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When I generate WebHelp output with a FrameMaker-to-ePublisher Pro workflow, the conversion tool automatically creates Next Page and Previous Page buttons that the reader can click to navigate through the document.Flare doesn't seem to provide that feature. It does have something similar called "Topic Continued" and "Topic Continued From . . ." links, which you set on the Options page of the

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We use ePublisher Pro and FrameMaker 7.2 to produce WebWorks Help 5.0. The search functionality in this output is a bit quirky and not quite like what you might expect if you're used to doing Web searches. For example, putting quotes around search terms finds only that exact term in most Web searches. But that doesn't work in WWH 5.0. As a result, we get a lot of questions from confused customers

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Adobe FrameMaker 7.2p158 update for WindowsThis download updates the English, French, German, and Japanese language versions of Adobe® FrameMaker® 7.2b144 software (released in December 2005) to version 7.2p158.The FrameMaker 7.2p158 patch for Windows® includes the following corrections:• Code point correction providing added support for missing characters on Cyrillic, Central European, and

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Adobe has released updates for Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. The latest version for both is now 7.0.7.

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I had a user who was struggling with links in a PDF file that she was creating. The links were to Excel files stored on our company Web server (i.e., Internet links). When she clicked a link in the PDF, a Download Status dialog box appeared followed by an error message. I was gone for a few days, so she first contacted our LAN department, who re-installed Acrobat 6 for her and spent the better

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Adobe® FrameMaker® 7.2 software delivers a powerful, enterprise-class authoring and publishing solution. With its WYSIWYG, template-based environment, extensive long-document support, and new multiple undo capabilities, FrameMaker enables scalable, single-source authoring and multichannel publishing. Publish short documents, multivolume books, and more in print, Adobe PDF, HTML, SGML, XML, and

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Found a new solution to the following problem:When you click a .PDF link in a web page, the PDF document may not open and you see a image placeholder icon or a Red X in the browser window. To resolve the problem, follow the checklist mentioned in this article.http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ie/pdf.htmThe previous recommendation had always been to reinstall Acrobat/Reader. If this solution works, you

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"Adobe issues alert over Acrobat bugs"

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According to Sarah O'Keefe, there will be a FrameUsers Conference in spring of 2006 in Minneapolis. This event is separate from the FrameMaker Chatauqua that Kay Ethier has been advertising.

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This morning, Adobe released XML External Entity vulnerability (Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7.0-7.0.1) - Support Knowledgebase. The article refers you to the Downloads page to download the update to 7.0.2. However, no such update seems to exist yet on the New Downloads page, the Acrobat Downloads page, or the Reader Downloads page.Sounds like typical corporate communication. :-)

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There's a bug in FrameMaker 7.0 that causes a PDF created using Save As PDF to open to the wrong page. The PDF usually opens at the first page of the last file in the FrameMaker book file.One way to fix this is to upgrade to 7.1. But if you don't want to upgrade, you can just add a command to your epilogue.ps file. You might have to search for the correct epilogue.ps file. It's in the following

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Does anyone know of any openings for technical writers in the Omaha area? Three friends of mine were just laid off at FDR, and I'm trying to help them out.

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Frame has a habit of crashing every once in a while. That in and of itself is no big deal. But what can really be a pain in the tuckus is dealing with all the .recover files that Frame generates. When you open the file that has a .recover version, you're prompted to open the recovered version instead, which is annoying when opening all the files in a book that has crashed.You can simply trash the

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Adobe has released updates for Acrobat 7 and Reader 7. Separate sites are posted for each product, but it appears that both sites link to the same installer file.* Acrobat - http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2713* Reader - http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2712Says Adobe, "This update provides improved security and support for hyperlinks to PDF files in

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When you are working in a document, it’s hard to determine the current markers (e.g., index markers) in the file. But IXgen can make it a bit easier.Using IXgen to display the markers in a file1. With your document open, open the IXgen menu, and click Expand Markers.The Expand Markers to Inline Text dialog box appears.2. In the Expand markers of type list, select the appropriate type of marker.3.

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Acrobat 7 is now available. Reader 7 isn't ready yet, but I expect it will be by the end of the month.

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I'm going to use this blog for FrameMaker stuff only. I'm going to try to publish other stuff to my Bloglines blog, mainly so I can try both technologies.

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If you're a Nebraska voter, you may want to check out the Voters Information Packet site before Tuesday. They have good information about local races and issues. They do focus on the more populous eastern counties, but they also have resources for several things that affect the entire state.

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First he helps bring a title to the Red Sox. Now this.

