Ankur,
Take a look at what Scriptorium has to offer (www.scriptorium.com). They
both sell their books and courses as well as provide training on
Structured Framemaker.
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Sent: Wednesday,
Ankur,
Take a look at what Scriptorium has to offer (www.scriptorium.com). They
both sell their books and courses as well as provide training on
Structured Framemaker.
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From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com
] On Behalf Of Stuart Rogers
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 10:35 AM
Cc: framers List
Subject: Re: Link from HTML to PDF
Spreadbury, David wrote:
Pat, You want to set the Document Properties Initial View to force
the PDF to open on the specific page.
From:
[EMAIL
@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs.com at lists.frameusers.co
m] On Behalf Of Stuart Rogers
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 10:35 AM
Cc: framers List
Subject: Re: Link from HTML to PDF
Spreadbury, David wrote:
> Pat, You want to set the Document Properties > Initia
Pat,
You want to set the Document Properties > Initial View to force the PDF to open
on the specific page.
From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com on
behalf of Pat Christenson
Sent: Wed 10/18/2006 12:32 PM
To: framers List
Radha,
It is early and I am not fully awake, yet, but I see a couple of ways to
resolve this issue.
1. Create a set of variables, one for the part of the number that
doesn't change, then separate ones for those portions that are unique
per guide.
Such as;
docnum as the base number.
guide1
Radha,
It is early and I am not fully awake, yet, but I see a couple of ways to
resolve this issue.
1. Create a set of variables, one for the part of the number that
doesn't change, then separate ones for those portions that are unique
per guide.
Such as;
as the base number.
Etc.
In the
Wouldn't it be wonderful if it could be done with a ... click here,
there, and everywhere...
I won't say it can't be done, because it can, but not with a couple of
clicks. Acrobat can SaveAs RTF, Frame can import Word; saving your PDF
as RTF, opening this in Word and saving it, gives you a way to
Wouldn't it be wonderful if it could be done with a "... click here,
there, and everywhere..."
I won't say it can't be done, because it can, but not with a couple of
clicks. Acrobat can SaveAs RTF, Frame can import Word; saving your PDF
as RTF, opening this in Word and saving it, gives you a way
Steve,
I wouldn't have taken the MIF route to change the fonts. I would have
gone through the Paragraph Designer and changed the Paragraph Tags so
that they all called Arial instead of Helvetica. Then I would import the
Paragraph Tags from the edited chapter to all of the other chapters.
This
Steve,
I wouldn't have taken the MIF route to change the fonts. I would have
gone through the Paragraph Designer and changed the Paragraph Tags so
that they all called Arial instead of Helvetica. Then I would import the
Paragraph Tags from the edited chapter to all of the other chapters.
This
You must have a font that supports the Alt+0128 when you enter the Alt
code. I just tried it with Helvetica Neue and it works just fine.
In your tab file, find the first instance and make the change manually.
Then copy what you manually did to the clipboard and globally search for
the wrong
You must have a font that supports the Alt+0128 when you enter the Alt
code. I just tried it with Helvetica Neue and it works just fine.
In your tab file, find the first instance and make the change manually.
Then copy what you manually did to the clipboard and globally search for
the wrong
We haven't upgraded to 7.2 yet, but in 7.0 there is another maker.ini
file in:
\Documents and Settings\your username\Application
Data\Adobe\FrameMaker\7.0
This is the ini file that is read when you launch FrameMaker.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Thursday, August 17, 2006 11:59 AM
To: Spreadbury, David; Mark Forseth; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Changing FM7.2 default parameters
That one appears to be where FM stores the last-used settings and
it changes everytime you either launch or save an FM session.
--- Spreadbury, David [EMAIL
We haven't upgraded to 7.2 yet, but in 7.0 there is another maker.ini
file in:
\Documents and Settings\\Application
Data\Adobe\FrameMaker\7.0
This is the ini file that is read when you launch FrameMaker.
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From:
: Thursday, August 17, 2006 11:59 AM
To: Spreadbury, David; Mark Forseth; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Changing FM7.2 default parameters
That one appears to be where FM stores the "last-used" settings and
it changes everytime you either launch or save an FM session.
