Re: Cross-reference oddity in FM 9

2012-02-21 Thread Shlomo Perets
Rene, You wrote: Schlomo, I think I'm missing something or doing it wrong. I'm attaching an updated Sample.FM. I changed the font family for Italic char tag to HelveticaNeueLT Std Cn, since that's the most similar font to Arial Narrow that I have installed on this PC. It shows fine in the

RE: FrameMaker 10 Crashes when I do a Find and Replace of a character format

2012-02-21 Thread Combs, Richard
Joseph Lorenzini wrote: If I do a find and replace of a character format across an entire book, Framemaker sucks up all the memory on my system and then crashes. I was wondering if anyone else has seen this behavior. Steps to Reproduce 1. create a large book that contains several

RE: lost sideheads on import

2012-02-21 Thread Combs, Richard
Robert Lauriston wrote: I brought up a frame's properties in Body Pages view and Room for Side Heads was unchecked, so I checked it, and that fixed it throughout the document (single flow). Is that expected behavior when you change to a master page with side heads? Maybe. :-) Room for

RE: Framemaker 8 hangs

2012-02-21 Thread Combs, Richard
David Cadoch wrote: I am new to this forum and I was wondering if anyone has experienced Adobe version 8.00 hang during 2 specific operations: . Hi-lighting text with the mouse . Minimizing a window The work environment  is Windows 7 - 64 bit, however Frame is installed in the Program

Re: Framemaker 8 hangs

2012-02-21 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:18:24 -0500, David Cadoch david.cad...@presagis.com wrote: I am new to this forum and I was wondering if anyone has experienced Adobe version 8.00 hang during 2 specific operations: * Hi-lighting text with the mouse * Minimizing a window The work

OT: Conversion of .vsd to .png

2012-02-21 Thread jburgdor
Does anyone know of an automated method for doing drawing conversions from .vsd to .png? ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email

Re: FM -- MIF2Go -- Kindle?

2012-02-21 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
I sent this to Hedley off list, and he urged me to repost it on Framers. So here it is. --Jeremy On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:34:32 +1100, Hedley Finger hedley.fin...@gmail.com wrote: Do you or will you have in the future a mif2go *.mobi, *.prc, or *.azw generator? I have attached a copy of the

RE: Conversion of .vsd to .png

2012-02-21 Thread Combs, Richard
Jburgdor wrote: Does anyone know of an automated method for doing drawing conversions from .vsd to .png? I suggest not doing that. Visio files are scalable vector graphics. PNG files are bitmap (raster) images, which exhibit all the limitations of bitmaps -- jaggies, poor quality when

Re: FM -- MIF2Go -- Kindle?

2012-02-21 Thread MamaRed Knight
Great one Jeremy! Thanks sooo much for the repost. One hint, if I might. I recently published a Kindle book after many hours of research. Setting the fonts doesn't do much because the Kindle user can set what they want it to be. I streamlined and focused on 2-3 headings that were

hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs

2012-02-21 Thread Terri Schultz
Meg: Chris Despopoulos has several handy (and free!) FrameMaker Utilities, one of which is Archive, which will collect all of the (properly) linked graphics in an FM book/file. Here is the website: http://www.cudspan.net/ I highly recommend Archive, TOC Breaker, and PGF Override. I use them

RE: hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs

2012-02-21 Thread Combs, Richard
Terri Schultz wrote: Chris Despopoulos has several handy (and free!) FrameMaker Utilities, one of which is Archive, which will collect all of the (properly) linked graphics in an FM book/file. Here is the website: http://www.cudspan.net/ I highly recommend Archive, TOC Breaker, and

Find/Change - Non-Breaking Space and Thin Space

2012-02-21 Thread Alison Craig
FM 9 Version: 9.0p255 Unstructured OS: Windows 7 Ultimate, 64 bit FM Experience: 2-½ years I am working on the final cleanup of the French translation of our suite of User Manuals and I need to handle a Find/Change issue that includes non-breaking spaces and thin spaces. I need to able to

Re: Find/Change - Non-Breaking Space and Thin Space

2012-02-21 Thread Writer
I think this is what you want (check out p. 499 of the FM User Guide PDF for more information):Nonbreaking space: \ (space)Thin space: \i, \st -- I assume you can use one or the other?NadineFrom: Alison Craig alison.cr...@ultrasonix.com To: "framers@lists.frameusers.com"

Re: hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs

2012-02-21 Thread Mike Wickham
We miss Bruce and his great plugins. I wish there were an ImpGraph for FM10. There is now a free archive script available for FrameMaker 10 at this address, but it won't help with older versions: http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2011/07/create-a-book-packager-using-extendscript.html

RE: Framemaker 8 hangs

2012-02-21 Thread Michael Lewis
Richard Combs: FrameMaker 8 pre-dates Windows 7 by quite a bit, and I'm not surprised that it's not compatible. I'm still running FM 7.0, with Win 7 Pro 64-bit. Absolutely no problems that I've encountered. - Michael Lewis ___ You are currently

