Re: [Framers] TOC issue

2021-12-19 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
This was a very bad decision to have this "functionality." I'm truly amazed that they would think this is a good feature. Having lots of partially broken links in my PDF is not worth whatever they think they are gaining in terms of functionality. If they really think this is such

Re: [Framers] TOC issue

2021-12-19 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Is it possible that there is some character formatting that you aren't noticing? Even if by mistake you applied italics to a space in between words it would mess it up. Try selecting the entire heading (in the document, and removing all local formatting.) On 17-Dec-21 5:36 PM, tammyvb

Re: [Framers] Contents of Framers digest... Why so many of us feel the way we do....

2021-10-20 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
The advantage of talking about what we don't like, is that hopefully they will fix the issues. It's not just to blow off steam. On 19-Oct-21 10:24 AM, Wim iDTP wrote: Hi all, can we go back to where this list is ment for: help eachother out with FrameMaker issues. If you don’t use FM

Re: [Framers] Why so many of us feel the way we do about Adobe

2021-10-19 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
wrote: The current $360 annual subscription price is lower than the old annual maintenance charge, which was 50% of the cost for a new license. On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 12:27 AM Shmuel Wolfson wrote: ... I think when Adobe charged less for upgrades people had more tolerance for Adobe not fixing

Re: [Framers] Why so many of us feel the way we do about Adobe

2021-10-18 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
customers. -- Shmuel Wolfson ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/

Re: [Framers] Other tools

2021-10-14 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Affinity looks great for magazines, but it currently lacks support for cross-references, so it's not an option for books IMHO. But it seems like it is a feature thta they want to add. See

Re: [Framers] Why so many of us feel the way we do about Adobe

2021-10-14 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
. It could by that my company is someone unique in needed nice PDFs for most products, and online help for others. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers

Re: [Framers] Why so many of us feel the way we do about Adobe

2021-10-14 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
you really don't need to buy every new version that comes out. Do you buy every new smartphone that comes out, or wait until you need a new phone? Anyone under 20 is excluded from answering that question :) -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-

Re: [Framers] Table Conversion with Formats

2021-09-05 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Try the following: Make a copy of the FM file. Save the file as a Word file. Open it in Word. Do the conversion to table in Word. Opening the Word file in FM. Copy the table back to the original FM doc. Select the entire table and apply the table ruling and shading "From Table." This

Re: [Framers] FM 10 on a new computer.

2021-08-16 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
You said: If you need only a page layout program, don't buy FrameMaker, either. What would you suggest if you only need a page layout program, Affinity? On 12-Aug-21 10:47 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote: If you don't need a help authoring tool, don't buy Flare. Flare's expensive

Re: [Framers] Appearance of graphics in the generated PDF

2021-08-08 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
David Schor once recommencement the following Adobe Acrobat Distiller options for clearer graphics in PDFs: In the PDF Settings (Job Options in earlier Acrobat Distiller versions) Images configuration, turn off Downsampling and set compression to ZIP. Hope this helps. -- Shmuel Wolfson

[Framers] Regular Expressions

2021-07-15 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
lowercase letters also, unless you select Consider Case. HTH -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 References 1. https://regexr.com/ ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers

Re: [Framers] Searching multiple PDFs for blacklisted terms

2021-07-07 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
You can search multiple PDFs in one folder using many PDF readers, including Acrobat Reader. The usual keyboard shortcut is CTRL+SHIFT+F. You can select to find all instances of a term in the current PDF or in all PDFs in a specific folder. In order to search multiple PDFs for several terms

Re: [Framers] Appallingly slow linked graphics

2021-06-07 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Can you add RAM? If it's a desktop, maybe you could also upgrade the CPU. On 07-Jun-21 5:24 PM, Steve Rickaby wrote: I'm not sure if anyone will be using an archaic setup like mine, but here goes. FrameMaker 12 on Parallels Desktop under MacOS OS 9. It all works, but loading graphics (in

Re: [Framers] Basic question: hyperlinks to paragraphs

2020-10-27 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Can't you just write "this is explained in the discussion of cat problems (page xx)"? On 27-Oct-20 12:27 PM, Bertrand Meyer wrote: Actually my problem is not exactly this. I am happy with link targets being paragraphs. (They already are.) My problem is the link sources: I don't want them to be

