RE: Visio flowchart into Frame

2006-06-28 Thread Harro de Jong
Ron wrote : Can I import a Visio flowchart into Frame 7 Solaris and retain the live links? If not, how can I do it? Do I need Window Frame? What do you mean by 'live links'? Harro de Jong ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL

RE: Pagemaker to FrameMaker conversion

2006-06-28 Thread Harro de Jong
Carol J. Elkins wrote : I suggested to my client that we might convert the doc to FrameMaker and have a professional manage revisions to the Spanish version. That would, at first glimpse, be a better idea than having my FrameMaker version translated to Spanish. So my query is really just a

Re: Question about the hyperlink from the LOF to the figure

2006-06-28 Thread Shlomo Perets
Janice, You wrote: I have a question about the nature of the hyperlink from the LOF to the figure. Our figures are actually an anchored frame embedded within a single-cell table. We place the marker for the figure at the end of the paragraph tag. For example, I may have a body tag that has a

Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread Roopa Belur
Greetings to all. I am trying to convert a Visio file into a PDF format. What is the best way to get a PDF of the Visio file? I am currently downloading Adobe Universal PostScript Windows Driver Installer 1.0.6 - English. Is this the right tool? Thanks in advance for your help,

Creating Appendix doc

2006-06-28 Thread John Olds
I need help ceating an appendix document within a book, that has the same headings, footers master pages, formatting, etc. as the other documents within the book? ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages

RE: table anchors - best practices?

2006-06-28 Thread John Sgammato
I use a skinny little paragraph style called figure, 2pts, no space above or below, centered. I always put my table and figure anchors in a figure paragraph. I like the control I get, especially since I like to keep para text together and not have a whole paragraph pulled to another page just

RE: table anchors - best practices?

2006-06-28 Thread peter
I always anchor tables and figures in their own paragraph with a style called Anchorline. Anchor line is set to 2pt text. Peter Original Message Richard Combs had a comment in the thread Question about the hyperlink from the LOF to the figure:

Re: Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread Shlomo Perets
Roopa, You wrote: I am trying to convert a Visio file into a PDF format. What is the best way to get a PDF of the Visio file? I am currently downloading Adobe Universal PostScript Windows Driver Installer 1.0.6 - English. Is this the right tool? If you have the Acrobat 7 and Microsoft Visio,

Re: table anchors - best practices?

2006-06-28 Thread Rick Quatro
The only time I have issues is when the table starts at the top of a page. Doesn't line up evenly because of the Anchor paragraph, but I can live with it...unless other people have other suggestions. Set the Space Above setting for the table to -2 and set the Space Below setting for the

AW: table anchors - best practices?

2006-06-28 Thread Reng, Winfried
Hi, Right now, our policy is no separate paragraph tags for tables. I am currently working on a monster manual with over 600 tables. There are many situations where you have table after table with no text inbetween. Based on this, I want to propose that we do have a unique tag for anchoring

Re: AW: table anchors - best practices?

2006-06-28 Thread Bill Briggs
At 3:35 PM +0200 6/28/06, Reng, Winfried wrote: Hi, Right now, our policy is no separate paragraph tags for tables. I am currently working on a monster manual with over 600 tables. There are many situations where you have table after table with no text inbetween. Based on this, I want to

Re: Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread Art Campbell
It's unclear from your message if you already have the full version of Adobe Acrobat installed; that's the tool you need to create a .PDF from Visio. The limited version installed by Frame is just that --a limited version that can only be used from within Frame. The printer driver you mention

Re: table anchors - best practices?

2006-06-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 14:03 +0200 28/6/06, Karen Mardahl wrote: I want to propose that we do have a unique tag for anchoring tables. Richard's comment came at a perfect time, so now I am asking what the rest of you think - or whether Richard wants to reveal his reasons? I'd like to hear what people have to say.

