Best Frame-sourced method for modernizing documentation delivery?
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Best Frame-sourced method for modernizing documentation delivery?
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Hi everyone, [Sent this yesterday from Thunderbird where it went through blank...] I'm at frame 7.0p578 and I'm having an issue with numbered lists and text flows. I have a document with two flows, A B, in parallel on a page. In flow A, my numbered lists sequence fine. It is set to AutoConnect. With flow B, which appears to be identically set up, my numbered lists restart on every page. I've tried adjusting the master page, the frames individually, auto-connect on and off, and nothing seems to work. From the guide and a few pages out there on Google, it would appear that those are the only variables I should have to worry about. Any and all suggestions are appreciated! thanks, Kevin Kevin Hunter ExcelSystems Software Development, Inc. BCD International, Inc. www.bcdsoftware.com kev...@excelsystems.com (250) 6... Fax: (250) 655-1733 ___ 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.
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Hi everyone, [Sent this yesterday from Thunderbird where it went through blank...] I'm at frame 7.0p578 and I'm having an issue with numbered lists and text flows. I have a document with two flows, A & B, in parallel on a page. In flow A, my numbered lists sequence fine. It is set to AutoConnect. With flow B, which appears to be identically set up, my numbered lists restart on every page. I've tried adjusting the master page, the frames individually, auto-connect on and off, and nothing seems to work. From the guide and a few pages out there on Google, it would appear that those are the only variables I should have to worry about. Any and all suggestions are appreciated! thanks, Kevin Kevin Hunter ExcelSystems Software Development, Inc. BCD International, Inc. www.bcdsoftware.com kevinh at excelsystems.com (250) 6... Fax: (250) 655-1733
Problem with Flows
More Elegant Indexing Solution
Hi everyone, I have a series of user guides where the first few chapters typically include a tutorial, and the rest of the guide includes reference information (like for each option on each screen, that type of thing). So the first section and the last part may have overlapping topics, where in the first section it's more of a how-to approach, and in the last, it just tells you what it does. What I want to do is reflect this elegantly in the index, perhaps by having one type of reference in italics, and the standard references (to the reference section of the guide) in normal type. Currently I have a bit of a cumbersome approach, where in the actual index entries I just put the word (tutorial) into the ref. So what I want is tha instead of having this type of thing: Distribution Rules creating new distribution rules, 345 creating new distribution rules (tutorial), 47 to have something like Distribution Rules creating new distribution rules, 47, 345 (where the 47 is in italics, not sure if that'll come through when I send this email). Then, in my How to Use this Guide section, I'd just have to say once that the italics indicate references to the tutorial sections. thanks! Kevin Kevin Hunter ExcelSystems Software Development, Inc. BCD International, Inc. www.bcdsoftware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] (250) 655-1766 Fax: (250) 655-1733 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
More Elegant Indexing Solution
Hi everyone, I have a series of user guides where the first few chapters typically include a tutorial, and the rest of the guide includes reference information (like for each option on each screen, that type of thing). So the first section and the last part may have overlapping topics, where in the first section it's more of a how-to approach, and in the last, it just tells you what it does. What I want to do is reflect this elegantly in the index, perhaps by having one type of reference in italics, and the standard references (to the reference section of the guide) in normal type. Currently I have a bit of a cumbersome approach, where in the actual index entries I just put the word (tutorial) into the ref. So what I want is tha instead of having this type of thing: Distribution Rules creating new distribution rules, 345 creating new distribution rules (tutorial), 47 to have something like Distribution Rules creating new distribution rules, 47, 345 (where the 47 is in italics, not sure if that'll come through when I send this email). Then, in my How to Use this Guide section, I'd just have to say once that the italics indicate references to the tutorial sections. thanks! Kevin Kevin Hunter ExcelSystems Software Development, Inc. BCD International, Inc. www.bcdsoftware.com kevinh at excelsystems.com (250) 655-1766 Fax: (250) 655-1733
Moving book sections to nested folders without losing X refs
hi all, I have two large books that have dozens of cross references to each other. Because of a structural change to our software and the creation of a new sub-version of this application, I'm trying to rearrange the erstwhile book chapters, in both books, into subfolders to keep things a little more organized. Does anyone have any tips on how to move a chapter to a new subfolder (in explorer) in such a way that I don't have to then re-build all my cross references manually? thanks - Kevin ExcelSystems Software Development, Inc. BCD International, Inc. www.bcdsoftware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] (250) 655-1766 Fax: (250) 655-1733 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Updating cross reference markers
