Re: [Framers] activation dialog for old Adobe software

More to the point, Adobe support for the 8.x Acrobat generation officially ended in November 2011, a full decade ago. -FR From: Framers on behalf of creamertrainingli...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2021 4:29 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com

Re: [Framers] Maker.ini - Language Setting Question

Have you verified that you do, indeed, have the Canadian English dictionary file in the appointed directory? Without the dictionary present, you'll just continue to get "can t find dictionary" messages even if you edit the INI file appropriately (e.g., as it was for your old installation). It

Re: [Framers] Table Style: Including a Minimum Row Height

You can also put formatted templates for tables on a reference page so that the templates will travel with each file. And each time you create a new chapter file, just import the reference pages from a file that has the table templates. -FR From: Framers on

Re: [Framers] FM 10 on a new computer.

Ummm, how does $29.95/month or $359.88/year (with the generous 0% prepayment discount...) translate into "a grand (or whatever)" for a FrameMaker subscription? Sure, that's pretty steep if you're only working on a single contract, but it's less than half the single-license purchase price in the

Re: [Framers] Appearance of graphics in the generated PDF

I suspect the answer is that whoever is creating the equations does not have (and does not want to have to pay for and learn how to use) a FrameMaker license. But a perhaps less stupid question is whether it's possible and practical to use a free-standing equation editor (e.g., MathType,

Re: [Framers] Does new FrameMaker actually split footnotes across pages? and SetPrint Qs

https://sundorne.com/FrameMaker/Freeware/setPrint.htm From: Framers on behalf of Wendy McGovern Sent: Friday, June 11, 2021 8:38 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: [Framers] Does new FrameMaker actually split footnotes across pages? and SetPrint

Re: [Framers] Paragraph Style Issue

The "as is" attribute is used to specify that the style will not affect the given property when the style is applied to existing text. If the property is set to either "yes" (checked) or "no" (unchecked), it will either apply or clear that characteristic fro the text when the style is applied.

Re: [Framers] Using vector images in Frame

That's because JPG is a raster (i.e. fixed resolution) image format. You need to use a file format that contains vector images or that can contain both raster and vector data. For FrameMaker, this typically means EPS, PDF, or EMF/WMF. When I was still using FrameMaker regularly, I usually used

Re: [Framers] Fraction symbols

If you look in the Windows Character Map tool, you will find the characters ⅓, ⅔, ⅛, ⅜, ⅝, and ⅞ at Unicode code points 0x2153, 0x2154, and 0x215B thru 0x215E in most fonts (I was looking at Arial). Other fonts, such as Cambria Math, have additional glyphs for proper fractions with 5 and 6 in

Re: [Framers] Char out of range: 13

Arial Unicode MS may no longer be available in Wndows 10, but I believe that is because the base Arial font was made Unicode compatible and expanded to include a large number of Unicode glyphs. I think you should use the Windows Character Map tool to view the new and improved Arial font, which

Re: [Framers] Inserting checkmark in a table cell (FM12)

One thing that is not intuitively obvious is that you cannot use the displayed Unicode character number when using the Windows Alt-key shortcut for entering extended characters. The problem is that Unicode character numbers are always expressed in hexadecimal while the Alt-key shortcut works

Re: [Framers] Inserting checkmark in a table cell (FM12)

I suspect that the problem is that the Alt key has special (altered? alternate?) functions when the insertion point is inside a table. I'd try inserting the checkmark character you want to use in a body paragraph and then cutting/copying it and pasting it into whatever cells in the table need

Re: [Framers] [EXTERNAL] Grammar question

The minimalist side of me agrees with Cheryl's suggestions. But the side of me that has answered more customer queries than I care to think about is concerned that the minimal version perhaps goes too far. One thing that bothers me a bit is the the way the noun that immediately follows "covers"

Re: [Framers] FM on Next - question from a nostalgic person

Actually, the original NeXT computer was designed before CD-ROM was standardized. The so-called Yellow Book that contained the CD-ROM standards was published in 1988, the same year that the NeXT was introduced. Instead, the original NeXT computer came with a magneto-optical disc drive that used

