RE: Printing CE character tcaron to PDF
Well, I guess you put me in my place, eh? Nice job. I'll be sure not to try to guess why Framemaker is screwing up any more. By the way, in all that vituperative prose, did you actually explain why certain CE characters, which print properly, do not appear in PDF documents? Your explanation was a bit obtuse to me. Perhaps you could dumb it down for those of us who do not possess the knowledge. ljk ___ Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before. - ** IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR RECIPIENTS IN THE U.S.A: This message may constitute an advertisement of BD group's products or services or a solicitation of interest in them. If this is such a message and you would like to opt out of receiving future advertisements or solicitations from this BD group, please forward this e-mail to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** This message (which includes any attachments) is intended only for the designated recipient(s). It may contain confidential or proprietary information and may be subject to attorney-client privilege or other confidentiality protections. If you are not a designated recipient, you may not review, use, copy or distribute this message. If you received this in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank You ** Corporate Headquarters Mailing Address: BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) 1 Becton Drive Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 U.S.A. ___ 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.
Re: Need Help Mac to PC
Mary, I am using XP Pro and Frame 7 with virtually no problems. I recommend you upgrade your Acrobat to vers. 7 Pro. My life has improved since I upgraded from vers. 5 to vers. 7, mostly because more and more people are using 7 and not saving down their versions. You can use PC Postscript fonts, in fact things will go more smoothly for you if you have the same font families in the PC that you had on the Mac. Personally I use True Type exclusively, but this is because of a weird bug in Pagemaker that would not properly create PDFs for postscript fonts in linked graphics. Old habits die hard. Check adobe.com for info. on how to obtain the PC postscript fonts you need. They may even come with applications like Illustrator, if you use that too. Good luck. The waters are troubled the first few weeks after moving to a PC, but using a PC isn't the hell some would have you believe. ljk ___ Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/19/2006 12:11:11 PM: Hello Framers, I will soon be converting my Mac Frame 7 documents to Frame 7 on the PC. My Mac is getting old and the organization wants the jobs on PC. My documents are both published (web-press) from high resolution PDFs and posted on the web as Web-ready PDFs. With no other help available to me, I am seeking advice from the Frameuser group. Big issues: Operating system: Looks like I might be getting Genuine Windows XP Professional, SP2, with Media XPP2E. Will this system work with Frame 7.0 (already purchased)? Any known problems? Fonts: On the Mac I use only Adobe Postscript fonts (most often Helvetica family) and have never had any problems. What kind of fonts should I buy for the PC that will always be reliable and problem-free for printing and web? Font technology has changed since my Mac fonts were purchased and my knowledge is not up-to-date. Acrobat issues: I currently use Acrobat 5 on the Mac. Are there issues with newer Acrobat versions, and which version will work with Frame 7.0 on PC? Plug-ins: I don't have any plugs-ins or other helpful software and would like information about the most useful. I would like to make this transfer as smooth as possible and would greatly appreciate any help that you would like to share - even horror stories. Not wishing to clog up the Frame list, you may respond to my e-mail address on these issues. Please use the subject line Need Help Mac to PC. Thanks for helping. Mary Haas -- *** Mary Haas Graphic Designer San Diego State University Academic Services Academic Affairs 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182 Mary Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** ___ 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/laura_j_kirk%40bd.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. - ** IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR RECIPIENTS IN THE U.S.A: This message may constitute an advertisement of BD group's products or services or a solicitation of interest in them. If this is such a message and you would like to opt out of receiving future advertisements or solicitations from this BD group, please forward this e-mail to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** This message (which includes any attachments) is intended only for the designated recipient(s). It may contain confidential or proprietary information and may be subject to attorney-client privilege or other confidentiality protections. If you are not a designated recipient, you may not review, use, copy or distribute this message. If you received this in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank You ** Corporate Headquarters Mailing Address: BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) 1 Becton Drive Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 U.S.A. ___ 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.
