RE: Remote Desktop and FrameMaker

[David Spreadbury]

Michelle,
I have successfully launched and worked with FrameMaker 7.2 over a Remote
Desktop.

David Spreadbury
Sr. Technical Writer

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Subject: Remote Desktop and FrameMaker

Hi--

Does anyone know if FrameMaker works with Remote Desktop? I have this set up
and I find that several files I work with blow up. I do not have this
problem on other configurations, that is, not using Remote Desktop. I am on
FrameMaker 7.2.

Any help is appreciated!

Michelle


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can a chapter in a book be set to conditional?

[Ulrike Forsberg (UFO)]

Hi Framers,
I have a book file with a number of chapters and appendices. I use the
same book file for 3 manuals, which I control with 3 conditional text
tags.
One of the appendices is only used in 2 of the manuals. Can I make this
appendix conditional? 
My fallback solution is to make a separate book for this manual. I'd
prefer though to have a single book. 

Thanks for your time,

Ulrike Forsberg
Technical writer

E u...@thrane.com
T +45 39 55 8213

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Remote Desktop and FrameMaker

[Brabson, Michelle]

Hi--

Does anyone know if FrameMaker works with Remote Desktop? I have this set up 
and I find that several files I work with blow up. I do not have this problem 
on other configurations, that is, not using Remote Desktop. I am on FrameMaker 
7.2.

Any help is appreciated!

Michelle


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RE: can a chapter in a book be set to conditional?

[Combs, Richard]

Ulrike Forsberg wrote:

 I have a book file with a number of chapters and appendices. I use the
 same book file for 3 manuals, which I control with 3 conditional text
 tags.
 One of the appendices is only used in 2 of the manuals. Can I make
this
 appendix conditional?
 My fallback solution is to make a separate book for this manual. I'd
 prefer though to have a single book.

You can't make an entire file conditional. Embrace the idea of multiple
books -- this is the sort of thing it's for. In fact, I'd use a separate
book for each manual, each with its own title page file, in which I'd
store the variables for that manual. 

Richard


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Re: can a chapter in a book be set to conditional?

[Jack DeLand]

I don't really have objections to building multiple books, myself, but 
I wish that I could control page numbering for subordinate or included 
books from the top-level book.  Then again, I need to remember to do 
separate updates for all books before generating.  It would be nice to 
be able to control this from the top-level book as well.

Jack DeLand

Fred Ridder wrote:
 What is your objection to building two books? That's the way FrameMaker is 
 designed to work. If it weren't for the ability to build different books from 
 differing collections of chapters is the primary reason for the extra 
 comlication of the chapter/book paradigm.

 -Fred Ridder

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RE: can a chapter in a book be set to conditional?

[Fred Ridder]

What is your objection to building two books? That's the way FrameMaker is 
designed to work. If it weren't for the ability to build different books from 
differing collections of chapters is the primary reason for the extra 
comlication of the chapter/book paradigm.

-Fred Ridder

 
 Subject: can a chapter in a book be set to conditional?
 Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 12:54:16 +0200
 From: u...@thrane.com
 To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
 
 Hi Framers,
 I have a book file with a number of chapters and appendices. I use the
 same book file for 3 manuals, which I control with 3 conditional text
 tags.
 One of the appendices is only used in 2 of the manuals. Can I make this
 appendix conditional? 
 My fallback solution is to make a separate book for this manual. I'd
 prefer though to have a single book. 
 
 Thanks for your time,
 
 Ulrike Forsberg
 Technical writer
 
 E u...@thrane.com
 T +45 39 55 8213
 
 Thrane  Thrane A/S - Lundtoftegaardsvej 93 D
 DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark - www.thrane.com
 T +45 39 55 88 00 - F +45 39 55 88 88
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Re: Print text in spot color

[Scott White]

We are having some problems with spot color as well. Our problem is  
tinting. All tints are being printed as 100 percent. Only way we get  
the tint correct is if we print separations, but this is not what the  
printer wants. Still a trouble-shoot in progress.


Scott White
Media Production Manager
Implementation Coordinator
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On Sep 8, 2009, at 6:36 AM, w...@idtp.eu wrote:

 Hi,

 (FM9, WinXP)

 We have a document that uses black and one spot color. Spot color is
 defined to be 'print as spot'. When printed to PDF (not saved as),
 spot colors used as fill in tables and graphic elements are printed
 ok, as 100% spot clor. But colored text is printed as CMYK (where
 total of ink percentage is over 200% ??).

 I don't understand this, does FM make a difference between text(color)
 and other objects? Or is it a FM9 bug?


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 Vriendelijke groet,

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RE: can a chapter in a book be set to conditional?

[Fred Ridder]

The question I answered did not deal with multi-level (nested?) books. It was a 
simple question about building two different deliverables from a mostly shared 
set of component files. The answer to that question is that the method for 
excluding one chapter from one deliverable while including in the other 
deliverable is to construct two different book files from the same set of 
chapters (except the one to be excluded, of course). 

Richard Combs recommended using separate cover pages that contain the 
version-specific values of user variables (e.g. document ID and book title for 
headers/footers), which is also my practice. I also use the cover page to 
contain the version-specific conditional text settings which I import along 
with the variables into the chapters when I'm preparing to publish the 
individual versions. I also keep separate sets of book-specific generated files 
(TOC, LOF, LOT, Index) for each variant just to make the publishing process 
more foolproof.

-Fred Ridder


 
 Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 10:55:22 -0400
 From: jdela...@comcast.net
 To: docu...@hotmail.com
 CC: u...@thrane.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com
 Subject: Re: can a chapter in a book be set to conditional?
 
 I don't really have objections to building multiple books, myself, but 
 I wish that I could control page numbering for subordinate or included 
 books from the top-level book. Then again, I need to remember to do 
 separate updates for all books before generating. It would be nice to 
 be able to control this from the top-level book as well.
 
 Jack DeLand
 
 Fred Ridder wrote:
  What is your objection to building two books? That's the way FrameMaker is 
  designed to work. If it weren't for the ability to build different books 
  from differing collections of chapters is the primary reason for the extra 
  comlication of the chapter/book paradigm.
 
  -Fred Ridder
 
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Re: Help wth hyperlinks_Please

[Les Smalley]

Sue,





If you create a new link and give it the identifier checklist (as in
your what I am doing procedure) then you should use that same ID as
the destination when you insert the Jump to Named Destination
hypertext marker.  Perhaps it was inadvertent, but your example has
different 'names' and I would not expect it to work, either in FM or PDF.  Also 
note that
the names are case-sensitive, so checklist and CheckList are
different destination names.  You will still see the hand pointer (as
you hover over the hypertext marker), but because the names don't
match, the jump can't find the target to move the insertion point.




The validate function only really verifies that you have the syntax
correct
for the marker you're adding, not that the command will work as
expected.  After all, you could enter the goto commands first, then
define the destinations as the second step...





You can test a link by temporarily locking the document via Save
as View Only or the escape sequence Esc F l k (four separate key
presses: escape, Capital-F, lowercase-L lowercase-K ; this toggles the
locked or view-only state of the document) or just hold the control
and alt keys together as you hover over the hypertext marker.



I hope this helps. 





