Re: FrameMaker on Mac

At 20:28 -0700 6/4/06, Pat Christenson wrote: Very mixed feelings here. As I understand it, you have to boot into either OS X or Windows which makes it more cumbersome than Classic. But Classic isn't an option on the new computers so once again, it's like it or lump it for Mac users. Yes,

Shortcuts for equation operators

Hi Framers, some of you may know that you can use shortcuts to insert operators in equations, for example: CTRL+SHIFT+ a letter for the Greek alphabet CTRL+SHIFT+6 for superscript CTRL+q+SHIFT; for a right arrow etc. Does anyone know the shortcut for the following operators: - multiply (x) -

Re: Problem with the master pages

Sindu, Make sure the text frame on the master page is not tagged; that is, make sure it doesn't have a flow name. Select the text frame, and choose Graphics Object Properties. Clear the Flow Tag field, and uncheck Autoconnect. This should give you the result you want. Rick Quatro Carmen

Re: English Jargon - Intentionally Right Blank

Thanks for a good link. And, you are right (or are you left?) ;-) Bodvar On 4/6/06, John Smart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We spend a lot of time removing English jargon for airline safety. A big airline in Japan wrote - we see the Intentionally Left Bank page but there is no Intentionally

Re: Problem with the master pages

At 16:56 +0530 7/4/06, Sindhu tw wrote: We are using Unstructured frame maker in our company. I want to display a message at the center of the last page. I created a master page and included a text frame with the message inside it along with the headers and footers..and applied that master page

generated list of tables, strange behaviour

Dear Framers, We are using FrameMaker6.0+sgml and have a template for the List of Figures, but in the instance of a special publication, we also need a List of Tables. I have taken the List of Figures template and transformed it to serve as a List of Tables and it works very well with one

FrameScript Notice

The FrameScript website is currently down due to a server problem. We hope to have the issue resolved by late this afternoon. We apologize for any inconvenience! Thank you, Marjorie Mayo FML Sales Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

RE: Problem with the master pages

On Friday, April 07, 2006 08:12 AM, Steve Rickaby wrote: | At 16:56 +0530 7/4/06, Sindhu tw wrote: | | We are using Unstructured frame maker in our company. I want to | display a message at the center of the last page. I created a | master page and included a text frame with the message

RE: fmPython

Hi all, I had some trouble posting to the list, and first of all, many thanks to Lisa for her administrative help in getting that straightened out. I was *most* impressed to receive an actual phone call (!), a rarity these days. Thanks again, Lisa. So, although this topic may be a bit stale, I

Print quality of graphics rotated in Frame

I have a couple of rotated anchor frames that contain referenced WMFs. It prints fine with my very slow PS printer-driver, but on my usual speedy PCL printer-driver, the print quality is horrific. When I tried to convert to EPS reference that instead, Frame could not display the graphic. Any

Re: Print quality of graphics rotated in Frame

Do you have the latest HP drivers installed? Can you generate a .pdf from FM with the WMFs in place and try printing that? On the EPS... did you specify a type of preview? Art On 4/7/06, Mary Sheahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a couple of rotated anchor frames that contain

FrameMaker on Mac

A colleague posed this question to me about running Apple's Boot Camp What I would like to know is if you prepared a graphic in, say, OSX Photoshop, and you wanted to import it into Windows FrameMaker, would the OSes cooperate? Could you save the file across the partition? Or would you have to

Re: FrameMaker on Mac

One of the Mac lists (MacFixIt or one of those) noted that if you format the Windows side with FAT32, you can see both partitions from both OSs, but the newer default XP format exceeds the limitations of FAT32, so most users don't bother fighting the default. So, you'd have to use a memory

FrameMaker 7.2 startup problem - authentication?

