The problem is not the format of the graphics, it's the publishing program
itself - Framemaker. This is a crossplatform tool from Adobe that really should
have worked cleanly.
K1GQ is a Mac guy who spent a great deal of time and effort building the CT
manual on a Mac using Framemaker. Last year I purchased Framemaker for Windows
(not a cheap product) just to get the CT manual going. Things didn't go exactly
as planned. Most of the manual came over OK, but none of the graphics. I have
to pull in all the graphics one at a time and correctly the format them within
the document. As long as I'm doing that, I should really get modern
screenshots, so I purchased Snagit to grab new screenshots. I have settled on
JPG format, although both Snagit and Framemaker support all the major formats.
Needless to say, desktop publishing is not a hobby of mine, and leaves me
stone cold. As a result, every time I sit down to make screen shots and do the
Framemaker work my mind wanders, I start fiddling with my mail, I turn on the
radio, I take the dog for a walk...
K1XX found a way to convert the PDF Framemaker built to Microsoft Word, so at
least I'm a little more comfortable with the program. Framemaker also came with
a tool for converting the document to a series of HTML pages, so I could build
a real online manual instead of forcing users to download the entire PDF. There
are lots of ways to go here, but when I think about them, my mind wanders, I
start fiddling with my mail...
The bulk of the manual is nearly ten years old. What this manual really needs
is a writer and editor to bring it up to 2004. That's a lot of work.
73 es HNY,
Ken K1EA
> ------------Original Message------------
> From: Nate Bargmann <n0nb@networksplus.net>
> To: ct-user@contesting.com
> Date: Wed, Dec-31-2003 7:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [ct-user] manual
>
> * Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu> [2003 Dec 31 08:23 -0600]:
> > At 07:43 AM 12/31/2003, pa9jj@home.nl wrote:
> >
> > >All is ok except for the pictures e.g. contest type popup menu,
> > >mode popup menu etc.
> > >These are grey boxes.
> > >Is there another version of the manual which has all the graphics
> > >ok?
> >
> > Sorry, the pictures need to be converted from Macintosh to Microsoft
> > format. Ken has not had time to do this.
>
> Pardon me, but wouldn't cross-platform graphics like .jpg or .png be
> better than some MS only format? So far as I know, either of the afore
> mentioned formats can be viewed on any popular desktop systems (and some
> not so popular).
>
> Please, let's not entrench MS any deeper into ham radio in 2004.
>
> Happy New Year to all!
>
> 73, de Nate >>
>
> P.S. To do my part, I've used CT with FreeDos on my laptop for Field
> Day. You can get it at: http://www.freedos.org This allows a DOS
> partition without the possible license violations of MS-DOS or PC-DOS.
>
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