Re: [Framers] Basic question: hyperlinks to paragraphs

2020-10-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
The link has to be pointing a paragraph, not a word, but you can use run-in paragraphs for this to make a specific word or phrase be considered a paragraph. On 22-Oct-20 8:40 PM, Bertrand Meyer wrote: This is a novice question. In fact I am not a novice as I have been using FrameMaker

Re: [Framers] [EXTERNAL] Adobe licensing is migrating to subscription based

2020-08-26 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
being nice. Although legally they probably have to help you, who wants to have to take them to court. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 26-Aug-20 3:03 PM, Tom Beiswenger wrote: This may be a really stupid question, but because it involves an Adobe product, it probably isn't

Re: [Framers] Using vector images in Frame

2020-08-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
WMF and EMF are also vector formats. I use WMF. On 25-Aug-20 10:26 PM, Doug wrote: I want to make an image with text in it that will retain its sharpness when the webpage is zoom in. As I understand things, a vector image will work for this. How do I make a vector image with text? I've made

Re: [Framers] Adobe licensing is migrating to subscription based

2020-08-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
How does GIMP compare to Paint.net? On 25-Aug-20 8:53 PM, Lin Sims wrote: Oh, and while I have no idea if there is a freeware equivalent to InDesign, GIMP is freeware and does everything Photoshop does. Plus you can have an interface with colored icons which, let me tell you, is a nice thing.

Re: [Framers] Inserting checkmark in a table cell (FM12)

2020-07-22 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
at the bottom-right for characters in the 255 range. Strangely enough, the Windows Character Map doesn't show *all* the Alt keystrokes within in the 255 range, even though they seem to all work. So as Janet said, in the Windings2 font, ALT-0080 gives you a checkmark. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer

Re: [Framers] MadCap Flare

2020-03-03 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
If your main job will be technical writing, I think you should just take the job and learn as you go. There are online tutorials. Lynda.com has courses in Flare. Good luck. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 28-Feb-20 7:20 PM, Ken Poshedly wrote: Group, At a job interview

Re: [Framers] Best Method, Word 2013 to Frame 2019.

2019-03-11 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
If everything is tagged as Normal, you can do a find/replace in Word to find specific character formats, such as a specific font size, a certain font, or bold, and replace with a specific style. Word's Find/Replace is very good. To do this, leave the Find box blank. On 11-Mar-19 6:15 PM,

Re: [Framers] wash via mif?

2019-01-15 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
When I tried this, I could not convert from .MIF 2015 to .FM 2015. I had to save it back to a previous version of .FM. On 15-Jan-19 3:06 PM, Jeff Coatsworth wrote: MIF-washing a single file remains the same - save your .fm file as .mif; close the original .fm file, open the .mif, save as .fm

Re: [Framers] Lock file feature

2018-08-16 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
requests. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 16-Aug-18 12:15 PM, Carrie Baker wrote: Thanks for this info. I have to put my files on the network and did not understand why all were locked today when I opened בתאריך יום ד׳, 15 באוג׳ 2018, 22:52, מאת ‏: Hi Rick and Fred, Thank you! I

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker vs Flare

2018-06-27 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
on switching to Flare any time soon. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 27-Jun-18 7:59 AM, Alan Litchfield wrote: I don't think the issue in this conversation is about Adobe abandoning FM, but that the corporate model Adobe chooses to use has effectively driven a lot of us old

Re: [Framers] list members not using FrameMaker now

2018-06-26 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
But Frame supports HTML5, so where is the advantage in Flare as far as that? On 26-Jun-18 7:20 PM, Etzel, Gary wrote: I'll come out of lurking for a minute to add my name to the list of recovering Frame addicts. And we were serious FrameMaker junkies, too. We're the people who wrote the

Re: [Framers] Flare

2018-06-26 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Does it have a steeper learning curve than Frame? On 26-Jun-18 6:51 PM, Eichelberger, Mark (King of Prussia) wrote: Rick, I still consider myself a bit of a novice in Flare since, in my opinion, it has a steep learning curve. But Madcap offers plenty of videos and free webinars on the

