RE: Stripping color definitions from .fm files

2006-03-22 Thread Niels Fanøe
Save as MIF, close. Open doc, save as FM. Search the archive for tools to do this on many files... -Niels - -Original Message- - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - On Behalf Of Melanie Raney - Sent: 22. marts 2006 02:12 - To: framers@lists.frameusers.com - Subject:

Converting FM to Mif Import to RH

2006-03-22 Thread Nikki Bridwell
Hi all, I hope one of you can offer a solution to my problem. Here goes... I create a printed report book in FrameMaker that provides details about the report as well as a sample. The sample is printed from the program as PDF and I import the same PDF into my FM doc (which retains the quality of

Re: Weird, sudden problem distilling postscript files

2006-03-22 Thread Karen Mardahl
Hi Tammy Possible solution: Try the simple trick of just shutting down Frame and Acrobat and Distiller, and then start over. This happened to me about 1 year ago, but I could not find my internal correspondance with colleagues about it. Freakily enough, the same thing happened to me just

Re: Weird, sudden problem distilling postscript files

2006-03-22 Thread Tammy . VanBoening
Fred, Karen, et al. Thanks for all of the responses. sorry I didn't respond earlier, but just after I posted this message, my IT guy came down to see if he could troubleshoot - and at least I was able to reproduce the problem. Long story short - I will be humming along making PDFs no problem

Re: Stripping color definitions from .fm files

2006-03-22 Thread Doug
Like Niels said, save as MIF, open and save back as FM. Or if you have FrameScript, the ReplaceColors script will remove any unused colors in the doc. You can prevent this problem from arising in the first place by making sure your graphics use a 24- or 32-bit color depth, 16.7 million colors.

View PDF results: Distiller printer settings vs FrameMaker PDF Setup settings

2006-03-22 Thread Karen Mardahl
Hi Frame 7.1p116, Acrobat Pro 7.0.7, Distiller 7.0.7, XP I am confused about some settings in Distiller and FrameMaker that seem to be the same thing...(recently upgraded to 7.1 from 6.0) 1. In Frame: Format Document PDF Setup... Settings tab - there is a checkbox for View Generated PDF in

Fw: Very OT, but this is freakin' incredible: Cool commercial

2006-03-22 Thread Tammy . VanBoening
All, I am sure I am breaking list rules by posting this, but. . . this list has provided so much to me, I thought adding a bit of enjoyment to say thanks - and with as analytical and precise as a writer's mind is, I am sure that all of us will deeply appreciate the precision and accuracy that

Re: Fw: Very OT, but this is freakin' incredible: Cool commercial

2006-03-22 Thread pearlrosenberg
Thanks, Tammy. If you don't know who Rube Goldberg was, google him. Pearl Rosenberg TeleHealth Services - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 10:57 am Subject: Fw: Very OT, but this is freakin' incredible: Cool commercial To:

Two questions

2006-03-22 Thread Tammy . VanBoening
1.) The URL to the Frameusers archives/search feature - I had this saved as a favorite, but had a nuclear meltdown on my hard drive and an in the frustrating process of rebuilding my working environment. 2.) I know this has been asked (by me) and answered (generously by quite a few on the list

RE: Two questions

2006-03-22 Thread Spreadbury, David
On your master page, select the line. Then go to Graphics Align and set it Left. This should fix your problem. Remember, I said should :-)) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] m] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 1:01 PM To:

Re: Two questions

2006-03-22 Thread Lisa M. Bronson
Hi Tammy, Archives are located at http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/ For archives of messages prior to November 19, 2005, visit http://lists.frameusers.com/framers/archives/0512/ The 0512 at the end of the URL is the date in YYMM format, so 0512 is December, 2005. You can change it

Paragraph tag with Frame below

2006-03-22 Thread Tammy . VanBoening
Ok, Got both of my first two questions answered quickly, so let me continue on question #2. I am required by the FAA on any documentation that I produce to mark the blank page at the end of the chapter with the phrase INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK. Right now, the writers simply manually hit

