A client is currently using Epic as their XML editor.
Has anyone run into any problems round-tripping Epic XML files (with
DTD) through FM 9 and back into Epic?
TIA,
Cheers,
Art
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Because the pages themselves are HTML, .PNG should be fine (it is,
after all, a Portable Network Graphic). Most of the IBM help pages use
.GIFs, and .PNG is a new enhanced version of that format.
Art
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these days. Especially with Adobe products, which
generally have untidy interfaces. Photoshop started the trend, and
then it seems to have spread as corporate policy.
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with page numbers and one without, for
print/PDF and online output. Then apply the appropriate format
depending on the type of output.
Art
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I worked at a place (Leading Edge computers, now defunct) a couple of
decades ago where the offices of 5-6 people -- a department -- were
moved during a (long) lunch hour, without their knowledge. When they
came back from lunch, they discovered their department had moved.
;- )
Art Campbell
No, just (yet another) server outage, I think.
The Free Framers list (hosted at omsys.com, the Tech Comm Suite Users
group (http://groups.google.com/group/TCS-Users?hl=en, and the Adobe
User-to-user forum are more reliable.
Art
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Set up one file in the book with the variables the way you want 'em.
Then, in the book file, select all the files to which you want to
apply them and execute File Import Formats.
Select Variables. Apply.
Art
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and
7 although I haven't seen any reports of problems with later
versions. I'd expect it to work.
TCS shouldn't have any effect at all -- it's a FM plug-in.
Art
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Vincent
Are you using runfm.exe from Omsys, or some other method?
And, what, specifically is or isn't happening?
Art
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Try keying in:
Esc F l k
the file lock command toggle, and see if anything changes. You should
see the menus change immediately and be able to work in the file.
If nothing at all happens, do it a second time to toggle it off.
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I'm not seeing in your mention that you're working on the Master pages
that control formatting for all pages in a file. Any global changes
such as this need to be made on Master pages, not the body pages that
carry the copy (and which are controlled by the Masters).
Art
Art Campbell
No, SaveAs MIF and the Omsys Wash As MIF menu entry do the same thing.
Only difference is that SaveAs takes a couple manual steps and the
menu is a single click.
Art
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it using MS OLE,
which is notoriously flakey I've found that it's usually not worth
the advantage of being able to edit by clicking it.
Art
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are to SaveAs EPS or PDF, but I found that I
usually had to trim those files a bit to fit the way I wanted. Also,
PNG is nice if you're doing multiple outputs because it can go on the
web without conversion.
Visio is available as a free 60-day eval from the MS site...
Art Campbell
Sure.
With the book file open, Add TOC. If one already exists, FM will
generate numbers for the additional TOCs as needed.
ARt
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them to continue to operate well on the commercial builds.
Cheers,
Art
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a distant speaker.
Before you buy, you may want to do a search for voice recognition
software packages. My Olympus was bundled by a vendor with Dragon
Naturally Speaking, and the combo has both worked very well and was
available at a discount.
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can just Print to the Adobe PDF printer instance, which
produces the PS file and distills it in one step.
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for the programmer's time and expertise --
I'd guesstimate $175 +/- $50.
However, I'd look at the ImpGraph plug in to see if that meets your
needs before you dive into script land. Cheaper and ready to run.
http://home.comcast.net/~bruce.foster/ImpGraph.htm
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That's true, but the OP was comparing PSDistill to SaveAs. No
mention of watched folders.
Because SaveAs also wouldn't be used in a watched folder workflow, I
assumed that watched folders weren't involved and so didn't go down
that path.
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From memory, I'm 90% sure/think you can use Reader 7 to comment in an
Acrobat 8 file.
But I think I'd test it with one or two tame SMEs first...
Art
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Martha, this is a long shot, but have you checked the read/write
permissions on all the directories in that tree, to make sure
something isn't inadvertently set to Read Only?
Art
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, then change the properties to allow files to be
created. You should get a prompt asking if you want to apply it to
that directory or all files and sub-directories -- which you do want
to do.
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I'd walk back up the directory tree to ensure
that you're getting the parent directory and change the permissions
there.
Art
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Well, yes.
I'd guess that the Adobe update feature works (not just in Frame, in
all the Adobe aps I have installed) about 33-50% of the time.
Much easier to bookmark the update page and check manually.
Art
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Have you rebooted?
Also, there have been several updates, not just one, to FM and to Acrobat...
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default printer?
And finally, can you print to it from Frame?
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Add a few (three if it's always three lines) tab stops on the TOC
Reference Page between paratext and pagenum.
Or if it's just that one caption, you can probably add a tab stop at
the end of the caption; that may be picked up and solve it too.
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for modern OSs. I think most corporate environments
will move to 7 pretty quickly. And although I'm sure 7 would run... I
don't think it would run as well as 9 under W7 and there's a decent
chance that other programs won't interoperate as well as they should.