hi all, Over the years as our documents have evolved, and headings and subheadings have been fine-tuned and changed, and chapters moved around and titled re-worked as content changes, I've had a growing problem with my cross reference markers not matching the text of the actual paragraph/heading. Looking in the Framemaker 7 Ref guide, I found this helpful statement: "For paragraph cross references, the marker test contains a number assigned to the marker, and the paragraph tag and text of the paragraph being cross referenced. (The marker text is not updated, so the tag and text may not match the cross-reference.)" Is there in fact no way to update the cross reference markers across a book, so that they actually reflect the text of the heading/etc. that they're attached to? Or is it like a unique ID (key) used to establish the relationship? I would have expected there to be an underlying numeric key value or something, as well as the text itself. Or is that not the case? I couldn't find anything on this in the archives, nor online Thanks, Kevin Hunter ExcelSystems Software Development, Inc. BCD International, Inc. www.bcdsoftware.com kevinh at excelsystems.com (250) 655-1766 Fax: (250) 655-1733
volume numbers and volume titles
hi, A recent posting suggesting the use of the volume number as a solution caught my attention, and may also help me to resolve a similar situation I have. However, one thing I also do in my guides is put the section title in the footer of each chapter within that section. Can anyone suggest a way in which I could make that section title a variable such that if I moved the chapter to a different section (or I import my page layouts/variables from one chapter to the other 20... ), the section (or volume) title would also be correctly picked up, via the volume ID? For instance, in a guide I'll have these individual documents Cover page about this manual TOC Section 1 intro chap 1 chap 2 chap 3 Section 2 intro chap 4 chap 5 chap 6 and so on... so in the footer of my chapter 1, 2 and 3 pages, I'd like to include not only the section number, but the title of that section. It's late on a friday, so if you find this incoherent, I'll not be surprised! Thanks, Kevin ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
volume numbers and volume titles
hi, A recent posting suggesting the use of the volume number as a solution caught my attention, and may also help me to resolve a similar situation I have. However, one thing I also do in my guides is put the section title in the footer of each chapter within that section. Can anyone suggest a way in which I could make that section title a variable such that if I moved the chapter to a different section (or I import my page layouts/variables from one chapter to the other 20... ), the section (or volume) title would also be correctly picked up, via the volume ID? For instance, in a guide I'll have these individual documents Cover page about this manual TOC Section 1 intro chap 1 chap 2 chap 3 Section 2 intro chap 4 chap 5 chap 6 and so on... so in the footer of my chapter 1, 2 and 3 pages, I'd like to include not only the section number, but the title of that section. It's late on a friday, so if you find this incoherent, I'll not be surprised! Thanks, Kevin
Re: How long to learn framescript?
At 11:45 -0800 22/1/07, Diane Gaskill wrote: I'm considering asking my manager to buy FrameScript for me and I have to justify it of course. Does anyone have any data on how long it takes to become reasonably proficient using it. I have 4 years of sw dev experience and 15 years of FM experience. Hi Diane, I get the digest version of the mailing list and have been away so didn't get a chance to read this earlier. I just wanted to respond to your query from a different point of view: We had a series of user guides (totaling some 4000 pages) to which I wanted to apply some across-the-board formatting changes, resulting from inadequate document design and just a general need to update the look of our guides. Because of those same initial document design problems, I was having to perform some types of change manually, page by page... So after completing the changes across a few hundred pages, we looked at automating those, and eventually bought framescript, and complemented that with a couple of scripts we commissioned from Rick Quatro (Carmen Publishing). The scripts worked exactly as we needed, and completed correctly, in seconds, what would have required a few dozen hours of mind-numbingly repetitive work (where obviously I would have missed some changes, and been running into them periodically for months or years). So in our case, I never learned a thing about framescript other than how to run a script, but it paid for itself in a few minutes. And as others have said, because of the hassle often involved in learning scripts, as long as you have an understanding boss (who will trust your judgement on which tasks are worth hiring out and not delay that process more than a day or two), in the long run the most efficient and least stressful option might be to order your scripts from a consultant; in our case, it allowed me to focus on the tasks I'm primarily hired to do, and to me, this solution to our problem we had was akin to waving a magic wand at it and making it go away, it was immensely satisfying. Kevin Hunter ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
How long to learn framescript?
