[Framers] framemaker 2015 does not start

My colleague was using FrameMaker 2015  this morning. She shut it down. Then she tried to start it. The splash screen flashes and then goes away and Frame doesn't start. Has anyone seen anything like this? Any ideas how to fix it? Fred -- *Fred Wersan* | Principal Technical Writer *VT MAK

Re: [Framers] Where is my PDF?

Hey Rick, I am still using Frame 2015, so as far as I am concerned, you are still 56. ;-) Fred -- *Fred Wersan* | Principal Technical Writer *VT MAK* | 150 Cambridge Park Drive, Third Floor, Cambridge, MA 02140 T: +1.857.209.3469 | F: +1.617.876.0032 fwer...@mak.com | www.mak.com

Re: [Framers] Fwd: Managing Versions of documentation simultaneously

has a certain amount of overhead - maintaining somewhat similar duplicate files, maintaining sensible conditions, structured or unstructured, etc. So pick the method that best fits your tool set and your overall doc management flow. Fred -- *Fred Wersan* | Principal Technical Writer *VT MAK

[Framers] old FM files

I have some old FM files - probably 5.5 vintage - that I am trying to open in FM2015. Frame thinks they are text files. I have some other equally old files that it opens OK. Any suggestions for how to open old files that Frame is confused about? Fred -- *Fred Wersan* | Principal Technical

[Framers] Adobe - WTF

I went to the adobe site to see what the latest options are for FrameMaker. Can't even find it. It isn't listed for downloads and isn't there for other downloads. Is there a search field on the web page? Can't find that either. Fred -- *Fred Wersan* | Principal Technical Writer *VT MAK

[Framers] PDF bookmarks

Does anyone know how to get acrobat/framemaker to remember the PDF bookmark setup from one printing to the next? It is so annoying setting it up every time a reprint a book. (This is in the dbx you get when you do Save as PDF. I'm using FM 2015.) Fred -- *Fred Wersan* | Principal Technical

Re: [Framers] PDFs look like crap

FWIW: Changing the Smooth Text setting from None to For Monitor makes things look a lot better. Fred -- *Fred Wersan* | Principal Technical Writer *VT MÄK* | 150 Cambridge Park Drive, Third Floor, Cambridge, MA 02140 T: +1.857.209.3469 | F: +1.617.876.0032 fwer...@mak.com | www.mak.com

[Framers] PDFs look like crap in Acrobat

. Anyone have any ideas how to make Acrobat display them properly? Fred -- *Fred Wersan* | Principal Technical Writer *VT MÄK* | 150 Cambridge Park Drive, Third Floor, Cambridge, MA 02140 T: +1.857.209.3469 | F: +1.617.876.0032 fwer...@mak.com | www.mak.com

[Framers] PDF links go to document instead of book

correctly. Anyone have any ideas about how to get the links to generate properly? FrameMaker 2015 Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 2015 Microtype Timesavers Windows 10 Fred -- *Fred Wersan* | Principal Technical Writer *VT MÄK* | 150 Cambridge Park Drive, Third Floor, Cambridge, MA 02140 T

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

images by reference, conref things) may be a part of the cause? Odd issue, quirky workaround, but glad you got your content back! Bernard -Original Message- From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+bernard=publishingsmarter@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Fred Wersan Sent: Wednesday

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

and corrupted files. I am still suspicious that some of the recent patches caused the problem, since I installed them since my last successful save events. I tried to install Frame on a different computer so I could try it out without these patches, but naturally, it wouldn't install. Fred -- *Fred

[Framers] saving as XML crashes framemaker

Structured FrameMaker 2015. All updates applied as far as I know. Some of my files crash FM when I try to save as XML. They've worked in the past. I've tried saving as MIF and rebooted. Anyone have any ideas what I might try to look for to fix these. Fred -- *Fred Wersan* | Principal

[Framers] fonts screwed up

restarting computer makes it all better. -- *Fred Wersan* | Principal Technical Writer *VT MÄK* | 150 Cambridge Park Drive, Third Floor, Cambridge, MA 02140 T: +1.857.209.3469 | F: +1.617.876.0032 fwer...@mak.com | www.mak.com ___ This message

[Framers] windows update kills fonts?

