RE: FrameMaker index question

2009-02-23 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Don't feel bad Richard. I am right there with you!! Thanks Shlomo - after all these years, duh! Learned something new and learned it the right way. sigh It's only Monday, right? /sigh Tammy Van Boening Curriculum Developer Charter University Charter Communications, Inc.

FrameMaker index question

2009-02-23 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Don't feel bad Richard. I am right there with you!! Thanks Shlomo - after all these years, duh! Learned something new and learned it the right way. It's only Monday, right? Tammy Van Boening Curriculum Developer Charter University Charter Communications, Inc. tammy.vanboening at

Two rows of columns each with different shading?

2008-11-28 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Is it possible to have two headers rows in a Framemaker table each with a different shading? In word, I know that I can shade rows individually, then select them to say repeat as heading rows, but is there a comparable ability in FM? Right now, when I am setting up a table, I say add a row to the

Two rows of columns each with different shading?

2008-11-26 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Is it possible to have two headers rows in a Framemaker table each with a different shading? In word, I know that I can shade rows individually, then select them to say "repeat as heading rows", but is there a comparable ability in FM? Right now, when I am setting up a table, I say add a row to

Sorry for the bandwidth, but is the Frameusers site functioning?

2007-10-17 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
All, I have been trying in vain to unsubscribe from the framers list and tech-whirl list for several days now as I am leaving this gig and will soon have a new email address; however, no luck. No matter what I do, whenever I log in, I either get timed out or when I try to unsubscribe, an access

Sorry for the bandwidth, but is the Frameusers site functioning?

2007-10-17 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
All, I have been trying in vain to unsubscribe from the framers list and tech-whirl list for several days now as I am leaving this gig and will soon have a new email address; however, no luck. No matter what I do, whenever I log in, I either get timed out or when I try to unsubscribe, an access

Links in framemaker source files to PDFs?

2007-06-21 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
All, I have a directory structure on my hard drive that is going to be burned verbatim to a CD. In this structure, I have a Framemaker file that I want to contain links to the PDFs that are contained in various directories throughout. I want these links to jump to the indicated PDF when I click

Links in framemaker source files to PDFs?

2007-06-21 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
All, I have a directory structure on my hard drive that is going to be burned verbatim to a CD. In this structure, I have a Framemaker file that I want to contain links to the PDFs that are contained in various directories throughout. I want these links to "jump to" the indicated PDF when I click

OT (kinda') - Funky problem with ePublisher Pro and MS Word

2007-06-08 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Although this addresses a Word issue, it's because of ePublisher Pro, so I am hoping those of you who also work with ePublisher Pro may know something about this: I recently installed ePublisher Version 9.2 on my PC (Windows XP with SP2 and Office 2003) for use with Framemaker (but of course,

RE: Text insets: to be or not to be?

2007-06-07 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Shmuel, Index entries work in text insets just as in a container file; however, x-refs. within an inset require special consideration. You can either manually manipulate them to work in the final output or you can use a script from Rick Quatro to automate this. The best practice for a variety of

List of imported graphics

2007-06-01 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
My apologies in advance - I know that this has been discussed before on the list, but I can't find it in the archives. I have a graphics folder for a Frame book that contains not only all of the graphics that are imported by reference into the various book files, but also, a bunch of graphic that

RE: List of imported graphics

2007-06-01 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
] *** Keep smiling, at least until you get your own way. From: Rene Stephenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 8:52 AM To: Yves Barbion; Van Boening, Tammy Cc: framers

List of imported graphics

2007-06-01 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
My apologies in advance - I know that this has been discussed before on the list, but I can't find it in the archives. I have a graphics folder for a Frame book that contains not only all of the graphics that are imported by reference into the various book files, but also, a bunch of graphic that

RE: Getting something ignored during spell checking

2007-05-30 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
] *** Keep smiling, at least until you get your own way. -Original Message- From: John Posada [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 4:08 PM To: Van Boening, Tammy; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Getting

Getting something ignored during spell checking

2007-05-30 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Framemaker 7.2, Windows XP with SP2 I am currently writing a Developer's Guide that references heavy use of xml files. Our styles and standards call for referring to any file type as . file; for example, the .xml file, an .xml file, the .pdf file, and so on. Obviously, when I run spell check on

