Re: Globally resize FM files in book?

2012-05-03 Thread Doris Pavlichek 

Hi Nancy -

If you open all files in the book and select them, you can then go to 
View  Zoom  100%.


If you want all the files to be 120% (my favorite zoom level), you would 
then select View  Zoom  In. That will take it up a notch on the 
standard zoom ladder.


Hope this helps - D

On 5/2/2012 3:13 PM, Nancy Allison wrote:

Hi, all.

I have a 15-file book. Each file is at a different magnification, it seems.

I want to reset them all to one size. Is there any way to do it globally 
through the book, or do I have to click each one and manually reset it?

I tried selecting all files in the book and using the control at the bottom of 
the window, but it affected only the currently displayed file.

Thanks.

--Nancy
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Re: FYI: Deal for upgrading from FM7.x to FM10 ends June 15

2012-06-14 Thread Doris Pavlichek 
We upgraded from FM 7.x to 10 earlier this year (unstructured). I like a lot of 
the new features, but we do see quite a few crashes. I have also gotten out of 
memory errors when dealing with large books (and I'm on a Win7 VM with 4GB 
RAM). 

If you're stable and happy, there is no burning platform. An Adobe support 
person actually said to me (during my first FM10 support case) Oh, version 7 
was much more stable. .

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On Jun 12, 2012, at 10:10 PM, Theresa de Valence t...@bstw.com wrote:

 On 6/6/2012 10:54 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
 The offer is Adobe FrameMaker 7.X customers can receive a savings of
 30% on the FULL version of FrameMaker 10 software purchased through
 Adobe Customer Service, or a participating reseller worldwide.
 
 
 Like many other people, I'm on v. 8 which is plenty stable.
 
 Do you (each of you) recommend upgrading to 10?
 
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Re: Disappearing text in PDF: a weird issue

2012-06-19 Thread Doris Pavlichek 
Yep. We had a similar problem, and the Windows hotfix cleared it up. It 
was a PostScript issue.


D

On 6/19/2012 9:01 AM, Mike Wickham wrote:
 When I create a PDF from a MIF test file using TimesNewRoman, 
everything works ok. When she creates a PDF from FrameMaker 10, using 
some corporate font for CellBody (GE Inspira), the text of CellBody 
takes on the shading color of the table cell and disappears, but only 
(and this is where is gets really weird) in the case of the table 
anchored under the level 2 heading.



Are they running Windows XP? There was a Microsoft bug that caused 
dropped characters in PDFs. Microsoft issued a hotfix. In Windows XP 
days, most of us installed and recommended it. Information can be 
found here:


http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2008/07/hotfix_for_framemaker_1.html

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Re: FM9 does not support helvetica font (any workaround)

2012-06-20 Thread Doris Pavlichek 
That's a great flick! I've watched it several times. D

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On Jun 19, 2012, at 11:21 AM, jackdel...@comcast.net wrote:

 I agree with Fred, having used Helvetica for a while, but now using Segoe UI 
 for body text.  And of course no discussion of Helvetica is complete without 
 mention of the documentary Helvetica, which is now available through 
 Netflix and probably other sources as well. http://www.helveticafilm.com/
 
 Jack DeLand
 
 From: Fred Ridder docu...@hotmail.com
 To: richard combs richard.co...@polycom.com, agoyal2...@gmail.com, 
 framers@lists.frameusers.com
 Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 11:14:31 AM
 Subject: RE: FM9 does not support helvetica font (any workaround)
 
 The appearance difference between Helvetica and Arial is not always so 
 slight. If you are talking about all caps, the differences in most 
 letterforms are pretty subtle (altough a few, like the capital R, are 
 markedly different). But there are a few differences in lower-case letters 
 that are dead giveaways and that significantly change the feel of the 
 typeface. 
  
 See the excellent quiz at http://www.ironicsans.com/helvarialquiz/
 And an article that will allow you to ace the quiz at 
 http://www.ms-studio.com/articlesarialsid.html 
 
 Real Helvetica can look a little over-formal, but at least it nearly always 
 looks harmonious. There are a lot of cases where Arial looks graceless and 
 even ill-proportioned. It's not that Microsoft is incapable of good typeface 
 design--Verdana happens to be a really good face. It' sjust a shame that the 
 one Microsoft font that has become the most widely used is not among their 
 better efforts. 
  