Re: [Framers] Final note about Adobe Licensing

2018-06-26 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 26-Jun-18 3:25 AM, Peter Gold wrote: These recent threads about licensing and related Adobe corporate-level failings, and the associated sense of abandonment that's been voiced by long-long-long-time FrameMaker users who represent a community

Re: [Framers] Windows 10 updates disables FM printing

2018-05-28 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
down the pike? Sent from my iPhone On May 28, 2018, at 7:19 AM, Shmuel Wolfson <shmue...@gmail.com> wrote: I found the webpages that discuss the problem with this search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Cannot+query+escape+768 Here are some of the pages that give solutions:

Re: [Framers] Windows 10 updates disables FM printing

2018-05-28 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I found the webpages that discuss the problem with this search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Cannot+query+escape+768 Here are some of the pages that give solutions: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2491654 https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2476727 -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763

Re: [Framers] Windows 10 updates disables FM printing

2018-05-28 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
find the webpage where it said how to do this. Adobe is aware of the problem and working on it. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 27-May-18 7:53 PM, Ken Poshedly wrote: Here's something I didn't need to have happen on a Saturday night. And I suspect the cause seems

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker Data in Footer

2018-05-15 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
the template, edit the variables for each book and import the variables from the template. Shmuel Wolfson On 15-May-18 3:22 PM, julie.sigr...@airbornemx.com wrote: I am using 2017 unstructured FrameMaker to produce an Aircraft Maintenance Manual Supplement which is currently in Word

Re: [Framers] Transfer from FrameMaker into Word

2018-04-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I think you are much better off saving the Frame files as RTF then RTF as Word. The reason is that when you save Frame files as RTF, you get the styles that were in Frame. If you want to change style names, it's a simple search and replace. This is much faster than having to apply all the

Re: [Framers] How do you identify an advanced Framemaker user?

2018-04-17 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
FM templates are a bit difficult. You can be a very advanced user without that. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 16-Apr-18 11:53 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote: "What's your favorite thing about FrameMaker templates?" is a good question, since templates per se d

Re: [Framers] How do you identify an advanced Framemaker user?

2018-04-17 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
, and you could always send him/her to an advanced FM course. In my opinion it's more important that they have a good technical aptitude and are good at explaining things. I would hire someone who at least knows FM though. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 16-Apr-18 5:36 PM, Robert

Re: [Framers] How do you identify an advanced Framemaker user?

2018-04-17 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
my $0.02. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 16-Apr-18 6:29 PM, Art Campbell wrote: Advanced FM users usually have kind of a 1000 yard stare... And may have little square marks on their faces from banging their heads on the keyboard. Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com

Re: [Framers] OT: Word document formatted with Normal

2018-04-08 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Just take any PDF and save it as Word. The result will be formatted decently, but will all be in Normal style. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 04-Apr-18 1:25 AM, Rick Quatro wrote: Hi Framers, I am looking for a Word document or two that look pretty decent

Re: [Framers] Frame Export to Word

2017-12-26 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Does that work better than PDF to Word using Acrobat Pro? -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 26-Dec-17 2:26 PM, julie.sigr...@airbornemx.com wrote: I am still using Frame 10. To convert to Word I create a PDF then use the Adobe PDF Services to convert to Word or Excel so

Re: [Framers] Frame 2017 Export to Word

2017-12-20 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
comments (with tracked changes). I would not recommend using the exported files in any other way. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 20-Dec-17 8:22 AM, A Craig wrote: Maybe I've imaged it, but I seem to remember threads re: exporting Frame 2017 to Word? (I'm still on Frame 12

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker tab bug workaround

2017-12-06 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I forgot to mention that I have 2015 (version 13.0.5.547). It's possible this bug is fixed in the current version. Below it says that it is fixed in version 14.0.0.361. Shmuel On 06-Dec-17 11:07 AM, Klaus Daube wrote: Hello Shmuel, I had reported this with FM-11 and it was considered

[Framers] FrameMaker tab bug workaround

2017-12-05 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
. The double-click is faster than the time it takes for the value to revert back to original tab value, so the apply takes effect with the new tab value. I hope this helps. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 ___ This message is from