--- &
Another place to find answers for some of your questions is:
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/framemaker/FM7_Solutions_G
uide.pdf
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m] On Behalf Of Melissa Clark
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 1:40 PM
To:
Another place to find answers for some of your questions is:
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/framemaker/FM7_Solutions_G
uide.pdf
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From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs.com
Pearl,
You might try Fig.\ <$paranumonly> if you are using Unstructured
Frame. If Structured, try Fig.\ <$elemparanumonly>.
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From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs.com at
Off the top of my head, I can think of three possible ways to
troubleshoot this issue.
1. Delete the book and recreate it - this would tell me that the book
file itself has become corrupted somehow.
2. Try saving each file in the book out as mif and then opening the mif
files and resaving as fm
Off the top of my head, I can think of three possible ways to
troubleshoot this issue.
1. Delete the book and recreate it - this would tell me that the book
file itself has become corrupted somehow.
2. Try saving each file in the book out as mif and then opening the mif
files and resaving as fm
I have seen this when my font folder was bulging at the seams (Corel is
great for this if you installed all the fonts).
Frame is looking in the Windows\Fonts folder. It will attempt to
recognize ALL of the fonts in that folder. This is the reason it is
taking so long.
Try deleting some fonts you
I have seen this when my font folder was bulging at the seams (Corel is
great for this if you installed all the fonts).
Frame is looking in the Windows\Fonts folder. It will attempt to
recognize ALL of the fonts in that folder. This is the reason it is
taking so long.
Try deleting some fonts you
Has anyone seen, or looked at, the Mekon/XMetal DITA FrameMaker plug-in?
There was an announcement on July 18th (http://dita.xml.org/node/1384).
David Spreadbury
Sr. Technical Writer
Tellabs
18581 Dallas Parkway
Dallas, TX 75287
Phone: 972.588.7121
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Has anyone seen, or looked at, the Mekon/XMetal DITA FrameMaker plug-in?
There was an announcement on July 18th (http://dita.xml.org/node/1384).
David Spreadbury
Sr. Technical Writer
Tellabs
18581 Dallas Parkway
Dallas, TX 75287
Phone: 972.588.7121
david.spreadbury at tellabs.com
There are numerous articles and threads on this subject in the archives,
if they are working this morning.
But, in a nutshell, Save As PDF is problematic in all versions of
FrameMaker. You may, or may not, experience problems. Using Print to
File and then Distilling eliminates all of these
I never said it didn't work, only that it was problematic. Your mileage
may vary (YMMV) on the use of Save As PDF.
-Original Message-
From: Bill Swallow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 10:36 AM
To: John Posada
Cc: Spreadbury, David; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; framers
There are numerous articles and threads on this subject in the archives,
if they are working this morning.
But, in a nutshell, Save As PDF is problematic in all versions of
FrameMaker. You may, or may not, experience problems. Using Print to
File and then Distilling eliminates all of these
I never said it didn't work, only that it was problematic. Your mileage
may vary (YMMV) on the use of Save As PDF.
-Original Message-
From: Bill Swallow [mailto:techcommd...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 10:36 AM
To: John Posada
Cc: Spreadbury, David; framers at omsys.com
You could save any of the files containing the tag set to MIF. Then look
at the MIF in a text editor. Locate the tag name and see what Frame did
with your settings.
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Sent: Monday, July 10,
You could save any of the files containing the tag set to MIF. Then look
at the MIF in a text editor. Locate the tag name and see what Frame did
with your settings.
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From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com
Either I am doing something right or I am missing something.
I am able to create individual postscript files, which are then
distilled to PDF, without any special scripts by doing the following:
==
Default printer is the Adobe PDF printer instance.
With the book file active and all chapters
Either I am doing something right or I am missing something.
I am able to create individual postscript files, which are then
distilled to PDF, without any special scripts by doing the following:
==
Default printer is the Adobe PDF printer instance.
