Hi Roger
Yep, opening the files in FM11 first did the trick! Print book to PDF works
again.
Thanks!
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When I save my FM11 or Fm10 file as a CMYK PDF, I see that the background
color of my text is gone in my PDF. It's okay when I select the option to
convert CMYK colors to RGB, but I don't want to convert my colors to RGB.
Is this a known FM bug?
Thanks
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www.scripto.nu
You're sure the overrides aren't on the master or reference pages?
When I was cleaning up some legacy docs in FM10 recently, I found that
any time a character tag was applied to a whole paragraph it would
show up as an override. The only way I know to stop that is a kludge:
add a space at the end
You can try this.
Save a copy of your file. Delete everything on the body page (Cntrl-A, then
Delete) and then flip back to the master page. Then flip back to the body page
and accept everything that is on the master page that is set to come through to
the body page. Don't add anything else.
Hi Rob
I've grumbled on here about an FM10 crash a couple of times in the last year.
An Adobe engineer got in touch each time. I was impressed! And the crash has
been fixed in FM11 - I'm definitely impressed.
I agree with you about printed manuals, though. We'll be buying a few copies of
On 2012-07-31 15:17, Laura Fergusson wrote:
Hi all
Does anyone know of a way to delete conditional tags across a book using
Frame 10?
I used the PGF Whopper plugin for Frame 8 but can’t find anything for
version 10.
I know you can go into each file and delete each tag individually but
it’s
My group purchased TCS3.5 and a support plan with 2-year free upgrades on April
27, 2012, since this is a new product for us we wanted to purchase the latest
version. After seeing this post, I inquired from Adobe why we did not get an
upgrade notification. Their first answer was that TCS 4 was
Hi Rob,
I absolutely agree with you. When there is a problem and Framemaker crashes, it
is very hard to understand what caused it to crash. Neither crash logs nor
error numbers are helpful in this case. I think adobe could do a better job and
provide some documentation that helps to debug FM
Maybe they're pricing FrameMaker high in order to promote sales of the
TCS suite.
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Shmuel Wolfson shmue...@gmail.com wrote:
FrameMaker pricing has been going way up since version 10, when they started
charging $400 to upgrade only ONE version. At one point there
Creating a standard four-page 8.5 x 11 document is the easiest if
your printer can handle it. If you save as PDF, Acrobat has booklet
printing options that will handle the layout.
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Nancy Allison ma...@verizon.net wrote:
I need to create a template for a four-page
Hi,
I avoid postings like this, except at product launch time. The new FrameMaker
11 has many new features that have barely been touched on in recent reviews. I
encourage everyone who can to register for this webinar. If you are unable to
attend, it will be recorded, and you will be sent a
When you say printer do you mean a print shop or a fancy
large-format laser printer?
In either case, you should be able to create the four-page 8.5x11 PDF
and use that to print two-up double-sided on 11x17, but if you're
talking about a shop, call them to make sure.
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:56
You have answered your own question--see below:
I neglected to add that we will distribute this document in two ways:
1. Physically along with the hardware product
2. In PDF form from the web site
The (2) means you should build it as Letter and have the printer impose
it into a 2-Up,
I've been having a problem lately where the paragraph / character tag
display at the lower left corner is replaced by a ParaID display.
Sometimes it's a big problem not being able to see what tags have been
applied. Suggestions?
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You are currently
Does anyone know of some sort of plugin or script tool for FrameMaker that will
generate a report on every paragraph tag, character tag, table designers, etc,
and list all of the details for them. So essentially I want to pull out all of
the specs I would need for my XSLT designer.
Thank You,
We are in the process of converting from unstructured to structured.
When a baseline document has an entire paragraph that is modified, we change
all of the text in the paragraph red by applying a character tag. If the
paragraph has an auto number this also changes the paragraph's auto number
Someone inadvertently sent me a virus. The email had no subject. Since I
knew the person, I opened the email. Because I figured it's better to
err on the side of caution, I'm sending out this warning.
If you get an email from me with no subject, just delete it, unopened.
