Re: Arial being changed to ArialMT in PDF

On 19 Jun 2008, at 05:47, Dov Isaacs wrote: You are getting exactly what you ask for (and deserve? :-) ) Spoken like a true survivor of the Type 1 Resistance :-) Paul The font name is Arial but the PostScript name inside the font (i.e., what displays inside of Acrobat or Reader) of that

Re: Overrides

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:45 PM, William Abernathy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --snipped-- Richard's solution is spot-on. For a long time, I deleted any extra spaces I saw at the end of a paragraph, --snipped-- --William Actually, there is one downside to this that I frequently come across,

Re: Arial being changed to ArialMT in PDF

Most font foundries, including Microsoft, provide details, but this is a good summary: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=328599sliceId=1 The short answer is to use OpenType if possible. Art On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Shmuel Wolfson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Framers Digest, Vol 32, Issue 18

This isn't the first time I've received empty emails from the list. What gives? Thanks, Bob Pavelko Lead Training Program Development Bombardier Training Center 2929 W. Airfield Dr. P.O. Box 619011 DFW Airport, TX 75261-9011 USA Ph: 469-791-4389 Fx: 469-791-6422 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Text insets - locked or unlocked

Hi, In my last e-mail I mentionned that the text inset marker was not showing in my document. I miffed the file and saw that the marker only showed for the last text inset and it had TextInsetLocked = ON; for all of the other text insets in the document TextInsetLocked was OFF... I thought

Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Thanks, Art. You're right, I'm still warped back in time to the concept that Vista is the new kid on the block with all the inherent don't buy it until they work the bugs out cloud. My main client has UNIX/Linux servers, and I'll be setting up a server at home whenever the basement finish-out

Re: Framemaker platform support

And no version of Frame is 64-bit OS aware, either under XP or Vista, so it would be running limited mode if you opt for Vista 64. Art On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Rick Quatro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Leo, I am running FrameMaker 7.2 on 32-bit Vista without problems. Rick Quatro

Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Hi, Rene: Windows XP official support is supposed to end soon. Windows XP won't be shipped with Intel Macs after the end of June, I believe. I think the same applies to PCs. So, Vista is not just a preference, it's a deadline. There's no compelling reason to avoid an XP-based machine. By this

newbie goof

I made a newbie mistake this morning. I needed to change text that had formatting from a deleted character tag. The old tag was Code. The new tag is Code text. I opened the replace dialog and configured it. As soon as I hit the button, I knew what happened. I had created a loop that performed

Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Thanks! July 2nd is closer to my funding availability than this week is. :o) I have used Dell desktops, and I have borrowed a Dell Latitude from time to time. I also used to own an IBM ThinkPad (which I loved, although it was almost prohibitively proprietary and heavy as lead). I saw a Dell

Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

I run FrameMaker on my Mac laptop on a Windows virtual machine using Parallels software. It's a little slower than in a straight Windows environment but worth it to me because FrameMaker is the only thing I need Windows for. I run everything else in the Mac environment and share files

Re: Adobe PDF failures ... backwards from what I had recently.

It would be helpful if somewhere in your email you provided your FM and Acrobat version levels, and other diag info such as if the files are local or networked, how much RAM and temporary file space you have on the system, if there are any unusual configurations in the document files, etc.

Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Rene Stephenson wrote: Hi All, My PC laptop is beaten up so badly it's barely stable anymore, so it's getting time to start the process of identifying the next workhorse for me. (Yes, I am rough on a laptop and rely on it very heavily. Any testimonials of your laptop successes are more than

RE: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

I don't know why I had the impression that Macs are faster systems than PCs? That impression may have come from an article in PC World...Kelly. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136649-page,3-c,notebooks/article.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Thanks, Peter. I was one of the daring few who jumped into the first version of the then newly available laptop dual core Intel chipset. Unfortunately, that chipset was discontinued after 6 weeks' production due to lack of support for power save features. If I had been more cunning, I would

Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

If you use a 10-key a lot, why not use an external so you can go with a smaller laptop? Looks as if there are lots of options, including some that include a mouse... Such as: http://www.provantage.com/scripts/search.dll?QUERY=USB+numeric+keypadSubmit.x=0Submit.y=0 Art On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at

RE: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Rene, If you're interested in a Mac running VMWare's Fusion, Parallel's Desktop, or any other emulation/virtualization software, Macworld Magazine did a comparison of these programs within the past three or four months. You might still find it available on their Web site. I also agree

Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Cool! Definitely a viable solution. THANKS Rene L. Stephenson - Original Message From: Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you use a 10-key a lot, why not use an external so you can go with a smaller laptop? Looks as if there are lots of options, including some that include a mouse...

Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Rene Stephenson wrote: I have gotten rather irritated with Microsoft since Vista came out, and I really am reluctant to get a new PC laptop due to it shipping with Vista and all the exponentially increased hassle factor that will entail. I purchased a laptop with Vista last October. I am THIS

Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Rene Whatever you do, don't fall into the trap of buying a Windows-based laptop with VISTA installed on it, hoping to *upgrade* to Windows XP. In some cases, this is possible, but look into it first. With brand new hardware designed for VISTA, you may not be able to find XP-suitable

Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

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Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Thanks for your candid insight, Sarah. Are any bits of your litany addressed with Vista SP1? Rene L. Stephenson - Original Message From: Sarah O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's probably worth switching just to avoid Vista. If you can get XP, great, but if your choices are a) Vista or

RE: Arial being changed to ArialMT in PDF

My response had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH Type 1 versus TrueType. It had to do with taste in fonts and was meant as a joke. Arial has strong similarities to Helvetica (although it really can't be called a knock-off due to many differences in style, although the Arial shipped these days has

Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Sarah O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rene Stephenson wrote: I have gotten rather irritated with Microsoft since Vista came out, and I really am reluctant to get a new PC laptop due to it shipping with Vista and all the exponentially increased hassle factor

RE: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Peter, Just to clarify, you CAN'T buy a Mac with Windows XP. At least, not directly configured that way from Apple. A third-party store might be selling one with some virtualization software to go along with XP. Although, with Boot Camp, I suppose there COULD be a store selling one with

RE: Arial being changed to ArialMT in PDF

Shmuel, One can write a book about this topic! :-) Today's significant font formats for Windows and Macintosh include: Type 1 fonts - Bezier curve-based fonts originally used in Adobe PostScript printers. The host computer versions of these fonts may be in Mac format (in which case the font

Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Thanks for clarifying this, Sam. I was thinking of non-Apple Mac resellers who pre-install Windows for their customers, or sell a virtual product and a Windows version with their MacTels. The Mad resellers are barred from selling XP just as the PC resellers are. On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:43 PM,

off topic: Watermark in Word

Hey all: Off topic, but we are printing a word document and have a watermark (EXAMPLE) behind jpgs in the Appendix. The word EXAMPLE is printing with letters missing. I've printed the document out before without this problem. It seems to have developed in the past week. Anyone experience

RE: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

If you are using FM in conjunction with a CMS such as Content@, be especially careful before switching to Vista. Make certain that you speak with your CMS Tech Support and NOT a sales rep. Does anyone have any thoughts/experience on running a dual-boot machine with Vista and XP? What

RE: off topic: Watermark in Word

Deirdre, I can think of two things: 1. Some kind of bizarre spell check or auto replace accident, or 2. A memory or file corruption issue that is causing the characters to drop out during printing. I print all kinds of documents regularly with no problem, but I have one 269 page PDF that drops

RE: Adobe PDF failures ... backwards from what I had recently.

It would be helpful if somewhere in your email you provided your FM and Acrobat version levels, and other diag info such as if the files are local or networked, how much RAM and temporary file space you have on the system, if there are any unusual configurations in the document files,

Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Thanks for the CMS reminder, DJ, as well as the giggles. :o) I think the Wikipedia article Milan posted indicates XP SP2 support through July 2010, even though new licenses aren't supposed to be available after June 2008. Maybe over the next two years a better option will emerge from the

RE: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Peter, I figured you probably knew this, and that (upon second-guessing myself) what you meant was through a third-party seller. But I thought I'd make sure it was understood by all involved, just in case. Have a great day and weekend! Samuel I. Beard, Jr. Technical Writer OI Analytical 979

Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

I sort of stubbed my toe on another issue that's going to affect this: I have to be able to synch my calendar, contacts, and tasks to a PDA/SmartPhone. I'm beginning to think the only choice remaining is wait and pay more total for a MacBook and next generation of iPhone; or jump right away to

Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Hi Rene, If Adobe had done the right thing by its customers and given us FrameMaker for Mac OS X, we wouldn't be having this conversation, but... I know several people who run Windows FrameMaker on their Intel Macs with Parallels. I've not tried it with FrameMaker, but My son had been on

RE: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Yeah, you are probably right, Rene. The dual-boot question was just a stab in the dark. My entire office may be forced to up(...down??)-grade to Vista in the hopefully-not-to-near future. Our vehement petition for a stay of execution may be ignored in favor of the IT UBER-POLICY, unless we can

Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

You're right, Dennis. I checked with an IT guru buddy who has done a lot of reworks of Vista machines when his clients got bitten by one of its bugs and wanted to roll back to XP, and he said it was a complete nightmare, every single time, and a couple of times was such a colossal headache that

Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Rene, I also have to replace a laptop. It was attached to the network when we got hit by lightning. I hate that Vista is the only choice that laptop manufacturers are giving us these days. So I'm planning to check to be sure that XP-compatible drivers are available for the prospective laptop's

RE: degree symbol

Try ALT+ 0176 ° Clint Clinton Owen | Senior Technical Writer | Crane Aerospace Electronics | +1 425-743-8674 | F: +1 425-743-8113 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Deirdre Reagan Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 2:38 PM To: Framer's

Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

On 19 Jun 2008, at 21:06, Rene Stephenson wrote: You're right, Dennis. I checked with an IT guru buddy who has done a lot of reworks of Vista machines when his clients got bitten by one of its bugs and wanted to roll back to XP, and he said it was a complete nightmare, every single

Re: degree symbol

Alt 0176 works indeed! But I have to be on the number pad, not the numbers across the top of the keyboard. Anyone know why Help's help isn't helpful? Deirdre On 6/19/08, Alan Litchfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deirdre you crack me up :D On a PC I think you hold down alt and press 0176 (on

Re: degree symbol

It's a guy thing ;) On 20/06/2008, at 9:59 AM, Deirdre Reagan wrote: Alt 0176 works indeed! But I have to be on the number pad, not the numbers across the top of the keyboard. Anyone know why Help's help isn't helpful? Deirdre On 6/19/08, Alan Litchfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Anyway, with Parallels, you can run multiple virtual machines simultaneously. Windows XP, Vista, 2000, Linux, etc. Perfect for testing and documenting different systems and beta software. And of course, there is the PC counterpart-- Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. It can be downloaded free at

FrameMaker on Windows - Issues Discussed Today

A number of issues associated with Windows have been discussed on this forum today with relationship to FrameMaker on Windows, Windows itself, running Windows on MacTel systems with either Bootcamp or Parallels, Vista, and Vista 64. I was somewhat otherwise occupied when those messages came in

RE: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Um ... All of the Office 2007 software (including Project and Visio and Groove, etc.) works perfectly fine on my Windows XP system (and on my Vista system, of course). I should have written more clearly. It's not that Office 2007 doesn't run on an XP system, it's that it has the

Open PDF at specified named destination

Klaus, TimeSavers newlink TMS marker automatically removes prefixes from FrameMaker-generated postscript files. Examples: FrameMaker marker Resulting destination newlink MainEntry M8.newlink.MainEntry newlink TMS MainEntry MainEntry

Text insets

Hi Richard, You asked whether FrameMaker 8 changes the paragraph format of a paragraph with a text inset although there is a non-breaking space between the text inset and the pilcrow of the container paragraph. I use this setup all the time. It worked in FrameMaker 7.x and it works equally well

Arial being changed to ArialMT in PDF

On 19 Jun 2008, at 05:47, Dov Isaacs wrote: > You are getting exactly what you ask for (and deserve? :-) ) Spoken like a true survivor of the Type 1 Resistance :-) Paul > The font name is "Arial" but the "PostScript name" inside the font > (i.e., what displays inside of Acrobat or Reader) of

Arial being changed to ArialMT in PDF

Speaking on fonts, does anyone have any info on any info on the various types of fonts such as TrueType? What are the most common types? Any info would be appreciated. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Paul Findon wrote: > On 19 Jun 2008, at 05:47, Dov Isaacs wrote: > > >> You are getting exactly

Overrides

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:45 PM, William Abernathy wrote: --snipped-- > > Richard's solution is spot-on. For a long time, I deleted any extra spaces I > saw > at the end of a paragraph, --snipped-- > > --William > Actually, there is one downside to this that I frequently come across, but this

