SV: Times, Times Roman, Times New Roman, and changing printers, etc.

2008-09-11 Thread Jacob Schäffer
Dov said: Per Art's response, no, moving to the Adobe Acrobat (Adobe PDF) printer default won't solve the problem since Times is not a native font of the Distiller. I believe that anyone old enough (like me) to own a license to Distiller 3 actually have the Base 13 font files in Type 1 format

Re: Drop-Down Menu Using FrameScript: Is it possible

2008-09-11 Thread Ankur Srivastava
Hi, If we run the DropDownDemo.fsl script, the drop-down option comes as a popup window. Is this always the case or we cam embed this drop down demo in the FM document ?? Secondly, how to insert the selected text in drop down window, to the FM file. ?? regards Ankur On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:29

Re: SV: Times, Times Roman, Times New Roman, and changing printers, etc.

2008-09-11 Thread Jim Owens
The Times font also came with Xerox Ventura Publisher. Jacob Schäffer wrote: Dov said: Per Art's response, no, moving to the Adobe Acrobat (Adobe PDF) printer default won't solve the problem since Times is not a native font of the Distiller. I believe that anyone old enough (like me)

RE: Times, Times Roman, Times New Roman, and changing printers, etc.

2008-09-11 Thread Dov Isaacs
The last version of Acrobat to have the 13 base fonts was Acrobat 3; They were not shipped with any newer version of Acrobat. - Dov -Original Message- From: Jacob Schäffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:33 PM Dov said: Per Art's response,

InDesign as a replacement for Framemaker

2008-09-11 Thread mulholland4
Hi everyone, Has anyone replaced Framemaker with InDesign? Is this possible? What are the pro's and cons? Does anyone know of an in depth study of this topic. Any useful comments would be much appreciated. Thanks Mulholland ___ You are currently

Hypertext command

2008-09-11 Thread Stephen O'Brien
I place the hypertext command below in a FM 8 document to open a PDF file on clicking the link. It works unless the file name has an apostrophe (happens often as the file names are in French), like below: Type: Message Client Command: message openfile \\civette/4654 Project d'IMSurvey.pdf

RE: InDesign as a replacement for Framemaker

2008-09-11 Thread Dov Isaacs
To be very clear, although designed as a replacement for PageMaker, InDesign was certainly not designed by Adobe to be a replacement for FrameMaker. Yes, over time a number of FrameMaker features have been incorporated into InDesign, but unless you are using none of FrameMaker's structured

Re: InDesign as a replacement for Framemaker

2008-09-11 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Dov: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Dov Isaacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To be very clear, although designed as a replacement for PageMaker, InDesign was certainly not designed by Adobe to be a replacement for FrameMaker. Yes, over time a number of FrameMaker features have been

RE: InDesign as a replacement for Framemaker

2008-09-11 Thread Dov Isaacs
The only comment I will make is that the support is very different and that you cannot simply replace FrameMaker with InDesign if you are using FrameMaker's structured tools. - Dov -Original Message- From: Peter Gold Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 3:17 PM Hi, Dov: On

reply to copy/paste Greek... ?

2008-09-11 Thread Milan Davidovic
I found this post: http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/2008-February/010852.html but can find no reply. I've got a similar situation; any ideas of what to try? Thanks in advance... -- Milan Davidovic http://altmilan.blogspot.com ___ You

Vertical line between columns of text

2008-09-11 Thread Alan Litchfield
Hi all, Not sure if this can be done, but is it possible for FM to create a vertical line between columns of text? Cheers Alan -- Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland, NZ. 1140 http://www.alphabyte.co.nz

Reference graphic to Character format

2008-09-11 Thread Robert Rogge
Hi Guys, I am on Unstructured Frame 8, and I have a question. Is there any kind of plugin (or some other solution I don?t know about) that would allow me to map a graphic from a reference page to a character format What I would like to do is be able to select some text, apply the character

SV: Times, Times Roman, Times New Roman, and changing printers, etc.

2008-09-11 Thread Jacob Schäffer
Dov said: I believe that anyone old enough (like me) to own a license to Distiller 3 actually have the Base 13 font files in Type 1 format handy (4 x Times, 4 x Helvetica, 4 x Courier and Symbol). I'm unsure about licensing, though, especially if you upgraded from Acrobat 3. In case of

Drop-Down Menu Using FrameScript: Is it possible

2008-09-11 Thread Ankur Srivastava
Hi, If we run the DropDownDemo.fsl script, the drop-down option comes as a popup window. Is this always the case or we cam embed this drop down demo in the FM document ?? Secondly, how to insert the selected text in drop down window, to the FM file. ?? regards Ankur On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:29

SV: Times, Times Roman, Times New Roman, and changing printers, etc.

