FrameMaker 10 Officially Demonstrated At tekom Conference

2010-11-09 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I attended this presentation as well. RJ Jacquez said that he presented in public. No-one signed a non-disclosure agreement. Therefore all are allowed to discuss the features in public. I noted these features: Auto-spellcheck, similar to Word with a wavy line S1000D support Alert

RE: problem saving to the company's network drive

2010-10-11 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, The problem is probably: You have OLE objects and you have Service Pack 3 of Windows XP: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/407/kb407701.html http://www.mail-archive.com/framers@lists.frameusers.com/msg15719.html Either change your OLE graphics to real referenced graphics. Or go back to Service Pack

problem saving to the company's network drive

2010-10-11 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, The problem is probably: You have OLE objects and you have Service Pack 3 of Windows XP: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/407/kb407701.html http://www.mail-archive.com/framers at lists.frameusers.com/msg15719.html Either change your OLE graphics to real referenced graphics. Or go back to Service

(FM 9) layout for die-cut side tabs with text?

2010-10-08 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Is there a graphic below the text with Runaround Properties set? With such settings text might not move to the intended position. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf

RE: Templates for international use

2010-09-20 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I strongly recommend to use the FrameMaker version with the English interface for all users. The language versions differ by the names for specific objects e.g. for TOC, index, default master pages, default paragraph or character formats etc. E.g. the TOC created in a German FrameMaker

Templates for international use

2010-09-20 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I strongly recommend to use the FrameMaker version with the English interface for all users. The language versions differ by the names for specific objects e.g. for TOC, index, default master pages, default paragraph or character formats etc. E.g. the TOC created in a German FrameMaker

RE: Acrobat 9 - a disaster

2010-07-26 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Tori, Dov, we use this feature for 'testing' PDFs in which we have enabled Acrobat Reader rights. We have a lot of clients who simply will not spend the money to get Acrobat, so either we give them Reader-enabled PDFs or they send us shudder hardcopy edits. No idea why, but

Acrobat 9 - a disaster

2010-07-26 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Tori, > Dov, we use this feature for 'testing' PDFs in which we have enabled > Acrobat Reader rights. We have a lot of clients who simply will not > spend the money to get Acrobat, so either we give them Reader-enabled > PDFs or they send us <> hardcopy edits. No idea why, but >

RE: Flakey cross references

2010-07-22 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, When you have activated Track Text Edits and cut text and paste it elsewhere in the same file, FrameMaker also does not paste the marker. The marker is still in its previous location, just with the condition FM8_TRACK_CHANGES_DELETED. When you later accept your changes, the cross-reference

Flakey cross references

2010-07-22 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, When you have activated "Track Text Edits" and cut text and paste it elsewhere in the same file, FrameMaker also does not paste the marker. The marker is still in its previous location, just with the condition FM8_TRACK_CHANGES_DELETED. When you later accept your changes, the cross-reference

RE: Migrating contents to a new template

2010-07-14 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campb...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 10:17 PM To: Garnier Garnier Cc: Reng, Dr. Winfried; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Migrating contents to a new template First, if I were you and you were going to maintain these books

RE: Finally Upgrading to FM 9.0

2010-07-14 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Clint, Our Tech Pubs group is finally on the verge of upgrading from FM 7.0 to 9.0. We will not be buying the full TC4. First, do you see any problems with just opening our old unstructured templates and saving them again as the new version? I don't expect there would be any. If

Migrating contents to a new template

2010-07-14 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campb...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 10:17 PM To: Garnier Garnier Cc: Reng, Dr. Winfried; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Migrating contents to a new template First, if I were you and you were going to maintain

Finally Upgrading to FM 9.0

2010-07-14 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Clint, > Our Tech Pubs group is finally on the verge of upgrading from > FM 7.0 to > 9.0. We will not be buying the full TC4. > > First, do you see any problems with just opening our old unstructured > templates and saving them again as the new version? I don't > expect there > would be

RE: Migrating contents to a new template

2010-07-13 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Garnier, If not only the formatting changed but also the format names I recommend these tools: Best value for money is Template Mapper from Cudspan: http://www.cudspan.net/plugins/executioner.php?do=displayPagefield_tab_num=2 A not so convenient alternative would be FindChangeSpecial from

Migrating contents to a new template

2010-07-13 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Garnier, If not only the formatting changed but also the format names I recommend these tools: Best value for money is Template Mapper from Cudspan: http://www.cudspan.net/plugins/executioner.php?do=displayPage_tab_num=2 A not so convenient alternative would be FindChangeSpecial from Rick

RE: Keyboard shortcuts?

