RE: Slightly OT -- CE Safety symbol font?

2007-10-25 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Art, Do you mean the symbols which are available here? http://www.cptec.org/symbols.html There you can download various collections of warning/safety symbols. Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]On Behalf Of Art Campbell

RE: Slightly OT -- CE Safety symbol font?

2007-10-25 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
and click on: Alle Symbole Gefahrstoffkennzeichnung als Download all symbols labeling hazardous materials Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: Stuart Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 5:49 PM To: Reng, Dr. Winfried Cc: Free Framers List; Framers

Bug: em space in variable in FrameMaker 8

2007-10-30 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, In my header I have a variable which also contains an em space. I notice that in FrameMaker 8 in files in FrameMaker 7 format this em space is replaced by ? on body pages. In the variable definition only a thick vertical bar is shown instead of my em space. (In FrameMaker 7 this was displayed

RE: Questions on viewing conditional text

2007-10-31 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Second question: Is there a way to specify to FM that the bullets have to be included with the conditional text? Select the entire paragraph instead of just the text in it. If the paragraph with bullet or any other autonumbering is the last one in a text flow (e.g. in a table cell

RE: Easy find for soft Returns?

2007-11-02 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Paul, To find soft returns enter \r in the Find window. You do not need to set any other options like Wildcards etc. This is also described in the online help: Searching for special characters and nonprinting symbols Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: Bug: FrameMaker 8 changes dash \= in paragraph numbering of FM 7 MIF

2007-11-16 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Sarah, Yes. I noticed this em space problem also with the running HF variables. (Already posted.) Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: Sarah O'Keefe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 2:38 PM To: Reng, Dr. Winfried; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

Bug: FrameMaker 8 changes dash \= in paragraph numbering of FM 7 MIF

2007-11-16 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Our translation agency uses Trados, which cannot handle FM 8 files yet. Therefore I converted everything to FM 7 MIF files (new option in Save As). When I got the files back, I noticed that the dashes which I defined in the paragraph numbering to mark the list items are exchanged by: 'Äì In

RE: Generating PDF from Frame 7.2 results in random broken links in PDF

2007-11-20 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Check the options in Format | Document | Optimize PDF Size and in Format | Document | PDF Setup | Links. Eventually Create Named Destinations for All Paragraphs is switched off or the file was optimized. Then links might be unresolved. Best regards Winfried -Original Message-

RE: FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word?

2007-11-28 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Diane, to set up some tags with different colors. But Art's idea of a set of character tags might be the easiest way to go. Very easy to return to the original color by pressing F8. Ctrl-A - F8 - Enter would clean up a whole chapter in 5 seconds. Be careful: o All paragraphs will

RE: Can hiding conditional text be set to use an And relationshipandnot an Or relationship?

2008-01-24 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, This feature does work in FM 8. However, it's not that clear to use. The order of conditions in the Build window is important. Brackets are not allowed. In your case you should just define: NOTC Then your line 4 will be hidden and all others shown. Best regards Winfried -Original

RE: Using PDF Converter with Frame

2008-01-24 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Emmy, FM is bundled with Acrobat Distiller. So even, if you do not have Acrobat Standard/Professional/3D, you can create valid PDF files with all features you are used to and for which you rely on Acrobat. You do not need to create your PDF files with any other PDF converter. However, if you

RE: Archive searching and moving text inset files

2008-02-12 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Linda, I use TextPad: http://www.textpad.com/ Additionally to the other editors, which were cited (UltraEdit, ConTEXT, SciTE Text Editor, Crimson Editor, Programmer's File Editor), I have also heard of these: jEdit http://www.jedit.org/ MED http://www.med-editor.com/ NoteTab

RE: Find and Replace cross references

2008-02-20 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Deirdre, So, the original author has hand typed the name of the document into every.single.master.page (there's about 100 of them). Unfortunately (s)he got the name wrong. You now know that you can use variables and how to insert them. However, why are there 100 master pages? Does each

RE: Is there a way to paste text as default?

