RE: Adding a Blank Page Before/After Book Cover

[David Schor]

Try one of the following:

1. Provide the printer with separate cover files and a file for the
manual's content. Funny, I don't have a problem getting my printer
service to understand that the second side of each cover file is blank.
2. Make a PDF of a blank page, and keep it for all your projects. Before
closing the final PDF, insert the blank page after the front cover and
before the back cover.
3. In FrameMaker, start your first manual file with a blank page (an
empty paragraph followed by a page break) with double-side pagination
starting on the left. Set FormatPage LayoutMaster Page
UsageCustom=None for that page.  After the last file, create a blank
page for the end.

HTH,
David

David Schor
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Subject: Adding a Blank Page Before/After Book Cover

I'm trying to create a layout for a manual that needs to be made
available
in PDF and print. Using Acrobat Professional, I create one PDF using
three
PDFs: Front cover, Back cover, and manual. I need to ensure that there
is a
blank page after the Front cover, so that the manual starts on the
right. Am
I making sense?

Since the cover isn't part of the Frame file, the Make Page Count Even
doesn't help me. I also need a blank page before the Back cover for the
same
reason. What's the proper way (Page Break?) to achieve this goal?

The Frame Online Help talks about blank pages and disconnected pages,
but I
don't think these tools provide the solution I need.

Thank you,

--
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RE: Adding a Blank Page Before/After Book Cover

[Roberts, Katie]

Is the cover in a different software?
My front and back covers are created by marketing in InDesign. They send
me the front and back cover. I create a new pdf with a blank page pdf. 
For example,
In Adobe Acrobat

Create multiple files
FrontCover.pdf
BlankPage.pdf
Name = Manual1_FC.pdf

Create Multiple files
BlankPage.pdf
BackCover.pdf
Name = Manual1_BC.pdf

For the final document
Create Multiple Files

Manual1_FC.pdf
Manual1.pdf
Manual1_BC.pdf

Name = 45234-US-060316

I'm sure that there is an easier way. 

Katie Roberts
Ohmart/VEGA Corp.
Cincinnati, OH
513-272-0524x167
The important thing is not to stop questioning. 
Albert Einstein 

Vote for Char James-Tanny for STC International Secretary!

I'm trying to create a layout for a manual that needs to be made
available
in PDF and print. Using Acrobat Professional, I create one PDF using
three
PDFs: Front cover, Back cover, and manual. I need to ensure that there
is a
blank page after the Front cover, so that the manual starts on the
right. Am
I making sense?

Since the cover isn't part of the Frame file, the Make Page Count Even
doesn't help me. I also need a blank page before the Back cover for the
same
reason. What's the proper way (Page Break?) to achieve this goal?

The Frame Online Help talks about blank pages and disconnected pages,
but I
don't think these tools provide the solution I need.

Thank you,

--
Angela
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Re: Content Management (was Anyone used Tortoise CVS with Frame Files)

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On 3/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 As for MIF, a search of the archives might result in one members analysis
 of the bloat in file size caused by MIF and at what point saving diffs of
 MIF files is advantageous over saving whole binary versions.

My experience with MIF is that for the purposes of source code control
it is the worst of both ascii and binary.  MIF files may be ASCII but
they are really huge, and a significant part of the file is different
between saves in FM even if you only make small changes.  Which means
that you still don't get meaningful diffs out of them but you do get
the same overhead.  Bah,

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Japanese fonts again

[GILLIOTTE Valérie]

Hello,
I have another problem with Japanese and Framemaker 7.1. I work on a machine 
with Japanese fonts set by default.
In the paragraph configuration dialog box, we specified the fonts used (ie MS 
Mincho) , Mincho being indicated in Kanji characters (as the Machine has 
Japanese characters set by default I believe that it would recognize the name 
of the fonts in Japanese characters - at least that's what we noticed).
We've been able to open the documents properly until recently when for some 
reason we now have the fonts unavailable message box when opening the Frame 
file. The reason seems to be that the system looks for the name of the fonts in 
Katakana charcacters and not in Kanji characters as specified in the 
configuration dialox box. In the Format / Fonts menu, MS Mincho in Katakana 
characters is selected but greyed.
I don't understand why. MS Mincho in Kanji characters should be checked and not 
greyed.
If anyone dealing with Japanese documents has an idea, please help. That's 
highly disturbing and that would prevent us to deal with our books and html 
help generation properly.
Thanks in advance.
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RE: Adding a Blank Page Before/After Book Cover

[Szczesniak, Barbara]

Angela,

Since your cover and back cover PDFs are not generated from Frame, I
assume that you are using Acrobat Professional to put them together into
the single PDF. Acrobat Professional is where you need to add your blank
pages. 

