Re: Book Set up and Pagination
Hi Pam, If you want to force the chapter-start to the right side, the technicians will need to print double-sided unfortunately. To do this, go to *Format Page Layout Pagination* (I work in FM10 so apologies if the menu items or options are slightly different, but I believe they're still the same) You want: - *Double Sided* - 1st Page Side = *Right* - Before saving and printing = *Make Page Count Even* - This option will leave a blank page at the end of the chapter if the text ends on a odd-numbered page. You may need to adjust your templates to match as well. HTH. Give me a shout if anything's not clear. Regards, Sam (fellow sole techwriter, and only FM user here) On 9 February 2015 at 22:43, Pam Harper phar...@bailiwick.com wrote: This is not one of the joys of being the only techwriter and Frame user here because this may be a simple question, but I’ve spent too many hours trying to figure this out, and so far no success. I develop manuals in Frame 12 that are PDF’d for cable and equipment technicians who must print them out before leaving for new installs. Usually I have set up the docs for single side with no right or left master pages (which looks awful when printed out). I’m working on a 180 page doc that I am setting up for a first page and left/right pages for every chapter in the book (although the first three don’t need that, I think). The first three sections of the doc are the cover (two pages—front and copyright), change page, and TOC. The fourth section, or chapter, is the installation chapter followed by separate appendices. How do I set up the book so that odd-numbered pages print out on the right side? I’d also would like to force each section to begin on the right side—how do I do that? Is putting in a blank page the only way to do that? This may not be too popular with technicians who already complain about the size of the docs. Pam Harper ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as samantha.n...@smoothwall.net. 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/samantha.nair%40smoothwall.net Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Samantha Nair Software Technical Author *smoothwall* samantha.n...@smoothwall.com www.smoothwall.com Head Office : 1 John Charles Way, Leeds, LS12 6QA, United Kingdom Tech Office : Eagle Point, Little Park Farm Road, Fareham, PO15 5TD, United Kingdom US Office : 8008 Corporate Center Dr #410, Charlotte, NC 28226, United States Telephone: UK: +44 870-199-9500 US: +1 800-959-3760 https://www.facebook.com/smoothwall?ref=hl [image: http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/smoothwallweb/twitter.png] https://twitter.com/Smoothwall [image: http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/smoothwallweb/googleplus.png] https://plus.google.com/u/0/105975318877636922166/posts [image: circle_test] http://smoothwall.uservoice.com/forums/145832-general [image: linkedin_test] https://www.linkedin.com/company/smoothwall-ltd Smoothwall Limited is registered in England, Company Number: 4298247 and whose registered address is 1 John Charles Way, Leeds, LS12 6QA United Kingdom. This email and any attachments transmitted with it are confidential to the intended recipient(s) and may not be communicated to any other person or published by any means without the permission of Smoothwall Ltd. Any opinions stated in this message are solely those of the author. ___ 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: Missing Mif2Go menu options
Sometimes it just takes an extra pair of eyes to spot that you aren't quite in the right directory :o) I was in the fminit directory, rather than fminit\plugins, whoops! Feeling suitably chastised, and embarrassed. Thanks for your help. On 21 January 2015 at 17:06, Jeff Coatsworth jeff.coatswo...@jonasclub.com wrote: From the Mif2Go forums: Installing in Frame http://mif2go.com/forum/starting-mif2go-framemaker-10.html#comment-90 If the Mif2Go items do not appear in the File menu, you have probably installed them in the wrong place. You need to put both m2rbook.dll and m2gframe.dll in your frame\fminit\Plugins directory, not to be confused with frame\plugins, which is for internal Frame use. If you do that, the menu items should appear the next time you start Frame. HTH! *From:* framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Samantha Nair *Sent:* January-21-15 11:53 AM *To:* framers@lists.frameusers.com *Subject:* Missing Mif2Go menu options Hi All, Some of you kindly responded to my request for advice when moving my FM10 from one machine to another. Thank you everyone for that. I didn't mention that I was using the Mif2Go plugin with FM10 as I was just going to install it from