PDF 'rangecheck' error, FrameMaker 7.0

2006-09-26 Thread Steve Rickaby
Can anyone shed any light on the following, which occurs after Distiller has almost completed: >Distilling: Chapter2.fm.ps >Start Time: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 at 21:12 >Source: [...] >Destination: [...] >Adobe PDF Settings: /Users/Shared/Adobe PDF 6.0/Settings/Press Quality >A4.joboptions >

Comparing documents w/ large tables

2006-09-26 Thread esangalang
We are trying to use Frame's document comparison utility to see before and after text side by side in the same document. It works great until it reaches our tables, when it just puts the old table and the new table in. The problem is that inserting/deleting a row/column causes the rest of the cells

Re: Experience Running FrameMaker on the new MacIntel

2006-09-26 Thread ppresley
I've been down the path . . . tried BootCamp, Parallels, and only looked at some others. *For ME* the solution is a fairly low-end Dell laptop to run FM 7.2. Happily, I had used FM 4.0 on Windows and was familiar with the differences between Mac and Windows. Adobe allows upgrades from "any ve

Text in vertical tab

2006-09-26 Thread mathieu jacquet
Hi all, a question about writing text in a table that has been turned clockwise (or anti..) by 90?. For info, the table is part of a text frame in a master page. When I try to select a cell to write in, the whole table is selected, and I fail to write in it. If I turn it back to horizontal, I

Bizarre character issue (Uppercase F does not work)

2006-09-26 Thread Niels Fanøe
Well, I can't use my ! (exclamation mark) - haven't been able to in ages. I suspect the answer lies in some keyboard configuration file - I suppose the ! maps to nothing. Maybe I'll look at it again - actually you don't use the ! very much in technical documentation - but if I find out, I'll le

Experience Running FrameMaker on the new MacIntel

2006-09-26 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 06:11 -0700 26/9/06, Dov Isaacs wrote: >Unless you are running "Bootcamp" and Windows, forget totally about running >FrameMaker on a Mactel system. The OS for Mactel does NOT support classic mode >under which FrameMaker runs with MacOS X. I expect Scott was intending to use PC FrameMaker and

CORRECTION TO: Text in vertical tab

2006-09-26 Thread Peter Gold
Peter Gold wrote: * NOTE: THIS IS A CORRECTION TO MY EARLIER POST WHICH CONTAINED AN ERROR * * SEE BELOW FOR CORRECTION * Apologies for any confusion. Hi, Mathieu: mathieu jacquet wrote: > Hi all, > > a question about writing text in a table that has been turned

PDF 'rangecheck' error, FrameMaker 7.0

2006-09-26 Thread Steve Rickaby
Can anyone shed any light on the following, which occurs after Distiller has almost completed: >Distilling: Chapter2.fm.ps >Start Time: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 at 21:12 >Source: [...] >Destination: [...] >Adobe PDF Settings: /Users/Shared/Adobe PDF 6.0/Settings/Press Quality >A4.joboptions >

Text in vertical tab

2006-09-26 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Mathieu: mathieu jacquet wrote: > Hi all, > > a question about writing text in a table that has been turned > clockwise (or anti..) by 90?. For info, the table is part of a text > frame in a master page. > > When I try to select a cell to write in, the whole table is selected, > and I fail

Re: CORRECTION TO: Text in vertical tab

2006-09-26 Thread Peter Gold
Peter Gold wrote: * NOTE: THIS IS A CORRECTION TO MY EARLIER POST WHICH CONTAINED AN ERROR * * SEE BELOW FOR CORRECTION * Apologies for any confusion. Hi, Mathieu: mathieu jacquet wrote: Hi all, a question about writing text in a table that has been turned

Context sensitive help for a chm file for an application programmed in JAVA

2006-09-26 Thread Art Campbell
If you're supporting Java aps, compiled help may not be the way to go because I would think you'd want to preserve the platform independence of Java just a thought. I'm generating OmniHelp from FM files using MIF2Go to support Java aps, and the procedure is basically the same -- you can genera

RoboHelp to FrameMaker?