Re: [Framers] Lines

If Frame handles lines like most other tools do, the line object you draw has 0 width. Then when you add width to the line, 1/2 of that width gets added to all "sides" of the line, including the ends. In other words, the line takes on an "end cap" that is as thick as 1/2 of the line width

Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

That's exactly the approach I took when I converted nearly 10k pages of docs from Word (Word 95 in those days) to Frame for a former, former employer. We had pretty good compliance to the old Word template because we had been using a complex, scripted conversion to Windows Help, so the

Re: [Framers] MiniToc Disappers from HTML5 Help in Frame 2015

The ampersand is a reserved character in both HTML and XML. The character is used to delimit the markup string for characters that cannot be typed directly. In HTML and XML, a literal ampersand must be typed as the character entity string which itself uses the ampersand as a delimiter. The

Re: [Framers] In FM 2019, the "Update Book" function "dies" in the middle of a long book

software. Subject: Re: [Framers] In FM 2019, the "Update Book" function "dies" in the middle of a long book Holding down Shift, not Ctrl. :D On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 10:21 AM Fred Ridder wrote: > Have you tried opening all the component files before you kick off the > upd

Re: [Framers] In FM 2019, the "Update Book" function "dies" in the middle of a long book

Have you tried opening all the component files before you kick off the update book operation? If you don't do this, any kind of "informational" dialog like the infamous "missing fonts" message or "inconsistent conditions" or "inconsistent color definitions" messages will make the book update

Re: [Framers] Backup in different folder?

I don't believe this is possible, because the "Automatic backup on Save" feature dies not actually create a new file. All that feature does is change the extension on the last saved version of the file to add a .backup extension rather than flagging it to the OS as an unneeded file. The

Re: [Framers] [WTF ramemaker] "16-bit" or "16 bit" ????

But that also shifted the subject of interest from the subject of the sentence to the direct object, which is a position of secondary importance to the subject, which is the semantically weak "it". -FR From: Framers on behalf of Doug Sent: Tuesday, September

Re: [Framers] [WTF ramemaker] "16-bit" or "16 bit" ????

Doug Baily wrote: > For example, "the auxiliary data bus is 16 bits wide". Or another way: "It features an 16-bit auxiliary data bus". > True enough. But if the subject of interest is the auxiliary bus rather than the "it" that features the auxiliary bus, I'd argue that the bus deserves to

Re: [Framers] [WTF ramemaker] "16-bit" or "16 bit" ????

In the style guides I used at my last two employers (Fortune 500 semiconductor companies), "16-bit" is hyphenated when used as an adjective before words like "register", "bus", "value", "port", etc. But when referring to the width of a data path or something similar, the preferred form was the

Re: [Framers] Leading white space for paragraph formats at the beginning of a text flow

What you describe is the way Frame works. Space above is always ignored for a paragraph that falls at the top of a frame. The best approach is to add a special master page for the first page of a chapter that has a text frame that starts lower on the page. Inserting blank paragraphs is almost

Re: [Framers] Simple grammar question

It's really a style issue rather than a matter of grammar. And most recent style guides have trended toward downstyling anything that is not a true proper noun. -FR From: Framers on behalf of Doug Sent: Thursday, June 6, 2019 1:48 PM To: Framers Subject:

Re: [Framers] Adobe PDF Printer versus my printer

I would have sworn that at some point (maybe around version 9??) FrameMaker was improved to allow you to set a "local" default printer that was independent from the Windows printer selection. Did I completely hallucinate that? I have a pretty clear memory that after some point I no longer

Re: [Framers] TOC Formatting Problem

I suspect that the text frame on the left master page in the TOC file (i.e. the layout template for the even pages) is just slightly narrower than the text frame on the right master page (used for the odd pages). Safe practice places the tab stop for the page numbers slightly inside the edge of

