Re: Extracting embedded graphics from Word

2010-06-30 Thread Pat Christenson
Hi all - I just found out that client is going to make the writers recapture all the screens so I'm off the hook. Thanks for all the helpful info! Pat On Jun 30, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Pinkham, Jim wrote: It's always a last-ditch optioin, but it risks a sometimes harsh cost in compromised ima

Extracting embedded graphics from Word

2010-06-30 Thread Pat Christenson
Hi all - I just found out that client is going to make the writers recapture all the screens so I'm off the hook. Thanks for all the helpful info! Pat On Jun 30, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Pinkham, Jim wrote: > It's always a last-ditch optioin, but it risks a sometimes harsh > cost in > compromised

Keyboard shortcuts to pod elements

2010-06-30 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 30/06/2010 4:31 PM, Carol J. Elkins wrote: > I use a programmable keyboard to whiz through repetitive tasks (some of > you may use a macro recorder to accomplish the same thing). Prior to the > new Pod interface in Frame 9, I had no trouble using keystrokes to > navigate to specific fields in a

Extracting embedded graphics from Word

2010-06-30 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Pat, I have done several FrameScript scripts over the years to do this. The process depends on how much control you need over the graphic file names. For example, here is the workflow we used on one project: 1) The client imported the Word documents into FrameMaker. 2) The client used a script

Acrobat v9 and FM v7.478 /7.579

2010-06-30 Thread Diana Stock
Dov, Thanks so much for the insight - using the distiller job option printing with the PDF1.4 worked! Yes, FM 7.0 is old - but the company is planning on changing the workflow process with another editor and the budget plan currently is not to upgrade (mistake in my opinion). Thanks again, Di

RE: Follow-up: Problem converting book to HTML

2010-06-30 Thread Combs, Richard
Karen Robbins wrote: > Problem may lie buried in the layouts/master pages. Tested with a > 30-page file that was skipped during conversion. When all text from > this file was copied to a new file that contained only default > body/master/reference pages, and that file was added to the book, it >

Follow-up: Problem converting book to HTML

2010-06-30 Thread Combs, Richard
Karen Robbins wrote: > Problem may lie buried in the layouts/master pages. Tested with a > 30-page file that was skipped during conversion. When all text from > this file was copied to a new file that contained only default > body/master/reference pages, and that file was added to the book, it >

Extracting embedded graphics from Word

2010-06-30 Thread Pinkham, Jim
It's always a last-ditch optioin, but it risks a sometimes harsh cost in compromised image quality. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Owen, Clint Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 3:22 PM To: Frame User

Acrobat v9 and FM v7.478 /7.579

2010-06-30 Thread Art Campbell
What error message do you get? And, because Acrobat 9 hadn't been thought of in the FM 7 time frame, you may want to see if the PDF's compatibility setting can be rolled back to an earlier rev Art Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this wo

Follow-up: Problem converting book to HTML

2010-06-30 Thread Karen Robbins
Problem may lie buried in the layouts/master pages. Tested with a 30-page file that was skipped during conversion. When all text from this file was copied to a new file that contained only default body/master/reference pages, and that file was added to the book, it converted correctly. All fi

Follow-up: Problem converting book to HTML

2010-06-30 Thread Karen Robbins
Problem may lie buried in the layouts/master pages. Tested with a 30-page file that was skipped during conversion. When all text from this file was copied to a new file that contained only default body/master/reference pages, and that file was added to the book, it converted correctly. All fil

Extracting embedded graphics from Word

2010-06-30 Thread Pinkham, Jim
Hi, Pat, This comes up periodically on the list and a search of the archives will offer more details. There's a how-to article by Lyn Eggleston that I've found often useful. I've mentioned it before and will send to you off-list. Jim -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameus

Acrobat v9 and FM v7.478 /7.579

2010-06-30 Thread Diana Stock
Art, thanks for such a prompt response! Error Message: 'The filter encountered an error and could not complete the translation.' I already tried to roll back the version to 7 and 8 which I know import fine. I also used each version of software to perform the transitions. So - right now as a wo