--- On Mon, 9/7/09, Susan Curtzwiler susa...@vmc.com
wrote:



  I am using Frame 7.0 with Vista Enterprise

Adobe Reader 9.0

Adobe Distiller 5.0

  

I
have been reading and following the help files and the User Guide for
days now.  I cannot successfully and consistently make a simple link
within the same document. 

  

It looks like you need to save as
View Only in order to activate the link.  I have done that and also
saved regular and I cannot get the link to jump from point A to point B
  

or in other words to go from the new link to the specified
destination.

  

Here is what I am doing.

  

1.   Select the word or phrase that is the destination 

2.  ; Go to SpecialHypertext 

3.   In the Command box, select Specify Named Destination 

4.   In the Syntax box it says newlink   and then next to that I
type in the word to be found  checklist  all lower case 

5.   The checkbox for Validate Command upon Insertion is checked 

6.   Click on New Hypertext Marker

  

then I go to the starting point 

  

1.   Select the word or phrase that will be marked as the starting
point 

2.   Go to SpecialHypertext 

3.   In the Command box, select Jump to Named Destination 

4.   In the Syntax box it says gotolink and then next to that 
I type in the word that was used at the destination point server  all 
lowercase 

5.   The checkbox for Validate Command upon Insertion is checked 

6.   Click on New Hypertext Marker

  

So, now from here is apparently where I get lost. 

  

If I save as view only, I will get the hand pointer and it looks like
it will work. 

  

However, if I click on it, nothing happens. 

  

If I make a PDF, nothing happens. 

  

Please, what am I missing? 

  

Thanks, 

  

Sue curtzwiler   susa...@vmc.com

  





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RE: Remote Desktop and FrameMaker

[Owen, Clint]

I frequently use the company VPN and Remote Desktop to take over my
office computer from home and work on FrameMaker files for up to a full
workday with no problems.

Clint 


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Michelle
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 8:28 AM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Cc: Dressner, Elizabeth
Subject: Remote Desktop and FrameMaker

Hi--

Does anyone know if FrameMaker works with Remote Desktop? I have this
set up and I find that several files I work with blow up. I do not have
this problem on other configurations, that is, not using Remote Desktop.
I am on FrameMaker 7.2.

Any help is appreciated!

Michelle


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RE: Help wth hyperlinks_Please

[Combs, Richard]

Susan Curtzwiler wrote: 
 
 I have been reading and following the help files and the User Guide
for
 days now.  I cannot successfully and consistently make a simple link
within
 the same document.
 
 It looks like you need to save as View Only in order to activate the
 link.  I have done that and also saved regular and I cannot get the
link to
 jump from point A to point B
 or in other words to go from the new link to the specified
destination.
 
 Here is what I am doing.
 
 1.Select the word or phrase that is the destination
 2.Go to SpecialHypertext
 3.In the Command box, select Specify Named Destination
 4.In the Syntax box it says newlink   and then next to that I
type in
 the word to be found  checklist  all lower case
 5.The checkbox for Validate Command upon Insertion is checked
 6.Click on New Hypertext Marker
 
 then I go to the starting point
 
 1.Select the word or phrase that will be marked as the starting
point
 2.Go to SpecialHypertext
 3.In the Command box, select Jump to Named Destination
 4.In the Syntax box it says gotolink and then next to that I
type in
 the word that was used at the destination point server  all lower
case
 5.The checkbox for Validate Command upon Insertion is checked
 6.Click on New Hypertext Marker

Congrats, Susan, you've restarted the list! :-)

You should be getting an error message when you create the link, since
you have Validate Command upon Insertion selected and you're creating
a hyperlink to a destination that doesn't exist. 

In your first step 4, you created a Named Destination, naming it
checklist. That created a marker at the place you want to jump to. 

In the second step 4, when you create a Jump to Named Destination, you
must enter the name you gave the destination -- checklist -- not the
word at the destination point. The hyperlink points to a marker, not a
word in the text flow. In this case, it should be the checklist marker
you created to mark the destination. 

HTH!
Richard


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RE: WEBINAR: Using FrameMaker and DITA with XDocs Content Management System

[Susan Curtzwiler]

Hi Art, 
  I am sending this to you because I have not seen anything from the Users 
Group for over a week now. I tried sending this request out the general user 
group email list and it bounced back as non-deliverable. 
  -- Thanks,, Sue 
 
---
 
 I am using Frame 7.0 with Vista Enterprise
Adobe Reader 9.0
Adobe Distiller 5.0
 
 
I have been reading and following the help files and the User Guide for days 
now.  I cannot successfully and consistently make a simple link within the same 
document. 
 
It looks like you need to save as View Only in order to activate the link.  I 
have done that and also saved regular and I cannot get the link to jump from 
point A to point B 
or in other words to go from the new link to the specified destination.
 
Here is what I am doing.

1.  Select the word or phrase that is the destination 
2.  Go to SpecialHypertext 
3.  In the Command box, select Specify Named Destination 
4.  In the Syntax box it says newlink   and then next to that I type in 
the word to be found  checklist  all lower case 
5.  The checkbox for Validate Command upon Insertion is checked 
6.  Click on New Hypertext Marker

then I go to the starting point 

1.  Select the word or phrase that will be marked as the starting point 
2.  Go to SpecialHypertext 
3.  In the Command box, select Jump to Named Destination 
4.  In the Syntax box it says gotolink and then next to that I type in 
the word that was used at the destination point server  all lower case 
5.  The checkbox for Validate Command upon Insertion is checked 
6.  Click on New Hypertext Marker

So, now from here is apparently where I get lost. 

If I save as view only, I will get the hand pointer and it looks like it will 
work. 

However, if I click on it, nothing happens. 

If I make a PDF, nothing happens. 

Please, what am I missing?  

Thanks, 

Sue Curtzwiler   susa...@vmc.com

 

 

 

 



From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com on behalf of Art Campbell
Sent: Fri 7/10/2009 4:44 AM
To: Scott Prentice
Cc: Framers
Subject: Re: WEBINAR: Using FrameMaker and DITA with XDocs Content Management 
System



Sorry about that.
Counting and all those numbers have always confused me. ;-  )

Art

Art Campbell
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Vincent and a redheaded girl. -- Richard Thompson
  No disclaimers apply.
   DoD 358



On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Scott Prentices...@leximation.com wrote:
 Don't scare me like that Art .. 10am Pacific is 1pm Eastern .. no?

 ...scott



 Art Campbell wrote:

 Uh, Scott, this seems to be taking place at 10 a.m. PST, which means 7
 a.m. EST...
 Is that correct?

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 Bernard Aschwanden, President, Publishing Smarter Inc.
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Re: can a chapter in a book be set to conditional?

[Jack DeLand]

Fred,

I have a similar but not identical situation. (FM 9)  I have two 
versions of the same product; one is cut down from the other.  There are 
roughly 100 components to the large manual I inherited, which is a 
reference guide. These are currently grouped into 7 sections.  The 
smaller version of the document will use components from different 
sections mixed together. All 100 pieces undergo revision about every 4 
months.

What I'm thinking is that I should break out each component from its 
section, and have 100 pieces that I can mix and match as needed.  About 
90 pieces will be in the same position within both manuals, and in fact 
the sections that contain these would remain unchanged.  My idea is to 
include a nested book as an alternate section for my combined pieces 
destined for the small guide, and exclude it when generating the large 
manual.  I would have another book for the parallel section of the large 
guide, and exclude it when generating the small manual.