Re: Cross-reference oddity in FM 9

2012-02-21 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Rene Schlomo's the expert on this, but I think your alternative font has to be an oblique/italics font, not just any different font. In his example of Univers-Condensed Oblique, FM preserves the oblique format in xrefs because the font only has oblique glyphs. Your HelveticaNeueLT Std Cn

RE: Framemaker 8 hangs

2012-02-21 Thread LGLists
David, I’ve seen the same thing when highlighting with a mouse with my installation of FM 8 on Win 7 64-bit. I don’t recall ever having that problem in all the years I used FM 8 on Win XP. I don’t think this really fixed it, but I did find that I was missing an update. I believe the latest

Re: Phantom character format override in FrameMaker 10

2012-02-21 Thread Bernard Gagne
Hi Joseph, Do you use Conditional Text? The last time I checked (and the main reason I stopped using conditional text at my last company) Frame creates a character format override for every line of a praragraph that is conditionalized. It was a major pain for us, especially with multiple

F9 Keyboard Shortcut not working (FM10, WinXP)

2012-02-21 Thread Levander, Deanne
In our department, a few of us have experienced temporary loss of the keyboard shortcut F9 (apply paragraph format) from time to time. As of this week, I have lost all use of it, even though I retain use of F8 (select character format). What gives? Is this a bug? How does one get F9 back? I

Re: FrameMaker 10 Crashes when I do a Find and Replace of a character format

2012-02-21 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
Hi Richard, A framemaker engineer has reached out to me and we are currently in the process of troubleshooting the problem. If we end up identifying what the problem is and a workaround, I'll be sure to notify the list serve. Please keep in mind that the Character Format option in the find

Re: lost sideheads on import

2012-02-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
Yeah, I did use Apply Master Pages, seemed like it didn't update the Room for Sideheads setting. I set it manually for one text frame on a body page and the whole flow was updated. I guess the trick is, if I want to switch between templates by importing formats and running Apply Master Pages, I

single-sourcing PDF and text with layout?

2012-02-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
I've inherited a couple of docs in FrameMaker that have for some years been delivered in both PDF and plain text and am obliged to continue doing that. As far as I can see from the source, working directories, and so on, the PDF was generated from FrameMaker, and the text version was maintained

Re: OT: Conversion of .vsd to .png

2012-02-21 Thread Grant Hogarth
Zamzar does... http://blog.zamzar.com/2009/05/08/convert-visio-files-vsd-to-pdf-jpg-png-html-and-more/ jburgdor wrote: Does anyone know of an automated method for doing drawing conversions from .vsd to .png? ___ You are currently subscribed to

FM 10 help hosed

2012-02-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
I checked the FM 10 help option called something like Display in browser (as opposed to Community help which I presume is AIR Help). Now when I try to access the help I get this error message in my browser: No webpage was found for the web address:

Re: Find/Change - Non-Breaking Space and Thin Space

2012-02-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
This might help (I don't think it has been updated for 10.0: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/9.0/CharacterSets/character_sets.pdf On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Alison Craig alison.cr...@ultrasonix.com wrote: I need to able to Find/Change: “: “ (colon space) and replace it with

Re: Framemaker 8 hangs

2012-02-21 Thread Dave Reynolds
Hi I just upgraded to Win 7 32-bit last week. Today is the first day I've done some real editing in Frame 8 and I haven't noticed any problems. Copying and pasting text from one file to another is OK, as is minimising a document or Frame itself. I have version 8.0p277. Cheers Dave David

Re: OT: Conversion of .vsd to .png

2012-02-21 Thread Gary Schnabl
On 2/21/2012 3:46 PM, jburgdor wrote: Does anyone know of an automated method for doing drawing conversions from .vsd to .png? One manual method... Download LibreOffice 3.5.0 (if you do not have this office suite), and then open the Draw application to open the Visio VSD file. From

RE: FM -- MIF2Go -- Kindle?

2012-02-21 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Jeremy, The different e-readers are totally inconsistent in their support, even of the simplest things like left-margin. Thank you very much for this instruction. Very good. I heard about inconsistent formatting support also in a presentation on the tekom conference last year. At least

Cross-reference oddity in FM 9

2012-02-21 Thread Shlomo Perets
Rene, You wrote: >Schlomo, I think I'm missing something or doing it wrong. I'm >attaching an updated Sample.FM. I changed the font family for Italic >char tag to HelveticaNeueLT Std Cn, since that's the most similar font >to Arial Narrow that I have installed on this PC. It shows fine in >the

