Re: Image overlapping table borders?
On 7 Nov 2011 at 10:36, Steve Nelson wrote: Using Frame10 and dita 1.2. See attached screen grab from a PDF. When I set up some images in tables, they look fine in the native XML file. However, when I convert to composite FM and ultimately PDF, some of the graphics overlap the table borders. Do I need to alter the table to include more padding/spacing? Steve, IMHO this is a display problem. Try a larger zoom level (in FM and in PDF). Klaus Daube ~~ Docu + Design Daube; Schäracher 11; CH-8053 Zürich Technical documentation consultancy; On-line and paper F: +41-44-422 86 25 E: d...@daube.ch W: www.daube.ch ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
Framemaker 10/Ditamap odd behavior
Hello, I have a ditamap that, when I do a simple save, Framemaker wants to save it as a .fm file. My other ditamaps don't do this. Something I've noticed is that this particular ditamap has a file size of about 1.2 mb, where the others are all around 25k. Any idea what could be happening here? Thank you. Stephen Nelson Technical Writer Ameritherm, Inc./Ambrell 39 Main St. Scottsville, NY 14546 snel...@ambrell.com 585.889.0288 (office) - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1411 / Virus Database: 2092/4004 - Release Date: 11/08/11 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
Framemaker 10 crashes when changing conditional text display setting
Hi everyone We're getting Framemaker 10 crashes when changing conditional text display settings on some files (3 so far out of several hundred). It crashes, for example, when we toggle between build expressions and/or Show As Per Condition settings. Depending on file and display settings, it crashes after anything between 1 and 40ish display actions. 40 we could live with; 1 or 2 makes the files unusable. The error message is Internal error 10014, 5988022, 5988444, 4795055. Sometimes we have to forcefully close FM after this. Other times, FM closes itself and we get another dialog box: The instruction at 0x033e76e0 referenced memory at 0x0d9af94b. The memory could not be read. Or sometimes, 'the memory could not be written'. And once, it was the exception Privileged instruction. (0xc096) occurred in the application at location 0x0c76e57a. The hex values vary from PC to PC but the actions to cause each crash don't. The files have multi-page tables with conditional text in the tables. They were created in Frame 7.0 and upgraded straight to 10.0.0. We're using conditional text with 11 conditions and 8 boolean expressions. I've trawled the forum and frameusers list, and tried: * 5 different machines - they all see the issue. * washing through MIF - the MIF files crash FM too. * working locally instead of across the network - no difference. * showing all conditions and then looking in the Mif files for any text in a flow called Hidden. There wasn't any. * saving after every change of conditional text display setting. This sometimes works but it's a pain! * removing all the paragraph overrides in the file. This worked for 1 out of 3 files. * removing the tables and/or removing conditional text from them. This worked for 2 out of 3 files, and improved the 3rd, but I don't think it's a feasible fix. We're all running FM 10.0.1.402 on Win XP Pro SP3, 32 bit machines. The amount of RAM varies, but some PCs have 4 Gig. We've all installed the MS hotfix for the text dropout issue. Files are unstructured. Has anyone else seen anything like this? Any ideas of anything else we can try? Any ideas of a cause?? Many thanks, Rebecca PS X-posting this to the Adobe Frame forum. Apologies to people who're on both. NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please notify Allied Telesis Labs Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender has the authority to issue and specifically states them to be the views of Allied Telesis Labs. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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: Framemaker 10/Ditamap odd behavior
Hi Steve... It sounds like this file *is* an FM file. Try forcing a save to XML (with a .ditamap extension) overwriting itself and you should be OK. this happens when FM crashes and you say OK to the prompt to open the recover file. ...scott Sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos or unexpected brevity. On Nov 8, 2011, at 8:53 AM, Steve Nelson snel...@ambrell.com wrote: Hello, I have a ditamap that, when I do a simple save, Framemaker wants to save it as a .fm file. My other ditamaps don't do this. Something I've noticed is that this particular ditamap has a file size of about 1.2 mb, where the others are all around 25k. Any idea what could be happening here? Thank you. Stephen Nelson Technical Writer Ameritherm, Inc./Ambrell 39 Main St. Scottsville, NY 14546 snel...@ambrell.com 585.889.0288 (office) - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1411 / Virus Database: 2092/4004 - Release Date: 11/08/11 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as s...@leximation.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sp10%40leximation.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 framers@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: Framemaker 10/Ditamap odd behavior