Re: [Framers] OT-Documenting APIs

2017-11-23 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
one verify if this is correct or not? -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 22-Nov-17 10:22 PM, A Craig wrote: I'm writing the list because I hope someone here can answer my OT question. I'm currently doing contract work while I search for a new full-time job. The probl

Re: [Framers] OT-Documenting APIs

2017-11-23 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Are www.writethedocs.org and writethedocs.slack.com the same? On 22-Nov-17 10:26 PM, Rick Quatro wrote: Hi Craig, You might want to check out: http://www.writethedocs.org/ Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. r...@frameexpert.com 585-366-4017 -Original Message- From: Framers

Re: [Framers] Static image to video feature

2017-11-15 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
mport movies, SWF files, and 3D objects". Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. r...@frameexpert.com 585-366-4017 -Original Message- From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Shmuel Wolfson Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 3:46 AM To: Ke

Re: [Framers] Static image to video feature

2017-11-15 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
This is not a FrameMaker feature. It's a PDF feature. You have to insert the file in the PDF. On 14-Nov-17 11:25 PM, Ken Poshedly wrote: While I've been using FrameMaker since version 5.5 back in 1998, I've not used this feature -- if it even exists. What I want to do is insert an image in

Re: [Framers] OT: Word links to URLs

2017-09-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
the URL of the link via VBA. Here's a link which may help you with some of the VBA terminology for hyperlinks, although it does not do exactly what you want: [1]https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19035119/vba-get-all-hyperlinks- in-word-document -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical

Re: [Framers] ‏השב: Converting to Word for Review

2017-07-11 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
by the formatting, you can send them word files for commenting and a PDF to show them how the formatted doc looks. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 11-Jul-17 6:07 PM, Caroline Tabach wrote: I sent a nice PDF, but the manager wanted Word. This is for review only ‏נשלח מ-LG Mobile שלי

Re: [Framers] Converting to Word for Review

2017-07-11 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
not get saved with the file, so you have to show them how to do that if seeing the markup bothers them. Then I put the word doc and the frame doc side by side and copy the changes into frame. It's not all that painful. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 11-Jul-17 3:37 PM, Caroline

Re: [Framers] Search for text + tag?

2017-06-22 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
not change the focus back to the cod after the search. Hope this helps. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http

Re: [Framers] Search for text + tag?

2017-06-22 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
She does want to change the text string in a paragraph tagged with a specific format, without having to keep an eye on the lower-left corner of the status bar. This is an important feature in Word that is missing in FM. -- On 22-Jun-17 1:18 AM, Peter Gold wrote: "Now,

Re: [Framers] U3D Question.

2017-06-21 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
PDF supports Universal 3D (.u3d) and Product Representation Compact (.prc). See: https://forums.adobe.com/message/4943098#4943098 Maybe try the other format. Another option is to have them save it in other 3D formats, then google ".xx to U3D converter." Hope this helps. -- Shmu

Re: [Framers] Search for text + tag?

2017-06-21 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Unfortunately this is one feature that Word has, but FrameMaker does not have: The ability to search for specific text with a specific paragraph or character tag. Adobe People: Please add this feature eventually. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 20

Re: [Framers] "Secret" Freeze Pagination Feature

2017-04-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
levels in the chapter TOC, it would be have check for that also. Also, your idea does not address tables that have rows that move onto a new page. I think a warning as the table rows actually move to a new page would be a good idea for this problem. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133

Re: [Framers] "Secret" Freeze Pagination Feature

2017-04-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
a few edits, I find myself reviewing the entire doc to see where the headings appear and updating all the TOCs just in case a heading, table caption or figure caption, moved to a new page. The current feature the way it is is pretty much useless to me. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763

Re: [Framers] FM 2017 Feature Request: Restore color and scaling to menu icons

2017-03-27 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
the outcry on this that Adobe my find the time and money in the near future, but who knows. For me, it is a non-issue. C- From: Framers <framers-bounces+craigede=hotmail@lists.frameusers.com> on behalf of Shmuel Wolfson <shmue...@gmail.com> Sent: Sund

