SVN creates a huge db
I was doing my first real testing on SVN (TortoiseSVN) yesterday. I have been issued a meager 8GB space on a server (Windows 2003 Server) shared with another kind of database. I had cleaned up a set of my largest manual consisting of a several hundred files after deletion of all files except the main fm and book files and a few graphic files, all in all 250MB of files. These I uploaded to a new repository and imported it into the database where it seemed to add a lot of files fast, until, ending on the 'db\transactions\4-1.txn\rev', which apparently froze. After more than half an hour, suddenly the size sprang from some 5GB to more than 7GB and left me with the message: 'There is not enough space on the disk.' I have googled and searched some of the SVN related users lists and have not seen any explanation to this. This seems too bloated to be normal IMHO. Can anyone on the list help me or explain this to me? Thanks beforehand, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson, Supervisor Publishing, Flight Ops, Air Atlanta Icelandic. -- It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. -- Edsel Murphy, dec. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: SVN creates a huge db
Bodvar, It appears that the transactions folder is like a staging folder. I could see files it in while I was committing, but it was empty when the commit was finished. Just a swag, but you might want to create a repository on your local drive and see if you can add the manual to that repository. Those folder sizes seem big (my experience is that the files take up less disk space in the repository than on your hard drive) but the transaction folder might require a lot of space to work. Mike -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 5:11 AM To: Framers List Subject: SVN creates a huge db I was doing my first real testing on SVN (TortoiseSVN) yesterday. I have been issued a meager 8GB space on a server (Windows 2003 Server) shared with another kind of database. I had cleaned up a set of my largest manual consisting of a several hundred files after deletion of all files except the main fm and book files and a few graphic files, all in all 250MB of files. These I uploaded to a new repository and imported it into the database where it seemed to add a lot of files fast, until, ending on the 'db\transactions\4-1.txn\rev', which apparently froze. After more than half an hour, suddenly the size sprang from some 5GB to more than 7GB and left me with the message: 'There is not enough space on the disk.' I have googled and searched some of the SVN related users lists and have not seen any explanation to this. This seems too bloated to be normal IMHO. Can anyone on the list help me or explain this to me? Thanks beforehand, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson, Supervisor Publishing, Flight Ops, Air Atlanta Icelandic. -- It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. -- Edsel Murphy, dec. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as mike.feims...@acstechnologies.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/mike.feimster%40acst echnologies.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
FM 8 upgrade woes: some solutions
Dear Emily: my commiserations. My rig: Vista Professional with 4 gigs ram. I converted to FM 8 after Vista upgrade and had quite a few of the problems you mention. It took me a week to sort out. I too missed my Xmas market. I too was misled by a page number, but there was nothing wrong with the page, although the error message was consistent. Some lessons I learnt 1. Never convert to a new version of anything under deadline. 2. Never test any Adobe product with Save as .pdf. Save as .pdf seems to work only with a single file. Always go for the postscript route. Goodness knows why Adobe called their printer pdf converter instead of postscript converter, however, I was again taken in. This particular problem goes back to the days of PageMaker. I regard Adobe as a top of the line corporation and I am sure they will sort it out, but when? I would love to know how many person hours are lost globally on this wonderful program's output stage, but I digress 2. The FM 8 trial came with a partial distiller which seem to hang around even after the trial was removed. 3. There are three major FM 8 patches which have to be installed. The last one was difficult and had to be done twice. Go to the update window and keep on updating until all is updated. 4. After the three patch update (which cleaned out my ADSL monthly account), I inserted the FM8 CD and did a repair ; sounds like voodoo, but that was the thing that worked. The page problem disappeared. p.s. If you have Vista and a spare flashdrive, make use of Vista's superfetch procedure: uses the flashdrive as extra memory. Works fine with FM8 and distiller. Robert Shell ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Linked In users, a group devoted to FrameMaker