If you expect that it actually contains data not in the real file, open it then force save to XML, otherwise say No and delete it. ...scott Sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos or unexpected brevity. On Nov 9, 2011, at 7:17 AM, Steve Nelson snel...@ambrell.com wrote: Yup, I think that's exactly what happened. I did have a FM crash, and did choose OK for the recover file. In the future, should I say NO to opening the recover file, and delete it? Thank you. Stephen Nelson Technical Writer Ameritherm, Inc./Ambrell 39 Main St. Scottsville, NY 14546 snel...@ambrell.com 585.889.0288 (office) From: Scott Prentice [mailto:s...@leximation.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 10:13 AM To: Steve Nelson Cc: Framers Subject: Re: Framemaker 10/Ditamap odd behavior Hi Steve... It sounds like this file *is* an FM file. Try forcing a save to XML (with a .ditamap extension) overwriting itself and you should be OK. this happens when FM crashes and you say OK to the prompt to open the recover file. ...scott Sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos or unexpected brevity. On Nov 8, 2011, at 8:53 AM, Steve Nelson snel...@ambrell.com wrote: Hello, I have a ditamap that, when I do a simple save, Framemaker wants to save it as a .fm file. My other ditamaps don't do this. Something I've noticed is that this particular ditamap has a file size of about 1.2 mb, where the others are all around 25k. Any idea what could be happening here? Thank you. Stephen Nelson Technical Writer Ameritherm, Inc./Ambrell 39 Main St. Scottsville, NY 14546 snel...@ambrell.com 585.889.0288 (office) - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1411 / Virus Database: 2092/4004 - Release Date: 11/08/11 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as s...@leximation.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sp10%40leximation.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for moreresources and info. No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1411 / Virus Database: 2092/4006 - Release Date: 11/09/11 No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1411 / Virus Database: 2092/4006 - Release Date: 11/09/11 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
Translating English to Portuguese
2011-11-09-03T18:15Z FrameMaker 9.0p255 Mif2Go 33U43 (with FrameMaker 8.n) I've addressed this to three e-mail lists, so my apologies to all who receive it more than once. Will you please help identify the considerations of translating a manual and then producing on-station help from the translated files? In on-station help for FrameMaker 9.0p255, I found verbiage to the effect that FrameMaker 8.0 has Dictionary and hyphenation support . . . for Portuguese. Given: 1. Source files are to be in English in FrameMaker 9.0p255. 2. Source files are to be translated from English to Portuguese. 3. From translated source files, we will need to produce either a. HTML help (.htm) without context sensitivity or b. Compiled HTML help (.chm) with context sensitivity The source files are in FrameMaker 7.n, and we are confident that we can open and save the source files through 8.n and into 9.n. ¡Thanks! Dave Stamm Information Engineer tel: 260-434-9620 fax: 260.434.9606 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
question on DITA - FMx
Hi, Does anyone have any experience with the DITA - FMx tools from Leximation? I went to the website but didn't get a clear picture of what it is offering the user. Is it supposed to work with structured framemaker? What advantages does it offer? Thanks, Linda ~~ Linda Rose Content and Training Development QAD, Inc. 100 Innovation Place Santa Barbara, CA 93108 U.S.A. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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: question on DITA - FMx
Hi Linda We have a lot of experience with DITA-FMx and we like it a lot. Yes, it works with structured Framemaker because you use it to author and publish DITA-structured content in XML. This is a list of the advantages which DITA-FMx offers compared to the DITA support in various versions of FrameMaker: http://leximation.com/dita-fmx/featurecomparison.php You can also find some movies of DITA-FMx on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dita-fmxaq=f Kind regards Yves Barbion www.scripto.nu On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Linda Rose l...@qad.com wrote: Hi, Does anyone have any experience with the DITA - FMx tools from Leximation? I went to the website but didn't get a clear picture of what it is offering the user. Is it supposed to work with structured framemaker? What advantages does it offer? Thanks, Linda ~~ Linda Rose Content and Training Development QAD, Inc. 100 Innovation Place Santa Barbara, CA 93108 U.S.A. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as yves.barb...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/yves.barbion%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 framers@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.