scratch. I now find that I'm missing some menu items - most importantly everything regarding Mif2Go. I installed from m2g_full_55.zip from the website, and followed the instructions to the letter. I also copied over my original copy of maker.ini and plugins, which included some CudSpan tools. I also had to unblock those files that were copied over - thanks Microsoft! I left structapps.fm behind as I am working unstructured. However, I do not have any Mif2Go options under my File menu, nor have the CudSpan Doc Tools menu option. Has anyone else encountered this problem?? I've been puzzling over this for 2 days now and deadlines are looming. Many thanks, Sam. -- Samantha Nair Software Technical Author samantha.n...@smoothwall.net samantha.n...@smoothwall.net +44 (0)1489 886 123 [image: http://www.smoothwall.net/assets/Smoothwall.png] Technology Office: Richmond Court, 96 Botley Road, Park Gate, Southampton, SO31 1BA Telephone: Europe: +44 (0) 8701 999500USA: +1 800 959 3760 www.smoothwall.net ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as samantha.n...@smoothwall.net. 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/samantha.nair%40smoothwall.net Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Samantha Nair Software Technical Author samantha.n...@smoothwall.net samantha.n...@smoothwall.net +44 (0)1489 886 123 [image: http://www.smoothwall.net/assets/Smoothwall.png] Technology Office: Richmond Court, 96 Botley Road, Park Gate, Southampton, SO31 1BA Telephone: Europe: +44 (0) 8701 999500USA: +1 800 959 3760 www.smoothwall.net ___ 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: Scrolling pages issue
Hi Denis, Are the images embedded or referenced from a network location?? If so, could you move the images to a local directory?? I also experience this problem but mine is caused by a slight network lag getting my networked, referenced images. Sorry I can't be of more help. Sam. On 22 January 2015 at 09:43, Denis Daly d.d...@icpnewtech.com wrote: Good morning, I wonder if anyone else is experience a similar issue? I am running Framemaker 12 on a Windows 7 laptop: Intel Core i3-3110m CPU @ 2.4GHz with 8GB RAM. Whenever I scroll using the vertical scroll-bar, I am constantly frustrated at having to wait 4/5 seconds for the next page to load. We tried increasing RAM from 4GB to 8GB but this has not made any improvement. Can anyone suggest a way to improve the situation, please? Thanks p.s. There are 1 or 2 images on each page. Kind regards, *Denis Daly* Technical Writer [image: ICPNT Simple Logo White - Small] *Kilbrittain, Bandon, Co. Cork, IRELAND http://www.myloc8ion.com/index.php/maps/find_code8/?code=WLF-17-68G* Mobile: +353 86 3539962 Phone: +353 21 2439119/140 Fax: +353 21 2380559 Info: www.icpnewtech.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as samantha.n...@smoothwall.net. 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/samantha.nair%40smoothwall.net Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Samantha Nair Software Technical Author samantha.n...@smoothwall.net samantha.n...@smoothwall.net +44 (0)1489 886 123 [image: http://www.smoothwall.net/assets/Smoothwall.png] Technology Office: Richmond Court, 96 Botley Road, Park Gate, Southampton, SO31 1BA Telephone: Europe: +44 (0) 8701 999500USA: +1 800 959 3760 www.smoothwall.net ___ 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.
Missing Mif2Go menu options
Hi All, Some of you kindly responded to my request for advice when moving my FM10 from one machine to another. Thank you everyone for that. I didn't mention that I was using the Mif2Go plugin with FM10 as I was just going to install it from scratch. I now find that I'm missing some menu items - most importantly everything regarding Mif2Go. I installed from m2g_full_55.zip from the website, and followed the instructions to the letter. I also copied over my original copy of maker.ini and plugins, which included some CudSpan tools. I also had to unblock those files that were copied over - thanks Microsoft! I left structapps.fm behind as I am working unstructured. However, I do not have any Mif2Go options under my File menu, nor have the CudSpan Doc Tools menu option. Has anyone else encountered this problem?? I've been puzzling over this for 2 days now and deadlines are looming. Many thanks, Sam. -- Samantha Nair Software Technical Author samantha.n...@smoothwall.net samantha.n...@smoothwall.net +44 (0)1489 886 123 [image: http://www.smoothwall.net/assets/Smoothwall.png] Technology Office: Richmond Court, 96 Botley Road, Park Gate, Southampton, SO31 1BA Telephone: Europe: +44 (0) 8701 999500USA: +1 800 959 3760 www.smoothwall.net ___ 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.