2008-03-05 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Marta, In the maker.ini file change the order of formats for ClipboardFormatsPriorities, so that TEXT comes first. Newer FM versions have 2 maker.ini files, one in the Program Files folder and one in your personal folder. This change in the maker.ini file works only for text which you copied

RE: Long running headers

2008-04-22 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
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:

RE: Long running headers

2008-04-22 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Winfried From: Yves Barbion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:57 AM To: Reng, Dr. Winfried Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Long running headers What exactly would you like to automate, Winfried

RE: site down

2008-05-05 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, But did you ever search anything in this archive? There is a separate file per month. You cannot search the whole archive in one go. In my oppinion not usable. Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McCallister,

Trados support of FrameMaker 8

2008-05-05 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I sent some files to our translation agency who is working with Trados, latest version with latest service pack (which supports FrameMaker 8). When I got the translated files back, I noticed that text which had a condition applied and which was hidden (so that it shouldn't get translated) was

RE: Booklet function with Framemaker

2008-05-20 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, A simple solution would be to create a regular PDF file and then print a booklet to a PDF file via Acrobat. CutePDF is cheap and is able to do this: http://www.cutepdf.com/ Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: Optimize preview of EPS files?

2008-05-29 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Yves, You could also add a preview via GhostScript (eventually also with Epstool). On this web-site various methods are described: http://www.dfanning.com/tips/postscript_preview.html Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: Global Update to a Table Format

2008-06-26 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Jona, In case in each of your table columns there is a specific paragraph format or a specific keyword you could do this: 1 Put the insertion point in a table column with the column width you want to have. Copy the column width with Copy special. 2 Search for the paragraph format or key

RE: Searching the archives

2008-07-03 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Lutz, The FrameUsers mails are also archived here: http://www.mail-archive.com/framers@lists.frameusers.com/ This archive has also a working search feature. Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Plueckhahn,

RE: weird symbols in front of my Chapter Titles

2008-07-03 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Deirdre, Please correct me, if I'm wrong. Your markers appear in front of the chapter titles but not in the TOC, don't they? When a TOC has hyperlinks to headings, hyperlink markers are created only in the TOC. Therefore the markers in front of the chapter titles must be something different.

RE: table heading on reference page

2008-07-24 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I believe that there is a plug-in that copies a paragraph (with anchored frames/tables) from the reference page. Try out Reficons from Cudspan whether it does what you want: http://www.freeframers.org/freeware/cud/ Best regards Winfried | Hi All, | | I need to get a fairly complicated

RE: Text characters missing in printed FrameMaker document or in PDF file

2008-10-16 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Marc, Probably this is caused by a bug caused by Microsoft. Microsoft published a hotfix some monthgs ago, which should fix your problem: http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2008/07/hotfix_for_framemaker_1.html Before that hotfix the work-around was to remove the fntcache.dat file. That's no

RE: Printing with line numbers

2008-10-16 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, There is the free FrameScript script InsertLineCounter.fsl which does that for you. Works very well. http://www.itl.eu/framescript_download.html?L=1 Apart from that you could think of solutions with tables or additonal flows. Not very convenient. Best regards Winfried -Original

RE: Importing FM Text

2008-10-20 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Nina, Are your cross-references really intra-file, meaning that they point to another paragraph not in the same chapter but in the same file which you import? Then that's no problem. However, if the cross-references point to another one of the 50 files of the same chapter, then you will get

RE: Unresolved Cross Reference

2008-10-21 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Do you get any messages, when you open all files (missing graphics etc.)? In this case FrameMaker cannot open the files with the cross-reference target. It cannot check whether the cross-reference target exists and will give you the error message. Open all files, before your update or print

RE: Reasons for using graphic and table anchor tags

2008-10-24 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Additional reasons to the ones already mentioned: o Sometimes a table or anchored frame has to move to the next page as there is not enough space on the page with the anchor. At least when the anchored frame is set to Below Current Line the line with the paragraph moves also to the

RE: Standard tags for technical templates

2008-10-29 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Of course there may be situations, when a starting paragraph for a set of steps may be needed. I use this to specify more space before the first step. Without knowing the numbering settings all these e-mails about the purpose of these paragraph formats are pure speculation. Nancy, could you

