RE: pure XML

2010-02-17 Thread Syed.Hosain
I think you're confusing pure with valid and impure with proprietary. A file can adhere to the XML standard without being valid against any particular DTD or schema, and being invalid against any content model doesn't mean it's not adhering to the XML standard. Exactly right! Some of us seem to

RE: Converting Rows to Headers

2010-02-12 Thread Syed.Hosain
I am genuinely curious what tool you have found to be superior at handling tables and why. Same here ... I have not looked much, but, like you, I use FrameMaker 8 and Word 2007 (different purposes) and I definitely prefer FM to Word for the table handling. Is there some other product that works

RE: FM 9 books

2010-02-10 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: OT: Is there software for burning cross-platform CDs from PC?

2010-02-04 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: Keyboard shortcut control for inserting a variable?

2010-01-21 Thread Syed.Hosain
I also endorse EZVars ... its ability to allow me search for and convert existing text to a variable throughout a document makes it great! It is my second most used FM add-on ... just after BookVars to manage all the variables in the first place. :) Z -Original Message- From:

RE: How to find Unavailable Fonts

2010-01-12 Thread Syed.Hosain
OK, the fonts aren't the problem. And FM appears to be updating the generated list files. With help from a respondee on this list, I found and fixed the missing font problem. Sent out an e-mail about that! :) Just to confirm that the content is being regenerated, go to one of the headings

RE: How to find Unavailable Fonts

2010-01-11 Thread Syed.Hosain
Hi, Lynn. 1. This book that is puzzling me does not have any graphics in any of the .FM files in it. No PDF, no JPG, no FM graphics, etc. 2. I tried to search for the missing font family (that was reported in the console) in the MIF output (of each .FM file) without any success. So far, I am

RE: How to find Unavailable Fonts

2010-01-11 Thread Syed.Hosain
Syed, are you saying the book update fails even after you open all the files, acknowledging the prompts about font substitution? Exactly! Yes, this is what has me stumped. I opened *all* the .FM files (only four .FM files - two are the contents and index files that I want to fix, only one has

RE: How to find Unavailable Fonts

2010-01-11 Thread Syed.Hosain
Jim Owens wrote: syed.hos...@aeris.net wrote: I saved those two files in MIF format and searched for FFamily and only see the following unique entries for font familes: That search may not have been definitive. According to the MIF Reference (MIF Document Statements Character Formats

RE: What version of FM is compatible with Windows 7

2010-01-11 Thread Syed.Hosain
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How to find Unavailable Fonts

2010-01-10 Thread Syed.Hosain
Hi, all. I am getting stumped with something I thought would be simple (has been so in the past). A contact sent me a book (in FM 7 format) that I am attempting to read into FM 8 ... to fix a page numbering and contents/index problem. Whenever I open two of the files in the book, I get an

RE: How to find Unavailable Fonts

2010-01-10 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: How to find Unavailable Fonts

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FM indicates the file has been changed when opened ... (was from the thread on how to prevent empty pages in a book)

2009-12-16 Thread Syed.Hosain
Text insets and cross-references that are updated automatically (upon opening the file), even if no changes result, will also cause Frame to think the file is modified. Took me a while to figure that out, as it is very confusing to simply open a file and have FM indicate that it's been

RE: Re: Cannot import a .jpg

2009-12-07 Thread Syed.Hosain
Hi, Nancy. Re-saving a JPEG original as another JPEG can be further lossy (compounding the initial drop in quality) ... you might want to make sure that the image quality has not degraded too far. Assuming you did not go back to the original image source material, of course! You can introduce

RE: global header change?

2009-12-01 Thread Syed.Hosain
Too late to help now, but it is for this *exact* reason that I use a variable for the product name and other similar likely-to-change' information inside the document. Then, using the BookVars tool from Leximation, life is greatly automated to make these kinds of changes! :) As a temporary

RE: Frame 9 trial

2009-11-28 Thread Syed.Hosain
Perhaps it is on your Windows desktop? That is another [common] download file location ... Z Hi Framers, I am trying to install a trial of Framemaker to see if it suitable for a big directory publishing job which my client is trying to do (without much success) in InDesign. I downloaded a huge

RE: FM crashing upon attempt to create PDF - 3Qs

2009-11-12 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: Maximum number of variables in FM?