With the book file active and all chapters
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-Original Message-
From: Spreadbury, David [mailto:david.spreadb...@tellabs.com]
Sent: Friday, June 30
In the Print Book dialog under Save Book As:, select Separate File for
Each Document. This will give you separate .ps files for each chapter in
your book.
-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com
Bruce Foster's Archive FrameMaker plug-in. I believe it is still $20. It
is designed to collect all of the referenced files, graphics or text
insets, to a separate folder. For what you are looking for, it creates a
log file that lists all of the imported by reference objects. A
description of this
Bruce Foster's Archive FrameMaker plug-in. I believe it is still $20. It
is designed to collect all of the referenced files, graphics or text
insets, to a separate folder. For what you are looking for, it creates a
log file that lists all of the imported by reference objects. A
description of this
Under the Document menu there is an option Enable for Commenting and
Analysis in Acrobat Reader. You need to set this option and then save
you PDF.
A note of caution, once you have set this option you can't make any
further changes to the PDF, such as Document Properties options (the
same is true
Under the Document menu there is an option Enable for Commenting and
Analysis in Acrobat Reader. You need to set this option and then save
you PDF.
A note of caution, once you have set this option you can't make any
further changes to the PDF, such as Document Properties options (the
same is true
Saraah, as well as many others, offer very good FrameMaker training. For
the short-of-funds user, there is an online course at
http://www.io.com/~tcm/etwr2372/frame_index.html.
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Sent:
Saraah, as well as many others, offer very good FrameMaker training. For
the short-of-funds user, there is an online course at
http://www.io.com/~tcm/etwr2372/frame_index.html.
-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com
Rick,
You might try looking around http://www.cgmopen.org/webcgm/filters.html.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
m] On Behalf Of Rick Quatro
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 12:16 PM
To: framers@FrameUsers.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: OT: Converting CGM
Nope. IrfanView doesn't convert to CGM. That was my first choice, until
I looked. Great tool, but unfortunately no CGM support.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
m] On Behalf Of Judy Keene
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 1:22 PM
To: Rick Quatro;
Rick,
You might try looking around http://www.cgmopen.org/webcgm/filters.html.
-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs.com at lists.frameusers.co
m] On Behalf Of Rick Quatro
Sent: Thursday,
Nope. IrfanView doesn't convert to CGM. That was my first choice, until
I looked. Great tool, but unfortunately no CGM support.
-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs.com at
I haven't followed this from the beginning, so be easy on me.
How many pages are you talking about?
If it isn't 500 pages (doable but nasty), you could make a unique file
for each page, create a book file for each brand, and only call the
pages you want for each brand.
BrandA
Page 1
Page 5
If you are using the Adobe PDF print driver, under the Properties tab
should be a selection for B/W or Color. If you aren't using the Adobe
PDF driver, check the Properties options of the driver you are using.
There should be a similar option.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you are using the Adobe PDF print driver, under the Properties tab
should be a selection for B/W or Color. If you aren't using the Adobe
PDF driver, check the Properties options of the driver you are using.
There should be a similar option.
-Original Message-
From:
Check out the MIF Reference Manual included with your FrameMaker
installation. It can be found in the Online Manuals folder in \Program
Files\Adobe\FrameMaker7.0\OnlineManuals.
-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com
This is solely a Windows issue. We are running dual 19" flat screens and
would fight anyone trying to take one of them. If you can get flat
screens you will be much happier. We used to have 19" behemoths. They
took up about 3 sq ft of desk space. The flat screens give you all of
that back.
The
For Windows, it is in \Program Files\Adobe\FrameMaker7.0\OnlineManuals
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
m] On Behalf Of Paul Findon
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 7:21 AM
To: Pat Christenson
Cc: framers List
Subject: Re: Keyboard Shortcuts
On 10 May
You should be able to select the graphic in Word and copy it to the
clipboard. Then paste it into a graphics tool, i.e., Photoshop. Then you
can save it as whatever format you prefer and import this, by reference,
into Frame.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL
For Windows, it is in \Program Files\Adobe\FrameMaker7.0\OnlineManuals
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From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs.com at lists.frameusers.co
m] On Behalf Of Paul Findon
Sent: Wednesday, May
You should be able to select the graphic in Word and copy it to the
clipboard. Then paste it into a graphics tool, i.e., Photoshop. Then you
can save it as whatever format you prefer and import this, by reference,
into Frame.