RE: Offtopic: Questionnaire about documentation

2008-11-26 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I agree! When I added such a post card to a manual, I didn't get any response. Even when we combined this with a raffle. Years ago in a previous company I had the same question. I sent an e-mail to key customers/users and called them all. Best regards Winfried -Original Message-

RE: Paragraph catalog sort order

2008-12-08 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, When the tag you want to access is the last one in a series, you could also use the Shift key to select the last item. Example: F9 Shift+t to select TH. Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fred Ridder Sent:

RE: Importing docs from Word question

2009-04-28 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, If you have all graphics embedded in a FrameMaker file, you could export them via Mif2Go. As far as I know also the demo version would work. However, that would not import them as referenced graphics. If I were you, I would write a script. Best regards Winfried -Original

RE: Exporting the paths of graphics used

2009-05-20 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Susan, Be careful when sorting a table. All hypertext markers get deleted. When you to use the sorted list as a hyperlink file this procedure is not a good idea. I guess, an alphabetical list of paragraphs is best (as Richard Combs already suggested). You can add such a file for a single

RE: transparent background graphics

2009-06-02 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Ken, It's not very difficult to get images with transparent background in FrameMaker. What you have to do: o Only if you have a raster image: Create a mask in Photoshop/ Corel PhotoPaint/Paintshop Pro. Everything outside of the mask will be transparent in the final PDF file. o Save the

RE: Converting PDF to Word

2009-07-07 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Lea, You do not need to convert to Word via PDF. Either export directly from FrameMaker (is supposed to be improved in the last versions) or use Mif2Go ($ 295, http://www.omsys.com). Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

RE: Soliciting hardware recommendations

2009-07-15 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, If you get an Intel Core 2 Duo (or Core 2 Quad) system, running at 2.6GHz or higher, with 4GB of DDR2 RAM and 7200rpm drives (RAID 0 might be a bit of overkill but easy enough to do), Windows Vista Business 64-bit, and something like an nVidia 9600GT card or better, you will have

RE: Standard font for technical documentation

2009-07-21 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, My _personal_ preference leans to the new MS fonts (Cambria, I think it was) that were released with Vista, based on having edited two papers that used them and from an IEEE Spectrum article about the research involved in their creation. I have not personally used the fonts (not

RE: Tab in multi-line TOC entry does not work

2009-09-29 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Nancy, Yes. As others already said, add more tabs between $paratext and $chapnum. However, you do not need 1 per line. You have to add as many tabs so that there will be at least the same number of tabs in the last line as in regular first lines. Examples: Figure 1.6:xtab1-8 Here

JOB - technical author in Sunbury/UK

2009-10-26 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Our office in Sunbury in the UK is looking for a technical author. If you are interested, please reply to the contact at the bottom. Best regards Winfried --- 1. OVERALL PURPOSE OF JOB * Preparation of technical documents for safety products and systems, as part of a

RE: TOC generation in multiple language environment

2009-11-23 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Klaus, My solution is this: 1 In your TDM file on the reference pages set up an addtional new page. If you already have a page TDM then call the new page IVZ. 2 Copy everything from the TDM page to the new IVZ page. Change the name of the text frame to IVZ. 3 Copy the first paragraph

RE: Ctrl key issues

2009-11-30 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, On my system (still Windows 2000) I can deactivate shortcuts for switching between different keyboard layouts. Very good as at least I switched to another layout now and then inadvertently. Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

RE: Missing registration marks

2009-12-07 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, That's not fully correct. You can do either of the following: o Deactivate Generate Acrobat Data as Linda said. o Or you can have Generate Acrobat Data activated and set the margins to 0 in Acrobat in Document | Crop Pages. This way you do not need to create 2 PDF files out of

RE: How To Delete Condition Tags in a Book

2009-12-09 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I'd say FindChangeSpecial is best for this job. Very convenient. Very good, when your template has been updated and format names or format usage have changed. FindChangeSpecial allows you to delete or exchange these formats: Paragraph formats Character formats Cross reference definitions

RE: Unable to select, conditionalise, hide/show a variable in a text frame on left of master page

