Internal Error

2008-02-06 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I occasionally have the dreaded Internal Error after a search in FM, then FM closes. Would extra RAM help? I have 1 GB of RAM now. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to

Re: Revising Help topics created in WebWorks

2008-02-06 Thread Yves Barbion
Hi Rebecca, if you only need to change the text in the footer, the easiest (and cheapest) way is to open all the HTML files in a plain text editor and do a global search and replace there. For example, you could use EditPad Lite for this: http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html Thus, you

RE: Working with Images

2008-02-06 Thread richard.melanson
Dude, you may be the expert on this, and the info you supplied in your response is so good I am saving it, but how about a little respect for everyone on the list. I believe whatever anyone said in an attempt to help they believed to be accurate and helpful. To say and I quote you Well, I've

RE: Working with Images

2008-02-06 Thread Dennis Brunnenmeyer
David... This was not an attack on you. Please see my remarks embedded below. Dennis... At 02:07 PM 2/5/2008, you wrote: On Dennis Brunnenmeyer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2/5/08 11:36 AM: Rant begins... snip

Re: keep with next para

2008-02-06 Thread Stuart Rogers
Graeme R Forbes wrote: I have a proof consisting in a sequence of lines across a page, each a paragraph, and each line separated from the next by a shallow anchored frame that contains a separator line. Each line/para is set to keep with the next one since the whole proof must display on

RE: keep with next para

2008-02-06 Thread Combs, Richard
Stuart Rogers wrote: Graeme R Forbes wrote: I have a proof consisting in a sequence of lines across a page, each a paragraph, and each line separated from the next by a shallow anchored frame that contains a separator line. Each line/para is set to keep with the next one since

Re: Working with Images

2008-02-06 Thread Stuart Rogers
John Sgammato wrote: ... Note that with SnagIt you can opt to capture the image at other resolutions, so you need not change anything in FM. I capture images as 200dpi TIFFs, and then import them at 200dpi in my books. I go to print, PDF, and online help from a single set of screenshots.

Re: Duplicating a two-page section

2008-02-06 Thread Stuart Rogers
Brewster, Christopher C wrote: I'm learning FM as I go, out of necessity. I need to make an alternative version of a procedure, so I need a copy of the original appearing just after it, which I'll modify. Should be dead easy. The procedure contains a linked graphic. Makes no difference.

Re: Working with Images

2008-02-06 Thread Peter Gold
I don't think I've seen a mention about the variation of screen-pixel size among different monitor brands and models. I realize that although a screen pixel that's .35mm square, and one that's .25mm square create different on-screen image sizes and granularity for the same image, say 100px x

page layout for a double-wide table

2008-02-06 Thread Ben Hechter
Just curious, has anyone attempted a 2-page master page layout for a lengthy double-wide table? Beyond a compressed landscape format, all I can come up with at this point is some sort of artificial 11x17 page size, but am stumped further... Thanks for any help, Ben Ben Hechter [EMAIL

RE: Working with Images

2008-02-06 Thread Dennis Brunnenmeyer
Rick... You are very correct about my brashness. My apologies to all of you. I was anxious to try and squelch some misconceptions and got carried away. David Creamer was particularly incensed with me because he thought I was aiming the whole rant at him. This was not the case, of course, but

FM8 now works for us

2008-02-06 Thread Austin Meredith
We are happy to be able to report that, with the recent Version 8.0p273 patch, FM8 now works for us here at our Kouroo Contexture, the way it should. To see how it works fine now, enabling hypertext buttons between Acrobat documents on the internet, click on

unavailable fonts problem: URGENT

2008-02-06 Thread Brewster, Christopher C
I'm trying to make a PDF version of a book. Just one file, the title page, causes a problem about using unavailable fonts, which makes the PDF operation fail. When I open the title page file, I change all the text to a font that's available, then save and close the file. But when I reopen it, I

Re: page layout for a double-wide table

2008-02-06 Thread Stuart Rogers
Ben Hechter wrote: Just curious, has anyone attempted a 2-page master page layout for a lengthy double-wide table? Beyond a compressed landscape format, all I can come up with at this point is some sort of artificial 11x17 page size, but am stumped further... If I understand correctly, you

Re: unavailable fonts problem: URGENT

2008-02-06 Thread Bill Swallow
1. File Preferences General 2. Deselect remember missing font names 3. Open the file. 4. Click OK to font substitutions. 5. Save and close the file. On Feb 6, 2008 3:10 PM, Brewster, Christopher C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to make a PDF version of a book. Just one file, the title