Re: Creating Appendix doc

2006-06-28 Thread Art Campbell
Most people would copy an existing chapter, gut the content, and change the chapter references to appendix. What specific problem(s) are you having? Art On 6/28/06, John Olds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need help ceating an appendix document within a book, that has the same headings, footers

List of file names

2006-06-28 Thread Shenton, David (DTRN)
Hi all, anybody know how to general a list of graphic file names with their extension from a FrameMaker document. Can you do it in Frame or is there a free download or trial offer somewhere I'm using Windows 2000, FrameMaker version 7.0 p579 Regards Dave /table /Pre HTML br br

Non-printing files in books?

2006-06-28 Thread Anne Robotti
Is there a way to set a file not to print when you're printing the rest of the book? Thanks. Anne Robotti Technical Writer Journal Register Company W-Ph:(609) 396-2200 x 166 C-Ph:(609) 902-3676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] The information

Re: Non-printing files in books?

2006-06-28 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Anne, In the book window, select only the components you want to print. Then choose File Print Selected. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com Is there a way to set a file not to print when you're printing the rest of the book? Thanks. Anne Robotti Technical

RE: List of file names

2006-06-28 Thread Spreadbury, David
Bruce Foster's Archive FrameMaker plug-in. I believe it is still $20. It is designed to collect all of the referenced files, graphics or text insets, to a separate folder. For what you are looking for, it creates a log file that lists all of the imported by reference objects. A description of this

Re: Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread Karen Mardahl
Hi Roopa On 6/28/06, Roopa Belur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, thanks for your responses. I appreciate it. My apologies for not being clear. My company uses Microsoft Word. They are considering moving to Frame in the next few months. I need help converting a Visio file into PDF without

Re: Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 07:40 -0700 28/6/06, Roopa Belur wrote: My apologies for not being clear. My company uses Microsoft Word. They are considering moving to Frame in the next few months. I need help converting a Visio file into PDF without Distiller or any Adobe product. Er... just a quick query: you're

RE: List of file names

2006-06-28 Thread Combs, Richard
Dave Shenton wrote: Hi all, anybody know how to general a list of graphic file names with their extension from a FrameMaker document. Can you do it in Frame or is there a free download or trial offer somewhere Art suggested generating a List of References (LOR). Depending on your purpose,

Re: Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread Roopa Belur
I have used Framemaker in my previous jobs, and I love it :-) My current company uses Microsoft Word. I am trying to convert a .vsd (Visio file) into PDF without using Frame/Word. I came across http://www.processtext.com/abcvisio.html, and am wondering if you all have any input.

Re: Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread saurabhkudesia
Roopa, ABC Amber Visio convertor is a good tool and you can use it for converting visio file into PDF. Infact, if your only requirement is to convert the visio file to pdf, any PDF convertor will work. Most PDF convertors are installed as printers and you can directly convert your visio file

RE: Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread Combs, Richard
Steve Rickaby Er... just a quick query: you're not trying to go from Visio to PDF so that you can import the PDF into FrameMaker, are you? Because if so, I don't think you need to bother: PC FrameMaker can import Visio native files directly (or so I've been told - I don't use Visio).

RE: Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 09:49 -0600 28/6/06, Combs, Richard wrote: Er... just a quick query: you're not trying to go from Visio to PDF so that you can import the PDF into FrameMaker, are you? Because if so, I don't think you need to bother: PC FrameMaker can import Visio native files directly (or so I've been

RE: List of file names

2006-06-28 Thread Grant Hogarth
Native To FM: 1. Select SpecialList OfReferences 2. Select Imported Graphics and move to Include References 3. Click Set. A documenent will automatically be generated for all referenced graphics that includes the complete File Names. Grant -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread Combs, Richard
Steve Rickaby wrote: FWIW, I had have painful experience of the 'quality' (I use the term loosely) of exports from Visio in non-M$ formats (i.e. anything portable). My preferred method would now be to create a PDF from Visio and import that into FrameMaker. But then, I work on a Mac...

RE: Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
FrameMaker does NOT have the ability to import Visio native files. It does have the ability to use OLE (object linking and embedding) links to such a Viso document file, but that requires that Visio be installed on the system that runs FrameMaker. Also, OLE is notoriously unreliable. -

Re: table anchors - best practices?