If you do this, you'll
Hi everyone,
I work for a company in Toulouse, France. We're presently looking for
someone to fill a permanent position as a technical writer.
The ad is in French but you need to possess excellent if not native-quality
English as all the writing will be in English.
The ad itself is as follows:
Hello All
I just received my new FM11 installation, and wonder if anyone else using FM11
has come across this apparent problem.
FM11 on Windows Vista.
Using the XML view, I am searching for an xPath query such as //section. I
select the Folder option and hit Run. The Browse for Folder
Hello All
FM11 on Vista.
I found out the answer to my question as to why mapped network drives are not
shown when choosing the Folder option for an xPath query. Indeed, they are not
shown in other places in FM too. The answer is to run FrameMaker as
administrator.
You can set it to run as
Hi All
Firstly this is a great resource the FrameUsers List, and admittedly I've
lurked rather than contributed - but now all that could change.. be gentle :)
(so excuse any distribution or admin mistakes feel free to advise
accordingly).
I'm currently the sole tech writer in 'Product A'
Is there a new version of the FrameMaker archive program available? I remember
that someone was working on it at one point. I just didn't know if it is
available. We are about to upgrade to FrameMaker 11. Any information you can
provide is helpful.
Thank you!
Salome
Hi,
Thank you for being here. I am trying to troubleshoot a graphics import
problem with one of our frame users that is not occurring with any of our
other frame users. I don't fully understand how frame embeds graphics into
the document so I need some help determining whether these behaviors are
First, Adobe would have to develop a template feature. You can kludge
something like templates but it's clunky and undocumented, especially
with regard to TOCs and other generated files.
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Craig Ede craig...@hotmail.com wrote:
I think David is really right on the
Doesn't ring a bell, but Silicon Prairie's utilities are functionally
similar. http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Nancy Allison ma...@verizon.net wrote:
Hi, all.
I used to know how to update FM file templates in a batch, but I need a
refresher. The process
I, too, would like a (known-safe) DLL or batch file or script that will
make all FM files save to MIF!
I've kind of dreaded that stage of the complex project on which I'm
working (making a checklist link to a full guide, using one file set and
conditional text and MIF to build the checklist
(My apologies if this came through already, me emailer crashed upon send.)
Hi,
Thank you for being here. I am trying to troubleshoot a graphics import
problem with one of our frame users that is not occurring with any of our
other frame users. I don't fully understand how frame embeds graphics
Our product manager posted to the Framers group on July 30th with a summary of
key highlights of new functionality in FrameMaker 11. He also listed several
highly useful resources.
Here is a quick reminder of the webinar this coming webinar, followed by a
TWEET you can use if you'd like to
Sorry for the typo:
Here is a quick reminder of the webinar this coming WEEK, followed by a
TWEET...
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I inadvertently converted my user variables to text in one of my documents. I
luckily had a backup stored elsewhere so I simply replaced my document.
Unfortunately, I am still unable to edit user variables. It seems that this
change was to FrameMaker (version 9, p255) and not to the doc. I
Echoing Scott's enthusiasm, I was delighted to see there's a version for
FM10 too. Great!
Cheers
Rebecca
Scott Prentice s...@leximation.com 14/08/12 09:05
Klaus...
These are some wonderful resources that you've provided to the FM
community! I'm particularly interested in the maker.ini and
I found an answer to my question so I thought I'd share.
The location for the archive script can be found at
http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2011/07/create-a-book-packager-using-extendscript.html.
Install the Archive Program in FrameMaker 11
1. Download and extract the script (Under
Hello Framers
Using FM11 (structured) on Vista SP2.
I open an XML document and switch to XML view. I want to replace a string
(either straight text or a regular expression) with nothing. Leaving the Change
field blank in the Find/Change dialog, I find the desired string and hit Change
Find,
Using FrameMaker 10
I have a book that has 3 Appendixes, the first of which is 11 x 17.
When I insert this into the book file and select Update Book... from the Edit
menu, the page size for the entire book goes to 11 x 17, which is obviously
not what I want.
