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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send Framers mailing list submissions to framers@lists.frameusers.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/listinfo/framers or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Framers digest..." Today's Topics: 1. RE: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 (Paul Grigg) 2. RE: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 (Spreadbury, David) 3. RE: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 (Beck, Charles) 4. Re: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 (Doug) 5. Re: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 (Bill Swallow) 6. RE: FM "cannot find file" message (Phil Heron) 7. Re: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 (John Posada) 8. Re: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 (Bill Swallow) 9. RE: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 (Spreadbury, David) 10. Re: FM "cannot find file" message (Art Campbell) 11. Structured Table (Indents) from SGML structtired/tagged data (Richard Doll) 12. Re: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 (Stuart Rogers) 13. RE: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 (Joe Malin) 14. RE: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 (John Posada) 15. Deja Vu?? Was: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 (Diane Gaskill) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:05:52 +0300 From: "Paul Grigg" Subject: RE: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 To: , Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Hi, Are there any advantages/disadvantages to using the SAVE AS PDF function over printing to a postscript file and then distilling? Thanks, Paul ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:07:55 -0500 From: "Spreadbury, David" Subject: RE: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 To: "Paul Grigg" , , Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" There are numerous articles and threads on this subject in the archives, if they are working this morning. But, in a nutshell, Save As PDF is problematic in all versions of FrameMaker. You may, or may not, experience problems. Using Print to File and then Distilling eliminates all of these problems. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] m] On Behalf Of Paul Grigg Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 2:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 Hi, Are there any advantages/disadvantages to using the SAVE AS PDF function over printing to a postscript file and then distilling? Thanks, Paul ============================================================ The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reproduction, dissemination or distribution of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Tellabs ============================================================ ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:17:49 -0400 From: "Beck, Charles" Subject: RE: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 To: "Spreadbury, David" , "Paul Grigg" , , Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" You don't even need to "Print to file" if you use an Adobe printer driver when printing to PDF. In versions 7.x, the printer driver is "Adobe PDF." (I forget just now which one it is in version 6.x--"Acrobat Distiller", maybe?) When you do it this way (making sure to *clear* the "Print to file" check box), you don't have to later look up the file and distill it. The print process prompts you for a PDF file name, and then proceeds to print and distill to PDF wherever you tell it to put the output. I've never had a problem doing it this way in Frame 6 or 7--though I *have* had problems "saving as PDF". HTH, Chuck Chuck Beck | Sr. Information Developer | Infor Global Solutions, Inc. | Office: 614-523-7302 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- To: Paul Grigg; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 But, in a nutshell, Save As PDF is problematic in all versions of FrameMaker. You may, or may not, experience problems. Using Print to File and then Distilling eliminates all of these problems. -----Original Message----- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 Hi, Are there any advantages/disadvantages to using the SAVE AS PDF function over printing to a postscript file and then distilling? Thanks, Paul ============================================================ ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:07:12 -0500 From: Doug Subject: Re: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], framers@lists.frameusers.com Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Now that we use Frame 7 we've never had problems with Saving as PDF. --Doug > But, in a nutshell, Save As PDF is problematic in all versions of > FrameMaker. You may, or may not, experience problems. Using Print to > File and then Distilling eliminates all of these problems. ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:28:54 -0400 From: "Bill Swallow" Subject: Re: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 To: "Spreadbury, David" Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], framers@lists.frameusers.com Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > But, in a nutshell, Save As PDF is problematic in all versions of > FrameMaker. You may, or may not, experience problems. Using Print to > File and then Distilling eliminates all of these problems. I have not had issues since 7.0. I believe it to be finally fixed. But yes, 6.x and earlier was problemmatic and best to print to file. -- Bill Swallow HATT List Owner WWP-Users List Owner Senior Member STC, TechValley Chapter http://techcommdood.