Re: change coloring of tracked changes?
Hi Fred,
Since you have FrameScript, you can use something like this to access and
change the special track changes conditions.
Set oDoc = ActiveDoc;
// Get the special condition format object.
Get Object Type(CondFmt) Name('FM8_TRACK_CHANGES_ADDED')
DocObject(oDoc) NewVar(oCondFmt);
// Change the style to numeric underline and change bars.
Set oCondFmt.StyleOverride = CnNmricAndChngbar;
// Change the color to Blue.
Get Object Type(Color) Name('Blue') DocObject(oDoc)
NewVar(oColor);
Set oCondFmt.SepOverride = oColor;
What is interesting is that changes to these conditions won't survive after
you save, close, and reopen the document. To make the changes permanent
you can set up an event script that is triggered whenever a document is
opened. This event script would call the code (like above) that changes the
condition format settings.
Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thanks.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com
Is there a way to change the color/underline scheme for change tracking
in Frame 8?
Just as an aside, the implementation is a little odd. It basically works
like a special kind of conditional text, but you can't get at it through
the normal means of working with conditional text. However, I have a
framescript that I use occasionally to strip all conditions out of a
document and does affect the change-tracked text, which I found out
rather painfully when I ended up with a royal mishmosh of a document.
Fred
--
Fred Wersan
Senior Technical Writer
MAK Technologies
68 Moulton St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-876-8085
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Numbers appended to file name
I am having a problem using mif2go to save FM files as rtf, but I am suspicious that the problem is with FM. Recently I have noticed that when I save a FM file some times I get an error message, something like graphics have not been saved; the saved file's name is filename.fm.threelettersorcharacters, e,g, filename.fm.1A2. I have to delete the 1A2 manually. I just saved 03 DB Management.fm as 03DBManagement.fm because the mif2go Help says spaces are bad in a file name to be converted, but what resulted was 03DBManagement.fm.701. (Never have I had a problem saving a FM file with spaces in its name as RTF using mif2togo, eg, 03 DB Management.fm, but I was following the mif2go Help instructions.) Why am I getting these three-letter-and-number-combination suffixes when I save a FM file? FM 6.0p405 XP Pro 2002 SP 3 Pentium D CPU 2.80GHz 2.80GHz, 0.99GB RAM /\/\ Murray Mississauga (If you fly to Toronto you land in Mississauga) ___ 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.
RE: Numbers appended to file name
Hi Murray, FrameMaker is adding the funky alphanumeric extension to your Frame file because it has changed substantially from the original. I suspect some of your graphics are not being saved. I have seen that error a lot lately, especially since our IT dept installed XP SP3 on our machines. Do you use OLE for any of your graphics in your manuals? If so you may be dismayed to find they have likely all been blown away. Check the new files for gray boxes where graphics should be. I found that the first time I opened a document with OLE images, the images appeared fine when I first opened the file but if I tried to save the file, I got the graphics have not been saved error message and the alphanumeric extension on the file. The only solution to the problem was to eliminate all OLE graphics and replace them with images imported by reference. This bug was introduced with XP SP3 and there are no fixes that I know of (and certainly none planned for Frame 6). Best of luck. Berny Gagne Lead Writer Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. Bolton, Ontario, Canada -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Murray Moore Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 10:19 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Numbers appended to file name I am having a problem using mif2go to save FM files as rtf, but I am suspicious that the problem is with FM. Recently I have noticed that when I save a FM file some times I get an error message, something like graphics have not been saved; the saved file's name is filename.fm.threelettersorcharacters, e,g, filename.fm.1A2. I have to delete the 1A2 manually. I just saved 03 DB Management.fm as 03DBManagement.fm because the mif2go Help says spaces are bad in a file name to be converted, but what resulted was 03DBManagement.fm.701. (Never have I had a problem saving a FM file with spaces in its name as RTF using mif2togo, eg, 03 DB Management.fm, but I was following the mif2go Help instructions.) Why am I getting these three-letter-and-number-combination suffixes when I save a FM file? FM 6.0p405 XP Pro 2002 SP 3 Pentium D CPU 2.80GHz 2.80GHz, 0.99GB RAM /\/\ Murray Mississauga (If you fly to Toronto you land in Mississauga) ___ ___ 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.