2010-02-01 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I do not know, if this is related to your problem. I noticed a problem when importing the page layout with hidden text. I have a footer with text draft and the exact time. This text has a condition draft. When I hide this condition and import the page layout into another file, the hidden text

RE: Shortcut Control keys - Part deux

2010-02-24 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Corinne, If your requirements aren't too extraordinary (e.g. open menus, hidden content, delayed capture), you can also use the common PRINT or ALT+PRINT shortcut and paste the screenshot from the clipboard into your favorite graphics software (CTRL+v). There you can do whatever you wanted

RE: FrameScript/ script to convert miffm

2010-03-08 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I use the [i]-frame modules from itl: http://www.i-frame.itl.info/en/feature-description/i-frame-modules/translation-pack.html One of these modules provides this feature. Very handy. But not free, therefore possibly not what you want. Best regards Winfried -Original Message-

RE: Wrong conditional text displaying when using FM Track Changes facility

2010-03-31 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Heidi, I have the very same FrameMaker version (although on Windows 2000). I did exactly what you said: Created 3 conditions A, B, C. Enabled Track Text Edits. Added text 108.00. I also added this text in a table cell. Then applied condition A to 10 and condition B to 8. Then I hid all

RE: change tracking annoyance

2010-04-09 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Fred, When you place the insertion point directly after a word and before a space and start typing regular characters, FM inserts the characters in green. As expected. When you then enter a space, FrameMaker overwrites the existing space (if you have Smart Spaces activated). That way the

RE: Strategy for Handling Conditional Text

2010-04-13 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Electropubs.com has a nifty little plug-in called Clean Import that lets you replace existing formats with the ones you import (all kinds of formats or just the ones you select). So you could delete the unneeded conditions from one file and then Clean Import conditions from it to all

RE: Utility for Book-Level Searches for Tracked Text Edits

2010-04-28 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Format Document Change Bars shows that something on the line changed, but isn't specific about what changed. Can be searched for using the Find dialog though. Change bars are a character property. Therefore you can search for them on the book level. In the Find dialog select

RE: Graphics quality - Mif2Go

2010-04-29 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Mathieu, As far as I know, attachments are not allowed in this mailing list. However, your attachment could not answer questions like these: o Which graphic format do you use in FrameMaker? o Are the graphics referenced? o What is the content of the anchored frames with the graphics? Only a

RE: Paragraphs wrapping prematurely

2010-05-03 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Check also this setting in your maker.ini file: DisplayUsingPrinterMetrics=On If this setting is set to Off, the characters are displayed and spaced for high readability. However, this might result in text lines which are shorter than when printed. When this setting is On, the characters

RE: Frame's File Comparison Feature

2010-05-05 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, What you're considering is (or should be) neither necessary nor desirable. Your translation vendor should be using a translation memory (and you should request a copy of it, since you've paid for it, so that you're not locked into this vendor because it's holding your translation

RE: MIF File Import

2010-05-07 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Grace, Actually you can start with a MIF file which was saved from FrameMaker. However, you must delete _everything_ which is not relevant to the formats which you want to change. Use a regular text editor for this. You must import such a MIF snippet (that's the term which is used for such

RE: Frame's File Comparison Feature

2010-05-07 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
. Or someone wrote a plug-in for this. I do not know.) Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: Steve Johnson [mailto:chinask...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 4:27 AM To: Reng, Dr. Winfried Cc: FrameMaker Forum Subject: Re: Frame's File Comparison Feature Can't

RE: PDF weirdness

2010-05-27 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Cynthia, I remember to encounter this every some months (FrameMaker 8). What helped was just a restart FrameMaker and Acrobat and create the PDF file anew. Do you scale the PDF to window size when you open the PDF? If yes, this is the reason why you did not notice this yourself first. Best

RE: Active Areas from Frame-Generated Index(es)

2010-06-02 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, When you create an index, you will get two types of entries: Some with a single reference and some with multiple references. Apple94 Pear.95, 97 When there is only a single reference the link area in the resulting PDF file encompasses the whole paragraph - provided that there is

RE: Active Areas from Frame-Generated Index(es)

2010-06-02 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
? Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard.co...@polycom.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 4:15 PM To: Reng, Dr. Winfried; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Active Areas from Frame-Generated Index(es) Reng, Dr. Winfried wrote

RE: FM8: Conditional text definitions not removed from book

2010-06-10 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Verner, I noticed also often that conditions are still shown in the book condition list, although they were deleted in all files. Updating the book or MIF washing did not help. I did not find any rule. If it bothers you, then save the book file as MIF, open it with a text editor and delete

RE: Keyboard shortcuts?

