<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Well, as the final nail on the coffin on this matter (my FrameMaker-challenged coworker hacking his way through to produce down-and-ridiculously-dirty files), I've given up because following a conversation that got VERY heated and loud in the office, it is now apparent that he thrives far more than I had thought, loves an outright confrontation and will do only what he wants to do. (He almost got into a physical fight with another guy a few months ago and bragged to me that he won't take any s__t from anybody.) He's in his mid-50s, is fiercely independent, long-divorced and would rather be terminated and find a job somewhere else than be forced to do things he doesn't like.<br><br>While we "work" well together, I mean that we do joke with each other and both strive to complete our projects
quickly, except that he hacks his way through while I take perhaps a little longer (really not by much) doing it correctly, as you here have confirmed. Otherwise, we are far more apart than I ever thought. When I showed him how to complete a purchase request for printing manuals, he found someone else to do it, saying it's not his job to do that. He almost tried to order me to not do a file transfer to a local printer after the printing order was confirmed, saying again that that task is for the "purchasing department to do." I disagree and proceeded with my job.<br><br>He keeps throwing out that he was tech pubs manager at his previous (very large and nationally known) company. Except that I can now tell that nobody knowledgeable there really kept tabs on him, or else what he does here would not have been allowed.<br><br>Even though we both now agree that the heat is now slightly off for us to rush through projects, he refuses to even consider
saving those images he has screen-grabbed, so that if his FM file crashes we can speed up the rebuild process. His reply was "Tough." I told him I had consulted with other tech writers (you guys) and what the consensus was (save the image files before referencing/embedding). He came back with he knows that "as a manager" and having talked with other managers that all they care about is speed, get it done, no matter what it takes. And he told me that I refuse to compromise.<br><br>And no, he doesn't subscribe to this (or any list) and is far less computer literate than I thought.<br><br>That song by the Animals of the British music invasion days of the 1960s "We gotta Get Out of This Place" was never so true. I gotta get outta here.<br><br>All future comments to me about this should now be off-list and I will respond as such.<br><br>Sorry for the negativity, but it's just boiling over.<br><br>-- Ken, in hell<br><br><br></div><div style="font-family:times
new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Ken Poshedly <poshedly@bellsouth.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Shlomo Perets <shlomo2@microtype.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> framers@lists.frameusers.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, March 22, 2012 11:40:07 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: best use of graphics in FM<br></font><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">First, thanks to all who have written to me both on-list and
off-list. It’s certainly good to have a support group of those likewise
addicted to this software. (Maybe at an FM conference we can go around the room
for introductions like at an AA meeting, “I’m Ken and I’m a FrameMaker user.”)</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Second, I’m still checking possible solutions to see if I cold convince my coworker to add graphics to FM docs correctly, but it seems
like a lost cause because he simply doesn’t see the need to do anything
other than copy and paste. For new images, he simply opens the folder with
photos taken of a new machine, copies a photo and directly pastes it into an
anchored frame in his FM document.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">(remainder snipped)</p></div><br></div></div></div>
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