Question about applying and removing character tags in FM6.0

2008-02-06 Thread maxwell.hoffmann
I have a basic, really dumb question about character tags. (Think I know the answer, but need to check.) If I apply a character tag for [Change Bars] to several paragraphs, (and the char tag is defined all as is settings, except for change bar), is there anyway to remove the character tag and

RE: Question about applying and removing character tags in FM6.0

2008-02-06 Thread Owen, Clint
Maxwell, Just select all the paragraphs that contain the change bar attribute, then go to the character designer (ctrl D), uncheck the change bar attribute, then click Apply. This will remove the change bar and leave everything else. We always apply and remove change bars manually; it's easier

Distiller 7 missing fonts

2008-02-06 Thread Shuttleworth, Roger
Hello All (sigh) I know this question must have been asked dozens of times. Using FrameMaker 7.1 p116 and Acrobat Professional (Distiller) 7.0.7. Windows XP SP2. I try to create a PDF from FrameMaker using File Save as PDF. Distiller fires up but fails to produce a PDF (because of

RE: Distiller 7 missing fonts

2008-02-06 Thread Owen, Clint
Some fonts are restricted from being embedded by the font foundry. It is an attribute of the font files. This prevents them from being extracted from the PDF by a third party and reused. Clint Owen Technical Publications Crane Aerospace Electronics 425-743-8674 -Original Message-

Re: Working with Images

2008-02-06 Thread Stuart Rogers
John Sgammato wrote: When you capture a 96dpi image at higher resolution, you will never see detail that isn't there (of course) but you can do more with the image because your OWN image of the image is capable of showing greater resolution. You can look at it as if your high-res image

RE: Distiller 7 missing fonts

2008-02-06 Thread Alan Litchfield
Roger, Have you tried printing to pdf, using the Adobe PDF driver? I would suggest printing to a postscript file and manually Distilling it so you can see what is going on at stage. Also,... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: Distiller 7 missing fonts

2008-02-06 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Roger I've got no idea what could be wrong with your font, but just thought I'd comment that we use that font and have no problems with embedding it. Our font files are dated 14/10/1999. Using FM7.0 and Win XP SP2. Did it work in the past for you, or is this the first time you've tried to

Re: Distiller 7 missing fonts

2008-02-06 Thread Mike Wickham
Some fonts are restricted from being embedded by the font foundry. It is an attribute of the font files. This prevents them from being extracted from the PDF by a third party and reused. Except that Adobe fonts all permit embedding, and he said he had an Adobe font. (Maybe it was different

Re: Question about applying and removing character tags in FM6.0

2008-02-06 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Maxwell: I'd suggest a slight variation on Clint's suggestion: Select the affected range of text, open the character designer, click the Commands button, choose Set Window To As-Is, THEN disable Change Bars and click apply. The Designers pick up text attributes from the selection; setting

re: keep with next para (solved)

2008-02-06 Thread Graeme R Forbes
I knew there had to be a simple solution. You prevent a page break occurring at a soft return by putting a sufficiently large number (I used 4) in the Widow/Orphan control box on the Pagination page of the Para Designer. Thanks to Stuart Rogers for suggesting this. Graeme Forbes

Internal Error

2008-02-06 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I occasionally have the dreaded "Internal Error" after a search in FM, then FM closes. Would extra RAM help? I have 1 GB of RAM now. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson

Revising Help topics created in WebWorks

2008-02-06 Thread Yves Barbion
Hi Rebecca, if you only need to change the text in the footer, the easiest (and cheapest) way is to open all the HTML files in a plain text editor and do a global search and replace there. For example, you could use EditPad Lite for this: http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html Thus, you

Working with Images

2008-02-06 Thread richard.melan...@us.tel.com
Dude, you may be the expert on this, and the info you supplied in your response is so good I am saving it, but how about a little respect for everyone on the list. I believe whatever anyone said in an attempt to help they believed to be accurate and helpful. To say and I quote you "Well, I've

keep with next para

2008-02-06 Thread Stuart Rogers
Graeme R Forbes wrote: > I have a proof consisting in a sequence of lines across a page, each > a paragraph, and each line separated from the next by a shallow > anchored frame that contains a separator line. Each line/para is set > to keep with the next one since the whole proof must display

keep with next para

2008-02-06 Thread Combs, Richard
Stuart Rogers wrote: > Graeme R Forbes wrote: > > I have a proof consisting in a sequence of lines across a > page, each a > > paragraph, and each line separated from the next by a shallow > > anchored frame that contains a separator line. Each > line/para is set > > to keep with the next

Working with Images

2008-02-06 Thread Stuart Rogers
John Sgammato wrote: > ... > Note that with SnagIt you can opt to capture the image at other > resolutions, so you need not change anything in FM. I capture images > as 200dpi TIFFs, and then import them at 200dpi in my books. I go to > print, PDF, and online help from a single set of

Duplicating a two-page section

2008-02-06 Thread Stuart Rogers
Brewster, Christopher C wrote: > I'm learning FM as I go, out of necessity. I need to make an alternative > version of a procedure, so I need a copy of the original appearing just > after it, which I'll modify. Should be dead easy. The procedure contains a linked graphic. Makes no difference.