2010-06-14 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Pat, itl offers some very helpful FrameScript scripts. One of them lists all commands with their shortcuts: http://www.i-frame.itl.info/en/feature-description/free-scripts/report-fm-commands.html This one lists all format overrides:

RE: Migrating contents to a new template

2010-07-13 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Garnier, If not only the formatting changed but also the format names I recommend these tools: Best value for money is Template Mapper from Cudspan: http://www.cudspan.net/plugins/executioner.php?do=displayPagefield_tab_num=2 A not so convenient alternative would be FindChangeSpecial from

RE: Migrating contents to a new template

2010-07-14 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campb...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 10:17 PM To: Garnier Garnier Cc: Reng, Dr. Winfried; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Migrating contents to a new template First, if I were you and you were going to maintain these books

RE: Finally Upgrading to FM 9.0

2010-07-14 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Clint, Our Tech Pubs group is finally on the verge of upgrading from FM 7.0 to 9.0. We will not be buying the full TC4. First, do you see any problems with just opening our old unstructured templates and saving them again as the new version? I don't expect there would be any. If

RE: Flakey cross references

2010-07-22 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, When you have activated Track Text Edits and cut text and paste it elsewhere in the same file, FrameMaker also does not paste the marker. The marker is still in its previous location, just with the condition FM8_TRACK_CHANGES_DELETED. When you later accept your changes, the cross-reference

RE: Acrobat 9 - a disaster

2010-07-26 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Tori, Dov, we use this feature for 'testing' PDFs in which we have enabled Acrobat Reader rights. We have a lot of clients who simply will not spend the money to get Acrobat, so either we give them Reader-enabled PDFs or they send us shudder hardcopy edits. No idea why, but

RE: Templates for international use

2010-09-20 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I strongly recommend to use the FrameMaker version with the English interface for all users. The language versions differ by the names for specific objects e.g. for TOC, index, default master pages, default paragraph or character formats etc. E.g. the TOC created in a German FrameMaker

RE: problem saving to the company's network drive

2010-10-11 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, The problem is probably: You have OLE objects and you have Service Pack 3 of Windows XP: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/407/kb407701.html http://www.mail-archive.com/framers@lists.frameusers.com/msg15719.html Either change your OLE graphics to real referenced graphics. Or go back to Service Pack

RE: FrameMaker 10 Officially Demonstrated At tekom Conference

2010-11-09 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I attended this presentation as well. RJ Jacquez said that he presented in public. No-one signed a non-disclosure agreement. Therefore all are allowed to discuss the features in public. I noted these features: Auto-spellcheck, similar to Word with a wavy line S1000D support Alert

RE: FrameMaker 10 Officially Demonstrated At tekom Conference

2010-11-10 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Conference On 09/11/2010 2:29 AM, Reng, Dr. Winfried wrote: Hi, I attended this presentation as well. RJ Jacquez said that he presented in public. No-one signed a non-disclosure agreement. Therefore all are allowed to discuss the features in public. Any hint of automatic screen

RE: Printing Issues With FrameMaker and PDF

2010-12-01 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Dick, You say that you get fatal errors while printing to PDF. But you do not say what exactly happens. Do you print directly to the PDF file? Is Adobe PDF your default printer? Is Generate Acrobat Data activated? Does it make a difference when you print to a PostScript file first and try to

RE: FM9: Import PDF comments in all files in book?