OT: Phone number links in PDFs on smart phone
Hello Framers, I have a client that wants phone numbers in their PDFs to be dialable when viewed on a smart phone. Can this be done with web pages viewed on a smart phone? If so, what is the syntax? If I can determine the HTML syntax, I may be able to figure out what syntax to use in my PDF files. Any pointers and suggestions will be appreciated. Thank you very much. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-659-8267 r...@frameexpert.com http://www.frameexpert.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
Hyperlink from Frame to Folder in Network
I thought this would be a simple thing to do but... I currently have a Frame created pdf document that I need to link over the network to another Frame created pdf. I am using the following to create the link, openlink X:\filename.pdf and it works every time from wherever my first frame/pdf document is located to the second frame/pdf document. My problem comes when I try and write to a folder beyond the root of any directory. When I write openlink X:\foldername\filename.pdf the second backslash changes to some other character when I select edit hypertext and when the pdf file is generated, the link is not functional. What am I missing? What am I doing wrong? Any help down this path would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Gary Bankston ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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: Framemaker 10 crashes when changing conditional text display setting
Hi Rebecca, I had a similar problem 2-3 times with specific FM files. Usually, manually saving the files as MIF and then manually saving them back as FM10 solved the problem. HTH, Roman From: rebecca officer rebecca.offi...@alliedtelesis.co.nz To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 8:24 AM Subject: Framemaker 10 crashes when changing conditional text display setting Hi everyone We're getting Framemaker 10 crashes when changing conditional text display settings on some files (3 so far out of several hundred). It crashes, for example, when we toggle between build expressions and/or Show As Per Condition settings. Depending on file and display settings, it crashes after anything between 1 and 40ish display actions. 40 we could live with; 1 or 2 makes the files unusable. The error message is Internal error 10014, 5988022, 5988444, 4795055. Sometimes we have to forcefully close FM after this. Other times, FM closes itself and we get another dialog box: The instruction at 0x033e76e0 referenced memory at 0x0d9af94b. The memory could not be read. Or sometimes, 'the memory could not be written'. And once, it was the exception Privileged instruction. (0xc096) occurred in the application at location 0x0c76e57a. The hex values vary from PC to PC but the actions to cause each crash don't. The files have multi-page tables with conditional text in the tables. They were created in Frame 7.0 and upgraded straight to 10.0.0. We're using conditional text with 11 conditions and 8 boolean expressions. I've trawled the forum and frameusers list, and tried: * 5 different machines - they all see the issue. * washing through MIF - the MIF files crash FM too. * working locally instead of across the network - no difference. * showing all conditions and then looking in the Mif files for any text in a flow called Hidden. There wasn't any. * saving after every change of conditional text display setting. This sometimes works but it's a pain! * removing all the paragraph overrides in the file. This worked for 1 out of 3 files. * removing the tables and/or removing conditional text from them. This worked for 2 out of 3 files, and improved the 3rd, but I don't think it's a feasible fix. We're all running FM 10.0.1.402 on Win XP Pro SP3, 32 bit machines. The amount of RAM varies, but some PCs have 4 Gig. We've all installed the MS hotfix for the text dropout issue. Files are unstructured. Has anyone else seen anything like this? Any ideas of anything else we can try? Any ideas of a cause?? Many thanks, Rebecca PS X-posting this to the Adobe Frame forum. Apologies to people who're on both. NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please notify Allied Telesis Labs Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender has the authority to issue and specifically states them to be the views of Allied Telesis Labs. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as banks_ro...@yahoo.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/banks_roman%40yahoo.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 framers@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: Image overlapping table borders?