At 11:45 -0800 22/1/07, Diane Gaskill wrote: >I'm considering asking my manager to buy FrameScript for me and I have >to justify it of course. Does anyone have any data on how long it >takes to become reasonably proficient using it. I have 4 years of sw >dev experience and 15 years of FM experience. Hi Diane, I get the digest version of the mailing list and have been away so didn't get a chance to read this earlier. I just wanted to respond to your query from a different point of view: We had a series of user guides (totaling some 4000 pages) to which I wanted to apply some across-the-board formatting changes, resulting from inadequate document design and just a general need to update the look of our guides. Because of those same initial document design problems, I was having to perform some types of change manually, page by page... So after completing the changes across a few hundred pages, we looked at automating those, and eventually bought framescript, and complemented that with a couple of scripts we commissioned from Rick Quatro (Carmen Publishing). The scripts worked exactly as we needed, and completed correctly, in seconds, what would have required a few dozen hours of mind-numbingly repetitive work (where obviously I would have missed some changes, and been running into them periodically for months or years). So in our case, I never learned a thing about framescript other than how to run a script, but it paid for itself in a few minutes. And as others have said, because of the hassle often involved in learning scripts, as long as you have an understanding boss (who will trust your judgement on which tasks are worth hiring out and not delay that process more than a day or two), in the long run the most efficient and least stressful option might be to order your scripts from a consultant; in our case, it allowed me to focus on the tasks I'm primarily hired to do, and to me, this solution to our problem we had was akin to waving a magic wand at it and making it go away, it was immensely satisfying. Kevin Hunter
Easy-on-the-Eyes Switch
Hello everyone, I'm currently working with two 19 inch monitors, which definitely has it's plusses, but a suspected downside is that it's irritating my eyes. Most of the time I spend actually staring at the screen (with no breaks) is in Frame. Does anyone know if there's anything like an 'easy on the eyes' visible color scheme switch? Some of our software is for the ye olde green screen (black background, green text), which may be rudimentary, but definitely isn't visually overstimulating... thanks, kevin ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Easy-on-the-Eyes Switch
Hello everyone, I'm currently working with two 19 inch monitors, which definitely has it's plusses, but a suspected downside is that it's irritating my eyes. Most of the time I spend actually staring at the screen (with no breaks) is in Frame. Does anyone know if there's anything like an 'easy on the eyes' visible color scheme switch? Some of our software is for the ye olde green screen (black background, green text), which may be rudimentary, but definitely isn't visually overstimulating... thanks, kevin
techniques to indicate hyperlinks in frame
hello everyone, This is not strictly a Frame technical issue, but could turn into one, so I thought I'd try you first. We use frame to produce software user guides which we make available in print or as PDFs. Being a software guide, we have frequent web links for additional info of various kinds. I'm looking for a simple but effective technique of visually indicating, in the PDF version of the guide, that certain text strings are hyperlinks. Ideally, this technique would be invisible in the print version, where the links obviously wouldn't work. I don't want to include full URLs in the text flow because they can be long and ugly, and functionally useless: ie, no one is going to type in a 200 character URL (which may be the actual address address of a page, with all it's parameters, to subscribe to a web event) when the same URL can be gotten to by clicking a link directly from our home page. So in the text, I want to tell them how to find the link, and in the PDF version of the guide, I want part of those instructions to also BE a hyperlink. I've thought of using a simple icon to include within my text flow, which I'd hyperlink. This icon would be visible in both the printed and PDF versions of the guide, as I'm not sure it'd be worth the hassle to condition it out of the PDF I send to the printers. This isn't necessarily a totally undesirable solution, but I was just wondering if anyone had something more elegant, or knew of a standard for this type of thing. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Kevin Hunter BCD ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
techniques to indicate hyperlinks in frame