Re: Numbers appended to file name
Gagne, Bernard (Bolton) wrote: Hi Murray, FrameMaker is adding the funky alphanumeric extension to your Frame file because it has changed substantially from the original. I suspect some of your graphics are not being saved. I have seen that error a lot lately, especially since our IT dept installed XP SP3 on our machines. For any other Framers wishing to avoid the heartbreak of XP SP3: http://windowssecrets.com/2008/09/11/02-Dont-let-XP-Service-Pack-3-hose-your-system (How telling that Microsoft has had to set up a Web page specifically to block its own software!) Best regards, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. — George Orwell ___ 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.
Backslashes In Hypertext Commands
Win XP SP2, P4 Extreme Ed. 3.46GHz + 3.47GHz 2GB, FM 8.0p277 Thanks to Rick Quattro, I am now aware of the backslash issue in dialog boxes and have a workaround within scripts. However, I need to create an hypertext command and do not know how to work around this issue. The hypertext command “openlink D:\Docs\Products\CARDIO\DAR-9400f\M517-E063L-E099D_DAR-9400f Ops Manuals_v3.0\D90+94_02-Overview.fm:2 998348” becomes “openlink D:‡ocs\Products\CARDIO‡AR-9400f\sm517-E063L-E099D_DAR-9400f Ops Manuals_v3.0‡90+94_02-Overview.fm:2 998348” where “\D” becomes “‡” and “\M” becomes “\sm”. If I use the “openObjectId” command, the backslashes are not replaced but the link does not work. Does anyone knows a good work around for this issue? Thanks, Richard Pesant ___ 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.
Re: Backslashes In Hypertext Commands
Hi Richard, Use forward slashes instead of backslashes in the Hypertext markers. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com Win XP SP2, P4 Extreme Ed. 3.46GHz + 3.47GHz 2GB, FM 8.0p277 Thanks to Rick Quattro, I am now aware of the backslash issue in dialog boxes and have a workaround within scripts. However, I need to create an hypertext command and do not know how to work around this issue. The hypertext command “openlink D:\Docs\Products\CARDIO\DAR-9400f\M517-E063L-E099D_DAR-9400f Ops Manuals_v3.0\D90+94_02-Overview.fm:2 998348” becomes “openlink D:‡ocs\Products\CARDIO‡AR-9400f\sm517-E063L-E099D_DAR-9400f Ops Manuals_v3.0‡90+94_02-Overview.fm:2 998348” where “\D” becomes “‡” and “\M” becomes “\sm”. If I use the “openObjectId” command, the backslashes are not replaced but the link does not work. Does anyone knows a good work around for this issue? Thanks, Richard Pesant ___ 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.
rename conditional tags?
Everyone, Is there a tool out there that will globally rename conditional tags? Seems like silicon prairie would have one but I didn't see one at their Web site. I'm using FM 7.2 on XP pro Jon Harvey Manager, Desktop Enterprise Documentation CambridgeSoft Corporation 100 CambridgePark Drive Cambridge, MA 02140 (617) 588-9354 ___ 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.
More on conversion to PDF causing FM to crash
Just as a follow up to my suggestion related to clearing the font cache... One regular reader on the site informed me that there is a fix posted on the Microsoft site that may be of interest to Frame users. To that end: the Microsoft hotfix is described in these two locations: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952909 http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb405614sliceId=1 With thanks to SC for the solution. Bernard ___ 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.
change coloring of tracked changes?
Is there a way to change the color/underline scheme for change tracking in Frame 8? Just as an aside, the implementation is a little odd. It basically works like a special kind of conditional text, but you can't get at it through the normal means of working with conditional text. However, I have a framescript that I use occasionally to strip all conditions out of a document and does affect the change-tracked text, which I found out rather painfully when I ended up with a royal mishmosh of a document. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer MAK Technologies 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085
change coloring of tracked changes?
Hi Fred,
Since you have FrameScript, you can use something like this to access and
change the special track changes conditions.
Set oDoc = ActiveDoc;
// Get the special condition format object.
Get Object Type(CondFmt) Name('FM8_TRACK_CHANGES_ADDED')
DocObject(oDoc) NewVar(oCondFmt);
// Change the style to numeric underline and change bars.