Arial being changed to ArialMT in PDF

Most font foundries, including Microsoft, provide details, but this is a good summary: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=328599=1 The short answer is to use OpenType if possible. Art On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Shmuel Wolfson wrote: > Speaking on fonts, does anyone

Framers Digest, Vol 32, Issue 18

This isn't the first time I've received empty emails from the list. What gives? Thanks, Bob Pavelko Lead Training Program Development Bombardier Training Center 2929 W. Airfield Dr. P.O. Box 619011 DFW Airport, TX 75261-9011 USA Ph: 469-791-4389 Fx: 469-791-6422 bob.pavelko at

Arial being changed to ArialMT in PDF

Shmuel Wolfson wrote: > Speaking on fonts, does anyone have any info on any info on the various > types of fonts such as TrueType? What are the most common types? You might start with Wikipedia. The topics to start with are: Computer_font Type_1_and_Type_3_fonts TrueType OpenType-Fred Ridder

Text insets - locked or unlocked

Hi, In my last e-mail I mentionned that the text inset marker was not showing in my document. I miffed the file and saw that the marker only showed for the last text inset and it had TextInsetLocked = ON; for all of the other text insets in the document TextInsetLocked was OFF... I thought

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Hi All, My PC laptop is beaten up so badly it's barely stable anymore, so it's getting time to start the process of identifying the next workhorse for me. (Yes, I am rough on a laptop and rely on it very heavily. Any testimonials of your laptop successes are more than welcome!) I have gotten

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

I run FrameMaker on my Mac laptop on a Windows virtual machine using Parallels software. It's a little slower than in a straight Windows environment but worth it to me because FrameMaker is the only thing I need Windows for. I run everything else in the Mac environment and share files

Adobe PDF failures ... backwards from what I had recently.

It would be helpful if somewhere in your email you provided your FM and Acrobat version levels, and other diag info such as if the files are local or networked, how much RAM and temporary file space you have on the system, if there are any unusual configurations in the document files, etc.

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Rene Stephenson wrote: > Hi All, > > My PC laptop is beaten up so badly it's barely stable anymore, so > it's getting time to start the process of identifying the next > workhorse for me. (Yes, I am rough on a laptop and rely on it very > heavily. Any testimonials of your laptop successes are

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Thanks, Art. You're right, I'm still warped back in time to the concept that Vista is the new kid on the block with all the inherent "don't buy it until they work the bugs out" cloud. My main client has UNIX/Linux servers, and I'll be setting up a server at home whenever the basement

Framemaker platform support

And no version of Frame is 64-bit OS aware, either under XP or Vista, so it would be running limited mode if you opt for Vista 64. Art On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Rick Quatro wrote: > Hi Leo, > > I am running FrameMaker 7.2 on 32-bit Vista without problems. > > Rick Quatro > Carmen

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Hi, Rene: Windows XP official support is supposed to end soon. Windows XP won't be shipped with Intel Macs after the end of June, I believe. I think the same applies to PCs. So, Vista is not just a preference, it's a deadline. There's no compelling reason to avoid an XP-based machine. By this

newbie goof

I made a newbie mistake this morning. I needed to change text that had formatting from a deleted character tag. The old tag was "Code." The new tag is "Code text." I opened the replace dialog and configured it. As soon as I hit the button, I knew what happened. I had created a loop that performed

X-refs display in color, print to B

How are the cross-references set up to show/display color? With a character format or something else? In the Frame print dialog box, is the Print Spot Colors as Black/White activated? Art On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Eva Whitley wrote: > I'm trying to fix a document created by another user

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

> I don't know why I had the impression that Macs are faster systems than PCs? That impression may have come from an article in PC World...Kelly. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136649-page,3-c,notebooks/article.html > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at

Win XP support (was RE: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions)

Peter Gold wrote: > Windows XP official support is supposed to end soon. > > Windows XP won't be shipped with Intel Macs after the end of June, I > believe. I think the same applies to PCs. > > So, Vista is not just a preference, it's a deadline. > > There's no compelling reason to avoid an

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Thanks, Peter. I was one of the daring few who jumped into the first version of the then newly available laptop dual core Intel chipset. Unfortunately, that chipset was discontinued after 6 weeks' production due to lack of support for power save features. If I had been more cunning, I would

