paste special ...text option

2006-10-10 Thread Peter Rule
Hello framers, Does anyone know of a way to default text as the first option on the paste-special option box. text is currently third in the list and I would love for it to be first (saving me having to select it). Any help appreciated. Cheers, Pete

Re: Columns in middle of chapter

2006-10-10 Thread Daniel Emory
--- Lisa M. Balbes, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My client wants one section of a particular chapter to be in columns, instead of the full page width text of the rest of the chapter. This section will extend over several pages, and will probably have things added and deleted as we continue

RE: Shortcut keys stop working

2006-10-10 Thread peter
I get this too, on FM 7.1p116. I only have to exit FM and restart to fix it. Peter Original Message Hi guys, Working in FM 7p492 on XP for about 2+ hours ... suddenly the shortcut keys (that is, Cltr + C to copy and so forth) stop working. Using

Re: paste special ...text option

2006-10-10 Thread Rick Quatro
Pete, There is a setting in your maker.ini to do this. ClipboardFormatsPriorities=TEXT, FILE, OLE 2, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIF, RTF Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com Hello framers, Does anyone know of a way to default text as the first option on the

Re: Translation questions

2006-10-10 Thread mathieu jacquet
Alexandra, as a French translator and technical writer using FrameMaker as well as Trados, I totally agree with what other people have said on this issue : if the translation company knows its job, you ought to send FM files in the native language and have them sent back translated and

RE: Columns in middle of chapter

2006-10-10 Thread Charles Beck
Very nice solution, Dan! A bit of work to set up, but sounds like the results would be very impressive. Just out of curiosity, do you know if doing this with tables would be a viable option? Chuck -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: OS 9 Applications on Tiger

2006-10-10 Thread David Creamer
This is intriguing to me. My understanding was that Classic, and therefore OS 9, wouldn't run on any of the later machines, particularly any Intel-based machines. . The confusion comes from whether the computer can BOOT, that is start up, in OS 9 -- or can it run OS 9 in Classic

RE: paste special ...text option

2006-10-10 Thread Sales at Bright Path
Hi Pete: This may be adjusted in the maker.ini file within your FrameMaker install folder. The maker.ini is a text file so you can easily open it in a tool like Notepad and edit it. By moving TEXT to the start of the line: ClipboardFormatsPriorities=FILE, OLE 2, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIF, RTF,

RE: OS 9 Applications on Tiger

2006-10-10 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 14:48 -0700 9/10/06, Sam Beard wrote: This is intriguing to me. My understanding was that Classic, and therefore OS 9, wouldn't run on any of the later machines, particularly any Intel-based machines. Are either of you running one of these? What machines are you running? Are you running OS

RE: paste special ...text option

2006-10-10 Thread Reng, Winfried Dr.
Hi Peter, Easy. Open your maker.ini file with a text editor and change the order of the ClipboardFormatsPriorities formats. Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]On Behalf Of Peter Rule Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 4:11 AM

RE: Translation questions

2006-10-10 Thread Diane Gaskill
Alexandra, I definitely echo Karen's advice about Word. We have some Word docs (don't even ask)and two vendors we use told us that they will charge us 25% more to translate docs in Word than docs in Frame. Why? Because the graphics are all embedded in Word and they have to take them out and

RE: Columns in middle of chapter - Answers

2006-10-10 Thread Lisa M. Balbes, Ph.D.
Thanks to all who sent suggestions, especially Glenn Voyles, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson, Grant Hogarth, Richard Doll, Daniel Emory Two of the most complete are included below. Since there are only 2 small, 2-column sections in the middle of a 135 page document, I opted to not mess with the master

RE: paste special ...text option

2006-10-10 Thread Fred Ridder
Sorry, Kay, but this useful trick (which was also suggested by Mark Southee, Rick Quatro, and Winifred Reng) is not going to do what Peter needs. Peter complains that Text is the *third* option in his Paste Special dialog, and that fact indicates that he is cutting (or copying) and pasting

RE: OS 9 Applications on Tiger

2006-10-10 Thread Sam Beard
All, I stand corrected! I'm guessing my mistake in this was with the computers themselves and NOT the operating systems. I thought that Classic was also tied to the OS as well as the computer. Apparently, it's only tied to the computer. I believe that the last round of G4s and the G5s didn't

RE: OS 9 Applications on Tiger

2006-10-10 Thread Sam Beard
Hey Peter, I agree that this is an excellent series of books! I have one from OS X 10.1, I believe. I was looking for one for Frame, since there are so many others out there. Alas, I wasn't able to find one, so have been looking for another good book for Frame. I recently bought the