2010-06-14 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Pat, itl offers some very helpful FrameScript scripts. One of them lists all commands with their shortcuts: http://www.i-frame.itl.info/en/feature-description/free-scripts/report-fm-commands.html This one lists all format overrides:

Keyboard shortcuts?

2010-06-14 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Pat, itl offers some very helpful FrameScript scripts. One of them lists all commands with their shortcuts: http://www.i-frame.itl.info/en/feature-description/free-scripts/report-fm-commands.html This one lists all format overrides:

RE: FM8: Conditional text definitions not removed from book

2010-06-10 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Verner, I noticed also often that conditions are still shown in the book condition list, although they were deleted in all files. Updating the book or MIF washing did not help. I did not find any rule. If it bothers you, then save the book file as MIF, open it with a text editor and delete

FM8: Conditional text definitions not removed from book

2010-06-10 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Verner, I noticed also often that conditions are still shown in the book condition list, although they were deleted in all files. Updating the book or MIF washing did not help. I did not find any rule. If it bothers you, then save the book file as MIF, open it with a text editor and delete

RE: Active Areas from Frame-Generated Index(es)

2010-06-02 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, When you create an index, you will get two types of entries: Some with a single reference and some with multiple references. Apple94 Pear.95, 97 When there is only a single reference the link area in the resulting PDF file encompasses the whole paragraph - provided that there is

RE: Active Areas from Frame-Generated Index(es)

2010-06-02 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
? Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard.co...@polycom.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 4:15 PM To: Reng, Dr. Winfried; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Active Areas from Frame-Generated Index(es) Reng, Dr. Winfried wrote

Active Areas from Frame-Generated Index(es)

2010-06-02 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, When you create an index, you will get two types of entries: Some with a single reference and some with multiple references. Apple94 Pear.95, 97 When there is only a single reference the link area in the resulting PDF file encompasses the whole paragraph - provided that there is

Active Areas from Frame-Generated Index(es)

2010-06-02 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
? Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard.combs at Polycom.com] > Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 4:15 PM > To: Reng, Dr. Winfried; framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: RE: Active Areas from Frame-Generated Index(es) > &g

RE: PDF weirdness

2010-05-27 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Cynthia, I remember to encounter this every some months (FrameMaker 8). What helped was just a restart FrameMaker and Acrobat and create the PDF file anew. Do you scale the PDF to window size when you open the PDF? If yes, this is the reason why you did not notice this yourself first. Best

PDF weirdness

2010-05-27 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Cynthia, I remember to encounter this every some months (FrameMaker 8). What helped was just a restart FrameMaker and Acrobat and create the PDF file anew. Do you scale the PDF to window size when you open the PDF? If yes, this is the reason why you did not notice this yourself first. Best

RE: MIF File Import

2010-05-07 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Grace, Actually you can start with a MIF file which was saved from FrameMaker. However, you must delete _everything_ which is not relevant to the formats which you want to change. Use a regular text editor for this. You must import such a MIF snippet (that's the term which is used for such

RE: Frame's File Comparison Feature

2010-05-07 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
. Or someone wrote a plug-in for this. I do not know.) Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: Steve Johnson [mailto:chinask...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 4:27 AM To: Reng, Dr. Winfried Cc: FrameMaker Forum Subject: Re: Frame's File Comparison Feature Can't

MIF File Import

2010-05-07 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Grace, Actually you can start with a MIF file which was saved from FrameMaker. However, you must delete _everything_ which is not relevant to the formats which you want to change. Use a regular text editor for this. You must import such a MIF snippet (that's the term which is used for such