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From:
I have been watching this thread with not a little interest.
This sounds like the West Street Consulting plug-in InsetPlus would be
the tool of choice. Wouldn't hurt to take a look at it.
http://www.weststreetconsulting.com/WSC_PurchaseDownloads.htm
And the price is right, free.
-Original
I have been watching this thread with not a little interest.
This sounds like the West Street Consulting plug-in "InsetPlus" would be
the tool of choice. Wouldn't hurt to take a look at it.
http://www.weststreetconsulting.com/WSC_PurchaseDownloads.htm
And the price is right, free.
I have been watching this thread with not a little interest.
This sounds like the West Street Consulting plug-in "InsetPlus" would be
the tool of choice. Wouldn't hurt to take a look at it.
http://www.weststreetconsulting.com/WSC_PurchaseDownloads.htm
And the price is right, free.
If you have a PDF that was generated from the original file, not
scanned, then you may be able to export all of the illustrations using
Acrobat.
Acrobat 7 will allow you to export all of the images to JPEG, JPEG2000,
TIFF, or PNG. The default is JPEG.
If you want to save them as PCX, then you
If you have a PDF that was generated from the original file, not
scanned, then you may be able to export all of the illustrations using
Acrobat.
Acrobat 7 will allow you to export all of the images to JPEG, JPEG2000,
TIFF, or PNG. The default is JPEG.
If you want to save them as PCX, then you
Julie,
When creating cross-references between books, the directory structure
relationship between the files must be maintained. If the folder
structure, when you created the links looks like:
ReleaseNotes
Book1
Book1.pdf
Book2
Book2.pdf
Book3
Book3.pdf
the resultant PDFs must maintain the
Julie,
When creating cross-references between books, the directory structure
relationship between the files must be maintained. If the folder
structure, when you created the links looks like:
ReleaseNotes
Book1
Book1.pdf
Book2
Book2.pdf
Book3
Book3.pdf
the resultant PDFs must maintain the
I use Mif2Go to create JavaHelp directly from the Frame source files. No
additional software required. No additional employee resources required.
Very short learning curve, to get your configuration file the way you
want it. After that, it is a piece of cake.
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From:
There are two maker.ini files. The one controlling the structure view
placement is located in
Documents and Settings\your user name\Application
Data\Adobe\FrameMaker\7.0
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
m] On Behalf Of Lynne A. Price
Sent: Wednesday,
There are two maker.ini files. The one controlling the structure view
placement is located in
Documents and Settings\\Application
Data\Adobe\FrameMaker\7.0
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From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com
Did you enable commenting?
Look under Comments Enable for Commenting and Analysis in Acrobat
Reader.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
m] On Behalf Of Ellen Lebelle
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 7:57 AM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Cc: [EMAIL
Did you enable commenting?
Look under Comments > Enable for Commenting and Analysis in Acrobat
Reader.
-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs.com at lists.frameusers.co
m] On Behalf Of
On your master page, select the line. Then go to Graphics Align and
set it Left. This should fix your problem. Remember, I said should :-))
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Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 1:01 PM
To:
On your master page, select the line. Then go to Graphics > Align and
set it Left. This should fix your problem. Remember, I said should :-))
-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs.com at
Frank,
Bruce Foster's Archive will do exactly what you want.
I don't have his contact information at hand but you can find a link to
his tools on the Framers page.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
m] On Behalf Of Frank Harper
Sent: Wednesday, March 08,
Frank,
Bruce Foster's Archive will do exactly what you want.
I don't have his contact information at hand but you can find a link to
his tools on the Framers page.
-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com
If memory serves me correctly, Adobe has just such a template in their
template pack. Here is the link to the download page:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=22=W
indows
-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com
You can get rid of all of your duplicate IDs with XRefWizard from
WestStreet Consulting (http://www.weststreetconsulting.com).
