Can User Variable value be changed at book level?

2006-10-11 Thread Radha Padmanabhan
Hi, Good day. I use FrameMaker 7.1 with Windows XP. I have got a FM book with about 50 chapters (files). But they are logically grouped as 5 guides. All chapters in all guides have footers with Product Name, Release No. and Date and Guide identification. For each guide, the footer

RE: Issue in Optimizing PDF size

2006-10-11 Thread Radha Padmanabhan
Thanks Fred. I got it right now. Radha == Ridder, Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Open each component file in turn (dismissing the alert message) and then explicitly save the file to convert it to 7.0 format so that it will open without any message the next time you attempt

Creating bookmarks, more and top links in FM

2006-10-11 Thread Jaya Ghosh
Hello I use FM 7.0 to create the User Guides and Automap to convert the guides to HTMLs. Our FM template is mapped with the Automap template. My queries are: 1. How do I create a static H1 heading in FM so that when it is converted to html the main heading remains in focus while one

RE: Can User Variable value be changed at book level?

2006-10-11 Thread Spreadbury, David
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

RE: Can User Variable value be changed at book level?

2006-10-11 Thread Combs, Richard
Radha Padmanabhan wrote: I have got a FM book with about 50 chapters (files). But they are logically grouped as 5 guides. All chapters in all guides have footers with Product Name, Release No. and Date and Guide identification. For each guide, the footer has a User

Re: Fw: RE: paste special ...text option

2006-10-11 Thread Stuart Rogers
Peter Rule wrote: You are correct, I am cut/copy and pasting within a Frame doc and the, otherwise useful suggestion to edit the maker.ini file has no effect on the paste special order in this context. Thanks anyway, looks like I'll just have to suffer that extra click. You don't have to

Ooops (Is this gonna go through?)

2006-10-11 Thread Joe Malin
Hey! Uh, I've been laid off, again. Bummer! On the other hand, I had already been thinking it was time for me to move on. The company has changed directions, and just doesn't need a tech writer, especially now that I've finished the last round of documentation! If you're in the SF Bay Area and

RE: paste special ...text option

2006-10-11 Thread Combs, Richard
Steve Cavanaugh wrote: There is an easier approach. HOVtext is a public domain system utility that automatically strips formatting from items you have copied to the clipboard. So when you paste, it has already been reduced to simple text. I've been using it here for a while now, and

RE: Translation questions

2006-10-11 Thread Maxwell Hoffmann
Alexandra, First of all, I wanted to confirm the excellent advice you got from Ann Zdunczyk, Diane Gaskill and others. I have worked for a LSP (Language Services Provider, or Translation Vendor) for nearly 10 years and with FrameMaker for nearly 20 years; about 80% of our clients use FrameMaker

Master Pages - landscape and portrait pages

2006-10-11 Thread Texan Scriber
Fellow Framers, Does anyone know how to have landscape and portrait pages in the same Frame file. I tried to create a landscape master page in my frame file and the application complained that other page sizes have to be adjusted because the new page size is too small! Appreciate your help

Turning off a dialog box in Framemaker 7.2?

2006-10-11 Thread Tammy Van Boening
Don't get me wrong - I love the multiple undo feature; however, I save early and often and every time I save, that annoying dialog box prompting you about losing the undo History pops open. Ok, like after 200 times, I get it - I am acutely aware that I will lose my undo History and no, I don't

RE: paste special ...text option

2006-10-11 Thread Steve Cavanaugh
It seems to work on both clipboards from tests I just performed here. Once installed, you get a system tray icon that is green in the center. Green means strip the formatting. If you click the icon once, the green turns to red, which means the HOVtext tool is disabled and the clipboard works as

Re: Master Pages - landscape and portrait pages

2006-10-11 Thread Peter Gold
This is a common request. Search Google for: framemaker rotate page for postings that list the steps. HTH Regards, Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices Texan Scriber wrote: Fellow Framers, Does anyone know how to have landscape and portrait pages in the same Frame file. I tried

RE: Turning off a dialog box in Framemaker 7.2?

2006-10-11 Thread Tammy Van Boening
Thank you! Go to File Preferences General, and turn off the Show warnings while clearing history option. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to

RE: paste special ...text option

2006-10-11 Thread Peter Rule
Brilliant. Thanks to all for their suggestions. I am now extra-click free. The winner is HOVtext. Its like someone designed an application just for me! And so easy to use; it just works straight away. I am forever wanting to paste-special ...text in all kinds of contexts and forever getting

RE: Can User Variable value be changed at book level?

2006-10-11 Thread hedley . finger
Rick, David, Radha: Radha Padmanabhan wrote: I have got a FM book with about 50 chapters (files). But they are logically grouped as 5 guides. All chapters in all guides have footers with Product Name, Release No. and Date and Guide identification. For each guide, the footer has a

Fw: RE: paste special ...text option

2006-10-11 Thread Peter Rule
-Original message- From: "Peter Rule" li...@indite.com.au Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:40:06 +1000 To: "Fred Ridder" docudoc at hotmail.com Subject: RE: paste special ...text option Yes, thankyou Fred (and everyone else). You are correct, I am cut/copy and pasting within a Frame doc and

Creating bookmarks, more and top links in FM

2006-10-11 Thread Jaya Ghosh
Hello I use FM 7.0 to create the User Guides and Automap to convert the guides to HTMLs. Our FM template is mapped with the Automap template. My queries are: 1. How do I create a static H1 heading in FM so that when it is converted to html the main heading remains in focus while one

Can User Variable value be changed at book level?