2008-09-11 Thread Jim Owens
The Times font also came with Xerox Ventura Publisher. Jacob Sch?ffer wrote: > Dov said: > > default won't solve the problem since Times is not a native font of the > Distiller.> > > I believe that anyone old enough (like me) to own a license to Distiller 3 > actually have the Base 13 font

Times, Times Roman, Times New Roman, and changing printers, etc.

2008-09-11 Thread Dov Isaacs
The last version of Acrobat to have the "13 base fonts" was Acrobat 3; They were not shipped with any newer version of Acrobat. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: Jacob Sch?ffer [mailto:js at grafikhuset.dk] > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:33 PM > > Dov said: > >

What is the purpose of round-tripping Structured Framemaker and XML

2008-09-11 Thread Mike Feimster
I'm sure there are other reasons, but a some that come to mind are using are: 1. Editing/processing the files with different XML editor. 2. Processing the text with XSL or another programming language. 3. Storing the files in content management system or source control system. Although you can

What is the purpose of round-tripping Structured Framemaker and XML

2008-09-11 Thread feimin_lore...@amis.com
Hi Celine: I round-trip to XML and I don't translate. I do it for a few reasons: Some of my SMEs don't like to work in a WYSIWYG environment, so I convert the chapters to XML and they can use their favourite editor. That also meant I didn't have to buy them a FrameMaker license. Some of our

What is the purpose of round-tripping Structured Framemaker and XML

2008-09-11 Thread Scott Prentice
Basically .. if your publishing process uses the XML files at some point, you're better off editing the XML files directly (round-tripping the XML) rather than editing the binary files and saving to XML occasionally. A binary FM file can contain content that may not be allowed in the XML data

InDesign as a replacement for Framemaker

2008-09-11 Thread mulholland4
Hi everyone, Has anyone replaced Framemaker with InDesign? Is this possible? What are the pro's and cons? Does anyone know of an in depth study of this topic. Any useful comments would be much appreciated. Thanks Mulholland

Hypertext command

2008-09-11 Thread Stephen O'Brien
I place the hypertext command below in a FM 8 document to open a PDF file on clicking the link. It works unless the file name has an apostrophe (happens often as the file names are in French), like below: Type: Message Client Command: message openfile \\civette/4654 Project d'IMSurvey.pdf

InDesign as a replacement for Framemaker

2008-09-11 Thread Dov Isaacs
To be very clear, although designed as a replacement for PageMaker, InDesign was certainly not designed by Adobe to be a "replacement for FrameMaker." Yes, over time a number of FrameMaker features have been incorporated into InDesign, but unless you are using none of FrameMaker's structured

InDesign as a replacement for Framemaker

2008-09-11 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Dov: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Dov Isaacs wrote: > To be very clear, although designed as a replacement for PageMaker, InDesign > was certainly not designed by Adobe to be a "replacement for FrameMaker." > > Yes, over time a number of FrameMaker features have been incorporated into >

InDesign as a replacement for Framemaker

2008-09-11 Thread Dov Isaacs
The only comment I will make is that the support is very different and that you cannot simply replace FrameMaker with InDesign if you are using FrameMaker's structured tools. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: Peter Gold > Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 3:17 PM > > Hi, Dov: >

InDesign as a replacement for Framemaker

2008-09-11 Thread Art Campbell
Adobe actually presents the case for deciding pretty well. http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/comparison.html Art Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply.

reply to copy/paste Greek... ?

2008-09-11 Thread Milan Davidovic
I found this post: http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/2008-February/010852.html but can find no reply. I've got a similar situation; any ideas of what to try? Thanks in advance... -- Milan Davidovic http://altmilan.blogspot.com

InDesign as a replacement for Framemaker

2008-09-11 Thread Peter Gold
I respectfully disagree with Art's conclusion. While this feature comparison checklist is pretty thorough, and though it omits some features of both products, it is useful for some purposes. However, because it doesn't present a user's experience or evaluation in using either product for its

Installing FM 7.2 and FM 8.0 on a PC

2008-09-11 Thread Celine Deguire
Hello Framers Has anyone installed multiple versions of FM on a PC? I am looking to install FM 7.2 alongside FM 8 since I need to convert some legacy docs using WWP Pro 7.06. I was able to tweak the WWP registers and FM maker.ini file to establish communication between FM 8 and WWPPro 7.06.