Since Acrobat only allows you to insert pages from another PDF, what you
will need to do is create a PDF of a blank page that is the same size as
the rest of your book. You might want to create a new file using the
template for your book and apply a blank master page (no headers or
footers) to it, save the document, then PDF it.

You can then use this PDF to insert the blank page after your front
cover and before your back cover.

HTH,
Barbara

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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:05:44 -0800
From: Angela Akridge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Adding a Blank Page Before/After Book Cover
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

I'm trying to create a layout for a manual that needs to be made
available
in PDF and print. Using Acrobat Professional, I create one PDF using
three
PDFs: Front cover, Back cover, and manual. I need to ensure that there
is a
blank page after the Front cover, so that the manual starts on the
right. Am
I making sense?

Since the cover isn't part of the Frame file, the Make Page Count Even
doesn't help me. I also need a blank page before the Back cover for the
same
reason. What's the proper way (Page Break?) to achieve this goal?

The Frame Online Help talks about blank pages and disconnected pages,
but I
don't think these tools provide the solution I need.

Thank you,

--
Angela

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Converting Word doc to Frame

[Gillian Flato]

Guys,
 
I know this has been discussed before, but what is the best tool to use
to convert a word doc (with text, tables and images) to a Frame doc.
 

Thanks,

Gillian Flato

Technical Writer (Software)

NANOmetrics, Inc.

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RE: Converting Word doc to Frame

[Ridder, Fred]

I've converted thousands of pages using only Word (with macros
to do a bunch of clean-up pre conversion) and FrameMaker. But
my process only worked well because the Word documents all
followed the template/stylesheet very closely. I did find that the
conversion worked better by opening a copy of the FrameMaker
template and using FileImportFileCopy Into Document rather
than trying to open the Word document directly. 

Tables converted reasonably well, and with the use of Rick Quatro's
excellent TableCleaner plug-in they became well-behaved Frame 
tables with only a little work. Figures, on the other hand, I removed
before conversion (using a macro) and re-inserted by reference 
after conversion. Trying to convert figures directly was more trouble
than it was worth.

My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
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Guys,
 
I know this has been discussed before, but what is the best tool to use
to convert a word doc (with text, tables and images) to a Frame doc.
 

Thanks,

Gillian Flato

Technical Writer (Software)

NANOmetrics, Inc.

1550 Buckeye Dr.

Milpitas, CA. 95035

(408.435.9600 x 316

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Anyone used Tortoise CVS with Frame Files

[davidaflynn]

Hi Neil,

Yes, I am using Tortoise with fm files.

I work with them in the following manner.

Firstly, I need you to know that I work with developers wherein the complete
code is managed by CVS and the code build is ant 1.6.5 based.
Torotoise is used more because it integrates directly into explorer.exe of
windows or let me say that there is shell integration. Thus, I do not need
to invoke the contemporary GUI based WinCVS 2.0 or 1.4.

I exclude my source files from the build so that the other developers do not
need to extend their build time by checking out the sources they do not need
to work on. And, my deliverables are manually updated in a separate folder
(included in the build) so that these get automatically picked for the
installer. Also, since we use an asynchronous build, I have to keep in mind
the final destination of my PDF (say) so as to use relative paths in
hypertexts included in the PDF).

Please feel free to query me (directly, keeping this group in CC) should you
encounter a problem.

Also, it is good to work on fms with CVS (Win or tortoise) everyday and
checkin all sources and deliverables at EOD.