Does this make sense?  I do have the separate versions of front matter 
as you and Richard suggest.  I would appreciate any input.  I am still 
in the planning stage.

Jack D


Fred Ridder wrote:
 The question I answered did not deal with multi-level (nested?) books. 
 It was a simple question about building two different deliverables 
 from a mostly shared set of component files. The answer to that 
 question is that the method for excluding one chapter from one 
 deliverable while including in the other deliverable is to construct 
 two different book files from the same set of chapters (except the one 
 to be excluded, of course).
 Richard Combs recommended using separate cover pages that contain the 
 version-specific values of user variables (e.g. document ID and book 
 title for headers/footers), which is also my practice. I also use the 
 cover page to contain the version-specific conditional text settings 
 which I import along with the variables into the chapters when I'm 
 preparing to publish the individual versions. I also keep separate 
 sets of book-specific generated files (TOC, LOF, LOT, Index) for each 
 variant just to make the publishing process more foolproof.

 -Fred Ridder

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RE: Help wth hyperlinks_Please

[Susan Curtzwiler]

Les, 
 
  Sorry about that, my example is wrong...   I am using the word ... checklist  
 ...  all lower case at both the go to and destination  spots. 
 
I will work through your answer and see if it works. 
 
Thanks,
Sue 



From: Les Smalley [mailto:l_c_smal...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tue 9/8/2009 8:17 AM
To: Susan Curtzwiler
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Help wth hyperlinks_Please


Sue,

If you create a new link and give it the identifier checklist (as in your 
what I am doing procedure) then you should use that same ID as the 
destination when you insert the Jump to Named Destination hypertext marker.  
Perhaps it was inadvertent, but your example has different 'names' and I would 
not expect it to work, either in FM or PDF.  Also note that the names are 
case-sensitive, so checklist and CheckList are different destination names. 
 You will still see the hand pointer (as you hover over the hypertext marker), 
but because the names don't match, the jump can't find the target to move the 
insertion point.

The validate function only really verifies that you have the syntax correct 
for the marker you're adding, not that the command will work as expected.  
After all, you could enter the goto commands first, then define the 
destinations as the second step...

You can test a link by temporarily locking the document via Save as View Only 
or the escape sequence Esc F l k (four separate key presses: escape, Capital-F, 
lowercase-L lowercase-K ; this toggles the locked or view-only state of the 
document) or just hold the control and alt keys together as you hover over the 
hypertext marker.

I hope this helps. 

--- On Mon, 9/7/09, Susan Curtzwiler susa...@vmc.com mailto:susa...@vmc.com 
 wrote:


I am using Frame 7.0 with Vista Enterprise
Adobe Reader 9.0
Adobe Distiller 5.0

I have been reading and following the help files and the User Guide for 
days now.  I cannot successfully and consistently make a simple link within the 
same document. 

It looks like you need to save as View Only in order to activate the 
link.  I have done that and also saved regular and I cannot get the link to 
jump from point A to point B 
or in other words to go from the new link to the specified 
destination.

Here is what I am doing.

1.   Select the word or phrase that is the destination 
2.  ; Go to SpecialHypertext 
3.   In the Command box, select Specify Named Destination 
4.   In the Syntax box it says newlink   and then next to that I type 
in the word to be found  checklist  all lower case 
5.   The checkbox for Validate Command upon Insertion is checked 
6.   Click on New Hypertext Marker

then I go to the starting point 

1.   Select the word or phrase that will be marked as the starting 
point 
2.   Go to SpecialHypertext 
3.   In the Command box, select Jump to Named Destination 
4.   In the Syntax box it says gotolink and then next to that I type 
in the word that was used at the destination point server  all lowercase 
5.   The checkbox for Validate Command upon Insertion is checked 
6.   Click on New Hypertext Marker

So, now from here is apparently where I get lost. 

If I save as view only, I will get the hand pointer and it looks like 
it will work. 

However, if I click on it, nothing happens. 

If I make a PDF, nothing happens. 

Please, what am I missing? 

Thanks, 

Sue Curtzwiler   susa...@vmc.com 
http://us.mc368.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=susa...@vmc.com 



- Les 



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Paragraph format not converting correctly

[Martha Lee]

Hi All,

I'm using Mif2Go 3.3 and FrameMaker 7 to produce OmniHelp. I have a
conversion template to map paragraph formats. The output is fine except for
one paragraph format; the text for that format is too big. I've checked the
conversion template, and the format is correct. Anyone know of a reason why
a particular format would come out a different font size in OmniHelp?

Thanks.

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Help wth hyperlinks_Please

[Susan Curtzwiler]

 Sorry,  resending this so it is not attached to the previous email.
 
 
Hi Art, 
  I am sending this to you because I have not seen anything from the Users 
Group for over a week now. I tried sending this request out the general user 
group email list and it bounced back as non-deliverable. 
  -- Thanks,, Sue 
 
---
 
 I am using Frame 7.0 with Vista Enterprise
Adobe Reader 9.0
Adobe Distiller 5.0
 
 
I have been reading and following the help files and the User Guide for days 
now.  I cannot successfully and consistently make a simple link within the same 
document. 
 
It looks like you need to save as View Only in order to activate the link.  I 
have done that and also saved regular and I cannot get the link to jump from 
point A to point B 
or in other words to go from the new link to the specified destination.
 
Here is what I am doing.

1.  Select the word or phrase that is the destination 
2.  Go to SpecialHypertext 
3.  In the Command box, select Specify Named Destination 
4.  In the Syntax box it says newlink   and then next to that I type in 
the word to be found  checklist  all lower case 
5.  The checkbox for Validate Command upon Insertion is checked 
6.  Click on New Hypertext Marker

then I go to the starting point 

1.  Select the word or phrase that will be marked as the starting point 
2.  Go to SpecialHypertext 
3.  In the Command box, select Jump to Named Destination 
4.  In the Syntax box it says gotolink and then next to that I type in 
the word that was used at the destination point server  all lower case 
5.  The checkbox for Validate Command upon Insertion is checked 
6.  Click on New Hypertext Marker

So, now from here is apparently where I get lost. 

If I save as view only, I will get the hand pointer and it looks like it will 
work. 

However, if I click on it, nothing happens. 

If I make a PDF, nothing happens. 

Please, what am I missing?  

Thanks, 

Sue Curtzwiler   susa...@vmc.com

 

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RE: Help wth hyperlinks_Please

[Matt Sullivan]

A small addendum...

The Validate will also do things like checking for the existence of the
gotolink marker specified.

You'll get a nastygram from Frame if you put in the gotolink prior to
defining the newlink marker.


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-Original Message-
From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Les Smalley
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 8:17 AM
To: Susan Curtzwiler
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Help wth hyperlinks_Please


Sue,





If you create a new link and give it the identifier checklist (as in your
what I am doing procedure) then you should use that same ID as the
destination when you insert the Jump to Named Destination
hypertext marker.  Perhaps it was inadvertent, but your example has
different 'names' and I would not expect it to work, either in FM or PDF. 
Also note that the names are case-sensitive, so checklist and CheckList
are different destination names.  You will still see the hand pointer (as
you hover over the hypertext marker), but because the names don't match, the
jump can't find the target to move the insertion point.




The validate function only really verifies that you have the syntax
correct for the marker you're adding, not that the command will work as
expected.  After all, you could enter the goto commands first, then define
the destinations as the second step...





