RE: Floating figures and tables was RE: question about overrides

2008-07-11 Thread Matt Sullivan
That's the same group who recommend we NEVER TYPE IN ALLCAPS -Matt Sullivan GRAFIX Training, Inc. An Adobe Authorized Training Center www.grafixtraining.com 888 882-2819 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Bradley Sent: Friday,

Floating figures and tables was RE: question about overrides

2008-07-11 Thread Matt Sullivan
That's the same group who recommend we NEVER TYPE IN ALLCAPS -Matt Sullivan GRAFIX Training, Inc. An Adobe Authorized Training Center www.grafixtraining.com 888 882-2819 -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com]

Floating figures and tables was RE: question about overrides

2008-07-11 Thread JIm Owens
Floating figures and tables are useful for automating page breaks, but I too have encountered people who insist that the figure must always immediately follow the reference. Can anyone help me understand where this rule originated? In Framemaker, setting them up requires a bit more effort. To s

RE: Floating figures and tables was RE: question about overrides

2008-07-11 Thread Mike Bradley
> Floating figures and tables are useful for automating page breaks, but I too > have encountered people who insist that the figure must always immediately > follow the reference. Can anyone help me understand where this rule > originated? I don’t know where the rule came from. Probably from

Floating figures and tables was RE: question about overrides

2008-07-11 Thread Mike Bradley
> Floating figures and tables are useful for automating page breaks, but I too > have encountered people who insist that the figure must always immediately > follow the reference. Can anyone help me understand where this rule > originated? I don?t know where the rule came from. Probably from

Odd Control Key Issues

2008-07-11 Thread Sam Beard
All, Another odd note with this: I can still use Control to select a text box inside an anchored frame, as well as use the Control-Alt-C combo to change the case to initial caps. And the arrow keys work in the text boxes, as well. They STILL refuse to work properly in the document, until I rest

Floating figures and tables was RE: question about overrides

2008-07-11 Thread JIm Owens
Floating figures and tables are useful for automating page breaks, but I too have encountered people who insist that the figure must always immediately follow the reference. Can anyone help me understand where this rule originated? In Framemaker, setting them up requires a bit more effort. To

Odd Control Key Issues

2008-07-11 Thread Sam Beard
All, I'm on Windows XP with Frame 7.2p158. Please forgive the cross-posting. A while back, I posted some messages concerning issues with the Control-key shortcuts not working, along with the arrow keys for moving the cursor not working when held down (instead of moving repeatedly until

Footnote Question

2008-07-11 Thread Joel Wilhelm
Thanks Fred! It seems to obvious now. Joel On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Fred Ridder wrote: > Joel Wilhelm asked: > > > How do I get 2 locations to point to the same footnote? In other words I > > want 2 separate markers for the same footnote: > > The first footnote gets coded as a regular

Footnote Question

2008-07-11 Thread Fred Ridder
Joel Wilhelm asked: > How do I get 2 locations to point to the same footnote? In other words I > want 2 separate markers for the same footnote: The first footnote gets coded as a regular footnote. Additional references to the same note get coded as cross-references to the footnote paragraph usin

Footnote Question

2008-07-11 Thread Joel Wilhelm
How do I get 2 locations to point to the same footnote? In other words I want 2 separate markers for the same footnote: text [1] text text text [1] (again) I hope that makes sense. Joel

RE: Odd Control Key Issues

2008-07-11 Thread Sam Beard
All, Another odd note with this: I can still use Control to select a text box inside an anchored frame, as well as use the Control-Alt-C combo to change the case to initial caps. And the arrow keys work in the text boxes, as well. They STILL refuse to work properly in the document, until I rest

Odd Control Key Issues

2008-07-11 Thread Sam Beard
All, I'm on Windows XP with Frame 7.2p158. Please forgive the cross-posting. A while back, I posted some messages concerning issues with the Control-key shortcuts not working, along with the arrow keys for moving the cursor not working when held down (instead of moving repeatedly unti

Re: Footnote Question

2008-07-11 Thread Joel Wilhelm
Thanks Fred! It seems to obvious now. Joel On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Fred Ridder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joel Wilhelm asked: > > > How do I get 2 locations to point to the same footnote? In other words I > > want 2 separate markers for the same footnote: > > The first footnote gets

RE: Footnote Question

2008-07-11 Thread Fred Ridder
Joel Wilhelm asked: > How do I get 2 locations to point to the same footnote? In other words I > want 2 separate markers for the same footnote: The first footnote gets coded as a regular footnote. Additional references to the same note get coded as cross-references to the footnote paragraph us

Footnote Question

2008-07-11 Thread Joel Wilhelm
How do I get 2 locations to point to the same footnote? In other words I want 2 separate markers for the same footnote: text [1] text text text [1] (again) I hope that makes sense. Joel ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTE

Deleting Color Definitions

2008-07-11 Thread Lester C. Smalley
The "extra" colors are used in some graphic(s) in the template that uses an 'indexed color' model instead of a full true color palette. This could be a logo on a master page, icons on reference pages, etc. If the output is to be grayscale and one spot color, replace any images with grayscale e