For anyone on the list who happens to be a Linked In member, I wanted you to know that someone has created a Linked In group devoted to FrameMaker, called Friends of FrameMaker. This group is very new, and has about 43 members, questions are already being posted. You can either search Groups for FrameMaker or go to: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=897507trk=anetsrch_namegoback=.gdr_1229 734367125_1 This is also a great place to let people know about the FrameUsers mail list. _ Maxwell Hoffmann Director, Document Globalization Practice Globalization Partners International (GPI) www.globalizationpartners.com tel: 866.272.5874 direct: 503.336-5952mobile: 503.805.3719 fax: 202.478.0956 skype: maxwell.hoffmann email: mhoffm...@globalizationpartners.com ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Identifying overrides in FrameMaker
Hi Nancy, If you want to replace one paragraph tag with another, do the following: 1. Use the Copy Special Paragraph Format to copy the new paragraph to your clipboard. 2. Open the find and replace dialog box. 3. In the Find drop-down menu, select Paragraph tag. 4. In the Find field, type the name of the old paragraph tag. 5. In the Paste drop-down menu, select paste by (this means that whatever is in your clipboard will be pasted in place of the old paragraph tag, in this case cause you copied the new paragraph format to your clipboard, the new paragraph will replace it. 6. DO NOT do a an All change. 7. Make one change to verify that it is working. 8. THEN do an All change. That should convert all your old paragraph tags in your book to the new ones. -- Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Checkboxes in numbered lists
Because my page layout contains a sidehead margin, and to provide maximum flexibility for those assigning checkboxes to the numbered steps (regardless of the level--1, a, or i--with which the checkbox aligns), I created an anchored frame with a small square (drawn with Frame tools) in it on a reference page. If you know of an unpleasant consequence of using this approach, please let me know. Here are the specs (measurements in inches) if you want to try it out: Anchoring Position: Left Side: Left Distance Above Baseline: -0.047 Distance from text frame: 0.1 W: 0.196 H 0.175 Once a procedure is written, the writer copies this anchored frame once and pastes it in at every desired step, which is not a big responsibility in the document set for which I'm designing this solution. The training designer who will use it has tried it out and--though he'd prefer something more automated--found this easy to use. Thanks to all reached out to help me solve this one. Wishing you all health and job security in 2009! ~~ Doug Eaton Technical Communications Sensis Corporation 315.634.7284 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Index entry: highlighted page number out of sequence
You can higlight the page number of a particular index entry ba ending it with a character format. However, in FM8 the page numbers will no more be in sequece: Define a character format bold to see the effect in the index. On page 1 Enter a single level and a double level index marker, e.g. bobbemaise and tales:bobbemaise On page 2 enter the same index markers, but with ending charcter format bobbemaisebold and tales:bobbemaisebold On page 3 enter the same index markers as on page 1. In FM 7 and 6 you get this index: bobbemaise 1, 2, 3 with highlighted 2 tales bobbemaise 1, 2, 3 with highlighted 2 In FM8 you get this index: bobbemaise 1, 3, 2 with highlighted 2 tales bobbemaise 1, 3, 2 with highlighted 2 Is this a bug in FM8 or a hidden feature? Klaus Daube http://mymemo.ch und nie mehr einen Gedanken oder Termin verpassen. Docu + Design Daube; Schäracher 11; CH-8053 Zürich Technical documentation consultancy; On-line and paper Phone: +41-44-422 86 25 FAX: +41-44-422 82 78 E-mail: d...@daube.ch Web: www.daube.ch/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Index entry: highlighted page number out of sequence
