Re: Book Set up and Pagination (Steve Waldenga)

2015-02-10 Thread Steve Waldenga
Hi Pam, You may also need to open the reference pages (View > Reference Pages) and map your right and left handed master pages to specific paragraph tags. My reference pages have the mapping table at the end. For starting sections on the right page, I think you could use the Paragraph Designer

RE: Framemaker 11 crashes when comparing books

2015-02-10 Thread Rebecca Officer
Not answering the original question, but ... You can clean up hundreds of lock files in one swell foop. Just use Windows file explorer to search for ".lck" in the relevant folder, sort the results by date, check they're all from the time you opened the book, select them all, and delete. We've

Re: Book Set up and Pagination

2015-02-10 Thread Fausset, Marilyn
In FM itself, I set (for all book files) Format/Page Layout/Pagination: double-sided AND 1st page side: right AND Make Page Count Even. Each chapter/clause is a separate file in the book for this to work. After creating a PDF, I always open it and choose in Properties/initial view: Two-up (cove

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2015-02-10 Thread Carol J. Elkins
It sounds like you might be trying to include all of the content in the manual in one Framemaker file. If that is the case, then I recommend you break the content out into separate files; one for the cover, one for the change page and TOC (although I would put each of these in separate files

Re: Book Set up and Pagination

2015-02-10 Thread Shmuel
Sorry. I meant Samantha gave you most of the answer. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133   On 10-Feb-15 12:43 AM, Pam Harper wrote: This is not one of the joys of being the only t

Re: Book Set up and Pagination

2015-02-10 Thread Shmuel
I see Pam gave you most of the answer. Just a few things to add: 1. If the first few sections do not have footers (front, copyright, change page), I would put them in the same chapter for your own convenience. The TOC should have headers/footers and generally has ro

Re: Book Set up and Pagination

2015-02-10 Thread Samantha Nair
Hi Pam, If you want to force the chapter-start to the right side, the technicians will need to print double-sided unfortunately. To do this, go to *Format > Page Layout > Pagination* (I work in FM10 so apologies if the menu items or options are slightly different, but I believe they're still the