hello everyone, This is not strictly a Frame technical issue, but could turn into one, so I thought I'd try you first. We use frame to produce software user guides which we make available in print or as PDFs. Being a software guide, we have frequent web links for additional info of various kinds. I'm looking for a simple but effective technique of visually indicating, in the PDF version of the guide, that certain text strings are hyperlinks. Ideally, this technique would be invisible in the print version, where the links obviously wouldn't work. I don't want to include full URLs in the text flow because they can be long and ugly, and functionally useless: ie, no one is going to type in a 200 character URL (which may be the actual address address of a page, with all it's parameters, to subscribe to a web event) when the same URL can be gotten to by clicking a link directly from our home page. So in the text, I want to tell them how to find the link, and in the PDF version of the guide, I want part of those instructions to also BE a hyperlink. I've thought of using a simple icon to include within my text flow, which I'd hyperlink. This icon would be visible in both the printed and PDF versions of the guide, as I'm not sure it'd be worth the hassle to condition it out of the PDF I send to the printers. This isn't necessarily a totally undesirable solution, but I was just wondering if anyone had something more elegant, or knew of a standard for this type of thing. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Kevin Hunter BCD
Framemaker, WebWords and Graphics issues when Converting to HTML Help
Hi all, I have a Frame User Guide that we also convert to HTML help to use in the software application. The User Guide includes some 250 illustrations, in PNG format. In a significant number of those illustrations, I've used the Frame drawing tools (arrows and circles) to point out particular screen elements. I'm having a couple of problems when creating my HTML help: 1. First of all, the undoctored PNG images (with no arrows, circles) come across fine (other than the usual size issues, but I'm just planning on living with those... for now it's not worth my time to have two versions of a bunch of the images, unless there's a way to specify a conversion for images exceeding a particular width?) 2. The images that include the arrows, etc, all get converted to GIF's by default. The downside to this a drop in image quality, but I get to keep the arrows, etc. If I change to JPG at a quality of 100, I get an improvement, but converting to PNG (even at 16 million colors) is worse. 3. An alternative is to manually map the images with the arrows, etc, to PNGbyReference, which means that it keeps the original image (in all its crispness), but loses the arrows, etc. What I'd like is the best of both worlds: to have the same quality of my original images, but lay the arrows on top. Any suggestions? Is there a way to tweak the graphics converter in WebWorks to enhance how the conversion is handled? Thanks! Kevin Hunter ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Framemaker, WebWords and Graphics issues when Converting to HTML Help
Hi all, I have a Frame User Guide that we also convert to HTML help to use in the software application. The User Guide includes some 250 illustrations, in PNG format. In a significant number of those illustrations, I've used the Frame drawing tools (arrows and circles) to point out particular screen elements. I'm having a couple of problems when creating my HTML help: 1. First of all, the undoctored PNG images (with no arrows, circles) come across fine (other than the usual size issues, but I'm just planning on living with those... for now it's not worth my time to have two versions of a bunch of the images, unless there's a way to specify a conversion for images exceeding a particular width?) 2. The images that include the arrows, etc, all get converted to GIF's by default. The downside to this a drop in image quality, but I get to keep the arrows, etc. If I change to JPG at a quality of 100, I get an improvement, but converting to PNG (even at 16 million colors) is worse. 3. An alternative is to manually map the images with the arrows, etc, to PNGbyReference, which means that it keeps the original image (in all its crispness), but loses the arrows, etc. What I'd like is the best of both worlds: to have the same quality of my original images, but lay the arrows on top. Any suggestions? Is there a way to tweak the graphics converter in WebWorks to enhance how the conversion is handled? Thanks! Kevin Hunter
pagination of formats in an index