2006-06-28 Thread Karen Mardahl
Thanks to everyone - there has been a lot of useful information in this thread. On 6/28/06, Stuart Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Quatro wrote: Set the Space Above setting for the table to -2 and set the Space Below setting for the Anchor paragraph to -2. I use an anchor pgf the same

FM Adobe DITA Plugin

2006-06-28 Thread hedley.fin...@myob.com
In the framemaker-dita Yahoo! group, Carla Martinek has just advised ... > Just got out of the "Benefits of Structured Authoring and Migrating > In Preparation For XML" webinar a little bit ago. > > One phrase I heard at the beginning of it was along the lines of > "the DITA plugin should be

Visio flowchart into Frame

2006-06-28 Thread Harro de Jong
Ron wrote : > Can I import a Visio flowchart into Frame 7 Solaris and retain the > live links? If not, how can I do it? Do I need Window Frame? What do you mean by 'live links'? Harro de Jong

Pagemaker to FrameMaker conversion

2006-06-28 Thread Harro de Jong
Carol J. Elkins wrote : > I suggested to my client that we might convert the doc to FrameMaker > and have a "professional" manage revisions to the Spanish > version. That would, > at first glimpse, be a better idea than having my FrameMaker version > translated to Spanish. So my query is really

Question about the hyperlink from the LOF to the figure

2006-06-28 Thread Shlomo Perets
Janice, You wrote: >I have a question about the nature of the hyperlink from the LOF to the >figure. Our figures are actually an anchored frame embedded within a >single-cell table. We place the marker for the figure at the end of the >paragraph tag. For example, I may have a body tag that has

Creating Appendix doc

2006-06-28 Thread John Olds
I need help ceating an appendix document within a book, that has the same headings, footers master pages, formatting, etc. as the other documents within the book?

table anchors - best practices?

2006-06-28 Thread John Sgammato
I use a skinny little paragraph style called figure, 2pts, no space above or below, centered. I always put my table and figure anchors in a figure paragraph. I like the control I get, especially since I like to keep para text together and not have a whole paragraph pulled to another page just

table anchors - best practices?

2006-06-28 Thread pe...@galley.ie
I always anchor tables and figures in their own paragraph with a style called Anchorline. Anchor line is set to 2pt text. Peter Original Message Richard Combs had a comment in the thread "Question about the hyperlink from the LOF to the figure":

Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread Shlomo Perets
Roopa, You wrote: >I am trying to convert a Visio file into a PDF format. What is the >best way to get a PDF of the Visio file? I am currently downloading >Adobe Universal PostScript Windows Driver Installer 1.0.6 - English. >Is this the right tool? If you have the Acrobat 7 and Microsoft

table anchors - best practices?

2006-06-28 Thread Bill Briggs
I also use a 2pt para with white text called "frame". I hang frames in it and put tables in it. Sometimes the text is used as well because one can cross ref to it. - web At 8:12 AM -0400 6/28/06, John Sgammato wrote: >I use a skinny little paragraph style called figure, 2pts, no space above or

Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread obair
I am not at work yet, but I think I do Print as PDF. Then use the crop option to get rid of the white space. It comes out looking great. Paul On 27 Meith 2006, at 10:42 pm, Roopa Belur wrote: > Greetings to all. > > I am trying to convert a Visio file into a PDF format. What is the > best

table anchors - best practices?

2006-06-28 Thread Zoe Lawson
I always use a separate paragraph for tables, anchored frames, and text insets. (I call it anchor.) I use it because: 1. The company I worked for before that I stole template ideas from always used it. 2. I use WebWorks, and if I don't anchor the table to a separate paragraph, the conversion

table anchors - best practices?

2006-06-28 Thread Rick Quatro
> The only time I have issues is when the table starts at the top of a page. > Doesn't line up evenly because of the Anchor paragraph, but I can live > with > it...unless other people have other suggestions. Set the Space Above setting for the table to -2 and set the Space Below setting for the

AW: table anchors - best practices?

