Store and reapply format overrides

2013-01-04 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
Hello all, For a long time now I've been looking for a solution to archive Framemaker 7.2 books with a lot of text insets, often inserted with a paragraph override on the anchor (e.g. top of column). When I use the Archive book plugin all these overrides are lost. So I was wondering if someone

Re: Using PDF for context-sensitive help

2013-01-04 Thread Vikrant Rai
Hi, I don't really know the Framemaker angle here, but the following blog post can point you in the right direction on how it works on the PDF side. See  http://blogs.adobe.com/tcs/2011/01/tcs-specific/linking-to-a-page-within-a-pdf-and-more.html Thanks, Vikrant

RE: RE: FrameMaker 10 does not start (licensing expired)

2013-01-04 Thread Kapil Verma
Dear Framers, Thanks again for your patience as we worked through the issue and provided the patch to fix this problem. Just to summarize for everyone, there is a FM10 patch out that you should download and apply, which would fix this issue. The webpage which has the links to the patch

Using PDF for context-sensitive help

2013-01-04 Thread VLM TechSubs
There is a utility called Bookmark Docs, http://www.bookmarkdocs.com/. Just a thought. Elchanan From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Harvey, Peggy Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 9:38 AM To: 'framers@lists.frameusers.com' Subject:

Re: RE: FrameMaker 10 does not start (licensing expired)

2013-01-04 Thread Böðvar Björgvinsson
Hi Kapil, Thanks for a quick response and the solution. It would be nice if all of Adobe's responses were as quick and accurate as yours. :-) Happy new year! Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Iceland On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Kapil Verma kve...@adobe.com wrote: Dear Framers, Thanks again for

Courier Std Problem

2013-01-04 Thread Joel
Hi folks, I recently received a new work PC with Windows 7 and upgraded to Frame 11. I have some text that uses Courier Std in its regular weight, but since my upgrade, whenever I export to PDF, the results is Courier Std bold, not regular, in the PDF. Any thoughts on how to fix this? Thanks,

Reposting fix for license problem in FM 10: no problems in keeper 11

2013-01-04 Thread Rob Shell
Hello everyone, a quick update. there is an additional workaround that has been posted. We have posted a utility which will do the suitable modification to make FM10 launch successfully. you can download the utility and how to run it, from the original blog post

Re: Sorting paragraphs

2013-01-04 Thread Chris Despopoulos
There's every reason to have this capability...  Create a bullet list and then sort it...  Add new entries and sort it again.  The work flow would be, select a range of pgfs, and execute teh sort.  Many times I have had to convert to table, sort, then un-table the table.  Even if it doesn't

RE: Sorting paragraphs

2013-01-04 Thread Craig Ede
This sort of sorting action is especially necessary when dealing with translated documents that contained alphabetically sorted paragraphs in the source language. Craig Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 10:24:40 -0800 From: despopoulos_chr...@yahoo.com There's every reason to have this capability...

converting giant tables to running text

2013-01-04 Thread Robert Lauriston
I inherited this document with a lot of stuff awkwardly formatted as two-column tables that run on for 20 pages or more. I want to convert those to running text with the left column as topic headings and the right column as the following paragraphs. I was thinking I would cut the table and paste

Re: Courier Std Problem

2013-01-04 Thread Robert Lauriston
Have you installed Courier Std on the new PC? On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Joel eleys...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I recently received a new work PC with Windows 7 and upgraded to Frame 11. I have some text that uses Courier Std in its regular weight, but since my upgrade, whenever I

Re: Using PDF for context-sensitive help

2013-01-04 Thread Robert Lauriston
The PDF has to be generated with Enable Fast Web View on and the links have to be to named destinations, for example: http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_parameters_v9.pdf#nameddest=G4.1500435 Also, if the PDF is on a server, it has to support byte serving. On

Re: Using PDF for context-sensitive help

2013-01-04 Thread Johnson, Jennifer
Hi Peggy, We use the following pdfmark command to embed help IDs into Frame documents. Placing the destinations into the PDF itself is not an option for us because the document is translated into 14 languages so we have to embed the named destinations into the source Framemaker document.

Re: Using PDF for context-sensitive help

2013-01-04 Thread Robert Lauriston
If this was working with FrameMaker 7 and is not working with FrameMaker 9, the problem is with your PDF settings. You shouldn't need to install anything or change the FrameMaker source. When saving as PDF, make sure that on the Links tab you have Create Named Destinations for All Paragraphs

Re: converting giant tables to running text

2013-01-04 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 04/01/2013 1:38 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote: I inherited this document with a lot of stuff awkwardly formatted as two-column tables that run on for 20 pages or more. I want to convert those to running text with the left column as topic headings and the right column as the following

Re: converting giant tables to running text

2013-01-04 Thread MamaRed Knight
One thing I would do before following Stuart Rogers wonderful advice is to apply the correct paragraph style to each column BEFORE converting to text...could save you some time doing the formatting. On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.comwrote: I inherited this

Re: converting giant tables to running text

2013-01-04 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 04/01/2013 3:26 PM, MamaRed Knight wrote: One thing I would do before following Stuart Rogers wonderful advice is to apply the correct paragraph style to each column BEFORE converting to text...could save you some time doing the formatting. Um... I think that *was* my wonderful advice

