Re: Auto-creating tables

Hi Belinda, I have a question about this. If put the table in the graphic frame on the reference page as you suggested, the table can't be edited on body pages. although it can be edited on reference page, the same content of the table will be disaplayed under the every heading. are you

RE: numbering conundrum

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good question - I forgot to mention this. When I insert another one after the second 7.1 (the incorrect one), I get a 7.2. I have turned on all my conditions and have looked for any special/weird tag before the incorrect 7.1 tag and none are present. Also, I don't

RE: numbering conundrum

Nope, no overrides (thanks for prompting me to check this) and it's all in a single file. I have just back-tracked and cut out everything between the good Sec 7.3 and the bad Sec 7.1, then inserted a Sec ID tag after the good Sec 7.3 and voila, I get a Sec 7.4, so it's something in this

RE: numbering conundrum

At 08:03 -0600 23/5/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good question - I forgot to mention this. When I insert another one after the second 7.1 (the incorrect one), I get a 7.2. I have turned on all my conditions and have looked for any special/weird tag before the incorrect 7.1 tag and none are

RE: numbering conundrum

Nope, no overrides (thanks for prompting me to check this) and it's all in a single file. I have just back-tracked and cut out everything between the good Sec 7.3 and the bad Sec 7.1, then inserted a Sec ID tag after the good Sec 7.3 and voila, I get a Sec 7.4, so it's

Re: What do you use for PDF Generation?

Message: 1 Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 16:01:28 -0700 From: Syed Zaeem Hosain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: What do you use for PDF generation? To: framers framers@frameusers.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi, all. Pardon the slightly

RE: Printing CE character tcaron to PDF

Well, I guess you put me in my place, eh? Nice job. I'll be sure not to try to guess why Framemaker is screwing up any more. By the way, in all that vituperative prose, did you actually explain why certain CE characters, which print properly, do not appear in PDF documents? Your explanation

FM6 Error on PNG Import

Framers, When I try to import certain PNG files by reference in FM v6.0p405 (Windows), FM throws an error: Cannot display some imported graphics. The images will appear as gray boxes. The exact same images are handled without error by FM v7.0p579 v7.2p158. Other PNGs are not causing problems

Hypertext Link Strangeness

Hi All, I've got one for you I am making hypertext links active in the PDF output by using a message URL hypertext marker. I use a character tag to identify the text to include in the link. This has worked fine for me in the past in unstructured docs. I have recently noticed that in my

PDF Generation question

Framemaker 7.1, Windows XP, Adobe Acrobat 7.0. In my Framemaker source files, I have the following tags set to appear in my TOC: ChapTitle, SecTitle, Head1, Head2, Head3, and Head4. All tags appear as expected with the proper indentations, in the proper order, and with all links working in

Re: PDF Generation question

LOL! I will try squinting. To answer several questions: 1.) Nope, SecTitle is not in a separate text flow. 2.) Yep, the TOC in my Framemaker source book generates just as expected with the SecTitles in the proper order under Chapter 7. 3.) Yep, I have tried regenerating my book after solving the

RE: Printing CE character tcaron to PDF

LJK, I am very sorry if you think that I was trying to put you in your place whatever that means. What I was explaining in my response was that the Adobe Knowledgebase article to which you referred http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/324972.html has nothing to do with lapses in CE characters

Re: PDF Generation question

And one more thing - if I leave my SecTitle out of my bookmarks list, all of my bookmarks for Chapter 7 are still being placed under Chapter 6. Now I really give. TVB Tammy Van Boening Senior Technical Writer Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc. 303-328-4420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: What do you use for PDF Generation?

Ron Teplitz wrote: Every copy of Frame I've seen for a long time included Acrobat Distiller, going back to at least FM 6.0. Distiller does all of what many folks need in the way of PDF generation. What version of Frame do you have? Have you checked to see if your distribution included

Re: What do you use for PDF Generation?

Z, One other possibility is to have folks import their Word docs into OpenOffice, and then Save as PDF. OO does a very nice job. I don't have experience converting Excel to PDF in OO, but that should be OK too. Hope this helps, Mike McCallister On 5/23/06, Syed Zaeem Hosain [EMAIL

Re: What do you use for PDF Generation?

Hi, Dov. Dov Isaacs wrote: A word of advice. Before you go loading up on el'cheapo $9.95 PDF creation software, make sure that what it generates is really kosher. We quite often see problems when these PDF files escape the environment in which they were created and attempts are made to either

RE: What do you use for PDF Generation?

Hint, hint ... I am just a dumb engineer here at Adobe. I don't set the prices or have any influence over those issues. By the way, when dealing with Wurd documents, even with PDF, be very careful that the properties don't migrate to the PDF file. When you use the PDFMaker facility of Acrobat

Re: What do you use for PDF Generation?