Frame's File Comparison Feature

2010-05-07 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
. Or someone wrote a plug-in for this. I do not know.) Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: Steve Johnson [mailto:chinaski69 at gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 4:27 AM > To: Reng, Dr. Winfried > Cc: FrameMaker Forum > Subject: Re: Frame's File

RE: Frame's File Comparison Feature

2010-05-05 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, What you're considering is (or should be) neither necessary nor desirable. Your translation vendor should be using a translation memory (and you should request a copy of it, since you've paid for it, so that you're not locked into this vendor because it's holding your translation

Frame's File Comparison Feature

2010-05-05 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, > What you're considering is (or should be) neither necessary > nor desirable. Your translation vendor should be using a > translation memory (and you should request a copy of it, > since you've paid for it, so that you're not locked into this > vendor because it's holding your

RE: Paragraphs wrapping prematurely

2010-05-03 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Check also this setting in your maker.ini file: DisplayUsingPrinterMetrics=On If this setting is set to Off, the characters are displayed and spaced for high readability. However, this might result in text lines which are shorter than when printed. When this setting is On, the characters

Paragraphs wrapping prematurely

2010-05-03 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Check also this setting in your maker.ini file: DisplayUsingPrinterMetrics=On If this setting is set to Off, the characters are displayed and spaced for high readability. However, this might result in text lines which are shorter than when printed. When this setting is On, the characters

RE: Graphics quality - Mif2Go

2010-04-29 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Mathieu, As far as I know, attachments are not allowed in this mailing list. However, your attachment could not answer questions like these: o Which graphic format do you use in FrameMaker? o Are the graphics referenced? o What is the content of the anchored frames with the graphics? Only a

Graphics quality - Mif2Go

2010-04-29 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Mathieu, As far as I know, attachments are not allowed in this mailing list. However, your attachment could not answer questions like these: o Which graphic format do you use in FrameMaker? o Are the graphics referenced? o What is the content of the anchored frames with the graphics? Only a

RE: Utility for Book-Level Searches for Tracked Text Edits

2010-04-28 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Format Document Change Bars shows that something on the line changed, but isn't specific about what changed. Can be searched for using the Find dialog though. Change bars are a character property. Therefore you can search for them on the book level. In the Find dialog select

Utility for Book-Level Searches for Tracked Text Edits

2010-04-28 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, > Format > Document > Change Bars shows that something on the > line changed, but isn't specific about what changed. Can be > searched for using the Find dialog though. Change bars are a character property. Therefore you can search for them on the book level. In the Find dialog select

RE: Strategy for Handling Conditional Text

2010-04-13 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Electropubs.com has a nifty little plug-in called Clean Import that lets you replace existing formats with the ones you import (all kinds of formats or just the ones you select). So you could delete the unneeded conditions from one file and then Clean Import conditions from it to all

Strategy for Handling Conditional Text

2010-04-13 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, > Electropubs.com has a nifty little plug-in called Clean > Import that lets you replace existing formats with the ones > you import (all kinds of formats or just the ones you > select). So you could delete the unneeded conditions from one > file and then Clean Import conditions from it

RE: change tracking annoyance

2010-04-09 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Fred, When you place the insertion point directly after a word and before a space and start typing regular characters, FM inserts the characters in green. As expected. When you then enter a space, FrameMaker overwrites the existing space (if you have Smart Spaces activated). That way the

change tracking annoyance

2010-04-09 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Fred, When you place the insertion point directly after a word and before a space and start typing regular characters, FM inserts the characters in green. As expected. When you then enter a space, FrameMaker overwrites the existing space (if you have "Smart Spaces" activated). That way the

RE: Wrong conditional text displaying when using FM Track Changes facility

2010-03-31 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Heidi, I have the very same FrameMaker version (although on Windows 2000). I did exactly what you said: Created 3 conditions A, B, C. Enabled Track Text Edits. Added text 108.00. I also added this text in a table cell. Then applied condition A to 10 and condition B to 8. Then I hid all