Hello Greetings Framers, A co-worker of mine is having a problem with FrameMaker startup if she is not logged in to her machine as 'admin.' If anyone has any advice, we would love to hear it. Thanks much, Emily Goodin Boulder, Colo. I am having FrameMaker 7.2 problems. When I

Re: FrameMaker on Mac

I'm repeating a post I made yesterday, but this will obviate the procedures listed below. This is preferable to a dual boot scenario. http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/04/06/parallels/index.php - web At 11:28 AM -0500 4/7/06, Peter Gold wrote: One of the Mac lists (MacFixIt or one of those)

Re: FrameMaker on Mac

A good work around may be to install a second hard drive and reserve it for data, possibly from both OSes... Art On 4/7/06, Peter Gold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the Mac lists (MacFixIt or one of those) noted that if you format the Windows side with FAT32, you can see both partitions

Frame Crashing

Hi Guys, I'm having a strange problem that my IT guys tells me is due to a bad interaction between Windows, FrameMaker and RoboHelp. I’m wondering if any of you has seen this and if so, what you've done to correct it. To make a long story short, my Windows Explorer folders are becoming

Re: Frame Crashing

Are the FM and graphics files local, on a network drive, or mixed? If the network is involved, hiccups there and in the way Windows is reading the network file system would be my first guess. Art On 4/7/06, Karyn Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys, I'm having a strange problem that my

RE: Frame Crashing

In this case, I'm certain it's not the network b/c everything is on my local hard drive. FrameMaker and RoboHelp are installed on my C drive under Program Files. The image folders are under My Documents. (The path is roughly project name/Frame files + a subfolder with the images/images. It's

Re: FrameMaker on Mac

I think more to your point might be: If Apple is making most of its money in the music business, how much incentive is there to continue to develop Mac aps and other software Art On 4/7/06, Steve Rickaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I was at IPEX on Wednesday, the big 4-yearly UK show for

Re: FrameMaker on Mac

P.S. But I still want a Native version. Virtualization is the spawn of evil. It *would* be nice if the Unix version could be ported over to OS X, but the Windows dual-boot option is not a virtualization, like Virtual PC. It is actually running Windows on the computer. As a trainer, I look

Re: FrameMaker on Mac

At 12:50 PM -0700 4/7/06, David Creamer wrote: P.S. But I still want a Native version. Virtualization is the spawn of evil. It *would* be nice if the Unix version could be ported over to OS X, but the Windows dual-boot option is not a virtualization, like Virtual PC. It is actually running

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I have a problem that is making me crazy. There are a few seemingly-random table heading cells whose text does not show up in the PDF. * In most cases I cloned the tables, so nothing (much) is different between them, except that one of the table heading cells does not show up in one of

Call for Papers: FrameMaker 2006 Chautauqua

Calling all presenters! If you are interested in participating as a speaker at the FrameMaker 2006 Chautauqua. If so, now is the time to submit your proposals. Proposal submissions: http://www.travelthepath.com/presproposal.html This call for papers officially closes April 26th. Get your

Framemaker on Mac

Much more interesting to Mac Framemaker users than Apple's Boot Camp are Parallels' XP emulator (now shipping beta) and -- especially -- the Open Source project for something called Darwine. Based on Wine, a Linux project, Darwine will allow a user to run a Windows application under OS

Updating text with new paragraph tag settings

Hi All, I have some very old chapters from some very old books that I’m selectively copying and pasting into some new books. The new books have slightly different character tag settings (different indents and line spacing) so I’m importing the new formats into all the old chapters as I copy

Re: Updating text with new paragraph tag settings

Try File Import Formats, and select paragraph and character tags, imported from Current. Then select the check box for When Importing, Remove Other Format/Layout Overrides. That should do what you want. martha At 02:41 PM 4/7/2006, Karyn Hunt wrote: I have some very old chapters from some

Anchored frames position

I have white space on the left side of book. When I import a graphic, I want the anchored frame to be centered below the line, but centered within the margins of the text, not to the page size. For example, if I have 2 inches of white space on the left side, 4 inches of text, and a 2 inch

Vanishing Table Heading Cells

The text is fine in FM. The properties of the text in the PDF are the same for the invisible text as for the visible text. (!!!) I tried re-importing table definitions, but that didn't help. I copied the text to a new template and that didn't help. I made a copy of a good table and copied the

RE: Anchored frames position

Gillian Flato wrote: I have white space on the left side of book. When I import a graphic, I want the anchored frame to be centered below the line, but centered within the margins of the text, not to the page size. Robert Stoker's plug-in may do it for you, but may I suggest a different

Re: Where's Framescript?