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:29:11 +0100 From: "Phil Heron" Subject: RE: FM "cannot find file" message To: "framers" Cc: Brian Wesley Simmons Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I had a few problems with FM file associations recently when I removed my old FM7.0 version. I had both FM 7.0 and FM7.2 installed and double-clicking a FM file opened it in FM7.0. Once I removed FM7.0 I could no longer open my FM files from Explorer. To rectify this, I used the fmreg.txt file in the FrameMaker home directory to update the registry. You can open this file to see what it does and to read the instructions for using it. (In short, at a Windows command prompt, change to the FrameMaker program directory and type "FrameMaker -reg" (without the quotes). Phil Heron Technical Writer - CODA www.coda.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Wesley Simmons Sent: 17 July 2006 13:32 To: framers@frameusers.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FM "cannot find file" message Howdy, folks. I like to double-click on my FM files to open both the app and the file. That's just how I like to work. Last week I had a PC crash and had to rebuild my disk, load apps back on, etc. I'm running FM 7.1p114 on Win XP Pro. After getting my apps back on the hard drive, I now find that whenever I double-click on an FM file, even when FM is already open, I get a message like the following: Cannot find the file named Z:\Release. Make sure that the file exists. Now, Z is a mapped drive. The full path is \\rubble\tech pubs\Release Notes\Release-Notes-production\Release-Notes-7.2.1\filename. What appears in the Win Explorer address bar is Z:\Release Notes\Release-Notes-production\Release-Notes-7.2.1\filename. I know someone is going to say, "Eek! Spaces in directory names! How low-class can you be?" Yeah, fine, I'm low-class. The issue is that heretofore, this action has always worked. I have never before gotten this error message. I have always been able to double-click a file in just such a directory structure, and FM has opened it without complaint. I want it to do so again. Changing the directory structure to eliminate spaces in names is not an option. Any ideas why FM is now biffing this simple little task? And how I can make it go back to business as usual? thanks, bws ** To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** ** with "unsubscribe framers" (no quotes) in the body. ** Using spreadsheets for group consolidation and reporting? 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CODA has checked the attachments for viruses before sending, but you should virus-check them before opening ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:33:58 -0700 (PDT) From: John Posada Subject: Re: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 To: Bill Swallow , "Spreadbury, David" Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], framers@lists.frameusers.com Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 We're on 7.1 and 7.2. Out policy is to use Save As -> PDF. We have 10 writers maintaining almost 100 books doing it this way and we don't have any problems with Save As -> PDF. > > But, in a nutshell, Save As PDF is problematic in all versions > > of FrameMaker. You may, or may not, experience problems. Using > > Print to File and then Distilling eliminates all of these > > problems. > > I have not had issues since 7.0. I believe it to be finally > fixed. But yes, 6.x and earlier was problemmatic and best to > print to file. John Posada Senior Technical Writer "I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is." ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:35:45 -0400 From: "Bill Swallow" Subject: Re: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 To: "John Posada" Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Spreadbury, David" , framers@lists.frameusers.com Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed We have a similar docs payload, and have custom job options that we just load and run on save-as. Laziness has its benefits. :-) On 7/17/06, John Posada wrote: > We're on 7.1 and 7.2. Out policy is to use Save As -> PDF. We have 10 > writers maintaining almost 100 books doing it this way and we don't > have any problems with Save As -> PDF. -- Bill Swallow HATT List Owner WWP-Users List Owner Senior Member STC, TechValley Chapter http://techcommdood.