Thank you Klaus, However, I'm not sure this is the case. The graphics also appear this way when printed (1:1, no resizing/scaling, etc...) Stephen Nelson Technical Writer Ameritherm, Inc./Ambrell 39 Main St. Scottsville, NY 14546 snel...@ambrell.com 585.889.0288 (office) -Original Message- From: Klaus Daube [mailto:fr...@daube.ch] Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 3:09 AM To: Steve Nelson; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Image overlapping table borders? On 7 Nov 2011 at 10:36, Steve Nelson wrote: Using Frame10 and dita 1.2. See attached screen grab from a PDF. When I set up some images in tables, they look fine in the native XML file. However, when I convert to composite FM and ultimately PDF, some of the graphics overlap the table borders. Do I need to alter the table to include more padding/spacing? Steve, IMHO this is a display problem. Try a larger zoom level (in FM and in PDF). Klaus Daube ~~ Docu + Design Daube; Schäracher 11; CH-8053 Zürich Technical documentation consultancy; On-line and paper F: +41-44-422 86 25 E: d...@daube.ch W: www.daube.ch - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1411 / Virus Database: 2092/4004 - Release Date: 11/08/11 - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1411 / Virus Database: 2092/4006 - Release Date: 11/09/11 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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: Framemaker 10/Ditamap odd behavior
Yup, I think that's exactly what happened. I did have a FM crash, and did choose OK for the recover file. In the future, should I say NO to opening the recover file, and delete it? Thank you. Stephen Nelson Technical Writer Ameritherm, Inc./Ambrell 39 Main St. Scottsville, NY 14546 snel...@ambrell.com 585.889.0288 (office) _ From: Scott Prentice [mailto:s...@leximation.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 10:13 AM To: Steve Nelson Cc: Framers Subject: Re: Framemaker 10/Ditamap odd behavior Hi Steve... It sounds like this file *is* an FM file. Try forcing a save to XML (with a .ditamap extension) overwriting itself and you should be OK. this happens when FM crashes and you say OK to the prompt to open the recover file. ...scott Sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos or unexpected brevity. On Nov 8, 2011, at 8:53 AM, Steve Nelson snel...@ambrell.com wrote: Hello, I have a ditamap that, when I do a simple save, Framemaker wants to save it as a .fm file. My other ditamaps don't do this. Something I've noticed is that this particular ditamap has a file size of about 1.2 mb, where the others are all around 25k. Any idea what could be happening here? Thank you. Stephen Nelson Technical Writer Ameritherm, Inc./Ambrell 39 Main St. Scottsville, NY 14546 snel...@ambrell.com 585.889.0288 (office) - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1411 / Virus Database: 2092/4004 - Release Date: 11/08/11 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as s...@leximation.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sp10%40leximation.com http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sp10%40leximation.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1411 / Virus Database: 2092/4006 - Release Date: 11/09/11 _ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1411 / Virus Database: 2092/4006 - Release Date: 11/09/11 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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: Framemaker 10 crashes when changing conditional text display setting
Hi Winfried I'm embarrassed to admit I hadn't thought of that! But it didn't work. I opened a blank file, imported all settings from our template, and pasted in the contents of a sick file. It still crashed. I even went back to an old template from before we started using build expressions, and manually recreated the build expressions in the blank. no luck. Cheers Rebecca On 10/11/11 at 01:11, Reng, Dr. Winfried wr...@tycoint.com wrote: Hi Rebecca, Did you try to import the file into a brandnew file? I have often heard that files might have remnants which might them make prone to crashes. Best regards Winfried From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of rebecca officer Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 7:24 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Framemaker 10 crashes when changing conditional text display setting Hi everyone We're getting Framemaker 10 crashes when changing conditional text display settings on some files (3 so far out of several hundred). It crashes, for example, when we toggle between build expressions and/or Show As Per Condition settings. Depending on file and display settings, it crashes after anything between 1 and 40ish display actions. 