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If you use KYOCERA cell phones, READ THIS! (Hardware)

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Convivio has a product called Buildfire that looks interesting. Following is the marketing description from their Web site: "Buildfire is a Production Assistant for FrameMaker. It helps troubleshoot FM docs and streamline the document production process BEFORE you convert your sources to PDF (XML and HTML coming soon!). You can also use it to fully automate your production of PDFs. As one

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Interesting news story.

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There's no reason for the candidates to debate, campaign, or shake hands. All that has no influence whatsoever over the Presidential election. The only thing that matters is whether the Redskins win their final home game before the election. Just another reason to cheer against the Packers. :-)

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I was in Target for my lunch hour the other day, and I decided to get a bite at the food court. Our Targets have credit card readers that swallow your card until you sign the little screen, at which point they spit the card back out. As I approached the lunch counter, I noticed that there was a credit card sticking out of the reader. There was only one other person in the food court, so I asked

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John Kerry said that W has a secret plan to re-activate the draft. No one can find evidence of that, but Kerry himself--in a page that has disappeared from his Web site but can still be found at the Internet Archive--called for "a comprehensive service plan that includes requiring mandatory service for high school students and four years of college tuition in exchange for two years of national

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"Omea Reader is an easy to use, all-in-one RSS/ATOM feed reader, newsgroup reader, and web bookmark manager. But what really makes it unique is the level of information organization and management features including lightning-fast searches, flexible filing, contextual access, and extensibility." Until January 1, 2005, you can get a permanent license key for Omea Reader for free.

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According to Wikipedia, a "moire pattern" is "an interference pattern created when two grids are overlaid at an angle, or when they have slightly different mesh sizes." Screen captures often have that moire pattern, especially on dialog box scroll bars. Roger Shuttleworth provided a solution to this problem on one of the FrameMaker user's lists. (He said that he in turn got this answer from the

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The KC on Exchange and Outlook blog has a good tip today. I've paraphrased it below, but you can check her entry for the original. When you click a link to an Office doc, IE opens the doc in-frame by default. This may be OK for just viewing docs, but it can get annoying because not all features work in this manner. If you'd rather have IE just open the doc in the appropriate application, use

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Many media outlets are touting the 1,000 mark in dead soldiers as the reason to pull out of Iraq. I haven't seen them post the total number of terrorism victims in New York, Washington, Pennsylvania, Spain, Russia, etc. Would they have "celebrated" (that word may be a little harsh, but I can't think of another one) the number of dead during the first two World Wars? (That reminds me of

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For my grandparents, it was 12/7/41. For my parents, it was 11/22/63. For me, it was 9/11/01. The day that everything changed. It's been nearly three years now, and it seems like a lot of people have forgotten the details about that day of great devastation and emotion. This page serves as an incredible reminder. (It's over 7MB, so you'd be better off using a high-speed connection to view it.)

Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13530039192788127026noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809961.post-1094043211782105982004-09-01T07:46:00.000-05:002004-09-01T07:53:31.783-05:00

This book, published in 1971, is pretty difficult to find nowadays. In fact, people are selling copies on E-bay for hundreds of dollars. Some guy now has a PDF file of the book available for free download. (It's a pretty large file at 17MB.) I haven't read it yet myself. I just find it pretty interesting that this guy is providing it for free. I don't know much about copyright laws, but it

Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13530039192788127026noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809961.post-1092321282588356932004-08-12T09:32:00.000-05:002004-08-12T09:34:42.586-05:00

The PaintShop Pro 9 Beta is available for testing. Looks like they have two versions now: the regular version and a lite version. I wouldn't try downloading the Beta over a slow connection. The installer is over 98MB!

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People always say you shouldn't send a message that you wouldn't want pasted on the company bulletin board. Not only that, but you definitely shouldn't save a message that you wouldn't want pasted on the bulletin board. One of my tasks is to clean up PCs when people leave the company. I get rid of unnecessary stuff to prepare the PC for the next person. When a woman left the company a while

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George Hotelling shows how you can find Visa account numbers and additional information on Google. Now that's kinda scary.

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I use CONText as my regular FrameScript editor. But yesterday I started looking at other editors to see which ones would allow me to view two parts of a file at the same time. While I was searching for other editors, I came across PSPad. Although I haven't found a syntax highlighter for FrameScript, I do like PSPad because I can easily edit my Web site pages. PSPad has FTP capabilities, so I

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I have to mention this one, if for no other reason than to get to say the name of the software company. ButtUglySoftware has some tools for cleaning up various Internet and XP items. CleanCache is for users of IE, and CleanMOCache is for users of Mozilla/Netscape/Firefox/Opera. I'm still running Win98 and Win2K, so I haven't tried these tools. But if you can't trust software from

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I'm obviously not a Michael Moore fan. Evidently, Christopher Hitchens at Slate isn't either.