RE: Using PDF for context-sensitive help

2013-01-04 Thread Rick Quatro
This is one of the benefits of TimeSavers: you can use pdfmark commands in FrameMaker using markers instead of PostScript text frames. This avoids the anchored frames and text frames. I have used and supported TimeSavers for years and it is well worth the money. You could go further and

Store and reapply format overrides

2013-01-04 Thread de Rouck, Tom (Gent)
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Using PDF for context-sensitive help

2013-01-04 Thread Vikrant Rai
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FrameMaker 10 does not start ("licensing expired")

2013-01-04 Thread Kapil Verma
Dear Framers, Thanks again for your patience as we worked through the issue and provided the patch to fix this problem. Just to summarize for everyone, there is a FM10 patch out that you should download and apply, which would fix this issue. The webpage which has the links to the patch

Using PDF for context-sensitive help

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Using PDF for context-sensitive help

2013-01-04 Thread VLM TechSubs
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Courier Std Problem

2013-01-04 Thread Joel
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Reposting fix for license problem in FM 10: no problems in "keeper 11"

2013-01-04 Thread Rob Shell
Hello everyone, a quick update. there is an additional workaround that has been posted. We have posted a utility which will do the suitable modification to make FM10 launch successfully. you can download the utility and how to run it, from the original blog post

Sorting paragraphs

2013-01-04 Thread Chris Despopoulos
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Sorting paragraphs

2013-01-04 Thread Craig Ede
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converting giant tables to running text

2013-01-04 Thread Robert Lauriston
I inherited this document with a lot of stuff awkwardly formatted as two-column tables that run on for 20 pages or more. I want to convert those to running text with the left column as topic headings and the right column as the following paragraphs. I was thinking I would cut the table and paste

Courier Std Problem

2013-01-04 Thread Robert Lauriston
Have you installed Courier Std on the new PC? On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Joel wrote: > Hi folks, > > I recently received a new work PC with Windows 7 and upgraded to Frame 11. I > have some text that uses Courier Std in its regular weight, but since my > upgrade, whenever I export to PDF,

Using PDF for context-sensitive help

2013-01-04 Thread Robert Lauriston
The PDF has to be generated with "Enable Fast Web View" on and the links have to be to named destinations, for example: http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_parameters_v9.pdf#nameddest=G4.1500435 Also, if the PDF is on a server, it has to support byte serving.

Using PDF for context-sensitive help

2013-01-04 Thread Johnson, Jennifer
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Using PDF for context-sensitive help

2013-01-04 Thread Robert Lauriston
If this was working with FrameMaker 7 and is not working with FrameMaker 9, the problem is with your PDF settings. You shouldn't need to install anything or change the FrameMaker source. When saving as PDF, make sure that on the Links tab you have Create Named Destinations for All Paragraphs

converting giant tables to running text

2013-01-04 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 04/01/2013 1:38 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote: > I inherited this document with a lot of stuff awkwardly formatted as > two-column tables that run on for 20 pages or more. > > I want to convert those to running text with the left column as topic > headings and the right column as the following

converting giant tables to running text

2013-01-04 Thread MamaRed Knight
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converting giant tables to running text

2013-01-04 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 04/01/2013 3:26 PM, MamaRed Knight wrote: > One thing I would do before following Stuart Rogers wonderful advice is > to apply the correct paragraph style to each column BEFORE converting to > text...could save you some time doing the formatting. Um... I think that *was* my wonderful advice

Using PDF for context-sensitive help

2013-01-04 Thread Rick Quatro
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Using PDF for context-sensitive help

2013-01-04 Thread Robert Lauriston
I believe that pdfmark text frame approach was an old kludge to work around the lack of a direct way to specify a named destination in FrameMaker. Current best practice is to insert a Hypertext marker with the Specify Named Destination (newlink ) option. Jennifer's source was apparently

converting giant tables to running text

2013-01-04 Thread Robert Lauriston
I guess I didn't provide enough detail. I'm working in a scratch file because while the left column is all headings, some of the cells in the right column include multiple paragraphs with different tags. On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Stuart Rogers wrote: > I'm not sure why you would do all

Using PDF for context-sensitive help

2013-01-04 Thread Johnson, Jennifer
Hi Robert, We tried that and the named destination came through as M8.newlink.helpid. We could find no good way to scrub the "M8.newlink." out of the named destination without a 3rd party tool. Jennifer -Original Message- From: robert.lauriston at gmail.com

Using PDF for context-sensitive help

2013-01-04 Thread Robert Lauriston
D'oh! I forgot I had the same issue: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/316277 Are the help targets defined in FrameMaker using named destinations? On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Johnson, Jennifer wrote: > Hi Robert, > > We tried that and the named destination came through as > M8.newlink.helpid.

Making IETMs using Frame possible?

2013-01-04 Thread Ben Allums
On 12/22/2012 10:18 PM, Apurva Bahadur wrote: > Dear Framers, > > Can Framemaker/Robohelp create Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals > (IETM - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETM)? > > Looking at the Wikipedia document, the Type 1, class 1, 2 and 3 should > certainly be possible with

Using PDF for context-sensitive help

2013-01-04 Thread Harvey, Peggy
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Using PDF for context-sensitive help

2013-01-04 Thread Robert Lauriston
Peggy, what do the help target markers look like in FrameMaker? I'm thinking maybe your predecessor had TimeSavers installed. The marker text syntax could indicate whether that's the case. On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Rick Quatro wrote: > This is one of the benefits of TimeSavers: you can use