Klaus, You wrote: You can higlight the page number of a particular index entry ba ending it with a character format. However, in FM8 the page numbers will no more be in sequece: Define a character format bold to see the effect in the index. On page 1 Enter a single level and a double level index marker, e.g. bobbemaise and tales:bobbemaise On page 2 enter the same index markers, but with ending charcter format bobbemaisebold and tales:bobbemaisebold On page 3 enter the same index markers as on page 1. In FM 7 and 6 you get this index: bobbemaise 1, 2, 3 with highlighted 2 tales bobbemaise 1, 2, 3 with highlighted 2 In FM8 you get this index: bobbemaise 1, 3, 2 with highlighted 2 tales bobbemaise 1, 3, 2 with highlighted 2 Is this a bug in FM8 or a hidden feature? That's a difficult question... ;-) Either way, to get the page numbers sorted properly: add a space before the character tag in the index entry. For example: bobbemaise bold and tales:bobbemaise bold Shlomo Perets MicroType * http://www.microtype.com FrameMaker training consulting * FM-to-Acrobat TimeSavers Improve Your FrameMaker Skills live web-based training sessions ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FM 8 upgrade woes: some solutions
Thank you for the suggestions, Robert. Thing is, I did not decide to convert to FM 8 because FM 8 does not actually export files that I was able to read using FM 7. I was forced to use the trial version of FM 8 when my colleague was unable to gen his FM 8 doc on the date due. I understand that he was been able to do it up until the weekend. His book file must have gotten trashed within the last week or so. In other words, the timing simply sucked. I guess I'll go patch my FM trial, but I don't think the problem is only with the trial version because this problem originated on the full-fledged version. (Guess my colleague might want to check into upgrades too, huh?) For my work, for now, I'm sticking with FM 7, which also has its problems, but is running on my XP machine and crashes MUCH less frequently. -- Emily At 07:43 AM 12/23/2008, Shell, Robert wrote: Dear Emily: my commiserations. My rig: Vista Professional with 4 gigs ram. I converted to FM 8 after Vista upgrade and had quite a few of the problems you mention. It took me a week to sort out. I too missed my Xmas market. I too was misled by a page number, but there was nothing wrong with the page, although the error message was consistent. Some lessons I learnt 1. Never convert to a new version of anything under deadline. 2. Never test any Adobe product with Save as .pdf. Save as .pdf seems to work only with a single file. Always go for the postscript route. Goodness knows why Adobe called their printer pdf converter instead of postscript converter, however, I was again taken in. This particular problem goes back to the days of PageMaker. I regard Adobe as a top of the line corporation and I am sure they will sort it out, but when? I would love to know how many person hours are lost globally on this wonderful program's output stage, but I digress 2. The FM 8 trial came with a partial distiller which seem to hang around even after the trial was removed. 3. There are three major FM 8 patches which have to be installed. The last one was difficult and had to be done twice. Go to the update window and keep on updating until all is updated. 4. After the three patch update (which cleaned out my ADSL monthly account), I inserted the FM8 CD and did a repair ; sounds like voodoo, but that was the thing that worked. The page problem disappeared. p.s. If you have Vista and a spare flashdrive, make use of Vista's superfetch procedure: uses the flashdrive as extra memory. Works fine with FM8 and distiller. Robert Shell Emily Berk http://www.armadillosoft.com/blog ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: FM 8 upgrade woes: some solutions
Sorry to hear about the problems you have had, but ... I guess everyone has their own particular experiences that will differ. On both my older XP system, and now my rebuilt Vista system, FM 8 crashes FAR less frequently than FM 7 (any of the 7.0, 7.1 or 7.2 versions). I find it to be much more stable and consistent and am glad I upgraded. -Original Message- For my work, for now, I'm sticking with FM 7, which also has its problems, but is running on my XP machine and crashes MUCH less frequently. -- Emily ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FM 8 upgrade woes: some solutions