 -Fred Ridder
  
  From: richard.co...@polycom.com
  To: agoyal2...@gmail.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com
  Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 07:34:30 -0700
  Subject: RE: FM9 does not support helvetica font (any workaround)
  
  Amita Goyal wrote:
  
   I have a specifc query on FM9. It does not support helvetica font (not
   included in the licensed version of this s/w package).
  
  The fact that Helvetica is not bundled with FM doesn't mean it doesn't 
  _support_ Helvetica. AFAIK, FM supports any standard PostScript, TrueType, 
  or OpenType font properly installed in your Windows OS. 
  
   Can someone install the Helvetica Font for his specific use in  FM9, by
   copying required fonts in the fminit (or fonts/ or any other) directory
   or by any other method.
  
  After purchasing Helvetica, you install it in the same way that you install 
  any font in Windows. Search for install font in Windows Help and Support. 
  
  Alternatively, if you don't mind slight differences in appearance and 
  metrics, you can replace Helvetica with Arial. IIRC, default maker.ini file 
  maps Helvetica to Arial in the Unknown to Known Fonts section, so the 
  replacements will become permanent if you turn off Remember Missing Font 
  Names (in File  Preferences  General). 
  
  HTH!
  
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Survey about the impact of cloud technology on knowledge workers

2012-06-22 Thread Doris Pavlichek 

Hi all -

Please take a few minutes to participate in this survey about the impact 
of cloud technology on knowledge workers (including technical 
communicators). This is for a graduate project for Mercer University. We 
can offer nothing more than a good feeling that you helped some poor 
graduate students and my thanks! :-)  The info is below



As graduate students in the Masters of Technical Communication 
Management at Mercer University, we are conducting a survey to explore 
how technology has changed our environment, work, and leisure.


To participate in this survey, go to 
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voluntary, we appreciate your contribution to this research.


Please send any questions you may have to leonard...@mercer.edu.

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Re: OT: Unexpected event

2012-06-22 Thread Doris Pavlichek 
Rick, I hope you are recovering nicely from your surgery and that you 
have many, many years left to help us decipher the mysteries of FrameMaker.


D
On 6/20/2012 8:07 AM, Rick Quatro wrote:

Hi Framers,

I hesitate to put this on the list, but I have been around the FrameMaker
community for a long time, and this is the only contact I have with some of
you. Also, in light of Bruce Foster's sudden disappearance last year, I
thought it would be appropriate to post this.

Hi Everyone,

As many of you know, I was supposed to be on vacation this week, cycling
across New York State with 17 other guys. During my last few training rides,
I experienced some discomfort in my chest. It was a concern because I am in
pretty good shape with almost 800 miles on the bike so far this summer. I
had a stress test on Friday, and the results showed an 80% chance of a
blockage in one of my cardiac arteries. Monday I went into the hospital for
an angiogram, with the anticipation of having the blockage opened and a
stent put in. However, the test showed a couple of areas of blockage, one
being in an area that can't be opened with a stent. So on Wednesday around
12:45 pm, I am going to have open heart surgery with at least a double
bypass. I will be in the hospital for 3-5 days and hopefully experience a
quick recovery at home. I should be back to work late next week.

Those of you who know me well understand that I have a deep abiding
relationship with Jesus Christ. I received Him as my Savior on April 6, 1984
when I was twenty-five years old. Because He has forgiven me of my sins, I
know that when I die, I will be with Him in heaven. I am still a sinner and
don't deserve heaven, but because of His death on the cross and subsequent
resurrection, He gives eternal life to those who receive Him by faith.

That said, I am still fairly young (53), and have some young kids left to
raise. So, if you are given to prayer, please pray for Sherry and I this
Wednesday. Finally, thank you all for being a part of my life. The great
people that I work with is an important part of making my work so
satisfying.

Sincerely,
Rick

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Re: Survey about the impact of cloud technology on knowledge workers

2012-07-05 Thread Doris Pavlichek 

Hi Robert -

The reason there are some questions about mobile apps, smartphones, and 
tablets within the survey is that we are studying all aspects of cloud 
and mobile computing within a single, unified survey for our entire 
capstone course. Some folks are focusing on handheld devices, some are 
focusing on cloud-based data, and Heidi and I are focusing on 
cloud-based applications (like Salesforce).


Hope that helps to clarify why certain questions came up during the survey.

D

On 7/5/2012 1:29 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:

There seem to be some false assumptions in there. Cloud technology
often has nothing to do with mobile devices. Lots of people use Rally
and Salesforce just as they would desktop applications.