Re: Converting structured fm file to Doxygen readable file

2006-10-10 Thread Nathan Cullen
Hi Andrew, I managed to create a python script which takes FrameMaker output and converts it to a doxygen readable document. So my problem is solved. The solution involved saving my structured files as xml files and then running the parsing script over them. Regards Nathan Andrew Warren

RE: OS 9 Applications on Tiger

2006-10-10 Thread Sam Beard
Hey Steve, Thanks for the input. Yes, I was mistakenly thinking that the issue was with the OS itself. I knew that the last round, I believe, of G4s as well as the G5s didn't support dual-booting. They still ran Classic, I believe, but not straight OS 9. I also knew that Apple wasn't porting

Re: URL Encoded Problem in PDF

2006-10-10 Thread Shlomo Perets
Donald, You wrote: I've got a link to a url that is being encoded by Acrobat, and not working when I click on it. For example, the marker has message URL http://www.site.com/~directory/index.html; and the tilde is being encoded to %7E when the link is clicked, but appears as ~ in the PDF.

RE: OS 9 Applications on Tiger

2006-10-10 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 07:35 -0700 10/10/06, Sam Beard wrote: Thanks for the input. Yes, I was mistakenly thinking that the issue was with the OS itself. No sweat - easy mistake to make. I knew that the last round, I believe, of G4s as well as the G5s didn't support dual-booting. They still ran Classic, I

FrameLink

2006-10-10 Thread Stephen C. Gillespie Sr
Dear Framers, Does anybody have any experience with the Framelink tool, to integrate Frame with CMS (Documentum)? I see on their website, where it talks about Frame+SGML integration - does it work with Structured Frame/XML, too? Apprec any info - thanks! Steve Gillespie, PMP Sr Information

Re: Capturing Paragraph Tag change with a Variables

2006-10-10 Thread Stuart Rogers
Scott White wrote: I've looked through the book and I'm a little stumped. How do you capture a change to the data assigned a specific paragraph tag so you can search on that change? I have a catalog that uses a certain paragraph tag cellprice to display pricing for an item. The paragraph tag

Re: Corrupted PDFs

2006-10-10 Thread Stuart Rogers
Gillian Flato wrote: Guys, Frame 7.0 p495 Acrobat 7.0 Professional on a network drive I am having a problem where when I create a PDF, it becomes corrupted and I can't delete or move it. I can open it, but that's it. But this means that when I change the software, I can't rebuild the PDF

RE: Corrupted PDFs

2006-10-10 Thread Gillian Flato
Thank you, I did a search on both my local drive and my network drive and did not find any *.lck files. Gillian -Original Message- From: Stuart Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 9:42 AM To: Gillian Flato Cc: Framers Subject: Re: Corrupted PDFs

OSX Tiger and FrameMaker

2006-10-10 Thread Graeme Forbes
There seems to be a bit of confusion in answering Ann's question about FM and Tiger. Bottom line: if it's a G5 Mac you've got (or G4, G3...) FrameMaker will run fine under OS X 10.2, 10.3 (Panther) or 10.4 (Tiger). Dunno about 10.0 or 10.1 This is because the G5 supports Apple's Classic

RE: FrameLink

2006-10-10 Thread Ridder, Fred
FrameLink was a good product, and there was a separate version for FrameMaker+SGML. But Datalogics never did a version that worked with the structured mode of FrameMaker 7.x. Instead, they made a decision that as of the spring of 2005 they were no longer supporting the product. It's a dead end.

RE: OS 9 Applications on Tiger

2006-10-10 Thread Paul Findon
On 10 Oct 2006, at 07:00, fAnn Zdunczyk wrote: I have a G5 running Panther that I purchased several years ago. A purchased an upgrade for one of my applications and it requires OS 10.4 (Tiger) to run. I was told by the Apple rep that Tiger would run my OS 9 applications on this machine

RE: Corrupted PDFs

2006-10-10 Thread Dov Isaacs
If you can indeed OPEN and view the PDF file in either Reader or Acrobat, the file is not corrupted. An inability to delete or move a file is not indicative of file corruption, but rather, that some program is holding the file open. That program may be on your system or perhaps the server itself

Fw: RE: paste special ...text option

2006-10-10 Thread Peter Rule
-Original message- From: Peter Rule [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:40:06 +1000 To: Fred Ridder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: paste special ...text option Yes, thankyou Fred (and everyone else). You are correct, I am cut/copy and pasting within a Frame doc and the,

Shortcut keys stop working

2006-10-10 Thread Paul Di Somma
Hi guys, Working in FM 7p492 on XP for about 2+ hours ... suddenly the shortcut keys (that is, Cltr + C to copy and so forth) stop working. Using the menu commands work fine. My fix is to restart the machine, but I wondered if anyone has experienced this and if they have a better fix. thanks, -

paste special ...text option

2006-10-10 Thread Peter Rule
Hello framers, Does anyone know of a way to default "text" as the first option on the "paste-special" option box. "text" is currently third in the list and I would love for it to be first (saving me having to select it). Any help appreciated. Cheers, Pete

