Hi Sam,
When you apply a condition to a table row, the cells in this
row get a thick coloured border. That's intended behaviour.
When you hide the condition indicators, this border disappears.
Is this what you want to achieve?
Apart from that you can also delete a condition and also the
text and
I have a document that uses conditional text to delineate between two
different versions of the same basic product. Before I started this,
there were two separate books for each manual, even though there is a
LOT of cross-over text between them that is the same. I combined them
into a single
Sam,
It sounds like you're using unstructured FM? We are, and we considered going
to Structured FM, but the learning curve and conversion time just wouldn't fit
into our very tight (RD) timelines. (I still fantasize about it, though! LOL)
We have the same setup here with our product
Sam:
If you conditionalize the whole row, that row should disappear when you turn
the condition off. The colored borders indicate that you've correctly
conditionalized it (rather than just conditionalizing the text within the
border).
If that doesn't make sense, let me know.
Miriam
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All,
Thanks much for the help on this issue, but I need to clarify a few
things. First, I'm aware of the purpose of using conditional text, which
is what helped me to get this job. However, I have no real choice as to
having three separate files (my second point), because of our
documentation
At 09:17 -0500 10/7/07, Sam Beard wrote:
However, I have no real choice as to having three separate files (my second
point), because of our documentation control system. We number our documents
with a one-up system, including the month/year as the last four parts of an
eight-digit number. If
If you don't have the book file open, FrameMaker creates PDF links to the
PDF files named after the file (that is, it creates links to file_name.pdf
rather than to book_name.pdf). This makes sense. After all, FrameMaker has
no way of knowing which book the file belongs to if the book is not
Thanks to all for your answers!
Doug ... so in other words, in the following example:
"gotolink ../CHAP02/ER_SEC02_03.fm:sec231" (Where sec231 is a newlink marker
in that document...)
Frame would creake a link in the pdf file to a file named: "ER_SEC02_03.pdf "?
Would it do anything with
Yes, that's what it would do. If you create the file-specific PDF file, any
newlink markers defined in FM should be defined in the PDF file.
You have to be careful about your files' directories when you do this. If
your files are in separate directories, the links will expect the PDF files
to
It sounds to me like you have the book file has the numbering
properties set to restart the paragraph numbering in each chapter
files. It's important to remember that numbering properties set
in the book file (by highlighting components in the book window,
then right-clicking and shoosing
I don't understand why you have three files for each book. Why can't you
have one file for both books and mark the text which should only appear
in Version 1 as "Version1" and mark the text which should only appear in
Version 2 as "Version2." The rest of the text should not be marked as
Hi Sam,
When you apply a condition to a table row, the cells in this
row get a thick coloured border. That's intended behaviour.
When you hide the condition indicators, this border disappears.
Is this what you want to achieve?
Apart from that you can also delete a condition and also the
text and
<< I have a document that uses conditional text to delineate between two
different versions of the same basic product. Before I started this,
there were two separate books for each manual, even though there is a
LOT of cross-over text between them that is the same. I combined them
into a single
<< If these documents were for a new product line, we
MIGHT be able to get away with putting them into a single number.
However, they are for two separate but similar product lines. The first
one is 1950 while the second one is 2158.
OK, Sam.
How about using smaller text insets that you import
Sam Beard wrote:
>Thanks much for the help on this issue, but I need to
> clarify a few things. First, I'm aware of the purpose of
> using conditional text, which is what helped me to get this
> job. However, I have no real choice as to having three
> separate files (my second point),
All,
Thanks much for the help on this issue, but I need to clarify a few
things. First, I'm aware of the purpose of using conditional text, which
is what helped me to get this job. However, I have no real choice as to
having three separate files (my second point), because of our
documentation
Hi,
We work on large sets of documentation that require links between various
Chapters, Sections, Books, etc.
Our final deliverables are in PDF format.
When creating the PDF file for a specific book, we have found that for some
reason, we need to open ALL of the other book files that are
The Show/Hide Conditional Text dialog has an option box labeled
"Sow Condition Indicators" just below the "Show" list box. This
option toggles the color and other (e.g. underlining or strikethrough)
highlighting of all conditions that are set to show.
As far as archiving product-specific source
At 09:17 -0500 10/7/07, Sam Beard wrote:
>However, I have no real choice as to having three separate files (my second
>point), because of our documentation control system. We number our documents
>with a one-up system, including the month/year as the last four parts of an
>eight-digit number.
I am sending this to the list in case some of you also use the Forms
designer:
We want to have a form with 3 buttons or a dropdown list on top. The
label on the buttons, or list, will be: Hardware, Software, Patch. If
the User selects the Hardware button, then we want the software-related
and
Well, since no one else has responded... yes, for the links to work,
you do need to have all the destination files open when you build the
book PDF. However, I don't know _why_. I suspect it's because FM
passes specific (a named location) location info into Acrobat that is
somehow checked for
According to the "thanks but no thanks" message I got this AM, they are
not looking for more testers.
(Or I didn't qualify)
Grant
Grant Hogarth
Senior Technical Writer
Equis International - A Reuters Company
+1 801 270 3180 (t) | +1 801 815 8353
Thank you Fred, Ann, and Jeremy for your replies. All suggested that I review
the numbering properties at the book and document levels for consistency.
Fred, however, wins the scalp on this bug with the following suggestion:
"And are you remembering to execute the Update Book command
to refresh
If you don't have the book file open, FrameMaker creates PDF links to the
PDF files named after the file (that is, it creates links to file_name.pdf
rather than to book_name.pdf). This makes sense. After all, FrameMaker has
no way of knowing which book the file belongs to if the book is not
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