2009-10-28 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: PDF to FM9

2009-10-23 Thread Syed.Hosain
Hi, Kelly I use a commercial PDF-to-Word tool and bring it into RTF, because the Adobe PDF Professional output as a RTF is pretty darn useless, IMHO. Yes, there is still some residual overhead in getting the FrameMaker doc right, but much better than any other approach that I have found. For a

RE: Find text Apply tag

2009-10-22 Thread Syed.Hosain
As for applying italics without a character format, I think most would agree that this is a Bad Thing. I agree that this is not professional, but if I do it this way then at least I don't get the problem I get when I use a character style (Emphasis) above. Not a question of professional use -

RE: Find text Apply tag

2009-10-22 Thread Syed.Hosain
Just one small problem though... I used the Emphasis character style. I tried to apply As is to all the formatting of Emphasis, and then to set it to italics, but it didn't stick. So when I then applied the Emphasis style to a title, for example, it changed the font of the word Acme to whatever

RE: Find text Apply tag

2009-10-22 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: Frame on Vista and Win7

2009-10-22 Thread Syed.Hosain
The usual Windows 7 User Account Control (UAC) feature asking for permission to do something. It is less obtrusive in Windows 7 compared to Vista, but ... still a pain sometimes. If you are sure that Adobe is not messing with your computer when installing FrameMaker, then the answer to this

RE: Framemaker installed under Administrator

2009-10-16 Thread Syed.Hosain
Overzealousness at its height, I suspect. Or a novice Administrator. Installing an application with allow running for all users can be done only as an Administrator if that is what he wants to control. It has *nothing* to do with giving away Administrator rights or passwords, and will not cause

RE: Merging books: Need FM mechanisms and methodologies for merging books with large fraction of identical material

2009-10-13 Thread Syed.Hosain
In addition, there is also the possibility of migrating everything from FM to Word floating around at this particular client. So there is never much point in making a big investment in FM book restructuring. Argh ... they should re-think this possibility. While I had been an early FrameMaker

RE: Frame Postscript Output Problem

2009-10-05 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: [framescript-users] OT: Backup software

2009-09-28 Thread Syed.Hosain
Hi, Rick. I use Shadow Protect from www.storagecraft.com ... works very, very well for me! Check out their 30 day trial version and you may be hooked. Automatically, I do a weekly drive image on Monday mornings, hourly backups during the day on every day of the rest of the week onto an

RE: FrameMaker 8 installation files downloadable anywhere?

2009-09-12 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: Running FM9 (and TCS2) on 64-bit systems

2009-09-11 Thread Syed.Hosain
FrameMaker automatically runs properly in 32-bit mode in Vista 64-bit and Windows 7 64-bit versions. There is nothing that you need to do to cause this to happen. - Dov My experience is the same as well - (FrameMaker 8 and the trial version only of FrameMaker 9) - on a Windows 7 64-bit

FrameMaker 8 installation files downloadable anywhere?

2009-09-11 Thread Syed.Hosain
Hi, all. My old laptop is not functioning and I need to migrate to a new one that is now on my desk. Unfortunately, I cannot find my FrameMaker 8 disks anywhere (although I have the license info printed and saved away luckily) ... is there any place on the Adobe web site that I can use to

RE: Windows 7 and FrameMaker - RTM list

2009-08-27 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: Variables established at book level?

2009-08-18 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: log out, logout or log off logoff

2009-08-18 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: best price on Adobe Tech Comm Suite 2?