Re: [Framers] Compatability with FM11 non-structured files

The application to use for exporting FrameMaker files to a format that is compatible with some other tool is FrameMaker. Absent that, there may be no solution. -FR From: Framers on behalf of John Posada Sent: Monday, February 11, 2019 1:57 PM To: An email

Re: [Framers] Can't open character palette or hex input

Based on no evidence whatsoever, my guess is that the character palette somehow became parked at a location beyond the bounds of your desktop. But I'm afraid that I don't remember the trick for recovering off-desktop palettes. -FR From: Framers on behalf of

Re: [Framers] Extracting images

Note that if you're using a file compression/archiving utility (e.g., WinZip), changing the filename/extension is not really necessary. From the utility's Open dialog, you can explicitly specify the .docx filename to unzip it directly. -FR From: Framers on

Re: [Framers] Retired

I'm in a situation rather similar to Keith. At the job I had until 2007 I was using FrameMaker intensively every day. But the Fortune 500 company that had bought our smallish company in 2000 decided to sell off the acquisition, and then a year later decided to close down their remaining

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 2017 and Visio Graphics

Or provide you with a license for Visio. For your purposes, you'd only need Visio Standard (rather than Visio Professional, which adds data linking capabilities and collaborative features that you don't need), which has a list price of $250 for a perpetual license. I've seen Visio offered by

Re: [Framers] Heading Text in Books

I suspect that Frame pulls the top-level heading text from each component of a book file when the component is added to the book, and then stores a snapshot of that information in the book file so that it doesn't have to re-scan all the components of the book whenever the user changes the view

Re: [Framers] ANN: FrameMaker 2019

In the past, they have provided free updates to customers who purchased the older version within some time frame (30 to 90 days) of the new release. But like a lot of things, you only got it if you asked for it. -FR From: Framers on behalf of Caroline

Re: [Framers] Line spacing

Three basic approaches: 1. Don't use superscripts or subscripts. 2. Increase the minimum line spacing (leading) for the paragraph style so that the raised/lowered characters have enough room. 3. Turn off automatic line spacing for the paragraph (or for its style) so that the spacing

Re: [Framers] An annoying FM 12 "feature"

Unless you are routinely storing your files on a shared drive where other FrameMaker users will be accessing them, I strongly recommend turning off the "Network file locking" option in the user preferences. If you are the only writer, or if all writers keep their working files on their local

Re: [Framers] Perpetual Newbie Question #1

Because I don't want *any* software to be making permanent changes to the formatting of documents that someone else may have carefully designed without at least warning me. If I were the only person who ever worked on every document that crosses my screen, this would not be an issue because

Re: [Framers] Perpetual Newbie Question #1

Unavailable font specifications can also lurk on reference pages, in master page layouts, in unused paragraph style definitions, in top row and first column specifications that are embedded in table format definitions, and even in graphics (vector image formats contain editable text along with

Re: [Framers] Using Folders and Groups

You can do what you want by using text insets since the insets do not inherently trigger a new page like separate files listed in a book file do. But text insets have their own set of limitations and peculiarities, particularly if you are using cross-references. -FR

Re: [Framers] Windows 10 updates disables FM printing

Ken Poshedly wrote: >"Quills", >Your sarcasm is noted. I'm just looking for help trying to ward off future >problems with Windows 10 updates. And this is the first update since I was >"forced" into Windows 10 that has >caused this problem. > >Going back to Windows 7 (which I liked) might be

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker Data in Footer

LEP = List of Effective Pages From: Framers on behalf of Shmuel Wolfson Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 10:39 AM To: julie.sigr...@airbornemx.com; Framers - frameusers.com Subject: Re:

Re: [Framers] Putting Text in a gray box? - Can it be a para tag?

If your deliverable is a PDF and you embed the font in the file, there should be absolutely no problem on any platform. If your deliverable is something other than a PDF, it could be a whole different matter. -FR From: Framers

Re: [Framers] Putting Text in a gray box? - Can it be a para tag?

