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Dave Lee wrote:

trent the thief wrote:After I get them past the problem, I give them this http://www.addintools.com/digital-river/

I followed that link and I can't work out if it's real product or a hoax.

Oh, it's real. I have it installed. A couple others in the office bought it, too.

That's one of the reasons businesses are buying Dell's Vista bonus pack: So they can have XP instead of Vista.

And you're absolutely right. Changing the GUI did nothing to improve productivity. And for me? It's decreased mine since I end up needing to help others. I bought "Classic Menu for Office ...

Hahhaha... They still ask. I'm the only writer in this location, which makes me the default support guy for MS Office problems.

After I get them past the problem, I give them this http://www.addintools.com/digital-river/

Most people in my office have been using office for a long time, but as most ...

Dave Lee wrote:But if nothing changed we'd still be using Word in DOS.

Mind, it does take some getting used to - probably the biggest change I can remember since first using Windows 95.

Oh, I don't mind change. But that was like be comfy warm in the jungle and being tossed into a snow storm

From my understanding, the general MadCap NDA basically forbids you from acknowledging that the product exists, much less admitting what stage of beta said product might be at.

If that is true, then anybody who knows wouldn't be able to comment on it, so I suppose we'll have to wait for a MadCap ...

Having to learn a new GUI that after spending ten years becoming productive with its predecessor is idiocy. It bring very little to the table for an experienced user.

Trust me. If madcap had replaced the flare gui with that ribbon crap you'd be up in arms about it.

phanna wrote:Hi there, I have the same issue but when I go to look for the font-decoration property in my stylesheet it's not there. I'm using Flare version 3.1.0.

Thanks,
Paula

Lisa is right as always.

Pick your style, set the sheet to Show: Property Groups and it is in the Font group.

I appear to have killed my XP work computer - and it is refusing to be brought back to life. As such I will soon be the owner of a new Vista machine.

So whilst I'm rebuilding my environment - are there any Flare (and the rest)/VISTA/Word 2007 gotchas that I should be aware of? Or will things run ...

KevinDAmery wrote:Buy what you need when you need it.

I second that. There's always a learning curve that you won't want to deal with when there's an approaching deadline. It's easy to get an upgrade once it's known how good your output is from Flare

oblem here. In FF3 the search wont work in most cases.

I tested some other browsers:
IE6: works
IE 7: sometimes working
IE8: crashes (with and without IE7 emulation)
FF3: not working
Opera 9: works

can't tell about other browsers.
I hope this problem can be fixed some way?


Laura's fix worked ...

are both served from a local hard drive? Not a network drive?

Hi David,

I have only had it happen with FF3 final. I didn't test with any rc's or betas. It happened for me every time without fail. Could it be perhaps that your setting is not being retained?

Those aren't hard candies in that dish on my desk. I'm a Technical Writer; they're anti-psychotics.

Seems that something needs to be changed on the Flare side then. I don't think having customers reconfigure their browsers will work out well. They don't even want to do that with IE.

I'll say. I've been porting a new project to Flare and discovered it didn't work this morning. I was _very_ upset ...

Hi Everyone,

Note that this fix is also necessary in the release version of firefox 3.

Thanks for discovering and posting a fix before I had a panic attack!

Unlike Adobe, who has ignored requests for tab releases and removal of forced returns in $PARATEXT for years, Madcap listens and makes their products do what we need them to do.

Yeah, and welcome aboard, too!

FM began as a UNIX-based publishing system.

http://www.daube.ch/docu/fmhist00.html

I've been using it since 91. I love it. It improved steadily under Frame Technologies stewardship, providing topnotch, free tech support, on-site demos, free maintenance releases....Then macrobe bought it. Things ...

I think they are taking a microshaft approach and only updated it so that other packages can no longer handle their binaries.

Nothing I see in FM 8 justifies a major upgrade. IMHO, it should have become FM 7.3, not 8.0.

I was mad when they dropped the linux version. I used it quite a bit in tandem ...

Nah, it's okay Kevin. Not everyone can be lucky enough to be a player in the elite, big-time arena of the highly paid and utterly infallible Frame Maker righters.

Ordinarily, I would agree. But since this is in the Frame output section, I kinda thought it was a valid question.

What's your take on FM8?

Hi Rhea,

You should be fine for hardware and memory. Do you have any other large processes running? Have you examined your imported files to see if they are trying to load something that doesn't exist?

Also, have you actually opened _every_ file for editing yet? I don't think the files are ...

I'm not certain, but some of the things I use in-house are.

I'm glad that advice helped. Several months ago my desktop died and needed repair. While it was being worked on, the IT dept gave me a loaner. It was an older, slower box, but with twice the RAM. I used it for an entire publish cycle (PDFs and help). My own box came a couple days prior to the next ...

I can't number the lost hours trying to implement RSC. I liked the tight integration, but it was too weak.