Lurking fonts: for info

2006-03-22 Thread Steve Rickaby
Hi Framers I am batting with a font-sub problem. I am trying to weed out all instances of specific fonts from a set of files. No matter how much I search for the fonts that FrameMaker reports are 'missing' when I open the file, I cannot find them, either on body pages, master pages or

RE: Paragraph tag with Frame below

2006-03-22 Thread Lester C. Smalley
You only need on tag - use an empty Frame Above the paragraph to move it to the correct vertical position. In fact, you only need a Frame Above, by placing your Intentionally Left Blank graphic at the appropriate vertical distance down from the top of the frame on the reference page. On

Re: Paragraph tag with Frame below

2006-03-22 Thread Stuart Rogers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Got both of my first two questions answered quickly, so let me continue on question #2. I am required by the FAA on any documentation that I produce to mark the blank page at the end of the chapter with the phrase INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK. Right now, the writers

Re: Paragraph tag with Frame below

2006-03-22 Thread Tammy . VanBoening
Ok, if I had expanded on the very way that reference frames work on a page - oh well, thanks Mark - this works beautifully - (and thanks everyone else for responding as well . . . it's been a long couple of days reworking templates and my hard drive/working environment at the same time!). TVB

RE: Paragraph tag with Frame below

2006-03-22 Thread Anne Robotti
Why not put your Blank Page text in its own frame on a special master page and then use Apply Master Pages to apply it whenever a Blank Page tag is used? Stuart, I just wanted to mention that when I did this, I ran into a problem with the pages that were added due to the Make Page Count Even

Re: Paragraph tag with Frame below

2006-03-22 Thread Stuart Rogers
Anne Robotti wrote: Why not put your Blank Page text in its own frame on a special master page and then use Apply Master Pages to apply it whenever a Blank Page tag is used? Stuart, I just wanted to mention that when I did this, I ran into a problem with the pages that were added due to the

Re: Paragraph tag with Frame below

2006-03-22 Thread T.W. Smith
A better trick that was told to me on the Adobe U2U forums, by I believe Sheila Carlisle or maybe Peter Gold, several years ago was this: Use master page mappings. Create a new left master page. Call it LeftAllTheTime or something. Set it up so that it is always used by pages that contain text,

RE: 4 sided pages in book printing?

2006-03-22 Thread John Sgammato
Hi, Theresa - I am darkening my grayest neurons developing my first EDD for structure Frame, so I may miss something, but here are my thoughts: I think you may be overmanaging your project, unaware of inexpensive external resources that can save you time and stress. I do a lot of docs, and

RE: Paragraph tag with Frame below

2006-03-22 Thread Lorian Gans
...and of course I forgot to include the link the first time = ugh! http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A676280 Lorian Gans Technical Writer Cougar Mountain Software (208) 375-4455 ext. 147 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cougarmtn.com -Original Message- From: Lorian Gans Sent: Wednesday,

Re: Paragraph tag with Frame below

2006-03-22 Thread Stuart Rogers
T.W. Smith wrote: A better trick that was told to me on the Adobe U2U forums, by I believe Sheila Carlisle or maybe Peter Gold, several years ago was this: Use master page mappings. Create a new left master page. Call it LeftAllTheTime or something. Set it up so that it is always used by pages

Re: 4 sided pages in book printing?

2006-03-22 Thread Art Campbell
To amplify John's comments even more, the local print shop that I habitually use can print less expensively than I can on our in-house Xerox do-it-all print shop. So stay in touch with you local vendors... And to cut to the chase on using FM as an imposition tool: don't. Use it for what it does

Re: 4 sided pages in book printing?