Set oCondFmt.StyleOverride = CnNmricAndChngbar;
// Change the color to Blue.
Get Object Type(Color) Name('Blue') DocObject(oDoc)
NewVar(oColor);
Set oCondFmt.SepOverride = oColor;
What is interesting is that changes to these conditions won't survive after
you save, close, and reopen the document. To make the changes "permanent"
you can set up an event script that is triggered whenever a document is
opened. This event script would call the code (like above) that changes the
condition format settings.
Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thanks.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com
> Is there a way to change the color/underline scheme for change tracking
> in Frame 8?
>
> Just as an aside, the implementation is a little odd. It basically works
> like a special kind of conditional text, but you can't get at it through
> the normal means of working with conditional text. However, I have a
> framescript that I use occasionally to strip all conditions out of a
> document and does affect the change-tracked text, which I found out
> rather painfully when I ended up with a royal mishmosh of a document.
>
> Fred
> --
> Fred Wersan
> Senior Technical Writer
> MAK Technologies
> 68 Moulton St.
> Cambridge, MA 02138
> 617-876-8085
> ___
Numbers appended to file name
I am having a problem using mif2go to save FM files as rtf, but I am suspicious that the problem is with FM. Recently I have noticed that when I save a FM file some times I get an error message, something like "graphics have not been saved"; the saved file's name is filename.fm.threelettersorcharacters, e,g, filename.fm.1A2. I have to delete the 1A2 manually. I just saved 03 DB Management.fm as 03DBManagement.fm because the mif2go Help says spaces are bad in a file name to be converted, but what resulted was 03DBManagement.fm.701. (Never have I had a problem saving a FM file with spaces in its name as RTF using mif2togo, eg, 03 DB Management.fm, but I was following the mif2go Help instructions.) Why am I getting these three-letter-and-number-combination suffixes when I save a FM file? FM 6.0p405 XP Pro 2002 SP 3 Pentium D CPU 2.80GHz 2.80GHz, 0.99GB RAM /\/\ Murray Mississauga (If you fly to Toronto you land in Mississauga)
Numbers appended to file name
Hi Murray, FrameMaker is adding the funky alphanumeric extension to your Frame file because it has changed substantially from the original. I suspect some of your graphics are not being saved. I have seen that error a lot lately, especially since our IT dept installed XP SP3 on our machines. Do you use OLE for any of your graphics in your manuals? If so you may be dismayed to find they have likely all been blown away. Check the new files for gray boxes where graphics should be. I found that the first time I opened a document with OLE images, the images appeared fine when I first opened the file but if I tried to save the file, I got the "graphics have not been saved" error message and the alphanumeric extension on the file. The only solution to the problem was to eliminate all OLE graphics and replace them with images imported by reference. This bug was introduced with XP SP3 and there are no fixes that I know of (and certainly none planned for Frame 6). Best of luck. Berny Gagne Lead Writer Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. Bolton, Ontario, Canada -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Murray Moore Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 10:19 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Numbers appended to file name I am having a problem using mif2go to save FM files as rtf, but I am suspicious that the problem is with FM. Recently I have noticed that when I save a FM file some times I get an error message, something like "graphics have not been saved"; the saved file's name is filename.fm.threelettersorcharacters, e,g, filename.fm.1A2. I have to delete the 1A2 manually. I just saved 03 DB Management.fm as 03DBManagement.fm because the mif2go Help says spaces are bad in a file name to be converted, but what resulted was 03DBManagement.fm.701. (Never have I had a problem saving a FM file with spaces in its name as RTF using mif2togo, eg, 03 DB Management.fm, but I was following the mif2go Help instructions.) Why am I getting these three-letter-and-number-combination suffixes when I save a FM file? FM 6.0p405 XP Pro 2002 SP 3 Pentium D CPU 2.80GHz 2.80GHz, 0.99GB RAM /\/\ Murray Mississauga (If you fly to Toronto you land in Mississauga) ___