RE: Numbering Systems for Technical Service Manuals
I'm not familiar with versions of FM help prior to vers. 7, which I am using. That, I can agree wholeheartedly, sucks. As a self-taught FM user, it takes hours, literally hours to figure out some new operation or feature in Framemaker. Operations/features, I might add, that were pretty much intuitive in Pagemaker or Quark. If you're going to have a user-hostile interface, at least have some decent documentation. Most of the hours I spend trying to figure things out are spent searching forums on the Web. However, doing decent documentation costs money. Adobe obviously has saved a lot of money here. I feel as if, if I'm ever going to reach any level of proficiency with this program, it's going to mean going to a training class. Now, that's great for independent trainers, not so great for me, since I'll have to pay for something that IMHO shouldn't be needed. You should perhaps need training to be a power user ... not to just figure out how to perform common operations. ljk ___ Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before. Daniel Emory [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/18/2006 02:16 PM To Framers List framers@FrameUsers.com cc Subject RE: Numbering Systems for Technical Service Manuals --- Anne Robotti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this a private email from Linda that you posted to the list? How completely rude. = My mistake, and I apologize to Linda. The Framer's list, unlike some others, identifies the sender's name, not the list's name as the sender. My default email setup only identifies the sender in the From line, thus, when I hit reply, only the sender's name appears in the To line. Since the thread originated on the Framers list, I presumptively added the list name on the cc line in my reply. I usually check first to see if that is proper, but this time I failed to do so. I'll be more careful in the future. My bad. Nevertheless, this issue about numbering of titled headings, tables and graphics seems to come up frequently. It's a valid issue, and it deserves more discussion on the list. And by the way, I do not apologize for describing most on-line help as shovelware. If that is offensive to some, so be it. The FrameMaker on-line help in versions 4 and earlier was far superior to the shovelware that replaced it in later versions. That, coupled with the much less complete printed manual, makes life more difficult for newbies. Many of the FrameMaker issues which come up over and over again on this list should be answered by declaring RTFM. Unfortuantely, that recommendation no longer applies in many cases. The same goes for the Acrobat manual. Dan Emory Associates FrameMaker/FrameMaker+SGML Document Design Database Publishing [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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/laura_j_kirk%40bd.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. - ** IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR RECIPIENTS IN THE U.S.A: This message may constitute an advertisement of BD group's products or services or a solicitation of interest in them. If this is such a message and you would like to opt out of receiving future advertisements or solicitations from this BD group, please forward this e-mail to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** This message (which includes any attachments) is intended only for the designated recipient(s). It may contain confidential or proprietary information and may be subject to attorney-client privilege or other confidentiality protections. If you are not a designated recipient, you may not review, use, copy or distribute this message. If you received this in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank You ** Corporate Headquarters Mailing Address: BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) 1 Becton Drive Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 U.S.A. ___ 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.
RE: Outsourcing: Was Release Date for FrameMaker 8?
Yes but the companies are not strictly accountable to the consumer, but rather to the shareholders. And shareholders rarely complain about greater profits. ljk ___ Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/16/2006 02:02:08 PM: Greater value? To whom? The consumer, perhaps, I don't think the companies that are saving money by outsourcing are necessarily passing on the savings to the consumer. I'd have to see some pretty firm research on that before I'd believe it. Anne The information contained in or attached to this e-mail contains confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this e-mail is PROHIBITED. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete the e-mail immediately. Thank you. ___ 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/laura_j_kirk%40bd.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. - ** IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR RECIPIENTS IN THE U.S.A: This message may constitute an advertisement of BD group's products or services or a solicitation of interest in them. If this is such a message and you would like to opt out of receiving future advertisements or solicitations from this BD group, please forward this e-mail to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** This message (which includes any attachments) is intended only for the designated recipient(s). It may contain confidential or proprietary information and may be subject to attorney-client privilege or other confidentiality protections. If you are not a designated recipient, you may not review, use, copy or distribute this message. If you received this in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank You ** Corporate Headquarters Mailing Address: BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) 1 Becton Drive Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 U.S.A. ___ 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.