Another modern monospaced font that has become fairly popular as an alternative to variations on clunky old Courier is Consolas, which has been distributed with Windows OS since the days of Windows Vista. It has good differentiation of the various easily mistaken character pairs (1 and

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 2017 - Pros, cons and import from Word

I wholeheartedly agree with the suggestion to use a purpose-built Frame template with style names that match the Word styles. At a former-former employer I used that approach when converting multiple thousands of pages of Word docs (which fortunately used a tightly controlled template) to

Re: [Framers] old FM files

That's because you're remembering it by the wrong name, Art. It's actually called *heroic* open, and it's invoked by an Escape-key sequence: Esc, o, H (Escape key, followed by lower-case O, followed by capital H). But I find it very hard to believe that Frame is mistaking a binary FM file (of

Re: [Framers] Publishing Help fails

Off list: For the record, I don't think this suggestion is going to be very helpful in the case at hand. Judy is talking about a book with 2400 pages and roughly 100 component FM files. And the problem occurs at the 89th *file* not the 89th page. -FR From:

Re: [Framers] Autonumber format?

\sn is the "escape" code for an en-space. Using an en-space will give you a space that is always relative to the specified autonumbering string, whereas a tab will give you an absolute alignment for the following text. This matters when you have an autonumber string that can vary in length

Re: [Framers] Text Ghosting?

BTW, the keyboard shortcut for screen refresh is Ctrl+L (unless this is something they made go away in recent versions...). -FR From: Framers on behalf of Craig Ede Sent:

Re: [Framers] OT: Word links to URLs

They *should* work in a PDF produced from Word as long as they are valid URLs. But I admit that I've never tried it with PDFs as the target in the URL. To see the underlying URL for a Word hyperlink, it should just be a matter of toggling the field to view the field code (the URL string plus a

Re: [Framers] TOC Issues in FM 11

For the space between heading and TOC start, check the master page design. The heading and TOC are most likely in separate frames, and their relative positions may need to be adjusted. For the rule beneath the heading, check the paragraphs style definition to make sure it has a "graphic frame

Re: [Framers] Table default setting change?

Row-first or column-first numbering is a property of the table style. Just define a new table style that has column-first numbering and use that style when you insert the table. -FR From: Framers on

Re: [Framers] Search for text + tag?

Sorry, but your assertion is not correct according to Karen's original query (emphasis added: I want to change all instances of a phrase using one paragraph tag to another tag. I do not want to change all instances of the phrase (it occurs using other tags), nor replace the current tag with the

Re: [Framers] [WTF ramemaker] [Frame] Kinda wonky '17 support for Dropbox

Frame] Kinda wonky '17 support for Dropbox That was a very expensive system, right? Sometimes you get what you pay for. On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 9:02 AM, Fred Ridder <docu...@hotmail.com> wrote: > About 15 years ago, our pubs group used FrameMaker with a Documentum > repository us

Re: [Framers] [WTF ramemaker] [Frame] Kinda wonky '17 support for Dropbox

About 15 years ago, our pubs group used FrameMaker with a Documentum repository using FrameLink middleware. It worked like a champ although a couple of our more chronologically senior writers never did manage to wrap their minds around the check-out and versioning paradigms. -FR

Re: [Framers] active URLs spanning more than one line

Does "Adobe PDF" appear in your printers list? Adobe changed the displayed name for the Distiller virtual printer at least four times that I can remember, but it's been "Adobe PDF" for a while, now. -FR From: Framers

Re: [Framers] URGENT: Applying Frame Updates

It used to be the case that FrameMaker updates were *non*cumulative. If you reinstalled the program you had to run each successive update in order to get current. This was one of the top items on the Important Customer wishlist, so it did eventually get changed. As I recall, as of FM10 the

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Crashes

It's not entirely correct that Microsoft stopped issuing security patches for Windows XP three years ago. That's when extended support officially ended, but there have been at least two critical security updates released since then -- one in the first year after the official end of support, and

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker keyboard shortcuts just stop

I would be very surprised to see any bug fixes for older versions of FrameMaker. What would be the business case for Adobe expending resources that produce absolutely no revenue? If the bug related to a security issue or file corruption that caused users t lose work, that would be one thing.