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Doris Pavlichek dpavlic...@opnet.com wrote:

Hi all -

Please take a few minutes to participate in this survey about the impact of
cloud technology on knowledge workers (including technical communicators).
This is for a graduate project for Mercer University. We can offer nothing
more than a good feeling that you helped some poor graduate students and my
thanks! :-)  The info is below


As graduate students in the Masters of Technical Communication Management at
Mercer University, we are conducting a survey to explore how technology has
changed our environment, work, and leisure.

To participate in this survey, go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6TP9TDV.
Because your participation is voluntary, we appreciate your contribution to
this research.

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Re: Support needed!

2012-07-12 Thread Doris Pavlichek 
Laura, 

I wrote to you privately, but I wanted to add something that, while anecdotal, 
is relevant. 

For a very large (100+ pages) document for my capstone course, I am running 
into many issues of Word 2011 on a MacBook Pro running Lion crashing. It gives 
me an error saying that my disk isn't inserted properly (a really ludicrous 
error). The document has a few graphics, a ToC, and a low-overhead template. 
There is no reason for it to crash, but it does. 

The only way I have found to avoid the error is to force quit the app and work 
on sections of the doc in smaller chunks, which we will knit together at the 
end. 

I can't fathom trying to use Word for product doc unless you did so in very 
small files. Even then...

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 Dear all
 
 Please tell me I'm not going mad or being unreasonable.
 
 Have just come into work to find that the company which acquired us a few 
 months ago wants me to use Powerpoint for creating datasheets instead of 
 InDesign (definite) and a more flexible tool (Word) instead of our beloved 
 Framemaker (proposed).
 
 I could cry. I am the only tech author in the company of about 100 people and 
 the marketing department used PP for datasheets which they say is adequate 
 for the job. This all arose on Friday when someone else needed to edit a 
 version of my ID files when I was on holiday.  Now I come in to find:
 
 ...For more technical documentation (e.g. product manuals) then I understand 
 the argument for use of a more specialist tool - but even here we can use 
 more flexible tools.
 
 Such as? I have long user guides with masses of conditional text. Just 
 let Word have a shot at that. In fact, they were trying to do just that 
 before I started this job 4 years ago - and it wasn't working.
 
 Sorry to clog up the forum with this but I think of you all as friends who 
 feel the same way about FM as I do.
 
 How do I persuade them otherwise? In fact, it's just one person really I 
 think I need to convince - not in my office.
 
 I can just about cope with datasheets in PP but using anything other than 
 Frame for long user guides is unthinkable.
 
 L
 
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Re: Tips/tools/resources for converting unstructured to structured

2012-08-24 Thread Doris Pavlichek 
I'm interested in this, too, so I'll be following the discussion closely!

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On Aug 23, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Pat Christenson pxen...@gmail.com wrote:

 I'm about to start a unstructured-to-structuredconversion project in either 
 Frame 9 or 10. Does anyone have any tips, tools or online resources that 
 would be helpful for such a project?
 
 Thanks for any suggestions.
 
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Diverse templates and Structure

2012-09-14 Thread Doris Pavlichek 

Hi all -

At my company, we are preparing to go from unstructured FM10 to 
structured FM10. Because of all of the messages on this board and 
generally accepted best practices, we are doing some clean-up and 
preparation now before trying to implement a structure. However, we have 
at least one writer (we all report to different managers) who wants 
certain conditions and paragraph tags that will then *not* be in all of 
the documents. In the past, we have not done this. We all have the same 
character and paragraph tags, and conditions, loaded.


My question is - will there be problems moving to structure and XML 
output if we start having this kind of style drift?


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Tips/tools/resources for converting unstructured to structured

2012-08-23 Thread Doris Pavlichek 
I'm interested in this, too, so I'll be following the discussion closely!

Doris E. Pavlichek
Dpavlichek62 at gmail.com
Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 23, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Pat Christenson  wrote:

> I'm about to start a unstructured-to-structuredconversion project in either 
> Frame 9 or 10. Does anyone have any tips, tools or online resources that 
> would be helpful for such a project?
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
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Survey about the impact of cloud technology on knowledge workers

2012-07-05 Thread Doris Pavlichek 
Hi Robert -

The reason there are some questions about mobile apps, smartphones, and 
tablets within the survey is that we are studying all aspects of cloud 
and mobile computing within a single, unified survey for our entire 
capstone course. Some folks are focusing on handheld devices, some are 
focusing on cloud-based data, and Heidi and I are focusing on 
cloud-based applications (like Salesforce).