hi all, I'm trying to fine tune the appearance of an index, and finally got frustrated with my inability to figure something out for this apparently simple problem. I have an index with two levels of entries, and for the pagination, the top level entry is set to 'keep with Next paragraph'. However, if I have several consecutive top level entries with no sub entries below them, and they coincide with the bottom of a column on my page, I can end up with several blank lines at the bottom of a column, because it's keeping them all in a block and sucking them up to the top of the next column. Like this: Index Level 1 Index Level 2 Index Level 1 Index Level 1 Index Level 1 Index Level 1 Index Level 1 Index Level 2 In this scenario, if that block of level 1's was near the bottom of the column, to obey the 'keep with nxt paragraph', they go to the top of the next column, en masse. The reason I care about this now is that this particular index just happens to end up being slightly longer than an even number of pages, so I end up with just a couple of lines on my last page, followed by another blank page (to make the total even). So I was just looking for a way to optimize space in the other pages. other considerations: - I want to keep a least the first level 2 with it's level 1 (ie, don't want a column that ends with a level 1, and it's sub items starting the next column) - but I don't want to set the level 2's to keep with previous, because in my index bodies I sometimes have very long lists of sub-items for one main item, so this problem would just be more pronounced. Email me if you actually read this far, and the problem is still totally unclear Thanks in advance. Kevin Hunter BCD/ESDI
Indexing recommendations
Hi all, I'm at the indexing stage of a 400 page book for a product I hadn't worked with for about 3 years (so no memory of what I indexed before). The manual has also been totally restructured, and many features superseded by different ones. Now I'm looking at building the index, and the 'old', manual way is probably not going to work for me too well. The minimum I'd like is to see index entries inline. Anything extra is gravy, but I'm not convinced I do need much extra, so if I can see and work with entries inline (a View option?) for cheap/free, I'd start there. But if I have to pay for this feature, can you all recommend a product that has the best combination of other, extra features for the price? I've so far found: http://www.fsatools.com/ - IXgen (comparatively more costly, lots of features, but would I use them all?) http://www.leximation.com/tools/info/markertools.php - Leximation marker tools, less costly, but I have more trouble seeing the usefulness of some of the features http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html -Silicon Prairie index tools, cheapest, but doesn't seem to link directly into the frame marker system, does some other kind of marker? Anyway, I realize this is a regular question, so I do appreciate any time taken to send suggestions. Succinct, bulleted lists would be sufficient. Thanks, Kevin Hunter ESDI, Victoria BC ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Indexing recommendations
Hi all, I'm at the indexing stage of a 400 page book for a product I hadn't worked with for about 3 years (so no memory of what I indexed before). The manual has also been totally restructured, and many features superseded by different ones. Now I'm looking at building the index, and the 'old', manual way is probably not going to work for me too well. The minimum I'd like is to see index entries inline. Anything extra is gravy, but I'm not convinced I do need much extra, so if I can see and work with entries inline (a View option?) for cheap/free, I'd start there. But if I have to pay for this feature, can you all recommend a product that has the best combination of other, extra features for the price? I've so far found: http://www.fsatools.com/ - IXgen (comparatively more costly, lots of features, but would I use them all?) http://www.leximation.com/tools/info/markertools.php - Leximation marker tools, less costly, but I have more trouble seeing the usefulness of some of the features http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html -Silicon Prairie index tools, cheapest, but doesn't seem to link directly into the frame marker system, does some other kind of marker? Anyway, I realize this is a regular question, so I do appreciate any time taken to send suggestions. Succinct, bulleted lists would be sufficient. Thanks, Kevin Hunter ESDI, Victoria BC
linking to headings in PDF documents
Hi all, I create user guides for a software company, and we distribute these guides as PDFs with the software downloads. One of our products is a web portal. As part of the initial install of this web portal, we want to include an HTML TOC to the various sections within the user guide PDF. As the first attempt, I just created all my book files as individual PDFs, and that worked fine - I created links to the individual documents. However, now we also want to use portions of the user guide as help text for various features in the product. So what I think I need to do is create HTML links to named destionations within my PDF file. I haven't found a simple way to do this; I tried opening the PDF in acrobat and viewed named destinations, and wrote down the names of the chapter headings on a piece of paper, and I surmised that I could then create a hypertext link along the lines of: ...Nexus3RefGuideBuild1.pdf#page=6 or ...Nexus3RefGuideBuild1.pdf#nameddest=m5.9.14293... (referencing