2006-10-11 Thread Spreadbury, David
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

paste special ...text option

2006-10-11 Thread Steve Cavanaugh
There is an easier approach. HOVtext is a public domain system utility that automatically strips formatting from items you have copied to the clipboard. So when you paste, it has already been reduced to simple text. I've been using it here for a while now, and I can finally copy and paste from

Including special characters in a variable

2006-10-11 Thread Tammy Van Boening
Hi all - Sr. moment here. I am setting variables for a new template and for two of the variables, I would like to have the registered trademark symbol included as part of the variable value and for the other variable, I would like to have the copyright symbol included as part of the variable

Can User Variable value be changed at book level?

2006-10-11 Thread Combs, Richard
Radha Padmanabhan wrote: > I have got a FM book with about 50 chapters (files). But > they are logically grouped as 5 guides. All chapters in all > guides have footers with Product Name, Release No. and Date > and Guide identification. For each guide, the footer has a > User

Fw: RE: paste special ...text option

2006-10-11 Thread Stuart Rogers
Peter Rule wrote: > You are correct, I am cut/copy and pasting within a Frame doc and > the, otherwise useful suggestion to edit the maker.ini file has no > effect on the paste special order in this context. > > Thanks anyway, looks like I'll just have to suffer that extra click. > You don't

Ooops (Is this gonna go through?)

2006-10-11 Thread Joe Malin
Hey! Uh, I've been laid off, again. Bummer! On the other hand, I had already been thinking it was time for me to move on. The company has changed directions, and just doesn't need a tech writer, especially now that I've finished the last round of documentation! If you're in the SF Bay Area and

Including special characters in a variable

2006-10-11 Thread Tammy Van Boening
Never mind - got it. Thanks all. Tammy Van Boening Engineering Technical Writer InsureWorx 303-729-7733 tvanboening at insureworx.com *** Keep Smiling - At least until you get your own way -Original Message- From:

paste special ...text option

2006-10-11 Thread Combs, Richard
Steve Cavanaugh wrote: > There is an easier approach. HOVtext is a public domain > system utility that automatically strips formatting from > items you have copied to the clipboard. So when you paste, it > has already been reduced to simple text. I've been using it > here for a while now,

Corrupted PDFs

2006-10-11 Thread Gillian Flato
Dov, I have full access to that directory. And it doesn't happen to all PDFs, just specific ones that all come from the same source document, which is a legacy document. It's been updated many times. And I have rebooted, it doesn't help. Any suggestions? Thank you, Gillian -Original

Translation questions

2006-10-11 Thread Maxwell Hoffmann
Alexandra, First of all, I wanted to confirm the excellent advice you got from Ann Zdunczyk, Diane Gaskill and others. I have worked for a LSP (Language Services Provider, or Translation Vendor) for nearly 10 years and with FrameMaker for nearly 20 years; about 80% of our clients use FrameMaker

Master Pages - landscape and portrait pages

2006-10-11 Thread Texan Scriber
Fellow Framers, Does anyone know how to have landscape and portrait pages in the same Frame file. I tried to create a landscape master page in my frame file and the application complained that other page sizes have to be adjusted because the new page size is too small! Appreciate your help

Turning off a dialog box in Framemaker 7.2?

2006-10-11 Thread Tammy Van Boening
Don't get me wrong - I love the multiple undo feature; however, I save early and often and every time I save, that annoying dialog box prompting you about losing the undo History pops open. Ok, like after 200 times, I get it - I am acutely aware that I will lose my undo History and no, I don't

paste special ...text option

2006-10-11 Thread Steve Cavanaugh
It seems to work on both clipboards from tests I just performed here. Once installed, you get a system tray icon that is green in the center. Green means strip the formatting. If you click the icon once, the green turns to red, which means the HOVtext tool is disabled and the clipboard works as

Master Pages - landscape and portrait pages

2006-10-11 Thread Peter Gold
This is a common request. Search Google for: framemaker "rotate page" for postings that list the steps. HTH Regards, Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices Texan Scriber wrote: > Fellow Framers, > Does anyone know how to have landscape and portrait pages in the same > Frame > file. I

Turning off a dialog box in Framemaker 7.2?

2006-10-11 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Tammy, Choose File > Preferences > General and uncheck Show warnings while clearing history. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com Don't get me wrong - I love the multiple undo feature; however, I save early and often and every time I save, that annoying dialog box

Turning off a dialog box in Framemaker 7.2?

2006-10-11 Thread Tammy Van Boening
Thank you! Go to File > Preferences > General, and turn off the "Show warnings while clearing history" option.

Master Pages - landscape and portrait pages

2006-10-11 Thread Tammy Van Boening
Dear Texan Scriber, Although I am an Oklahoman, I will respond! I do this a lot in my documents. 1.) View your master pages. 2.) Add a new master page. Call it Landscape (natch!). Don't base it on an empty page - base it on the Right master page. 3.) On the newly named Landscape page, select

Master Pages - landscape and portrait pages

2006-10-11 Thread Stuart Rogers
Texan Scriber wrote: > Fellow Framers, > Does anyone know how to have landscape and portrait pages in the same Frame > file. I tried to create a landscape master page in my frame file and the > application complained that other page sizes have to be adjusted because > the > new page size is too

OS 9 Applications on Tiger

2006-10-11 Thread Bill Briggs
At 1:03 PM -0700 10/9/06, Sam Beard wrote: >As far as I'm aware There's the rub. Unaware. - web

OS 9 Applications on Tiger

2006-10-11 Thread Bill Briggs
At 5:36 AM -0700 10/10/06, David Creamer wrote: > > >This is intriguing to me. My understanding was that Classic, and >> therefore OS 9, wouldn't run on any of the later machines, particularly >> any Intel-based machines. . > >The confusion comes from whether the computer can BOOT, that is