Hope that helps to clarify why certain questions came up during the survey.

D

On 7/5/2012 1:29 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
> There seem to be some false assumptions in there. Cloud technology
> often has nothing to do with mobile devices. Lots of people use Rally
> and Salesforce just as they would desktop applications.
>
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Doris Pavlichek  
> wrote:
>> Hi all -
>>
>> Please take a few minutes to participate in this survey about the impact of
>> cloud technology on knowledge workers (including technical communicators).
>> This is for a graduate project for Mercer University. We can offer nothing
>> more than a good feeling that you helped some poor graduate students and my
>> thanks! :-)  The info is below
>> 
>>
>> As graduate students in the Masters of Technical Communication Management at
>> Mercer University, we are conducting a survey to explore how technology has
>> changed our environment, work, and leisure.
>>
>> To participate in this survey, go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6TP9TDV.
>> Because your participation is voluntary, we appreciate your contribution to
>> this research.
>>
>> Please send any questions you may have to leonard_hi at mercer.edu.


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Support needed!

2012-07-12 Thread Doris Pavlichek 
Laura, 

I wrote to you privately, but I wanted to add something that, while anecdotal, 
is relevant. 

For a very large (100+ pages) document for my capstone course, I am running 
into many issues of Word 2011 on a MacBook Pro running Lion crashing. It gives 
me an error saying that my disk isn't inserted properly (a really ludicrous 
error). The document has a few graphics, a ToC, and a low-overhead template. 
There is no reason for it to crash, but it does. 

The only way I have found to avoid the error is to force quit the app and work 
on sections of the doc in smaller chunks, which we will knit together at the 
end. 

I can't fathom trying to use Word for product doc unless you did so in very 
small files. Even then...

Doris E. Pavlichek
Dpavlichek62 at gmail.com
Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 10, 2012, at 3:57 AM,  wrote:

> Dear all
> 
> Please tell me I'm not going mad or being unreasonable.
> 
> Have just come into work to find that the company which acquired us a few 
> months ago wants me to use Powerpoint for creating datasheets instead of 
> InDesign (definite) and "a more flexible tool" (Word) instead of our beloved 
> Framemaker (proposed).
> 
> I could cry. I am the only tech author in the company of about 100 people and 
> the marketing department used PP for datasheets which they say is "adequate" 
> for the job. This all arose on Friday when someone else needed to edit a 
> version of my ID files when I was on holiday.  Now I come in to find:
> 
> "...For more technical documentation (e.g. product manuals) then I understand 
> the argument for use of a more specialist tool - but even here we can use 
> more flexible tools."
> 
> Such as? I have long user guides with masses of conditional text. Just 
> let Word have a shot at that. In fact, they were trying to do just that 
> before I started this job 4 years ago - and it wasn't working.
> 
> Sorry to clog up the forum with this but I think of you all as friends who 
> feel the same way about FM as I do.
> 
> How do I persuade them otherwise? In fact, it's just one person really I 
> think I need to convince - not in my office.
> 
> I can just about cope with datasheets in PP but using anything other than 
> Frame for long user guides is unthinkable.
> 
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FYI: Deal for upgrading from FM7.x to FM10 ends June 15

2012-06-14 Thread Doris Pavlichek 
We upgraded from FM 7.x to 10 earlier this year (unstructured). I like a lot of 
the new features, but we do see quite a few crashes. I have also gotten "out of 
memory" errors when dealing with large books (and I'm on a Win7 VM with 4GB 
RAM). 

If you're stable and happy, there is no "burning platform". An Adobe support 
person actually said to me (during my first FM10 support case) "Oh, version 7 
was much more stable." >.<

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On Jun 12, 2012, at 10:10 PM, Theresa de Valence  wrote:

> On 6/6/2012 10:54 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
>> The offer is "Adobe FrameMaker 7.X customers can receive a savings of
>> 30% on the FULL version of FrameMaker 10 software purchased through
>> Adobe Customer Service, or a participating reseller worldwide."
> 
> 
> Like many other people, I'm on v. 8 which is plenty stable.
> 
> Do you (each of you) recommend upgrading to 10?
> 
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Disappearing text in PDF: a weird issue

2012-06-19 Thread Doris Pavlichek 
Yep. We had a similar problem, and the Windows hotfix cleared it up. It 
was a PostScript issue.

