Or you can use one header text frame and put a two-column table in it for
more design flexibility:
- You can play with ruling and shading, for example to place your
headers/footers on a colored background.
- You can control the distance between both columns by playing with
the default
Hi,
I also use 2 column tables. However, do you know how to
automate this? Part of my header is the product name, and
its length varies in different books.
Best regards
Winfried
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Yves Barbion
Sent:
Hi Framers:
I am in the final stages of a manuscript and trying to resolve matters like
spaces after colons and punctuation. I thought I knew all the tricks, but
when I do the Search and Replace with more than 3,500 operations in one
file, FM crashes. I would not have thought FM would have
Rob,
You wrote:
I am in the final stages of a manuscript and trying to resolve matters like
spaces after colons and punctuation. I thought I knew all the tricks, but
when I do the Search and Replace with more than 3,500 operations in one
file, FM crashes. I would not have thought FM would have
You've already received many excellent suggestions for copy fitting,
most of them pertaining to text. If you have exhibits such as
illustrations and tables, you can also adjust the spacing above and
below the frames that hold them, and around the objects in them.
Hi Yves,
My header consist of a running header/footer variable with heading2 in
one column and the system and product name in the other column.
In other books the system and product name is different and therefore
I have to adjust the column width. I do not want the system/product
name to break
This is what we do, we still space from Peter, give it to Paul.
Scott White
Media Production Manager
Implementation Coordinator
210-704-8239
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Apr 22, 2008, at 8:08 AM, Jim Owens wrote:
You've already received many excellent suggestions for copy fitting,
most of them
I've used tables in the header as well, in particular for the vertical
alignment capability.
But there are a few cautions:
- the table row (cell) height automatically expanding may be an issue
depending on the available space; you have to be sure your header
content doesn't get cut if it
Steve,
OK, I'm going to show my ignorance, but maybe I'm not the only one. Dumb
questions follow.
Manually stretching the main page flow to take lines back
Do you mean to make the main text frame on a body page larger? Hmm, seems
like that will look odd if pages have different size text frames.
Hedley,
BTW, this is not a user guide. It's a technical book.
More of my ignorance about to show.
@Slightly condense the body type -- not too much or the proportions
of strokes will become ugly.
Using the word spacing options in the paragraph designer?
@Increase the depth of all
Linda G. Gallagher wrote:
Steve,
Micro-control of text, for example adding small amounts of negative
tracking to pull a hyphenated word back from a page foot
Negative tracking?
Thanks!
I can field this one, with some extra suggestions.
In the Paragraph and Character Designers, you
At 08:55 -0600 22/4/08, Linda G. Gallagher wrote:
OK, I'm going to show my ignorance, but maybe I'm not the only one. Dumb
questions follow.
Not at all dumb...
Manually stretching the main page flow to take lines back
Do you mean to make the main text frame on a body page larger? Hmm, seems
I love my Plantronics headset. Like Syed said, not inexpensive. (I have a
smaller Plantronics for my cell phone too.)
I'm sure less expensive ones could work as well from HelloDirect)
http://www.plantronics.com/north_america/en_US/products/home/telephone-heads
et-systems/cs55h
-Original
Hi, Linda:
You didn't say if the major problem you're facing is reducing content
to fit the space available, extending it, or a combination of both.
Your approach to a solution depends needs to consider these issues.
Your feeling of ignorance may come from being offered so many good
suggestions
At 10:41 -0500 22/4/08, Peter Gold wrote:
I strongly suggest that you either engage a typesetting-savvy designer, and
dig into good typography and book design books, online forums, and similar
resources before committing to an overall solution.
Good advice indeed.
I had assumed that Linda was
Hi I'm new to this group, but not to FrameMaker :)
I am responsible for maintaining the templates at my current company
and I was wondering if anyone had suggestions on the best place to
store the template version. Ideas are: in a variable or perhaps on a
reference page.
To be clear - I have a
I would not try to do the signatures in Framemaker.