40 we could live with; 1 or 2 makes the files unusable. The error message is Internal error 10014, 5988022, 5988444, 4795055. Sometimes we have to forcefully close FM after this. Other times, FM closes itself and we get another dialog box: The instruction at 0x033e76e0 referenced memory at 0x0d9af94b. The memory could not be read. Or sometimes, 'the memory could not be written'. And once, it was the exception Privileged instruction. (0xc096) occurred in the application at location 0x0c76e57a. The hex values vary from PC to PC but the actions to cause each crash don't. The files have multi-page tables with conditional text in the tables. They were created in Frame 7.0 and upgraded straight to 10.0.0. We're using conditional text with 11 conditions and 8 boolean expressions. I've trawled the forum and frameusers list, and tried: * 5 different machines - they all see the issue. * washing through MIF - the MIF files crash FM too. * working locally instead of across the network - no difference. * showing all conditions and then looking in the Mif files for any text in a flow called Hidden. There wasn't any. * saving after every change of conditional text display setting. This sometimes works but it's a pain! * removing all the paragraph overrides in the file. This worked for 1 out of 3 files. * removing the tables and/or removing conditional text from them. This worked for 2 out of 3 files, and improved the 3rd, but I don't think it's a feasible fix. We're all running FM 10.0.1.402 on Win XP Pro SP3, 32 bit machines. The amount of RAM varies, but some PCs have 4 Gig. We've all installed the MS hotfix for the text dropout issue. Files are unstructured. Has anyone else seen anything like this? Any ideas of anything else we can try? Any ideas of a cause?? Many thanks, Rebecca PS X-posting this to the Adobe Frame forum. Apologies to people who're on both. NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please notify Allied Telesis Labs Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender has the authority to issue and specifically states them to be the views of Allied Telesis Labs. NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please notify Allied Telesis Labs Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender has the authority to issue and specifically states them to be the views of Allied Telesis Labs. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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: Framemaker 10 crashes when changing conditional text display setting
Hi Roman That's interesting. I did manually save the file as MIF. Did you try/find anything else? Anything that your sick files had in common? We're speculating it's FM's pagination engine getting upset with CT causing repeated major changes to pagination. But that's pure speculation! Cheers Rebecca On 10/11/11 at 01:30, Roman Banks banks_ro...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Rebecca, I had a similar problem 2-3 times with specific FM files. Usually, manually saving the files as MIF and then manually saving them back as FM10 solved the problem. HTH, Roman From: rebecca officer rebecca.offi...@alliedtelesis.co.nz To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 8:24 AM Subject: Framemaker 10 crashes when changing conditional text display setting Hi everyone We're getting Framemaker 10 crashes when changing conditional text display settings on some files (3 so far out of several hundred). It crashes, for example, when we toggle between build expressions and/or Show As Per Condition settings. Depending on file and display settings, it crashes after anything between 1 and 40ish display actions. 40 we could live with; 1 or 2 makes the files unusable. The error message is Internal error 10014, 5988022, 5988444, 4795055. Sometimes we have to forcefully close FM after this. Other times, FM closes itself and we get another dialog box: The instruction at 0x033e76e0 referenced memory at 0x0d9af94b. The memory could not be read. Or sometimes, 'the memory could not be written'. And once, it was the exception Privileged instruction. (0xc096) occurred in the application at location 0x0c76e57a. The hex values vary from PC to PC but the actions to cause each crash don't. The files have multi-page tables with conditional text in the tables. They were created in Frame 7.0 and upgraded straight to 10.0.0. We're using conditional text with 11 conditions and 8 boolean expressions. I've trawled the forum and frameusers list, and tried: * 5 different machines - they all see the issue. * washing through MIF - the MIF files crash FM too. * working locally instead of across the network - no difference. * showing all conditions and then looking in the Mif files for any text in a flow called Hidden. There wasn't any. * saving after every change of conditional text display setting. This sometimes works but it's a pain! * removing all the paragraph overrides in the file. This worked for 1 out of 3 files. * removing the tables and/or removing conditional text from them. This worked for 2 out of 3 files, and improved the 3rd, but I don't think it's a feasible fix. We're all running FM 10.0.1.402 on Win XP Pro SP3, 32 bit machines. The amount of RAM varies, but some PCs have 4 Gig. We've all installed the MS hotfix for the text dropout issue. Files are unstructured. Has anyone else seen anything like this? Any ideas of anything else we can try? Any ideas of a cause?? Many thanks, Rebecca PS X-posting this to the Adobe Frame forum. Apologies to people who're on both. NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please notify Allied Telesis Labs Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender has the authority to issue and specifically states them to be the views of Allied Telesis Labs. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as banks_ro...@yahoo.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/banks_roman%40yahoo.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please notify Allied Telesis Labs Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender has the authority to issue and specifically states them to be the views of Allied Telesis Labs. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit
FrameMaker10 Graphics Problems and Strange Object Grouping Behavior
Hello, Our technical publications team recently upgraded from Frame 7 to Frame 10 (Version 10.0.1.408) included with the Technical Communication Suite on Windows 7. Unfortunately, we are seeing a lot of crashes when we work on graphics using Frame's drawing tools or when importing snapshots. We've tried MIF washing all of our files, but we are still seeing frequent crashes when working with graphics. One specific problem that we are seeing is that Frame is having a hard time grouping all objects in our often complex block diagrams. I have tried selecting all of the boxes, lines, and text lines in a figure in order to group them all, only to have one or more elements, which I thought I had selected, remain ungrouped. Does anyone have any guidelines on grouping to prevent this type of problem? Or is this just a Frame bug that we have to live with until Adobe comes out with a patch? Also, does anyone know if Adobe is working on improving how Frame handles graphics so that it doesn't crash so frequently? I assume that Frame 10 is sending error reports to Adobe when these crashes occur, but I can't seem to locate any information on this problem on Adobe's support site. We're seriously considering going to an outside drawing tool like Visio because Frame no longer seems like it can handle complex block diagrams. And in the past we really like the Frame drawing tools because they were easy to use, helped keep our file sizes smaller since we weren't importing a lot of graphics, and looked sharper in our online production than imported gifs or jpgs. Any suggestions on managing graphics or using the drawing tools in Frame10 would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your help. *** Todd Bersley Technical Writer STD Applications Documentation Teradyne, Inc. Agoura Hills, CA USA 818-874-7884___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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: question on DITA - FMx
Dear Linda, You have impeccable timing. It happens that Front Runner Training is having a FREE F.U.N. (FrameMaker User Network) event tomorrow, November 10th, that you can join online via GoToMeeting for information regarding your question about DITA - FMx tools from Leximation, getting a clear picture of what it is offering the user, how it works with structured FrameMaker and what advantages it has to offer. Tim Grantham will be doing a Structured FrameMaker 10 presentation, including a demo of Leximations DITA-FMx plug-in for authoring and publishing DITA content in FrameMaker, at 1:30 EST. I believe you will get a lot out of it. Here is the information about the event and the GoToMeeting link. 9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.: Check-in and Continental Breakfast 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.: Alan Houser presents on Integration of FrameMaker and RoboHelp within the Technical Communication Suite 11:30 - Noon: Q A with Alan Noon - 1:00 p.m: Lunch Break - either bring a lunch or enjoy one of the many wonderful restaurants in the area. 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.: Arnis Gubins will do a presentation of the Datazone Miramo Personal Edition. 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.: Tim Grantham presents on Structured Frame 10, including a demo of Leximations DITA-FMx plug-in for authoring and publishing DITA content in FrameMaker, within that presentation. 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.: Q A with Alan, Arnis and Tim and wrap day. Below is the gotomeeting invitation to sign in. Ive started it 15 minutes early and ending 15 minutes later, for people to sign in and to ask questions. 