Getting something ignored during spell checking

2007-05-30 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
*** Keep smiling, at least until you get your own way. -Original Message- From: John Posada [mailto:jposad...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 4:08 PM To: Van Boening, Tammy; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject

RE: Linking from an HTML page to a destination in a PDF file

2007-05-23 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
From Shlomo Perets:- It is possible to add a page action to the opening page of a PDF, and set that action to be a web link. In Acrobat 6 or higher, display the Pages panel (previously called Thumbnails), right click the first page, and then click the Actions tab; add a Page Open: Open a web

Linking from an HTML page to a destination in a PDF file

2007-05-23 Thread Van Boening, Tammy

RE: Unresolved text insets and relinking images

2007-05-21 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Framescript! I had to relink several hundred text insets once and it was either a tedious one by one manual process, or use the best $200 ever and buy Framescript and get Rick Quatro to write a script that did this relinking with like two clicks. It was a dream. TVB Tammy L. Van Boening Senior

Unresolved text insets and relinking images

2007-05-21 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Framescript! I had to relink several hundred text insets once and it was either a tedious one by one manual process, or use the best $200 ever and buy Framescript and get Rick Quatro to write a script that did this relinking with like two clicks. It was a dream. TVB Tammy L. Van Boening Senior

RE: Xref's from Tables don't work from text insets

2007-05-04 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
You can also set this up manually to work if you don't have framescript. I have given two presentations on this and have a summary of how to do it. Contact me offlist if you would like the information. TVB Tammy L. Van Boening Senior Technical Writer Fiserv Insurance Solutions Property and

Xref's from Tables don't work from text insets

2007-05-04 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
You can also set this up manually to work if you don't have framescript. I have given two presentations on this and have a summary of how to do it. Contact me offlist if you would like the information. TVB Tammy L. Van Boening Senior Technical Writer Fiserv Insurance Solutions Property and

OT: Geeky Friday Humor

2007-04-20 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
So, on the way into work today, I saw the following on a license plate: RGBCMYK and the license plate holder stated that Artists do it graphically. I was cracking up; however, my husband on the other hand did not understand why I thought it was so funny and sigh accused me of yet another round of

OT: Geeky Friday Humor

2007-04-20 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
So, on the way into work today, I saw the following on a license plate: RGBCMYK and the license plate holder stated that "Artists do it graphically." I was cracking up; however, my husband on the other hand did not understand why I thought it was so funny and accused me of yet another round of

Geeky Friday Humor

2007-04-20 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Yes, it is, but for all of us that on this list that would understand this plate on first sight - groan! We have truly obtained the ultimate level of geekdom! LOL! TGIF to everyone, TVB Tammy L. Van Boening Senior Technical Writer Fiserv Insurance Solutions Property and Casualty Division

OT: An interesting article about Microsoft vs. Adobe

2007-04-18 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Obviously, take with a grain of salt, but some interesting points, nonetheless. TVB http://www.9news.com/money/article.aspx?storyid=68237 Tammy L. Van Boening Senior Technical Writer Fiserv Insurance Solutions Property and Casualty Division 303-729-7733 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Table title alignment oddity

2007-04-18 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
] *** Keep smiling, at least until you get your own way. -Original Message- From: Linda G. Gallagher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:52 PM To: Van Boening, Tammy; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Table title alignment oddity

Adjusting dialog box sizes in Framemaker?

2007-04-18 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Argh, I know that this topic has been covered before, but the archives keep timing out on my right now and my google search has resulted in zilch. Isn't there a plugin available from someone/somewhere that allows you to adjust the sizes of dialog boxes in Framemaker? Like, right now, when my books

OT: An interesting article about Microsoft vs. Adobe

2007-04-18 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Obviously, take with a grain of salt, but some interesting points, nonetheless. TVB http://www.9news.com/money/article.aspx?storyid=68237 Tammy L. Van Boening Senior Technical Writer Fiserv Insurance Solutions Property and Casualty Division 303-729-7733 tammy.vanboening at fiserv.com

Table title alignment oddity

2007-04-18 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
*** Keep smiling, at least until you get your own way. -Original Message- From: Linda G. Gallagher [mailto:lin...@techcomplus.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:52 PM To: Van Boening, Tammy; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Table title

Adjusting dialog box sizes in Framemaker?