2010-12-02 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Yves, When RJ Jacquez presented FrameMaker 10 on the tekom conference this was one of the features. As I do not have FM 9, I did not know whether this was new. If FM 9 cannot import comments across all files in a book, your approach seems to be reasonable. Best regards Winfried

RE: Replacing special character single quote

2010-12-16 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Verner, For FM 8 you find this info in the online help, Appendix A, Typing in Dialog Boxes. Or in the installation folder, Documents, Character_Sets.pdf. There search for quote with the extended search to find all types of quotes: quotesingle \x27 quotesinglebase \xe2 quoteleft \xd4

RE: Embedded TOC questions

2011-02-24 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Dan, You have to replace the space by tabs on the reference page. There for each of your TOC paragraph formats there are placeholders. Something like: $paranum $paratext $pagenum Just replace the space between the paratext and the pagenum placeholders with _two_ tabs (if you have a tab stop

RE: eps image looks lousy in Frame. What should I do differently?

2011-03-09 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Theresa, An explanation would be that you created the PDF not with the Adobe PDF printer but with a non-PostScript printer. Then only the screen display is used to print EPS files. I recommend the free SetPrint utility to use Adobe PDF as the default printer just for FrameMaker:

RE: frame 8 and 9 crashing

2011-03-09 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Anita, I encountered something similar some years ago. I do not remember the cause of this problem, but it helped to save the file as MIF, open the MIF and save in fm format again. (This is the so called MIF wash.) This step removes inconsistent formatting commands. Best regards Winfried

AW: PDF Bookmarks [P]

2011-04-27 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Cynthia, Bookmarks are only created, when Generate Acrobat Data in the print dialog is activated. Possibly this option was activated when you printed the index but not for the large book. Baruch advised to add GroupTitlesIOM in Format Document PDF Setup Bookmarks. Did you select all files

AW: Smart Quotes?

2011-07-05 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Michelle, I use FrameMaker 8 and therefore do not know, how this is set up in FrameMaker 10. In FrameMaker 8 there is a section [Spelling] in maker.ini which lists the hex codes for the various smart quotes for various languages. Maybe they are not correct in your maker.ini file. Compare it

AW: Finding standard (non-smart) quote, apostrophe

2011-07-15 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Tim, I do not know, which type of straight quotes or double quotes you entered. When I enter a straight single or double quote in a text frame and enter the same single or double quote in the Find dialog, FrameMaker finds this character. It won't find typographic quotes. For these I have to

AW: Creating hyperlink to PDF

2011-07-21 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Bill, Does the link work in FrameMaker (CTRL + ALT and then click on the link)? How do you create the PDF? If you print to a PostScript file or to a PDF, have you activated Generate Acrobat Data? Best regards Winfried -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von:

AW: Applying new templates to existing documents

2011-07-27 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Doug, I used TemplateMapper from CudSpan to map old formats to new formats: http://www.cudspan.net/plugins/executioner.php?do=displayPagefield_tab_num=2 CudSpan notes on his web-site that this plug-in is now distributed by iG5:

AW: FrameMaker 10 and RoboHELP 9

2011-08-04 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I don' t have RoboHelp or the TCS. However, as far as I know RoboHelp can process FrameMaker books whether it's integrated in the TCS or not. The only advantage of the TCS is that you can start the conversion from within FrameMaker. Otherwise you must manually direct RoboHelp to the folder

RE: hotkey bug in FrameMaker 10

2011-11-20 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Joseph, I noticed this a while ago in FrameMaker 8. This is not new. Best regards Winfried From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Joseph Lorenzini Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 5:42 PM To: tcs-us...@googlegroups.com;

RE: generate a list of paragraph tag properties?

2011-11-22 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Bjørn, I recommend the Report module from the [i]-frame Extended Pack. http://www.i-frame.itl.info/en/feature-description/i-frame-modules/extended-pack/report-paragraph-and-char-formats.html As far as I know the single modules can also be bought separtely. Best regards Winfried

RE: Multiple sets of page numbers...

2011-12-07 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Scott, I would do it with automatic numbering. If necessary in a separate text frame. Restart the autonumbering of p e.g. with a separate paragraph; this could be the title paragraph of a new part. Continue the autonumbering for b throughout all files in the book (or just use the page number

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

RE: Windows 7 compatilbility for FrameMaker 8

2012-03-07 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, You do not need to install or run in XP compatibility mode for FrameMaker 8 on Windows 7. Apart from that I also do not have more suggestions other than those which were already posted: Administrator privileges Copy installation files on hard disk. Best regards Winfried installation a.)