D

On 6/19/2012 9:01 AM, Mike Wickham wrote:
> > When I create a PDF from a MIF test file using TimesNewRoman, 
> everything works ok. When she creates a PDF from FrameMaker 10, using 
> some corporate font for CellBody (GE Inspira), the text of CellBody 
> takes on the shading color of the table cell and disappears, but only 
> (and this is where is gets really weird) in the case of the table 
> anchored under the level 2 heading.
> >
>
> Are they running Windows XP? There was a Microsoft bug that caused 
> dropped characters in PDFs. Microsoft issued a hotfix. In Windows XP 
> days, most of us installed and recommended it. Information can be 
> found here:
>
> http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2008/07/hotfix_for_framemaker_1.html
>
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FM9 does not support helvetica font (any workaround)

2012-06-20 Thread Doris Pavlichek 
That's a great flick! I've watched it several times. D

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On Jun 19, 2012, at 11:21 AM, jackdeland at comcast.net wrote:

> I agree with Fred, having used Helvetica for a while, but now using Segoe UI 
> for body text.  And of course no discussion of Helvetica is complete without 
> mention of the documentary "Helvetica", which is now available through 
> Netflix and probably other sources as well. http://www.helveticafilm.com/
> 
> Jack DeLand
> 
> From: "Fred Ridder" 
> To: "richard combs" , agoyal2006 at gmail.com, 
> framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 11:14:31 AM
> Subject: RE: FM9 does not support helvetica font (any workaround)
> 
> The appearance difference between Helvetica and Arial is not always so 
> slight. If you are talking about all caps, the differences in most 
> letterforms are pretty subtle (altough a few, like the capital R, are 
> markedly different). But there are a few differences in lower-case letters 
> that are dead giveaways and that significantly change the feel of the 
> typeface. 
>  
> See the excellent quiz at http://www.ironicsans.com/helvarialquiz/
> And an article that will allow you to ace the quiz at 
> http://www.ms-studio.com/articlesarialsid.html 
> 
> Real Helvetica can look a little over-formal, but at least it nearly always 
> looks harmonious. There are a lot of cases where Arial looks graceless and 
> even ill-proportioned. It's not that Microsoft is incapable of good typeface 
> design--Verdana happens to be a really good face. It' sjust a shame that the 
> one Microsoft font that has become the most widely used is not among their 
> better efforts. 
>  
> -Fred Ridder
>  
> > From: richard.combs at Polycom.com
> > To: agoyal2006 at gmail.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com
> > Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 07:34:30 -0700
> > Subject: RE: FM9 does not support helvetica font (any workaround)
> > 
> > Amita Goyal wrote:
> > 
> > > I have a specifc query on FM9. It does not support helvetica font (not
> > > included in the licensed version of this s/w package).
> > 
> > The fact that Helvetica is not bundled with FM doesn't mean it doesn't 
> > _support_ Helvetica. AFAIK, FM supports any standard PostScript, TrueType, 
> > or OpenType font properly installed in your Windows OS. 
> > 
> > > Can someone install the Helvetica Font for his specific use in  FM9, by
> > > copying required fonts in the fminit (or fonts/ or any other) directory
> > > or by any other method.
> > 
> > After purchasing Helvetica, you install it in the same way that you install 
> > any font in Windows. Search for "install font" in Windows Help and Support. 
> > 
> > Alternatively, if you don't mind slight differences in appearance and 
> > metrics, you can replace Helvetica with Arial. IIRC, default maker.ini file 
> > maps Helvetica to Arial in the Unknown to Known Fonts section, so the 
> > replacements will become permanent if you turn off Remember Missing Font 
> > Names (in File > Preferences > General). 
> > 
> > HTH!
> > 
> > Richard G. Combs
> > Senior Technical Writer
> > Polycom, Inc.
> > richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
> > 303-223-5111
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Survey about the impact of cloud technology on knowledge workers

2012-06-22 Thread Doris Pavlichek 
Hi all -

Please take a few minutes to participate in this survey about the impact 
of cloud technology on knowledge workers (including technical 
communicators). This is for a graduate project for Mercer University. We 
can offer nothing more than a good feeling that you helped some poor 
graduate students and my thanks! :-)  The info is below


As graduate students in the Masters of Technical Communication 
Management at Mercer University, we are conducting a survey to explore 
how technology has changed our environment, work, and leisure.