Wrong conditional text displaying when using FM Track Changes facility

2010-03-31 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Heidi, I have the very same FrameMaker version (although on Windows 2000). I did exactly what you said: Created 3 conditions A, B, C. Enabled "Track Text Edits". Added text "108.00". I also added this text in a table cell. Then applied condition A to 10 and condition B to 8. Then I hid all

FrameScript/ script to convert mif>fm

2010-03-09 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I use the [i]-frame modules from itl: http://www.i-frame.itl.info/en/feature-description/i-frame-modules/translation-pack.html One of these modules provides this feature. Very handy. But not free, therefore possibly not what you want. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- >

RE: FrameScript/ script to convert miffm

2010-03-08 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I use the [i]-frame modules from itl: http://www.i-frame.itl.info/en/feature-description/i-frame-modules/translation-pack.html One of these modules provides this feature. Very handy. But not free, therefore possibly not what you want. Best regards Winfried -Original Message-

RE: Shortcut Control keys - Part deux

2010-02-24 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Corinne, If your requirements aren't too extraordinary (e.g. open menus, hidden content, delayed capture), you can also use the common PRINT or ALT+PRINT shortcut and paste the screenshot from the clipboard into your favorite graphics software (CTRL+v). There you can do whatever you wanted

Shortcut Control keys - Part deux

2010-02-24 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Corinne, If your requirements aren't too extraordinary (e.g. open menus, hidden content, delayed capture), you can also use the common PRINT or ALT+PRINT shortcut and paste the screenshot from the clipboard into your favorite graphics software (CTRL+v). There you can do whatever you wanted

RE: Unable to select, conditionalise, hide/show a variable in a text frame on left of master page

2010-02-01 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I do not know, if this is related to your problem. I noticed a problem when importing the page layout with hidden text. I have a footer with text draft and the exact time. This text has a condition draft. When I hide this condition and import the page layout into another file, the hidden text

Unable to select, conditionalise, hide/show a variable in a text frame on left of master page

2010-02-01 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I do not know, if this is related to your problem. I noticed a problem when importing the page layout with hidden text. I have a footer with text "draft" and the exact time. This text has a condition "draft". When I hide this condition and import the page layout into another file, the hidden

Text insets and trados translation workbench

2010-01-26 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Verner, I once had the same problem with a translator who used Trados. However, I cannot remember what he did to be able to translate the inset in the file, into which the inset was imported. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com

How To Delete Condition Tags in a Book

2009-12-10 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I'd say FindChangeSpecial is best for this job. Very convenient. Very good, when your template has been updated and format names or format usage have changed. FindChangeSpecial allows you to delete or exchange these formats: Paragraph formats Character formats Cross reference definitions

RE: How To Delete Condition Tags in a Book

2009-12-09 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I'd say FindChangeSpecial is best for this job. Very convenient. Very good, when your template has been updated and format names or format usage have changed. FindChangeSpecial allows you to delete or exchange these formats: Paragraph formats Character formats Cross reference definitions

RE: Missing registration marks

2009-12-07 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, That's not fully correct. You can do either of the following: o Deactivate Generate Acrobat Data as Linda said. o Or you can have Generate Acrobat Data activated and set the margins to 0 in Acrobat in Document | Crop Pages. This way you do not need to create 2 PDF files out of

Missing registration marks

2009-12-07 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, That's not fully correct. You can do either of the following: o Deactivate "Generate Acrobat Data" as Linda said. o Or you can have "Generate Acrobat Data" activated and set the margins to 0 in Acrobat in "Document | Crop Pages". This way you do not need to create 2 PDF files out of

RE: Ctrl key issues

2009-11-30 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, On my system (still Windows 2000) I can deactivate shortcuts for switching between different keyboard layouts. Very good as at least I switched to another layout now and then inadvertently. Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

Ctrl key issues

2009-11-30 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, On my system (still Windows 2000) I can deactivate shortcuts for switching between different keyboard layouts. Very good as at least I switched to another layout now and then inadvertently. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com