You can test a link by temporarily locking the document via Save as View
Only or the escape sequence Esc F l k (four separate key
presses: escape, Capital-F, lowercase-L lowercase-K ; this toggles the
locked or view-only state of the document) or just hold the control and
alt keys together as you hover over the hypertext marker.



I hope this helps. 





--- On Mon, 9/7/09, Susan Curtzwiler susa...@vmc.com
wrote:



  I am using Frame 7.0 with Vista Enterprise

Adobe Reader 9.0

Adobe Distiller 5.0

  

I
have been reading and following the help files and the User Guide for days
now.  I cannot successfully and consistently make a simple link within the
same document. 

  

It looks like you need to save as
View Only in order to activate the link.  I have done that and also saved
regular and I cannot get the link to jump from point A to point B
  

or in other words to go from the new link to the specified destination.

  

Here is what I am doing.

  

1.   Select the word or phrase that is the destination 

2.  ; Go to SpecialHypertext 

3.   In the Command box, select Specify Named Destination 

4.   In the Syntax box it says newlink   and then next to that I type in
the word to be found  checklist  all lower case 

5.   The checkbox for Validate Command upon Insertion is checked 

6.   Click on New Hypertext Marker

  

then I go to the starting point 

  

1.   Select the word or phrase that will be marked as the starting point 

2.   Go to SpecialHypertext 

3.   In the Command box, select Jump to Named Destination 

4.   In the Syntax box it says gotolink and then next to that I type in
the word that was used at the destination point server  all lowercase 

5.   The checkbox for Validate Command upon Insertion is checked 

6.   Click on New Hypertext Marker

  

So, now from here is apparently where I get lost. 

  

If I save as view only, I will get the hand pointer and it looks like it
will work. 

  

However, if I click on it, nothing happens. 

  

If I make a PDF, nothing happens. 

  

Please, what am I missing? 

  

Thanks, 

  

Sue curtzwiler   susa...@vmc.com

  





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RE: Help wth hyperlinks_Please

[Susan Curtzwiler]

Bill -  
   That is a good possibility, especially since it is simply a link to text, 
not another link or URL .
 
Thanks,
Sue 



From: Bill Swallow [mailto:techcommd...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tue 9/8/2009 8:40 AM
To: Susan Curtzwiler
Cc: Les Smalley; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Help wth hyperlinks_Please



Sue,

Might a cross reference work better for you than a hyperlink?

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Re: Help wth hyperlinks_Please

[Bill Swallow]

Sue,

Might a cross reference work better for you than a hyperlink?

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RE: Remote Desktop and FrameMaker

[Combs, Richard]

Ah, the list seems to be back. I'll resend this for the benefit of the
archives. 

Brabson, Michelle wrote:
 
 Does anyone know if FrameMaker works with Remote Desktop? I have this
set
 up and I find that several files I work with blow up. I do not have
this
 problem on other configurations, that is, not using Remote Desktop. I
am on
 FrameMaker 7.2.

Fairly regularly, I take home a laptop that I can connect to the corp.
network via VPN. I then use Remote Desktop to work on my main PC at the
office. I've run FM 7.2 that way any number of times and never had a
problem. I wouldn't expect to -- it seems to me that FM (or any program
running on a PC to which you've connected via Remote Desktop) shouldn't
even know that its mouse and keyboard input are coming from elsewhere.


What do you mean by files blow up? Are the files on the PC to which
you're connecting, or are they on a network server? From where and with
what bandwidth are you connecting? A Remote Desktop session unavoidably
induces some delays as data is sent to and from the connecting PC (the
worst being screen refreshes). If there are also delays because the FM
files are elsewhere on the network, maybe you're encountering some weird
timing issues. 

Richard


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Print text in spot color

[wim]

Hi,

(FM9, WinXP)

We have a document that uses black and one spot color. Spot color is  
defined to be 'print as spot'. When printed to PDF (not saved as),  
spot colors used as fill in tables and graphic elements are printed  
ok, as 100% spot clor. But colored text is printed as CMYK (where  
total of ink percentage is over 200% ??).

I don't understand this, does FM make a difference between text(color)  
and other objects? Or is it a FM9 bug?


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Re: [Free Framers] FrameUsers.com list

[Stuart Rogers]

Reng, Dr. Winfried wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 On 2 September I got the last e-mail from FrameUsers.com.
 Does anyone know what's wrong? Did anyone contact Brad
 Anderson?
 
 Best regards
 
 Winfried
 
 

I thought I'd stopped getting messages because I turned off the delivery 
option when I went on vacation -- and I wasn't able to turn it back on 
when I got back because the site was down.  I just tried again, and was 
able to log-in and change the option.  Perhaps that means the site has 
been fixed?

I'll copy this to the frameusers list and see what happens.


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RE: [Free Framers] FrameUsers.com list

[Ann Zdunczyk]

If you go to Frameusers.com it basically says:

Dear Framers,

My apologies for the lack of updates to the website. We’ve had a full
revision of the site almost ready to go since January 2008. Since then, I’ve
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Re: Acrobat 7 truncates email address. Acrobat 8 OK

[Shlomo Perets]

Diane,

You wrote:

Very strange behavior in Acrobat.  Looking for a cause and a cure.

Environment:  WinXP PRo, FM8, Acrobat8 Pro.
Customer environment: Reader 7 (platform probably XP Pro)

We create our PDFs using Save As PDF in FM8.  Acrobat 8 Pro was installed
after FM8, so Save as PDF is therefore using the Distiller (Adobe PDF)
version that is installed with Acrobat.  We set the PDF version to Acrobat
5.0 or later, to ensure that even customers with older versions of Acrobat
can open the file.

A few of our customers still have Reader 7 installed, and some are reporting
an unusual problem with the PDF files.  When viewed with Reader 7, email
addresses in the PDFs are truncated and the links do not work.  However they
display correctly and the links work correctly in Acrobat 8.  We cannot
check, because as you know, we cannot have multiple versions of Acrobat
installed at the same time.

Have any of you seen this problem, and if so, know what causes it?



Starting with Acrobat and Reader 7, there is a preference of Automatically 
detect URLs from text (Edit  Preferences, General; in versions 8 and 9 it 
is called Create Links from URLs).

When this preference is enabled (default), e-mail and web addresses present 
in the text are interpreted as links when the PDF is displayed (without any 
hypertext links defined in FrameMaker). Acrobat 7.x interpretation of 
e-mail addresses is incorrect -- the presence of a dot, an underscore or a 
hyphen disturbs the address and it is truncated (so, for example, 
john@company.com is interpreted as d...@company.com).

This was fixed in Acrobat/Reader 8, so if you display the same PDF in 
Acrobat/Reader 8 or 9 the interpreted link will be OK.

To have fully-functional e-mail links in all versions of Reader, I 
recommend adding hypertext links in FrameMaker, so that a real e-mail 
links are present in the PDF (and not relying on auto-detected ones).

When longer web links that are split between lines are auto-detected: all 
versions of Acrobat/Reader will only use the portion present in the first 
line (resulting in an incorrect or partial link); having real web links 
(defined in FrameMaker) will fix that too.