Shortcut keys stop working

2006-10-10 Thread pe...@galley.ie
I get this too, on FM 7.1p116. I only have to exit FM and restart to fix it. Peter Original Message Hi guys, Working in FM 7p492 on XP for about 2+ hours ... suddenly the shortcut keys (that is, Cltr + C to copy and so forth) stop working. Using

paste special ...text option

2006-10-10 Thread Rick Quatro
Pete, There is a setting in your maker.ini to do this. ClipboardFormatsPriorities=TEXT, FILE, OLE 2, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIF, RTF Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com > Hello framers, > > Does anyone know of a way to default "text" as the first option on the >

Translation questions

2006-10-10 Thread mathieu jacquet
Alexandra, as a French translator and technical writer using FrameMaker as well as Trados, I totally agree with what other people have said on this issue : if the translation company knows its job, you ought to send FM files in the native language and have them sent back translated and

Columns in middle of chapter

2006-10-10 Thread Charles Beck
Very nice solution, Dan! A bit of work to set up, but sounds like the results would be very impressive. Just out of curiosity, do you know if doing this with tables would be a viable option? Chuck -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+charles.beck=infor@lists.frameusers.com

paste special ...text option

2006-10-10 Thread Mark Southee
Peter, Open your maker.ini file in a text editor (from the Program Files\Framemaker directory) and locate the following line: ClipboardFormatsPriorities= Move TEXT to the beginning of the list. Cheers Mark -Original Message- From:

OS 9 Applications on Tiger

2006-10-10 Thread David Creamer
>This is intriguing to me. My understanding was that Classic, and > therefore OS 9, wouldn't run on any of the later machines, particularly > any Intel-based machines. . The confusion comes from whether the computer can BOOT, that is start up, in OS 9 -- or can it run OS 9 in Classic

paste special ...text option

2006-10-10 Thread Sales@Bright Path
Hi Pete: This may be adjusted in the "maker.ini" file within your FrameMaker install folder. The maker.ini is a text file so you can easily open it in a tool like Notepad and edit it. By moving TEXT to the start of the line: ClipboardFormatsPriorities=FILE, OLE 2, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIF,

paste special ...text option

2006-10-10 Thread Reng, Winfried Dr.
Hi Peter, Easy. Open your maker.ini file with a text editor and change the order of the "ClipboardFormatsPriorities" formats. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces+wreng=tycoint.com at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces+wreng=tycoint.com at

Translation questions

2006-10-10 Thread Diane Gaskill
Alexandra, I definitely echo Karen's advice about Word. We have some Word docs (don't even ask)and two vendors we use told us that they will charge us 25% more to translate docs in Word than docs in Frame. Why? Because the graphics are all embedded in Word and they have to take them out and

Columns in middle of chapter - Answers

2006-10-10 Thread Lisa M. Balbes, Ph.D.
Thanks to all who sent suggestions, especially Glenn Voyles, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson, Grant Hogarth, Richard Doll, Daniel Emory Two of the most complete are included below. Since there are only 2 small, 2-column sections in the middle of a 135 page document, I opted to not mess with the master

paste special ...text option

2006-10-10 Thread Fred Ridder
Sorry, Kay, but this useful trick (which was also suggested by Mark Southee, Rick Quatro, and Winifred Reng) is not going to do what Peter needs. Peter complains that Text is the *third* option in his Paste Special dialog, and that fact indicates that he is cutting (or copying) and pasting

OS 9 Applications on Tiger

2006-10-10 Thread Sam Beard
All, I stand corrected! I'm guessing my mistake in this was with the computers themselves and NOT the operating systems. I thought that Classic was also tied to the OS as well as the computer. Apparently, it's only tied to the computer. I believe that the last round of G4s and the G5s didn't

OS 9 Applications on Tiger

2006-10-10 Thread Sam Beard
Hey Peter, I agree that this is an excellent series of books! I have one from OS X 10.1, I believe. I was looking for one for Frame, since there are so many others out there. Alas, I wasn't able to find one, so have been looking for another good book for Frame. I recently bought the

Converting structured fm file to Doxygen readable file

2006-10-10 Thread Nathan Cullen
Hi Andrew, I managed to create a python script which takes FrameMaker output and converts it to a doxygen readable document. So my problem is solved. The solution involved saving my structured files as xml files and then running the parsing script over them. Regards Nathan Andrew Warren

