Re: Unstructured to Structured: Question about retaining, paragraph formats

2012-09-14 Thread Fred Wersan
I think the answer to your question is somewhere between No and It Depends, but closer to No. It gets back to the structure vs. display issue. FrameMaker tries to give you both the XML world and the WYSIWYG world in one package. A more typical XML editor (like the new XML view in Frame 11) is

Re: Automatic PDF Form

2012-09-14 Thread rebecca officer
Would it work to make the checkbox from an autonumbered paragraph in a sidebar? You could use the Next Paragraph setting in the Para Designer to automatically insert them next to the paragraphs that need them. Cheers Rebecca David Artman da...@davidartman.com 14/09/12 06:23 Goal: Upon

RE: Automatic PDF Form

2012-09-14 Thread Gillian Flato
Do you have Adobe Pro? It comes with Live Cycle Designer. That's a forms making program. Use that. I use it all the time. It's excellent. -Gillian -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of David Artman Sent:

Book attribute in running header/footer variable of generated TOC

2012-09-14 Thread Jo H
Hello, I'm new to this list. Sorry if you receive this message twice. But here's my question: I'm working on a structured book that includes a TOC generated by FM. The book structure looks like this: [book] product = asdfghj version = 1.5 --[contents] ... manualTOC.fm --[doc]

Re: Automatic PDF Form

2012-09-14 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 13/09/2012 2:23 PM, David Artman wrote: Goal: Upon generating a PDF, checkboxes appear next to each paragraph of a particular type, aligned right against the page margin. Can not use autonumbering, because the paragraph tag already has numbers. Can not manually create them in the PDF

Re: framers Digest, Vol 83, Issue 13

2012-09-14 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Rebecca asks: Hi guys If you're planning to roundtrip through XML, with different authors using different XML editors, you'd need to have all the formatting in the EDD, right? Or am I on completely the wrong track in my ignorance? Thanks Rebecca

Re: FrameMaker 11 in XML

2012-09-14 Thread Scott Prentice
Robert... Correction! It turns out that you *can* format XML documents in Frame using CSS. There are two options .. - If the XML file includes an xml-stylesheet processing instruction that points to a CSS file, you can set up a structure application definition to make use of that CSS

RE: Unstructured to Structured: Question about retaining, paragraph formats

2012-09-14 Thread Craig Ede
You can change the paragraph formats by importing templates with different formats without using structure (which is how I assume Robert is getting the differences he cites in his outputs). However, structure allows you to create context that gives different paragraph formatting to the same

Diverse templates and Structure

2012-09-14 Thread Doris Pavlichek
Hi all - At my company, we are preparing to go from unstructured FM10 to structured FM10. Because of all of the messages on this board and generally accepted best practices, we are doing some clean-up and preparation now before trying to implement a structure. However, we have at least one

Unstructured to Structured: Question about retaining, paragraph formats

2012-09-14 Thread rebecca officer
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Unstructured to Structured: Question about retaining, paragraph formats

2012-09-14 Thread Fred Wersan
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Automatic PDF Form

2012-09-14 Thread rebecca officer
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Automatic PDF Form

2012-09-14 Thread Gillian Flato
Do you have Adobe Pro? It comes with Live Cycle Designer. That's a forms making program. Use that. I use it all the time. It's excellent. -Gillian -Original Message- From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of David Artman

Book attribute in running header/footer variable of generated TOC

2012-09-14 Thread Jo H
Hello, I'm new to this list. Sorry if you receive this message twice. But here's my question: I'm working on a structured book that includes a TOC generated by FM. The book structure looks like this: [book] product = "asdfghj" version = "1.5" --[contents] ... manualTOC.fm --[doc]

Automatic PDF Form

2012-09-14 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 13/09/2012 2:23 PM, David Artman wrote: > Goal: Upon generating a PDF, checkboxes appear next to each paragraph of > a particular type, aligned right against the page margin. Can not use > autonumbering, because the paragraph tag already has numbers. Can not > manually create them in the PDF

framers Digest, Vol 83, Issue 13

2012-09-14 Thread Chris Despopoulos
en in fact, the ONLY way for FrameMaker to apply formatting to structure is through the EDD.? So the answer to your question is a resounding YES.? -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attach

FrameMaker 11 in XML

2012-09-14 Thread Scott Prentice
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Unstructured to Structured: Question about retaining, paragraph formats

2012-09-14 Thread Craig Ede
You can change the paragraph formats by importing templates with different formats without using structure (which is how I assume Robert is getting the differences he cites in his outputs). However, structure allows you to create context that gives different paragraph formatting to the same

Diverse templates and Structure

2012-09-14 Thread Doris Pavlichek
Hi all - At my company, we are preparing to go from unstructured FM10 to structured FM10. Because of all of the messages on this board and generally accepted "best practices", we are doing some clean-up and preparation now before trying to implement a structure. However, we have at least one