[Note: another reason not to rely on auto-detection of web links is that 
some end-users may use non-Adobe PDF viewers, which support various subsets 
of Acrobat/Reader functionality]


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ANN: West Street Structure Tools 2.0 is released

[russ]

Hi,

West Street Consulting is pleased to announce the release of its
Structure Tools plugin, version 2.0. This version includes a new
modeless attribute editor that significantly speeds up the process of
editing attribute values, with a variety of amenities such as multiple
element support, alphabetization, and tokenized values. The software is
not free; however, a fully-functional shareware version is available for
you to try it out. For more information, please visit
www.weststreetconsulting.com.

Thanks,
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RE: West Street Structure Tools 2.0 is released

[RJ Jacquez]

Hi Russ, thanks for letting us know about the new version. I just tested it and 
the new modeless attribute editor looks great and it fits right in with our new 
UI in FrameMaker 9.

I appreciate all the work you put into these plug-ins and please know that I 
always recommend them to my customers.  Incidentally, here's something I just 
posted on Twitter: http://twitter.com/rjacquez/statuses/3850607483 

Thanks again.

Sincerely,

RJ Jácquez
Senior Product Evangelist
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Hi,

West Street Consulting is pleased to announce the release of its
Structure Tools plugin, version 2.0. This version includes a new
modeless attribute editor that significantly speeds up the process of
editing attribute values, with a variety of amenities such as multiple
element support, alphabetization, and tokenized values. The software is
not free; however, a fully-functional shareware version is available for
you to try it out. For more information, please visit
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Re: Paragraph format not converting correctly

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:00:29 -0400, Martha Lee martha@coventor.com 
wrote:

I'm using Mif2Go 3.3 and FrameMaker 7 to produce OmniHelp. I have a
conversion template to map paragraph formats. The output is fine except for
one paragraph format; the text for that format is too big. I've checked the
conversion template, and the format is correct. Anyone know of a reason why
a particular format would come out a different font size in OmniHelp?

First, look at local.css and see if it's correct there.
Assuming the CSS shows a size that's too big, the next 
step is either just fix the CSS, or figure out why it
came out that way.  Possible reasons are name conflicts
for formats (two formats with names that become a single
name when the CSS rules for names are applied, like
Heading 1 and heading1), or incorrect element name 
for format (CSS says p.name but element is an li).

There are fixes for any problem, but first you need to 
identify the exact problem.  ;-)

HTH!

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Re: Help wth hyperlinks_Please

[Shlomo Perets]

Two additional points:

-- There are cases where the hypertext markers are all valid, yet the 
resulting link is very small due to the character format affecting the 
marker only (eg when copying a gotolink marker from one paragraph to 
another, with the two paragraphs having different character properties). 
You can fix this by first applying default paragraph font to the entire 
area, then apply the required character format to the link text.
The link location/size can be inspected in Acrobat (when the Link tool is 
active).

-- If the link works in FrameMaker (view only document, or regular document 
with Ctrl-Alt-click), but not in Acrobat: in FrameMaker's PDF Setup dialog 
box, turn on Create Named Destinations for All Paragraphs (Links tab).
A sample FM7 files which demonstrates a valid hypertext marker resulting in 
a non-functional link is available at: 
http://www.microtype.com/resources/bugs/dests_hypertext.zip ; the PDF link 
is fine when turning on Create Named Destinations for All Paragraphs.


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Remote Desktop and FrameMaker

[David Spreadbury]

Michelle,
I have successfully launched and worked with FrameMaker 7.2 over a Remote
Desktop.

David Spreadbury
Sr. Technical Writer

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Subject: Remote Desktop and FrameMaker

Hi--

Does anyone know if FrameMaker works with Remote Desktop? I have this set up
and I find that several files I work with blow up. I do not have this
problem on other configurations, that is, not using Remote Desktop. I am on
FrameMaker 7.2.

Any help is appreciated!

Michelle


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Help wth hyperlinks_Please

[Combs, Richard]

Susan Curtzwiler wrote: 

> I have been reading and following the help files and the User Guide
for
> days now.  I cannot successfully and consistently make a simple link
within
> the same document.
> 
> It looks like you need to save as "View Only" in order to activate the
> link.  I have done that and also saved regular and I cannot get the
link to
> jump from point A to point B
> or in other words to go from the "new link" to the "specified
destination".
> 
> Here is what I am doing.
> 
> 1.Select the word or phrase that is the destination
> 2.Go to Special>Hypertext
> 3.In the Command box, select "Specify Named Destination"
> 4.In the Syntax box it says "newlink"   and then next to that I
type in
> the word to be found  "checklist"  all lower case
> 5.The checkbox for "Validate Command upon Insertion is checked
> 6.Click on "New Hypertext Marker"
> 
> then I go to the starting point
> 
> 1.Select the word or phrase that will be marked as the starting
point
> 2.Go to Special>Hypertext
> 3.In the Command box, select "Jump to Named Destination"
> 4.In the Syntax box it says "gotolink" and then next to that I
type in
> the word that was used at the destination point "server"  all lower
case
> 5.The checkbox for "Validate Command upon Insertion is checked
> 6.Click on "New Hypertext Marker"

Congrats, Susan, you've restarted the list! :-)

You should be getting an error message when you create the link, since
you have "Validate Command upon Insertion" selected and you're creating
a hyperlink to a destination that doesn't exist. 

In your first step 4, you created a "Named Destination," naming it
"checklist." That created a marker at the place you want to jump to. 

In the second step 4, when you create a "Jump to Named Destination," you
must enter the name you gave the destination -- "checklist" -- not the
word at the destination point. The hyperlink points to a marker, not a
word in the text flow. In this case, it should be the "checklist" marker
you created to mark the destination. 

HTH!
Richard


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Remote Desktop and FrameMaker

[Combs, Richard]

Ah, the list seems to be back. I'll resend this for the benefit of the
archives. 

Brabson, Michelle wrote:

> Does anyone know if FrameMaker works with Remote Desktop? I have this
set
> up and I find that several files I work with blow up. I do not have
this
> problem on other configurations, that is, not using Remote Desktop. I
am on
> FrameMaker 7.2.

Fairly regularly, I take home a laptop that I can connect to the corp.
network via VPN. I then use Remote Desktop to work on my main PC at the
office. I've run FM 7.2 that way any number of times and never had a
problem. I wouldn't expect to -- it seems to me that FM (or any program
running on a PC to which you've connected via Remote Desktop) shouldn't
even "know" that its mouse and keyboard input are coming from elsewhere.


What do you mean by files "blow up"? Are the files on the PC to which
you're connecting, or are they on a network server? From where and with
what bandwidth are you connecting? A Remote Desktop session unavoidably
induces some delays as data is sent to and from the connecting PC (the
worst being screen refreshes). If there are also delays because the FM
files are elsewhere on the network, maybe you're encountering some weird
timing issues. 

Richard


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Print text in spot color

[w...@idtp.eu]

Hi,

(FM9, WinXP)

We have a document that uses black and one spot color. Spot color is  
defined to be 'print as spot'. When printed to PDF (not saved as),  
spot colors used as fill in tables and graphic elements are printed  
ok, as 100% spot clor. But colored text is printed as CMYK (where  
total of ink percentage is over 200% ??).

I don't understand this, does FM make a difference between text(color)  
and other objects? Or is it a FM9 bug?


