Thanks for the comments and the book reference, Mike! I will get a copy
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> To: Syed Zaeem Hosain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]);
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Thanks for the comments and the book reference, Mike! I will get a copy
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> From: Mike Wickham [mailto:mewickham at compuserve.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 3:10 PM
> To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net);
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> 2. Do people think that a Sans Serif font improves legibility for body
> text?
Using a sans serif font for body text greatly reduces reader comprehension.
Obtain a copy of Colin Wheildon's _Type and Layout: Are You Communicating or
Just Making Pretty Shapes?_ The book contains actual studies
In responding to Deirdre, Clint Owen wrote:
> That's about right. It's a pain in the neck, but you can't globally open
> or search the master pages.
>
> If all or some of your chapters use the same master pages and the same
> cross-references (like to a part number on the title page), you can fix
Yes, some of the chapters do use the same master pages. I will learn
how to do import next!
Thanks so much,
Deirdre
On 5/8/08, Owen, Clint wrote:
> Deirdre,
>
> That's about right. It's a pain in the neck, but you can't globally open
> or search the master pages.
>
> If all or some of your cha
Deirdre Reagan wrote:
> Yes, some of the chapters do use the same master pages. I will learn
> how to do import next!
Yes, learn about importing formats -- and quickly! :-) To get the most
out of FrameMaker -- both in terms of good results and in terms of
labor-saving and efficiency -- you have
Ok, this is what I've done -- opened up a chapter, opened the master
page, then run the Find/Change command, using Paste, and pasting in
the cross-reference.
It seems to be working. Does that sound about right, or am I taking
the long route?
This way I have to open all the chapters by hand, chang
Would anybody possibly have a copy of Rick Quattros Framescript book for
sale? It is out of print, and I can't find it on neither Ebay nor Amazon.
regards
Bj?rn Smalbro
Hi all!
FM 8.0, Windows XP environment.
How do I update cross-references that are in the master pages? My
directions seem to be appropriate only for body page unresolved
cross-references.
Thanks!
Deirdre
> 2. Do people think that a Sans Serif font improves legibility for body
> text?
Using a sans serif font for body text greatly reduces reader comprehension.
Obtain a copy of Colin Wheildon's _Type and Layout: Are You Communicating or
Just Making Pretty Shapes?_ The book contains actual studies
Deirdre Reagan wrote:
> Yes, some of the chapters do use the same master pages. I will learn
> how to do import next!
Yes, learn about importing formats -- and quickly! :-) To get the most
out of FrameMaker -- both in terms of good results and in terms of
labor-saving and efficiency -- you have
Hi,
Finally the Trados support was willing to check my
argumentation. They found a Trados hotfix for apostrophes,
which fixes also my problem with the incorrect encoding
of umlauts.
http://talisma.sdl.com/display/2n/index.aspx?c=&cpc=&cid=&cat=&catURL=&r=0.266601145267487
In the knowledge base sea
In responding to Deirdre, Clint Owen wrote:
> That's about right. It's a pain in the neck, but you can't globally open
> or search the master pages.
>
> If all or some of your chapters use the same master pages and the same
> cross-references (like to a part number on the title page), you can fix
I am working on an updated edition of the book, which will be released this
summer. Thanks for your interest.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com
Okay, my apologies, folks ...
Based on an e-mail I received (for a source of the PDF version of Rick's
book), I went loo
Yes, some of the chapters do use the same master pages. I will learn
how to do import next!
Thanks so much,
Deirdre
On 5/8/08, Owen, Clint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Deirdre,
>
> That's about right. It's a pain in the neck, but you can't globally open
> or search the master pages.
>
> If all
Deirdre,
That's about right. It's a pain in the neck, but you can't globally open
or search the master pages.
If all or some of your chapters use the same master pages and the same
cross-references (like to a part number on the title page), you can fix
one of them and then import the page layouts
Deirdre,
That's about right. It's a pain in the neck, but you can't globally open
or search the master pages.
If all or some of your chapters use the same master pages and the same
cross-references (like to a part number on the title page), you can fix
one of them and then import the page layouts
Hi, all.
This is perhaps a bit of a vague set of questions, but I am interested
in improving the look of our manuals and specifications documentation
and would like to see what others are doing in this regard.
1. Specifically, I am working on various manuals for our software API's
as well
Hi, all.
This is perhaps a bit of a vague set of questions, but I am interested
in improving the look of our manuals and specifications documentation
and would like to see what others are doing in this regard.
1. Specifically, I am working on various manuals for our software API's
as well as
Ok, this is what I've done -- opened up a chapter, opened the master
page, then run the Find/Change command, using Paste, and pasting in
the cross-reference.
It seems to be working. Does that sound about right, or am I taking
the long route?
This way I have to open all the chapters by hand, chang
Hi Carla
I presume you are referring to the hyperlinks that are created between the ToC
and the chapter heading within Frame, rather than in a PDF.