FM10 - Changing licensed machines
Hi all, Apologies for the asking before trying approach, but I need this to be as seamless as possible as I'm a (paranoid about Adobe) sole writer with major deadlines. I have inherited the following: - Win 7 (64-bit) setup - Upgraded FM10 installation (upgraded via Adobe website, from FM7 CD installation) - Adobe Acrobat 11 installed from Adobe Cloud I have a new Win 7 (64-bit) machine that I need to re-install my setup onto. For licencing issues, I will be un-installing everything from my old machine before installing, but wanted to check if there is a recommended way of installing onto the new box. Past experience has taught me - FM first, then Adobe Acrobat, but that was with TCS. Would you recommend I use the same procedure as was originally done - that is, FM 7, FM 10 upgrade, Acrobat?? Or will Adobe allow me to download FM10 from the Cloud even though it was just an upgrade that was purchased?? Trawling through the Adobe site has left me with more questions than answers! Thanks, Sam. -- Samantha Nair Software Technical Author ___ 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.
Preventing a URL from wrapping over 2 lines
Hi Framers, Do any of you know of a way to prevent a URL from wrapping over 2 lines, without using a forced line break?? I have several places in my document where FM will automatically break a URL and wrap it across 2 lines if there isn't enough room in the paragraph, for example: http://admin.domain.com becomes http:// admin.domain.com At the moment, I'm scanning through my document and forcing a line break before the URL, but as you can well imagine, this is getting tiresome in a growing doc. I thought there would be something in the Character Designer pod, but I can't see the wood for the trees. Setup: Unstructured FrameMaker 10 Win 7 Any help is much appreciated. Thanks, Sam. -- Samantha Nair Software Technical Author samantha.n...@smoothwall.net samantha.n...@smoothwall.net Smoothwall Ltd [image: http://www.smoothwall.net/assets/Smoothwall.png] Technology Office: Richmond Court, 96 Botley Road, Park Gate, Southampton, SO31 1BA Telephone: Europe: +44 (0) 8701 999500USA: +1 800 959 3760 www.smoothwall.net ___ 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: Preventing a URL from wrapping over 2 lines
Thanks, Rick, that has sorted the URLs. It seems so obvious now! On 11 December 2014 at 11:46, Rick Quatro r...@rickquatro.com wrote: Hi Samantha, Go to Format Document Text Options and remove the forward slash from the Allow Line Breaks After field and click Apply. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-366-4017 r...@frameexpert.com *From:* framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Samantha Nair *Sent:* Thursday, December 11, 2014 6:19 AM *To:* Framers Discussion *Subject:* Preventing a URL from wrapping over 2 lines Hi Framers, Do any of you know of a way to prevent a URL from wrapping over 2 lines, without using a forced line break?? I have several places in my document where FM will automatically break a URL and wrap it across 2 lines if there isn't enough room in the paragraph, for example: http://admin.domain.com becomes http:// admin.domain.com At the moment, I'm scanning through my document and forcing a line break before the URL, but as you can well imagine, this is getting tiresome in a growing doc. I thought there would be something in the Character Designer pod, but I can't see the wood for the trees. Setup: Unstructured FrameMaker 10 Win 7 Any help is much appreciated. Thanks, Sam. -- Samantha Nair Software Technical Author samantha.n...@smoothwall.net samantha.n...@smoothwall.net Smoothwall Ltd [image: http://www.smoothwall.net/assets/Smoothwall.png] Technology Office: Richmond Court, 96 Botley Road, Park Gate, Southampton, SO31 1BA Telephone: Europe: +44 (0) 8701 999500USA: +1 800 959 3760 www.smoothwall.net -- Samantha Nair Software Technical Author samantha.n...@smoothwall.net samantha.n...@smoothwall.net Smoothwall Ltd [image: http://www.smoothwall.net/assets/Smoothwall.png] Technology Office: Richmond Court, 96 Botley Road, Park Gate, Southampton, SO31 1BA Telephone: Europe: +44 (0) 8701 999500USA: +1 800 959 3760 www.smoothwall.net ___ 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: Character format that won't stick