Any thoughts
Sue Ahrenhold
Project
Hi all,
My company is working on web-based applications. In the past, we've used
the Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications as our style
guide for installed apps, but I'm looking for a source that includes
more web app information. For example, what are the usage rules for
screen,
I inadvertently converted my user variables to text in one of my documents. I
luckily had a another copy of the document stored elsewhere so I simply
replaced my document. Unfortunately, I am still unable to edit user variables.
It seems that this dumb change I made was to FrameMaker (version
Using FrameMaker 10
I have a book that has 3 Appendixes, the first of which is 11 x 17.
When I insert this into the book file and select Update Book... from the Edit
menu, the page size for the entire book goes to 11 x 17, which is obviously
not what I want.
Any thoughts
Sue Ahrenhold
Hi, all--FM8 Unstructured on Win7.
GOAL: Trying to use a Running H/F to show readers the major step in
which they are *currently* working.
ISSUE: The Running H/F picks up the first major step para on the current
page, *NOT* the major step in which they are working.
EXAMPLE: User began step 20.5
You could also use a text editor to compare the MIF files. That'd get text
changes, including changes in tables.
Cheers
Rebecca
Stuart Rogers srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com 21/08/12 10:02
On 20/08/2012 2:36 PM, Fausset, Marilyn wrote:
I have been comparing several FM books (specs bound for
Hi Framers,
Old line TC guy, first time poster to this list:
I've had mixed success with using the FrameMaker Publish feature. For one
project, it works almost OK (some tweaking required which I can explain if
asked). For another I get disastrous results - TOC either not present,
contains
I had to duplicate an existing page layout with the chapter number
above the title. My goal was to make the paragraph tags compatible
with Word, Confluence 4 XHTML, and MindTouch XHTML for cleaner export.
Autonumber for the chapter title paragraph tag (in my template,
Heading1) increments the
I have a FrameMaker 10 book that is reporting several unresolved cross
references when I update the book. I've tried deleting them and replacing them
several times and I still get the errors. However, the links work perfectly
when I use WebWorks ePublisher to create a web version of book.
Any
Hello Yves
I just tried printing a small book to PDF using FM11. It worked the three ways
I tried (using the Standard joboptions):
* Book File Save as PDF
* Book File Save Book as PDF
* Book Print Book Adobe PDF printer (not printing to file)
One thing that may be causing you
Well, the print function stopped working again for us today. My co-worker and I
can't make PDFs. I'm at my wits end. This printing issue FM11 is seriously
putting us behind when it comes output. I was contacted by Adobe as a result of
Yves e-mail. If any of you are experiencing the same thing,
To avoid confusion with the greater than arrow, we use Wingdings
Alt+0216 for a stylized arrow in procs. For example, Click Start
SomethingElse SomethingElse.
I'm trying to define this as a Character style but all I can seem to
accomplish is the font family, not the decimal symbol character
Hi Robert,
I am pretty sure that Mif2Go does this. I am not sure if there is a
solution, but at least you know the cause.
Rick
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
585-283-5045
r...@frameexpert.com
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My apologies for this post.
The economy is really bad for Tech Writers in my area (613) at the moment
and I have been searching for my next job (contract, temp, or full time) for
almost six months.
Does any Framer know of current or anticipated opportunities in the Ottawa,
Ontario area?
Character styles define styling (format) characteristics--some combination of
font family, size, wieght, angle, alignment, spacing, etc. It does not in any
way specify particular characters to use. I think what you want to do is define
a user variable that has the appropriate character style
Chris Coggins wrote:
What is happening on the problem user's computer is that the frame file he
generates
retains the object faces PDF and EPSI, and also adds a FrameImage facet after
going
through the same steps listed above. His frame files are enormous, 19 megs for
the same
file used
I'm not aware of a single Frame plugin that will provide this
information for ALL those tags (although there may be by now, I'm
still doing research for my Plugin list update), but MIF Muncher will
do what you ask as long as you convert the appropriate file(s) to MIF
format. You can get it here:
This morning, my FrameUsers folder contained 50 new messages, some dating
back to Aug. 1. I'm wondering if others have had the same experience, or if
it's something done to me by the mail system here.
Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
Hi, Robert and everyone.Both and also non-fancy printers as well.We will be using a print shop for the docs we stick in the packing cases; our end users may be using a 10-year-old BW LaserJet printingone-sided on 8.5 x 11 paper.We did figure it out with the print shop, I'm happy to say!--NancyOn
It happened here also. I thought it was our e-mail system acting up.
Clint
Clint Owen | Sr. Technical Writer | Crane Aerospace Electronics
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Yup. Most of them were replies to questions posted the last few days of July
and the first week of August. I assume they got held by the mail server for
some reason and then sent with today's date when the logjam was cleared. It's
hard to tell whether the original queries are actually new ones
Hi, Richard:
I'm experiencing the same thing, too. You are not alone.
Nadine
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To: framers@lists.frameusers.com framers@lists.frameusers.com
Cc:
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 11:34:18 AM
Subject: Big batch of
Keith, are you using conditional text? Way back, I used to get that message for
xrefs that were hidden in conditional text.
Nadine
I have a FrameMaker 10 book that is reporting several unresolved cross
references when I update the book. I’ve tried deleting them and replacing them
several
I saw the same thing.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Combs, Richard
richard.co...@polycom.comwrote:
This morning, my FrameUsers folder contained 50 new messages, some
dating back to Aug. 1. I'm wondering if others have had the same
experience, or if it's something done to me by the mail
Greg, I've told you a million times, don't exaggerate.
;-)
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Nothing like following the delivery of 50 old messages with 50 new messages
confirming that we received 50 old messages.
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Thomas, Lynn wrote:
I inadvertently converted my user variables to text in one of my
documents.
*All* user variables? How? Via Special Variable, you'd have to do them one at
a time.
I luckily had a another copy of the document stored
elsewhere so I simply replaced my document.
use Wingdings
Alt+0216 for a stylized arrow in procs. For example, Click Start
SomethingElse SomethingElse.
I'm trying to define this as a Character style but all I can seem to
accomplish is the font family, not the decimal symbol character code
Alt+0216.
I would define your character
I've used the Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa511258.aspx. It is
mainly for design principles, but it includes rules for documenting
interface components. It's a downloadable PDF, and is almost 900 pages long.
(!)
Jack
I meant to post again about this yesterday, but for some reason my messages to
the framers list aren't showing up until the next day.
The problem seems to have gone away. After unsuccessfully rebuilding the cross
references, I went through the file and deleted all of the cross-reference
Richard,
My apologies for the backlog. It appears that the iPhone app that I use to
check the moderation of the list quit working around the 1st of August. I
logged in via a web browser this morning and found the backlog and let it
through.
Thanks,
Brad
On Aug 23, 2012, at 10:34 AM,
Hi Salome,
do you know FINALYSER for FrameMaker 10 + 11? or TOOLBOX for FrameMaker
7 to 9:
There are very helpful features like Book transfer that archive your
files.
See more there:
http://www.finalyser.com/help/#page/Finalyser%2520Online-Help/book_trans
fer.xml.08.1.html
-
Keith Soltys wrote:
I have a FrameMaker 10 book that is reporting several unresolved cross
references when I update the book. I've tried deleting them and
replacing them several times and I still get the errors. However, the
links work perfectly when I use WebWorks ePublisher to create a
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 16:57:48 -0700, Robert Lauriston
rob...@lauriston.com wrote:
I've been having a problem lately where the paragraph / character tag
display at the lower left corner is replaced by a ParaID display.
Sometimes it's a big problem not being able to see what tags have been
applied.
BTW, it looks like about 50 or 60 messages were
hung up from the list for the last three weeks,
including many of Robert's posts like this one;
anybody know why?