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:46:03 -0500 From: "Spreadbury, David" Subject: RE: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 To: "Bill Swallow" , "John Posada" Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], framers@lists.frameusers.com Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I never said it didn't work, only that it was problematic. Your mileage may vary (YMMV) on the use of Save As PDF. -----Original Message----- From: Bill Swallow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 10:36 AM To: John Posada Cc: Spreadbury, David; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 We have a similar docs payload, and have custom job options that we just load and run on save-as. Laziness has its benefits. :-) On 7/17/06, John Posada wrote: > We're on 7.1 and 7.2. Out policy is to use Save As -> PDF. We have 10 > writers maintaining almost 100 books doing it this way and we don't > have any problems with Save As -> PDF. ============================================================ The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reproduction, dissemination or distribution of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Tellabs ============================================================ ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:46:42 -0400 From: "Art Campbell" Subject: Re: FM "cannot find file" message To: "Brian Wesley Simmons" Cc: framers@frameusers.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed If I was going to guess, from the limited amount of info.... I'd guess that the rebuilt system was pointing z: to \\rubble rather than \\rubble\techpubs\ Have you confirmed the paths? And while you're at it, the permissions? Art On 7/17/06, Brian Wesley Simmons wrote: > Howdy, folks. I like to double-click on my FM files to open both the app > and the file. That's just how I like to work. Last week I had a PC crash > and had to rebuild my disk, load apps back on, etc. I'm running FM > 7.1p114 on Win XP Pro. After getting my apps back on the hard drive, I > now find that whenever I double-click on an FM file, even when FM is > already open, I get a message like the following: > > Cannot find the file named Z:\Release. > Make sure that the file exists. > > Now, Z is a mapped drive. The full path is \\rubble\tech pubs\Release > Notes\Release-Notes-production\Release-Notes-7.2.1\filename. > > What appears in the Win Explorer address bar is Z:\Release > Notes\Release-Notes-production\Release-Notes-7.2.1\filename. > > I know someone is going to say, "Eek! Spaces in directory names! How > low-class can you be?" Yeah, fine, I'm low-class. The issue is that > heretofore, this action has always worked. I have never before gotten > this error message. I have always been able to double-click a file in > just such a directory structure, and FM has opened it without complaint. > > I want it to do so again. Changing the directory structure to eliminate > spaces in names is not an option. > > Any ideas why FM is now biffing this simple little task? And how I can > make it go back to business as usual? > > thanks, bws > > > ** To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** > ** with "unsubscribe framers" (no quotes) in the body. ** > -- Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:56:58 -0400 From: "Richard Doll" Subject: Structured Table (Indents) from SGML structtired/tagged data To: "framers" Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Is there a solution other than Rick's Table Cleaner??? Hardware: Dell 340 Workstation OpSys: Win2K AppWare: Frame 7.0, Acrobat 5.+, Illus 10, PShop 7.0, MSWord, MSVisualBasic 6.+ Table style change: Catalog with "new" table style . . .!!! Tables now Left Indensted 18pts from column boundary!!! Problem: Table positioned with correct indent; BUT, now extend 18pts past the right column boundary??? My actions: saved new table style with new name.into new template saved new table style in new named edd imported new edd into new template added new "application" into the SGML conversion file manually checked table style in new template, its exactly correct Current project is about 1000pp having about 7500 tables and 4000 images . . . HELP!!! I do not mind using Rick's Table Cleaner . . . just concerned if/or what I've incorrectly done or not done. best to all, dick doll [EMAIL PROTECTED],net All outgoing mail & attachments checked by Norton AntiVirus. ------------------------------ Message: 12 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:03:37 -0400 From: Stuart Rogers Subject: Re: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 To: Paul Grigg Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], framers@lists.frameusers.com Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Paul Grigg wrote: > Hi, > > Are there any advantages/disadvantages to using the SAVE AS PDF function > over printing to a postscript file and then distilling? In FM 6, yup, a lot of disadvantages; somewhat fewer in later versions. See http://www.microtype.com/FM_bugs.html for the full story. If you install Setprint from Sundorne http://www.sundorne.com/FrameMaker/Freeware/setPrint.htm you can set up Distiller (or Adobe PDF or whatever your version of it is called) as the default printer within FM, while leaving your regular h/w printer as the default in other applications. Then you can simply print your FM docs to PDF. -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006 "The smartest export Canada ever sent to the United States." Get Firefox! http://tinyurl.com/8q9c5 ------------------------------ Message: 13 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:31:38 -0700 From: "Joe Malin" Subject: RE: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0 To: "Paul Grigg" , , Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dunno, but I have been using the Adobe PDF driver + write to file + === message truncated === --------------------------------- How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messengers low PC-to-Phone call rates. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