Hello all, The FrameScript web site is working again. Sorry for the inconvience. Frank Elmore Project leader for FrameScript - Original Message - From: donandjudy1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 6:19 PM Subject: Where's Framescript?

RE: Frame Crashing

Back in 1987 I had been using Framemaker for a couple of years, when a new version came out that included a networking feature. I tried using it, and found that everything had slowed to a crawl. I sent off a blistering review of the new product to Framemaker, and got an email back a few days

Changing Attribute Types

Changing attribute types: Frame 7.0 Structured Developer's guide states that without a Read/Write rule, Frame changes all NMTOKENS attribute types to Strings on import then changes all Strings attribute types to CDATA types on export (pages 248-249). I need to ensure certain attribute values are

RE: FrameScript Notice

Framers, The FrameScript site is operational again. Thank you for your patience and interest in FrameScript. Thanks, Nick Howard Finite Matters Ltd. 804.556.1180 - Phone 804.556.1183 - Fax -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marjorie Mayo

Re: Vanishing Table Heading Cells

Jim, You wrote: I have a problem that is making me crazy. There are a few seemingly-random table heading cells whose text does not show up in the PDF. One possibility is the combination of Save as PDF with Tagged PDF turned on (which may be there by default). See

FrameMaker on Mac

At 20:28 -0700 6/4/06, Pat Christenson wrote: >Very mixed feelings here. As I understand it, you have to boot into either OS >X or Windows which makes it more cumbersome than Classic. But Classic isn't an >option on the new computers so once again, it's like it or lump it for Mac >users. Yes,

Shortcuts for equation operators

Hi Framers, some of you may know that you can use shortcuts to insert operators in equations, for example: CTRL+SHIFT+ a letter for the Greek alphabet CTRL+SHIFT+6 for superscript CTRL+q+SHIFT; for a right arrow etc. Does anyone know the shortcut for the following operators: - multiply (x) -

Problem with the master pages

Sindu, Make sure the text frame on the master page is not "tagged"; that is, make sure it doesn't have a flow name. Select the text frame, and choose Graphics > Object Properties. Clear the Flow Tag field, and uncheck Autoconnect. This should give you the result you want. Rick Quatro Carmen

English Jargon - Intentionally Right Blank

Thanks for a good link. And, you are right (or are you left?) ;-) Bodvar On 4/6/06, John Smart wrote: > We spend a lot of time removing English jargon for airline safety. > A big airline in Japan wrote - "we see the Intentionally Left Bank page > but there > is no Intentionally Right Blank

Problem with the master pages

At 16:56 +0530 7/4/06, Sindhu tw wrote: >We are using Unstructured frame maker in our company. I want to display a >message at the center of the last page. I created a master page and >included a text frame with the message inside it along with the headers and >footers..and applied that master

generated list of tables, strange behaviour

Dear Framers, We are using FrameMaker6.0+sgml and have a template for the List of Figures, but in the instance of a special publication, we also need a List of Tables. I have taken the List of Figures template and transformed it to serve as a List of Tables and it works very well with one

FrameScript Notice

The FrameScript website is currently down due to a server problem. We hope to have the issue resolved by late this afternoon. We apologize for any inconvenience! Thank you, Marjorie Mayo FML Sales & Support marjorie at fml.com

Problem with the master pages

On Friday, April 07, 2006 08:12 AM, Steve Rickaby wrote: | At 16:56 +0530 7/4/06, Sindhu tw wrote: | | > We are using Unstructured frame maker in our company. I want to | > display a message at the center of the last page. I created a | > master page and included a text frame with the message

fmPython

Hi all, I had some trouble posting to the list, and first of all, many thanks to Lisa for her administrative help in getting that straightened out. I was *most* impressed to receive an actual phone call (!), a rarity these days. Thanks again, Lisa. So, although this topic may be a bit stale, I

