Keyboard shortcut for toggling open documents

2007-03-20 Thread David Schor
What is the keyboard shortcut for toggling open documents? Thanks very much, David -- David Schor Senior Technical Writer RADLAN, a Marvell Company Tel: (+972) 3 7662823 Cellular: (+972) 54 4788253 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.marvell.com ___

Re: Background with JPEG

2007-03-20 Thread mathieu jacquet
I come back to what you both said about transparency after reading this technical note by Adobe : Transparent Color in Images Is White in FrameMaker Adobe FrameMaker doesn't support transparency in image files (for example, EPS, TIFF, GIF, or JPEG). When you import an image, FrameMaker maps

Re: Keyboard shortcut for toggling open documents

2007-03-20 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
In Windoze between Win applications: ALT+TAB Within FrameMaker (Win): CTRL+TAB. Bodvar On 3/20/07, David Schor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the keyboard shortcut for toggling open documents? Thanks very much, David -- David Schor Senior Technical Writer RADLAN, a Marvell Company Tel:

Re: Keyboard shortcut for toggling open documents

2007-03-20 Thread Yves Barbion
Right, and CTRL+SHIFT+TAB to toggle in reverse order. -- Yves Barbion Documentation Architect Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list

Anything new about when the next release of Framemaker will be launched?

2007-03-20 Thread Andersen, Verner Engell VEA
Have you heard anything yet? My Danish vendor told me (guessed) a couple of month ago that it would be in March this year, but I don't trust this information anylonger. I am VERY curious about the new features and a bit impatient. The only rumour I have heard is that Framemaker will support

Re: Anything new about when the next release of Framemaker will be launched?

2007-03-20 Thread Yves Barbion
This is the only official Adobe assumption I've seen so far: http://www.adobe.com/products/special/crossproduct/tech_communication/faq.html#item-1-2 -- Yves Barbion Documentation Architect Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor

Re: Anything new about when the next release of Framemaker will belaunched?

2007-03-20 Thread Fred Ridder
From a little farther down in the same web page: Adobe ... generally does not disclose details of new releases more than 30 days before a product is expected to ship. This has been longstanding Adobe policy, and the one and only time I've seen them break it was the exceptional case of

Re: Anything new about when the next release of Framemaker will belaunched?

2007-03-20 Thread Bill Swallow
Agreed. I was surprised to see their announcement of 1st half of 2007, to be honest. They usually hold their cards close. On 3/20/07, Fred Ridder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From a little farther down in the same web page: Adobe ... generally does not disclose details of new releases more than 30

Re: Keyboard shortcut for toggling open documents

2007-03-20 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, David: You didn't state your platform. Others have responded for Windows shortcuts. On Macintosh under Classic or OS 9: Cmd+Opt+w (lowercase w) cycles through open documents. However, the usual way to reverse the cycle direction, adding Shift, doesn't work. It invokes the Graphics

Re: Background with JPEG

2007-03-20 Thread Art Campbell
Well, No, FM doesn't support transparency. However, you might run into a disagreement on whether it's broken or not. As whoever you quoted mentioned, the tradeoff seems to be support for runarounds or transparency, and they picked runarounds. Art On 3/20/07, mathieu jacquet [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Background with JPEG

2007-03-20 Thread Gagne, Bernard (Bolton)
And we all know how well it works when you leave runarounds turned on. Berny Gagne Lead Writer Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. Bolton, Ontario, Canada -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 11:15 AM To: mathieu jacquet

Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread ActionA
Hi all, We are experiencing a strange pdf problem. We have several Frame books that we create pdf's from. We're using Frame 7.2 and I select the Save As feature and then save as pdf. The problem happens when we change the name of the pdf file to anything different than the name of the book

Re: Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 14:40 -0400 20/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are experiencing a strange pdf problem. We have several Frame books that we create pdf's from. We're using Frame 7.2 and I select the Save As feature and then save as pdf. The problem happens when we change the name of the pdf file to

Re: Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Art Campbell
Do you get the same behavior if you Print to the Adobe logical printer? And what version of Distiller are you using? Art On 3/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, We are experiencing a strange pdf problem. We have several Frame books that we create pdf's from. We're using

RE: Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Diane Gaskill
Hi Nancy, This is not a strange problem. It is the way that Acrobat is designed. The links contain the filenames that exist when you creat them. You cannot change the external name of the file afterward and expect the internal link names to change too. It doesn't happen. Your observation is

Re: Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread ActionA
But shouldn't I be able to enter in a file name different from the book file when I choose File--Save As? Or do I always have to use the book name. This has worked in the past. Thanks, Nancy In a message dated 3/20/2007 3:52:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