Art
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What happens when you set the preferences of the PCs to Ignore Missing Fonts?
From what, or where, is the automatically generated Index text getting
its formats?
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the text to normal
appearance. You may be able to automate this using the Autonumbering
tab to set the character tag -- I didn't test that part of it.
Art
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.
ARt
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Actually, that was about the point Frame Technology was edging close
to running out of money Adobe bought 'em. I think 5.6 was a FT
remnant, not a path that Adobe started and then backed away from.
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Yup, that was the official release, but there were betas and escaped
releases way before then. Frame Tech was more of a UNIX house and the
UNIXLinus porting work was largely done there; Adobe never did much
with any workstation products
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I believe one or two people may have.
You may want to check the TCS User's group at
http://groups.google.com/group/TCS-Users?hl=en for details, tricks,
and traps. Smaller and more focused than Framers...
Cheers,
Art
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one
comoponent file with the correct settings and Apply Formats to all the
others, checking only the ConText settings. Save and update.
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and I'd done a FrameMaker review (on the
Sun 3/60) for them even earlier. If I'm remembering correctly, it was
intended for X Windows to try to move away from OS-specific releases.
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-alone versions.
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If you're using that trick that came up a few days ago, about
inserting extra tab stops in the Ref pages to generate a leader on
lines that wrap... do all the tab stops defined in the paragraph
tagLOF for the Figures have leadering configured?
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On the Frame Print dialog box, is Print to File checked or not checked?
It should NOT be activated in order to automatically create a PDF. If
it is active, a PS file is created but it's not distilled -- you'd
have to Distill it manually.
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So what's really happening is that the .ps file is not being created
when you activate the Print To File checkbox, correct?
If you de-activate the Print To File checkbox it so Distiller can
produce the PDF automatically, does it work? Does Distiller produce a
PDF?
Art
Art Campbell
), and do not have the Print To
File checkbox in the Frame dialog box activated, does a PDF get
generated?
Art
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, reboot, and reinstall.
Then install all the updates.
BTW -- I suspect she's using InDesign's internal PDF printing
capability to generate the PS file there; it's not the same as using
the Acrobat printer instance.
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instance is hosed. Time to try the Repair installation,
and if that doesn't fix it (don't be too surprised if it doesn't), do
a reinstall.
Art
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content.
Question 1:
There's no automatic way to do this. Copy and paste, and analyze.
Question 3:
No idea. I'd guesstimate a day per book for conversion, but that's a
WAG. Could easily be half that or twice that, depending on how the
books are set up and how fast you are.
Art Campbell
I'm not sure which p numbers correspond to which patch because I'm not
on a 9 system at the moment, but there are three patches out, the
latest released last week. If the patch you're talking about is #1 or
#2, it may be better to go on ahead and then install #3 to clean
things up.
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would be a better way to go.
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I use CleanImport from electropubs.com to purge the existing catalogs
before importing the valid set.
Art
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I wonder if there's a way to get a FrameScript set up to set initial
F/R options whenever the focus moves to the box or pod? Or get
something like Rick Quatro's Advanced SR script tool to run when you
hit Ctrl-F.
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He's not locked in. If he activated, he can de-activate before
uninstalling, and he's good to move the software anywhere -- including
back on to the same machine.
Another easier way to go may be to give the user Admin privileges, so
she can execute FM.
Art Campbell
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I don't know for sure because I've been installing it as part of the TCS2.
Easiest way to check for sure may be to download the eval and run it...
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There's one on the Adobe site, with other FM forums, under:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/framemaker
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I believe the product manager's name and email are on the Adobe FM/TCS blog.
FM is being coded in India at the moment, but I don't know if the
product management is based there or in California.
Art
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The short answer is not likely.
Because you didn't provide system details... you may want to look at
this MS hotfix for XP that fixed some corruption issues.
Is the Adobe PDF printer set as your system default?
Why not just print to it and skip the manual two-step process?
Art
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Whoops -- I meant to linclude the link to the hotfix
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=952909
Art
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I've been running 8 and 9 on W7 systems since the second beta version,
on several computers, without any problems. I suspect there wouldn't
be a problem with 7 either, but I haven't played with it.
And all the components of TCS2 seem to be fine under 7.
Art
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I don't know that this is how yours is set up, but if it was me, I'd
right-click on the component file in the book file, select Rename, and
change the name to 3.1.
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checkbox is clear.
Cheers,
Art
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Yup.
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Yes, it's a separate install for which you get a separate prompt.
It's optional.
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If you're not sure of the content, I'd ask for them as PDFs with embedded fonts.
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/Archive.htm
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system, RAM, OS, and whatever
printer you're using?
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into the same
relative position and you're done.
I've done it a score of times, at least, and it works fine, although
there may be some gotchas in your environment that would preclude
using it.
Cheers,
Art
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(or table).