2009-08-18 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: Frame Maker 9 and some questions about its indexing and page limits

2009-08-05 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: Standard font for technical documentation

2009-07-21 Thread Syed.Hosain
For standard typefaces embedded in print PDF documents, I use Palatino Linotype for serifs, the new (free) Inconsolata-dk for monospaced, and any of a number of sans-serif typefaces--usually Arial, Verdana, Calibri., etc. Hi, Gary. Did you mean Inconsolata-dk or Incolsolata-dz? I have not seen

RE: Soliciting hardware recommendations

2009-07-15 Thread Syed.Hosain
If you get an Intel Core 2 Duo (or Core 2 Quad) system, running at 2.6GHz or higher, with 4GB of DDR2 RAM and 7200rpm drives (RAID 0 might be a bit of overkill but easy enough to do), Windows Vista Business 64-bit, and something like an nVidia 9600GT card or better, you will have *more*

RE: Heading levels in a UG

2009-07-15 Thread Syed.Hosain
I use a maximum of 4 ... anything more, and the heading numbering scheme gets quite clumsy and distracts from the content. Z -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Evanth, Henrik Sent: Wednesday, July 15,

RE: Heading levels in a UG

2009-07-15 Thread Syed.Hosain
Ah! 72 levels of headings are quite possible then. . . . I kid, I kid! :) Z -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Mike Wickham Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:24 PM To: Frame Users Subject: Re: Heading

RE: Soliciting hardware recommendations

2009-07-14 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: Importing a Word Doc into Frame v9.0

2009-07-13 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: WEBINAR: Using FrameMaker and DITA with XDocs Content ManagementSystem

2009-07-09 Thread Syed.Hosain
Art Campbell wrote: Uh, Scott, this seems to be taking place at 10 a.m. PST, which means 7 a.m. EST... Is that correct? Ummm ... 1pm Eastern. Z ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to

RE: Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0- issue still not resolved

2009-07-06 Thread Syed.Hosain
To be as clear as possible, the save as PDF feature of FrameMaker 7 is not at all compatible with Acrobat 7, 8, or 9! - Dov Folks, I have to ask if this is categorically true for everybody ... because, my experience with Save as PDF to Acrobat has been just fine over the years. I have

RE: Converting PDF to Word

2009-07-06 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: Converting PDF to Word

2009-07-06 Thread Syed.Hosain
Might be easier to use Mif2Go to wrote the RTF for Word, from FrameMaker directly. Argh ... wrote should be write. Z ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To

RE: Use of please in technical documentation and messages on screen

2009-06-26 Thread Syed.Hosain
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2009-06-16 Thread Syed.Hosain
Hi, all. I am using FrameMaker 8 on a Windows Vista system. How can I insert a horizontal range brace character or graphic like the ones used in figure 3-4 on page 23 of this paper: h t t p : / / w w w . c d g . o r g / resources / white_papers / MEID_EUIMID_Migration . p d f (All

RE: [OT]: RE:

2009-06-16 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: Horizontal Range Braces

2009-06-16 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: Horizontal Range Braces

2009-06-16 Thread Syed.Hosain
Hi, Baruch, I was aware of the character format capability (I use them in numbering for headings and text in the sidehead), but not the ability to select them in equations. My experience with the equations editor is extremely low - no reasons to use them till now! :) I will try all this out as

RE: List of files w/i a directory

2009-06-09 Thread Syed.Hosain
In a dos window: Dir /s file.txt will do what you want. The /s means list subdirectories. BTW, in a dos window, doing: Command /? Lists all the options for that command. Z -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

RE: Procedure How to Write a Manual!

2009-05-22 Thread Syed.Hosain
Ah ... the old NUXI problem. :) I also ran into endian while documenting a UNIX application. A subject-matter expert (SME) patiently explained it to me, though my impression at the time was that he was a little uncertain. Perhaps the uncertainty was about the explanation itself, not about

RE: Thank you all so much

2009-04-30 Thread Syed.Hosain
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Any experience Alfresco and/or other document management systems ...