http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/PDFOpenParameters.pdf#search=%22pdf%20open%20to%20page%20url%22) However, that doesn't seem to work, in a browser. Or at least I haven't been able to make it work. Ideally, I'd like to be able to extract the links that exist in my framemaker table of contents, and create URL's that go straight to those locations. Our help links don't have to be any more granular than the document TOC. In other products what we have done is use webworks to create an HTML version, and then strip out the links from the hhc file and add them to the product, but that has been time-consuming, and we've then had to build both versions of the user guide (PDF and CHM) into the download; in this case, my PDF is 17mb, we'd like to avoid creating another massive file to have to include in the product download. If anyone has any suggestions on how to approach this I'd really appreciate them. Thanks! Kevin
Frame Crash with Internal Error: 7004, 6052770, 7652963, 0
Hi all, I have a problem with Frame crashing when generating a PDF from a book, that I was wondering if anyone could shed light on. This is the situation: 1. It happens after the tps file has (almost) finished generating. By the 'almost', I mean that frame crashes, but if I open the tps file in Distiller manually, I can still generate the PDF for the book, but the book ends up generating with no bookmarks. Everything else looks fine. 2. It happens on two manuals that share a common internal cover page. By sharing, I mean that I copied the text from one to the other file, and changed 'User Guide' to 'Reference Guide', and updated a couple of other items. So separate files, very similar content. 3. I can generate the book fine if I remove that internal cover. 4. I can also generate the cover pages into a PDF without a problem. 5. If I replace that internal cover page entirely, with one from another book that generates fine, then the original book crashes. 6. I then guessed some sort of formatting conflict between the internal cover and other documents in the book, so imported various attributes (paragraph, table, variable, character styles, doc properties) from another document in the book back into an archived version of the original inside cover doc, and put the cover back into the book. That seems to have worked. These two errors appear in one KB item in a Google search, associated with something unrelated to this (to do with splash screens and help). I tried the workaround suggested there anyway, for the heck of it. No change. Anyway, I was just wondering if someone had run into anything similar to this, and had an actual precise explanation/solution, or knew of a more effective troubleshooting technique that would lead me to identifying the problem more specifically. Thanks, Kevin ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Frame Crash with Internal Error: 7004, 6052770, 7652963, 0
Hi all, I have a problem with Frame crashing when generating a PDF from a book, that I was wondering if anyone could shed light on. This is the situation: 1. It happens after the tps file has (almost) finished generating. By the 'almost', I mean that frame crashes, but if I open the tps file in Distiller manually, I can still generate the PDF for the book, but the book ends up generating with no bookmarks. Everything else looks fine. 2. It happens on two manuals that share a common internal cover page. By sharing, I mean that I copied the text from one to the other file, and changed 'User Guide' to 'Reference Guide', and updated a couple of other items. So separate files, very similar content. 3. I can generate the book fine if I remove that internal cover. 4. I can also generate the cover pages into a PDF without a problem. 5. If I replace that internal cover page entirely, with one from another book that generates fine, then the original book crashes. 6. I then guessed some sort of formatting conflict between the internal cover and other documents in the book, so imported various attributes (paragraph, table, variable, character styles, doc properties) from another document in the book back into an archived version of the original inside cover doc, and put the cover back into the book. That seems to have worked. These two errors appear in one KB item in a Google search, associated with something unrelated to this (to do with splash screens and help). I tried the workaround suggested there anyway, for the heck of it. No change. Anyway, I was just wondering if someone had run into anything similar to this, and had an actual precise explanation/solution, or knew of a more effective troubleshooting technique that would lead me to identifying the problem more specifically. Thanks, Kevin
Table Title Alignment Issue