I'll second that... 8 is much more stable and doesn't leak memory nearly as badly. If you have enough RAM -- 1-2 G, 8 is patched, and the files aren't funky 8 is the way to go. And I've been back saving them to 7.1 and 7.2 since 8 came out; no problems. Art Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com ... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl. -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:32 PM, syed.hos...@aeris.net wrote: Sorry to hear about the problems you have had, but ... I guess everyone has their own particular experiences that will differ. On both my older XP system, and now my rebuilt Vista system, FM 8 crashes FAR less frequently than FM 7 (any of the 7.0, 7.1 or 7.2 versions). I find it to be much more stable and consistent and am glad I upgraded. -Original Message- For my work, for now, I'm sticking with FM 7, which also has its problems, but is running on my XP machine and crashes MUCH less frequently. -- Emily ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as art.campb...@gmail.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/art.campbell%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Frame 8 trial woes
Timing :( First thing I would look for is a corrupt/badly formed graphic file. If you have any graphics in any specific chapter files, that is. So what I'd do: 1, Try to print each chapter to ps (not direct to pdf) then manually distill them using Acrobat and see which one(s) fail. 2, When it/they fail in Acrobat you will see which pages successfully completed. The offending graphic(s) will be on the next page somewhere. You will also get an error log generated, although sometimes the messages can be somewhat cryptic unless you know what you are reading. 3, Remove the suspect(s) and repeat steps 1 and 2 until the file(s) complete successfully. 4, Replace or repair the graphics files accordingly. On the other hand, if the FM 8 files are operating without incident on the source machine and the problem only surfaces on your machine, or files that have been exported for use on your machine, then are they using any plug ins that you do not have? Alan On 23/12/2008, at 10:43 AM, Emily Berk wrote: > One of my colleagues is working for a company that is using Frame 8. > > He was having some problems generating a PDF, and, guess what -- his > doc is due today. > > First thing he tried was to export his book and all its chapters to > Frame 7. I was not able to read a single one. -- Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland, NZ. 1140 http://www.alphabyte.co.nz
Frame 8 trial woes
On 23/12/2008, at 2:47 PM, Emily Berk wrote: > So, here's something exciting and interesting. > > With the old book file, which I am keeping around just for jollies, > you can print: > > 1. A PDF of all pages 1 - 49 without fail. > 2. A PDF of all pages 10 - 258 without fail. > 3. A PDF of all pages 51 - 258 without fail. > > But you cannot print a PDF of pages 1 - 258, nor can you print a PDF > of pages 50 - 258. > > So there is something magic about page 50. Sort of. Except that if > I delete the current chapter that contains pg. 50 from the book, the > Print to PDF still fails at page 50. Have encountered similar in the past and it is usually due to a munged cross reference or some such. In the end the fastest cure is to do what you have done. > > So, anyway, my solution was to create a new book file. And it worked. > > Thanks again for the encouragement and the help. > Glad to hear you got it sorted. Alan
SVN creates a huge db
I was doing my first real testing on SVN (TortoiseSVN) yesterday. I have been issued a meager 8GB space on a server (Windows 2003 Server) shared with another kind of database. I had cleaned up a set of my largest manual consisting of a several hundred files after deletion of all files except the main fm and book files and a few graphic files, all in all 250MB of files. These I uploaded to a new repository and imported it into the database where it seemed to add a lot of files fast, until, ending on the 'db\transactions\4-1.txn\rev', which apparently froze. After more than half an hour, suddenly the size sprang from some 5GB to more than 7GB and left me with the message: 'There is not enough space on the disk.' I have googled and searched some of the SVN related users lists and have not seen any explanation to this. This seems too bloated to be normal IMHO. Can anyone on the list help me or explain this to me? Thanks beforehand, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson, Supervisor Publishing, Flight Ops, Air Atlanta Icelandic. -- "It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious." -- Edsel Murphy, dec.