If you have View, Text Symbols switched on, do you see a hypertext marker in
this ToC heading, just as in the other headings?
In the book file, wh
I think rather than putting it into the public domain, perhaps an
on-demand publisher such as lulu.com may be a better solution, both
for Rick and the community
Art
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:22 PM, wrote:
> Okay, my apologies, folks ...
>
> Based on an e-mail I received (for a source of the
According to Rick's www site, you can buy it from Scriptorium publishing...
http://www.frameexpert.com/book.htm
Art
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Studio Smalbro wrote:
> Would anybody possibly have a copy of Rick Quattros Framescript book for
> sale? It is out of print, and I can't find it on
Hi all!
FM 8.0, Windows XP environment.
How do I update cross-references that are in the master pages? My
directions seem to be appropriate only for body page unresolved
cross-references.
Thanks!
Deirdre
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Hi Carla
Which links are you referring to? ToC hyperlinks to chapters? Internal links
within the chapter? Cross-refs inside the chapter? Etc.
Roger
Roger Shuttleworth
Technical Publications
TVWorks Canada, Inc.
150 Dufferin Avenue
London, Ontario
N6A 5N6
Canada
Tel. 519 963-4368
www.tvworks.com
Does it contain text insets?
At 12:54 PM 08/05/2008, Martinek, Carla wrote:
>Generating a book with about 15 source files. There is one file that
>will show up in the TOC with the correct headings, but the links are
>broken.
>
>Tried the following:
>- MIFfing the file
>- making a new container fi
Another thing to consider is the available free space on the drive -
FrameMaker/Distiller (along with a number of other program) has trouble
when the disk is getting full.
My rule of thumb is to try to always have 20% of the total volume size
free empty/clear the cache from your browser, dele
The links in the ToC itself to the chapter title and subheadings. All
generated links in the ToC except for this one file work.
The file did contain text insets, but they were converted to normal
text, and the broken links still happened.
We also deleted the first xref marker in the file, on the
Generating a book with about 15 source files. There is one file that
will show up in the TOC with the correct headings, but the links are
broken.
Tried the following:
- MIFfing the file
- making a new container file and pasting the contents there
- deleting the existing TOC and forcing FM to cre
Hi:
I posted awhile ago asking about the learning curve for FrameMaker. I'm
starting to train myself with O'Keefe's book and Classroom in a Book.
But one thing about the page display in FrameMaker's workspace really
distracts me -- it's the way the left and bottom edges of the page seem
to run in
Dov,
Thank you. Yes, this answers my question. I will forward this to the
Canon printers/photocopiers agent.
Also thanks to Mike Wickham. It is a Xerox Phaser 7300DT we are replacing.
Ricoh/Nashuatec/Gestetner/Rex Rotary/Infotec and some of Lanier are
all the same thing, all owned by Ricoh Group,
I had the same problem a couple of years ago... discovered through
trial-and-error that I had a character format (to exclude text from
spell check) applied to a veerrry long code text passage within a
paragraph on the page on which the application always bailed out... I
removed the character fo
I am working on an updated edition of the book, which will be released this
summer. Thanks for your interest.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com
Okay, my apologies, folks ...
Based on an e-mail I received (for a source of the PDF version of Rick's
book), I went loo
A way better suggestion than mine ... thanks!
Z
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Art Campbell
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:26 AM
> To: Rick Quatro
> Cc: Studio Smalbro; framers@lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: Copy of Framescr
A way better suggestion than mine ... thanks!
Z
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> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of
> Art Campbell
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:26 AM
> To: Rick Quatro
> Cc: Studio Smalbro; framers at list
Hi Carla
I presume you are referring to the hyperlinks that are created between the ToC
and the chapter heading within Frame, rather than in a PDF.
If you have View, Text Symbols switched on, do you see a hypertext marker in
this ToC heading, just as in the other headings?
In the book file, wh
I think rather than putting it into the public domain, perhaps an
on-demand publisher such as lulu.com may be a better solution, both
for Rick and the community
Art
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:22 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Okay, my apologies, folks ...
>
> Based on an e-mail I received (
According to Rick's www site, you can buy it from Scriptorium publishing...
http://www.frameexpert.com/book.htm
Art
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Studio Smalbro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Would anybody possibly have a copy of Rick Quattros Framescript book for
> sale? It is out of print, and
Okay, my apologies, folks ...
Based on an e-mail I received (for a source of the PDF version of Rick's book),
I went looking and realized that my PDF copy is because I bought the book a
while back from Scriptorium, and the PDF is on the CD that came with the book.
I also note that Scriptorium h
Okay, my apologies, folks ...
Based on an e-mail I received (for a source of the PDF version of Rick's book),
I went looking and realized that my PDF copy is because I bought the book a
while back from Scriptorium, and the PDF is on the CD that came with the book.
I also note that Scriptorium h
The links in the ToC itself to the chapter title and subheadings. All
generated links in the ToC except for this one file work.