RE: TOC generation in multiple language environment

2009-11-23 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Klaus, My solution is this: 1 In your TDM file on the reference pages set up an addtional new page. If you already have a page TDM then call the new page IVZ. 2 Copy everything from the TDM page to the new IVZ page. Change the name of the text frame to IVZ. 3 Copy the first paragraph

TOC generation in multiple language environment

2009-11-23 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Klaus, My solution is this: 1 In your TDM file on the reference pages set up an addtional new page. If you already have a page TDM then call the new page IVZ. 2 Copy everything from the TDM page to the new IVZ page. Change the name of the text frame to IVZ. 3 Copy the first paragraph

JOB - technical author in Sunbury/UK

2009-10-26 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Our office in Sunbury in the UK is looking for a technical author. If you are interested, please reply to the contact at the bottom. Best regards Winfried --- 1. OVERALL PURPOSE OF JOB * Preparation of technical documents for safety products and systems, as part of a

JOB - technical author in Sunbury/UK

2009-10-26 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Our office in Sunbury in the UK is looking for a technical author. If you are interested, please reply to the contact at the bottom. Best regards Winfried --- 1. OVERALL PURPOSE OF JOB * Preparation of technical documents for safety products and systems, as part of a

RE: Tab in multi-line TOC entry does not work

2009-09-29 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Nancy, Yes. As others already said, add more tabs between $paratext and $chapnum. However, you do not need 1 per line. You have to add as many tabs so that there will be at least the same number of tabs in the last line as in regular first lines. Examples: Figure 1.6:xtab1-8 Here

Tab in multi-line TOC entry does not work

2009-09-29 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Nancy, Yes. As others already said, add more tabs between <$paratext> and <$chapnum>. However, you do not need 1 per line. You have to add as many tabs so that there will be at least the same number of tabs in the last line as in regular first lines. Examples: Figure 1.6:xtab1-8

RE: Standard font for technical documentation

2009-07-21 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, My _personal_ preference leans to the new MS fonts (Cambria, I think it was) that were released with Vista, based on having edited two papers that used them and from an IEEE Spectrum article about the research involved in their creation. I have not personally used the fonts (not

Standard font for technical documentation

2009-07-21 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, > My _personal_ preference leans to the new MS fonts (Cambria, > I think it > was) that were released with Vista, based on having edited two papers > that used them and from an IEEE Spectrum article about the > research involved > in their creation. I have not personally used the fonts

RE: Soliciting hardware recommendations

2009-07-15 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, If you get an Intel Core 2 Duo (or Core 2 Quad) system, running at 2.6GHz or higher, with 4GB of DDR2 RAM and 7200rpm drives (RAID 0 might be a bit of overkill but easy enough to do), Windows Vista Business 64-bit, and something like an nVidia 9600GT card or better, you will have

Soliciting hardware recommendations

2009-07-15 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, > If you get an Intel Core 2 Duo (or Core 2 Quad) system, running at > 2.6GHz or higher, with 4GB of DDR2 RAM and 7200rpm drives > (RAID 0 might > be a bit of overkill but easy enough to do), Windows Vista Business > 64-bit, and something like an nVidia 9600GT card or better, you will > have

RE: Converting PDF to Word

2009-07-07 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Lea, You do not need to convert to Word via PDF. Either export directly from FrameMaker (is supposed to be improved in the last versions) or use Mif2Go ($ 295, http://www.omsys.com). Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

Converting PDF to Word

2009-07-07 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Lea, You do not need to convert to Word via PDF. Either export directly from FrameMaker (is supposed to be improved in the last versions) or use Mif2Go ($ 295, http://www.omsys.com). Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com >

RE: transparent background graphics

2009-06-02 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Ken, It's not very difficult to get images with transparent background in FrameMaker. What you have to do: o Only if you have a raster image: Create a mask in Photoshop/ Corel PhotoPaint/Paintshop Pro. Everything outside of the mask will be transparent in the final PDF file. o Save the

transparent background graphics

2009-06-02 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Ken, It's not very difficult to get images with transparent background in FrameMaker. What you have to do: o Only if you have a raster image: Create a mask in Photoshop/ Corel PhotoPaint/Paintshop Pro. Everything outside of the mask will be transparent in the final PDF file. o Save the