Seeking inputs on desired features in FrameMaker

2012-04-03 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, In the FrameMaker forum on the Adobe web-site Kapil Verma, the product manager for Framemaker, asked for feature requests (see below). If you miss anything, send your requests and suggestions to him: kve...@adobe.com Best regards Winfried --- Hello Framers, Hope you are well. In case

RE: FM 10 - crashes and PDF bookmark settings

2012-04-05 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, At least the paragraphs which are used for bookmarks could be set for each file individually already in FrameMaker 8. I had used this to add the GroupTitlesIX paragraph format solely in the index file to get the single characters as bookmarks (and similarly for the glossary headings). There

RE: Seeking inputs on desired features in FrameMaker

2012-04-27 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Kapil, My wishlist is below. I hope it's not too late. I use many scripts for most of the issues below. But FrameMaker should be able to do this without external help. Best regards Winfried --- H Stability Stability, no crashes, reliability are my highest priority! H Vertical alignment

RE: newlinks and gotolinks in Acrobat

2012-05-25 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Rick, Could it be that FrameMaker uses the character format of the marker to set the destination? If the character format is the same as the paragraph, then the whole paragraph is the destination. Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

RE: Batch Update of FM file templates

2012-08-06 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Nancy, Possibly you mean TemplateMapper from CudSpan: http://www.cudspan.net/plugins/executioner.php?do=displayPagefield_tab_num=2 Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers- boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy

RE: Track Edits in FrameMaker 10

2012-09-13 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Rick, Similarly to Linda I moved from FM 8 to FM 10 on Windows 7 early this year. I use the Track Text Edits feature for all documents. My experience: o Mandatory for me to see exact changes: What exactly has changed. Which change do I have to communicate to others. Which file must be

RE: Bookmarks don't stay set

2012-09-28 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Gillian, What do you mean with they don't stay set? Do your paragraphs disappear in this dialog? Obviously not, if you delete them. I noticed that sometimes my PDFs are created without bookmarks. However, when I open the PDF setup dialog with the Bookmarks tab and just click OK, they are

RE: Response from Adobe - Print to .PS issue - Cause and solution

2012-09-28 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I agree! I always use the structured interface although all my files are unstructured. No problems. No side-effects. (FrameMaker 10 on Windows 7, 32 bit and before FrameMaker 8 on Windows 2000) Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

RE: save as... FM 8 Mif

2012-10-01 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I can confirm this. Our translator had not upgraded his Trados software for some years as the next Trados release had changed the way of working drastically. However, his old version could open only MIF 8 files. Changing MIFFile 10.0 to MIFFile 8.0 in a text editor in the first line of a MIF

RE: Changes in Dictonaries in FM 10/11 and Re: Languages and FrameMaker languages

2012-10-18 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Can someone explain what the differences are between Hunspell dictionaries and the ordinary dictionaries which FrameMaker had used before. Are the Hunspell dictionaries more reliable? Or do Hunspell dictionaries cover more words? Do the personal (and site) dictionaries work with the ordinary

RE: How to force capital letters in a generated Index?

2012-12-19 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, You could also use CudSpan's MarkerWorker: http://www.cudspan.net/plugins/ I used it in FrameMaker 10 without any problems. It does not provide automatization to change the first character in an index marker. However, you could search for it and then replace with the corresponding character

RE: Sorting paragraphs

2013-01-07 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, You can also use itl's FrameScript script: http://www.i-frame.itl.info/en/feature-description/i-frame-modules/base-pack/sort-paragraph-sections.html It's part of the base pack, but as far as I know you can also buy single scripts. Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From:

RE: Reference list formatting

2013-02-12 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Steve, I do not know any special bibliography software. With regular software I imagine two ways: o FrameScript/ExtendScript Of course you could write a script which does everything what you want. I doubt whether it will pay off. o Search and replace all delimiters (space, comma etc.)

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