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,
Character catalog
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
So long and thanks for all the fish.
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When I started using Frame a number of years ago, I was told in no
uncertain terms by the person who designed the template to stay away
from the Bold and Italic buttons. In fact, I was told to assume they
didn't exist.
So for me, at least, since I've kept that lesson with me always, it's B.
Hi, John.
John Wilcox wrote:
This came up as a possible style standards issue here. Please reply
off-list, and I'll summarize the results next week. Thanks for your time!
A. Click the B and I buttons, or press Ctrl+B and Ctrl+I.
B. Select Bold and Emphasis from the Character Catalog.
I
Ditto, we use C. But we've managed to end up with a format named Bold too.
We use that when we want to make something bold and one of the named formats
doesn't apply. ;-(
Using character formats isn't necessarily foolproof. Last week, someone
accidentally updated one of our formats and made it
I wanted to, but I couldn't click the link. My other hand was holding
my coffee cup and I was too lazy to put it down
--- Rick Quatro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you were really lazy, you'd buy my plugin :-)
http://www.frameexpert/plugins/pagelabeler/
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Press Ctrl+B Ctrl+I
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Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 3:30 PM
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Subject: POLL: Which method do you use to apply bold and italics?
This came up as a possible style
Cripes! Rick must be a bigger mover and shaker than I thought. What with
.frameexpert being a top-level domain up there with uk, au, cn,
de, fr, etc!
http://www.frameexpert/plugins/pagelabeler/
--
Hedley Finger
Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist
MYOB Australia
Character catalog. Always.
On 1/16/06, John Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This came up as a possible style standards issue here. Please reply
off-list, and I'll summarize the results next week. Thanks for your time!
A. Click the B and I buttons, or press Ctrl+B and Ctrl+I.
B. Select Bold
Hi all,
I know this topic has come up repeatedly, but I still can't find
an answer to my problem.
Windows XP
FrameMaker 6.0p405
SetPrint plugin from Sundorne Communications
Acrobat Distiller 4.0
Whenever I open FM -- even when no document is opened --
and the Acrobat Distiller printer driver
Hi,
> Maybe the space character itself is not part of the 256 ANSI
> characters??? I
> definitely do not see it on the Character Map. But it is sure
> part of the
> font when I do the kerning pairs.
The space has position 32 in the ASCII character set.
Best regards
Winfried
> However, there is one problem--all the headings are coming in with an
> asterisk in front of them (*Heading1) which I guess means the paragraph
> format is overridden, and the overridden *Heading markers won't show up
> at all in the TOC.
Just double-checking...
In Word, the styles have a space
Thanks for the speedy replies!
Peter Gold wrote:
> Hi, John:
>
> Search for "Changing format overrides to new formats" in Help.
>
David Creamer wrote:
> In Word, the styles have a space in the (Heading 1), while in Frame, they
> don't (Heading1). Did you rename the Word styles to match the Frame
John Huntington wrote:
> I gave up on that approach and realized that while the imported formats
> like *Heading 1 and *Normal were indicated in the window whenever I
> selected that text, they did not show up in the Paragraph Format
> catalog, nor did they show up in any pull down lists.
Good morning, all!
Acrobat/PDF 7 has a feature called logical page numbering. This allows
you to display the PDF page numbers starting with 1 as the first page,
and also the document's page numbers, starting with whatever number is
on the first page (usually i). This accounts for front and back
Joe Malin wrote:
> Acrobat/PDF 7 has a feature called logical page numbering.
So did earlier versions.
> Does anyone know if I can set this automatically from
> FrameMaker? I'm using FM 7.1, unstructured, to print .PS
> files which I then pass through Distiller.
Get the PageLabeler
Everyone pointed me to Rick Quatro. Thanks!
Joe Malin
Technical Writer
(408)625-1623
jmalin at tuvox.com
www.tuvox.com
The views expressed in this document are those of the sender, and do not
necessarily reflect those of TuVox, Inc.