English Jargon - Intentionally Right Blank

Try this link, instead... http://www.faa.gov/library/media_library/ You can't really see it, but there's an underscore between media & library. Martin Simon Technical Writer martin.simon at wetdesign.com WET DESIGN 10817 Sherman Way Sun Valley, California 91352 T 818.769.6200 F 818.301.6111

Print quality of graphics rotated in Frame

I have a couple of rotated anchor frames that contain referenced WMFs. It prints fine with my very slow PS printer-driver, but on my usual speedy PCL printer-driver, the print quality is horrific. When I tried to convert to EPS & reference that instead, Frame could not display the graphic. Any

Print quality of graphics rotated in Frame

Do you have the latest HP drivers installed? Can you generate a .pdf from FM with the WMFs in place and try printing that? On the EPS... did you specify a type of preview? Art On 4/7/06, Mary Sheahan wrote: > I have a couple of rotated anchor frames that contain > referenced WMFs. It

FrameMaker on Mac

A colleague posed this question to me about running Apple's Boot Camp >>What I would like to know is if you prepared a graphic in, say, OSX Photoshop, and you wanted to import it into Windows FrameMaker, would the OSes cooperate? Could you save the file across the partition? Or would you have to

Complex context rules

I am in the situation in which I want an element to be able to check whether its *parent* is the first element of *its* parent. Put another way, element A needs to be able to check whether A's parent is the first element of A's grandparent. The on-line struct dev guide (page 135 in FrameMaker

Complex context rules [Cancel]

At 16:54 +0100 7/4/06, Steve Rickaby wrote: >I am in the situation in which I want an element to be able to check whether >its *parent* is the first element of *its* parent. > >Put another way, element A needs to be able to check whether A's parent is the >first element of A's grandparent. >

FrameMaker on Mac

One of the Mac lists (MacFixIt or one of those) noted that if you format the Windows side with FAT32, you can see both partitions from both OSs, but the newer default XP format exceeds the limitations of FAT32, so most users don't bother fighting the default. So, you'd have to use a memory

FrameMaker 7.2 startup problem - authentication?

Hello Greetings Framers, A co-worker of mine is having a problem with FrameMaker startup if she is not logged in to her machine as 'admin.' If anyone has any advice, we would love to hear it. Thanks much, Emily Goodin Boulder, Colo. I am having FrameMaker 7.2 problems. When I

FrameMaker on Mac

I'm repeating a post I made yesterday, but this will obviate the procedures listed below. This is preferable to a dual boot scenario. http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/04/06/parallels/index.php - web At 11:28 AM -0500 4/7/06, Peter Gold wrote: >One of the Mac lists (MacFixIt or one of those)

FrameMaker on Mac

A good work around may be to install a second hard drive and reserve it for data, possibly from both OSes... Art On 4/7/06, Peter Gold wrote: > One of the Mac lists (MacFixIt or one of those) noted that if you > format the Windows side with FAT32, you can see both partitions from > both OSs,

Frame Crashing

Hi Guys, I'm having a strange problem that my IT guys tells me is due to a bad interaction between Windows, FrameMaker and RoboHelp. I?m wondering if any of you has seen this and if so, what you've done to correct it. To make a long story short, my Windows Explorer folders are becoming

Frame Crashing

Are the FM and graphics files local, on a network drive, or mixed? If the network is involved, hiccups there and in the way Windows is reading the network file system would be my first guess. Art On 4/7/06, Karyn Hunt wrote: > Hi Guys, > >I'm having a strange problem that my IT guys tells

Frame Crashing

In this case, I'm certain it's not the network b/c everything is on my local hard drive. FrameMaker and RoboHelp are installed on my C drive under Program Files. The image folders are under "My Documents." (The path is roughly /Frame files + a subfolder with the images/images. It's the final

Frame Crashing

Karyn, I'd say you're having a hard drive or OS problem. One key is your "Other Oddity" -- that isn't normal behavior for Windows XP. Have you run Norton, checkdisk, or a similar disk utility to check both the media and the operating system (and the file / directory structure) out? And have you