RE: Exporting the paths of graphics used

2009-05-20 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Susan, Be careful when sorting a table. All hypertext markers get deleted. When you to use the sorted list as a hyperlink file this procedure is not a good idea. I guess, an alphabetical list of paragraphs is best (as Richard Combs already suggested). You can add such a file for a single

Exporting the paths of graphics used

2009-05-20 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Susan, Be careful when sorting a table. All hypertext markers get deleted. When you to use the sorted list as a "hyperlink file" this procedure is not a good idea. I guess, an alphabetical list of paragraphs is best (as Richard Combs already suggested). You can add such a file for a single

RE: Importing docs from Word question

2009-04-28 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, If you have all graphics embedded in a FrameMaker file, you could export them via Mif2Go. As far as I know also the demo version would work. However, that would not import them as referenced graphics. If I were you, I would write a script. Best regards Winfried -Original

Importing docs from Word question

2009-04-28 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, If you have all graphics embedded in a FrameMaker file, you could export them via Mif2Go. As far as I know also the demo version would work. However, that would not import them as referenced graphics. If I were you, I would write a script. Best regards Winfried > -Original

Paragraph catalog sort order

2008-12-09 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, When the tag you want to access is the last one in a series, you could also use the Shift key to select the last item. Example: F9 Shift+t to select TH. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at

RE: Paragraph catalog sort order

2008-12-08 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, When the tag you want to access is the last one in a series, you could also use the Shift key to select the last item. Example: F9 Shift+t to select TH. Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fred Ridder Sent:

RE: Offtopic: Questionnaire about documentation

2008-11-26 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I agree! When I added such a post card to a manual, I didn't get any response. Even when we combined this with a raffle. Years ago in a previous company I had the same question. I sent an e-mail to key customers/users and called them all. Best regards Winfried -Original Message-

Offtopic: Questionnaire about documentation

2008-11-26 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I agree! When I added such a post card to a manual, I didn't get any response. Even when we combined this with a raffle. Years ago in a previous company I had the same question. I sent an e-mail to "key customers/users" and called them all. Best regards Winfried > -Original

RE: Standard tags for technical templates

2008-10-29 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Of course there may be situations, when a starting paragraph for a set of steps may be needed. I use this to specify more space before the first step. Without knowing the numbering settings all these e-mails about the purpose of these paragraph formats are pure speculation. Nancy, could you

Standard tags for technical templates

2008-10-29 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Of course there may be situations, when a starting paragraph for a set of steps may be needed. I use this to specify more space before the first step. Without knowing the numbering settings all these e-mails about the purpose of these paragraph formats are pure speculation. Nancy, could you

RE: Reasons for using graphic and table anchor tags

2008-10-24 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Additional reasons to the ones already mentioned: o Sometimes a table or anchored frame has to move to the next page as there is not enough space on the page with the anchor. At least when the anchored frame is set to Below Current Line the line with the paragraph moves also to the

Reasons for using graphic and table anchor tags

2008-10-24 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Additional reasons to the ones already mentioned: o Sometimes a table or anchored frame has to move to the next page as there is not enough space on the page with the anchor. At least when the anchored frame is set to "Below Current Line" the line with the paragraph moves also to

RE: Unresolved Cross Reference

2008-10-21 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Do you get any messages, when you open all files (missing graphics etc.)? In this case FrameMaker cannot open the files with the cross-reference target. It cannot check whether the cross-reference target exists and will give you the error message. Open all files, before your update or print

Unresolved Cross Reference

2008-10-21 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Do you get any messages, when you open all files (missing graphics etc.)? In this case FrameMaker cannot open the files with the cross-reference target. It cannot check whether the cross-reference target exists and will give you the error message. Open all files, before your update or print

RE: Importing FM Text

2008-10-20 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Nina, Are your cross-references really intra-file, meaning that they point to another paragraph not in the same chapter but in the same file which you import? Then that's no problem. However, if the cross-references point to another one of the 50 files of the same chapter, then you will get