SVN creates a huge db
Bodvar, It appears that the transactions folder is like a staging folder. I could see files it in while I was committing, but it was empty when the commit was finished. Just a swag, but you might want to create a repository on your local drive and see if you can add the manual to that repository. Those folder sizes seem big (my experience is that the files take up less disk space in the repository than on your hard drive) but the transaction folder might require a lot of space to work. Mike -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 5:11 AM To: Framers List Subject: SVN creates a huge db I was doing my first real testing on SVN (TortoiseSVN) yesterday. I have been issued a meager 8GB space on a server (Windows 2003 Server) shared with another kind of database. I had cleaned up a set of my largest manual consisting of a several hundred files after deletion of all files except the main fm and book files and a few graphic files, all in all 250MB of files. These I uploaded to a new repository and imported it into the database where it seemed to add a lot of files fast, until, ending on the 'db\transactions\4-1.txn\rev', which apparently froze. After more than half an hour, suddenly the size sprang from some 5GB to more than 7GB and left me with the message: 'There is not enough space on the disk.' I have googled and searched some of the SVN related users lists and have not seen any explanation to this. This seems too bloated to be normal IMHO. Can anyone on the list help me or explain this to me? Thanks beforehand, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson, Supervisor Publishing, Flight Ops, Air Atlanta Icelandic. -- "It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious." -- Edsel Murphy, dec. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as mike.feimster at acstechnologies.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/mike.feimster%40acst echnologies.com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
FM 8 upgrade woes: some solutions
Dear Emily: my commiserations. My rig: Vista Professional with 4 gigs ram. I converted to FM 8 after Vista upgrade and had quite a few of the problems you mention. It took me a week to sort out. I too missed my Xmas market. I too was misled by a page number, but there was nothing wrong with the page, although the error message was consistent. Some lessons I learnt 1. Never convert to a new version of anything under deadline. 2. Never test any Adobe product with "Save as .pdf". "Save as .pdf" seems to work only with a single file. Always go for the postscript route. Goodness knows why Adobe called their printer "pdf converter" instead of "postscript converter", however, I was again taken in. This particular problem goes back to the days of PageMaker. I regard Adobe as a top of the line corporation and I am sure they will sort it out, but when? I would love to know how many person hours are lost globally on this wonderful program's output stage, but I digress 2. The FM 8 trial came with a partial distiller which seem to hang around even after the trial was removed. 3. There are three major FM 8 patches which have to be installed. The last one was difficult and had to be done twice. Go to the update window and keep on updating until all is updated. 4. After the three patch update (which cleaned out my ADSL monthly account), I inserted the FM8 CD and did a "repair" ; sounds like voodoo, but that was the thing that worked. The page problem disappeared. p.s. If you have Vista and a spare flashdrive, make use of Vista's superfetch procedure: uses the flashdrive as extra memory. Works fine with FM8 and distiller. Robert Shell
Checkboxes in numbered lists
Because my page layout contains a sidehead margin, and to provide maximum flexibility for those assigning checkboxes to the numbered steps (regardless of the level--1, a, or i--with which the checkbox aligns), I created an anchored frame with a small square (drawn with Frame tools) in it on a reference page. If you know of an unpleasant consequence of using this approach, please let me know. Here are the specs (measurements in inches) if you want to try it out: Anchoring Position: Left Side: Left Distance Above Baseline: -0.047 Distance from text frame: 0.1 W: 0.196 H 0.175 Once a procedure is written, the writer copies this anchored frame once and pastes it in at every desired step, which is not a big responsibility in the document set for which I'm designing this solution. The training designer who will use it has tried it out and--though he'd prefer something more automated--found this easy to use. Thanks to all reached out to help me solve this one. Wishing you all health and job security in 2009! ~~ Doug Eaton Technical Communications Sensis Corporation 315.634.7284
FM 8 upgrade woes: some solutions