Re: [Framers] FM 2017 Feature Request: Restore color and scaling to menu icons

2017-03-26 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
that would be the best way to satisfy all users. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 20-Mar-17 9:37 PM, Stefan Gentz wrote: Dear Alison, I'm so sorry, if you felt that my original mail was offensive to you. That's not at all what I wanted! When I was writing about a "young and

Re: [Framers] FM 2017 Feature Request: Restore color and scaling to menu icons

2017-03-12 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I voted too. On 09-Mar-17 10:50 PM, Eichelberger, Mark (King of Prussia) wrote: I voted too. I will admit that my 60 year old eyes get tired of this interface. -Original Message- From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+mark.eichelberger=fiserv@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of

Re: [Framers] Fwd: Meet the all-new Adobe FrameMaker (2017 release)

2017-02-21 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
In terms of menu shifting confusion, one of the new features is a "Command Search." See this short video: https://video.tv.adobe.com/v/16937/ -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 21-Feb-17 6:32 AM, Alan Litchfield wrote: Apart from the menus being reshuffled and

Re: [Framers] Fwd: Meet the all-new Adobe FrameMaker (2017 release)

2017-02-21 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
this mentioned in the above page. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 There are a lot of "convenience" features.On 21-Feb-17 6:32 AM, Alan Litchfield wrote: Apart from the menus being reshuffled and the hi-res screen preview, I am not seeing a lot in the promo video t

Re: [Framers] PDF links go to document instead of book

2017-02-21 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
It's a link to another PDF or a FM file? -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 20-Feb-17 9:24 PM, Fred Wersan wrote: I have a book with links to another book. The PDF file links are not working. When I look at the properties, I see that the link is pointing to a specific file

Re: [Framers] Search and replace End Paragraph with Comma Space

2017-02-06 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
remove any custom rulers and shading. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 05-Feb-17 9:19 PM, Theresa de Valence wrote: Hi Framers. I'm putting the contents of an Excel spreadsheet into a frame document. I've copied the relevant spreadsheet lines (several columns) and used Pas

Re: [Framers] Question about differentiating heading levels

2017-01-24 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
scratch. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 23-Jan-17 11:10 PM, Tammy Van Boening wrote: Hi All, Working on a new template for a new client and my head is spinning. It's been sooo long since I have designed anything w/ all these required bells and whistles. (I am more

Re: [Framers] Replace URLs

2016-12-11 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
You probably can save the files as MIFs and do a search and replace, but with that many files you probably should go for a script. On 08-Dec-16 4:53 PM, john.x.pos...@us.hsbc.com wrote: Hi, guys. My company is reorganizing its SharePoint infrastructure with the new year by moving a whole

Re: [Framers] OT: Adobe Tool Question

2016-09-08 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I read on inkscape's website that there is a plug-in to open EPS files. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 07-Sep-16 7:53 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote: Inkscape can't open EPS files, so you have to convert them: https://inkscape.org/en/learn/faq/#how-to-open-eps-files

Re: [Framers] OT: Adobe Tool Question

2016-09-07 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Inkscape is free vector-based drawing program that can save as EPS. https://inkscape.org/en/ Xara is a cheap vector-based drawing program that can save as EPS. http://www.xara.com/eu/photo-graphic-designer/features/ -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 07-Sep-16 4:36 PM, Tammy

Re: [Framers] Import AutoCad dwg files

2016-08-17 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Try File>Import>Object instead of File>Import>File. I think that should work. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 17-Aug-16 1:16 PM, Yves Barbion wrote: Well, AutoCad (DWG) is in the list of file formats in the Import dialog, so I suppose

Re: [Framers] Import AutoCad dwg files

2016-08-17 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Is frame supposed to be able to import that format? One option is to open it in CorelDraw and save it as CorelDraw. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 17-Aug-16 11:48 AM, Yves Barbion wrote: Hi group Has anyone ever succeeded in importing AutoCad .dwg files into FrameMaker

Re: [Framers] heading text in "Running H/F #" - clever truncation ?