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From:
> See my PageLabeler plugin on the Plugins page at
> www.frameexpert.com
To everyone who posts a URL to a site, especially if you are selling
something from it
when you enter a URL that starts with www, in most cases, it appears
as plain text. However, if you precede it with http://, it will
Hello All,
FrameScript 4 allows you to use Windows COM (or OLE) objects to control
other applications. For example, you can control Acrobat from FrameMaker via
FrameScript 4. If you use FrameScript for your FrameMaker to Acrobat
workflow, you can further process the Acrobat files using
If you were really lazy, you'd buy my plugin :-)
http://www.frameexpert/plugins/pagelabeler/
>> See my PageLabeler plugin on the Plugins page at
>> www.frameexpert.com
>
> To everyone who posts a URL to a site, especially if you are selling
> something from it
>
> when you enter a URL that
I use Outlook 2003 & Outlook Express. The hyperlinks come out whether the
http:// is there or not. This might be a setting on your end, John.
"...when you enter a URL that starts with www, in most cases, it appears as
plain text. However, if you precede it with http://, it will appear as a
live
When the FrameMaker book has roman-numbered front-matter, followed by
sequential page numbering, converted to a single PDF, a TimeSavers
hypertext marker (inserted once) may also be used to set page labels, see
http://www.microtype.com/ImprovePDF.html#20 for more info / sample file.
Shlomo
It seems to be an issue with web based mails, such as hotmail and
yahoo mail
--- Kristina McCook wrote:
> I use Outlook 2003 & Outlook Express. The hyperlinks come out
> whether the
> http:// is there or not. This might be a setting on your end, John.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
"So
This came up as a possible style standards issue here. Please reply
off-list, and I'll summarize the results next week. Thanks for your time!
A. Click the B and I buttons, or press Ctrl+B and Ctrl+I.
B. Select Bold and Emphasis from the Character Catalog.
_
Regards,
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,
Character catalog
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
> From: Spreadbury, David [mailto:david.spreadbury at tellabs.com]
> I must assume you are looking at Unstructured FrameMaker users.
Yes, Unstructed FM. I should have specified that. :)
jw
John Wilcox wrote:
> This came up as a possible style standards issue here. Please reply
> off-list, and I'll summarize the results next week. Thanks for your
> time!
>
> A. Click the B and I buttons, or press Ctrl+B and Ctrl+I.
> B. Select Bold and Emphasis from the Character Catalog.
Or:
C:
When I started using Frame a number of years ago, I was told in no
uncertain terms by the person who designed the template to stay away
from the Bold and Italic buttons. In fact, I was told to assume they
didn't exist.
So for me, at least, since I've kept that lesson with me always, it's B.
Hi, John.
John Wilcox wrote:
> This came up as a possible style standards issue here. Please reply
> off-list, and I'll summarize the results next week. Thanks for your time!
>
> A. Click the B and I buttons, or press Ctrl+B and Ctrl+I.
> B. Select Bold and Emphasis from the Character Catalog.
If the methods are
A. Click the B and I buttons, or press Ctrl+B and Ctrl+I.
B. Select Bold and Emphasis from the Character Catalog.
C: Create special character formats with meta-information (purpose or
meaning).
then I use C, although it may appear sometimes that I'm using B. While
my brain was
I wanted to, but I couldn't click the link. My other hand was holding
my coffee cup and I was too lazy to put it down
--- Rick Quatro wrote:
> If you were really lazy, you'd buy my plugin :-)
>
> http://www.frameexpert/plugins/pagelabeler/
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
"So long and
Press Ctrl+B & Ctrl+I
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Character catalog!
Karen L. Zorn
Zorn Technologies, Inc.
Mesa, AZ
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Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 2:32 PM
Character catalog. Always.
On 1/16/06, John Wilcox wrote:
> This came up as a possible style standards issue here. Please reply
> off-list, and I'll summarize the results next week. Thanks for your time!
>
> A. Click the B and I buttons, or press Ctrl+B and Ctrl+I.
> B. Select Bold and Emphasis
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