2009-04-28 Thread Syed.Hosain
Sorry for the off-topic, but sorta-related question. Does anyone have experience with the Alfresco system (www.alfresco.com) for use with distribution of documents? If so, can you comment on that (or other competitive products, etc.)? Here is the the context: We do most of our Technical

RE: FM9 Buggy UI Behavior

2009-04-13 Thread Syed.Hosain
Are you using the DVI connector or the VGA connector on the laptop (to connect to the external monitor - which I assume is an LCD monitor)? If not DVI, can you try that and see if the problem persists? Also, have you tried switching from dual-screen mode (where the output is on both screens) to

RE: FM9 Buggy UI Behavior

2009-04-13 Thread Syed.Hosain
I use a similar, albeit older, laptop - it is a Dell 820 with a nVidia Quadro 120 graphics card and an external Dell 24 LCD (at 1920 x 1200) and do not remember seeing these screen artifacts when I trialed FM 9. Since my trial license has expired, I cannot test again ... L One other thought

RE: Technical Writing Certificate

2009-04-08 Thread Syed.Hosain
In addition to courses, I would highly recommend buying and reading this book: http://www.scriptorium.com/books/techwrite101.html Plus, Scriptorium also has on-line courses on FrameMaker and technical writing: http://www.scriptorium.com/training/class_techwrite101.html. It is not a certificate

RE: Adding a shadow to text in Framemaker 7.1

2009-04-03 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: Font and Graphic problems after installing Acrobat 9.0

2009-03-18 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: Elementary Autonumber Question

2009-03-17 Thread Syed.Hosain
Lea saidRush : I can't count the frustrations I have with autonumbering in Word. Indeed!! It's worst when it tries to read your mind. Z ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to

RE: [semi-OT] Anyone having problems with this morning's Acrobat andReader patches?

2009-03-12 Thread Syed.Hosain
Lea Rush wrote: Thank you for posting this, Art. Once I checked, I found that all my Start Menu shortcuts were invalidated. They still exist, but they have no icon and point to nothing. Quite fixable, but very strange. I had this happen too ... indeed strange. I did not bother to check to see

RE: OT: Cannot extract text from PDF

2009-03-10 Thread Syed.Hosain
Jim Pinkham wrote: Any possibility of printing, scanning, and OCRing (with Adobe Paper Capture or another tool) the document? Not an elegant solution, perhaps, but quite possibly faster than retyping, if this approach is feasible for you. Other similar possibilities: 1. Print/save the file as a

RE: FM 8 no longer generating PDFs with bookmarks for the AcrobatBookmarks pane

2009-03-04 Thread Syed.Hosain
Hi, Dov. Please pardon my rant below ... not your personal fault at all! But, Adobe does seriously need to fix PDF generation from FrameMaker, IMHO. Dov wrote: FrameMaker (exceptionally unfortunately) unlike InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop does NOT have the ability to directly export PDF

RE: FM 8 no longer generating PDFs with bookmarks fortheAcrobatBookmarks pane

2009-03-04 Thread Syed.Hosain
Thanks! I decided to submit my comments to that site ... just finished getting it written ... wonder if anything will come of it! Z Matt wrote (in response to my rant): I think I may actually put this link into my email sig... (found by a googling Adobe Wish List) Adobe Wishlist:

RE: FM 8 no longer generating PDFs with bookmarks fortheAcrobatBookmarks pane

2009-03-04 Thread Syed.Hosain
Okay! :) BTW, my e-mail to the list bounced ... did yours do the same? I wonder if this one will come through ... Z -Original Message- From: Matt Sullivan [mailto:m...@grafixtraining.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 2:32 PM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net);

RE: Numbering question

2009-02-24 Thread Syed.Hosain
ROFL. If any document needs *that* many independent counters, then it is probably too complicated for the audience to follow the numbering anyway! :) I think that KISS should be applied. I know that I have paragraph numbering up the wazoo in my tech specs, but 12 counters have been more than

RE: Mouse-scrolling solutions

2009-02-23 Thread Syed.Hosain
The Microsoft mouse drivers (built into the Intellipoint stuff) from version 6.0 onwards - currently at version 6.3 - worked very well for me for the scroll wheel support inside FrameMaker. With FrameMaker 7.2 and 8.0. on Windows XP SP2, SP3 and I am now on Windows Vista. I was going to test

RE: OT :: Frame Voice to Text software

2009-02-09 Thread Syed.Hosain
I'd highly recommend the Microsoft Natural Keyboard and a Logitech trackball as alternative controllers. I've used both for a long time and love 'em both, but you do need to adjust to them. I also *highly* recommend the Microsoft Natural keyboard. I have the classic fore-arm repetitive motion