Thank you,

Shall Close,

Regards,

David Flynn
Technical Writer
Tel: +91 11 26222890/1/2 
Extn: 220
Fiorano Software
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Subject: Anyone used Tortoise CVS with Frame Files

Hi all,



Just wondering if anyone out there has used the open source Tortoise CVS
with Frame files? I'm looking into it as a way to introduce some simple
version control for our cust docs (just simple check-in,
check-out...obviously no merges or anything like that). Any info would
be appreciated.



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Adding a Blank Page Before/After Book Cover

[David Schor]

Try one of the following:

1. Provide the printer with separate cover files and a file for the
manual's content. Funny, I don't have a problem getting my printer
service to understand that the second side of each cover file is blank.
2. Make a PDF of a blank page, and keep it for all your projects. Before
closing the final PDF, insert the blank page after the front cover and
before the back cover.
3. In FrameMaker, start your first manual file with a blank page (an
empty paragraph followed by a page break) with double-side pagination
starting on the left. Set Format>Page Layout>Master Page
Usage>Custom=None for that page.  After the last file, create a blank
page for the end.

HTH,
David

David Schor
Technical Communication Manager
Emblaze-VCON Ltd.
Tel: (+972) 9 7627820
Mobile: 054 4788253
davids at emblaze-vcon.com

www.emblaze-vcon.com

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[mailto:framers-bounces+davids=emblaze-vcon.com at lists.frameusers.com] On
Behalf Of Angela Akridge
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 2:06 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Adding a Blank Page Before/After Book Cover

I'm trying to create a layout for a manual that needs to be made
available
in PDF and print. Using Acrobat Professional, I create one PDF using
three
PDFs: Front cover, Back cover, and manual. I need to ensure that there
is a
blank page after the Front cover, so that the manual starts on the
right. Am
I making sense?

Since the cover isn't part of the Frame file, the "Make Page Count Even"
doesn't help me. I also need a blank page before the Back cover for the
same
reason. What's the proper way (Page Break?) to achieve this goal?

The Frame Online Help talks about blank pages and disconnected pages,
but I
don't think these tools provide the solution I need.

Thank you,

--
Angela

Anyone used Tortoise CVS with Frame Files / SVN

[matthias.dill...@snb.ch]

Hi all

> Content Management and Versioning is a recurring topic on Framers. Does 
> anyone have a summary of systems that are compatible with Frame?
> 
> Also, instead of using binary files, would it be possible to use MIF or, 

> if in a completely structured environment, XML in the CVS to keep track 
> of differences down to the 'element' level?

Did anyone try subversion (with fm files, not only mif or xml) which 
should be able to handle binary files better than CVS?

Regards
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Adding a Blank Page Before/After Book Cover

[Roberts, Katie]

Is the cover in a different software?
My front and back covers are created by marketing in InDesign. They send
me the front and back cover. I create a new pdf with a blank page pdf. 
For example,
In Adobe Acrobat

Create multiple files
FrontCover.pdf
BlankPage.pdf
Name = Manual1_FC.pdf

Create Multiple files
BlankPage.pdf
BackCover.pdf
Name = Manual1_BC.pdf

For the final document
Create Multiple Files

Manual1_FC.pdf
Manual1.pdf
Manual1_BC.pdf

Name = 45234-US-060316

I'm sure that there is an easier way. 

Katie Roberts
Ohmart/VEGA Corp.
Cincinnati, OH
513-272-0524x167
"The important thing is not to stop questioning." 
Albert Einstein 

Vote for Char James-Tanny for STC International Secretary!

"I'm trying to create a layout for a manual that needs to be made
available
in PDF and print. Using Acrobat Professional, I create one PDF using
three
PDFs: Front cover, Back cover, and manual. I need to ensure that there
is a
blank page after the Front cover, so that the manual starts on the
right. Am
I making sense?

Since the cover isn't part of the Frame file, the "Make Page Count Even"
doesn't help me. I also need a blank page before the Back cover for the
same
reason. What's the proper way (Page Break?) to achieve this goal?

The Frame Online Help talks about blank pages and disconnected pages,
but I
don't think these tools provide the solution I need.