Numbers appended to file name
Gagne, Bernard (Bolton) wrote: > Hi Murray, > FrameMaker is adding the funky alphanumeric extension to your Frame file > because it has changed substantially from the original. I suspect some > of your graphics are not being saved. I have seen that error a lot > lately, especially since our IT dept installed XP SP3 on our machines. For any other Framers wishing to avoid the heartbreak of XP SP3: http://windowssecrets.com/2008/09/11/02-Dont-let-XP-Service-Pack-3-hose-your-system (How telling that Microsoft has had to set up a Web page specifically to block its own software!) Best regards, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink." ? George Orwell
Backslashes In Hypertext Commands
Win XP SP2, P4 Extreme Ed. 3.46GHz + 3.47GHz 2GB, FM 8.0p277 Thanks to Rick Quattro, I am now aware of the backslash issue in dialog boxes and have a workaround within scripts. However, I need to create an hypertext command and do not know how to work around this issue. The hypertext command ?openlink D:\Docs\Products\CARDIO\DAR-9400f\M517-E063L-E099D_DAR-9400f Ops Manuals_v3.0\D90+94_02-Overview.fm:2 998348? becomes ?openlink D:?ocs\Products\CARDIO?AR-9400f\sm517-E063L-E099D_DAR-9400f Ops Manuals_v3.0?90+94_02-Overview.fm:2 998348? where ?\D? becomes ??? and ?\M? becomes ?\sm?. If I use the ?openObjectId? command, the backslashes are not replaced but the link does not work. Does anyone knows a good work around for this issue? Thanks, Richard Pesant
Backslashes In Hypertext Commands
Hi Richard, Use forward slashes instead of backslashes in the Hypertext markers. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com > Win XP SP2, P4 Extreme Ed. 3.46GHz + 3.47GHz 2GB, FM 8.0p277 > > > > Thanks to Rick Quattro, I am now aware of the backslash issue in dialog > boxes and have a workaround within scripts. However, I need to create an > hypertext command and do not know how to work around this issue. The > hypertext command ?openlink > D:\Docs\Products\CARDIO\DAR-9400f\M517-E063L-E099D_DAR-9400f Ops > Manuals_v3.0\D90+94_02-Overview.fm:2 998348? becomes ?openlink > D:?ocs\Products\CARDIO?AR-9400f\sm517-E063L-E099D_DAR-9400f Ops > Manuals_v3.0?90+94_02-Overview.fm:2 998348? where ?\D? becomes ??? and > ?\M? > becomes ?\sm?. If I use the ?openObjectId? command, the backslashes are > not > replaced but the link does not work. > > > > Does anyone knows a good work around for this issue? > > > > Thanks, > > Richard Pesant
rename conditional tags?
Everyone, Is there a tool out there that will globally rename conditional tags? Seems like silicon prairie would have one but I didn't see one at their Web site. I'm using FM 7.2 on XP pro Jon Harvey Manager, Desktop & Enterprise Documentation CambridgeSoft Corporation 100 CambridgePark Drive Cambridge, MA 02140 (617) 588-9354
More on conversion to PDF causing FM to crash
Just as a follow up to my suggestion related to clearing the font cache... One regular reader on the site informed me that there is a fix posted on the Microsoft site that may be of interest to Frame users. To that end: the Microsoft hotfix is described in these two locations: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952909 http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb405614=1 With thanks to SC for the solution. Bernard
Backslashes In Hypertext Commands
Richard Pesant wrote: > Win XP SP2, P4 Extreme Ed. 3.46GHz + 3.47GHz 2GB, FM 8.0p277 > > > > Thanks to Rick Quattro, I am now aware of the backslash issue in dialog > boxes and have a workaround within scripts. However, I need to create an > hypertext command and do not know how to work around this issue. The > hypertext command ?openlink > D:\Docs\Products\CARDIO\DAR-9400f\M517-E063L-E099D_DAR-9400f Ops > Manuals_v3.0\D90+94_02-Overview.fm:2 998348? becomes ?openlink > D:?ocs\Products\CARDIO?AR-9400f\sm517-E063L-E099D_DAR-9400f Ops > Manuals_v3.0?90+94_02-Overview.fm:2 998348? where ?\D? becomes ??? and ?\M? > becomes ?\sm?. If I use the ?openObjectId? command, the backslashes are not > replaced but the link does not work. > > > > Does anyone knows a good work around for this issue? > Have you tried adding a second backslash at the problem points? I think that's how to get a literal backslash, but I haven't tested... HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink." ? George Orwell