RE: PDF to Word Conversion

2009-02-09 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: Frame reference book

2009-02-05 Thread Syed.Hosain
I am fairly new to Frame. I'm looking for a good book that will help me sharpen my Frame skills and also be a good reference guide. I have Frame 7.1. Any suggestions? I recommend Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 8, by Sarah S. O'Keefe and Sheila A. Loring. You can get the

RE: PDF Documentation

2009-01-27 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: Screen Capture

2009-01-26 Thread Syed.Hosain
Brian Lamborn wrote: I am creating some manuals and I need to include some screen shots of our configuration software. Any recommendations on which screen capture software works best? I just use the built-in Windows capabilities (works well for me) ... some others here like Snag-It. Z

RE: FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

2009-01-21 Thread Syed.Hosain
Hi, Rick. In the recent past, after I upgraded to Vista, I examined the actual physical (i.e., not paged to disk) memory being used while I have had some large FM documents open, and that was not an issue, as far as I could tell. However, I was thinking of bumping the memory up anyway, so I will

RE: FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

2009-01-21 Thread Syed.Hosain
Fred Ridder said: Ø The 32-bit versions of Vista can only address 3 GB of memory, so more than that amount doesn't improve performance unless you're running the 64-bit (Ultimate) version of Vista. Yup! But you don't have to go all the way to Ultimate 64. Just as an FYI, there is a Vista

RE: Adobe announces FM9 and Tech Comm Suite 2

2009-01-21 Thread Syed.Hosain
Acrobat 9 Pro Extended is indeed available a separate product. Note: I don't know whether it has the PDF workflow capability in it or not, or how well it integrates with FrameMaker 9 - when purchased without TCS 2.0 that is. Z Clint Owen wrote: Does anyone know if the PDF review feature will

RE: TOOL: Very inexpensive alternative to Illustrator etc.

2009-01-20 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

2009-01-20 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

2009-01-20 Thread Syed.Hosain
Richard Combs wrote: Your explanation makes sense, and suggests that the degree of slowdown will depend on how many different pgf and char tags the cursor moves through. There's a lot of information displayed in the Designer dialogs, and if it changes every few characters or lines... I *think*

RE: Greater Than Or Equal To symbol in Frame 8 on XP pro

2009-01-08 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: the values of Variables: only per document and not per book?

2008-12-25 Thread Syed.Hosain
Foor book-level variables control, I *strongly* recommend the BookVars plugin by Leximation! I use this all the time for my documents - it is the best add-on I have for FrameMaker. Please see www.leximation.com for the details. Z -Original Message- Hi all, I am new to this group, and

RE: FM 8 upgrade woes: some solutions

2008-12-23 Thread Syed.Hosain
Sorry to hear about the problems you have had, but ... I guess everyone has their own particular experiences that will differ. On both my older XP system, and now my rebuilt Vista system, FM 8 crashes FAR less frequently than FM 7 (any of the 7.0, 7.1 or 7.2 versions). I find it to be much more

RE: OT: correct symbol to use

2008-12-17 Thread Syed.Hosain
I have gone with 1(a)...(c) for now, but you are right, 1(a) to 1(c) is more correct. I do like that idea though Stuart, how about 1(a...c)? Cheers Alan Ummm ... I think the 1(a) to 1(c) is best. The 1(a...c) is a bit too unusual looking and *could* lead to confusion. The 1(a)...(c) is not

RE: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-11 Thread Syed.Hosain
I use both FM 7.2 and 8 on the same Vista 32-bit system without problems. I just open the version I want to use first. Curiosity question: I see a number of people keeping FM7.2 on their systems. Why? Wouldn't it be simpler to go to FM8 and be done with it? I don't have a need to send .fm or

RE: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-11 Thread Syed.Hosain
Wouldn't it be simpler to go to FM8 and be done with it? Maybe. But. - If FM 7.2 does everything you need, there might not be a reason to update. - Not everybody can get the money for updates. While it might be relatively cheap to buy a single license, the cost grows quickly when you need