2007-04-18 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Argh, I know that this topic has been covered before, but the archives keep timing out on my right now and my google search has resulted in zilch. Isn't there a plugin available from someone/somewhere that allows you to adjust the sizes of dialog boxes in Framemaker? Like, right now, when my books

Generating a list of paragraph tags with properties?

2007-04-17 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
I am sure that this is a job for Framescript, but darn it, you can do it in Word without doing anything special (Print and under Print What, select Styles), so I am hoping that you can do it on Framemaker. I want to generate on a per file basis, a list of all paragraph tags used in the file - I

RE: Generating a list of paragraph tags with properties?

2007-04-17 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
, at least until you get your own way. -Original Message- From: Steve Rickaby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:44 AM To: Van Boening, Tammy; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Generating a list of paragraph tags with properties? At 11:23 -0600 17/4/07, Van Boening

Generating a list of paragraph tags with properties?

2007-04-17 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
I am sure that this is a job for Framescript, but darn it, you can do it in Word without doing anything special (Print and under Print What, select Styles), so I am hoping that you can do it on Framemaker. I want to generate on a per file basis, a list of all paragraph tags used in the file - I

Generating a list of paragraph tags with properties?

2007-04-17 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
smiling, at least until you get your own way. -Original Message- From: Steve Rickaby [mailto:srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:44 AM To: Van Boening, Tammy; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Generating a list of paragraph tags with properties

Weird problem in Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0

2007-04-06 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Windows XP, SP2, Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0 (with all updates). Open a PDF created from framemaker 7.2 source files. Click and hold the right mouse button on the scroll down arrow (on the right hand scrolling bar) and the document starts scrolling along merrily and then boom - all of a sudden,

RE: Weird problem in Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0

2007-04-06 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Sorry - guess I wasn't clear. My bad - it's Friday and I have a cold on top of that. It's for ANY pdf that I create - not just one in particular and they are standard PDFs with internal links only. Thanks! TVB Tammy L. Van Boening Senior Technical Writer Fiserv Insurance Solutions Property

Weird problem in Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0

2007-04-06 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Windows XP, SP2, Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0 (with all updates). Open a PDF created from framemaker 7.2 source files. Click and hold the right mouse button on the scroll down arrow (on the right hand scrolling bar) and the document starts scrolling along merrily and then boom - all of a sudden,

Weird problem in Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0

2007-04-06 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Sorry - guess I wasn't clear. My bad - it's Friday and I have a cold on top of that. It's for ANY pdf that I create - not just one in particular and they are standard PDFs with internal links only. Thanks! TVB Tammy L. Van Boening Senior Technical Writer Fiserv Insurance Solutions Property

Question about setting up master pages for an Index

2007-03-30 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
A seriously senior moment here or it's just Friday and my brain has already shut-off. I am setting up the templates (Cover, TOC, LOF, LOT, Chapter, Appendix, and Index) to use for our departmental end-user guides. Setting up the templates for the TOC, LOF, and LOT are a snap; the index, however,

RE: Question about setting up master pages for an Index

2007-03-30 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
To: Van Boening, Tammy; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Question about setting up master pages for an Index Howdy - The index title should not be on the master page, but in the regular text flow of the first body page. Check out the FM Manual index topic - text:static. This will solve

RE: Question about setting up master pages for an Index

2007-03-30 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Thanks for the offlist replies. Got it figured out - man, what a senior moment that was! TVB Tammy L. Van Boening Senior Technical Writer Fiserv Insurance Solutions Property and Casualty Division 303-729-7733 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Question about setting up master pages for an Index

2007-03-30 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
A seriously senior moment here or it's just Friday and my brain has already shut-off. I am setting up the templates (Cover, TOC, LOF, LOT, Chapter, Appendix, and Index) to use for our departmental end-user guides. Setting up the templates for the TOC, LOF, and LOT are a snap; the index, however,

Question about setting up master pages for an Index

2007-03-30 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
, 2007 1:02 PM To: Van Boening, Tammy; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Question about setting up master pages for an Index Howdy - The index title should not be on the master page, but in the regular text flow of the first body page. Check out the FM Manual index topic - text:static