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

If you use a 10-key a lot, why not use an external so you can go with a smaller laptop? Looks as if there are lots of options, including some that include a mouse... Such as: http://www.provantage.com/scripts/search.dll?QUERY=USB+numeric+keypad=0=0 Art On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Rene

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Hi Rene, I've seen people use FrameMaker on Mac, using Parallels ( http://www.parallels.com). But: seeing is not immediately believing for me, so I'd advise you to borrow a Mac from one of your friends, install Parallels, Windows and FrameMaker and all the other plug-ins, bells and whistles and

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

On 19 Jun 2008, at 16:37, Peter Gold wrote: > Windows XP won't be shipped with Intel Macs after the end of June, I > believe. I guess you mean Dell PCs? Paul

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Rene, If you're interested in a Mac running VMWare's Fusion, Parallel's Desktop, or any other emulation/virtualization software, Macworld Magazine did a comparison of these programs within the past three or four months. You might still find it available on their Web site. I also agree

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Cool! Definitely a viable solution. THANKS Rene L. Stephenson - Original Message From: Art Campbell If you use a 10-key a lot, why not use an external so you can go with a smaller laptop? Looks as if there are lots of options, including some that include a

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Rene Stephenson wrote: > I have gotten rather irritated with Microsoft since Vista came out, > and I really am reluctant to get a new PC laptop due to it shipping > with Vista and all the exponentially increased hassle factor that > will entail. I purchased a laptop with Vista last October. I am

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Rene Whatever you do, don't fall into the trap of buying a Windows-based laptop with VISTA installed on it, hoping to *upgrade* to Windows XP. In some cases, this is possible, but look into it first. With brand new hardware designed for VISTA, you may not be able to find XP-suitable

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/04/16/ibm-considering-macs-for-employees/

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Thanks for your candid insight, Sarah. Are any bits of your litany addressed with Vista SP1? Rene L. Stephenson - Original Message From: Sarah O'Keefe It's probably worth switching just to avoid Vista. If you can get XP, great, but if your choices are a)

Arial being changed to ArialMT in PDF

My response had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH Type 1 versus TrueType. It had to do with "taste" in fonts and was meant as a joke. Arial has strong similarities to Helvetica (although it really can't be called a "knock-off" due to many differences in style, although the Arial shipped these days

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Sarah O'Keefe wrote: > Rene Stephenson wrote: >> I have gotten rather irritated with Microsoft since Vista came out, >> and I really am reluctant to get a new PC laptop due to it shipping >> with Vista and all the exponentially increased hassle factor that >>

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Peter, Just to clarify, you CAN'T buy a Mac with Windows XP. At least, not directly configured that way from Apple. A third-party store might be selling one with some virtualization software to go along with XP. Although, with Boot Camp, I suppose there COULD be a store selling one with

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Dennis Brunnenmeyer wrote: > At one point earlier this Spring, Microsoft was considering extending > their cutoff date for XP beyond June 30th because of the uproar from > the business community. I guess that must not have happened, but > before you sink money

Arial being changed to ArialMT in PDF

Shmuel, One can write a book about this topic! :-) Today's significant font formats for Windows and Macintosh include: Type 1 fonts - Bezier curve-based fonts originally used in Adobe PostScript printers. The "host computer" versions of these fonts may be in Mac format (in which case the font

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

> I don't know how you feel about Dell hardware etc., and I have no > experience with their laptops myself, but until July 2 you can still > order the Vostro models with WinXP installed. If you do this, be sure to order Office 2003, as well. I bought an XP machine from Dell late last year but,

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Thanks for clarifying this, Sam. I was thinking of non-Apple Mac resellers who pre-install Windows for their customers, or sell a virtual product and a Windows version with their MacTels. The Mad resellers are barred from selling XP just as the PC resellers are. On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:43 PM,

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

One other possible (untested) solution: Has anyone tried running FM under OpenSolaris? Conceivably that would work on an Intel/AMD box, and could also work virtualized under Linux or MacOS. FM 7.x apparently works reasonably well in Crossover Linux, the commercial development of Wine:

off topic: Watermark in Word

Hey all: Off topic, but we are printing a word document and have a watermark (EXAMPLE) behind jpgs in the Appendix. The word EXAMPLE is printing with letters missing. I've printed the document out before without this problem. It seems to have developed in the past week. Anyone experience