Thank you for the suggestions, Robert. Thing is, I did not "decide" to convert to FM 8 because FM 8 does not actually export files that I was able to read using FM 7. I was forced to use the trial version of FM 8 when my colleague was unable to gen his FM 8 doc on the date due. I understand that he was been able to do it up until the weekend. His book file must have gotten trashed within the last week or so. In other words, the timing simply sucked. I guess I'll go patch my FM trial, but I don't think the problem is only with the trial version because this problem originated on the full-fledged version. (Guess my colleague might want to check into upgrades too, huh?) For my work, for now, I'm sticking with FM 7, which also has its problems, but is running on my XP machine and crashes MUCH less frequently. -- Emily At 07:43 AM 12/23/2008, Shell, Robert wrote: >Dear Emily: >my commiserations. My rig: Vista Professional with 4 gigs ram. > >I converted to FM 8 after Vista upgrade and had quite a few of the problems >you mention. It took me a week to sort out. I too missed my Xmas market. I >too was misled by a page number, but there was nothing wrong with the page, >although the error message was consistent. > >Some lessons I learnt > >1. Never convert to a new version of anything under deadline. > >2. Never test any Adobe product with "Save as .pdf". "Save as .pdf" seems to >work only with a single file. Always go for the postscript route. Goodness >knows why Adobe called their printer "pdf converter" instead of "postscript >converter", however, I was again taken in. This particular problem goes back >to the days of PageMaker. I regard Adobe as a top of the line corporation >and I am sure they will sort it out, but when? I would love to know how >many person hours are lost globally on this wonderful program's output >stage, but I digress > >2. The FM 8 trial came with a partial distiller which seem to hang around >even after the trial was removed. > >3. There are three major FM 8 patches which have to be installed. The last >one was difficult and had to be done twice. Go to the update window and keep >on updating until all is updated. > >4. After the three patch update (which cleaned out my ADSL monthly account), >I inserted the FM8 CD and did a "repair" ; sounds like voodoo, but that was >the thing that worked. The page problem disappeared. > >p.s. If you have Vista and a spare flashdrive, make use of Vista's >superfetch procedure: uses the flashdrive as extra memory. Works fine with >FM8 and distiller. > >Robert Shell Emily Berk http://www.armadillosoft.com/blog
FM 8 upgrade woes: some solutions
Sorry to hear about the problems you have had, but ... I guess everyone has their own particular experiences that will differ. On both my older XP system, and now my rebuilt Vista system, FM 8 crashes FAR less frequently than FM 7 (any of the 7.0, 7.1 or 7.2 versions). I find it to be much more stable and consistent and am glad I upgraded. -Original Message- For my work, for now, I'm sticking with FM 7, which also has its problems, but is running on my XP machine and crashes MUCH less frequently. -- Emily
FM 8 upgrade woes: some solutions
I'll second that... 8 is much more stable and doesn't leak memory nearly as badly. If you have enough RAM -- 1-2 G, 8 is patched, and the files aren't funky 8 is the way to go. And I've been back saving them to 7.1 and 7.2 since 8 came out; no problems. 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. DoD 358 On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:32 PM, wrote: > Sorry to hear about the problems you have had, but ... I guess everyone > has their own particular experiences that will differ. > > On both my older XP system, and now my rebuilt Vista system, FM 8 > crashes FAR less frequently than FM 7 (any of the 7.0, 7.1 or 7.2 > versions). > > I find it to be much more stable and consistent and am glad I upgraded. > > -Original Message- > > For my work, for now, I'm sticking with FM 7, which also has its > problems, but is running on my XP machine and crashes MUCH less > frequently. > > -- Emily > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as art.campbell at gmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/art.campbell%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >
Combined Fonts in FM8
Hi Framers, I'm trying to edit the combined fonts in my template, but when I go to Customize Layout, I don't see an option for Combined Fonts. Can anyone tell me how to make this option available, please? Regards, Morgan Windows XP, FrameMaker 8.0 _ Morgan Hayward Technical Writer Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. Phone (905) 951-5000 ext. 3409 P Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this email.
autonumbering in book
I'm a bit rusty with my FM skills, and having trouble with a very simple issue. How do I make sure that my figure and table numbers run all the way through a multiple chapter book, rather than restarting in each section? Please respond directly; I don't get the digest. Thanks in advance. I have used this list in the past and always found my answers!