RE: Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Diane, Sorry to disagree, but I use Save As all the time (doing exactly what Nancy does) and I don't have a problem at all with the links in the TOC/index still working. Internally, links are not affected by a Save As, only externally. Nancy, if you want contact me offlist and we can discuss

ANN: ENLASO (translate.com) to Host Live WebSeminar on Converting Legacy Documents to FrameMaker

2007-03-20 Thread Maxwell Hoffmann
This email is a reminder of an announcement of a class that I will be teaching a week from this Thursday. If you register for this course, use a special promo code for FrameUsers, INVMAX, for a $50 discount. You may register at this URL:

Re: Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Alan Litchfield
Nancy, From your original description, Dianne is right. As I read it, you described that you had made the pdf, changed its name, then found the links were subsequently broken. Are you actually saying that you set the output name prior to the pdf being made, using the Save As dialog? If so, what

Re: Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread ActionA
Hi Alan, I get the same results when I do either: change the name after saving, or putting in a name different than the book name while I'm saving as pdf. Nancy In a message dated 3/20/2007 4:32:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nancy, From your original

RE: Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Gagne, Bernard \(Bolton\)
Hi Nancy, The only time I've seen the links get destroyed in the way you are describing is when I chose to create a book with one PDF file per chapter. In situations like that, if I were to rename a file, the links to it would be broken. But never internal links, and never with a book saved as a

Re: Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain
Steve Rickaby wrote: No, because I don't use 'Save as PDF'. Isn't the general view that it's broken and therefore deprecated? Or has it been fixed in 7.2? Hmmm ... I use Save As PDF successfully in FM 7.2 all the time (although I have not changed the filename - other than using a .PDF

Re: Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Alan Litchfield
OK. First off. Then Dianne is right. Changing the file names after the pdf is created will break any links in the pdf, but only for external files that are trying to link to it. Any internal links should be relative and not absolute. Actually, any links should be relative if they relate to a

Re: Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Stuart Rogers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, We are experiencing a strange pdf problem. We have several Frame books that we create pdf's from. We're using Frame 7.2 and I select the Save As feature and then save as pdf. The problem happens when we change the name of the pdf file to anything

Save As PDF Was: RE: Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Diane Gaskill
Steve, I remember many messages on this list about the Save as PDF function being broken in Frame 6.0 and an announcement on this list that it was fixed in Frame 7.0. If I remember correctly, the announcement came from Dov. Though I generally print to PS and distill, I have used the Save as PDF

RE: Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Diane Gaskill
Hi Tammy, When I responded originally, I understood Nancy to say that she was manually renaming the PDF file after Frame had created it. In that case, the links would be broken because the PDF file name no longer agreed with the name used when creating the file. Subsequent messages said that

RE: Save As PDF Was: RE: Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Ridder, Fred
Just to provide some historical context for this, the big issue with Save As PDF was always that of printer drivers, and only on Windows systems. In FrameMaker versions through 6.0, Save As PDF always used the current Windows printer driver, which might or might not have been a PostScript

Opening a .FM file hangs Frame 7.0 and 7.2

2007-03-20 Thread Karen West
This afternoon, Frame 7.0 hung while trying to open a .FM document. I couldn't kill it with end task and the only cure was a reboot. When I tried it in Frame 7.2, bizarrely it also hung. It's not just one .FM file, I've tried to open several documents from different sources and they all result in

RE: Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Eason, David
Along those same lines, I have a separate problem: When I try to save as pdf (File Save as pdf), I get the PDF Setup dialog box. Then when I click Next, I get a message that FrameMaker could not find Acrobat Distiller printer instance, which must be installed to execute Save as PDF Command. I

RE: Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Robert Shelton
I'm by no means an expert on Frame or Acrobat, but I just renamed a file created with Save As PDF from Frame 7.0 (578) and the internal links all still work. So not all internal links contain the filename and break when you change it. Bob Let what comes come, Let what goes go, Find out what

SV: Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Jacob Schäffer
Nancy, I think you see a strange problem that is not normal for FrameMaker. I have not used 7.2 too much yet, but I have never seen ths with any version up to 7.1, but I don't suspect that Adobe has implemented/released such a stupid naming-bug with 7.2. I have seen many errors with 7.2,

OT: Tech Writers & Wikis

2007-03-20 Thread Marcus Carr
will white wrote: > I'm dubious that folks in most development environments have the > leisure to dawdle around in a wiki when they have their own workloads > to get through. Or am I misunderstanding the charm of a wiki? It > sounds like a mechanism to convince other people to do my work.