You can use a plug-in for Adobe Acrobat, Quite Imposing Plus
(http://www.quite.com/) to do the imposition of a pdf before you send it to the
printer. I used the plug-in a lot for documents we sent to a Xerox Docutech.
The plug in is a bit
Megan,
You wrote:
Many of my books have electrical and mechanical drawings interspersed
throughout them that are 11x17. Unfortunately, I can not shrink them to
8.5x11 because the integrity of the document is compromised. I have been
having some problems figuring out how to set up
Continuing with my ignorance showing, the book is the third edition, all
created with the same templates I designed a year or so ago. I just learned
about the 16-page signatures last week. Previous editions were printed with
a different process, and signatures were not an issue.
I don't know yet
Karene Millar asked:
I am responsible for maintaining the templates at my current company
and I was wondering if anyone had suggestions on the best place to
store the template version. Ideas are: in a variable or perhaps on a
reference page.
To be clear - I have a version number and date
Karene,
Welcome to Framers. There are a lot of knowledgeable people on the list,
including Adobe employees who sometimes answer questions and make
announcements.
How about storing the version information in the FM metadata? File File
Info. There is room for some descriptive info there.
At 15:41 -0600 21/4/08, Linda G. Gallagher wrote:
>I'm working on a book for a commercial publishing house that prints in
>16-page signatures. I've not done anything quite like this before.
>
>I need to get the book to fit into an exact multiple of 16 pages. I've done
>basic pagination control
At 14:20 -0600 21/4/08, Graeme R Forbes wrote:
>In FM7 I find that the Japanese filter is still the best one, at
>least for export to Word.
Ok: good to know. But the key difference in the filter pack in FrameMaker 7 for
Mac would seem to be the improvement in quality of the native Word import.
Linda:
Steve Rickaby quoted:
>> I need to get the book to fit into an exact multiple of 16 pages. I've done
>> >basic pagination control with my paragraph styles and with a page break
>> >paragraph style, but this calls for greater fine tuning.
>> >
>> >I'd appreciate advice, tips, whatever, on
Or you can use one header text frame and put a two-column table in it for
more design flexibility:
- You can play with ruling and shading, for example to place your
headers/footers on a colored background.
- You can control the distance between both columns by playing with
the default
Hi,
I also use 2 column tables. However, do you know how to
automate this? Part of my header is the product name, and
its length varies in different books.
Best regards
Winfried
> -Original Message-
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
> [mailto:framers-bounces at
What exactly would you like to automate, Winfried?
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Reng, Dr. Winfried
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I also use 2 column tables. However, do you know how to
> automate this? Part of my header is the product name, and
> its length varies in different books.
>
> Best regards
Hi Framers:
I am in the final stages of a manuscript and trying to resolve matters like
spaces after colons and punctuation. I thought I knew all the tricks, but
when I do the Search and Replace with more than 3,500 operations in one
file, FM crashes. I would not have thought FM would have
Rob,
You wrote:
>I am in the final stages of a manuscript and trying to resolve matters like
>spaces after colons and punctuation. I thought I knew all the tricks, but
>when I do the Search and Replace with more than 3,500 operations in one
>file, FM crashes. I would not have thought FM would
You've already received many excellent suggestions for copy fitting,
most of them pertaining to text. If you have exhibits such as
illustrations and tables, you can also adjust the spacing above and
below the frames that hold them, and around the objects in them.
Hi Yves,
My header consist of a running header/footer variable with heading2 in
one column and the system and product name in the other column.
In other books the system and product name is different and therefore
I have to adjust the column width. I do not want the system/product
name to break
This is what we do, we still space from Peter, give it to Paul.
Scott White
Media Production Manager
Implementation Coordinator
210-704-8239
swhite at alamark.com
On Apr 22, 2008, at 8:08 AM, Jim Owens wrote:
> You've already received many excellent suggestions for copy fitting,
> most of
I've used tables in the header as well, in particular for the vertical
alignment capability.