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker keyboard shortcuts just stop

Don't get me started on bullets and autonumbering in MS applications. Once upon a time it just worked. And then they started making it more "helpful" and automatic... and unreliable and impossible to troubleshoot when it breaks. But if you want to see a real horror show, spend a while trying

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker keyboard shortcuts just stop

Umm, if something is completed earlier than originally scheduled, the completion date is moved *up*, (or moved forward, or advanced) not moved back. Moving back means delaying or postponing. -FR From: Framers

Re: [Framers] Frame/Distiller Question

clarify your recommendation: > Frame first > then Acrobat DC > (so that the newer Acrobat can replace whatever "headless" version of > distiller that Frame installs) ? > > Thanks, > Lise > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 9:21 AM, Fred Ridder <docu...@hotmail.com> wro

Re: [Framers] Frame/Distiller Question

I think you have it backward. What you want to avoid is letting FrameMaker replace the newer, full-featured version oif Distiller that comes with the Acrobat distribution with its older, headless Distiller. -FR From: Framers

Re: [Framers] Cross reference format (what do you use?)

practice has always been to keep the cross-reference format simple and only use the label (chapter/section/figure/table) and the number. Old fashioned? Yes, but it works and it keeps the clutter down. Fred Ridder From: Framers <framers-bounces+docudoc=hotm

Re: [Framers] Hyperlinks

m> on behalf of Fred Ridder <docu...@hotmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 8:21 AM To: Mikey Shine; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: [Framers] Hyperlinks What you describe is completely consistent with the way Acrobat's implicit hyperlink feature ("Cre

Re: [Framers] Hyperlinks

What you describe is completely consistent with the way Acrobat's implicit hyperlink feature ("Create links from URLs") works. If this preference item is enabled in Acrobat's Preferences dialog (General page), Acrobat treats anything that looks like a URL (e.g., any string that begins with

Re: [Framers] Toggling Condition Indicators Individually

development), but underdocumented templates are just as bad. -FR From: Lin Sims <ljsims...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 1:41 PM To: Peter Gold Cc: Fred Ridder; Frame Users Subject: Re: [Framers] Toggling Condition Indicators Individually As I said t

Re: [Framers] Toggling Condition Indicators Individually

Unless something has changed in recent versions of FrameMaker, there is no need to restrict yourself to "non-main-content areas" on master pages. The main text frames on the master pages are only *placeholder* frames. You can fill them up with notes and instructions and whatever else you want

Re: [Framers] Mif wash .book files

Are you able to open the MIF file *before* you make your deletions? If so, I'd have to guess that something is happening in the MIF editing that is not kosher and is, in fact, corrupting the file. Have you tried using any other text editor besides Notepad? It would be good to eliminate that

Re: [Framers] crash saving to XML - resolved, sort of

In past years, I've seen problems when any directories (folders) in the path contain one or more spaces. As a result I have *always* used either camelCase or underscores as separators in multi-word folder names just to avoid the whole issue. Windows itself doesn't care, but some applications,

Re: [Framers] table footing - possible only on last page ?

Hunnhhh??? From: Framers on behalf of Robert Lauriston Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2016 5:51 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: [Framers] table footing - possible

Re: [Framers] Longtime Frame File suddenly cannot be printed to postscript for PDF production

Back when Dov Isaacs was still active on the list, he used to call it Reinstallsheimer's Disease. He was never convinced that it did anything useful in at least 90% of the cases reported. But I suppose if you're in the right zen frame of mind it gives you some time to calm down while you watch

Re: [Framers] Longtime Frame File suddenly cannot be printed to postscript for PDF production