2006-03-22 Thread Stuart Rogers
Theresa de Valence wrote: Subject: 4 sided pages in book printing? Hello Framers and John (because I like your answers to other peoples' questions!): I am just getting around to setting up my first book to print semi-automatically on legal paper from a regular office printer (later to be

Re: Paragraph tag with Frame below

2006-03-22 Thread Peter Gold
I'd really L*O*V*E to take credit for this cool idea, but unless I wrote it in a trance, I don't think it's mine. However, I'd like to embellish it with this suggestion: If you plan to use it, DOCUMENT it thoroughly in a tagged text frame (Flow: A, for example) on all master pages in the

Hypertext Marker Text not showing up in XML output

2006-03-22 Thread Petersen, Oran C
We are doing simple save as to XML from structured Frame 7.0 files that contain hyperlinks. In the XML file the hyperlinks are being flagged as there, but are empty of values. This XML is being heavily massaged through external programs, but we do need the actual hyperlink values to appear in the

Unusual characters appearing with Arial Unicode MS

2006-03-22 Thread Alan Litchfield
Hi Framers, Couple of questions for you. When I use \m in FM I expect to get an em dash, instead I get what looks like a Japanese character. When I type alt+0151 I get the same character in FM. But when I type that into a word processor I get the correct em dash. I change the font to,

Stripping color definitions from .fm files

2006-03-22 Thread Niels Fanøe
Save as MIF, close. Open doc, save as FM. Search the archive for tools to do this on many files... -Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com -> [mailto:framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com] -> On Behalf Of Melanie

Converting FM to Mif & Import to RH

2006-03-22 Thread Nikki Bridwell
Hi all, I hope one of you can offer a solution to my problem. Here goes... I create a printed report book in FrameMaker that provides details about the report as well as a sample. The sample is printed from the program as PDF and I import the same PDF into my FM doc (which retains the quality of

Weird, sudden problem distilling postscript files

2006-03-22 Thread Karen Mardahl
Hi Tammy Possible solution: Try the simple trick of just shutting down Frame and Acrobat and Distiller, and then start over. This happened to me about 1 year ago, but I could not find my internal correspondance with colleagues about it. Freakily enough, the same thing happened to me just

Weird, sudden problem distilling postscript files

2006-03-22 Thread tammy.vanboen...@jeppesen.com
Fred, Karen, et al. Thanks for all of the responses. sorry I didn't respond earlier, but just after I posted this message, my IT guy came down to see if he could troubleshoot - and at least I was able to reproduce the problem. Long story short - I will be humming along making PDFs no problem

View PDF results: Distiller printer settings vs FrameMaker PDF Setup settings

2006-03-22 Thread Karen Mardahl
Hi Frame 7.1p116, Acrobat Pro 7.0.7, Distiller 7.0.7, XP I am confused about some settings in Distiller and FrameMaker that seem to be the same thing...(recently upgraded to 7.1 from 6.0) 1. In Frame: Format > Document > PDF Setup... > Settings tab - there is a checkbox for "View Generated PDF

Fw: Very OT, but this is freakin' incredible: Cool commercial

2006-03-22 Thread tammy.vanboen...@jeppesen.com
All, I am sure I am breaking list rules by posting this, but. . . this list has provided so much to me, I thought adding a bit of enjoyment to say thanks - and with as analytical and precise as a writer's mind is, I am sure that all of us will deeply appreciate the precision and accuracy that

Very OT, but this is freakin' incredible: Cool commercial

2006-03-22 Thread John Sgammato
I saw that a couple of years ago, and then lost the link. I still like to see it now and then, and to show it to the newer software developers I write for when they are struggling through some late-night bug-fixes. There is more on it at Snopes.com:

Fw: Very OT, but this is freakin' incredible: Cool commercial

2006-03-22 Thread pearlrosenb...@nc.rr.com
Thanks, Tammy. If you don't know who Rube Goldberg was, google him. Pearl Rosenberg TeleHealth Services - Original Message - From: tammy.vanboen...@jeppesen.com Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 10:57 am Subject: Fw: Very OT, but this is freakin' incredible: Cool commercial To: framers