To participate in this survey, go to 
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6TP9TDV.  Because your participation is 
voluntary, we appreciate your contribution to this research.

Please send any questions you may have to leonard_hi at mercer.edu.

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OT: Unexpected event

2012-06-22 Thread Doris Pavlichek 
Rick, I hope you are recovering nicely from your surgery and that you 
have many, many years left to help us decipher the mysteries of FrameMaker.

D
On 6/20/2012 8:07 AM, Rick Quatro wrote:
> Hi Framers,
>
> I hesitate to put this on the list, but I have been around the FrameMaker
> community for a long time, and this is the only contact I have with some of
> you. Also, in light of Bruce Foster's sudden disappearance last year, I
> thought it would be appropriate to post this.
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> As many of you know, I was supposed to be on vacation this week, cycling
> across New York State with 17 other guys. During my last few training rides,
> I experienced some discomfort in my chest. It was a concern because I am in
> pretty good shape with almost 800 miles on the bike so far this summer. I
> had a stress test on Friday, and the results showed an 80% chance of a
> blockage in one of my cardiac arteries. Monday I went into the hospital for
> an angiogram, with the anticipation of having the blockage opened and a
> stent put in. However, the test showed a couple of areas of blockage, one
> being in an area that can't be opened with a stent. So on Wednesday around
> 12:45 pm, I am going to have open heart surgery with at least a double
> bypass. I will be in the hospital for 3-5 days and hopefully experience a
> quick recovery at home. I should be back to work late next week.
>
> Those of you who know me well understand that I have a deep abiding
> relationship with Jesus Christ. I received Him as my Savior on April 6, 1984
> when I was twenty-five years old. Because He has forgiven me of my sins, I
> know that when I die, I will be with Him in heaven. I am still a sinner and
> don't deserve heaven, but because of His death on the cross and subsequent
> resurrection, He gives eternal life to those who receive Him by faith.
>
> That said, I am still fairly young (53), and have some young kids left to
> raise. So, if you are given to prayer, please pray for Sherry and I this
> Wednesday. Finally, thank you all for being a part of my life. The great
> people that I work with is an important part of making my work so
> satisfying.
>
> Sincerely,
> Rick
>
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> 585-283-5045
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Globally resize FM files in book?

2012-05-02 Thread Doris Pavlichek 
Hi Nancy -

If you open all files in the book and select them, you can then go to 
View > Zoom > 100%.

If you want all the files to be 120% (my favorite zoom level), you would 
then select View > Zoom > In. That will take it up a notch on the 
standard zoom ladder.

Hope this helps - D

On 5/2/2012 3:13 PM, Nancy Allison wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> I have a 15-file book. Each file is at a different magnification, it seems.
>
> I want to reset them all to one size. Is there any way to do it globally 
> through the book, or do I have to click each one and manually reset it?
>
> I tried selecting all files in the book and using the control at the bottom 
> of the window, but it affected only the currently displayed file.
>
> Thanks.
>
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Overrides - FM10

2012-05-04 Thread Doris Pavlichek 
Hi all -

We're having some issues with overrides in FrameMaker 10. We've been 
using the new "Remove Overrides" option, and we thought we were having 
some success. But one of my writers removed all overrides in a document 
last night and left the document open on his desktop overnight (no 
reboots, locally-stored file). This morning he found that the elves had 
restored all the overrides for procSpaceAfter (a paragraph format that 
creates some white space after a procedure) and many other pgf formats.

In addition, if he tries to remove the override for procStepResult 
(which is an arrow in Zapfdingbats), it removes the UTF transform 
between dingbats and Helvetica (our default font). The only way to keep 
the arrow is to leave the override in place. We never had these issues 
with FM 7.x, which we just converted from a couple of months ago.

Anyone else having problems with overrides messing up UTF mapping or 
magically reappearing in a file? Seems this is not a very stable feature.

D

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Diverse templates and Structure

2012-09-14 Thread Doris Pavlichek 
Hi all -

At my company, we are preparing to go from unstructured FM10 to 
structured FM10. Because of all of the messages on this board and 
generally accepted "best practices", we are doing some clean-up and 
preparation now before trying to implement a structure. However, we have 
at least one writer (we all report to different managers) who wants 
certain conditions and paragraph tags that will then *not* be in all of 
the documents. In the past, we have not done this. We all have the same 
character and paragraph tags, and conditions, loaded.

My question is - will there be problems moving to structure and XML 
output if we start having this kind of style drift?

Thanks - D

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