Importing FM Text

2008-10-20 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Nina, Are your cross-references really intra-file, meaning that they point to another paragraph not in the same chapter but in the same file which you import? Then that's no problem. However, if the cross-references point to another one of the 50 files of the same chapter, then you will get

RE: Text characters missing in printed FrameMaker document or in PDF file

2008-10-16 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Marc, Probably this is caused by a bug caused by Microsoft. Microsoft published a hotfix some monthgs ago, which should fix your problem: http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2008/07/hotfix_for_framemaker_1.html Before that hotfix the work-around was to remove the fntcache.dat file. That's no

RE: Printing with line numbers

2008-10-16 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, There is the free FrameScript script InsertLineCounter.fsl which does that for you. Works very well. http://www.itl.eu/framescript_download.html?L=1 Apart from that you could think of solutions with tables or additonal flows. Not very convenient. Best regards Winfried -Original

Text characters missing in printed FrameMaker document or in PDF file

2008-10-16 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Marc, Probably this is caused by a bug caused by Microsoft. Microsoft published a hotfix some monthgs ago, which should fix your problem: http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2008/07/hotfix_for_framemaker_1.html Before that hotfix the work-around was to remove the fntcache.dat file. That's no

Printing with line numbers

2008-10-16 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, There is the free FrameScript script InsertLineCounter.fsl which does that for you. Works very well. http://www.itl.eu/framescript_download.html?=1 Apart from that you could think of solutions with tables or additonal flows. Not very convenient. Best regards Winfried > -Original

zipping an FM book

2008-10-06 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Deirdre, Did you unzip the book with all its chapters before you open the book? Or did you try to open the book file inside of Winzip? If the latter, it's clear. The book file will not have access to its chapter files. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From:

FM 8 "Next pgf tag" having no effect...

2008-08-07 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Lin, This was fixed with FM 8.04 (8.0p277). In the Help menu click on Updates to download and install it. If that does not work, you'll find it on the Adobe web-site. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: owner-framers at omsys.com > [mailto:owner-framers at

FrameUsers mailing list dead?

2008-07-31 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
/pipermail/framers/ Now someone should fix that ... Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: owner-framers at omsys.com > [mailto:owner-framers at omsys.com] On Behalf Of Combs, Richard > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 7:57 PM > To: Reng, Dr. Winfried; frame

MIF statement for "Show as per Expression"

2008-07-30 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, FrameMaker 8.0p277 I sent some MIF files to our translation agency. When I got the translated files back I noticed that text in some table rows was not translated. Trados did not import the text in these rows. These table rows had a condition assigned which was set to "Hide". However, I did

RE: table heading on reference page

2008-07-24 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I believe that there is a plug-in that copies a paragraph (with anchored frames/tables) from the reference page. Try out Reficons from Cudspan whether it does what you want: http://www.freeframers.org/freeware/cud/ Best regards Winfried | Hi All, | | I need to get a fairly complicated

table heading on reference page

2008-07-24 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I believe that there is a plug-in that copies a paragraph (with anchored frames/tables) from the reference page. Try out Reficons from Cudspan whether it does what you want: http://www.freeframers.org/freeware/cud/ Best regards Winfried > | Hi All, > | > | I need to get a fairly

RE: Searching the archives

2008-07-03 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Lutz, The FrameUsers mails are also archived here: http://www.mail-archive.com/framers@lists.frameusers.com/ This archive has also a working search feature. Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Plueckhahn,

RE: weird symbols in front of my Chapter Titles

2008-07-03 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Deirdre, Please correct me, if I'm wrong. Your markers appear in front of the chapter titles but not in the TOC, don't they? When a TOC has hyperlinks to headings, hyperlink markers are created only in the TOC. Therefore the markers in front of the chapter titles must be something different.

Searching the archives

2008-07-03 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Lutz, The FrameUsers mails are also archived here: http://www.mail-archive.com/framers at lists.frameusers.com/ This archive has also a working search feature. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at

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