But there are a few cautions:
- the table row (cell) height automatically expanding may be an issue
depending on the available space; you have to be sure your header
content doesn't get cut if it
Steve,
OK, I'm going to show my ignorance, but maybe I'm not the only one. Dumb
questions follow.
Do you mean to make the main text frame on a body page larger? Hmm, seems
like that will look odd if pages have different size text frames. I do only
have headers, so I don't have to worry about
Hedley,
BTW, this is not a user guide. It's a technical book.
More of my ignorance about to show.
<@Slightly condense the body type -- not too much or the proportions
of strokes will become ugly.>
Using the word spacing options in the paragraph designer?
<@Increase the depth of all
Linda G. Gallagher wrote:
> Steve,
> tracking to pull a hyphenated word back from a page foot>
>
> Negative tracking?
>
> Thanks!
I can field this one, with some extra suggestions.
In the Paragraph and Character Designers, you can use Spread to alter
the spacing between letters, and
At 08:55 -0600 22/4/08, Linda G. Gallagher wrote:
>OK, I'm going to show my ignorance, but maybe I'm not the only one. Dumb
>questions follow.
Not at all dumb...
>
>
>Do you mean to make the main text frame on a body page larger? Hmm, seems
>like that will look odd if pages have different size
I love my Plantronics headset. Like Syed said, not inexpensive. (I have a
smaller Plantronics for my cell phone too.)
I'm sure less expensive ones could work as well from HelloDirect)
http://www.plantronics.com/north_america/en_US/products/home/telephone-heads
et-systems/cs55h
-Original
Hi, Linda:
You didn't say if the major problem you're facing is reducing content
to fit the space available, extending it, or a combination of both.
Your approach to a solution depends needs to consider these issues.
Your feeling of ignorance may come from being offered so many good
suggestions
At 10:41 -0500 22/4/08, Peter Gold wrote:
>I strongly suggest that you either engage a typesetting-savvy designer, and
>dig into good typography and book design books, online forums, and similar
>resources before committing to an overall solution.
Good advice indeed.
I had assumed that Linda
Megan,
You wrote:
Many of my books have electrical and mechanical drawings interspersed
throughout them that are 11x17. Unfortunately, I can not shrink them to
8.5x11 because the integrity of the document is compromised. I have been
having some problems figuring out how to set up
Continuing with my ignorance showing, the book is the third edition, all
created with the same templates I designed a year or so ago. I just learned
about the 16-page signatures last week. Previous editions were printed with
a different process, and signatures were not an issue.
I don't know yet
Karene Millar asked:
> I am responsible for maintaining the templates at my current company
> and I was wondering if anyone had suggestions on the best place to
> store the template version. Ideas are: in a variable or perhaps on a
> reference page.
>
> To be clear - I have a version number and
Karene,
Welcome to Framers. There are a lot of knowledgeable people on the list,
including Adobe employees who sometimes answer questions and make
announcements.
How about storing the version information in the FM metadata? File > File
Info. There is room for some descriptive info there.
Linda,
As you probably guessed by now, it's easier to add space than take it away
without making a mess for the next revision. So I find it easier to go
long, which may mean extra pages and more white space (the price of
print). When tweaking styles, I always start with the larger text and work
At 13:32 -0600 22/4/08, Linda G. Gallagher wrote:
>Continuing with my ignorance showing, the book is the third edition, all
>created with the same templates I designed a year or so ago. I just learned
>about the 16-page signatures last week. Previous editions were printed with
>a different
One of the little-known FrameMaker facts is that you can "hyperlink"
from a cross-reference in a "template text frame" aka "master-page
dummy frame" to an external document, with Ctrl+Alt+Click, just as on
a document body page. Use this method to store more template
documentation than fits into
All of the aforementioned options are good. If you want the version
visible to users, put it on a master page and conditionalize it so
they can hide it when producing the final doc.
-Huntley
If it's version number and date, you want it to be imported when you import
the template. And handy for those wanting to check it. So I'd put it in a
User Variable. The template author would have to remember to update the
variable when s/he edited the template, but for everyone else the transfer
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