Windows 10 updated itself last night and today all my fonts are screwed up. Everything's coming up Times or something like it. I am not positive it was the update, but am suspicious. Anyone else see this? Fred -- *Fred Wersan* | Principal Technical Writer *VT MÄK* | 150 Cambridge Park Drive

Re: [Framers] Can Frame 15 be used so I can eliminate ePublisher?

because Frame 15 makes it easier to manage elements and attributes. So a qualified thumbs up from me for Frame 2015. Now if they only had decent doc for extendscript Fred -- *Fred Wersan* | Principal Technical Writer *VT MÄK* | 150 Cambridge Park Drive, Third Floor, Cambridge, MA 02140 T

[Framers] editing variables - all good now

restarting FrameMaker seems to have solved this. -- *Fred Wersan* | Principal Technical Writer *VT MÄK* | 150 Cambridge Park Drive, Third Floor, Cambridge, MA 02140 T: +1.857.209.3469 | F: +1.617.876.0032 fwer...@mak.com | www.mak.com

Re: [Framers] editing variables

to get around it but I'm guessing it has something to do with trying to edit a non-editable variable. Was yours a system variable? Pat Christenson -Original Message- From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+pat.christenson=morningstar@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Fred Wersan Sent

[Framers] editing variables

it? Fred -- *Fred Wersan* | Principal Technical Writer *VT MÄK* | 150 Cambridge Park Drive, Third Floor, Cambridge, MA 02140 T: +1.857.209.3469 | F: +1.617.876.0032 fwer...@mak.com | www.mak.com ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages

[Framers] extendscript examples for structured FrameMaker

and element manipulation functions. Thanks. Fred -- *Fred Wersan* | Principal Technical Writer *VT MÄK* | 150 Cambridge Park Drive, Third Floor, Cambridge, MA 02140 T: +1.857.209.3469 | F: +1.617.876.0032 fwer...@mak.com | www.mak.com ___ This message

[Framers] xref problem solved

in one of the book files. This messed up cross referencing in that file and some other files, but not all of them. When I removed the bad attribute, everything worked. Fred -- *Fred Wersan* | Principal Technical Writer *VT MÄK* | 150 Cambridge Park Drive, Third Floor, Cambridge, MA 02140 T

Re: [Framers] PDF xrefs to book versus individual file

bug where all the .fm files in the book had to be open or some cross-references would not work. I don't know if they fixed that, either. -- *Fred Wersan* | Principal Technical Writer *VT MÄK* | 150 Cambridge Park Drive, Third Floor, Cambridge, MA 02140 T: +1.857.209.3469 | F: +1.617.876

Re: [Framers] PDF xrefs to book versus individual file

l page screen mode). Regards -- Tino H. Haida -- *Fred Wersan* | Principal Technical Writer *VT MÄK* | 150 Cambridge Park Drive, Third Floor, Cambridge, MA 02140 T: +1.857.209.3469 | F: +1.617.876.0032 fwer...@mak.com | www.mak.com ___ This messa

[Framers] PDF xrefs to book versus individual file

create them the same way. The book file is open when I generate the pdf (save as pdf). Anyone have an idea what might be going on? (It's Frame 2015 and I have MicroType Timesavers installed.) Fred -- *Fred Wersan* | Principal Technical Writer *VT MÄK* | 150 Cambridge Park Drive, Third Floor

Re: Scripting issues

for AutoIt. I use it a lot. It has GUI building functions and I build little button bars to run my frequently and infrequently used macros (after a while I forget the shortcuts) and also to run my many framescript scripts. Fred -- Fred Wersan VT MAK, Principal Technical Writer 150 Cambridge

Re: importing graphics in xml file

-Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Fred Wersan Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 1:49 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: importing graphics in xml file I am importing xml files into structured

importing graphics in xml file

if there is a different syntax that can specify the resolution instead of the dimensions of the imported graphic? Fred -- Fred Wersan VT MAK, Principal Technical Writer 150 Cambridge Park Drive, 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA 02140 857-209-3469 fwer...@mak.com Where Live, Virtual, and Constructive Simulation Meets

Re: mouse alternative

I've been using a Wacom tablet for years. I switch back and forth between the tablet and my mouse to vary the stresses on my fingers and hand. This feather mouse looks like an effort to have a pen without the tablet. Fred -- Fred Wersan VT MAK, Principal Technical Writer 150 Cambridge Park

frame 8 on win 7 xref crash - resolved?