Keyboard shortcuts to pod elements

2010-06-30 Thread Carol J. Elkins
I use a programmable keyboard to whiz through repetitive tasks (some of you may use a macro recorder to accomplish the same thing). Prior to the new Pod interface in Frame 9, I had no trouble using keystrokes to navigate to specific fields in a window. Frame made this easy by assigning Alt-code

Acrobat v9 and FM v7.478 /7.579

2010-06-30 Thread Diana Stock
Hello all, Was wondering if anyone would know why I cannot import a Acrobat PDF v9 into a FrameMaker v7.478 or v7.579 file. Are there any fixes for this or is FM 7 limited to Acrobat 8 PDF files for import. XP Pro Thanks in advance, Diana Stock Maintenance Analyst 214-792-2744 *** CO

Re: Keyboard shortcuts to pod elements

2010-06-30 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 30/06/2010 4:31 PM, Carol J. Elkins wrote: I use a programmable keyboard to whiz through repetitive tasks (some of you may use a macro recorder to accomplish the same thing). Prior to the new Pod interface in Frame 9, I had no trouble using keystrokes to navigate to specific fields in a window

RE: Acrobat v9 and FM v7.478 /7.579

2010-06-30 Thread Diana Stock
Dov, Thanks so much for the insight - using the distiller job option printing with the PDF1.4 worked! Yes, FM 7.0 is old - but the company is planning on changing the workflow process with another editor and the budget plan currently is not to upgrade (mistake in my opinion). Thanks again, Di

RE: Extracting embedded graphics from Word

2010-06-30 Thread Owen, Clint
Jim, Unless I misunderstand the process and the evidence of my own eyes, if you make sure that you don't downsample or compress images during the conversion to Word, you get exactly the image quality that was available in the original document, no more and no less. Clint Clint Owen | Sr. Techni

Extracting embedded graphics from Word

2010-06-30 Thread Owen, Clint
Jim, Unless I misunderstand the process and the evidence of my own eyes, if you make sure that you don't downsample or compress images during the conversion to Word, you get exactly the image quality that was available in the original document, no more and no less. Clint Clint Owen | Sr. Techni

RE: Extracting embedded graphics from Word

2010-06-30 Thread Pinkham, Jim
It's always a last-ditch optioin, but it risks a sometimes harsh cost in compromised image quality. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Owen, Clint Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 3:22 PM To: Frame Users C

RE: Extracting embedded graphics from Word

2010-06-30 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Pat, I have done several FrameScript scripts over the years to do this. The process depends on how much control you need over the graphic file names. For example, here is the workflow we used on one project: 1) The client imported the Word documents into FrameMaker. 2) The client used a script

Keyboard shortcuts to pod elements

2010-06-30 Thread Carol J. Elkins
I use a programmable keyboard to whiz through repetitive tasks (some of you may use a macro recorder to accomplish the same thing). Prior to the new Pod interface in Frame 9, I had no trouble using keystrokes to navigate to specific fields in a window. Frame made this easy by assigning Alt-code

RE: Extracting embedded graphics from Word

2010-06-30 Thread Combs, Richard
Pat Christenson wrote: > I have approximately 2000 pages to convert from Word to Frame. The > graphics are embedded but the client wants them imported by reference > in Frame. I tried "extracting" them from Word by saving a file as > HTML but the graphics became blurry and unusable. They look fi

RE: Extracting embedded graphics from Word

2010-06-30 Thread Owen, Clint
Pat, The best way I have found to do this is to print the Word document to PDF, then use Acrobat to extract the applicable pages and crop away everything except the graphics you need. Then the PDF becomes your source file for the graphics. This works no matter what the original graphic format was

Extracting embedded graphics from Word

2010-06-30 Thread Combs, Richard
Pat Christenson wrote: > I have approximately 2000 pages to convert from Word to Frame. The > graphics are embedded but the client wants them imported by reference > in Frame. I tried "extracting" them from Word by saving a file as > HTML but the graphics became blurry and unusable. They look fin

RE: Extracting embedded graphics from Word

2010-06-30 Thread Pinkham, Jim
Hi, Pat, This comes up periodically on the list and a search of the archives will offer more details. There's a how-to article by Lyn Eggleston that I've found often useful. I've mentioned it before and will send to you off-list. Jim -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameus

Extracting embedded graphics from Word

2010-06-30 Thread Owen, Clint
Pat, The best way I have found to do this is to print the Word document to PDF, then use Acrobat to extract the applicable pages and crop away everything except the graphics you need. Then the PDF becomes your source file for the graphics. This works no matter what the original graphic format was

Extracting embedded graphics from Word

2010-06-30 Thread Pat Christenson
Hi - I have approximately 2000 pages to convert from Word to Frame. The graphics are embedded but the client wants them imported by reference in Frame. I tried "extracting" them from Word by saving a file as HTML but the graphics became blurry and unusable. They look fine when I open the

Extracting embedded graphics from Word

2010-06-30 Thread Pat Christenson
Hi - I have approximately 2000 pages to convert from Word to Frame. The graphics are embedded but the client wants them imported by reference in Frame. I tried "extracting" them from Word by saving a file as HTML but the graphics became blurry and unusable. They look fine when I open the W

RE: Acrobat v9 and FM v7.478 /7.579

2010-06-30 Thread Dov Isaacs
Diana, There is no such thing as an "Acrobat PDF v9" file. I will assume that you really mean a "PDF file generated via Acrobat 9." I don't think that you are really encountering a problem with the fact that a file may have been produced with Acrobat 9, but rather that the joboptions used to c

Acrobat v9 and FM v7.478 /7.579

2010-06-30 Thread Dov Isaacs
Diana, There is no such thing as an "Acrobat PDF v9" file. I will assume that you really mean a "PDF file generated via Acrobat 9." I don't think that you are really encountering a problem with the fact that a file may have been produced with Acrobat 9, but rather that the joboptions used to c

RE: Acrobat v9 and FM v7.478 /7.579

2010-06-30 Thread Diana Stock
Art, thanks for such a prompt response! Error Message: 'The filter encountered an error and could not complete the translation.' I already tried to roll back the version to 7 and 8 which I know import fine. I also used each version of software to perform the transitions. So - right now as a wo

Re: Acrobat v9 and FM v7.478 /7.579

2010-06-30 Thread Art Campbell
What error message do you get? And, because Acrobat 9 hadn't been thought of in the FM 7 time frame, you may want to see if the PDF's compatibility setting can be rolled back to an earlier rev Art Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world

Acrobat v9 and FM v7.478 /7.579

2010-06-30 Thread Diana Stock
Hello all, Was wondering if anyone would know why I cannot import a Acrobat PDF v9 into a FrameMaker v7.478 or v7.579 file. Are there any fixes for this or is FM 7 limited to Acrobat 8 PDF files for import. XP Pro Thanks in advance, Diana Stock Maintenance Analyst 214-792-2744 *** CO

[Webinar] Free intro webinars for FM9 & TCS2 products

2010-06-30 Thread Matt Sullivan
Hi all, If you are looking to learn more about . FrameMaker 9 (July 1) . RoboHelp 8 (July 15) . Linking FM files to RH projects (July 29) . Captivate 5 (August 12) Or if you have co-workers or management that could benefit from an overview of these topics,

[Webinar] Free intro webinars for FM9 & TCS2 products

2010-06-30 Thread Matt Sullivan
Hi all, If you are looking to learn more about . FrameMaker 9 (July 1) . RoboHelp 8 (July 15) . Linking FM files to RH projects (July 29) . Captivate 5 (August 12) Or if you have co-workers or management that could benefit from an overview of these topics, p

Embedded fonts in PDFs

2010-06-30 Thread Shlomo Perets
Amy, You wrote: >I'm using FM8 and Acrobat 8 professional. I have a joboptions file >that specifies to embed the fonts. >Acroabat is looking for fonts in C:\WINDOWS\Fonts, and is finding most of >them. >However, some of the fonts I use have a little arrow on the font icon >displayed in the C:\W

Re: Embedded fonts in PDFs

2010-06-30 Thread Shlomo Perets
Amy, You wrote: I'm using FM8 and Acrobat 8 professional. I have a joboptions file that specifies to embed the fonts. Acroabat is looking for fonts in C:\WINDOWS\Fonts, and is finding most of them. However, some of the fonts I use have a little arrow on the font icon displayed in the C:\WIND