Keyboard shortcut for toggling open documents

2007-03-20 Thread David Schor
What is the keyboard shortcut for toggling open documents? Thanks very much, David -- David Schor Senior Technical Writer RADLAN, a Marvell Company Tel: (+972) 3 7662823 Cellular: (+972) 54 4788253 E-mail: dschor at marvell.com Web: www.marvell.com

Background with JPEG

2007-03-20 Thread mathieu jacquet
I come back to what you both said about transparency after reading this technical note by Adobe : " Transparent Color in Images Is White in FrameMaker Adobe FrameMaker doesn't support transparency in image files (for example, EPS, TIFF, GIF, or JPEG). When you import an image, FrameMaker maps

Keyboard shortcut for toggling open documents

2007-03-20 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
In Windoze between Win applications: ALT+TAB Within FrameMaker (Win): CTRL+TAB. Bodvar On 3/20/07, David Schor wrote: > What is the keyboard shortcut for toggling open documents? > > Thanks very much, > David > > -- > David Schor > Senior Technical Writer > RADLAN, a Marvell Company > Tel:

Keyboard shortcut for toggling open documents

2007-03-20 Thread Yves Barbion
Right, and CTRL+SHIFT+TAB to toggle "in reverse order". -- Yves Barbion Documentation Architect Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor

Anything new about when the next release of Framemaker will be launched?

2007-03-20 Thread Andersen, Verner Engell VEA
Have you heard anything yet? My Danish vendor told me (guessed) a couple of month ago that it would be in March this year, but I don't trust this information anylonger. I am VERY curious about the new features and a bit impatient. The only rumour I have heard is that Framemaker will support

Anything new about when the next release of Framemaker will be launched?

2007-03-20 Thread Yves Barbion
This is the only "official" Adobe "assumption" I've seen so far: http://www.adobe.com/products/special/crossproduct/tech_communication/faq.html#item-1-2 -- Yves Barbion Documentation Architect Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor

Anything new about when the next release of Framemaker will belaunched?

2007-03-20 Thread Fred Ridder

Anything new about when the next release of Framemaker will belaunched?

2007-03-20 Thread Bill Swallow
Agreed. I was surprised to see their announcement of 1st half of 2007, to be honest. They usually hold their cards close. On 3/20/07, Fred Ridder wrote: > From a little farther down in the same web page: > > "Adobe ... generally does not disclose details of new releases > more than 30 days

Anything new about when the next release of Framemaker willbelaunched?

2007-03-20 Thread Martinek, Carla
-Original Message- From: Bill Swallow Agreed. I was surprised to see their announcement of 1st half of 2007, to be honest. They usually hold their cards close. Which realistically, at least in my mind, means we won't see it until the end of Q3 at the earliest. But we could be

Keyboard shortcut for toggling open documents

2007-03-20 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, David: You didn't state your platform. Others have responded for Windows shortcuts. On Macintosh under Classic or OS 9: Cmd+Opt+w (lowercase w) cycles through open documents. However, the usual way to reverse the cycle direction, adding Shift, doesn't work. It invokes the Graphics >

Bug that was in Framemaker 5.5.6 still in Framemaker 7.2?

2007-03-20 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
All, I remember this bug from Framemaker 5.5.6: 1.) A Landscape table that extends across more than one page. 2.) ColumnHeaderRow was black with white text for text in ColumnHeaderRow. 3.) Make a PDF of the Framemaker source file by printing to PS using, then distilling using Adobe Acrobat. 4.)

Background with JPEG

2007-03-20 Thread Art Campbell
Well, No, FM doesn't support transparency. However, you might run into a disagreement on whether it's broken or not. As whoever you quoted mentioned, the tradeoff seems to be support for runarounds or transparency, and they picked runarounds. Art On 3/20/07, mathieu jacquet wrote: > I come

Background with JPEG

2007-03-20 Thread Gagne, Bernard (Bolton)
And we all know how well it works when you leave runarounds turned on. Berny Gagne Lead Writer Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. Bolton, Ontario, Canada -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+bgagne=husky...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+bgagne=husky.ca at

Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread acti...@aol.com
Hi all, We are experiencing a strange pdf problem. We have several Frame books that we create pdf's from. We're using Frame 7.2 and I select the Save As feature and then save as pdf. The problem happens when we change the name of the pdf file to anything different than the name of the book

Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 14:40 -0400 20/3/07, ActionA at aol.com wrote: >We are experiencing a strange pdf problem. We have several Frame books that >we create pdf's from. We're using Frame 7.2 and I select the Save As feature >and then save as pdf. The problem happens when we change the name of the pdf >file to

Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Art Campbell
Do you get the same behavior if you Print to the Adobe logical printer? And what version of Distiller are you using? Art On 3/20/07, ActionA at aol.com wrote: > Hi all, > > We are experiencing a strange pdf problem. We have several Frame books that > we create pdf's from. We're using Frame 7.2

Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Diane Gaskill
Hi Nancy, This is not a strange problem. It is the way that Acrobat is designed. The links contain the filenames that exist when you creat them. You cannot change the external name of the file afterward and expect the internal link names to change too. It doesn't happen. Your observation is

Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread acti...@aol.com
But shouldn't I be able to enter in a file name different from the book file when I choose File-->Save As? Or do I always have to use the book name. This has worked in the past. Thanks, Nancy In a message dated 3/20/2007 3:52:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, dgcaller at earthlink.net

Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Diane, Sorry to disagree, but I use Save As all the time (doing exactly what Nancy does) and I don't have a problem at all with the links in the TOC/index still working. Internally, links are not affected by a Save As, only externally. Nancy, if you want contact me offlist and we can discuss

ANN: ENLASO (translate.com) to Host Live WebSeminar on Converting Legacy Documents to FrameMaker

2007-03-20 Thread Maxwell Hoffmann
This email is a reminder of an announcement of a class that I will be teaching a week from this Thursday. If you register for this course, use a special promo code for FrameUsers, "INVMAX", for a $50 discount. You may register at this URL:

Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread acti...@aol.com
Hi Alan, I get the same results when I do either: change the name after saving, or putting in a name different than the book name while I'm saving as pdf. Nancy In a message dated 3/20/2007 4:32:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, alan at alphabyte.co.nz writes: Nancy,

Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Gagne, Bernard (Bolton)
Hi Nancy, The only time I've seen the links get destroyed in the way you are describing is when I chose to create a book with one PDF file per chapter. In situations like that, if I were to rename a file, the links to it would be broken. But never internal links, and never with a book saved as a

Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain
Steve Rickaby wrote: > No, because I don't use 'Save as PDF'. Isn't the general view that it's broken and therefore deprecated? Or has it been fixed in 7.2? Hmmm ... I use "Save As PDF" successfully in FM 7.2 all the time (although I have not changed the filename - other than using a .PDF

Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Stuart Rogers
ActionA at aol.com wrote: > Hi all, > > We are experiencing a strange pdf problem. We have several Frame books that > we create pdf's from. We're using Frame 7.2 and I select the Save As feature > and then save as pdf. The problem happens when we change the name of the pdf > file to

Save As PDF Was: RE: Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Diane Gaskill
Steve, I remember many messages on this list about the Save as PDF function being broken in Frame 6.0 and an announcement on this list that it was fixed in Frame 7.0. If I remember correctly, the announcement came from Dov. Though I generally print to PS and distill, I have used the Save as PDF

Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Diane Gaskill
Hi Tammy, When I responded originally, I understood Nancy to say that she was manually renaming the PDF file after Frame had created it. In that case, the links would be broken because the PDF file name no longer agreed with the name used when creating the file. Subsequent messages said that

Save As PDF Was: RE: Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Ridder, Fred
Just to provide some historical context for this, the big issue with Save As PDF was always that of printer drivers, and only on Windows systems. In FrameMaker versions through 6.0, Save As PDF always used the current Windows printer driver, which might or might not have been a PostScript

Opening a .FM file hangs Frame 7.0 and 7.2

2007-03-20 Thread Karen West
This afternoon, Frame 7.0 hung while trying to open a .FM document. I couldn't kill it with end task and the only cure was a reboot. When I tried it in Frame 7.2, bizarrely it also hung. It's not just one .FM file, I've tried to open several documents from different sources and they all result in

Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Eason, David
Along those same lines, I have a separate problem: When I try to save as pdf (File >> Save as >> pdf), I get the PDF Setup dialog box. Then when I click Next, I get a message that FrameMaker could not find Acrobat Distiller printer instance, which must be installed to execute Save as PDF Command.

Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Robert Shelton
I'm by no means an expert on Frame or Acrobat, but I just renamed a file created with Save As PDF from Frame 7.0 (578) and the internal links all still work. So not all internal links contain the filename and break when you change it. Bob "Let what comes come, Let what goes go, Find out what

SV: Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Jacob Schäffer
Nancy, I think you see a strange problem that is not normal for FrameMaker. I have not used 7.2 too much yet, but I have never seen ths with any version up to 7.1, but I don't suspect that Adobe has implemented/released such a stupid naming-bug with 7.2. I have seen many errors with 7.2,

Version control of FM documents/books

2007-03-20 Thread Radha Padmanabhan
Hi, greetings! I use FM 7.0 with Windows XP. For the projects that I work with, I am the sole writer(modifier)/owner of the documents. As of now, the FM documents are in the hard disk of my machine and periodically we ensure that they are backed up. I wish to know whether we can use