I usually set mine to a font size of 2 pt so they don't take up much room,
and I also usually make them red and use a special margin so they stand out
on screen.
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Did you copy in an old TOC or create a new one (recommended)?
And does your new template use the same colors and conditional text settings
as the old?
Information on your FM level, OS, network/local and other basic information
would be helpful.
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the date or time stamp in the
file name?
I'm kind of half-remembering reading about this a number of years ago, but
didn't have a need of it then.
Cheers,
Art
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and reapply
it, or try setting the character tag to Default.
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And for some reason, I've had better luck specifying a canned page size
that's as large as I need rather than a custom size -- the custom settings
don't seem to stick.
Art
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, the hotfix works and doesn't seem to break anything, so it certainly
wouldn't hurt to roll it on.
Art
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and kinda limited free space may be marginal if it's an
incredibly large book ... There's a lot of file swapping and temp file
creation involved in the process.
Art
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for installation issues.
Do you have another system you can fall back on? I'm running pretty much
problem free on W7, but I have two 32-bit installs.
Art
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Without testing it... the requirements were basically the same as for FM8,
so I'd expect it to run fine, provided you do the W7 compatibility dance and
dial it back to Windows XP 32 mode.
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Did you run the license recovery program?
I posted that it was necessary for one of my installations (but, oddly, not
both) after the most recent round of updates a week or so ago. You can
download it from http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/licensing.html
Quick and painless.
Art Campbell
Fred's correct, but I did notice that things changed slightly with W7. W7 32
seems to be able to address about 3.6 or so of RAM -- I'd have to check to
get an exact figure, but it was a nicely larger chunk on my 4G system.
Art
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On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Baruch Brodersen bar...@technitext.comwrote:
Orly,
This Microsoft hot fix might solve your problems.
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=952909
Best,
Baruch
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wrote:
The other thing the move
Also, did you walk through the online trouble-shooting stuff at
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/408/kb408336.html ?
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, which doesn't
include cross refs, inter-file linking or anything fancy. It's just straight
text, as in a novel -- in fact, it is a novel.
But the script is available, and it works great. Rick's at
frameexp...@truevine.net .
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... In my opinion, there's
Are you using an empty para tag, maybe a special Anchor tag to hold the
frame/graphic?
That would be the easy way to control it/them.
Just conditionalize the entire tag
So I'd try setting up that way and see if it makes a change.
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... In my opinion
If it was me, I'd use two empty paragraph tags, each anchoring one of the
graphics.
Then apply the condition to the entire paragraph, including the anchor.
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redheaded girl
When you have a file open, on the upper right corner of the screen by the
min/max/close icons, don't you have a pull-down menu? Probably says Default?
If you do, just set up your workspace the way you want it, pull down the
menu and select Save Workspace
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at
http://groups.google.com/group/TCS-Users?hl=en
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=952909 (Gives details on the Hotfix) *
*
http://support.microsoft.com/Hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=952909kbln=en-us(Direct
Download Link)
*
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have several lines of tabs and that all files are visible?
Cheers,
Art
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I think AutoText will do all, or most, of the stuff you want.
http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html
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that and printing to the PDF printer directly,
except that printing to the printer directly saves you a manual step and
should process faster.
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The Frame bug report form is at
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishformproduct=63
Art
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Bruce Foster's Archive plug-in does the same thing.
You can download from http://home.comcast.net/~bruce.foster/Archive.htm
Cheers,
Art
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at all the checkboxes on the Print dialog
box.to see what you're specifying. Generate Acrobat must be checked, but
Print To File and Separate files should be OFF.
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redheaded girl
Jo's original follow up post was saying that she WANTS the single file, but
can't get it... not the other way around. So the problem would be why she
can't get the default behaviour.
Art
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what you get. This is a version of what Richard suggested, but I'd try
updating first to see if you can avoid the micro-level troubleshooting.
If that fails, I'd try setting up the translated content files in a new
book, and generate a new TOC.
Art
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, but there are always
some nuances to figure out. If you have a simple design and help
implementation, it takes less time to figure out.
You may want to pop over to the TCS User's Group for more info from RH
experts... http://groups.google.com/group/TCS-Users
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running, you may want to
disable them one at a time to ID the culprit.
Art
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, then at the book level select
all the component files that should match and Import Formats from your
golden file. You should only have to do Variables and Master Pages.
Save, update, and you're done.
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that the numbering property for
the Paragraphs tab is set to increment.
Then Save and update the book.
Art
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I have no idea how ID does it, but if you select an image and right click,
you should see Runaround Properties.
May vary a bit from release to release, and since you didn't mention your
system configuration
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I'd suggest that part of your testing include less vintage versions. 7.0 was
buggy enough that 7.1 and 7.2 were pushed out the door
If you want to send me one of the problem files, I'll be happy to look at it
in 9, or 8.
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,
which you'll then have to modify to your set.
Art
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