-- 
Vriendelijke groet,

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Print text in spot color

[Scott White]

We are having some problems with spot color as well. Our problem is  
tinting. All tints are being printed as 100 percent. Only way we get  
the tint correct is if we print separations, but this is not what the  
printer wants. Still a trouble-shoot in progress.


Scott White
Media Production Manager
Implementation Coordinator
210-704-8239
swhite at alamark.com



On Sep 8, 2009, at 6:36 AM, wim at idtp.eu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> (FM9, WinXP)
>
> We have a document that uses black and one spot color. Spot color is
> defined to be 'print as spot'. When printed to PDF (not saved as),
> spot colors used as fill in tables and graphic elements are printed
> ok, as 100% spot clor. But colored text is printed as CMYK (where
> total of ink percentage is over 200% ??).
>
> I don't understand this, does FM make a difference between text(color)
> and other objects? Or is it a FM9 bug?
>
>
> -- 
> Vriendelijke groet,
>
> Wim Hooghwinkel
>
> Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in FrameMaker
>
> iDTP
>
> International DTP and Documentation Consultancy
>
> tel. +31652036811
> info at idtp.eu
> www.idtp.eu
>
>
>
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Remote Desktop and FrameMaker

[Owen, Clint]

I frequently use the company VPN and Remote Desktop to take over my
office computer from home and work on FrameMaker files for up to a full
workday with no problems.

Clint 


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To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Cc: Dressner, Elizabeth
Subject: Remote Desktop and FrameMaker

Hi--

Does anyone know if FrameMaker works with Remote Desktop? I have this
set up and I find that several files I work with blow up. I do not have
this problem on other configurations, that is, not using Remote Desktop.
I am on FrameMaker 7.2.

Any help is appreciated!

Michelle


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can a chapter in a book be set to conditional?

[Fred Ridder]

What is your objection to building two books? That's the way FrameMaker is 
designed to work. If it weren't for the ability to build different books from 
differing collections of chapters is the primary reason for the extra 
comlication of the chapter/book paradigm.

-Fred Ridder


> Subject: can a chapter in a book be set to conditional?
> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 12:54:16 +0200
> From: ufo at thrane.com
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> 
> Hi Framers,
> I have a book file with a number of chapters and appendices. I use the
> same book file for 3 manuals, which I control with 3 conditional text
> tags.
> One of the appendices is only used in 2 of the manuals. Can I make this
> appendix conditional? 
> My fallback solution is to make a separate book for this manual. I'd
> prefer though to have a single book. 
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> 
> Ulrike Forsberg
> Technical writer
> 
> E ufo at thrane.com
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can a chapter in a book be set to conditional?

[Combs, Richard]

Ulrike Forsberg wrote:

> I have a book file with a number of chapters and appendices. I use the
> same book file for 3 manuals, which I control with 3 conditional text
> tags.
> One of the appendices is only used in 2 of the manuals. Can I make
this
> appendix conditional?
> My fallback solution is to make a separate book for this manual. I'd
> prefer though to have a single book.

You can't make an entire file conditional. Embrace the idea of multiple
books -- this is the sort of thing it's for. In fact, I'd use a separate
book for each manual, each with its own title page file, in which I'd
store the variables for that manual. 

Richard


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can a chapter in a book be set to conditional?

[Jack DeLand]

I don't really have "objections" to building multiple books, myself, but 
I wish that I could control page numbering for "subordinate" or included 
books from the top-level book.  Then again, I need to remember to do 
separate updates for all books before generating.  It would be nice to 
be able to control this from the top-level book as well.

Jack DeLand

Fred Ridder wrote:
> What is your objection to building two books? That's the way FrameMaker is 
> designed to work. If it weren't for the ability to build different books from 
> differing collections of chapters is the primary reason for the extra 
> comlication of the chapter/book paradigm.
>
> -Fred Ridder

can a chapter in a book be set to conditional?

[Fred Ridder]

The question I answered did not deal with multi-level (nested?) books. It was a 
simple question about building two different deliverables from a mostly shared 
set of component files. The answer to that question is that the method for 
excluding one chapter from one deliverable while including in the other 
deliverable is to construct two different book files from the same set of 
chapters (except the one to be excluded, of course). 

Richard Combs recommended using separate cover pages that contain the 
version-specific values of user variables (e.g. document ID and book title for 
headers/footers), which is also my practice. I also use the cover page to 
contain the version-specific conditional text settings which I import along 
with the variables into the chapters when I'm preparing to publish the 
individual versions. I also keep separate sets of book-specific generated files 
(TOC, LOF, LOT, Index) for each variant just to make the publishing process 
more foolproof.

-Fred Ridder



> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 10:55:22 -0400
> From: jdeland1 at comcast.net
> To: docudoc at hotmail.com
> CC: ufo at thrane.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: can a chapter in a book be set to conditional?
> 
> I don't really have "objections" to building multiple books, myself, but 
> I wish that I could control page numbering for "subordinate" or included 
> books from the top-level book. Then again, I need to remember to do 
> separate updates for all books before generating. It would be nice to 
> be able to control this from the top-level book as well.
> 
> Jack DeLand
> 
> Fred Ridder wrote:
> > What is your objection to building two books? That's the way FrameMaker is 
> > designed to work. If it weren't for the ability to build different books 
> > from differing collections of chapters is the primary reason for the extra 
> > comlication of the chapter/book paradigm.
> >
> > -Fred Ridder
> 

Help wth hyperlinks_Please

[Les Smalley]

Sue,





If you create a new link and give it the identifier "checklist" (as in
your "what I am doing" procedure) then you should use that same ID as
the destination when you insert the "Jump to Named Destination"
hypertext marker.? Perhaps it was inadvertent, but your example has
different 'names' and I would not expect it to work, either in FM or PDF.? Also 
note that
the names are case-sensitive, so "checklist" and "CheckList" are
different destination names.? You will still see the hand pointer (as
you hover over the hypertext marker), but because the names don't
match, the jump can't find the target to move the insertion point.




The "validate" function only really verifies that you have the syntax
correct
for the marker you're adding, not that the command will work as
expected.? After all, you could enter the "goto" commands first, then
define the destinations as the second step...





You can test a link by temporarily locking the document via Save
as View Only or the escape sequence Esc F l k (four separate key
presses: escape, Capital-F, lowercase-L lowercase-K ; this toggles the
locked or "view-only" state of the document) or just hold the control
and alt keys together as you hover over the hypertext marker.



I hope this helps. 





--- On Mon, 9/7/09, Susan Curtzwiler 
wrote:



  I am using Frame 7.0 with Vista Enterprise

Adobe Reader 9.0

Adobe Distiller 5.0



I
have been reading and following the help files and the User Guide for
days now.? I cannot successfully and consistently make a simple link
within the same document. 



It looks like you need to save as
"View Only" in order to activate the link.? I have done that and also
saved regular and I cannot get the link to jump from point A to point B


or in other words to go from the "new link" to the "specified
destination".



Here is what I am doing.



1.?? Select the word or phrase that is the destination 

2.??; Go to Special>Hypertext 

3.?? In the Command box, select "Specify Named Destination" 

4.?? In the Syntax box it says "newlink"???and then next to that I
type in the word to be found? "checklist"? all lower case 

5.?? The checkbox for "Validate Command upon Insertion is checked 

6.?? Click on "New Hypertext Marker"



then I go to the starting point 



1.?? Select the word or phrase that will be marked as the starting
point 

2.?? Go to Special>Hypertext 

3.?? In the Command box, select "Jump to Named Destination" 

4.?? In the Syntax box it says "gotolink" and then next to that 
I type in the word that was used at the destination point "server"? all 
lowercase 

5.?? The checkbox for "Validate Command upon Insertion is checked 

6.?? Click on "New Hypertext Marker"



So, now from here is apparently where I get lost. 