2006-06-28 Thread Reng, Winfried
Hi, > Right now, our policy is no separate paragraph tags for tables. I am > currently working on a monster manual with over 600 tables. There are > many situations where you have table after table with no text > inbetween. Based on this, I want to propose that we do have a unique > tag for

AW: table anchors - best practices?

2006-06-28 Thread Bill Briggs
At 3:35 PM +0200 6/28/06, Reng, Winfried wrote: >Hi, > >> Right now, our policy is no separate paragraph tags for tables. I am >> currently working on a monster manual with over 600 tables. There are >> many situations where you have table after table with no text >> inbetween. Based on this, I

Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread Art Campbell
It's unclear from your message if you already have the full version of Adobe Acrobat installed; that's the tool you need to create a .PDF from Visio. The limited version installed by Frame is just that --a limited version that can only be used from within Frame. The printer driver you mention can

table anchors - best practices?

2006-06-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 14:03 +0200 28/6/06, Karen Mardahl wrote: >I want to propose that we do have a unique tag for anchoring tables. Richard's >comment came at a perfect time, so now I am asking what the rest of you think >- or whether Richard wants to reveal his reasons? I'd like to hear what people >have to

Creating Appendix doc

2006-06-28 Thread Art Campbell
Most people would copy an existing chapter, gut the content, and change the "chapter" references to "appendix." What specific problem(s) are you having? Art On 6/28/06, John Olds wrote: > I need help ceating an appendix document within a book, that has the same > headings, footers master

List of file names

2006-06-28 Thread Shenton, David (DTRN)
Hi all, anybody know how to general a list of graphic file names with their extension from a FrameMaker document. Can you do it in Frame or is there a free download or trial offer somewhere I'm using Windows 2000, FrameMaker version 7.0 p579 Regards Dave

Non-printing files in books?

2006-06-28 Thread Anne Robotti
Is there a way to set a file not to print when you're printing the rest of the book? Thanks. Anne Robotti Technical Writer Journal Register Company W-Ph:(609) 396-2200 x 166 C-Ph:(609) 902-3676 arobotti at journalregister.com The

List of file names

2006-06-28 Thread Art Campbell
Assuming the files you're working with are in a book (put them in one, at least temporarily if they aren't), Add > List of References > Imported Graphics If you're planning on collecting the graphic files, Bruce Foster's Archive plug in is what you want. Art On 6/28/06, Shenton, David (DTRN)

List of file names

2006-06-28 Thread Karen Mardahl
Hi David On 6/28/06, Shenton, David (DTRN) wrote: > Hi all, anybody know how to general a list of graphic file names with their > extension from a FrameMaker document. Can you do it in Frame or is there a > free download or trial offer somewhere > I'm using Windows 2000, FrameMaker version 7.0

Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread Roopa Belur
Hi All, thanks for your responses. I appreciate it. My apologies for not being clear. My company uses Microsoft Word. They are considering moving to Frame in the next few months. I need help converting a Visio file into PDF without Distiller or any Adobe product. Has anybody used ABC

Non-printing files in books?

2006-06-28 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Anne, In the book window, select only the components you want to print. Then choose File > Print Selected. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com Is there a way to set a file not to print when you're printing the rest of the book? Thanks. Anne Robotti Technical

List of file names

2006-06-28 Thread Spreadbury, David
Bruce Foster's Archive FrameMaker plug-in. I believe it is still $20. It is designed to collect all of the referenced files, graphics or text insets, to a separate folder. For what you are looking for, it creates a log file that lists all of the imported by reference objects. A description of this

Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread Karen Mardahl
Hi Roopa On 6/28/06, Roopa Belur wrote: > Hi All, thanks for your responses. I appreciate it. > My apologies for not being clear. My company uses Microsoft Word. They are > considering moving to Frame in the next few months. > I need help converting a Visio file into PDF without Distiller or

Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 07:40 -0700 28/6/06, Roopa Belur wrote: > My apologies for not being clear. My company uses Microsoft Word. They are > considering moving to Frame in the next few months. > >I need help converting a Visio file into PDF without Distiller or any Adobe >product. Er... just a quick query:

List of file names

2006-06-28 Thread Combs, Richard
Dave Shenton wrote: > Hi all, anybody know how to general a list of graphic file > names with their extension from a FrameMaker document. Can > you do it in Frame or is there a free download or trial offer > somewhere Art suggested generating a List of References (LOR). Depending on your

Non-printing files in books?

