crop mark

2005-12-15 Thread Cao Ye (Meg Cao)
Hi, guys, I export fm files to PDF format through PostScript. The problem is that I hope to use crop mark in PDF file to mark the originial trim size in A4 paper. Could anyone tell me how to set crop mark to print aumatically in Framemaker? Thanks so much! -Meg

Re: [Slightly OT] attribute value length limits

2005-12-15 Thread mcarr
Jakob Fix wrote: I am doing some testing for export of a Frame (7.1) document to XML and SGML. I am particularly interested in the maximum length of attribute values. I found that there's not really a limit when exporting to XML (I tried 5kb of text). However, when exporting to SGML, it

Re: [Slightly OT] attribute value length limits

2005-12-15 Thread Jakob Fix
Hi Marcus, thanks for your reply. On 15/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jakob Fix wrote: I am doing some testing for export of a Frame (7.1) document to XML and SGML. I am particularly interested in the maximum length of attribute values. I found that there's not

Re: crop mark

2005-12-15 Thread Stuart Rogers
Cao Ye (Meg Cao) wrote: Hi, guys, I export fm files to PDF format through PostScript. The problem is that I hope to use crop mark in PDF file to mark the originial trim size in A4 paper. Could anyone tell me how to set crop mark to print aumatically in Framemaker? Thanks so much! In the print

RE: crop mark

2005-12-15 Thread Aronsson, Martin
To do this, Go to File - Print and change the value in Registration Marks: /Martin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] .frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Cao Ye (Meg Cao) Sent: torsdag den 15 december 2005 09:28 To: framers List Subject: crop

Adobe Layoffs

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Findon
Has anyone heard how many Adobe//Macromedia employees have been laid off as a result of the merger? I think it's being announced today. Poor souls. Being laid off is no fun at the best of times, but one week before Christmas? That's gotta hurt. I guess they'll have little to cheer about in

Bleeds

2005-12-15 Thread Steve Rickaby
Dear Experts Is there any way of controlling crop bleeds in FrameMaker other than deliberately oversizing graphics and overhanging them from page edges? And if the answer is 'no', how big should the bleeds be? Or should I be ignoring bleeds in FrameMaker altogether and setting them up using

Re: Bleeds

2005-12-15 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Steve, You have to make things bigger and hang them off the page. I have traditionally used 9 points or .125 (1/8) in. for bleed size. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com Dear Experts Is there any way of controlling crop bleeds in FrameMaker other than

Re: [Slightly OT] attribute value length limits

2005-12-15 Thread Lynne A. Price
Jakob, I have to agree with Marcus, that attributes of that length are in the least unusual. Still, exceeding a quantity should result in invalid SGML, but not truncate the export. I therefore suspect you are bumping up against an implementation dependency of some sort. The relevant

Those old book numbering blues

2005-12-15 Thread Steve Rickaby
I am using one autonumber thread to control stuff that needs to flow through a book. I just wanted to check that in this case, i.e. paragraph number threads not reset between chapters, there is no alternative to creating a separate n=0 paragraph clone for all the numbered paragraphs. Anyone

Re: Bleeds

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Findon
On 15 Dec 2005, at 16:34, Steve Rickaby wrote: Is there any way of controlling crop bleeds in FrameMaker other than deliberately oversizing graphics and overhanging them from page edges? And if the answer is 'no', how big should the bleeds be? No and anything over a couple of mm. In my

RE: Those old book numbering blues

2005-12-15 Thread Joe Malin
I'm confused. You want one autonumber format to control stuff that flows through an entire book. You want paragraph numbers not reset between chapters. If so, then you *don't* want n=0, cuz that will restart the numbering? To set up *one* paragraph style so that it was numbered from paragraph

RE: Those old book numbering blues

2005-12-15 Thread hedley . finger
Steve: I am using one autonumber thread to control stuff that needs to flow through a book. I just wanted to check that in this case, i.e. paragraph number threads not reset between chapters, there is no alternative to creating a separate n=0 paragraph clone for all the numbered paragraphs.

