From loring at scriptorium.com  Wed Sep  7 15:40:39 2005
From: loring at scriptorium.com (Sheila Loring)
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 17:40:39 -0400
Subject: Sale on FrameMaker plugins
Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.0.20050907170842.03459438@mail.scriptorium.com>

In case you're not on the Framers mailing list, I'm forwarding this email 
on Rick Quatro's plug-in sale.

>Subject: ANN: Sale on FrameMaker Plugins
>From: "Rick Quatro" <frameexpert at truevine.net>
>Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 09:33:43 -0400
>
>Hello Framers,
>
> >From now until the 6 pm Thurday EDT, I am offering a half-price sale on some
>
>of my plugins (listed below). The only requirement is that you pay
>frameexpert at truevine.net via Paypal.com. If you buy through my regular order
>page, you will pay full price. The plugins will be emailed to you, so please
>make sure you can receive zip files. Thank you very much.
>
>All prices are in US dollars.
>
>PageLabeler regular price $40, now $20.
>TableCleaner regular price $60, now $30.
>FindChangeSpecial regular price $30, now $15.
>ImportFormatsSpecial regular price $20, now $10.
>PageBreaks regular price $20, now $10.
>PrintChangedPages regular price $120, now $60.
>
>Rick Quatro
>Carmen Publishing
>585 659-8267
>rick at frameexpert.com
>www.frameexpert.com





From Terry.Smith at per-se.com  Wed Sep  7 15:46:21 2005
From: Terry.Smith at per-se.com (Smith, Terry)
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 17:46:21 -0400
Subject: Sale on FrameMaker plugins
Message-ID: <A206C4C6C57A224D976526F1073882DA01682507@EXCHANGE1.dsa.int>

Thanks for forwarding this Sheila. It was on my to do list, but I didn't get to it.

-Terry 

-----Original Message-----
From: Sheila Loring [mailto:loring at scriptorium.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 5:41 PM
To: stc_ncfun
Subject: [stc_ncfun] Sale on FrameMaker plugins


In case you're not on the Framers mailing list, I'm forwarding this email 
on Rick Quatro's plug-in sale.

>Subject: ANN: Sale on FrameMaker Plugins
>From: "Rick Quatro" <frameexpert at truevine.net>
>Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 09:33:43 -0400
>
>Hello Framers,
>
> >From now until the 6 pm Thurday EDT, I am offering a half-price sale on some
>
>of my plugins (listed below). The only requirement is that you pay
>frameexpert at truevine.net via Paypal.com. If you buy through my regular order
>page, you will pay full price. The plugins will be emailed to you, so please
>make sure you can receive zip files. Thank you very much.
>
>All prices are in US dollars.
>
>PageLabeler regular price $40, now $20.
>TableCleaner regular price $60, now $30.
>FindChangeSpecial regular price $30, now $15.
>ImportFormatsSpecial regular price $20, now $10.
>PageBreaks regular price $20, now $10.
>PrintChangedPages regular price $120, now $60.
>
>Rick Quatro
>Carmen Publishing
>585 659-8267
>rick at frameexpert.com
>www.frameexpert.com



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From Pam_Harris at hill-rom.com  Thu Sep 15 07:07:45 2005
From: Pam_Harris at hill-rom.com (Pam_Harris at hill-rom.com)
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:07:45 -0400
Subject: NCFUN Mtg - October 4, 2005 @ Hill-Rom
Message-ID: <OF7E5A3950.341ACE6C-ON8525707D.00479247-8525707D.00481F0F@hill-rom.com>


                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                      
 NC-FUN SIG Events                                                                                                    
 Next Meeting: Sarah O'Keefe presents Upgrading to FrameMaker 7.2 (JUST RELEASED!)                                    
                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                      
 Date: Tuesday, October 4 (note new date, not our usual fourth Tuesday)                                               
                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                      
 Time: 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.                                                                                              
                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                      
 Topic: Join us for a joint meeting with the XML Authoring Group. Sarah O'Keefe from Scriptorium Publishing Services  
 will demo the new features in FrameMaker 7.2. These include multiple undos (finally!) and a few small interface      
 changes. Most of the excitement, however, is on the structured side. FrameMaker 7.2 adds support for schema files in 
 addition to DTDs. A new structured template is provided for DITA, so you can implement DITA-based authoring in       
 FrameMaker more quickly. During import or export, you can now apply XSL transformation, which means your FrameMaker  
 files and your XML files can use different structure. You could even filter content during import or export. Join us 
 for the inside scoop on FrameMaker 7.2 -- Sarah wrote the new structure migration guide delivered with the product,  
 so she should be up to speed. Contact Pam Harris, our SIG manager, if you have questions.                            
                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                      
 Location: Hill-Rom, 1225 Crescent Green, Suite 200, Cary                                                             
                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                      
 Directions: Print directions (Embedded image moved to file: pic14700.gif)                                            
 ????Take I-40 East towards Raleigh.                                                                                  
 ?? ?Take ?Exit 289 - Left split I-40/US 1 South.                                                                     
 ????Take Exit 293 to US 1 South (sign reads Hwy 64/Hwy 1 Sanford/Asheboro)                                           
 ????From Raleigh, take Beltline (I-440) to US 1 South exit.                                                          
 ????Take US 1 South for about 3 miles, past exit for Walnut Street and exit for Cary Pkwy.                           
 ????Take Exit 98A (Tryon Road East).                                                                                 
 ????Turn right at the second right into Crescent Green.                                                              
 ????The building is 1225 Crescent Green. Go to Suite 200 (second floor).                                             
                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                      