Jeremy, see this thread:
http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/2012-August/026449.html
Nadine
I'm about to start a unstructured-to-structuredconversion project in either
Frame 9 or 10. Does anyone have any tips, tools or online resources that would
be helpful for such a project?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Pat Christenson
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I haven't watched them, but Tom Aldous has e-seminars about conversion here:
http://tmaldous.com/2012/03/05/7-part-e-seminar-series-unstructured-to-xml-framemaker-10-instructional-series/
Nadine
I'm about to start a unstructured-to-structuredconversion project in either
Frame 9 or 10. Does
Hi Pat
This may help:
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/structured-authoring-xml-and-dita/migrating-to-structured-framemaker-using-conversion-tables/
and this too, but the images seem to be missing:
http://tmaldous.com/2011/10/06/conversion-to-dita-it-is-not-an-overnight-event/
Tom Aldous used to
Alison Craig wrote:
I have been given a new patent to list in my documentation - but it's a
patent we have legal permission to use. It does not belong to us.
Per the attached, all of our patents are listed on title pages and in a
Chapter 1 section called (unsurprisingly) Trademarks and
Hi, Alison.
In my position, I deal with patents quite a bit - have a few that I am on the
inventor list. :) Which doesn't mean that I am an expert, but I interact with
our patent attorneys a lot and I set some internal policy.
The main point I would make is that the fact that a third-party has
I *entirely* agree with the public use of trademark and logo attributions - the
specific method, design, figure, wording, etc., is driven by the company who
owns them. These are often described in *public* documents by those companies
(see Oracle, Google and Microsoft web sites for examples).
Syed Zaeem Hosain wrote:
I *entirely* agree with the public use of trademark and logo
attributions - the specific method, design, figure, wording, etc., is
driven by the company who owns them. These are often described in
*public* documents by those companies (see Oracle, Google and
I have a Powerpoint presentation on the topic of Intellectual Property (i.e.,
Trademarks and Patents - among other things) and can provide this to people.
BUT, I want to look through it first to sanitize it a bit (to remove some
company-specific material) and also check with our patent lawyers
Hi Roger
Yep, opening the files in FM11 first did the trick! Print book to PDF works
again.
Thanks!
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Hi Robert,
I am pretty sure that Mif2Go does this. I am not sure if there is a
solution, but at least you know the cause.
Rick
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
585-283-5045
rick at frameexpert.com
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I'm not aware of a single Frame plugin that will provide this
information for ALL those tags (although there may be by now, I'm
still doing research for my Plugin list update), but MIF Muncher will
do what you ask as long as you convert the appropriate file(s) to MIF
format. You can get it here:
This morning, my FrameUsers folder contained 50 "new" messages, some dating
back to Aug. 1. I'm wondering if others have had the same experience, or if
it's something done to me by the mail system here.
Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
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I'm experiencing the same thing, too. You are not alone.
Nadine
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> Nothing like following the delivery of 50 old messages with 50 new messages
> confirming that we received 50 old messages.
>
Thomas, Lynn wrote:
> I inadvertently converted my user variables to text in one of my
> documents.
*All* user variables? How? Via Special > Variable, you'd have to do them one at
a time.
> I luckily had a another copy of the document stored
> elsewhere so I simply replaced my document.
> use Wingdings
> Alt+0216 for a stylized arrow in procs. For example, "Click Start >
> SomethingElse > SomethingElse."
> I'm trying to define this as a Character style but all I can seem to
> accomplish is the font family, not the decimal symbol character code
> Alt+0216.
I would define your
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Richard,
My apologies for the backlog. It appears that the iPhone app that I use to
check the moderation of the list quit working around the 1st of August. I
logged in via a web browser this morning and found the backlog and let it
through.
Thanks,
Brad
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> I have a FrameMaker 10 book that is reporting several unresolved cross
> references when I update the book. I've tried deleting them and
> replacing them several times and I still get the errors. However, the
> links work perfectly when I use WebWorks ePublisher to create a
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 16:57:48 -0700, Robert Lauriston
wrote:
>I've been having a problem lately where the paragraph / character tag
>display at the lower left corner is replaced by a ParaID display.
>Sometimes it's a big problem not being able to see what tags have been
>applied. Suggestions?
As
> BTW, it looks like about 50 or 60 messages were
> hung up from the list for the last three weeks,
> including many of Robert's posts like this one;
> anybody know why?
Jeremy, see this thread:
http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/2012-August/026449.html
Nadine
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