Two questions

2006-03-22 Thread tammy.vanboen...@jeppesen.com
1.) The URL to the Frameusers archives/search feature - I had this saved as a favorite, but had a nuclear meltdown on my hard drive and an in the frustrating process of rebuilding my working environment. 2.) I know this has been asked (by me) and answered (generously by quite a few on the list

Two questions

2006-03-22 Thread Spreadbury, David
On your master page, select the line. Then go to Graphics > Align and set it Left. This should fix your problem. Remember, I said should :-)) -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs.com at

Two questions

2006-03-22 Thread Lisa M. Bronson
Hi Tammy, Archives are located at http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/ For archives of messages prior to November 19, 2005, visit http://lists.frameusers.com/framers/archives/0512/ The 0512 at the end of the URL is the date in YYMM format, so 0512 is December, 2005. You can change it

Paragraph tag with Frame below

2006-03-22 Thread tammy.vanboen...@jeppesen.com
Ok, Got both of my first two questions answered quickly, so let me continue on question #2. I am required by the FAA on any documentation that I produce to mark the blank page at the end of the chapter with the phrase "INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK". Right now, the writers simply manually hit

Lurking fonts: for info

2006-03-22 Thread Steve Rickaby
Hi Framers I am batting with a font-sub problem. I am trying to weed out all instances of specific fonts from a set of files. No matter how much I search for the fonts that FrameMaker reports are 'missing' when I open the file, I cannot find them, either on body pages, master pages or

Paragraph tag with Frame below

2006-03-22 Thread Lester C. Smalley
You only need on tag - use an empty Frame Above the paragraph to move it to the correct vertical position. In fact, you only need a Frame Above, by placing your "Intentionally Left Blank" graphic at the appropriate vertical distance down from the top of the frame on the reference page. On

Paragraph tag with Frame below

2006-03-22 Thread Stuart Rogers
Tammy.VanBoening at jeppesen.com wrote: > Ok, > > Got both of my first two questions answered quickly, so let me continue on > question #2. I am required by the FAA on any documentation that I produce > to mark the blank page at the end of the chapter with the phrase > "INTENTIONALLY LEFT

Paragraph tag with Frame below

2006-03-22 Thread tammy.vanboen...@jeppesen.com
Ok, if I had expanded on the very way that reference frames work on a page - oh well, thanks Mark - this works beautifully - (and thanks everyone else for responding as well . . . it's been a long couple of days reworking templates and my hard drive/working environment at the same time!). TVB

Paragraph tag with Frame below

2006-03-22 Thread Anne Robotti
> Why not put your Blank Page text in its own frame on a special master > page and then use Apply Master Pages to apply it whenever a Blank Page > tag is used? Stuart, I just wanted to mention that when I did this, I ran into a problem with the pages that were added due to the "Make Page Count

Paragraph tag with Frame below

2006-03-22 Thread Stuart Rogers
Anne Robotti wrote: >> Why not put your Blank Page text in its own frame on a special master >> page and then use Apply Master Pages to apply it whenever a Blank Page >> tag is used? > > Stuart, I just wanted to mention that when I did this, I ran into a > problem with the pages that were added

Paragraph tag with Frame below

2006-03-22 Thread T.W. Smith
A better trick that was told to me on the Adobe U2U forums, by I believe Sheila Carlisle or maybe Peter Gold, several years ago was this: Use master page mappings. Create a new left master page. Call it "LeftAllTheTime" or something. Set it up so that it is always used by pages that contain

Lurking fonts: for info

2006-03-22 Thread Combs, Richard
Steve Rickaby wrote: > Here's an example of a MIF fragment with a bad font name: > > > > > > > > > > > > > ... (etc) > > It's the 'Frutiger-Roman' that is triggering the missing font >

4 sided pages in book printing?