Re: Numbering Systems for Technical Service Manuals
I do number, but never below a fourth level (1.2.3.4). I am not required to do so by spec or policy. I personally find when I read long manuals (e.g. a camcorder, digital camera, etc.) that when it is not numbered, I do not assimilate data as well because I lose the hierarchy of information. I need a structure into which to save information. Thus, for my readers who may be similarly wired, I number the paragraphs. For those who don't need numbering, I doubt any find their understanding of the material to be harmed by the presence of paragraph numbers. So it seems, pretty much, win-win to use para. numbering. The one exception was a manual that we were submitting for a CLIA waiver. It had to be written to a 7th grade level, and I used exaggerated font size changes to indicate paragraph levels (e.g. top level was 48 pt., second level was 24 pt., third level was 14 pt., and there was no fourth level). ljk ___ Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before. Gillian Flato [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/16/2006 03:09 PM To framers@frameusers.com cc Subject Numbering Systems for Technical Service Manuals Guys, When you write a Technical Manual do you number heads and sections with 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1 etc. I have a manual which is essentially an API and it's numbered that way. It looks very cluttered to me. By taking that out and using conventional styles, it has an easier UI to me. What's the general consensus on numbering with the 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.2 type of way? Is that generally history now, or is it actually still used a lot? Thanks, Gillian Flato Technical Writer (Software) NANOmetrics, Inc. 1550 Buckeye Dr. Milpitas, CA. 95035 (408.435.9600 x 316 7 408.232.5911 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] blocked::mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This message (including any attachments) may contain confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose. If you are not the intended recipient, delete this message. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosing, copying, distributing, or taking any action based on this message is strictly prohibited. ___ 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/laura_j_kirk%40bd.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. - ** IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR RECIPIENTS IN THE U.S.A: This message may constitute an advertisement of BD group's products or services or a solicitation of interest in them. If this is such a message and you would like to opt out of receiving future advertisements or solicitations from this BD group, please forward this e-mail to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** This message (which includes any attachments) is intended only for the designated recipient(s). It may contain confidential or proprietary information and may be subject to attorney-client privilege or other confidentiality protections. If you are not a designated recipient, you may not review, use, copy or distribute this message. If you received this in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank You ** Corporate Headquarters Mailing Address: BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) 1 Becton Drive Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 U.S.A. ___ 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.
Re: Importing Graphics from Word
I did this recently. I saved the Word doc as .html. This puts all the graphics (it seems) into a folder in their native format/resolution. The folder contained graphics in .wmf, .wmz, .emf, .emz, .png, .gif, and .jpg formats. There was often a resized .jpg in the folder also. ljk ___ Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/10/2006 03:54:22 PM: I have been converting Word documents to FrameMaker 7.1. (Win 2K) 1. Only the embedded Word graphics exist. 2. All graphics in the FrameMaker document must be imported by reference. My solution was to copy each Word graphic into an FM document, save it as a .fm file, and import the .fm file by reference into the FM document. This has seemed to be a workable solution, and I've used it to convert three manuals.of 100 pp. each. I've created PDF files for two of the manuals (containing books with several chapters), but the PDF fails in the case of the third manual In this case, the problem seems to be with the graphic: each page after the page containing the graphic shows a block of text the same size and in the same position as the graphic on the page before. This is probably a primitive solution for getting the graphics into the FM documents. I'll be grateful for any suggestions for doing this a better way. Barb ___ 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/laura_j_kirk%40bd.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. - ** IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR RECIPIENTS IN THE U.S.A: This message may constitute an advertisement of BD group's products or services or a solicitation of interest in them. If this is such a message and you would like to opt out of receiving future advertisements or solicitations from this BD group, please forward this e-mail to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** This message (which includes any attachments) is intended only for the designated recipient(s). It may contain confidential or proprietary information and may be subject to attorney-client privilege or other confidentiality protections. If you are not a designated recipient, you may not review, use, copy or distribute this message. If you received this in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank You ** Corporate Headquarters Mailing Address: BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) 1 Becton Drive Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 U.S.A. ___ 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.