RE: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-11 Thread Syed.Hosain
I'm an Adobe trainer, so I need both versions depending on which version my client has. I also have InDesign CS2, CS3, and CS4 on my computer too. (The government is usually the last to upgrade...) Ah! Got it ... I am not sure I understand this exactly. Do you mean that when you did an FM

RE: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-11 Thread Syed.Hosain
Curiosity question: I see a number of people keeping FM7.2 on their systems. Why? Wouldn't it be simpler to go to FM8 and be done with it? I don't have a need to send .fm or .book files to people, but if I did, I could save it in FM7.2 format if needed (as far as I recall) from within FM

Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-10 Thread Syed.Hosain
Hi, all. My laptop disk drive started acting flaky, so I had to put a new drive onto the system. In this process, I rebuilt my laptop using Windows Vista rather than Windows XP. I am now at the stage of re-installing FrameMaker 8 and have some questions (one a bit belated). 1. I assumed

RE: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-10 Thread Syed.Hosain
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RE: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-10 Thread Syed.Hosain
I think I will need to do that! Z From: John Posada [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 12/10/2008 9:17 AM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ... Why don't you just

RE: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-10 Thread Syed.Hosain
Okay ... I am now in Live Chat with someone who says they can help. Z From: John Posada [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 12/10/2008 9:17 AM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new

RE: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-10 Thread Syed.Hosain
Hi, Dov, et. al. (1) FrameMaker 8 works fine on both Vista 32-bit and Vista 64-bit assuming that if you are running Acrobat, you are using at least Acrobat 8.1. Thanks for the info! I use Acrobat Pro 9, so that should be okay. But, I do have to re-install Acrobat next. And, deal with the

RE: Layoffs and Frame 9?

2008-12-03 Thread Syed.Hosain
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:18 PM, John Hedtke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if the Adobe layoffs are... Adobe? Layoffs? Googlegooglegoogle... here we go, in case anyone else hadn't heard and wants to read up: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=enq=adobe+layoffmeta= Unless I am

RE: Layoffs and Frame 9?

2008-12-03 Thread Syed.Hosain
Oops, never mind (sorry!), I just saw this one: http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2008/12/adobe_company_w.html Z -Original Message- From: Syed Zaeem Hosain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 4:09 PM To: 'Milan Davidovic'; John Hedtke Cc:

RE: Layoffs and Frame 9?

2008-12-03 Thread Syed.Hosain
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:18 PM, John Hedtke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if the Adobe layoffs are... Adobe? Layoffs? Googlegooglegoogle... here we go, in case anyone else hadn't heard and wants to read up: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=enq=adobe+layoffmeta= -- Milan

RE: How can I use variables in the autonumber format of paragraphs?

2008-12-01 Thread Syed.Hosain
Hi, Stuart and Rick. Rick wrote: User variables cannot be used in autonumbers. If you are not using the $volnum variable for any other purpose, you could use it for this. Stuart wrote: If you need $volnum for something else, you could achieve your output by putting your RevNum variable in

RE: How can I use variables in the autonumber format of paragraphs?

2008-11-29 Thread Syed.Hosain
Hi, Rick. That is an interesting idea for sure! I will try it out. Thanks much, Z -Original Message- From: Rick Quatro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 6:45 AM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]); framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: How can I

How can I use variables in the autonumber format of paragraphs?

2008-11-28 Thread Syed.Hosain
Hi, all. (Using FrameMaker 8.0p277 on a Windows XP Pro SP3 system.) I am currently using the following autonumbering format to increment a counter for certain paragraphs: R:22.4a-n+ This works well for my needs. However, the 22.4a is actually the version number of the book (happens

RE: Fonts won't install

2008-11-13 Thread Syed.Hosain
Ah! Good to know. Thanks ... interesting (and surprising) that the drivers for a video card can have this effect on fonts. Z -Original Message- From: David Boss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:26 PM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]);

RE: Fonts won't install

2008-11-12 Thread Syed.Hosain
I moved to a new PC recently and now find that I can't install any type 1 or opentype fonts. I get a message that the font file may be damaged. The files were copied from my old PC so I know they are fine. Windows XP SP3 (no choice as that's what Dell provided). Any ideas? Please copy direct

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