Job: Biomed Technical Writer - Contract or Staff - Foster City, CA

2005-12-15 Thread Jobs at ProSpring
TW-851 Biomed Technical Writer - Contract or Staff - Foster City, CA Salary/Rate: BOE A leading developer of medical devices, pathogen diagnostic kits and lab instrumentation needs two technical writers to help document their hardware and software products. Requirements: o. Experience

Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-15 Thread Steve Rickaby
>Thanks, Steve. By the way, the FrameMaker for Mac OS X petition is almost at >3,300 signatories. That's good to know - if I could sign again, I would. After fourteen years of FrameMaker, I'm currently going into new areas (complex designs, structure), and even now learning new stuff and new

crop mark

2005-12-15 Thread Cao Ye (Meg Cao)
Hi, guys, I export fm files to PDF format through PostScript. The problem is that I hope to use crop mark in PDF file to mark the originial trim size in A4 paper. Could anyone tell me how to set crop mark to print aumatically in Framemaker? Thanks so much! -Meg

[Slightly OT] attribute value length limits

2005-12-15 Thread mc...@allette.com.au
Jakob Fix wrote: > I am doing some testing for export of a Frame (7.1) document to XML and > SGML. I am particularly interested in the maximum length of attribute > values. I found that there's not really a limit when exporting to XML > (I tried 5kb of text). However, when exporting to SGML,

[Slightly OT] attribute value length limits

2005-12-15 Thread Jakob Fix
Hi Marcus, thanks for your reply. On 15/12/05, mcarr at allette.com.au wrote: > Jakob Fix wrote: > > > I am doing some testing for export of a Frame (7.1) document to XML and > > SGML. I am particularly interested in the maximum length of attribute > > values. I found that there's not really

crop mark

2005-12-15 Thread Stuart Rogers
Cao Ye (Meg Cao) wrote: > Hi, guys, > > I export fm files to PDF format through PostScript. The problem is that I > hope to use crop mark in PDF file to mark the originial trim size in A4 > paper. Could anyone tell me how to set crop mark to print aumatically in > Framemaker? Thanks so much! >

crop mark

2005-12-15 Thread Aronsson, Martin
To do this, Go to File -> Print and change the value in "Registration Marks:" /Martin > -Original Message- > From: > framers-bounces+martin.aronsson=sonyericsson.com at lists.frameus > ers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces+martin.aronsson=sonyericsson.com at lists .frameusers.com] On

Adobe Layoffs

2005-12-15 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 3:57 pm + 15/12/05, Paul Findon wrote: >Adobe vice president for Europe, Pierre Van Beneden, has said: "Other workers >in Europe, for example, some in the UK, may be offered jobs in Nordic regions >or Eastern Europe..." Yeah, or Siberia... Heh. You're nice and settled in the UK with

Bleeds

2005-12-15 Thread Steve Rickaby
Dear Experts Is there any way of controlling crop bleeds in FrameMaker other than deliberately oversizing graphics and overhanging them from page edges? And if the answer is 'no', how big should the bleeds be? Or should I be ignoring bleeds in FrameMaker altogether and setting them up using

Adobe Layoffs

2005-12-15 Thread Glenn Voyles
I was at an STC meeting last night and sat at a table with a Macromedia survivor. I don't recall the numbers (as I'm really a writer ;-). However, this story just goes to show how important your personal network is. As the layoffs were being dolled out, there was a lot of local IM chatter among

Bleeds

2005-12-15 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Steve, You have to make things bigger and hang them off the page. I have traditionally used 9 points or .125 (1/8) in. for bleed size. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com > Dear Experts > > Is there any way of controlling crop bleeds in FrameMaker other than >

[Slightly OT] attribute value length limits

2005-12-15 Thread Lynne A. Price
Jakob, I have to agree with Marcus, that attributes of that length are in the least unusual. Still, exceeding a quantity should result in invalid SGML, but not truncate the export. I therefore suspect you are bumping up against an implementation dependency of some sort. The relevant

Those old book numbering blues

2005-12-15 Thread Steve Rickaby
I am using one autonumber thread to control stuff that needs to flow through a book. I just wanted to check that in this case, i.e. paragraph number threads not reset between chapters, there is no alternative to creating a separate

Bleeds

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Findon
On 15 Dec 2005, at 16:34, Steve Rickaby wrote: > Is there any way of controlling crop bleeds in FrameMaker other than > deliberately oversizing graphics and overhanging them from page edges? > And if the answer is 'no', how big should the bleeds be? No and anything over a couple of mm. In my

Those old book numbering blues

2005-12-15 Thread Joe Malin
I'm confused. You want one autonumber format to control stuff that flows through an entire book. You want paragraph numbers not reset between chapters. If so, then you *don't* want

Job: Biomed Technical Writer - Contract or Staff - Foster City, CA

2005-12-15 Thread Jobs@ProSpring
TW-851 Biomed Technical Writer - Contract or Staff - Foster City, CA Salary/Rate: BOE A leading developer of medical devices, pathogen diagnostic kits and lab instrumentation needs two technical writers to help document their hardware and software products. Requirements: o. Experience