OS 9 Applications on Tiger

2006-10-10 Thread Sam Beard
Hey Steve, Thanks for the input. Yes, I was mistakenly thinking that the issue was with the OS itself. I knew that the last round, I believe, of G4s as well as the G5s didn't support dual-booting. They still ran Classic, I believe, but not straight OS 9. I also knew that Apple wasn't porting

URL Encoded Problem in PDF

2006-10-10 Thread Shlomo Perets
Donald, You wrote: >I've got a link to a url that is being encoded by Acrobat, and not working >when I click on it. > >For example, the marker has "message URL >http://www.site.com/~directory/index.html; and the tilde is being encoded >to %7E when the link is clicked, but appears as "~" in

OS 9 Applications on Tiger

2006-10-10 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 07:35 -0700 10/10/06, Sam Beard wrote: > Thanks for the input. Yes, I was mistakenly thinking that the issue >was with the OS itself. No sweat - easy mistake to make. > I knew that the last round, I believe, of G4s as well as the G5s didn't > support dual-booting. They still ran Classic, I

FrameLink

2006-10-10 Thread Stephen C. Gillespie Sr
Dear Framers, Does anybody have any experience with the Framelink tool, to integrate Frame with CMS (Documentum)? I see on their website, where it talks about Frame+SGML integration - does it work with Structured Frame/XML, too? Apprec any info - thanks! Steve Gillespie, PMP Sr Information

Capturing Paragraph Tag change with a Variables

2006-10-10 Thread Stuart Rogers
Scott White wrote: > I've looked through the book and I'm a little stumped. > How do you capture a change to the data assigned a specific paragraph tag so > you can search on that change? > I have a catalog that uses a certain paragraph tag "cellprice" to display > pricing for an item. The

Corrupted PDFs

2006-10-10 Thread Stuart Rogers
Gillian Flato wrote: > Guys, > > Frame 7.0 p495 > Acrobat 7.0 Professional > on a network drive > > I am having a problem where when I create a PDF, it becomes corrupted > and I can't delete or move it. I can open it, but that's it. But this > means that when I change the software, I can't

Corrupted PDFs

2006-10-10 Thread Gillian Flato
Thank you, I did a search on both my local drive and my network drive and did not find any *.lck files. Gillian -Original Message- From: Stuart Rogers [mailto:srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 9:42 AM To: Gillian Flato Cc: Framers Subject: Re:

OSX Tiger and FrameMaker

2006-10-10 Thread Graeme Forbes
There seems to be a bit of confusion in answering Ann's question about FM and Tiger. Bottom line: if it's a G5 Mac you've got (or G4, G3...) FrameMaker will run fine under OS X 10.2, 10.3 (Panther) or 10.4 (Tiger). Dunno about 10.0 or 10.1 This is because the G5 supports Apple's Classic

FrameLink

2006-10-10 Thread terry.bad...@kodak.com
I understand this product is no longer supported by the maker. Terry M. Badger Strategic Initiatives Group Technical Knowledge Management Eastman Kodak Company 343 State St Rochester, NY 14650-0704 Office (585) 724-6337 Cell (585) 781-0789 email Terry.Badger at kodak.com "Stephen C.

FrameLink

2006-10-10 Thread Ridder, Fred
FrameLink was a good product, and there was a separate version for FrameMaker+SGML. But Datalogics never did a version that worked with the structured mode of FrameMaker 7.x. Instead, they made a decision that as of the spring of 2005 they were no longer supporting the product. It's a dead end.

OS 9 Applications on Tiger

2006-10-10 Thread Paul Findon
On 10 Oct 2006, at 07:00, fAnn Zdunczyk wrote: > I have a G5 running Panther that I purchased several years ago. A > purchased > an upgrade for one of my applications and it requires OS 10.4 > (Tiger) to > run. I was told by the Apple rep that Tiger would run my OS 9 > applications > on

Corrupted PDFs

2006-10-10 Thread Dov Isaacs
If you can indeed OPEN and view the PDF file in either Reader or Acrobat, the file is not "corrupted." An inability to delete or move a file is not indicative of file corruption, but rather, that some program is holding the file "open." That program may be on your system or perhaps the server

Can User Variable value be changed at book level?

2006-10-10 Thread Radha Padmanabhan
Hi, Good day. I use FrameMaker 7.1 with Windows XP. I have got a FM book with about 50 chapters (files). But they are logically grouped as 5 guides. All chapters in all guides have footers with Product Name, Release No. and Date and Guide identification. For each guide, the footer has a

Issue in Optimizing PDF size

2006-10-10 Thread Radha Padmanabhan
Thanks Fred. I got it right now. Radha == "Ridder, Fred" wrote: 1) Open each component file in turn (dismissing the alert message) and then explicitly save the file to convert it to 7.0 format so that it will open without any message the next time you attempt a book-level