Hi Thomas, Your problem sounds similar to one I experienced earlier this year. I wanted to apply an italic character format to my cross-reference formats but also found it wouldn't stick. Eventually, I discovered that the font family I was given did not include an italic format. To resolve this, I set my default printer to be Adobe PDF, and have not suffered from this problem since. This is because the PDF drivers use PostScript fonts which FM can use if the the font family used does not support it. If you try setting your default printer to a PDF driver of some sort does that resolve the problem? HTH. Sam. On 26 August 2014 19:06, Thomas Scalise thomas.scal...@crossmatch.com wrote: Esteemed colleagues, I am using Frame 11.0.2.384 on Windows 7. I applied a character format (CrossRef) to text in a document. I late saved the document. When I return to Frame and open the document, the character format has reverted to the previous format. I recall having this problem before, a long time ago, and cannot for the life of me remember what to do to make the character format stick. Thanks in advance for any help you can give. *Tom Scalise* Manager, Technical Documentation Cross Match Technologies, Inc. 3950 RCA Boulevard, Suite 5001 Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 U.S.A. T +1 561 622 5416 F +1 561 622 9938 thomas.scal...@crossmatch.com [image: Description: Description: cid:image001.gif@01CBDF0D.2B428620] http://www.crossmatch.com/ This message, including any attachments, may contain confidential, proprietary, inside and/or legally privileged information. Any distribution or use of this communication by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by replying to this message and then permanently delete it from your system. You are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Cross Match Technologies, Inc.® , DigitalPersona® and the DigitalPersona logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of Cross Match Technologies, Inc and DigitalPersona, Inc. in the United States and other countries. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as samantha.n...@smoothwall.net. 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/samantha.nair%40smoothwall.net Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Samantha Nair Software Technical Author samantha.n...@smoothwall.net samantha.n...@smoothwall.net Smoothwall Ltd [image: http://www.smoothwall.net/assets/Smoothwall.png] Technology Office: Richmond Court, 96 Botley Road, Park Gate, Southampton, SO31 1BA Telephone: Europe: +44 (0) 8701 999500USA: +1 800 959 3760 www.smoothwall.net ___ 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.
Conditional cells in a straddled table row
Hi all, I wonder if any of you could help me. I have a table with 3 columns and 5 rows. Columns 1 and 2 have all 5 rows straddled. Column 3 contains all 5 rows separately. The last entry in column 3 contains conditional text: *| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3* Row A | Cell 1A | Cell 2A |* Cell 3A* Row B |||* Cell 3B* Row C ||| * Cell 3C* Row D | ||* Cell 3D* Row E *||| Cell 3E* I am unable to make all of Row E conditional as I've straddled Cell 1A, and Cell 2A over it respectively. This means when I hide my conditional text, Cell 3E, my table is left with an blank row. Is there a way of getting around this?? I experimented with having Row E unstraddled but I was unable to change the borders for that row. I may have been looking in the wrong places! In reality, this is a large table and I have this scenario repeated at various points, so I would like to avoid changing the layout where possible, but am resigned to the fact that I may have to. Any help you can give would be appreciated. Thanks, Sam. ___ 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: Conditional cells in a straddled table row
Hi Dave, I'd rather not duplicate the whole table as it is rather large ... but you have given me the idea of just duplicating the affected, straddled rows and conditioning them. Hopefully, that should keep it easier to maintain than 2 separate tables. Thanks, Sam. On 30 June 2014 16:02, David Spreadbury dspre...@yahoo.com wrote: Samantha, Have you tried making separate tables and applying the appropriate condition to each table? Dave On Monday, June 30, 2014 9:54 AM, Samantha Nair samantha.n...@smoothwall.net wrote: Hi all, I wonder if any of you could help me. I have a table with 3 columns and 5 rows. Columns 1 and 2 have all 5 rows straddled. Column 3 contains all 5 rows separately. The last entry in column 3 contains conditional text: *| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3* Row A | Cell 1A | Cell 2A |* Cell 3A* Row B |||* Cell 3B* Row C ||| * Cell 3C* Row D | ||* Cell 3D* Row E *||| Cell 3E* I am unable to make all of Row E conditional as I've straddled Cell 1A, and Cell 2A over it respectively. This means when I hide my conditional text, Cell 3E, my table is left with an blank row. Is there a way of getting around this?? I experimented with having Row E unstraddled but I was unable to change the borders for that row. I may have been looking in the wrong places! In reality, this is a large table and I have this scenario repeated at various points, so I would like to avoid changing the layout where possible, but am resigned to the fact that I may have to. Any help you can give would be appreciated. Thanks, Sam. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as dspre...@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/dspreadb%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.