hi all, I have a situation that would seem to be simple, but I can't find a good solution. In one of our user guides we have a lengthy list of items that I've placed into a 4-column table. The table spans several pages. The table is also frequently ammended (entries added or removed), so the length and relative position of the rows vis a vis the page breaks changes. I want to add column headings for the four columns, that are aligned correctly with the columns they correspond to. I want these column headings to appear at the top of the table, as well as at the top of every subsequent page. So I'm trying to use the Table Title. However, when I use the title, I find I can't put tab stops in, because when I actually press the tab key, the cursor jumps to the first table cell. So in order to place my table headings, I have to set the alignment on that style to left, and space space space over to a spot that approximately lines up with the column below, and type my heading. This works all right (but not great; alignment isn't exact) while I'm looking at the thing on the screen, but when I generate the PDF version, the column heading locations vary slightly from the screen version I'm looking at and don't line up perfectly with the columns. So I end up having to mess with the spacing, re-gen the PDF (which is a pain) and so on, until I end up with something that works in the PDF, but looks wrong on my screen. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Kevin Hunter ESDI ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Table Title Alignment Issue
hi all, I have a situation that would seem to be simple, but I can't find a good solution. In one of our user guides we have a lengthy list of items that I've placed into a 4-column table. The table spans several pages. The table is also frequently ammended (entries added or removed), so the length and relative position of the rows vis a vis the page breaks changes. I want to add column headings for the four columns, that are aligned correctly with the columns they correspond to. I want these column headings to appear at the top of the table, as well as at the top of every subsequent page. So I'm trying to use the Table Title. However, when I use the title, I find I can't put tab stops in, because when I actually press the tab key, the cursor jumps to the first table cell. So in order to place my table headings, I have to set the alignment on that style to left, and space space space over to a spot that approximately lines up with the column below, and type my heading. This works all right (but not great; alignment isn't exact) while I'm looking at the thing on the screen, but when I generate the PDF version, the column heading locations vary slightly from the screen version I'm looking at and don't line up perfectly with the columns. So I end up having to mess with the spacing, re-gen the PDF (which is a pain) and so on, until I end up with something that works in the PDF, but looks wrong on my screen. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Kevin Hunter ESDI
Defaults on importing graphics
Hi all, I've been lurking on the digest version for a couple of months now, and have really appreciated everyone's contributions. Now I have a couple of questions relating to default settings on importing files. I mainly work on user's guides with walk-through type instructions with many screen shots of our software. To pull in my images I use Esc + fif, and pick an image file and select a custom dpi; is there a way to set a default for that? In my version it comes up with 96dpi, but I need to vary that depending on the typical window sizes of each of the software packages I work on. Currently I have to re-enter it by hand. The next step is that I then have to adjust the size and alignment of the resulting anchored frame; it's initially centered, and I need it to be left aligned. The image inside the frame is initially against the left of the frame, I need it 2cm from the left margin of the frame, and I'd also like to make the inserted frame a constant width, rather than a function of the particular image size. If anyone has any suggestions on these, I'd love to hear them. Kevin Hunter BCD ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Defaults on importing graphics
Hi all, I've been lurking on the digest version for a couple of months now, and have really appreciated everyone's contributions. Now I have a couple of questions relating to default settings on importing files. I mainly work on user's guides with walk-through type instructions with many screen shots of our software. To pull in my images I use Esc + fif, and pick an image file and select a custom dpi; is there a way to set a default for that? In my version it comes up with 96dpi, but I need to vary that depending on the typical window sizes of each of the software packages I work on. Currently I have to re-enter it by hand. The next step is that I then have to adjust the size and alignment of the resulting anchored frame; it's initially centered, and I need it to be left aligned. The image inside the frame is initially against the left of the frame, I need it 2cm from the left margin of the frame, and I'd also like to make the inserted frame a constant width, rather than a function of the particular image size. If anyone has any suggestions on these, I'd love to hear them. Kevin Hunter BCD
