Re: FM abruptly closes with no save

2008-03-18 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:02:59 -0800, Diane Gaskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run FM8.02 on a laptop running XPSP2 with 2GB of RAM. I have recently experienced several crashes in situations that I never had crashes with when using FM7.0. I'm running 8.02 also, but on Win2K Pro SP4... and see

Re: FM abruptly closes with no save

2008-03-14 Thread Yves Barbion
Gaskill (former tech support engineer) = -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brewster, Christopher C Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 8:08 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: FM abruptly closes

RE: FM abruptly closes with no save

2008-03-14 Thread Diane Gaskill
@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: FM abruptly closes with no save I think the memory issue is indeed the cause for this. I did my process again and saved after each insertion. No problems occurred. But I think software should handle a memory issue much more gracefully than simply closing without saving

Re: FM abruptly closes with no save

2008-03-14 Thread Mike Wickham
I know that Adobe people do monitor this list (and have for many years) so I need to ask - what is the best way to report this? I have a couple of dumps I can send. Adobe has a bug report form at this address: http://www.adobe.com/misc/bugreport.html I've had them ask for sample files

RE: FM abruptly closes with no save

2008-03-14 Thread richard.melanson
AM To: Diane Gaskill Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: FM abruptly closes with no save Indeed Diane, I have also experienced some crashes with Frame 8 (and I'm also running XPSP2 with 2 GB of RAM). When I did the same actions in Frame 7.2, everything was fine. I do hope the Adobe

Re: FM abruptly closes with no save

2008-02-15 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
FM 7.2 XP. When looking for a way to remove a ghost revision bar at the end of a paragraph last in a section in Structured FM (5 or 6 levels closing), I went to Format Document Change Bars. When clicking on that (with the elements highlighted), FM crashed without saving of any sort, only showing

Re: FM abruptly closes with no save

2008-02-15 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
In the MIFfed file I found the offending rascal. Between the closing of the second last and the last Section level elements, where there should have been nothing, I found: Font FTag `' FChangeBar Yes FLocked No # end of Font It seemed impossible to get to it in FM itself.

RE: FM abruptly closes with no save

2008-02-14 Thread Shuttleworth, Roger
N6A 5N6 Canada Tel. 519 963-4368 www.tvworks.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wilk, Susan Sent: February 12, 2008 10:32 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: FM abruptly closes with no save I have been experiencing the same

RE: FM abruptly closes with no save

2008-02-14 Thread Brewster, Christopher C
that would make it close. (Do Adobe people monitor this list?) From: Dennis Brunnenmeyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:50 PM To: Shmuel Wolfson Cc: Brewster, Christopher C; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: FM abruptly closes

RE: FM abruptly closes with no save

2008-02-14 Thread Combs, Richard
Brewster, Christopher C wrote: I think the memory issue is indeed the cause for this. I did my process again and saved after each insertion. No problems occurred. But I think software should handle a memory issue much more gracefully than simply closing without saving-such as warning

RE: FM abruptly closes with no save

2008-02-14 Thread Brewster, Christopher C
, Christopher C; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: FM abruptly closes with no save Brewster, Christopher C wrote: I think the memory issue is indeed the cause for this. I did my process again and saved after each insertion. No problems occurred. But I think software should handle a memory

RE: FM abruptly closes with no save

2008-02-14 Thread Chen, Loretta
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wilk, Susan Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 7:32 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: FM abruptly closes with no save I have been experiencing the same problem as Christopher. I am running FrameMaker 7.1 on Windows XP

Re: FM abruptly closes with no save

2008-02-13 Thread Yves Barbion
When you paste a slide from PowerPoint into FrameMaker, it will be inserted as an OLE object (Object Linking and Embedding). And sometimes, OLE objects don't behave well. As Pete said, you may want to export your slides as png files and import those by reference into FrameMaker. Or you can

Re: FM abruptly closes with no save

2008-02-13 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
frame that it happened. Anyway, Save will now be part of my iterative process. -Original Message- From: Pete Rourke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 6:19 PM Subject: RE: FM abruptly closes with no save You might try saving the powerpoint image as a png

RE: FM abruptly closes with no save

2008-02-13 Thread Pete Rourke
the program close, but I think it was when I inserted the new frame that it happened. Anyway, Save will now be part of my iterative process. -Original Message- From: Pete Rourke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 6:19 PM Subject: RE: FM abruptly closes with no save

RE: FM abruptly closes with no save

2008-02-13 Thread Pete Rourke
the program close, but I think it was when I inserted the new frame that it happened. Anyway, Save will now be part of my iterative process. -Original Message- From: Pete Rourke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 6:19 PM Subject: RE: FM abruptly closes with no save

RE: FM abruptly closes with no save

2008-02-12 Thread Pete Rourke
You might try saving the powerpoint image as a png / bmp / gif, and then do a import file. What version of FM, what platform? Pete Rourke Chandler, AZ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brewster, Christopher C Sent: Tuesday, February 12,