
Structured Frame Help
Hi Rose, All of our training materials are available here (two unstructured and three structured courses): http://wiki.scriptorium.com The examples are written for v7 but will also work in v8. As the content is editable, we hope that the community will participate in updating this resource for v9. Regards, Sarah O'Keefe roconnor1 at netspace.net.au wrote: > Hi guys > I haven't used Framemaker for about 7 yrs (unfortunately) and only used > unstructured Frame in V5.5 > > Does anyone out there have some source templates, or a small book example of > a > structured doc? I need to get up and racing pretty quickly and I figure using > an existing example is always the easiest way. > > I have Framemaker 7.1 right now but will be moving to V8.0 next week and > utilising the DITA mapping as well. So rather than panicking I'm screaming > for > help. > > any help is appreciated. > bye for now > Rose > > > > > This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au > > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as okeefe at scriptorium.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/okeefe%40scriptorium.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > > -- Sarah O'Keefe Scriptorium Publishing Services, Inc. okeefe at scriptorium.com www.scriptorium.com Blog: http://www.scriptorium.com/palimpsest
Structured Frame Help
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:52:04 +1100, roconnor1 at netspace.net.au wrote: >I haven't used Framemaker for about 7 yrs (unfortunately) and only used >unstructured Frame in V5.5 > >Does anyone out there have some source templates, or a small book example of a >structured doc? I need to get up and racing pretty quickly and I figure using >an existing example is always the easiest way. > >I have Framemaker 7.1 right now but will be moving to V8.0 next week and >utilising the DITA mapping as well. So rather than panicking I'm screaming for >help. If you want to move to DITA in structured Frame, there are two basic methods. With Frame alone, you can prepare a "conversion table" and get DITA 1.0 structure in Frame 7.x and 8. If you want DITA 1.1, which we highly recommend over 1.0, you need Frame 9, *or* Leximation's DITA-FMx, which now supports 1.1 in FM7.2, FM8 and FM9 (but not in FM 7.1). Actually, you need DITA-FMx in any case, just to fix Frame's numerous DITA bugs: http://leximation.com/dita-fmx/beta.php (And Scott's support is excellent!) You can also use Mif2Go to convert UNstructured Frame files (from any version since 5.5.6) to DITA 1.1 (or 1.0, if necessary). Most people seem to find that much easier than the conversion-table route (where you can't get to 1.1 without FM9 in any case). There's a free unlimited demo version of Mif2Go at: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm So what we'd suggest is use Mif2Go to get from your FM 7.1 docs to DITA 1.1, then when you have Frame 8, use DITA-FMx 1.0 to move the DITA files into (and out of) structured Frame. Once you are in structured Frame, you'll want to make your PDFs within Frame, not via the DITA-OT, unless you also want to become an XSLT and Java programmer. And you can still use Mif2Go to make on-line HTML help; it's much faster and easier than the DITA-OT for that. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/
Structured Frame Help
Hi guys I haven't used Framemaker for about 7 yrs (unfortunately) and only used unstructured Frame in V5.5 Does anyone out there have some source templates, or a small book example of a structured doc? I need to get up and racing pretty quickly and I figure using an existing example is always the easiest way. I have Framemaker 7.1 right now but will be moving to V8.0 next week and utilising the DITA mapping as well. So rather than panicking I'm screaming for help. any help is appreciated. bye for now Rose This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au