2016-08-16 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
You could change the Running H/F in that doc to be a higher lever heading or you could just put the document name "Frequently Asked Questions" instead of the Running H/F. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 From: Framers <framers-bo

[Framers] FrameMaker to CHM Problems

2016-08-04 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
myself. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com

Re: [Framers] Find/change problems in large documents

2016-06-02 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
be skipping files that it can't access within a certain amount of time. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 01-Jun-16 2:51 AM, Weckman Mari wrote: Hi, We are using structured FrameMaker for law editing and some of the documents are extremely large, nearly 3 MB though they include

Re: [Framers] I need a "hat" in an equation

2016-05-22 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
If you recreate it in Visio or PowerPoint and save it as an EMF, it will come out as clear as text in the PDF (or print). It definitely takes more time than a screen capture though. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 20-May-16 7:05 PM, Lin Sims wrote: One of my engineers gave

Re: [Framers] reused content for different products - best practices ?

2016-05-18 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
an entire chapter. You can use conditional text in text insets as well. If you do localization (translation), than it makes sense to go with structured FM. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 17-May-16 10:01 PM, Monique Semp wrote: Hello, Framers, I’ve got an appendix that

[Framers] FrameMaker Problem

2016-05-11 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
POSTING FOR A FRIEND - PLEASE REPLY TO ad...@netvision.net.il A strange thing happened to me when I created a book in FM and added TOC, LOF and LOT. The TOC links to Chapter 1 are OK but for all the other chapters, when I try to link, I get a message that these chapters are

Re: [Framers] Searching for content in FrameMaker files

2016-05-11 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I use Agent Ransack. It's a free search utility that can search inside files, including FrameMaker files. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 10-May-16 7:17 AM, gr...@hedgewizard.net wrote: I paid for the File Locator Pro version of Agent Ransack; I like the ability

Re: [Framers] Importing a single variable. WAS: Preventing 2-word product name from line breaks

2016-04-07 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Or you could simply delete all the variables from one file except for the variable that you want to import, and use that as a template for importing to other docs. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 On 07-Apr-16 1:43 PM, Heiko Haida wrote: Hi Roger, one objection

Re: [Framers] Taking and inserting screen captures in FrameMaker2015

2016-04-04 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
If you are looking for a free screen capture program that has lots of nice features, my favorite is Greenshot. It's free and open source, even for commercial use. http://getgreenshot.org/ -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133

[Framers] FrameMaker Customization

2016-03-28 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Hi, I upgraded to FrameMaker 2015 and I'm having trouble recreating a customized Text Formatting toolbar that I had in FM11. In FM2015 the character formatting drop-down box does not appear. In FM11 it looks like this: In FM2015 it looks like this: Any ideas? -- Shmuel

[Framers] HTML5 Online Help

2016-03-02 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
files for formatting? -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http

Re: [Framers] Save as Word?

2016-02-03 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Below is a previous reply on the topic of saving as Word using MIF2GO. It's sounds like they did not get it to work yet. I think the Save As option should be fine for internal use, to copy text from it. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Forwarded

Re: [Framers] Save as Word?

2016-02-03 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Do you know how it compares to Save As Word? -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 On 03-Feb-16 12:51 PM, John Sgammato wrote: FrameMaker's current Save as RTF feature is much improved. My SMEs find it perfectly acceptable. On Feb 3, 2016 4:04 AM, "Caroline Tabach&qu

Re: [Framers] Framemaker Training

2016-02-02 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Lynda.com has a good reputation, if you want to train yourself with videos. If you want a full course with an instructor, I recommend MicroType's "Using FrameMaker" course. I took this course, and it was excellent. http://www.microtype.com/training.html -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical

Re: [Framers] Mif2Go conversion to Word

2016-01-06 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
and he was very helpful.  Email: swise...@context.co.il -- Shmuel Wolfson -- On 05-Jan-16 11:46 PM, Scott Prentice wrote: http://mif2go.com Support for FM12/2015 is, from

Re: FrameMaker to HTML

2014-07-16 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
or +972-2-999-7816. Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 On 15-Jul-14 9:07 PM, Joe Malin wrote: Hi! I work for a small startup that delivers documentation to software developers. Im investigating how to continue