RE: question about overrides

2008-07-11 Thread Mike Bradley
If I'm writing a typical user manual, my preferred solution for pagination overrides is to float tables and figures. Floating rarely produces pagination problems--that's the main purpose of floating, as far as I can tell. I give tables and figures numbered titles and I'm careful to cite each one in

question about overrides

2008-07-11 Thread Mike Bradley
If I'm writing a typical user manual, my preferred solution for pagination overrides is to float tables and figures. Floating rarely produces pagination problems--that's the main purpose of floating, as far as I can tell. I give tables and figures numbered titles and I'm careful to cite each one in

question about overrides

2008-07-11 Thread David Shaked (Wernick)
> The main problem with overrides is that it will make > changes later that will be difficult to find and/or fix. Is there a way to find overrides, other than examining each paragraph individually? Is there a way to remove all overrides from a document in a single operation? I guess one way is t

question about overrides

2008-07-11 Thread Mike Wickham
> Is there a way to find overrides, other than examining each paragraph > individually? Hunt Overrides (free): http://www.freeframers.org/freeware/cud/ Character Tools: Paragraph Tools: Table Tools: http://www.freeframers.org/freeware/cud/ These plugins are very cheap, contain lots of other usefu

question about overrides

2008-07-11 Thread Jim Owens
One way to find overrides is to create a special template that is identicial to your standard template, but with all fonts set to a bright colour you don't normally use. When you apply the special template, the overrides show up as unchanged black text. David Shaked (Wernick) wrote: >> The mai

Deleting Color Definitions

2008-07-11 Thread Combs, Richard
I said: > We replaced the graphics with 24-bit ("true color") PNGs, and then ran a > script to delete the RGB colors, but they wouldn't go away. What got rid of > them was a "MIF wash" (save FM file as MIF, open that, and save back to > FM). I should have added that, IIRC, the deleting first wasn

Deleting Color Definitions

2008-07-11 Thread Combs, Richard
Howard Rauch wrote: > I am creating a template for?the third version of a catalog that is to be > printed in grayscale and one spot color. Since the catalog?has involved > quite a number of drafts to establish the layout and has gradually evolved > over time, it has?a goodly number of useless RGB

RE: Deleting Color Definitions

2008-07-11 Thread Combs, Richard
I said: > We replaced the graphics with 24-bit ("true color") PNGs, and then ran a > script to delete the RGB colors, but they wouldn't go away. What got rid of > them was a "MIF wash" (save FM file as MIF, open that, and save back to > FM). I should have added that, IIRC, the deleting first wasn

RE: Deleting Color Definitions

2008-07-11 Thread Combs, Richard
Howard Rauch wrote: > I am creating a template for the third version of a catalog that is to be > printed in grayscale and one spot color. Since the catalog has involved > quite a number of drafts to establish the layout and has gradually evolved > over time, it has a goodly number of useless RGB

Re: question about overrides

2008-07-11 Thread Mike Wickham
> Is there a way to find overrides, other than examining each paragraph > individually? Hunt Overrides (free): http://www.freeframers.org/freeware/cud/ Character Tools: Paragraph Tools: Table Tools: http://www.freeframers.org/freeware/cud/ These plugins are very cheap, contain lots of other usefu

question about overrides

2008-07-11 Thread Combs, Richard
David Shaked (Wernick) wrote: > Is there a way to find overrides, other than examining each paragraph > individually? Silicon Prarie's Paragraph Tools and Character Tools do this (among many other things). http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/ > Is there a way to remove all overrides from a d

RE: Deleting Color Definitions

2008-07-11 Thread Lester C. Smalley
The "extra" colors are used in some graphic(s) in the template that uses an 'indexed color' model instead of a full true color palette. This could be a logo on a master page, icons on reference pages, etc. If the output is to be grayscale and one spot color, replace any images with grayscale e

Deleting Color Definitions

2008-07-11 Thread Howard Rauch
Frame 7.0p76 Windows XP I am creating a template for the third version of a catalog that is to be printed in grayscale and one spot color. Since the catalog has involved quite a number of drafts to establish the layout and has gradually evolved over time, it has a goodly number of useless RGB an

Deleting Color Definitions

2008-07-11 Thread Howard Rauch
Frame 7.0p76 Windows XP I am creating a template for?the third version of a catalog that is to be printed in grayscale and one spot color. Since the catalog?has involved quite a number of drafts to establish the layout and has gradually evolved over time, it has?a goodly number of useless RGB an

RE: question about overrides

2008-07-11 Thread Combs, Richard
David Shaked (Wernick) wrote: > Is there a way to find overrides, other than examining each paragraph > individually? Silicon Prarie's Paragraph Tools and Character Tools do this (among many other things). http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/ > Is there a way to remove all overrides from a

Re: question about overrides

2008-07-11 Thread Jim Owens
One way to find overrides is to create a special template that is identicial to your standard template, but with all fonts set to a bright colour you don't normally use. When you apply the special template, the overrides show up as unchanged black text. David Shaked (Wernick) wrote: >> The mai

question about overrides

2008-07-11 Thread Peter Gold
Search Google for "hunt overrides" On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:44 AM, David Shaked (Wernick) wrote: > > The main problem with overrides is that it will make > > changes later that will be difficult to find and/or fix. > > Is there a way to find overrides, other than examining each paragraph > indi

Re: question about overrides

2008-07-11 Thread Peter Gold
Search Google for "hunt overrides" On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:44 AM, David Shaked (Wernick) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The main problem with overrides is that it will make > > changes later that will be difficult to find and/or fix. > > Is there a way to find overrides, other than examining ea

Re: question about overrides

2008-07-11 Thread David Shaked (Wernick)
> The main problem with overrides is that it will make > changes later that will be difficult to find and/or fix. Is there a way to find overrides, other than examining each paragraph individually? Is there a way to remove all overrides from a document in a single operation? I guess one way is t