Uninstall Reboot Reinstall Add plug-ins and utilities 1 by 1 until you find the problem You think you found the problem You retest - now it works with the plug-in you thought was the problem Everything works fine So it goes. Fred -- Fred Wersan VT MÄK, Principal Technical Writer 150 Cambridge

cross reference crash postscript

Xrefs work OK in regular FrameMaker. The problem is in Structured Frame, which of course, is what I am using. Uninstalling Framescript doesn't seem to make a difference. Saving a file as MIF and then opening it still crashes. Fred -- Fred Wersan VT MÄK, Principal Technical Writer 150

XML import question - problem importing a graphic

how to tell FrameMaker what file to use for each figure. I think I once figured out how to round trip graphics, but I can't remember what I did. If anyone can give me a clue, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. Fred -- Fred Wersan VT MÄK, Principal Technical Writer 150 Cambridge Park Drive, 3rd

XML Import issue solved

FWIW: I changed the entity attribute to file and it imported the XML OK: originally: parayfigure entity= yfigure16 ../para change to: parayfigure file = yfigure16.png ../para Fred -- Fred Wersan VT MÄK, Principal Technical Writer 150 Cambridge Park Drive, 3rd Floor

XML import question - problem importing a graphic

nce figured out how to round trip graphics, but I can't remember what I did. If anyone can give me a clue, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. Fred -- Fred Wersan VT M?K, Principal Technical Writer 150 Cambridge Park Drive, 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA 02140 T: 857-209-3469 Email: fwersan at mak.com Wh

XML Import issue solved

FWIW: I changed the entity attribute to file and it imported the XML OK: originally: change to: Fred -- Fred Wersan VT M?K, Principal Technical Writer 150 Cambridge Park Drive, 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA 02140 T: 857-209-3469 Email: fwersan at mak.com Where Live, Virtual, and Constructive

RE: is there a way to show Index markers inline in the text

and keep the markers and index text in the paragraphs. Fred -- Fred Wersan VT MÄK, Principal Technical Writer 150 Cambridge Park Drive, 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA 02140 T: 857-209-3469 Email: fwer...@mak.com Where Live, Virtual, and Constructive Simulation Meets the Web www.mak.com/weblvc

is there a way to show Index markers inline in the text

and keep the markers and index text in the paragraphs. Fred -- Fred Wersan VT M?K, Principal Technical Writer 150 Cambridge Park Drive, 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA 02140 T: 857-209-3469 Email: fwersan at mak.com Where Live, Virtual, and Constructive Simulation Meets the Web www.mak.com/weblvc

frame fails to start

Yesterday FrameMaker (8) ran fine. This morning I get a message that says The application failed to initialize properly (0xc022). Anyone have any ideas how to get things running again, short of reinstalling? Thanks. Fred -- Fred Wersan VT MÄK, Principal Technical Writer 68 Moulton

frame fails to start - the resolution

lists of things that might break framemaker. Fred -- Fred Wersan VT MÄK, Principal Technical Writer 68 Moulton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 T: +1.617.876.8085 x124 Email: fwer...@mak.com Get Realistic Background Traffic - up to 75% off! www.mak.com/YourPatternOfLife | Offer ends September 25, 2012

frame fails to start

Yesterday FrameMaker (8) ran fine. This morning I get a message that says "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc022). Anyone have any ideas how to get things running again, short of reinstalling? Thanks. Fred -- Fred Wersan VT M?K, Principal Technical Writer 68 Mo

frame fails to start - the resolution

of things that might break framemaker. Fred -- Fred Wersan VT M?K, Principal Technical Writer 68 Moulton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 T: +1.617.876.8085 x124 Email: fwersan at mak.com Get Realistic Background Traffic - up to 75% off! www.mak.com/YourPatternOfLife | Offer ends September 25, 2012

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

in my ignorance? Thanks Rebecca -- Fred Wersan VT MÄK, Principal Technical Writer 68 Moulton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 T: +1.617.876.8085 x124 Email: fwer...@mak.com Get Realistic Background Traffic - up to 75% off! www.mak.com/YourPatternOfLife | Offer ends September 25, 2012

Unstructured to Structured: Question about retaining, paragraph formats

etely the wrong track in my ignorance? > Thanks > Rebecca > > -- Fred Wersan VT M?K, Principal Technical Writer 68 Moulton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 T: +1.617.876.8085 x124 Email: fwersan at mak.com Get Realistic Background Traffic - up to 75% off! www.mak.com/YourPatternOfLife | Of

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

by the computer, not by the user. Fred -- Fred Wersan VT MÄK, Principal Technical Writer 68 Moulton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 T: +1.617.876.8085 x124 Email: fwer...@mak.com Get Realistic Background Traffic - up to 75% off! www.mak.com/YourPatternOfLife | Offer ends September 25, 2012

Unstructured to Structured: Question about retaining, paragraph formats

f formatting is done by the computer, not by the user. Fred -- Fred Wersan VT M?K, Principal Technical Writer 68 Moulton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 T: +1.617.876.8085 x124 Email: fwersan at mak.com Get Realistic Background Traffic - up to 75% off! www.mak.com/YourPatternOfLife | Offer ends September 25, 2012

Re: docking quick access bar

standards. Fred -- Fred Wersan VT MÄK, Principal Technical Writer 68 Moulton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 T: +1.617.876.8085 x124 Email: fwer...@mak.com (re)Discover MÄK - Visit our new website! www.mak.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers

RE: master index of multiple book

additional work. (Unless there is some brilliant way to configure things to make that work automatically that I am not aware of.) I use a combination of some framescript scripts and the TimeSavers utility to create live links from my master index to individual books. Fred -- Fred Wersan VT MÄK

master index of multiple book

work. (Unless there is some brilliant way to configure things to make that work automatically that I am not aware of.) I use a combination of some framescript scripts and the TimeSavers utility to create live links from my master index to individual books. Fred -- Fred Wersan VT M?K

accepting all changes sometimes doesn't work

-- Fred Wersan Principal Technical Writer VT MAK 617-876-8085 x 124 Old writers never die. They just get edited out. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com

accepting all changes sometimes doesn't work

-- Fred Wersan Principal Technical Writer VT MAK 617-876-8085 x 124 Old writers never die. They just get edited out.

overriding table formats

and saying to override formats. I've tried creating an empty table and copying the offending rows into it, but the new table, which looked fine when created, picks up the ruling overrides. Thanks. Fred -- Fred Wersan Principal Technical Writer VT MAK 617-876-8085 x 124 Old writers never die

Re: CGM images from structured FrameMaker

graphics. My solution for the frame graphics that I wanted was to take a screen capture of them and use that instead. Not as good as real frame graphics, but way better than the CGM. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer VT MAK 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085 x 124

CGM images from structured FrameMaker

graphics. My solution for the frame graphics that I wanted was to take a screen capture of them and use that instead. Not as good as real frame graphics, but way better than the CGM. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer VT MAK 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085 x 124

Invisible numbers in PDF

a framescript that sticks the chapter and appendix numbers/letters into the bookmarks.) Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer VT MAK 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085 x 124

Re: Frame X-REFs in Text Inset not Active in Book PDF

it and all the other utilities for structured frame that they provide. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer VT MAK 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085 x 124 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send

Frame X-REFs in Text Inset not Active in Book PDF

it and all the other utilities for structured frame that they provide. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer VT MAK 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085 x 124

Re: FrameMaker PDF Bookmarks

. (BTW - the script is for Acrobat 9 - the keyboard actions change from version to version so it won't work with previous releases, but once you understand the logic it would be easy to change it to work with an earlier version.) Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer VT MAK 68 Moulton St

FrameMaker PDF Bookmarks

. (BTW - the script is for Acrobat 9 - the keyboard actions change from version to version so it won't work with previous releases, but once you understand the logic it would be easy to change it to work with an earlier version.) Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer VT MAK 68 Moulton St

round-tripping xrefs

exported my EDD to a DTD and created a structured application. I'm guessing there is something missing in this process, but am not sure what.) Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer VT MAK 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085 x 124 ___ You

round-tripping xrefs

what.) Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer VT MAK 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085 x 124

RE: Training materials for Structured FrameMaker 9

the lone writer in my organization and any innovations have to be led by me with a damn good case for ROI, e.g., moving from Word to FrameMaker was a 2 year process (budget is the main reason I have to over-prove my case). etc Alison Craig, Technical Writer -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer

Training materials for Structured FrameMaker 9

s one step back? I'm the lone writer in my organization > and any innovations have to be led by me with a damn good case for ROI, e.g., > moving from Word to FrameMaker was a 2 year process (budget is the main > reason I have to over-prove my case). > etc > > Alison Craig, Technic

change tracking annoyance

and then type a new space to get the space back in. Does anyone know a solution for this? It is very annoying. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer VT MAK 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085 x 124 ___ You are currently subscribed

change tracking annoyance

and then type a new space to get the space back in. Does anyone know a solution for this? It is very annoying. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer VT MAK 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085 x 124

Re: Switching to Structured FrameMaker

the next couple of months, but I've been tweaking it ever since. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer VT MAK 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085 x 124 VR-Vantage, MAK's 3D Visual Solution, is here! Find out how it can fit your simulation at VR-Vantage.com

Switching to Structured FrameMaker

ooks over the next couple of months, but I've been tweaking it ever since. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer VT MAK 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085 x 124 VR-Vantage, MAK's 3D Visual Solution, is here! Find out how it can fit your simulation at VR-Vantage.com

cross book links in PDF portfolios or combined books

Timesavers to make my inter-book links work.) Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer VT MAK 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085 x 124 VR-Vantage, MAK's 3D Visual Solution, is here! Find out how it can fit your simulation at VR-Vantage.com

cross book links in PDF portfolios or combined books

Timesavers to make my inter-book links work.) Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer VT MAK 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085 x 124 VR-Vantage, MAK's 3D Visual Solution, is here! Find out how it can fit your simulation at VR-Vantage.com

creating oversize PDFs

printing to file, that would be fine too. I can get 12 x 24 from a Konica print driver, but it won't let me pick a custom size larger than that. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer VT MAK 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085 x 124 VR-Vantage, MAK's 3D Visual Solution

creating oversize PDFs

work printing to file, that would be fine too. I can get 12 x 24 from a Konica print driver, but it won't let me pick a custom size larger than that. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer VT MAK 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085 x 124 VR-Vantage, MAK's 3D Visual Sol

creating oversized PDFs

Reducing the resolution to 600 dpi did the trick. Thank you to everyone who responded. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer VT MAK 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085 x 124 VR-Vantage, MAK's 3D Visual Solution, is here! Find out how it can fit your simulation at VR

Xrefs lose formatting

this stuff in the production cycle is a major pain. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer VT MAK 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085 x 124 VR-Vantage, MAK's 3D Visual Solution, is here! Find out how it can fit your simulation at VR-Vantage.com

Xrefs lose formatting

fixing this stuff in the production cycle is a major pain. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer VT MAK 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085 x 124 VR-Vantage, MAK's 3D Visual Solution, is here! Find out how it can fit your simulation at VR-Vantage.com

Re: Autoinsert two siblings under a parent

You can't do this elegantly, that is, in the EDD. But, you could script it with Framescript, or even a basic windows scripting tool, like AutoIt. Anything that you can do from the keyboard, you can script. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer VT MAK 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138

Autoinsert two siblings under a parent

You can't do this elegantly, that is, in the EDD. But, you could script it with Framescript, or even a basic windows scripting tool, like AutoIt. Anything that you can do from the keyboard, you can script. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer VT MAK 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138

FM file per country for same software

inset text picks that stuff up seamlessly. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer MAK Technologies 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085

RE: Changing Track Revisions display

or toolbar. There are options to show the original, show the changed version, or show all changes. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer MAK Technologies 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers

Changing Track Revisions display

anges menu or toolbar. There are options to show the original, show the changed version, or show all changes. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer MAK Technologies 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085

RE: Structure View Won't Appear

I had this problem a week or so ago. There is a Windows settings that forces all windows to show up on the visible part of the screen. I don't remember where or what it is, but I found it in windows Help (imagine that!). Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer MAK Technologies 68 Moulton

Structure View Won't Appear

I had this problem a week or so ago. There is a Windows settings that forces all windows to show up on the visible part of the screen. I don't remember where or what it is, but I found it in windows Help (imagine that!). Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer MAK Technologies 68 Moulton

change coloring of tracked changes?

have a framescript that I use occasionally to strip all conditions out of a document and does affect the change-tracked text, which I found out rather painfully when I ended up with a royal mishmosh of a document. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer MAK Technologies 68 Moulton St

Re: Best Indexing Tool for FrameMaker?