FrameMaker on Mac

I think more to your point might be: If Apple is making most of its money in the music business, how much incentive is there to continue to develop Mac aps and other software Art On 4/7/06, Steve Rickaby wrote: > I was at IPEX on Wednesday, the big 4-yearly UK show for the printing and >

FrameMaker on Mac

> P.S. But I still want a Native version. Virtualization is the spawn of evil. It *would* be nice if the Unix version could be ported over to OS X, but the Windows dual-boot option is not a virtualization, like Virtual PC. It is actually running Windows on the computer. As a trainer, I look

FrameMaker on Mac

At 12:50 PM -0700 4/7/06, David Creamer wrote: > > P.S. But I still want a Native version. Virtualization is the spawn of evil. > >It *would* be nice if the Unix version could be ported over to OS X, but the >Windows dual-boot option is not a virtualization, like Virtual PC. >It is actually

(no subject)

I have a problem that is making me crazy. There are a few seemingly-random table heading cells whose text does not show up in the PDF. * In most cases I cloned the tables, so nothing (much) is different between them, except that one of the table heading cells does not show up in one of

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This _might_ be a symptom of the disappearing font bug that can be fixed or worked around if you re-hyphenate the document. Easy to check Art On 4/7/06, Jim Light wrote: > I have a problem that is making me crazy. There are a few > seemingly-random table heading cells whose text does not

Call for Papers: FrameMaker 2006 Chautauqua

Calling all presenters! If you are interested in participating as a speaker at the FrameMaker 2006 Chautauqua. If so, now is the time to submit your proposals. Proposal submissions: http://www.travelthepath.com/presproposal.html This call for papers officially closes April 26th. Get your

Framemaker on Mac

Much more interesting to Mac Framemaker users than Apple's Boot Camp are Parallels' XP emulator (now shipping beta) and -- especially -- the Open Source project for something called "Darwine". Based on Wine, a Linux project, Darwine will allow a user to run a Windows application under OS

Updating text with new paragraph tag settings

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Updating text with new paragraph tag settings

Try File > Import > Formats, and select paragraph and character tags, imported from Current. Then select the check box for When Importing, Remove Other Format/Layout Overrides. That should do what you want. martha At 02:41 PM 4/7/2006, Karyn Hunt wrote: > I have some very old chapters from

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Jim Light wrote: > I have a problem that is making me crazy. There are a few > seemingly-random table heading cells whose text does not show > up in the PDF. Just to be clear: the text is fine in FM, it just disappears in the PDF? > * I tried using the text editing tool in Acrobat, but

Anchored frames position

I have white space on the left side of book. When I import a graphic, I want the anchored frame to be centered below the line, but centered within the margins of the text, not to the page size. For example, if I have 2 inches of white space on the left side, 4 inches of text, and a 2 inch

Vanishing Table Heading Cells

The text is fine in FM. The properties of the text in the PDF are the same for the invisible text as for the visible text. (!!!) I tried re-importing table definitions, but that didn't help. I copied the text to a new template and that didn't help. I made a copy of a good table and copied the

Anchored frames position

I believe our Graphfix plug-in will do what you want, if I read you correctly. Download the trial version of the plug-in from our website (www.seatechpubs.com). Choose "Services," choose "Plug-ins," and then, look for the download link for the Graphfix plug-in. Contact me if you need a Mac

Anchored frames position

Gillian Flato wrote: > I have white space on the left side of book. When I import a > graphic, I want the anchored frame to be centered below the > line, but centered within the margins of the text, not to the > page size. Robert Stoker's plug-in may do it for you, but may I suggest a

Where's Framescript?

Hello all, The FrameScript web site is working again. Sorry for the inconvience. Frank Elmore Project leader for FrameScript - Original Message - From: "donandjudy1" To: Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 6:19 PM Subject: Where's Framescript? > Folks: > > As

Changing Attribute Types

Changing attribute types: Frame 7.0 Structured Developer's guide states that without a Read/Write rule, Frame changes all NMTOKENS attribute types to Strings on import then changes all Strings attribute types to CDATA types on export (pages 248-249). I need to ensure certain attribute values are