Archive for the 'bugs' Category

IE Peekaboo Bug and HasLayout fix

Been chasing all manner of mysterious layout problems with another blog I’m responsible for, that seem to only hit Internet Explorer 6… I’m using the infinitely cool Wordpress Tabbed Widgets plugin to show off a bunch of RSS feeds. Firefox, Safari and IE7 are immune… but the bedbug is biting me on this one.
After much mystification, […]

Framemaker Daylight Savings Time bug will bite again

Someone raises this once or twice a year:
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.framemaker/browse_thread/thread/a19b64b15f0ba761/0f05c1fd25f7461a?hl=en&lnk=st&q=framemaker+daylight+savings+time+#0f05c1fd25f7461a
Framemaker generates warnings about files having already been modified on disk after a daylight savings time “Fall back”, as is coming up soon. I banged my head against this every year for a few years, but never did find a satisfactory answer– from what I remember, though, […]

Adobe Technical Support Problems

http://charlesjeter.com/2007/08/10/backlash-grows-from-high-cost-poor-quality-adobe-technical-support/
Seems there’s a groundswell of anger at Adobe over recent tech support policy changes, poor support etc.. Robohelp is the primary target of complaints in the recent diatribes, but frankly, Adobe’s always seemed a bit arrogant as a company and more interested in milking profit from customers than in helping them. (Witness the user-hostile […]

off-topic: Lazy DBA saved my biscuits on Oracle 10g Release 2 privileges

Hassling with a balky Oracle 10gR2 database. Was driving me crazy, that I couldn’t shut down and do a cold backup. Finally I found this, which set me to rights:
http://www.lazydba.com/oracle/0__122689.html
Nothing to do with Framemaker, but… it did save my biscuits.

RE: Host credentials when using DBControl 10gR2 on WINDOWS

From: “jsf”
Subject: RE: Host […]

Framemaker 7 and VMWare Clipboard Issue

Every kid deserves a new toy. Mine, for the last few months, has been VMWare, about which I could not be more excited. You do need a lot of horsepower (especially RAM) and disk space on your host system, but once you have that you’re golden.
How is this relevant to Framemaker, you might ask? I […]