Thank you,

--
Angela"

Content Management (was Anyone used Tortoise CVS with Frame Files)

[Laura Lemay]

On 3/15/06, eric.dunn at ca.transport.bombardier.com
 wrote:
> As for MIF, a search of the archives might result in one members analysis
> of the bloat in file size caused by MIF and at what point saving diffs of
> MIF files is advantageous over saving whole binary versions.

My experience with MIF is that for the purposes of source code control
it is the worst of both ascii and binary.  MIF files may be ASCII but
they are really huge, and a significant part of the file is different
between saves in FM even if you only make small changes.  Which means
that you still don't get meaningful diffs out of them but you do get
the same overhead.  Bah,

Laura


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Japanese fonts again

[GILLIOTTE Valérie]

Hello,
I have another problem with Japanese and Framemaker 7.1. I work on a machine 
with Japanese fonts set by default.
In the paragraph configuration dialog box, we specified the fonts used (ie MS 
Mincho) , Mincho being indicated in Kanji characters (as the Machine has 
Japanese characters set by default I believe that it would recognize the name 
of the fonts in Japanese characters - at least that's what we noticed).
We've been able to open the documents properly until recently when for some 
reason we now have the "fonts unavailable" message box when opening the Frame 
file. The reason seems to be that the system looks for the name of the fonts in 
Katakana charcacters and not in Kanji characters as specified in the 
configuration dialox box. In the Format / Fonts menu, MS Mincho in Katakana 
characters is selected but greyed.
I don't understand why. MS Mincho in Kanji characters should be checked and not 
greyed.
If anyone dealing with Japanese documents has an idea, please help. That's 
highly disturbing and that would prevent us to deal with our books and html 
help generation properly.
Thanks in advance.
Valerie





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Can't Override Left/Right Master Page

[Angela Akridge]

When I try to apply a Last Page master page to the last page of a chapter
(to ensure that I have a blank page and that the footer doesn't appear),
Frame applies the Last page, and then, after I save, Frame adds the
Left/Right page back in. Any idea what's going on? Thank you for your help.
I've had a few problems lately, and folks have responded so promptly with
suggestions. Thank you.

Angela

Adding a Blank Page Before/After Book Cover

[Szczesniak, Barbara]

Angela,

Since your cover and back cover PDFs are not generated from Frame, I
assume that you are using Acrobat Professional to put them together into
the single PDF. Acrobat Professional is where you need to add your blank
pages. 

Since Acrobat only allows you to insert pages from another PDF, what you
will need to do is create a PDF of a blank page that is the same size as
the rest of your book. You might want to create a new file using the
template for your book and apply a blank master page (no headers or
footers) to it, save the document, then PDF it.

You can then use this PDF to insert the blank page after your front
cover and before your back cover.

HTH,
Barbara

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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:05:44 -0800
From: "Angela Akridge" 
Subject: Adding a Blank Page Before/After Book Cover
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Message-ID:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

I'm trying to create a layout for a manual that needs to be made
available
in PDF and print. Using Acrobat Professional, I create one PDF using
three
PDFs: Front cover, Back cover, and manual. I need to ensure that there
is a
blank page after the Front cover, so that the manual starts on the
right. Am
I making sense?

Since the cover isn't part of the Frame file, the "Make Page Count Even"
doesn't help me. I also need a blank page before the Back cover for the
same
reason. What's the proper way (Page Break?) to achieve this goal?

The Frame Online Help talks about blank pages and disconnected pages,
but I
don't think these tools provide the solution I need.

Thank you,

--
Angela

Content Management (was Anyone used Tortoise CVS with Frame Files)

[eric.d...@ca.transport.bombardier.com]

Laura Lemay wrote on 03/16/2006 11:07:06 AM:
> My experience with MIF is that for the purposes of source code control
> it is the worst of both ascii and binary.  MIF files may be ASCII but
> they are really huge, and a significant part of the file is different
> between saves in FM even if you only make small changes. 

Which is why in my post I included:
>>Now if you were to save MIF files to a versioning system, it would be a
>>good exercise to see how much of the MIF could be eliminated before
>>committing to the versioning system.