1. Please join my meeting. https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/375576793 2. Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended. Or, call in using your telephone. Canada: +1 (647) 977-5956 United States: +1 (773) 945-1031 Access Code: 375-576-793 Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting Meeting ID: 375-576-793 GoToMeeting® Online Meetings Made Easy I look forward to having you join us. Sincerely, Veronica Kütt President Front Runner Training, a Div. of Front Runner Publishing Solutions Inc. 416-515-0155 Call Toll free: 1-877-999-0155 mailto:veron...@front-runner.com veron...@front-runner.com From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Linda Rose Sent: November-09-11 2:50 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: question on DITA - FMx Hi, Does anyone have any experience with the DITA - FMx tools from Leximation? I went to the website but didn't get a clear picture of what it is offering the user. Is it supposed to work with structured framemaker? What advantages does it offer? Thanks, Linda ~~ Linda Rose Content and Training Development QAD, Inc. 100 Innovation Place Santa Barbara, CA 93108 U.S.A. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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: Hyperlink from Frame to Folder in Network
Gary, Just use forward slashes in pathnames. FrameMaker reserves certain letters in combination with a backslash for special characters. I seem to remember that \f is used for the florin character (a cursive f). - Michael Am 10.11.2011 um 01:09 schrieb Gary Bankston gbanks6...@gmail.com: I thought this would be a simple thing to do but... I currently have a Frame created pdf document that I need to link over the network to another Frame created pdf. I am using the following to create the link, openlink X:\filename.pdf and it works every time from wherever my first frame/pdf document is located to the second frame/pdf document. My problem comes when I try and write to a folder beyond the root of any directory. When I write openlink X:\foldername\filename.pdf the second backslash changes to some other character when I select edit hypertext and when the pdf file is generated, the link is not functional. What am I missing? What am I doing wrong? Any help down this path would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Gary Bankston ___ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
Framemaker 10/Ditamap odd behavior
If you expect that it actually contains data not in the real file, open it then force save to XML, otherwise say No and delete it. ...scott Sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos or unexpected brevity. On Nov 9, 2011, at 7:17 AM, "Steve Nelson" wrote: > Yup, I think that's exactly what happened. I did have a FM crash, > and did choose OK for the recover file. > > In the future, should I say NO to opening the recover file, and > delete it? > > Thank you. > > Stephen Nelson > Technical Writer > Ameritherm, Inc./Ambrell > 39 Main St. > Scottsville, NY 14546 > snelson at ambrell.com > 585.889.0288 (office) > > > > From: Scott Prentice [mailto:sp10 at leximation.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 10:13 AM > To: Steve Nelson > Cc: Framers > Subject: Re: Framemaker 10/Ditamap odd behavior > > Hi Steve... > > It sounds like this file *is* an FM file. Try forcing a save to XML > (with a .ditamap extension) overwriting itself and you should be OK. > this happens when FM crashes and you say OK to the prompt to open > the recover file. > > ...scott > > Sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos or unexpected brevity. > > On Nov 8, 2011, at 8:53 AM, "Steve Nelson" > wrote: > >> >> Hello, >> I have a ditamap that, when I do a simple save, Framemaker wants to >> save it as a .fm file. My other ditamaps don't do this. Something >> I've noticed is that this particular ditamap has a file size of >> about 1.2 mb, where the others are all around 25k. >> >> Any idea what could be happening here? >> >> Thank you. >> Stephen Nelson >> Technical Writer >> Ameritherm, Inc./Ambrell >> 39 Main St. >> Scottsville, NY 14546 >> snelson at ambrell.com >> 585.889.0288 (office) >> >> >> >> - >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 10.0.1411 / Virus Database: 2092/4004 - Release Date: >> 11/08/11 >> > >> ___ >> >> >> You are currently subscribed to framers as sp10 at leximation.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/sp10%40leximation.com >> >> Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit >> http://www.frameusers.com/ for moreresources and info. > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1411 / Virus Database: 2092/4006 - Release Date: > 11/09/11 > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1411 / Virus Database: 2092/4006 - Release Date: > 11/09/11 -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/2009/c33c6a03/attachment.html>