2006-06-28 Thread Ridder, Fred
No, but it would take you mere seconds to save a copy of the book file and delete that one component from the copy. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From:

Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread Art Campbell
And you don't want to use the free eval version of Acrobat from the Adobe www site because Art On 6/28/06, Roopa Belur wrote: > > Hi All, thanks for your responses. I appreciate it. > > My apologies for not being clear. My company uses Microsoft Word. They are > considering moving to Frame

Question about the hyperlink from the LOF to the figure

2006-06-28 Thread Janice Cadel
Thanks, Shlomo. I now understand it better now, and I think my department is fine with it opening to the top of the page at this time. However, when I changed the Reference Page from: gotopage <$relfilename>:<$pagenum> to gotoObjectId <$relfilename>:<$ObjectType> <$ObjectId>, it didn't seem

List of file names

2006-06-28 Thread Shenton, David (DTRN)
Hi all again, just incase I confused anyone, the word general should be generate. Anybody know how to generate a list of graphic file names with their extension from a FrameMaker document. Can you do it in Frame or is there a free download or trial offer somewhere I'm using Windows 2000,

table anchors - best practices?

2006-06-28 Thread Combs, Richard
Karen Mardahl wrote: > My take on this - and I am looking for support, comments, or > modifications - is that you should have a unique table anchor > paragraph tag for anchoring all tables. I believe this gives > you best overall control. Two reasons so far: > > 1. A unique tag always gives

Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread Roopa Belur
I have used Framemaker in my previous jobs, and I love it :-) My current company uses Microsoft Word. I am trying to convert a .vsd (Visio file) into PDF without using Frame/Word. I came across http://www.processtext.com/abcvisio.html, and am wondering if you all have any input.

Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread saurabhkude...@hsbc.co.in
Roopa, ABC Amber Visio convertor is a good tool and you can use it for converting visio file into PDF. Infact, if your only requirement is to convert the visio file to pdf, any PDF convertor will work. Most PDF convertors are installed as printers and you can directly convert your visio file

Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread Combs, Richard
Steve Rickaby > Er... just a quick query: you're not trying to go from Visio > to PDF so that you can import the PDF into FrameMaker, are > you? Because if so, I don't think you need to bother: PC > FrameMaker can import Visio native files directly (or so I've > been told - I don't use

Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 09:49 -0600 28/6/06, Combs, Richard wrote: > > Er... just a quick query: you're not trying to go from Visio >> to PDF so that you can import the PDF into FrameMaker, are >> you? Because if so, I don't think you need to bother: PC >> FrameMaker can import Visio native files directly (or so I've

List of file names

2006-06-28 Thread Grant Hogarth
Native To FM: 1. Select Special>List Of>References 2. Select "Imported Graphics" and move to "Include References" 3. Click Set. A documenent will automatically be generated for all referenced graphics that includes the complete File Names. Grant -Original Message- From:

table anchors - best practices?

2006-06-28 Thread Stuart Rogers
Rick Quatro wrote: > > Set the Space Above setting for the table to -2 and set the Space Below > setting for the Anchor paragraph to -2. > I use an anchor pgf the same size as my body text (10 pt type, 12 pt line spacing) with Space Below of -12 for the pgf and Space Above on the table of

Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread Combs, Richard
Steve Rickaby wrote: > FWIW, I had have painful experience of the 'quality' (I use > the term loosely) of exports from Visio in non-M$ formats > (i.e. anything portable). My preferred method would now be to > create a PDF from Visio and import that into FrameMaker. But > then, I work on a

Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
FrameMaker does NOT have the ability to import "Visio native files." It does have the ability to use OLE (object linking and embedding) links to such a Viso document file, but that requires that Visio be installed on the system that runs FrameMaker. Also, OLE is notoriously unreliable. -