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Rather than sending invitations to complete strangers, I've decided to send invites to complete strangers fighting for my way of life. Gmailforthetroops.com and Gmail4troops.com are two sites where you can put your Gmail invitations to good use.

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One of the mailing lists I'm on (I can't remember which one) had a reference to the EServer Technical Communication (and Technical Writing) Library. At first glance, it looks like a pretty impressive set of reference materials. Perhaps the best part is the XML feed that you can use to track the latest additions.

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Yahoo! Mail is apparently trying to keep up with Gmail. As of this morning, I now have 100MB of storage in my Yahoo! account. They've changed their interface a bit, too. But I'm afraid that it might be too little too late.

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Q: How can I find text that has change bars applied? A: You can use the Find/Change dialog box. Using the Find/Change dialog box to find text with change bars applied 1. Press CTRL+F to open the Find/Change dialog box. 2. In the Find list, select Character Format. The Find Character Format dialog box appears. 3. Press SHIFT+F8 to set all of the values to As Is. NOTE: You may have to

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Earlier this week, I attended training for Firefly, a software simulation tool from Knowledge Impact. Firefly is incredibly easy to learn. I know nothing about software simulation tools, but I knew how to use this tool within a few hours. (I usually am a quick study when it comes to learning how to use software.) The e-learning developers at my company are excited about the template feature of

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Adobe has just released updates for Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. The updates "addresses multiple known issues . . . including support for forms that use Adobe's XML forms architecture, creation of barcode-enabled forms, and a security update."

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Google has added two great enhancements to its Gmail beta. First, you can now create a signature for your messages. That's a standard option with other e-mail providers, but it was missing in the early stages of the beta. Second, the taskbar (in Windows) now tells you how many new messages you have. Now you don't have to keep checking to see whether you have anything new. One glance at the

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Earlier, I mentioned how you can automatically move backup files out of your working folders using the command prompt. If you don't like working with the command prompt, you can use a BAT file instead. Right-click on the Move Backups batch file to save it to your desktop. Open the BAT file in a text editor. Do not double-click the file to open it! Doing so will run the move files command!

Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13530039192788127026noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809961.post-1084885475296555842004-05-18T08:04:00.000-05:002004-05-18T08:04:35.296-05:00

Blogrolls are lists of blogs that a person reads. For example, the blogs for which I've added links on the right side of this page are just a few of the blogs that I keep tabs on. Bloglines gives you the ability to add a blogroll to your blog page. Within Bloglines, you can organize your feeds into different folders. You then tell Bloglines what folder you want to feature on your blogroll, and

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FrameMaker has an option for creating backup files every time you save a file, but it has no option for saving the backup files to a different folder. As a result, you can end up with a file folder in which it's difficult to find the file that you want. To fix this problem, you can run a batch command to move all the backup files to a folder other than the one that contains your working files.

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Is America's Dumbest Soldiers supposed to be funny? I can't even imagine what these soldiers' families must think of this site.

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A must read.

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I'm currently testing Shlomo Perets' SP Form Assistant, an add-on to his TimeSavers software. TimeSavers is a plug-in for FrameMaker-to-Acrobat conversions. With Form Assistant, I'm able to create PDF pop-ups that act much like ALT text does in Web pages. I'm testing it as a solution to acronyms that we use in our documentation. We currently spell out each acronym the first time that it appears

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Someone has claimed the Gmail invite, and I don't have any more at this time. But I might get some more invites to share. If you'd like me to share, I'll dole them out in the order in which I get requests.

Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13530039192788127026noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809961.post-1084205999988740082004-05-10T11:19:00.000-05:002004-05-10T11:19:59.986-05:00

I have one Gmail invite to give. I don't know anyone else who might be interested, so I thought I'd post a message here. If you are interested, send me an e-mail. (This will also give me a chance to see whether anyone even reads this blog.)

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I'm trying out some free tools on my blog. I noticed these items when I looked at Keith Soltys's blog. The first item is a stats tracker from Site Meter. The second is a comment and trackback feature from HaloScan.

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"Firefox is a free, open-source and cross-platform web browser for Windows, Linux, MacOS X and other operating systems. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advantages over other web browsers, such as the tabbed browsing and the ability to block pop-up windows." I'd used the previous rendition of this browser, when it was called Firebird, but I think this version is much better.

