RE: Paragraphs wrapping prematurely
Hi, Check also this setting in your maker.ini file: DisplayUsingPrinterMetrics=On If this setting is set to Off, the characters are displayed and spaced for high readability. However, this might result in text lines which are shorter than when printed. When this setting is On, the characters have the same width as when printed (to a real printer or to a PDF file). When you edit your maker.ini file, use the one in your own applications folder. Do not forget to make a backup copy first. You can use a regular text editor like Microsoft Editor. Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Joanne Tait Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 10:57 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Paragraphs wrapping prematurely Thanks for all the offers to help but the winning solution was that when viewing the docs at magnifications greater than 100% on a big monitor, the wrapping looked off. Setting it to 100% showed that all is right with the world. Thank you very much. On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Joanne Tait jlt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm running FM 7.2p158 on Windows XP SP2 with the FM hotfix installed. I've inherited a document that was originally formated for print output (6.5 X 9 inches) but now only ships as PDF. As such, I'm reducing the page count by moving to US Letter size and increasing the column sizes and margins in my master page. My problem now is that the text in the frames wraps much too far from the right margin even though I have the right indents set to 0.0 for all paragraph formats. If I change the alignment to Full, the text continues all the way across but simply stretches the same number of words/characters the whole way across. When I set the alignment back to Left, it returns to the strange wrapping issue. Please reply directly to me as I'm on digest. Your suggestions will be most welcomed. Thanks - Joanne Tait ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as wr...@tycoint.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/wreng%40ty coint.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.
equation editor for FM 9.0
All, I have found that FM's equation editor is about the worst part of FrameMaker. Using it to create equations is like playing a piano with boxing gloves on. Does anyone know of another equation editor plugin that is compatible with FM 9.0 on XP Pro? Jon Harvey Manager, Desktop Enterprise Documentation CambridgeSoft Corporation 100 CambridgePark Drive Cambridge, MA 02140 (617) 588-9354 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as 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: Very slow when printing either to Adobe PDF or Print To File
Just a quick update. As it turns out, this issue was indeed related to the order of install for FM 9 and my version of Acrobat. When I reinstalled Acrobat, Save As PDF started working, and the Adobe PDF printer performance improved significantly. Thank you, Richard, for reminding me about Acrobat being installed last. That was the key. Thanks also to the other folks who responded with advice. Kathy Blake 3M Health Information Systems Documentation Dept. Tel: 801-265-4462 From: Combs, Richard richard.co...@polycom.com To: 'kbla...@mmm.com' kbla...@mmm.com Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com framers@lists.frameusers.com Date: 04/22/2010 09:50 PM Subject: RE: Very slow when printing either to Adobe PDF or Print To File kbla...@mmm.com wrote: I haven't been very good about including all the relevant details in my responses. My coworker and I have been troubleshooting this together. When IT tried to help her, they uninstalled all of her printers, including Adobe PDF, then reinstalled all her printers, except for Adobe PDF. Now, she had never used Adobe PDF in the past, but the fact that it was now gone really perturbed her. She nagged IT and they didn't know how to get Adobe PDF back for her, so they told her to use PDFCreator instead, and it resulted in a drastic improvement in the speed of her PDF-making. That is why I also decided to install PDFCreator. I'm copying the list in my reply because others may have more/better insights -- wisdom of the crowd, you know. I don't know anything about PDFCreator, but I'd be surprised if your coworker's PDFs weren't missing the features that the integration of Distiller with FM provides -- like working hyperlinks for cross-references, the TOC, and index, and bookmarks created from the paragraphs selected in FM's PDF Setup. Adobe PDF is a non-hardware-specific printer driver designed for creating PDFs. Using a hardware-specific printer driver (e.g., HP or Ricoh -- whatever your company uses as a physical printer) is a bad idea, as Adobe's Dov Isaacs and others have stated many times. Regarding the order of FM and Acrobat installs, I think you may be on to something. It hadn't dawned on me that when I installed FM 9 last year, I was installing it *after* Acrobat 8 which was installed 2 years ago. I'm wondering if that is what is causing my problems. I didn't start using FM 9 in any significant way until just a few weeks agovery close to the time when our printers were switched out. Prior to that, I was using FM 7 with the previous printers, and now I find I have problems with both FM 7 and FM 9 as I use these new printers to make PDFs. Once again, I can make a PDF as always, it's just really, really slow now. I'm not convinced the new printer drivers innocent in all of this, but maybe it is a perfect storm of printer drivers and an Acrobat/FM problem. I'll have to see what I can do about reinstalling Acrobat. I'm in the middle of a release right now so I don't want to mess with stuff too much. Regarding Adobe PDF, I do see it in my Printers and Faxes, and the port is indeed set to My Documents\*.pdf. I really, really appreciate your insights. I'm a bit embarrassed to have used FM all these years yet still be ignorant of the inner workings. It has all worked flawlessly up to this point so I never had a reason to check under the hood. If I were you, as soon as time permits, I'd reinstall Acrobat. And use Adobe PDF as the printer. That alone may solve the problem. I don't know if there are any issues or tips for using FM 9 with Acro 8 -- maybe someone else does. But you shouldn't be having problems with using FM 7 and Acro 8 -- as long as both are properly installed and you set your printer in FM to Adobe PDF. Good luck! Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 -- rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-903-6372 -- ___ 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.