Working with Images

2008-02-06 Thread Peter Gold
I don't think I've seen a mention about the variation of screen-pixel size among different monitor brands and models. I realize that although a screen pixel that's .35mm square, and one that's .25mm square create different on-screen image sizes and granularity for the same image, say 100px x

page layout for a double-wide table

2008-02-06 Thread Ben Hechter
Just curious, has anyone attempted a 2-page master page layout for a lengthy double-wide table? Beyond a compressed landscape format, all I can come up with at this point is some sort of artificial 11x17 page size, but am stumped further... Thanks for any help, Ben Ben Hechter bhechter at

Working with Images

2008-02-06 Thread Dennis Brunnenmeyer
Rick... You are very correct about my brashness. My apologies to all of you. I was anxious to try and squelch some misconceptions and got carried away. David Creamer was particularly incensed with me because he thought I was aiming the whole rant at him. This was not the case, of course, but

FM8 now works for us

2008-02-06 Thread Austin Meredith
We are happy to be able to report that, with the recent Version 8.0p273 patch, FM8 now works for us here at our Kouroo Contexture, the way it should. To see how it works fine now, enabling hypertext buttons between Acrobat documents on the internet, click on

"unavailable fonts" problem: URGENT

2008-02-06 Thread Brewster, Christopher C
I'm trying to make a PDF version of a book. Just one file, the title page, causes a problem about using unavailable fonts, which makes the PDF operation fail. When I open the title page file, I change all the text to a font that's available, then save and close the file. But when I reopen it, I

page layout for a double-wide table

2008-02-06 Thread Stuart Rogers
Ben Hechter wrote: > Just curious, has anyone attempted a 2-page master page layout for a > lengthy double-wide table? Beyond a compressed landscape format, all > I can come up with at this point is some sort of artificial 11x17 > page size, but am stumped further... If I understand correctly,

"unavailable fonts" problem: URGENT

2008-02-06 Thread Bill Swallow
1. File > Preferences > General 2. Deselect "remember missing font names" 3. Open the file. 4. Click OK to font substitutions. 5. Save and close the file. On Feb 6, 2008 3:10 PM, Brewster, Christopher C wrote: > I'm trying to make a PDF version of a book. Just one file, the title > page, causes

Question about applying and removing character tags in FM6.0

2008-02-06 Thread maxwell.hoffmann
I have a basic, really dumb question about character tags. (Think I know the answer, but need to check.) If I apply a character tag for [Change Bars] to several paragraphs, (and the char tag is defined all "as is" settings, except for change bar), is there anyway to remove the character tag

Question about applying and removing character tags in FM6.0

2008-02-06 Thread Owen, Clint
Maxwell, Just select all the paragraphs that contain the change bar attribute, then go to the character designer (ctrl D), uncheck the change bar attribute, then click "Apply". This will remove the change bar and leave everything else. We always apply and remove change bars manually; it's

Distiller 7 missing fonts

2008-02-06 Thread Shuttleworth, Roger
Hello All (sigh) I know this question must have been asked dozens of times. Using FrameMaker 7.1 p116 and Acrobat Professional (Distiller) 7.0.7. Windows XP SP2. I try to create a PDF from FrameMaker using File > Save as PDF. Distiller fires up but fails to produce a PDF (because of my

Distiller 7 missing fonts

2008-02-06 Thread Owen, Clint
Some fonts are restricted from being embedded by the font foundry. It is an attribute of the font files. This prevents them from being extracted from the PDF by a third party and reused. Clint Owen Technical Publications Crane Aerospace & Electronics 425-743-8674 -Original Message-

Working with Images

2008-02-06 Thread Stuart Rogers
John Sgammato wrote: > When you capture a 96dpi image at higher resolution, you will never > see detail that isn't there (of course) but you can do more with the > image because your OWN image of the image is capable of showing > greater resolution. You can look at it as if your high-res image >

Question about applying and removing character tags in FM6.0

2008-02-06 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Maxwell: I'd suggest a slight variation on Clint's suggestion: Select the affected range of text, open the character designer, click the Commands button, choose Set Window To As-Is, THEN disable Change Bars and click apply. The Designers pick up text attributes from the selection; setting