Hi, Dov. Dov Isaacs wrote: Hint, hint ... I am just a dumb engineer here at Adobe. I don't set the prices or have any influence over those issues. Oops, I was not aiming that at you per se! Sorry about that. By the way, when dealing with Wurd documents, even with PDF, be very careful that

RE: Hollow bullets?

The hollow bullet appears to be taken from Courier New. It is also in Times New Roman and Arial as well (not on the Mac version of these fonts, though) as Unicode 25CB. It is also in Adobe's OpenType version of Courier, Courier Std. However, without Unicode support, you cannot access that

numbering conundrum

Maybe you've got another tag using the S: series and that other tag resets the numbering, and a paragraph uses the other tag after section 7.3. To see if this is the problem, change the S: in your SecID to another letter that you're sure no other scheme uses. Cheers, Rebecca >>> 23/05/06

Auto-creating tables

Hi Belinda, I have a question about this. If put the table in the graphic frame on the reference page as you suggested, the table can't be edited on body pages. although it can be edited on reference page, the same content of the table will be disaplayed under the every heading. are you

numbering conundrum

Good question - I forgot to mention this. When I insert another one after the second 7.1 (the incorrect one), I get a 7.2. I have turned on all my conditions and have looked for any special/weird tag before the incorrect 7.1 tag and none are present. Also, I don't have any other tags that are

numbering conundrum

Tammy.VanBoening at jeppesen.com wrote: > Good question - I forgot to mention this. When I insert > another one after > the second 7.1 (the incorrect one), I get a 7.2. I have > turned on all my > conditions and have looked for any special/weird tag before > the incorrect > 7.1 tag and none are

numbering conundrum

Nope, no overrides (thanks for prompting me to check this) and it's all in a single file. I have just back-tracked and cut out everything between the "good" Sec 7.3 and the "bad" Sec 7.1, then inserted a Sec ID tag after the good Sec 7.3 and voila, I get a Sec 7.4, so it's something in this

numbering conundrum

At 08:03 -0600 23/5/06, Tammy.VanBoening at jeppesen.com wrote: >Good question - I forgot to mention this. When I insert another one after >the second 7.1 (the incorrect one), I get a 7.2. I have turned on all my >conditions and have looked for any special/weird tag before the incorrect 7.1

numbering conundrum

Nope, no overrides (thanks for prompting me to check this) and it's all in a single file. I have just back-tracked and cut out everything between the "good" Sec 7.3 and the "bad" Sec 7.1, then inserted a Sec ID tag after the good Sec 7.3 and voila, I get a Sec 7.4, so it's something

What do you use for PDF Generation?

> >Message: 1 >Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 16:01:28 -0700 >From: Syed Zaeem Hosain >Subject: What do you use for PDF generation? >To: framers >Message-ID: <4470F148.1010807 at aeris.net> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >Hi, all. > >Pardon the slightly unrelated to

Printing CE character tcaron to PDF

Well, I guess you put me in my place, eh? Nice job. I'll be sure not to try to guess why Framemaker is screwing up any more. By the way, in all that vituperative prose, did you actually explain why certain CE characters, which print properly, do not appear in PDF documents? Your explanation

FM6 Error on PNG Import

Framers, When I try to import certain PNG files by reference in FM v6.0p405 (Windows), FM throws an error: "Cannot display some imported graphics. The images will appear as gray boxes". The exact same images are handled without error by FM v7.0p579 & v7.2p158. Other PNGs are not causing

numbering conundrum

Harro, Steve, Lester, Darrel, Fred, Daniel, et. al, Thanks for all of the responses. The cut and paste method ultimately worked - a table seemed to be the offender, but for the life of me, I can't figure out why - I did not use any autonumbering in any of the table cells and I couldn't find

Hypertext Link Strangeness

Hi All, I've got one for you I am making hypertext links active in the PDF output by using a "message URL" hypertext marker. I use a character tag to identify the text to include in the link. This has worked fine for me in the past in unstructured docs. I have recently noticed that in my

numbering conundrum

Have you tried MIFfing the file and study the part there after 7.3? Maybe you could find something in there. But this is why I am in favor of nested numbering, like: <$volnum><$chapnum>< >< >, etc. (note the space between the brackets). Say you have a five level numbering, starting with the

PDF Generation question

Framemaker 7.1, Windows XP, Adobe Acrobat 7.0. In my Framemaker source files, I have the following tags set to appear in my TOC: ChapTitle, SecTitle, Head1, Head2, Head3, and Head4. All tags appear as expected with the proper indentations, in the proper order, and with all links working in