equation editor for FM 9.0
All, I have found that FM's equation editor is about the worst part of FrameMaker. Using it to create equations is like playing a piano with boxing gloves on. Does anyone know of another equation editor plugin that is compatible with FM 9.0 on XP Pro? Jon Harvey Manager, Desktop & Enterprise Documentation CambridgeSoft Corporation 100 CambridgePark Drive Cambridge, MA 02140 (617) 588-9354
Very slow when printing either to Adobe PDF or Print To File
Just a quick update. As it turns out, this issue was indeed related to the order of install for FM 9 and my version of Acrobat. When I reinstalled Acrobat, Save As PDF started working, and the Adobe PDF printer performance improved significantly. Thank you, Richard, for reminding me about Acrobat being installed last. That was the key. Thanks also to the other folks who responded with advice. Kathy Blake 3M Health Information Systems Documentation Dept. Tel: 801-265-4462 From: "Combs, Richard" To: "'kblake2 at mmm.com'" Cc: "framers at lists.frameusers.com" Date: 04/22/2010 09:50 PM Subject: RE: Very slow when printing either to Adobe PDF or Print To File kblake2 at mmm.com wrote: > I haven't been very good about including all the relevant details in my > responses. My coworker and I have been troubleshooting this together. > When IT tried to help her, they uninstalled all of her printers, > including Adobe PDF, then reinstalled all her printers, except for > Adobe PDF. Now, she had never used Adobe PDF in the past, but the fact > that it was now gone really perturbed her. She nagged IT and they > didn't know how to get Adobe PDF back for her, so they told her to use > PDFCreator instead, and it resulted in a drastic improvement in the > speed of her PDF-making. That is why I also decided to install > PDFCreator. I'm copying the list in my reply because others may have more/better insights -- wisdom of the crowd, you know. I don't know anything about PDFCreator, but I'd be surprised if your coworker's PDFs weren't missing the features that the integration of Distiller with FM provides -- like working hyperlinks for cross-references, the TOC, and index, and bookmarks created from the paragraphs selected in FM's PDF Setup. Adobe PDF is a non-hardware-specific printer driver designed for creating PDFs. Using a hardware-specific printer driver (e.g., HP or Ricoh -- whatever your company uses as a physical printer) is a bad idea, as Adobe's Dov Isaacs and others have stated many times. > Regarding the order of FM and Acrobat installs, I think you may be on > to something. It hadn't dawned on me that when I installed FM 9 last > year, I was installing it *after* Acrobat 8 which was installed 2 years > ago. I'm wondering if that is what is causing my problems. I didn't > start using FM 9 in any significant way until just a few weeks > agovery close to the time when our printers were switched out. > Prior to that, I was using FM 7 with the previous printers, and now I > find I have problems with both FM 7 and FM 9 as I use these new > printers to make PDFs. Once again, I can make a PDF as always, it's > just really, really slow now. I'm not convinced the new printer drivers > innocent in all of this, but maybe it is a perfect storm of printer > drivers and an Acrobat/FM problem. I'll have to see what I can do about > reinstalling Acrobat. I'm in the middle of a release right now so I > don't want to mess with stuff too much. > > Regarding Adobe PDF, I do see it in my Printers and Faxes, and the port > is indeed set to My Documents\*.pdf. > > I really, really appreciate your insights. I'm a bit embarrassed to > have used FM all these years yet still be ignorant of the inner > workings. It has all worked flawlessly up to this point so I never had > a reason to check under the hood. If I were you, as soon as time permits, I'd reinstall Acrobat. And use Adobe PDF as the printer. That alone may solve the problem. I don't know if there are any issues or tips for using FM 9 with Acro 8 -- maybe someone else does. But you shouldn't be having problems with using FM 7 and Acro 8 -- as long as both are properly installed and you set your printer in FM to Adobe PDF. Good luck! Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 -- rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-903-6372 --
Paragraphs wrapping prematurely
Hi, Check also this setting in your maker.ini file: DisplayUsingPrinterMetrics=On If this setting is set to Off, the characters are displayed and spaced for high readability. However, this might result in text lines which are shorter than when printed. When this setting is On, the characters have the same width as when printed (to a real printer or to a PDF file). When you edit your maker.ini file, use the one in your own applications folder. Do not forget to make a backup copy first. You can use a regular text editor like Microsoft Editor. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Joanne Tait > Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 10:57 PM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Re: Paragraphs wrapping prematurely > > Thanks for all the offers to help but the winning solution > was that when > viewing the docs at magnifications greater than 100% on a big > monitor, the > wrapping looked off. Setting it to 100% showed that all is > right with the > world. > > Thank you very much. > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Joanne Tait wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm running FM 7.2p158 on Windows XP SP2 with the FM hotfix > installed. > > > > I've inherited a document that was originally formated for > print output > > (6.5 X 9 inches) but now only ships as PDF. As such, I'm > reducing the page > > count by moving to US Letter size and increasing the column > sizes and > > margins in my master page. > > > > My problem now is that the text in the frames wraps much > too far from the > > right margin even though I have the right indents set to 0.0 for all > > paragraph formats. > > > > If I change the alignment to Full, the text continues all > the way across > > but simply stretches the same number of words/characters > the whole way > > across. When I set the alignment back to Left, it returns > to the strange > > wrapping issue. > > > > Please reply directly to me as I'm on digest. Your > suggestions will be most > > welcomed. > > > > Thanks - Joanne Tait > > > > > > > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as wreng at tycoint.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/wreng%40ty coint.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >
