I accidentally made a file view-only by misusing some shortcut but Thomas
Michanek had a handy tip that saved the day. Caveat: it wasn't FM 11, but more
like 7 -- I don't know if that would make a difference...
Anyway, here's what he suggested that worked for me:
1. Press and release Esc
2.
I accidentally made a file "view-only" by misusing some shortcut but Thomas
Michanek had a handy tip that saved the day. Caveat: it wasn't FM 11, but more
like 7 -- I don't know if that would make a difference...
Anyway, here's what he suggested that worked for me:
1. Press and release Esc
2.
and Left pages but that caused other
problems, which I hoped to avoid by just using default R L master pages that
had been modified. )
Any wisdom will be greatly appreciated.
TIA,
~~Gay
Gay Alson
Senior Technical Writer
www.epicor.comhttp://www.epicor.com/
Tel.: (514) 428-2116
Fax: (514) 426-0824
E
As it turns out, a MIF-wash of the chapter containing the R/L master pages that
were modified to landscape orientation **SEEMS** to solve the problem...
(That is, unless it turns out to be a procedure required sporadically for
future book updates...in which case, I'll repost :))
Gay Alson
As it turns out, a MIF-wash of the chapter containing the R/L master pages that
were modified to landscape orientation **SEEMS** to solve the problem...
(That is, unless it turns out to be a procedure required sporadically for
future book updates...in which case, I'll repost :))
Gay Alson
and Left pages but that caused other
problems, which I hoped to avoid by just using default R & L master pages that
had been modified. )
Any wisdom will be greatly appreciated.
TIA,
~~Gay
Gay Alson
Senior Technical Writer
www.epicor.com<http://www.epicor.com/>
Tel.: (514) 428-2116
Fax: (514
Hello again, Framers,
I have three landscape master pages: LandscapeHeading1 (the first page),
LandscapeRight, and LandscapeLeft.
MasterPageMaps on the Reference page defines paragraph tag LandscapeTable to
use Landscape Right and Landscape Left master pages, with a Range Indicator of
Until
Hello again, Framers,
I have three landscape master pages: LandscapeHeading1 (the first page),
LandscapeRight, and LandscapeLeft.
MasterPageMaps on the Reference page defines paragraph tag "LandscapeTable" to
use Landscape Right and Landscape Left master pages, with a Range Indicator of
I have to side with Stuart and the others who still lean toward established
grammar rules.
Yes, the English language is a dynamic and constantly changing beast. Yes,
communication is our main focus. However, although I may understand someone who
asks for my agreement by querying A-ight?, I am
I have to side with Stuart and the others who still lean toward established
grammar rules.
Yes, the English language is a dynamic and constantly changing beast. Yes,
communication is our main focus. However, although I may understand someone who
asks for my agreement by querying "A-ight?", I
? More important,
how can I fix it?
TIA,
~~Gay
Gay Alson
Senior Technical Writer
www.epicor.com
Tel.: (514) 428-2116
Fax: (514) 426-0824
E-mail: gal...@epicor.com
This e-mail is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only. If you have
step first and contact the list second. :(
Thanks Craig et al,
~~Gay
Gay Alson
Senior Technical Writer
www.epicor.com http://www.epicor.com/
Tel.: (514) 428-2116
Fax: (514) 426-0824
Email: gal...@epicor.com
From: Craig Ede [mailto:craig...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 01
step first and contact the list second. :(
Thanks Craig et al,
~~Gay
Gay Alson
Senior Technical Writer
www.epicor.com <http://www.epicor.com/>
Tel.: (514) 428-2116
Fax: (514) 426-0824
Email: galson at epicor.com
From: Craig Ede [mailto:craig...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, Novem
? More important,
how can I fix it?
TIA,
~~Gay
Gay Alson
Senior Technical Writer
www.epicor.com
Tel.: (514) 428-2116
Fax: (514) 426-0824
E-mail: galson at epicor.com
This e-mail is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only. If you have
Hi Rob,
Sorry for your problems with the upgrade--I haven't experienced those,
because we're happy enough to just Save As PDF for the majority of our
books. (I haven't printed to .ps since Adobe fixed the PDF issue a
couple years back...)
I'm writing again just to emphasize that my own problem
Hi Rob,
Sorry for your problems with the upgrade--I haven't experienced those,
because we're happy enough to just Save As PDF for the majority of our
books. (I haven't printed to .ps since Adobe fixed the PDF issue a
couple years back...)
I'm writing again just to emphasize that my own problem
Just to update my question from yesterday:
I was contacted by Vikram from Adobe Customer support who had me verify
that I'd saved the .zip and extracted all files locally. (Turns out I'd
double-clicked the .exe from within my WinZip window.) When I followed
his suggestion, everything worked as it
Just to update my question from yesterday:
I was contacted by Vikram from Adobe Customer support who had me verify
that I'd saved the .zip and extracted all files locally. (Turns out I'd
double-clicked the .exe from within my WinZip window.) When I followed
his suggestion, everything worked as it
appreciated... :(
Gay Alson
Senior Technical Writer
www.epicor.com
Tel.: (514) 428-2116
Fax: (514) 426-0824
E-mail: gal...@epicor.com
From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Kapil Verma
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 12:01 AM
To: framers
ie this morning; any help much appreciated... :(
Gay Alson
Senior Technical Writer
www.epicor.com
Tel.: (514) 428-2116
Fax: (514) 426-0824
E-mail: galson at epicor.com
From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Kapil Verma
Sent: Thurs
...
Gay Alson
Senior Technical Writer
www.epicor.com
Tel.: (514) 428-2116
Fax: (514) 426-0824
Email: gal...@epicor.com
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:26:08 -0700
From: Scott Prentice s...@leximation.com
To: 'Framers
ional text...
Gay Alson
Senior Technical Writer
www.epicor.com
Tel.: (514) 428-2116
Fax: (514) 426-0824
Email: galson at epicor.com
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:26:08 -0700
From: Scott Prentice
To: 'Framers'
Sub
code
Alt+0216.
Whaddya wanna bet this is going to an embarrassingly obvious answer?
Please, someone: embarrass me!
TIA,
~~Gay
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Gay Alson
Senior Technical Writer
Epicor Retail
www.epicor.com http://www.epicor.com
Tel.: (514) 428-2116
Fax: (514) 426
ly, not the decimal symbol character code
Alt+0216.
Whaddya wanna bet this is going to an embarrassingly obvious answer?
Please, someone: embarrass me!
TIA,
~~Gay
_________
Gay Alson
Senior Technical Writer
Epicor Retail
www.epicor.com <http://www.epicor.com>
...@rickquatro.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 4:20 PM
To: Gay Alson; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: FM 11?!
Hi Gay,
Performance and stability have been improved with FrameMaker 11, however
it is hard to know if your particular issues have been solved. I would
suggest that you download
by the constant crashes caused by conditional text, I
could easily vote to return to MS You-Know-What.
Thanks for any advice,
~~Gay Alson
This e-mail is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only. If you have
received this e-mail in error, please
by the constant crashes caused by conditional text, I
could easily vote to return to MS You-Know-What.
Thanks for any advice,
~~Gay Alson
This e-mail is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only. If you have
received this e-mail in error, please
...@rickquatro.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 4:20 PM
To: Gay Alson; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: FM 11?!
Hi Gay,
Performance and stability have been improved with FrameMaker 11, however
it is hard to know if your particular issues have been solved. I would
suggest that you download
_
Gay Alson
Senior Technical Writer
Epicor Retail
www.epicor.com http://www.epicor.com/
Tel.: (514) 428-2116
Fax: (514) 426-0824
E-mail: gal...@epicor.com mailto:gal...@epicor.com
2800 Trans Canada Highway, Pointe Claire QC H9R 1T1
http
ks.
~~Gay
_____
Gay Alson
Senior Technical Writer
Epicor Retail
www.epicor.com <http://www.epicor.com/>
Tel.: (514) 428-2116
Fax: (514) 426-0824
E-mail: galson at epicor.com <mailto:galson at epicor.com>
2800 Trans Canada Highway, Pointe Cla
What Matt and some others have mentioned is correct: The Table Cell tab
in Paragraph Designer allows for individual cell margins and it even
accepts negative numbers, so you can adjust the margins for just that
one cell instead of affecting the entire table, as you do in Table
Designer.
~~Gay
What Matt and some others have mentioned is correct: The Table Cell tab
in Paragraph Designer allows for individual cell margins and it even
accepts negative numbers, so you can adjust the margins for just that
one cell instead of affecting the entire table, as you do in Table
Designer.
~~Gay
and also to Baruch Brodersen, both of whom offered
help (and Baruch also suggested I post this to the list as a Solved
issue).
Cheers,
~~Gay
_
Gay Alson
Senior Technical Writer
Epicor Retail
www.epicor.com
Tel.: (514) 428-2116
Fax: (514) 426-0824
E
. Does anyone know the
answer to this mystery?
TIA,
~~Gay
_
Gay Alson
Senior Technical Writer
Epicor Retail
www.epicor.com http://www.epicor.com
Tel.: (514) 428-2116
Fax: (514) 426-0824
E-mail: gal...@epicor.com mailto:gal...@epicor.com
Epicor
is worked
but it did.
Thanks to MamaRed and also to Baruch Brodersen, both of whom offered
help (and Baruch also suggested I post this to the list as a Solved
issue).
Cheers,
~~Gay
_________
Gay Alson
Senior Technical Writer
Epicor Retail
www.epicor.com
Tel.:
and the destination files. Does anyone know the
answer to this mystery?
TIA,
~~Gay
_________
Gay Alson
Senior Technical Writer
Epicor Retail
www.epicor.com <http://www.epicor.com>
Tel.: (514) 428-2116
Fax: (514) 426-0824
E-mail: galson at epicor.com &l
Sorry, Framers, I answered Lea offline, but in case anyone else is
interested, here's how to do it (thanks to my super colleague, Stephane
Hogue):
1. Open maker.ini C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\FrameMaker9\maker.ini
2. In the ClipboardFormatsPriorities key, move TEXT from the end to the
Hi Framers,
What on earth have I done? Suddenly single or double quotes in
FrameMaker 9 (fully patched) display as question marks. (Only in Frame,
not Outlook, Notepad, or Word.)
I've been on Windows 7 for awhile now; only thing I've changed recently
is to edit maker.ini so Ctrl-V will paste
Sorry if I needlessly took anyone's time -- a co-worker just compared my
maker.ini file to his and discovered that I had inadvertently introduced
some corruption when I edited it yesterday. I substituted his .ini for
mine and all is well again.
Thanks!
~~Gay
Hi Framers,
What on earth have I done? Suddenly single or double quotes in
FrameMaker 9 (fully patched) display as question marks. (Only in Frame,
not Outlook, Notepad, or Word.)
I've been on Windows 7 for awhile now; only thing I've changed recently
is to edit maker.ini so Ctrl-V will paste
Sorry if I needlessly took anyone's time -- a co-worker just compared my
maker.ini file to his and discovered that I had inadvertently introduced
some corruption when I edited it yesterday. I substituted his .ini for
mine and all is well again.
Thanks!
~~Gay
AM
To: Gay Alson
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Any way to hide unconditional text?
Hello Gay
One idea is to use multiple flows for your text insets. A FM document can have
up to (I think) 256 different flows, each having a unique name. You could have
each text inset
again,
~~Gay
From: Roger Shuttleworth [mailto:rshuttlewo...@avbasesystems.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 11:02 AM
To: Gay Alson
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Any way to hide unconditional text?
Hello Gay
Not creative, just a grateful reader of other people's
From: Fred Ridder [mailto:docu...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 11:50 AM
To: Gay Alson; rshuttlewo...@avbasesystems.com
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Any way to hide unconditional text?
Gay Alson wrote:
You mentioned putting each text inset file
To: Gay Alson
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Any way to hide unconditional text?
Hello Gay
One idea is to use multiple flows for your text insets. A FM document can have
up to (I think) 256 different flows, each having a unique name. You could have
each text inset in a different
again,
~~Gay
From: Roger Shuttleworth [mailto:rshuttlewo...@avbasesystems.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 11:02 AM
To: Gay Alson
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Any way to hide unconditional text?
Hello Gay
Not creative, just a grateful reader of other people's
lingly give of your
time and ideas. This list is a fantastic resource.
~~Gay
From: Fred Ridder [mailto:docu...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 11:50 AM
To: Gay Alson; rshuttleworth at avbasesystems.com
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Any way to hide unconditional text?
want to have to tag unconditional text with a condition called
Unconditional, just to be able to hide it...!)
Am I overlooking something obvious, or a better way to accomplish this?
Thanks for any suggestions,
~~Gay
_
Gay Alson
Senior Technical
condition called
Unconditional, just to be able to hide it...!)
Am I overlooking something obvious, or a better way to accomplish this?
Thanks for any suggestions,
~~Gay
_____
Gay Alson
Senior Technical Writer
Epicor Retail
www.epicor.com <http://w
I do this a million times a day just to buy back some screen real estate
and actually see the file I'm working on. Can't seem to find any
shortcut for it - has anyone come up with this?
TIA,
~~Gay
_
Gay Alson
Senior Technical Writer
Epicor Retail
I do this a million times a day just to buy back some screen real estate
and actually see the file I'm working on. Can't seem to find any
shortcut for it - has anyone come up with this?
TIA,
~~Gay
_
Gay Alson
Senior Technical Writer
Epicor Retail
, July 06, 2011 11:30 AM
To: Gay Alson; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Beginning new project based on book files from previous
project
Gay Alson wrote:
I'm porting some books forward for a new version and have somehow
forgotten an important step or concept...
Book
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Gay Alson
Senior Technical Writer
Epicor Retail
www.epicor.com
Tel.: (514) 428-2116
Fax: (514) 426-0824
E-mail: gal...@epicor.com
2800 Trans Canada Highway, Pointe Claire QC H9R 1T1
This e-mail is for the use
, July 06, 2011 11:30 AM
To: Gay Alson; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Beginning new project based on book & files from previous
project
Gay Alson wrote:
> I'm porting some books forward for a new version and have somehow
> forgotten an important step or concept...
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Gay Alson
Senior Technical Writer
Epicor Retail
www.epicor.com
Tel.: (514) 428-2116
Fax: (514) 426-0824
E-mail: galson at epicor.com
2800 Trans Canada Highway, Pointe Claire QC H9R 1T1
This e-mail is for the use
Less words. Less crap. -- Shtikl.com
Shouldn't that be Fewer words?
(Sorry to be nitpicky -- but we are tech writers, after all...)
Gay Alson
This e-mail is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only. If you have
received this e
>> "Less words. Less crap." -- Shtikl.com
Shouldn't that be "Fewer words"?
(Sorry to be nitpicky -- but we are tech writers, after all...)
Gay Alson
This e-mail is for the use of the intended recipient(s) o
.
I'm fishing for suggestions, advice, or anything helpful about ... help.
Thanks,
~~Gay
_
Gay Alson
Technical Writer
Epicor Retail
www.epicor.com http://www.epicor.com
Tel.: (514) 426-0822, ext. 2116
Fax: (514) 426
for all feedback,
~~Gay
From: Roger Shuttleworth [mailto:rshuttlewo...@avbasesystems.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 1:43 PM
To: Gay Alson; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: OT: Any opinions on creating online help?
Hello Gay
You omitted to tell us what your other deliverables
.
I'm fishing for suggestions, advice, or anything helpful about ... help.
Thanks,
~~Gay
_
Gay Alson
Technical Writer
Epicor Retail
www.epicor.com <http://www.epicor.com>
Tel.: (514) 426-0822, ext. 2116
Fax: (514) 426-0824
E-mail: galson at epic
for all feedback,
~~Gay
From: Roger Shuttleworth [mailto:rshuttlewo...@avbasesystems.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 1:43 PM
To: Gay Alson; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: OT: Any opinions on creating online help?
Hello Gay
You omitted to tell us what your other
I had this all the time when I had the Conditional Text pod combined
with other pods. When I separated them, it stopped crashing.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
I was REALLY hoping this would be the answer I've desperately hoped for!
But alas, despite having detached the Conditional Text pod
> I had this all the time when I had the Conditional Text pod combined
> with other pods. When I separated them, it stopped crashing.
> Regards,
> Shmuel Wolfson
I was REALLY hoping this would be the answer I've desperately hoped for!
But alas, despite having detached the Conditional Text pod
Ann, I'm sure most people don't mind that the post slipped accidentally
slipped in. Most of us have experienced the love of and for a pet, and
the grief that comes when we have to say good-bye.
I hope your happy memories of Sebastian will comfort you and help you
through this painful time.
~~Gay
Ann, I'm sure most people don't mind that the post slipped accidentally
slipped in. Most of us have experienced the love of and for a pet, and
the grief that comes when we have to say good-bye.
I hope your happy memories of Sebastian will comfort you and help you
through this painful time.
~~Gay
Hi Shlomo,
Let me echo Carol's thanks to you. We've been experiencing this
irritating bug in 9.0 and had read that we could no longer manually
adjust tabs on the ruler but must do so in the Pgf Designer, which was
bothersome. Your workaround is a great time-saver. We've tested it
several times
, I wasn't particularly impressed either with saving a
.FM file as a Word .doc or with opening a Word .doc in FM. Does 9.0
have improved filters?
TIA,
Gay
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Gay Alson
Technical Writer
Epicor Retail
www.epicor.com http://www.epicor.com
Tel.: (514) 426-0822
, I wasn't particularly impressed either with saving a
.FM file as a Word .doc or with opening a Word .doc in FM. Does 9.0
have improved filters?
TIA,
Gay
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Gay Alson
Technical Writer
Epicor Retail
www.epicor.com <http://www.epicor.com>
Tel.: (514) 42
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