If I save as "view only", I will get the hand pointer and it looks like
it will work. 



However, if I click on it, nothing happens. 



If I make a PDF, nothing happens. 



Please, what am I missing? 



Thanks, 



Sue Curtzwiler???susancu at vmc.com







? Les 

can a chapter in a book be set to conditional?

[Jack DeLand]

Fred,

I have a similar but not identical situation. (FM 9)  I have two 
versions of the same product; one is cut down from the other.  There are 
roughly 100 components to the large manual I inherited, which is a 
reference guide. These are currently grouped into 7 sections.  The 
smaller version of the document will use components from different 
sections mixed together. All 100 pieces undergo revision about every 4 
months.

What I'm thinking is that I should break out each component from its 
section, and have 100 pieces that I can mix and match as needed.  About 
90 pieces will be in the same position within both manuals, and in fact 
the sections that contain these would remain unchanged.  My idea is to 
include a nested book as an alternate section for my combined pieces 
destined for the small guide, and exclude it when generating the large 
manual.  I would have another book for the parallel section of the large 
guide, and exclude it when generating the small manual.

Does this make sense?  I do have the separate versions of front matter 
as you and Richard suggest.  I would appreciate any input.  I am still 
in the planning stage.

Jack D


Fred Ridder wrote:
> The question I answered did not deal with multi-level (nested?) books. 
> It was a simple question about building two different deliverables 
> from a mostly shared set of component files. The answer to that 
> question is that the method for excluding one chapter from one 
> deliverable while including in the other deliverable is to construct 
> two different book files from the same set of chapters (except the one 
> to be excluded, of course).
> Richard Combs recommended using separate cover pages that contain the 
> version-specific values of user variables (e.g. document ID and book 
> title for headers/footers), which is also my practice. I also use the 
> cover page to contain the version-specific conditional text settings 
> which I import along with the variables into the chapters when I'm 
> preparing to publish the individual versions. I also keep separate 
> sets of book-specific generated files (TOC, LOF, LOT, Index) for each 
> variant just to make the publishing process more foolproof.
>
> -Fred Ridder

Help wth hyperlinks_Please

[Susan Curtzwiler]

Les, 

  Sorry about that, my example is wrong...   I am using the word ... checklist  
 ...  all lower case at both the "go to" and "destination"  spots. 

I will work through your answer and see if it works. 

Thanks,
Sue 



From: Les Smalley [mailto:l_c_smal...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tue 9/8/2009 8:17 AM
To: Susan Curtzwiler
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Help wth hyperlinks_Please


Sue,

If you create a new link and give it the identifier "checklist" (as in your 
"what I am doing" procedure) then you should use that same ID as the 
destination when you insert the "Jump to Named Destination" hypertext marker.  
Perhaps it was inadvertent, but your example has different 'names' and I would 
not expect it to work, either in FM or PDF.  Also note that the names are 
case-sensitive, so "checklist" and "CheckList" are different destination names. 
 You will still see the hand pointer (as you hover over the hypertext marker), 
but because the names don't match, the jump can't find the target to move the 
insertion point.

The "validate" function only really verifies that you have the syntax correct 
for the marker you're adding, not that the command will work as expected.  
After all, you could enter the "goto" commands first, then define the 
destinations as the second step...

You can test a link by temporarily locking the document via Save as View Only 
or the escape sequence Esc F l k (four separate key presses: escape, Capital-F, 
lowercase-L lowercase-K ; this toggles the locked or "view-only" state of the 
document) or just hold the control and alt keys together as you hover over the 
hypertext marker.

I hope this helps. 

--- On Mon, 9/7/09, Susan Curtzwiler    wrote:


I am using Frame 7.0 with Vista Enterprise
Adobe Reader 9.0
Adobe Distiller 5.0

I have been reading and following the help files and the User Guide for 
days now.  I cannot successfully and consistently make a simple link within the 
same document. 

It looks like you need to save as "View Only" in order to activate the 
link.  I have done that and also saved regular and I cannot get the link to 
jump from point A to point B 
or in other words to go from the "new link" to the "specified 
destination".

Here is what I am doing.

1.   Select the word or phrase that is the destination 
2.  ; Go to Special>Hypertext 
3.   In the Command box, select "Specify Named Destination" 
4.   In the Syntax box it says "newlink"   and then next to that I type 
in the word to be found  "checklist"  all lower case 
5.   The checkbox for "Validate Command upon Insertion is checked 
6.   Click on "New Hypertext Marker"

then I go to the starting point 

1.   Select the word or phrase that will be marked as the starting 
point 
2.   Go to Special>Hypertext 
3.   In the Command box, select "Jump to Named Destination" 
4.   In the Syntax box it says "gotolink" and then next to that I type 
in the word that was used at the destination point "server"  all lowercase 
5.   The checkbox for "Validate Command upon Insertion is checked 
6.   Click on "New Hypertext Marker"

So, now from here is apparently where I get lost. 

If I save as "view only", I will get the hand pointer and it looks like 
it will work. 

However, if I click on it, nothing happens. 

If I make a PDF, nothing happens. 

Please, what am I missing? 

Thanks, 

Sue Curtzwiler   susancu at vmc.com 
 



- Les 

Help wth hyperlinks_Please

[Bill Swallow]

Sue,

Might a cross reference work better for you than a hyperlink?

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Help wth hyperlinks_Please

[Susan Curtzwiler]

Bill -  
   That is a good possibility, especially since it is simply a link to text, 
not another link or URL .

Thanks,
Sue 



From: Bill Swallow [mailto:techcommd...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tue 9/8/2009 8:40 AM
To: Susan Curtzwiler
Cc: Les Smalley; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Help wth hyperlinks_Please



Sue,

Might a cross reference work better for you than a hyperlink?

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Help wth hyperlinks_Please

[Matt Sullivan]

A small addendum...

The Validate will also do things like checking for the existence of the
gotolink marker specified.

You'll get a nastygram from Frame if you put in the gotolink prior to
defining the newlink marker.


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From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Les Smalley
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 8:17 AM
To: Susan Curtzwiler
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Help wth hyperlinks_Please


Sue,





If you create a new link and give it the identifier "checklist" (as in your
"what I am doing" procedure) then you should use that same ID as the
destination when you insert the "Jump to Named Destination"
hypertext marker.? Perhaps it was inadvertent, but your example has
different 'names' and I would not expect it to work, either in FM or PDF.?
Also note that the names are case-sensitive, so "checklist" and "CheckList"
are different destination names.? You will still see the hand pointer (as
you hover over the hypertext marker), but because the names don't match, the
jump can't find the target to move the insertion point.




The "validate" function only really verifies that you have the syntax
correct for the marker you're adding, not that the command will work as
expected.? After all, you could enter the "goto" commands first, then define
the destinations as the second step...





You can test a link by temporarily locking the document via Save as View
Only or the escape sequence Esc F l k (four separate key
presses: escape, Capital-F, lowercase-L lowercase-K ; this toggles the
locked or "view-only" state of the document) or just hold the control and
alt keys together as you hover over the hypertext marker.