FrameMaker 10 Crashes when I do a Find and Replace of a character format

2012-02-21 Thread Combs, Richard
Joseph Lorenzini wrote: > If I do a find and replace of a character format across an entire book, > Framemaker sucks up all the memory on my system and then crashes. I was > wondering if anyone else has seen this behavior. > > Steps to Reproduce > > 1. create a large book that contains several

lost sideheads on import

2012-02-21 Thread Combs, Richard
Robert Lauriston wrote: > I brought up a frame's properties in Body Pages view and Room for Side > Heads was unchecked, so I checked it, and that fixed it throughout the > document (single flow). > > Is that expected behavior when you change to a master page with side > heads? Maybe. :-) Room

Framemaker 8 hangs

2012-02-21 Thread Combs, Richard
David Cadoch wrote: > I am new to this forum and I was wondering if anyone has experienced > Adobe version 8.00 hang during 2 specific operations: > > . Hi-lighting text with the mouse > . Minimizing a window > > The work environment ?is Windows 7 - 64 bit, however Frame is installed > in the

Cross-reference oddity in FM 9

2012-02-21 Thread Rene Stephenson
erstand what looked to me like inconsistency in treatment of the same building block. Thanks in advance for your guidance. Rene -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120221/010e7e7a/attach

Framemaker 8 hangs

2012-02-21 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:18:24 -0500, David Cadoch wrote: >I am new to this forum and I was wondering if anyone has >experienced Adobe version 8.00 hang during 2 specific >operations: >* Hi-lighting text with the mouse >* Minimizing a window >The work environment is Windows 7 -

OT: Conversion of .vsd to .png

2012-02-21 Thread jburgdor
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FM --> MIF2Go --> Kindle?

2012-02-21 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
I sent this to Hedley off list, and he urged me to repost it on Framers. So here it is. --Jeremy On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:34:32 +1100, Hedley Finger wrote: >Do you or will you have in the future a mif2go *.mobi, *.prc, or *.azw >generator? I have attached a copy of the Amazon Kindle

Conversion of .vsd to .png

2012-02-21 Thread Combs, Richard
Jburgdor wrote: > Does anyone know of an automated method for doing drawing conversions > from .vsd to .png? I suggest not doing that. Visio files are scalable vector graphics. PNG files are bitmap (raster) images, which exhibit all the limitations of bitmaps -- jaggies, poor quality when

FM --> MIF2Go --> Kindle?

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hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs

2012-02-21 Thread Terri Schultz
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hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs

2012-02-21 Thread Combs, Richard
Terri Schultz wrote: > Chris Despopoulos has several handy (and free!) FrameMaker Utilities, > one of which is Archive, which will collect all of the (properly) > linked graphics in an FM book/file. > > Here is the website: > > http://www.cudspan.net/ > > I highly recommend Archive, TOC

Find/Change - Non-Breaking Space and Thin Space

2012-02-21 Thread Alison Craig
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Find/Change - Non-Breaking Space and Thin Space

2012-02-21 Thread Writer
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Find/Change - Non-Breaking Space and Thin Space

2012-02-21 Thread Alison Craig
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hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs

2012-02-21 Thread Mike Wickham
We miss Bruce and his great plugins. I wish there were an ImpGraph for FM10. There is now a free archive script available for FrameMaker 10 at this address, but it won't help with older versions: http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2011/07/create-a-book-packager-using-extendscript.html

Cross-reference oddity in FM 9

2012-02-21 Thread rebecca officer
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Phantom character format override in FrameMaker 10

2012-02-21 Thread Bernard Gagne
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F9 Keyboard Shortcut not working (FM10, WinXP)

2012-02-21 Thread Levander, Deanne
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FrameMaker 10 Crashes when I do a Find and Replace of a character format

2012-02-21 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
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lost sideheads on import

2012-02-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
Yeah, I did use Apply Master Pages, seemed like it didn't update the Room for Sideheads setting. I set it manually for one text frame on a body page and the whole flow was updated. I guess the trick is, if I want to switch between templates by importing formats and running Apply Master Pages, I

single-sourcing PDF and "text with layout"?

2012-02-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
I've inherited a couple of docs in FrameMaker that have for some years been delivered in both PDF and plain text and am obliged to continue doing that. As far as I can see from the source, working directories, and so on, the PDF was generated from FrameMaker, and the text version was maintained

OT: Conversion of .vsd to .png

2012-02-21 Thread Grant Hogarth
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FM 10 help hosed

2012-02-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
I checked the FM 10 help option called something like "Display in browser" (as opposed to "Community help" which I presume is AIR Help). Now when I try to access the help I get this error message in my browser: "No webpage was found for the web address:

Find/Change - Non-Breaking Space and Thin Space

2012-02-21 Thread Robert Lauriston
This might help (I don't think it has been updated for 10.0: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/9.0/CharacterSets/character_sets.pdf On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Alison Craig wrote: > > I need to able to Find/Change: > > ?: ? (colon space) and replace it with ?NBSP: ? (where NBSP would