Pam Harris
Senior Technical Writer
Hill-Rom Workflow Solutions
919-854-3376
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From ntsmi1 at yahoo.com  Thu Sep 29 09:16:55 2005
From: ntsmi1 at yahoo.com (Terry Smith)
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:16:55 -0600
Subject: Structure ending the Tool Wars
Message-ID: <mailman.9.1211897841.9114.stc_ncfun@mailman.stc.org>

Our meeting next Tuesday covers the new features for FrameMaker 7.2, most
of which affect structured FrameMaker:
http://www.stc-carolina.org/sigs/frame/events.shtml

Also, in case any of you missed it, here is Kay Ethier's short article
describing how structure is ending the toolwars.

=============================================

Article "The Tool Wars are Over"

I saw a software demonstration the other day that was so awesome that it
gave me a new idea for the focus of this month's article: How XML has
helped
end the authoring tools war. That's right. I said it. The authoring tools
war is over. And, XML is the reason!

XML, or extensible markup language, is finally hitting its stride.
Organizations of all sizes have started to realize that non-proprietary
XML
delivers substantial business value, enough to make the shift to XML
authoring worthwhile. Some typical benefits include: separation of content
from format, reduced content creation expenses; increased productivity,
significant translation savings and the ability to quickly sort, find,
retrieve and reuse content. Perhaps for the first time, because of XML,
content is increasingly being viewed as an asset and authoring tools and
content management systems that support XML are allowing us to commoditize
our content and stop worrying so much about authoring tools. 

Content management software vendors are fueling the success of XML by
providing us with systems that allow us to accomplish many of the things
that smart organizations want -- and need -- to be able to do. XML content
is more easily managed, and content management systems are allowing
structured content creators to interface with multiple authoring tools
without the need for conversion, transformation, or other technical magic
tricks.

My proclamation that "the authoring tools war is over" is based on a
product
demonstration of WorldServer Global Electronic Publishing, offered by
Idiom
Technologies. I learned that World Server does a lot of really useful
things
with XML content. One really great thing World Server does is make XML
work
for content creators. 

For instance, XML content stored in World Server can be "checked out" when
it needs to be edited or updated. Here's the really cool part. Checking
out
XML content launches the "external editor" of YOUR choice. (For now,
that's
either Arbortext Epic or Adobe FrameMaker...more authoring tools choices
coming soon). You edit your content, then check it back in. WorldServer
remembers your authoring tool preference and allows you to change your
mind
at any time and switch to whatever authoring tool you wish to use at the
moment. 

Software tools usually add their own processing instructions (PI) to the
XML
they generate-Epic for things like "last insertion point location" and
FrameMaker for things like "conditional text locations"-making it
challenging to work with content created with one authoring tool in
another.
But XML content stored in WorldServer transitions smoothly from one tool
to
the other. It may be opened in Epic or FrameMaker without any error or
loss
of data. The system doesn't care which tool you use to author and edit
your
XML content. And regardless of which authoring tool you select, your XML
content will work just the same as it does in any other XML authoring
tools.

No, it's not magic. The folks at Idiom are not magicians. Neither have
they
written tons of if/else statements to secretly run major processes in the
background to make the XML go back and forth between tools. Idiom's
WorldServer Global Electronic Publishing system works because it takes
advantage of XML to empower us to do our jobs better by focusing on the
content we create, not the tools we create it with. And that's good news
for
content creators.

Unless, of course, they are not using structure. In that case, the
FrameMaker versus Word versus whatever are still going on!


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Kay Ethier
Bright Path Solutions
PO Box 14265
Research Triangle Park NC 27709-4265
PHONE: 919.244.8559
http://www.travelthepath.com
mailto:kethier at travelthepath.com
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