PDF Generation question

At 09:55 -0600 23/5/06, Tammy.VanBoening at jeppesen.com wrote: >When I generate the PDF from the FM source file, I get the bookmark for >ChapTitle for Chap 7 appearing; however, the other bookmarks that should >appear underneath (SecTitle, Head1, etc.) are appearing underneath Chapter >6 - In

PDF Generation question

LOL! I will try squinting. To answer several questions: 1.) Nope, SecTitle is not in a separate text flow. 2.) Yep, the TOC in my Framemaker source book generates just as expected with the SecTitles in the proper order under Chapter 7. 3.) Yep, I have tried regenerating my book after solving the

Printing CE character tcaron to PDF

LJK, I am very sorry if you think that I was trying to "put you in your place" whatever that means. What I was explaining in my response was that the Adobe Knowledgebase article to which you referred has nothing to do with lapses in CE

PDF Generation question

And one more thing - if I leave my SecTitle out of my bookmarks list, all of my bookmarks for Chapter 7 are still being placed under Chapter 6. Now I really give. TVB Tammy Van Boening Senior Technical Writer Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc. 303-328-4420 tammy.vanboening at jeppesen.com

Printing CE character tcaron to PDF

Further information pointed out to me by my friend Sarah O'Keefe of Scriptorium Publishing Services. The latest update of FrameMaker 7.2, p158, provides support for some additional characters when using the code page mapping hackery: The following is from the ReadmeForPatchp158.txt file

What do you use for PDF Generation?

Ron Teplitz wrote: > Every copy of Frame I've seen for a long time included Acrobat > Distiller, going back to at least FM 6.0. Distiller does all of what > many folks need in the way of PDF generation. What version of Frame do > you have? Have you checked to see if your distribution included

What do you use for PDF Generation?

Z, One other possibility is to have folks import their Word docs into OpenOffice, and then Save as PDF. OO does a very nice job. I don't have experience converting Excel to PDF in OO, but that should be OK too. Hope this helps, Mike McCallister On 5/23/06, Syed Zaeem Hosain wrote: > My

Hypertext Link Strangeness

wrote: > I've got one for you I am making hypertext links > active in the PDF > output by using a "message URL" hypertext marker. I > use a character tag > to identify the text to include in the link. This > has worked fine for me > in the past in unstructured docs. > > I have recently

What do you use for PDF Generation?

A word of advice. Before you go loading up on el'cheapo $9.95 PDF creation software, make sure that what it generates is really kosher. We quite often see problems when these PDF files "escape" the environment in which they were created and attempts are made to either combine them with other PDF

What do you use for PDF Generation?

Hi, Dov. Dov Isaacs wrote: > A word of advice. Before you go loading up on el'cheapo > $9.95 PDF creation software, make sure that what it generates > is really kosher. We quite often see problems when these > PDF files "escape" the environment in which they were created > and attempts are made

What do you use for PDF Generation?

Hint, hint ... I am just a dumb engineer here at Adobe. I don't set the prices or have any influence over those issues. By the way, when dealing with Wurd documents, even with PDF, be very careful that the "properties" don't migrate to the PDF file. When you use the PDFMaker facility of Acrobat

What do you use for PDF Generation?

Hi, Dov. Dov Isaacs wrote: > Hint, hint ... I am just a dumb engineer here at Adobe. > I don't set the prices or have any influence over those > issues. Oops, I was not aiming that at you per se! Sorry about that. > By the way, when dealing with Wurd documents, even with > PDF, be very careful

What do you use for PDF Generation?

Excellent! Thanks much ... I have modified this setting in my system. Regards, Z Dov Isaacs wrote: > Yes, go to PDFMaker's /Change Conversion Settings/ screen and > *uncheck* the > box for /Convert Document Information/! See below > > - Dov > > > By the way, when dealing with

Plugin to let you move specific Paragraph styles

Hi, guys...I've redefined a handful of FM pargraph styles and I want to import only those styles into some other documents. I know of several workarounds (copy/past styls, make a temporay document and delete all except those styles, etc.) but I see this happening more and more as I work toward

Hollow bullets?

The "hollow bullet" appears to be taken from Courier New. It is also in Times New Roman and Arial as well (not on the Mac version of these fonts, though) as Unicode 25CB. It is also in Adobe's OpenType version of Courier, Courier Std. However, without Unicode support, you cannot access that

Hollow bullets?

Does anybody out there, including the "dumb engineer," have any advice on how to get FrameMaker 7.2 to have the same three levels of bullets that "Wurd" produces natively? We do our FrameMaker on WindowsXP and produce PDFs so far, though we may well get into WebWorks and online help after a