The file did contain text insets, but they were converted to normal
text, and the broken links still happened.
We also deleted the first xref marker in the file, on the
I often had this problem until I made sure (by automation) that the
dreaded FNTCACHE.DAT file was deleted every time I shut the computer
down. Since that I have not had this problem. So got to your
C:\WINDOWS\System32\, find the file, delete it and reboot. This is a
file that will be re-created on
Hi Carla
Which links are you referring to? ToC hyperlinks to chapters? Internal links
within the chapter? Cross-refs inside the chapter? Etc.
Roger
Roger Shuttleworth
Technical Publications
TVWorks Canada, Inc.
150 Dufferin Avenue
London, Ontario
N6A 5N6
Canada
Tel. 519 963-4368
www.tvworks.com
Does it contain text insets?
At 12:54 PM 08/05/2008, Martinek, Carla wrote:
>Generating a book with about 15 source files. There is one file that
>will show up in the TOC with the correct headings, but the links are
>broken.
>
>Tried the following:
>- MIFfing the file
>- making a new container fi
You can buy PDF copies of it too ... might be the best way to go!
Z
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Studio Smalbro
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 6:27 AM
> To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Copy of Framescript by Rick Quatt
You can buy PDF copies of it too ... might be the best way to go!
Z
> -Original Message-
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at
> lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of
> Studio Smalbro
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 6:27 AM
> To: framers at lists.frameuse
For my company: Operations Manuals of all sorts, some forms, even the
odd report. More and more are
On the side: New Testament, Psalms and Proverbia (all structured).
Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Deirdre Reagan
wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, what kinds of documents are p
Generating a book with about 15 source files. There is one file that
will show up in the TOC with the correct headings, but the links are
broken.
Tried the following:
- MIFfing the file
- making a new container file and pasting the contents there
- deleting the existing TOC and forcing FM to cre
Another thing to consider is the available free space on the drive -
FrameMaker/Distiller (along with a number of other program) has trouble
when the disk is getting full.
My rule of thumb is to try to always have 20% of the total volume size
free empty/clear the cache from your browser, dele
Dear Deidre,
The Classroom in a Book is a good one, I have learnt the basics of FM from that
one. Now it is in use of my brother, he is studying FM from it, I can recommend
it.
?rp?d Asztalos
Hungarian Linguist
Medtronic - Technical Literature Group (TLi)
Endepolsdomein 5
6229 GW Maastricht
I had the same problem a couple of years ago... discovered through
trial-and-error that I had a character format (to exclude text from
spell check) applied to a veerrry long code text passage within a
paragraph on the page on which the application always bailed out... I
removed the character fo
Hi Deirdre:
No one's mentioned this yet, so I'll add for all the single-sourcing
people out there that FrameMaker is wonderful for writing things once and
using it many times. Whether you're using conditional text and variables
so that some stuff only shows up in certain flavours of manuals, or
Once upon a time I used to create the company newsletter (A5 booklet) in
FrameMaker.
If ever there was a way to find the limitations of the mighty FM... It was a
painful experience (that was for version 4 mind you).
Gordon
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Would anybody possibly have a copy of Rick Quattros Framescript book for
sale? It is out of print, and I can't find it on neither Ebay nor Amazon.
regards
Bjørn Smalbro
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Hi,
Finally the Trados support was willing to check my
argumentation. They found a Trados hotfix for apostrophes,
which fixes also my problem with the incorrect encoding
of umlauts.
http://talisma.sdl.com/display/2n/index.aspx?c=&cpc=&cid=&cat=&catURL=&r=0.266601145267487
In the knowledge base sea
Hi Deirdre:
No one's mentioned this yet, so I'll add for all the single-sourcing
people out there that FrameMaker is wonderful for writing things once and
using it many times. Whether you're using conditional text and variables
so that some stuff only shows up in certain flavours of manuals, or
Dov,
Thank you. Yes, this answers my question. I will forward this to the
Canon printers/photocopiers agent.
Also thanks to Mike Wickham. It is a Xerox Phaser 7300DT we are replacing.
Ricoh/Nashuatec/Gestetner/Rex Rotary/Infotec and some of Lanier are
all the same thing, all owned by Ricoh Group,
I often had this problem until I made sure (by automation) that the
dreaded FNTCACHE.DAT file was deleted every time I shut the computer
down. Since that I have not had this problem. So got to your
C:\WINDOWS\System32\, find the file, delete it and reboot. This is a
file that will be re-created on
For my company: Operations Manuals of all sorts, some forms, even the
odd report. More and more are
On the side: New Testament, Psalms and Proverbia (all structured).
Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Deirdre Reagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, what kinds
Once upon a time I used to create the company newsletter (A5 booklet) in
FrameMaker.
If ever there was a way to find the limitations of the mighty FM... It was a
painful experience (that was for version 4 mind you).
Gordon
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