I hope this helps. 





--- On Mon, 9/7/09, Susan Curtzwiler 
wrote:



  I am using Frame 7.0 with Vista Enterprise

Adobe Reader 9.0

Adobe Distiller 5.0



I
have been reading and following the help files and the User Guide for days
now.? I cannot successfully and consistently make a simple link within the
same document. 



It looks like you need to save as
"View Only" in order to activate the link.? I have done that and also saved
regular and I cannot get the link to jump from point A to point B


or in other words to go from the "new link" to the "specified destination".



Here is what I am doing.



1.?? Select the word or phrase that is the destination 

2.??; Go to Special>Hypertext 

3.?? In the Command box, select "Specify Named Destination" 

4.?? In the Syntax box it says "newlink"???and then next to that I type in
the word to be found? "checklist"? all lower case 

5.?? The checkbox for "Validate Command upon Insertion is checked 

6.?? Click on "New Hypertext Marker"



then I go to the starting point 



1.?? Select the word or phrase that will be marked as the starting point 

2.?? Go to Special>Hypertext 

3.?? In the Command box, select "Jump to Named Destination" 

4.?? In the Syntax box it says "gotolink" and then next to that I type in
the word that was used at the destination point "server"? all lowercase 

5.?? The checkbox for "Validate Command upon Insertion is checked 

6.?? Click on "New Hypertext Marker"



So, now from here is apparently where I get lost. 



If I save as "view only", I will get the hand pointer and it looks like it
will work. 



However, if I click on it, nothing happens. 



If I make a PDF, nothing happens. 



Please, what am I missing? 



Thanks, 



Sue Curtzwiler???susancu at vmc.com







? Les 








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Acrobat 7 truncates email address. Acrobat 8 OK

[Shlomo Perets]

Diane,

You wrote:

>Very strange behavior in Acrobat.  Looking for a cause and a cure.
>
>Environment:  WinXP PRo, FM8, Acrobat8 Pro.
>Customer environment: Reader 7 (platform probably XP Pro)
>
>We create our PDFs using Save As PDF in FM8.  Acrobat 8 Pro was installed
>after FM8, so Save as PDF is therefore using the Distiller (Adobe PDF)
>version that is installed with Acrobat.  We set the PDF version to Acrobat
>5.0 or later, to ensure that even customers with older versions of Acrobat
>can open the file.
>
>A few of our customers still have Reader 7 installed, and some are reporting
>an unusual problem with the PDF files.  When viewed with Reader 7, email
>addresses in the PDFs are truncated and the links do not work.  However they
>display correctly and the links work correctly in Acrobat 8.  We cannot
>check, because as you know, we cannot have multiple versions of Acrobat
>installed at the same time.
>
>Have any of you seen this problem, and if so, know what causes it?



Starting with Acrobat and Reader 7, there is a preference of "Automatically 
detect URLs from text" (Edit > Preferences, General; in versions 8 and 9 it 
is called "Create Links from URLs").

When this preference is enabled (default), e-mail and web addresses present 
in the text are interpreted as links when the PDF is displayed (without any 
hypertext links defined in FrameMaker). Acrobat 7.x interpretation of 
e-mail addresses is incorrect -- the presence of a dot, an underscore or a 
hyphen "disturbs" the address and it is truncated (so, for example, 
John.Doe at company.com is interpreted as Doe at company.com).

This was fixed in Acrobat/Reader 8, so if you display the same PDF in 
Acrobat/Reader 8 or 9 the interpreted link will be OK.

To have fully-functional e-mail links in all versions of Reader, I 
recommend adding hypertext links in FrameMaker, so that a "real" e-mail 
links are present in the PDF (and not relying on auto-detected ones).

When longer web links that are split between lines are auto-detected: all 
versions of Acrobat/Reader will only use the portion present in the first 
line (resulting in an incorrect or partial link); having real web links 
(defined in FrameMaker) will fix that too.

[Note: another reason not to rely on auto-detection of web links is that 
some end-users may use non-Adobe PDF viewers, which support various subsets 
of Acrobat/Reader functionality]


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ANN: West Street Structure Tools 2.0 is released

[r...@weststreetconsulting.com]

Hi,

West Street Consulting is pleased to announce the release of its
Structure Tools plugin, version 2.0. This version includes a new
modeless attribute editor that significantly speeds up the process of
editing attribute values, with a variety of amenities such as multiple
element support, alphabetization, and tokenized values. The software is
not free; however, a fully-functional shareware version is available for
you to try it out. For more information, please visit
www.weststreetconsulting.com.

Thanks,
Russ Ward
Owner

West Street Structure Tools 2.0 is released

[RJ Jacquez]

Hi Russ, thanks for letting us know about the new version. I just tested it and 
the new modeless attribute editor looks great and it fits right in with our new 
UI in FrameMaker 9.

I appreciate all the work you put into these plug-ins and please know that I 
always recommend them to my customers.  Incidentally, here's something I just 
posted on Twitter: http://twitter.com/rjacquez/statuses/3850607483 

Thanks again.

Sincerely,

RJ J?cquez
Senior Product Evangelist
Adobe Technical Communication Suite 
Adobe eLearning Suite
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Hi,

West Street Consulting is pleased to announce the release of its
Structure Tools plugin, version 2.0. This version includes a new
modeless attribute editor that significantly speeds up the process of
editing attribute values, with a variety of amenities such as multiple
element support, alphabetization, and tokenized values. The software is
not free; however, a fully-functional shareware version is available for
you to try it out. For more information, please visit
www.weststreetconsulting.com.

Thanks,
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Paragraph format not converting correctly

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:00:29 -0400, "Martha Lee"  
wrote:

>I'm using Mif2Go 3.3 and FrameMaker 7 to produce OmniHelp. I have a
>conversion template to map paragraph formats. The output is fine except for
>one paragraph format; the text for that format is too big. I've checked the
>conversion template, and the format is correct. Anyone know of a reason why
>a particular format would come out a different font size in OmniHelp?

First, look at local.css and see if it's correct there.
Assuming the CSS shows a size that's too big, the next 
step is either just fix the CSS, or figure out why it
came out that way.  Possible reasons are name conflicts
for formats (two formats with names that become a single
name when the CSS rules for names are applied, like
"Heading 1" and "heading1"), or incorrect element name 
for format (CSS says "p.name" but element is an "li").

There are fixes for any problem, but first you need to 
identify the exact problem.  ;-)

HTH!

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
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Creating paragraph style with colored bar bearing a graphic

[Gordon Maney]

Hello, first post ever

I have been using Framemaker for about six or seven years, primarily
within the context of a manual document template created long ago. I
have forgotten how we made a particular paragraph style and need to make
some more like it.

This style is used for cautions and warnings in technical manuals
pertaining to industrial machinery. The current ones have a colored bar
running full column width, and the bar displays a graphic symbol
[triangle including an exclamation point] and the word, warning or
caution. Below that bar is where your entered text will appear; the
specifics of your warning or caution.

To be in compliance with some international styles of safety
information, I need to make some more, perhaps with different symbols
and certainly different words. I can't for the life of me figure out how
these are constructed.

Can someone here tell me how to do this? I would be happy to email some
examples to someone if that was helpful or necessary.

Thank you for your consideration

GM