Or printing directly to PDF using the Adobe PDF virtual printer, which is the method I've used for more than a decade. -FR From: Framers on behalf of Alan Litchfield Sent:

Re: [Framers] Can't remove lines apparently covered by table

From: Karen Robbins <karendes...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 8:08 PM To: Fred Ridder Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: [Framers] Can't remove lines apparently covered by table Framers are the best! Yes, they probably were graphic lines drawn

Re: [Framers] Can't remove lines apparently covered by table

Is it possible that you're seeing some lines that were drawn as graphics (intentionally or unintentionally)? Try setting a 100% white fill for the table rows in question and see if that make the lines disappear. -FR From: Framers

Re: [Framers] heading text in "Running H/F #" - clever truncation ?

Without addressing the specific questions you have asked, I'd like to suggest that you document any out-of-the-ordinary setups or practices in the master pages. It's a little-known fact that you can put text into the dummy body frame on a master page, and that this text will be saved there but

Re: [Framers] Zapf Dingbats

Right. I believe that the Character Designer is designed to list fonts that are specified in your document even if they are not installed on your system. There used to be (and may still be--I haven't looked lately) a couple of options for whether Frame remembers the names of missing fonts, and

Re: [Framers] Zapf Dingbats

gbats Since it is not built into the Adobe PDF printer, I'd say the reason for THAT was licensing fees. Craig ____ From: Fred Ridder <docu...@hotmail.com> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 10:45 AM To: Craig Ede; framers Subject: Re: [Framers] Zapf Dingbats Many

Re: [Framers] Zapf Dingbats

Many people would argue with the reason you give for the "Base 14" PostScript fonts not being bundled with applications after a certain time. The official reason given by most software publishers was that the PostScript outline and metrics files were required to be built into all PostScript

Re: [Framers] conditions - in templates vs. applicable docs ?

And since each of these format/variable/condition templates is only used to overlay FrameMaker layers that don't contain document content, you can use the content layer to contain detailed descriptions of everything that is defined in the template, and even a change history as the template

Re: [Framers] "Exemplified" - use in technical documentation?

I agree with other responses that a figure is *not* an example, so that "exemplifies" is not at all the right word. But I also suggest that in many cases it would be better to cast the sentence in the active voice ("Figure x.x shows" something) or the imperative mood ("See Figure x.x") rather

Re: [Framers] What causes documentation to fail

Aren't bullet points subject to the "universal" 7 +/-2 rule? If so, 10 bullets would be doomed to failure. But John's original list would be OK at 8 bullets. ;^) -FR From: Framers on behalf of

Re: [Framers] I need a "hat" in an equation

Umm, what you say about Word's equation editor is not entirely accurate. Microsoft used to use a reduced version of MathType as Word's built in equation editor; but as of Word 2007, the default equation editor is a brand-new tool, developed in-house by Microsoft. The old MathType-based editor

Re: [Framers] Conditional Expression build crashing FrameMaker with Internal Errors

Assuming that there is a legitimate use case for having content that is tagged as both IP A and Internal, the most foolproof way of doing this is to define an "IP A + Internal" tag so that the content has only a single condition tag applied to it. You would probably also define an "IP B +

Re: [Framers] Searching for content in FrameMaker files

to be able to do full-text indexing on a .fm binary file. -Fred Ridder From: Framers <framers-bounces+docudoc=hotmail@lists.frameusers.com> on behalf of Austin Meredith <kou...@kouroo.info> Sent: Saturday, May 7, 2016 9:28 AM

Re: [Framers] Cannot get FM to drop the even-numbered blank page

The important thing to note is that the "Next Available" option for the starting page is only available when setting pagination from the book file. If you choose Pagination when a content file has focus, "Next Available" is not presented as a choice because that option makes no sense in the

Re: [Framers] slow-scrolling images

The SetPrint plug-in was only necessary with older versions of FrameMaker -- 6.x and earlier, if I recall correctly -- which used whatever was the current Windows printer as its default printer. The problem with that approach was that even if you set the FrameMaker printer to "Adobe PDF" (or