FrameScript scripts to support it. Now I have inline indexing, but in a way more to my liking. If anyone who is using structured Frame and Framescript is interested, I'd be happy to send the scripts to you with a brief explanation of how they work. Then you're on your own. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior

Best Indexing Tool for FrameMaker?

FrameScript scripts to support it. Now I have inline indexing, but in a way more to my liking. If anyone who is using structured Frame and Framescript is interested, I'd be happy to send the scripts to you with a brief explanation of how they work. Then you're on your own. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior

Re: Conditional Text and Pagination Issues

in student and to instructor, but lose everything if I go back to student. you might try putting the pagination option into an element attribute so it won't change when non-structure things change. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer MAK Technologies 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617

Conditional Text and Pagination Issues

ght in student and to instructor, but lose everything if I go back to student. > you might try putting the pagination option into an element attribute so it won't change when non-structure things change. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer MAK Technologies 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 021

Re: FM8 benefits

is a good thing, but will probably be more costly to them in time and effort than buying the fm8 licenses.) Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer MAK Technologies 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085 ___ You are currently subscribed

FM8 benefits

is a good thing, but will probably be more costly to them in time and effort than buying the fm8 licenses.) Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer MAK Technologies 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085

RE: Conditional text insets

let you assign the attributes you need (print vs. help) to your paragraphs. Then you could go ahead and use your paragraph catalog as you always do and otherwise ignore the structure. It might not be any more complicated than using scripts or managing multiple conditions. Fred -- Fred Wersan

Conditional text insets

let you assign the attributes you need (print vs. help) to your paragraphs. Then you could go ahead and use your paragraph catalog as you always do and otherwise ignore the structure. It might not be any more complicated than using scripts or managing multiple conditions. Fred -- Fred Wersan

Frame 8 issues

. If anyone has any fixes to these, I'd appreciate hearing about them. I am upgraded to p273. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer MAK Technologies 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL

Frame 8 issues

. If anyone has any fixes to these, I'd appreciate hearing about them. I am upgraded to p273. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer MAK Technologies 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085

Re: Scripting pulling FM files from version control and, creating PDFs

is that you have to learn to program in FrameScript (drives me crazy). Or you can contract out the work. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer MAK Technologies 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085 ___ You are currently subscribed

Scripting pulling FM files from version control and, creating PDFs

is that you have to learn to program in FrameScript (drives me crazy). Or you can contract out the work. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer MAK Technologies 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085

Re: Internal Error

The way to avoid an internal error when you do a search in a Frame 7.1 book is to open all the files in the book before you search. Or upgrade to a newer version of Frame, which supposedly fixes the bug. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer MAK Technologies 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA

Internal Error

The way to avoid an internal error when you do a search in a Frame 7.1 book is to open all the files in the book before you search. Or upgrade to a newer version of Frame, which supposedly fixes the bug. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer MAK Technologies 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA

Re: I'm impressed with Adobe

communicator product line. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer MAK Technologies 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED

I'm impressed with Adobe

nical communicator product line." Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer MAK Technologies 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085

Re: structured Frame (another Fred heard from)

you really do have to worry about those things.) Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer MAK Technologies 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL

structured Frame (another Fred heard from)

really do have to worry about those things.) Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer MAK Technologies 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085

better diff tool?

to HTML or XML) before and after and let them use the diff tools they are comfortable with. Formatting probably wouldn't matter much, you'd just care about what was changed. Ugly, but maybe doable. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer MAK Technologies 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138

better diff tool?

to HTML or XML) before and after and let them use the diff tools they are comfortable with. Formatting probably wouldn't matter much, you'd just care about what was changed. Ugly, but maybe doable. Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer MAK Technologies 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617

Re: Reasons to Structure

on the tools that make your day-to-day job easier, it's a lot of fun. (Going structured also lets you take advantage of some of the great tools that Russ Ward has written.) Fred -- Fred Wersan Senior Technical Writer MAK Technologies 68 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-876-8085 x 124

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