2006-03-22 Thread John Sgammato
Hi, Theresa - I am darkening my grayest neurons developing my first EDD for structure Frame, so I may miss something, but here are my thoughts: I think you may be overmanaging your project, unaware of inexpensive external resources that can save you time and stress. I do a lot of docs, and

Paragraph tag with Frame below

2006-03-22 Thread Lorian Gans
I couldn't resist - here's a funny about the entire "This page intentionally left blank" craziness. Enjoy! Lorian Gans Technical Writer Cougar Mountain Software (208) 375-4455 ext. 147 LorianGans at cougarmtn.com www.cougarmtn.com -Original Message- From:

Paragraph tag with Frame below

2006-03-22 Thread Lorian Gans
...and of course I forgot to include the link the first time = ugh! http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A676280 Lorian Gans Technical Writer Cougar Mountain Software (208) 375-4455 ext. 147 LorianGans at cougarmtn.com www.cougarmtn.com -Original Message- From: Lorian Gans Sent:

Lurking fonts: for info

2006-03-22 Thread Steve Rickaby
Many thanks to Lin, Debbie and Richard: I will put what you suggested into practise tomorrow and am confident of stomping on 'missing font' errors for good. -- Steve

Paragraph tag with Frame below

2006-03-22 Thread Stuart Rogers
T.W. Smith wrote: > A better trick that was told to me on the Adobe U2U forums, by I believe > Sheila Carlisle or maybe Peter Gold, several years ago was this: > > Use master page mappings. > > Create a new left master page. Call it "LeftAllTheTime" or something. Set it > up so that it is always

4 sided pages in book printing?

2006-03-22 Thread Art Campbell
To amplify John's comments even more, the local print shop that I habitually use can print less expensively than I can on our in-house Xerox do-it-all print shop. So stay in touch with you local vendors... And to cut to the chase on using FM as an imposition tool: don't. Use it for what it does

4 sided pages in book printing?

2006-03-22 Thread Stuart Rogers
Theresa de Valence wrote: > Subject: 4 sided pages in book printing? > > > > Hello Framers and John (because I like your answers to other peoples' > questions!): > > I am just getting around to setting up my first book to print > semi-automatically on legal paper from a regular office printer

Paragraph tag with Frame below

2006-03-22 Thread Peter Gold
I'd really L*O*V*E to take credit for this cool idea, but unless I wrote it in a trance, I don't think it's mine. However, I'd like to embellish it with this suggestion: If you plan to use it, DOCUMENT it thoroughly in a tagged text frame (Flow: A, for example) on all master pages in the files

Hypertext Marker Text not showing up in XML output

2006-03-22 Thread Petersen, Oran C
We are doing simple "save as" to XML from structured Frame 7.0 files that contain hyperlinks. In the XML file the hyperlinks are being flagged as there, but are empty of values. This XML is being heavily massaged through external programs, but we do need the actual hyperlink values to appear in

Running H/F Variables, Alternate Values

2006-03-22 Thread Karen L. Zorn
I have two Heading 1 formats in my template: "h1_heading 1" and "h1np_heading 1 new page." There is need for both formats to avoid over rides. What is the formula for the Running H/F so it will display the most recent Heading 1 text. Once, quite a ways back, someone (John Posoda?) provided the

Hypertext Marker Text not showing up in XML output

2006-03-22 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 02:56 PM 3/22/2006, Petersen, Oran C wrote: >We are doing simple "save as" to XML from structured Frame 7.0 files >that contain hyperlinks. In the XML file the hyperlinks are being >flagged as there, but are empty of values. >This XML is being heavily massaged through external programs, but we

PDF to FrameMaker?

2006-03-22 Thread Pat Christenson
Thanks to everyone who replied. This was a small, one-time job so save as RTF was the best solution but it's great to know there are other options. Pat

Running H/F Variables, Alternate Values

2006-03-22 Thread Karen L. Zorn
Thank you Pat, and Ann, I just knew it was something very simple! Now, if only I could solve my flow conumdrum that I posted the other day! Karen L. Zorn Zorn Technologies, Inc. Mesa, AZ -Original Message- From: Pat Christenson [mailto:pxen...@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 22,