Question about setting up master pages for an Index

2007-03-30 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Thanks for the offlist replies. Got it figured out - man, what a senior moment that was! TVB Tammy L. Van Boening Senior Technical Writer Fiserv Insurance Solutions Property and Casualty Division 303-729-7733 tammy.vanboening at fiserv.com

RE: converting Frame to Word

2007-03-28 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Yvonne, I have had to go down this minefield myself and it wasn't fun. I ultimately used a combination of Mif-2-Go and some valuable, valuable macros from tech-tav (http://www.tech-tav.com/). These are completely free macros from a reputable third party that automate many, many things in Word and

converting Frame to Word

2007-03-28 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Yvonne, I have had to go down this minefield myself and it wasn't fun. I ultimately used a combination of Mif-2-Go and some valuable, valuable macros from tech-tav (http://www.tech-tav.com/). These are completely free macros from a reputable third party that automate many, many things in Word and

RE: Multiple types of page numbering?

2007-03-22 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Well, This will require some new paragraph tags to be set up, but it can work. Let me understand one thing first - do you want page # of total pages in the book, or page # of page (based on page count in the file)? I think you want the first one, so: For the first scenario (page # of total

Multiple types of page numbering?

2007-03-22 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Well, This will require some new paragraph tags to be set up, but it can work. Let me understand one thing first - do you want page # of total pages in the book, or page # of page (based on page count in the file)? I think you want the first one, so: For the first scenario (page # of total

RE: Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Diane, Sorry to disagree, but I use Save As all the time (doing exactly what Nancy does) and I don't have a problem at all with the links in the TOC/index still working. Internally, links are not affected by a Save As, only externally. Nancy, if you want contact me offlist and we can discuss

Bug that was in Framemaker 5.5.6 still in Framemaker 7.2?

2007-03-20 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
All, I remember this bug from Framemaker 5.5.6: 1.) A Landscape table that extends across more than one page. 2.) ColumnHeaderRow was black with white text for text in ColumnHeaderRow. 3.) Make a PDF of the Framemaker source file by printing to PS using, then distilling using Adobe Acrobat. 4.)

Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Diane, Sorry to disagree, but I use Save As all the time (doing exactly what Nancy does) and I don't have a problem at all with the links in the TOC/index still working. Internally, links are not affected by a Save As, only externally. Nancy, if you want contact me offlist and we can discuss

RE: Creating special bullets

2007-03-12 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Linda, A nifty little site that I have bookmarked that provides just such information: http://www.zakie.fsnet.co.uk/ChatRoomsStuff/Help/wingdingsfontchart.htm HTH, TVB Tammy L. Van Boening Engineering Technical Writer Fiserv Insurance Solutions Property and Casualty Division 303-729-7733

Creating special bullets

2007-03-12 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Linda, A nifty little site that I have bookmarked that provides just such information: http://www.zakie.fsnet.co.uk/ChatRoomsStuff/Help/wingdingsfontchart.htm HTH, TVB Tammy L. Van Boening Engineering Technical Writer Fiserv Insurance Solutions Property and Casualty Division 303-729-7733

RE: Frame 6 crashes on WinXP with edited fmdlg.dll file

2007-03-08 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Is this the patch that you might have forgotten to install? http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=1420 HTH, TVB Tammy L. Van Boening Engineering Technical Writer Fiserv Insurance Solutions Property and Casualty Division 303-729-7733 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Frame 6 crashes on WinXP with edited fmdlg.dll file

2007-03-08 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Is this the patch that you might have forgotten to install? http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=1420 HTH, TVB Tammy L. Van Boening Engineering Technical Writer Fiserv Insurance Solutions Property and Casualty Division 303-729-7733 tammy.vanboening at fiserv.com

Missing fonts message

2007-02-08 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
All, I had this information saved once before from the list, but can find it now. When I open several documents received from an outside source, I get a missing font message. That's fine - I know what to do to get rid of the message, but what I really would like to do is find these errant fonts

Missing fonts message

2007-02-08 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
All, I had this information saved once before from the list, but can find it now. When I open several documents received from an outside source, I get a missing font message. That's fine - I know what to do to get rid of the message, but what I really would like to do is find these errant fonts