2006-09-26 Thread Mike Feimster
I have. This is what I did: 1. Generated a Word doc from Robo Help (multiple files). 2. Attached a new template that had all of my Frame paragraph and character styles. 3. Ran some Word macros that converted all the paragraphs and text ranges from their original styles to the ones in the Frame doc

Experience Running FrameMaker on the new MacIntel

2006-09-26 Thread Scott Abel
Great. I'll try BootCamp and Windows. Until Adobe provides us a way to do otherwise, this sounds like an interesting challenge. Thanks Dov. Scott Abel, CEO The Content Wrangler, Inc. 6178 Crittenden Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46220 Office: +1 (317) 466.1840 Skype: abelsp abelsp at netdirect.net

Re: Text in vertical tab

2006-09-26 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Mathieu: mathieu jacquet wrote: Hi all, a question about writing text in a table that has been turned clockwise (or anti..) by 90°. For info, the table is part of a text frame in a master page. When I try to select a cell to write in, the whole table is selected, and I fail to write in

Context sensitive help for a chm file for an application programmed in JAVA

2006-09-26 Thread Caroline Tabach
I haveas well. My I have to make CSH for a .chmI with winhelp with the currentapplications were in. Into implement Context programmed in JAVA? (I know By the way,for its help, but it is not context Caroline MarCo

Comparing documents w/ large tables

2006-09-26 Thread esangal...@micron.com
We are trying to use Frame's document comparison utility to see before and after text side by side in the same document. It works great until it reaches our tables, when it just puts the old table and the new table in. The problem is that inserting/deleting a row/column causes the rest of the cells

Experience Running FrameMaker on the new MacIntel

2006-09-26 Thread Scott Abel
Just checking i to see if any of you have installed FrameMaker on the new MacIntel? I just picked up my first MacIntel Laptop and am preparing to install Framemaker to see how a brand-spanking new Mac laptop loaded with maximum RAM and the latest Mac OX X release can handle Frame. But befor

Text in vertical tab

2006-09-26 Thread mathieu jacquet
Hi all, a question about writing text in a table that has been turned clockwise (or anti..) by 90°. For info, the table is part of a text frame in a master page. When I try to select a cell to write in, the whole table is selected, and I fail to write in it. If I turn it back to horizontal,

InDesign to FrameMaker

2006-09-26 Thread Nanna P. Vig
Most manuals in my company are done in FrameMaker. However, a few have been created in InDesign, and we have decided to change one of them to FrameMaker. Is there a way to to this apart from redoing the manual from scratch in Frame using copy-paste? I am using FrameMaker 7.0 on Mac and PC, and al

Re: Context sensitive help for a chm file for an application programmed in JAVA

2006-09-26 Thread Art Campbell
If you're supporting Java aps, compiled help may not be the way to go because I would think you'd want to preserve the platform independence of Java just a thought. I'm generating OmniHelp from FM files using MIF2Go to support Java aps, and the procedure is basically the same -- you can gener

RE: RoboHelp to FrameMaker?

2006-09-26 Thread Mike Feimster
I have. This is what I did: 1. Generated a Word doc from Robo Help (multiple files). 2. Attached a new template that had all of my Frame paragraph and character styles. 3. Ran some Word macros that converted all the paragraphs and text ranges from their original styles to the ones in the Frame doc

RE: Experience Running FrameMaker on the new MacIntel

2006-09-26 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 06:11 -0700 26/9/06, Dov Isaacs wrote: >Unless you are running "Bootcamp" and Windows, forget totally about running >FrameMaker on a Mactel system. The OS for Mactel does NOT support classic mode >under which FrameMaker runs with MacOS X. I expect Scott was intending to use PC FrameMaker and

RE: Experience Running FrameMaker on the new MacIntel

2006-09-26 Thread Lisa M. Balbes, Ph.D.
Unless you are running "Bootcamp" and Windows, forget totally about running FrameMaker on a Mactel system. The OS for Mactel does NOT support classic mode under which FrameMaker runs with MacOS X. I am running Frame on a MacBook Pro, using Parallels instead of Boot Camp. Parallels lets me ope

RE: Experience Running FrameMaker on the new MacIntel

2006-09-26 Thread Dov Isaacs
Unless you are running "Bootcamp" and Windows, forget totally about running FrameMaker on a Mactel system. The OS for Mactel does NOT support classic mode under which FrameMaker runs with MacOS X. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Experience Running FrameMaker on the new MacIntel

2006-09-26 Thread Scott Abel
Just checking i to see if any of you have installed FrameMaker on the new MacIntel? I just picked up my first MacIntel Laptop and am preparing to install Framemaker to see how a brand-spanking new Mac laptop loaded with maximum RAM and the latest Mac OX X release can handle Frame. But befor