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A friend of mine just told me that Anderson Erickson gallon of milk will be going up 53 cents May 1 (tomorrow). He also said to expect a gallon of milk to be about $4.00 this summer. His mom is general manager of a gas station/general store and passed that information to him. I have no idea whether he's right, but I thought I'd note it so I can remember his prediction this summer.

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I know that some FrameScript writers use some text editors that they have to pay for. But I'm cheap, so I found a free one that I really like. ConTEXT is a programmers' text editor that includes highlighters for many types of languages. FrameScript is one of the special highlighters that you can download. I find it much easier to write and edit scripts using this highlighter. I make lots of

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Pluck seems like an interesting tool. It's site claims you can do the following: * Share any web page with anyone * Communicate through WebLink notes * Drag-and-drop to Share * Collaborate and organize the web * Create private and public folders * Automatic synchronization * Share a WebLink or an entire folder I haven't played with it enough to know whether I like it. It does include an

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On the xml-doc list, someone posted a message about the updated version of Syntext Serna, a "portable true WYSIWYG XML editor." I've downloaded the trial version, and I'll use it as I go through my XML Weekend Crash Course training guide.

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Seems like everyone is creating a browser toolbar these days. Here's ESPN's beta version. At first glance, it doesn't seem too bad. I can customize which teams I want news for on my toolbar. Looks like the different buttons are highlighted when new stories are available. I think I'll still probably use their RSS feeds to get most of my news though.

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The FrameMaker WebRing includes several sites that you can peruse to find very helpful information about FrameMaker. If you're just trying to find good Frame sites, this WebRing is a good place to start.

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I'm astounded by the headline and some of the comments in this article. Even if you don't agree with the war, you shouldn't spew this kind of invective against anyone who dies for our country. I have a high school friend who recently came back from Iraq. I'd be extremely offended if I heard anyone making similar comments about him.

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Like many people, I've ended up with IM addresses from several different providers. One company that I worked for wanted us to use AOL IMs. Another wanted us to use Yahoo!. Then they changed their minds and wanted us to use MSN. As a result, I've got different people set up to contact me using different IM providers. Trillian works perfectly for me. It's an IM client that allows you to set up

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I just received an invitation to create a Gmail account. I think Google's done a very good job of creating unbelievable anticipation for this service. I can't believe I'm actually excited about being able to open an e-mail account. I'd say that I'm a dork, but I know that I'm not the only one who feels that way.

Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13530039192788127026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809961.post-1082674590250276332004-04-22T17:56:00.000-05:002004-04-26T15:15:10.373-05:00

I'd nearly given up on my Yahoo! e-mail account because of the number of spam messages I was getting--over 500 each day. Then I stumbled across 0Spam.com. It's a free, online spam catcher that works with POP accounts as well as Hotmail and Yahoo!. You provide a white list of terms and e-mail addresses, and it strips everything else from your account into your 0spam repository. A quick glance at

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Q: I just opened my file, and there’s already an asterisk in the status bar, even though I haven’t made any changes. Even if I close this file without making any changes, FrameMaker prompts me to save it. Why? A: By default, FrameMaker automatically updates cross-references, system variables on body pages, and text insets marked for automatic updating. When you open a document, FrameMaker

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You have a table in which the last row appears by itself at the top of a page. You want to force the second-to-last row to roll with the last row. You can do this by formatting the row. How To: Formatting a row to keep with the next row 1. Insert your pointer in the second-to-last row. 2. Open the Table menu, and click Row Format. The Row Format dialog box appears. 3. In the Keep With area,

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The name itself is reason enough to download this tool. :-) Crap Cleaner is a freeware system optimization tool that removes unused and temporary files from your system, allowing it to run faster and more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space.

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If you want to see the graphics or insets that your file references, you can use a FrameMaker generated list. The list includes the file name and full path for all the referenced items in the document. You can use such a list if you think the document references a graphic or inset that is in the wrong location. How To: Creating a list of referenced items 1. With your document open, open the

Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13530039192788127026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809961.post-1082555170877954822004-04-21T08:46:00.000-05:002004-04-26T15:15:37.250-05:00

I'd used Resource Hacker before, and I've been wanting to customize my Outlook Today page ever since the MSNBC version went away. So these instructions were perfect.

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If you need to create a hypertext link from a word or group of words within your document to another area of your document, you use the Hypertext command on the Special menu. How To: Creating a hypertext link 1. Navigate to the destination location for your link. 2. With your insertion point at the beginning of the line of text to which you want to link, open the Special menu, and click

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