The minimal MIF needed for a complete FM document is all that needs to be 
checked into any versioning system.

Removing all Template components, line breaks, unique IDs, and a whole 
slew of other data from the MIF file results in a much smaller and more 
appropriate versioning content.

My beef with FM is that you can't select MIF options when saving. But some 
PERL scripting or XSL and MIFML could take you a long way.

Eric L. Dunn
Senior Technical Writer

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Adding a Blank Page Before/After Book Cover

[Diane Gaskill]

Hi Angela,

I suggest a different way of creating the manual.

Create 3 Frame files for your manual: front, body, back.  Set all 3 files to
make pagecount even.  Put all 3 files in a book.  Print the book to _one_
PDF file. The blank pages will be there.

Much easier than the way you are doing it.

Diane Gaskill
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[mailto:framers-bounces+dgcaller=earthlink.net at lists.frameusers.com]On
Behalf Of Angela Akridge
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 4:06 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Adding a Blank Page Before/After Book Cover


I'm trying to create a layout for a manual that needs to be made available
in PDF and print. Using Acrobat Professional, I create one PDF using three
PDFs: Front cover, Back cover, and manual. I need to ensure that there is a
blank page after the Front cover, so that the manual starts on the right. Am
I making sense?

Since the cover isn't part of the Frame file, the "Make Page Count Even"
doesn't help me. I also need a blank page before the Back cover for the same
reason. What's the proper way (Page Break?) to achieve this goal?

The Frame Online Help talks about blank pages and disconnected pages, but I
don't think these tools provide the solution I need.

Thank you,

--
Angela
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ANN: External cross-references without opening documents

[Rick Quatro]

Hello Framers,

I have a script in development that streamlines the process of inserting 
cross-references. It works with a two-pass process. The first pass collects 
potential cross-reference targets and stores them in a database file. The 
second pass is where you can quickly insert cross-references to those 
sources. A floating palette lists all of the cross-reference sources and the 
cross-reference formats in the document. You click in the document where you 
want the cross-reference, select the cross-reference format and source on 
the palette and click Insert. It offers two main advantages over 
FrameMaker's Cross-Reference dialog box:

1) The palette is modeless so it can stay open while you work in the 
document.
2) You can insert external cross-references without having to open the 
source document.

The script can work with element, spot, and paragraph cross-references. If 
you are interested in this kind of script, please contact me offlist, and I 
will send you some screenshots. Thank you very much.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com

Converting Word doc to Frame

[Gillian Flato]

Guys,

I know this has been discussed before, but what is the best tool to use
to convert a word doc (with text, tables and images) to a Frame doc.


Thanks,

Gillian Flato

Technical Writer (Software)

NANOmetrics, Inc.

1550 Buckeye Dr.

Milpitas, CA. 95035

(408.435.9600 x 316

7  408.232.5911

* gflato at nanometrics.com  




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Converting Word doc to Frame

[Ridder, Fred]

I've converted thousands of pages using only Word (with macros
to do a bunch of clean-up pre conversion) and FrameMaker. But
my process only worked well because the Word documents all
followed the template/stylesheet very closely. I did find that the
conversion worked better by opening a copy of the FrameMaker
template and using File>Import>File>Copy Into Document rather
than trying to open the Word document directly. 

Tables converted reasonably well, and with the use of Rick Quatro's
excellent TableCleaner plug-in they became well-behaved Frame 
tables with only a little work. Figures, on the other hand, I removed
before conversion (using a macro) and re-inserted by reference 
after conversion. Trying to convert figures directly was more trouble
than it was worth.

My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com)
Intel
Parsippany, NJ



-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On
Behalf Of Gillian Flato
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 5:29 PM
To: framers at FrameUsers.com
Subject: Converting Word doc to Frame

Guys,

I know this has been discussed before, but what is the best tool to use
to convert a word doc (with text, tables and images) to a Frame doc.


Thanks,

Gillian Flato

Technical Writer (Software)

NANOmetrics, Inc.

1550 Buckeye Dr.

Milpitas, CA. 95035

(408.435.9600 x 316

7  408.232.5911

* gflato at nanometrics.com  




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