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From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs.com at
Rick,
A free compression utility, 7-Zip (http://www.7-zip.org) supports
browsing and decompression of RAR files.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
m] On Behalf Of Rick Quatro
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 6:52 AM
To: framers@FrameUsers.com; [EMAIL
Rick,
A free compression utility, 7-Zip (http://www.7-zip.org) supports
browsing and decompression of RAR files.
-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs.com at lists.frameusers.co
m] On
One inexpensive tool that will do this for you is Mif2Go
(www.omsys.com). There is an evaluation version that you can download
and try before buying, it if works for you.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
m] On Behalf Of Lin Surasky
Sent: Thursday,
Laura,
Take a look at what is available at http://www.webdav.org/. Maybe there
is something there that will help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
m] On Behalf Of Laura Sponhour
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 11:19 AM
To:
I can't answer in regards to Epic. It has been touted as an expensive
solution, but viable.
You mail mentions ...depending on price tag. , so I take it money is
an issue.
Take a look at Scriptorium (http://www.scriptorium.com/). Sarah O'Keefe,
and her associate Sheila Loring, literally, wrote
I can't answer in regards to Epic. It has been touted as an expensive
solution, but viable.
You mail mentions "...depending on price tag." , so I take it money is
an issue.
Take a look at Scriptorium (http://www.scriptorium.com/). Sarah O'Keefe,
and her associate Sheila Loring, literally, wrote
John,
I must assume you are looking at Unstructured FrameMaker users. In
Structured FrameMaker, if you haven't accommodated your Character Tags
with an Element, or Elements, both of the methods you list are blown
away as soon as you reapply the EDD.
My answer is through a Phrase Element that has,
John,
I must assume you are looking at Unstructured FrameMaker users. In
Structured FrameMaker, if you haven't accommodated your Character Tags
with an Element, or Elements, both of the methods you list are blown
away as soon as you reapply the EDD.
My answer is through a Phrase Element that has,
Steve,
Sure... Create a new element, we use Phrase, and use it to apply what
you apply now with character formats. Works like a champ. We have a
Bold, Emphasis, Superscript, as well as a few others. Character formats,
by themselves, don't work in structure, very well.
-Original Message-
Have you tried searching the web for information on what products are
out there to develop IETMs?
I just tried a search and it came back with 57 hits related to Technical
Manuals.
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From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com
Joy,
If you are running on Windows XP there is a second maker.ini file that
contains the coordinates of various dialogs. Take a look in C:\Documents
and Settings\user name\Application Data\Adobe\FrameMaker\7.0. In the
.ini file look for CCatalog=1063, 410, 130, 354. These were the last
coordicates
Rick,
I thought you could do this in the EDD, and you can, but it might depend
on the type of attribute. Search the Structure_Dev_Guide for default
attribute. I only got seven hits. Most of the hits are concerned with
the DTD, but there is a comment that keeps popping up In FrameMaker, a
default
Rick,
I thought you could do this in the EDD, and you can, but it might depend
on the type of attribute. Search the Structure_Dev_Guide for default
attribute. I only got seven hits. Most of the hits are concerned with
the DTD, but there is a comment that keeps popping up In FrameMaker, a
default
Rick,
I thought you could do this in the EDD, and you can, but it might depend
on the type of attribute. Search the Structure_Dev_Guide for default
attribute. I only got seven hits. Most of the hits are concerned with
the DTD, but there is a comment that keeps popping up "In FrameMaker, a
default
Rick,
I thought you could do this in the EDD, and you can, but it might depend
on the type of attribute. Search the Structure_Dev_Guide for default
attribute. I only got seven hits. Most of the hits are concerned with
the DTD, but there is a comment that keeps popping up "In FrameMaker, a
default
Beth,
Shouldn't cause any problems with the exception of fonts. Font names
between Windows and Mac are different, even though the fonts may be the
same.
I remember seeing a matrix/list of the platform-specific font names on
Adobe's website, but it has been a very long time.
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