Re: Removing custom row heights

2014-07-07 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
to search for would be "RowMinHeight [0-9]*.[0-9]*" (without the quotes) and replace with RowMinHeight 0. Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 On 07-Jul-14 7:12 PM, Craig Ede wrote: I s

Re: Removing custom row heights

2014-07-06 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
and are not the same throughout the table? Is there another way to set the row heights in a table? Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 On 19-Jun-14 10:36 PM, Christenson, Pat wrote: Almost all our tables have custom row

Re: Errant Format Removal

2014-07-03 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
paragraphs even when you select NOT to remove overrides. Please guys only small flames if I'm wrong :) Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 On 02-Jul-14 8:19 PM, Karen Robbins wrote: Hi Framers, One of our paragraph styles is a run-in heading. Mysteriously, a default punctuation of period

Re: Errant Format Removal

2014-07-03 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
a script for this. Or you could look around on the internet for a similar script. Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 On 03-Jul-14 6:10 PM, Karen Robbins wrote: Hi Shmuel, Sorry, it didn't work.:-( At least in FM 11, your method affects only the single pgf in which applied. Only way I've

Re: Conditional cells in a straddled table row

2014-06-30 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I would repeat all these five rows for each condition, and conditionalize each set of row for one of the conditions. Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 On 30-Jun-14 5:51 PM, Samantha Nair wrote: Hi all

Re: Word Tables to Frame 12Tables

2014-06-19 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
install AutoIt and run the script below. (It has to be saved in a text file an .AU3 extension.) Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 ; This script applies the currently defined custom ruling and shading ; to one or more table cells. ; Before running the script, find "Any Tab

Re: Keyboard Shortcut to Run ExtendScript in FrameMaker 10?

2014-06-01 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
If the script files can be run by double-clicking them, you can use The Wonderful Icon to assign a keyboard shortcut to open a script. I use it to run AutoIt scripts. If you need help with it, let me know. Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133

Re: FrameMaker 8 to a Newer Version

2014-05-19 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
F8 and F9 are working again in FM11. There is a slight delay the first time you use one of them, but other than that they are OK. Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 On 16-May-14 6:21 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote: I wish I had a copy of FrameMaker 8, it is in many ways superior

Keyboard shortcut for closing pods

2014-05-07 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
best, but far better than the current situation which requires clicking on a small icon to minimize or close a pod. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch

Keyboard shortcut for closing pods

2014-05-07 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
best, but far better than the current situation which requires clicking on a small icon to minimize or close a pod. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch

Re: Keyboard shortcut for closing pods

2014-05-07 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
to close each pod, they are not very useful. Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 On 07-May-14 3:40 PM, Lin Sims wrote: The problem with the suggestion of using two or three Escapes in a row is that it could well break all the OTHER

Re: adjusting an underline (underscore)

2014-05-05 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
As Les Smalley mentioned on the list, use Numeric Underline instead of Underline. It's an option in the Character Designer. That brings the underline down slightly. Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 On 02-May-14 3:34 PM, Ken Poshedly wrote

Re: adjusting an underline (underscore)

2014-04-30 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
h when you add or remove text before the paragraph. Another option is to put the text in a table and add a bottom border to the table. Neither option is very elegant. Hope this was clear enough. If not, let me know. Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133

Re: FM 12 Interface: at least one major step backwards!

2014-04-06 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
the focus to the main document. Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 On 04-Apr-14 5:02 PM, Harding, Dan wrote: I just started using FM12 this week, coming from FM10, and just ran full tilt into a major

Re: search fo end of line

2014-04-02 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
issue that there are two types of fonts and it's only finding one of them. Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 On 02-Apr-14 10:43 AM, Jakub Dasiewicz wrote

Re: need referrals for localization companies

2014-03-12 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I recommend Net-translators. www.net-translators.com Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 On 11-Mar-14 7:31 PM, Carol J. Elkins wrote: I need to compile a list of recommended localization companies for a client who is now ready to translate their Framemaker books. I'd like your

Re: Blank pages

2014-03-12 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
List of reasons for unwanted blank pages (from Harro de Jong): Blank pages at the start or end of a chapter: - rightclick chapter in book-Pagination-Make page count odd/even (can add an empty page at end of chapter) - rightclick chapter in

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