Re: Experience Running FrameMaker on the new MacIntel

2006-09-26 Thread Scott Abel
Great. I'll try BootCamp and Windows. Until Adobe provides us a way to do otherwise, this sounds like an interesting challenge. Thanks Dov. Scott Abel, CEO The Content Wrangler, Inc. 6178 Crittenden Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46220 Office: +1 (317) 466.1840 Skype: abelsp [EMAIL PROTECTED] www

RE: Bizarre character issue (Uppercase F does not work)

2006-09-26 Thread Niels Fanøe
Well, I can't use my ! (exclamation mark) - haven't been able to in ages. I suspect the answer lies in some keyboard configuration file - I suppose the ! maps to nothing. Maybe I'll look at it again - actually you don't use the ! very much in technical documentation - but if I find out, I'll le

RE: 2003?

2006-09-26 Thread Max Dunn
> Hi, guys...is FM 7.2 supported on Windows 2003 AS? Officially supported or not, we've run Frame Server on Windows Server 2003 with no problems. Thanks, Max ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EM

RE: Adobe and Robohelp

2006-09-26 Thread Sean Pollock
They have (supposedly) committed to improving it: [1]http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/05/adobe-robohelp-x6-after-microsof t.html __ From: "Gillian Flato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Subject: Adobe and Robohelp

Re: InDesign to FrameMaker

2006-09-26 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 08:55 +0200 26/9/06, Nanna P. Vig wrote: >Most manuals in my company are done in FrameMaker. However, a few have been >created in InDesign, and we have decided to change one of them to >FrameMaker. > >Is there a way to to this apart from redoing the manual from scratch in >Frame using copy-past

Context sensitive help for a chm file for an application programmed in JAVA

2006-09-26 Thread Caroline Tabach
I have = FrameMaker = 7.2, ePublisherPro version 9.0 and MIf2Go as well. My = question about help is as follows, I have to make CSH for a .chm = file. I = told the programmers, "you have to do the same thing we didwith winhelp with = the resource.h file" but t

RE: Frame 7.2 p158 (Windows) Crashing (Resolved, or at least Worked Around)

2006-09-26 Thread Lin Surasky
Thanks so much to everyone who replied. Turns out the crashes were occurring when spell-check encountered a long file path. Apparently, the spell-check can only handle a certain number of characters (some say it's 48, others say it's 31...) and that's what was causing the memory issue that trigge

Frame 7.2 p158 (Windows) Crashing (Resolved, or at least Worked Around)

2006-09-26 Thread Lin Surasky
Thanks so much to everyone who replied. Turns out the crashes were occurring when spell-check encountered a long file path. Apparently, the spell-check can only handle a certain number of characters (some say it's 48, others say it's 31...) and that's what was causing the memory issue that trigge

InDesign to FrameMaker

2006-09-26 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 08:55 +0200 26/9/06, Nanna P. Vig wrote: >Most manuals in my company are done in FrameMaker. However, a few have been >created in InDesign, and we have decided to change one of them to >FrameMaker. > >Is there a way to to this apart from redoing the manual from scratch in >Frame using copy-past

Experience Running FrameMaker on the new MacIntel

2006-09-26 Thread Lisa M. Balbes, Ph.D.
>Unless you are running "Bootcamp" and Windows, forget totally about >running FrameMaker on a Mactel system. The OS for Mactel does NOT >support classic mode under which FrameMaker runs with MacOS X. I am running Frame on a MacBook Pro, using Parallels instead of Boot Camp. Parallels lets me o

Experience Running FrameMaker on the new MacIntel

2006-09-26 Thread ppres...@sbcglobal.net
I've been down the path . . . tried BootCamp, Parallels, and only looked at some others. *For ME* the solution is a fairly low-end Dell laptop to run FM 7.2. Happily, I had used FM 4.0 on Windows and was familiar with the differences between Mac and Windows. Adobe allows upgrades from "any ver

Experience Running FrameMaker on the new MacIntel

2006-09-26 Thread Dov Isaacs
Unless you are running "Bootcamp" and Windows, forget totally about running FrameMaker on a Mactel system. The OS for Mactel does NOT support classic mode under which FrameMaker runs with MacOS X. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces+isaacs=adobe.com at lists.frameu