Re: [Framers] Shrinkwrapping

e position property to in-line; that's fine for equations, but is often not what you want when handling graphic objects as anchored figures. -Fred Ridder From: Framers <framers-bounces+docudoc=hotmail@lists.frameusers.com> on behalf of P

Re: [Framers] PDF creation with Acrobat Standard Dc installed

Oh, yeah, "Acrobat Data" also includes compiled bookmarks for the headings, figure captions, table titles and other any paragraph styles that you select as bookmarks in the PDF Setup dialog. -FR ____ From: Fred Ridder Sent: Thursday, February 25,

Re: [Framers] PDF creation with Acrobat Standard Dc installed

Those are not new options. They have been part of the Print dialog approximately forever. Print to File means that Frame will pipe the printer output data stream to a file rather than the printer port. If you have selected a PostScript printer (including the Adobe PDF virtual printer as well

RE: Inconsistent Numbering Properties

in the book file, since that is required to allow the use of common content files (e.g. a shared acronym list or glossary) in multiple books. -Fred Ridder From: sobr...@innovmetric.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Inconsistent Numbering Properties Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:34:48 +

RE: Importing clear, sharp images

. -Fred Ridder From: tp...@telecomsys.com To: richard.co...@polycom.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Importing clear, sharp images Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 21:30:04 + OK this is very interesting. I was under the assumption that you should keep the resolution of the picture

RE: PDF problems

reports that page N is the page being processed now. -Fred Ridder Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 09:46:04 -0400 From: a...@groupwellesley.com To: as...@ariens.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: PDF problems This is a vexing type of problem. It may be a non-obvious corrupt

RE: Update All for Paragraph Tags in TOC

simple and quick. -Fred Ridder Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 09:08:27 -0700 Subject: Re: Update All for Paragraph Tags in TOC From: rob...@lauriston.com To: linda.garn...@crossmatch.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com Create a new TOC from scratch. That will use the tags from the new template

RE: Limit Find/Change

Or an oblique variant on #2: Rename Body Text as FlubberRename, replace, or delete Body (as appropriate) Rename Flubber back to Body Text-FR Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:32:51 +1200 From: a...@alphabyte.co.nz To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Limit Find/Change That won't do it?

RE: FM7 and Zapf Dingbats

that you cannot just paste special characters into the Autonumber dialog because most FrameMaker dialogs only accept characters that can be typed directly on a standard keyboard. Anything else requires the use of a multi-key sequence that is escaped with an initial backslash. -Fred Ridder Date

RE: Controlling FrameMaker automatic link generation

the command list; message URL will appear in the text box.In the text box, paste (or type) the URL after the pre-populated string, then click Create Hypertext Marker. -Fred Ridder From: dhard...@illinois.edu To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Controlling FrameMaker automatic link generation Date

RE: Table Continuation Variable issue

that FrameMaker is able to repeat table tiles on continuation pages in the first place. You could be working with Word where the title appears once and only once because it's not really part of the table and has no way of knowing that the table spans pages. -Fred Ridder From: tamm

RE: TOC - Receiving a Cannot find the file named error when pressing Ctrl+alt

Are all of the files involved (the TOC you're generating, the book file, and all the chapter files) in some common directory branch off the same root? -Fred Ridder From: sabu...@tycoint.com To: r...@rickquatro.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: TOC - Receiving a Cannot find the file

RE: limiting adjectives vs possessive adjectives

Yes, there are restrictive [and non-restrictive] adjectives, which is what I assume you are referring to as limiting adjectives (a term I failed to find in any of my handy grammar/linguistics references). But I don't think that's what we are dealing with here in the non-possessive case,

RE: How do you type a dash em in FM12

shortcut if you really want to. -Fred Ridder To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: How do you type a dash em in FM12 From: tom.beiswen...@emhartglass.com Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 12:09:24 -0500 In earlier versions of Word, when you typed 2 hyphens (--) it would automatically convert to a dash

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