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

If you are using FM in conjunction with a CMS such as Content@, be especially careful before switching to Vista. Make certain that you speak with your CMS Tech Support and NOT a sales rep. Does anyone have any thoughts/experience on running a dual-boot machine with Vista and XP? What

off topic: Watermark in Word

Deirdre, I can think of two things: 1. Some kind of bizarre spell check or auto replace accident, or 2. A memory or file corruption issue that is causing the characters to drop out during printing. I print all kinds of documents regularly with no problem, but I have one 269 page PDF that drops

Adobe PDF failures ... backwards from what I had recently.

> It would be helpful if somewhere in your email you provided your FM > and Acrobat version levels, and other diag info such as if the files > are local or networked, how much RAM and temporary file space you have > on the system, if there are any unusual configurations in the document > files,

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Thanks for the CMS reminder, DJ, as well as the giggles. :o) I think the Wikipedia article Milan posted indicates XP SP2 support through July 2010, even though new licenses aren't supposed to be available after June 2008. Maybe over the next two years a better option will emerge from the

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Peter, I figured you probably knew this, and that (upon second-guessing myself) what you meant was through a third-party seller. But I thought I'd make sure it was understood by all involved, just in case. Have a great day and weekend! Samuel I. Beard, Jr. Technical Writer OI Analytical 979

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

I sort of stubbed my toe on another issue that's going to affect this: I have to be able to synch my calendar, contacts, and tasks to a PDA/SmartPhone. I'm beginning to think the only choice remaining is wait and pay more total for a MacBook and next generation of iPhone; or jump right away to

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Hi Rene, If Adobe had done the right thing by its customers and given us FrameMaker for Mac OS X, we wouldn't be having this conversation, but... I know several people who run Windows FrameMaker on their Intel Macs with Parallels. I've not tried it with FrameMaker, but My son had been on

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Yeah, you are probably right, Rene. The dual-boot question was just a stab in the dark. My entire office may be forced to up(...down??)-grade to Vista in the hopefully-not-to-near future. Our vehement petition for a stay of execution may be ignored in favor of the IT UBER-POLICY, unless we can

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

You're right, Dennis. I checked with an IT guru buddy who has done a lot of reworks of Vista machines when his clients got bitten by one of its bugs and wanted to roll back to XP, and he said it was a complete nightmare, every single time, and a couple of times was such a colossal headache that

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Rene, I also have to replace a laptop. It was attached to the network when we got hit by lightning. I hate that Vista is the only choice that laptop manufacturers are giving us these days. So I'm planning to check to be sure that XP-compatible drivers are available for the prospective laptop's

degree symbol

quick question -- FM 8.0 XP I need to make the degree symbol. Help tells me to hit CNTL + m ). Cntl + M gives me the paragraph design dialog box. Help also tells me to write \degree and hit return. \degree with return gives me \degree and a paragraph mark. lol Is there something I'm

degree symbol

* I need to make the degree symbol... Try... Ctrl + q + < Thomas Schmidt -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Deirdre Reagan Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 5:38 PM To: Framer's List Subject: degree

degree symbol

Try ALT+ 0176 >>> ? Clint Clinton Owen | Senior Technical Writer | Crane Aerospace & Electronics | +1 425-743-8674 | F: +1 425-743-8113 -Original Message- From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Deirdre Reagan Sent:

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

On 19 Jun 2008, at 21:06, Rene Stephenson wrote: > You're right, Dennis. I checked with an IT guru buddy who has done > a lot of reworks of Vista machines when his clients got bitten by > one of its bugs and wanted to roll back to XP, and he said it was a > complete nightmare, every single

degree symbol

Alt 0176 works indeed! But I have to be on the number pad, not the numbers across the top of the keyboard. Anyone know why Help's help isn't helpful? Deirdre On 6/19/08, Alan Litchfield wrote: > Deirdre you crack me up :D > > On a PC I think you hold down alt and press 0176 (on a Mac at the

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

> Anyway, with Parallels, you can run multiple virtual machines > simultaneously. Windows XP, Vista, 2000, Linux, etc. Perfect for > testing and documenting different systems and beta software. And of course, there is the PC counterpart-- Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. It can be downloaded free at

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