Thanks for your two cents' worth, Richard. I agree. It's likely that our
vendor docs will periodically update. So given our present
configuration, a page-by-page, non-batch import probably isn't feasible.
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Wow!
Thanks to all who replied both on- and off-list. I'm so excited! The
reference page solution was perfect. I need to learn more about reference
pages, I think. That thought never occurred to me, the solution is
beautiful. I'm so excited about it!
And I had no idea you could import formats
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Jessica and others,
I've had a chronic case of the disappearing text
problem at my current workplace. After doing some
testing, I found a workaround that works very well. I
and my colleagues have used it for the past year or so
with no problems. Maybe it will work for you?
Our environment and
Well, I'm inching towards understanding what the problem is.
The problem is definitely caused by some sort of sketchy interaction
between frame's structured import and the formats in the template. I
took a completely different unstructured manual with different
paragraph tags, purged it and
Hi!
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:54:00 -0700
Syed Zaeem Hosain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
1. When I am working on a particular FM file with these file imports,
I'd like to highlight them (like with a gray background or something
like that) during my editing session - NOT for printing in the final
Hi -
My client wants to link from an HTML webpage to a specific page in a
PDF doc. The PDF is created from FrameMaker. Anyone know how to do
this? Thanks.
Pat Christenson
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At 10:19 AM 10/18/2006, Steve Cavanaugh wrote:
Well I appreciate that. It seems there are half a dozen places you can
go to tell Frame what you want relative to font usage. It's never
really clear to me which one of those is in control. I did manage to
finally get Frame to stop pestering me
At 11:35 AM 10/18/2006, Steve Cavanaugh wrote:
Not only did it not stop it, Frame changed a number of them back
to Times after I reimported the files.
Steve,
Well, if you change something and then import formats from a file that
doesn't have the changes, you should expect the original
Tammy Van Boening wrote:
Ok - a quick follow-up to this. For the empty paragraph
tag, you need some kind of source text for the paragraph to
select for the x-ref, so what I did was set up an auto-number
format with the phrase TotalPageCount and set the color to
white so it doesn't show
Well I appreciate that. It seems there are half a dozen places you can
go to tell Frame what you want relative to font usage. It's never
really clear to me which one of those is in control. I did manage to
finally get Frame to stop pestering me about having to substitute for
Times here, but
That's not what I said. I changed every font to Arial in every file in
my book via MIF, using search/replace. If I understand MIF, that should
have changed everything - Master Pages, Formats, etc. Upon opening
those files, I got warnings that Frame was going to have to substitute
Times New
At 21:26 -0700 17/10/06, Joe Malin wrote:
For this, I recommend to you two very useful FM add-ons by Silicon
Prairie: Character Tools and Paragraph Tools. You can find a useful
description of them, and many other add-ins, at this wonderful site:
http://leximation.com/toolsearch/?type=Pbaseapp=FM
I wrote:
It does require continuous page
numbering (unlike the FM help's method), but if you're using
the $pagenum building block for the xref, I assume that
isn't an issue.
I'll save someone else the trouble and point out the stupidity of that
myself. Clearly, you're using continuous
Paul Pehrson wrote:
Hello fellow Frame users,
This is my first post to the list; I joined yesterday. I've been using
Frame
for about two years, but I only recently started a job where I'm a lone
writer
Paul,
Welcome to the list. You've already received good answers to your
questions. I
Isn't there also a matter of aethetics? An empty chapter end page
consisting only on a header and a footer is, in my estimation, an
eyesore and an embarrassment.
will white
++
There is something fascinating about science.
One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture
Hallo,
kennt jemand von Euch einen Trick bzw. ein Tool/PlugIn/Script mit
welchen ich die generierten Verzeichnisse (ToC/LoF/LoT/etc.) aus meiner
Suche über ein Buch ausklammern kann?
Danke
WoK
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Well, I'm inching towards understanding what the problem is.
The problem is definitely caused by some sort of sketchy interaction
between frame's structured import and the formats in the template. I
took a completely different unstructured manual with different
paragraph tags, purged it and
Hi!
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:54:00 -0700
Syed Zaeem Hosain wrote:
...
> 1. When I am working on a particular FM file with these file imports,
> I'd like to "highlight" them (like with a gray background or something
> like that) during my editing session - NOT for printing in the final
> document,
Hallo,
kennt jemand von Euch einen Trick bzw. ein Tool/PlugIn/Script mit
welchen ich die generierten Verzeichnisse (ToC/LoF/LoT/etc.) aus meiner
Suche ?ber ein Buch ausklammern kann?
Danke
WoK
To each his own, I guess. It doesn't bother me one whit, aesthetically
or any other way--in fact, quite the opposite, because, as I said
before, it signals to me that it was, in fact, NOT a misprint or misfeed
of paper, especially if both a running header AND footer are used.
I respect the
I publish in pdf and in printed formats. The people who read the pdf do
indeed think that the empty left page is a mistake, even though it has a
header and footer. In fact, they print from the pdf. So I changed the
format to delete empty pages. I don't print often anymore, but when I do,
I
I see that you have got very good replies to your question, but
because you mention CSS, I gather that you are familiar with
HTML/XHTML/XML. At the same time the question rather implies that you
are not familiar with Structured FrameMaker.
Structured FrameMaker works in a similar way but much
I use standard FrameMaker 7.
I also publish multiple-volume sets for multiple locations. I document
software so the documents contain a system introduction, description of
customization and a description of every screen in the application. The
screens are grouped into menus. A screen can be
Pat,
You want to set the Document Properties > Initial View to force the PDF to open
on the specific page.
From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com on
behalf of Pat Christenson
Sent: Wed 10/18/2006 12:32 PM
To: framers List
Hi,
I'm trying to set up the read/write rules for my XML files and have run
into a problem.
I've cheated a bit with DITA and am using the 'otherprops' attribute of
'table' to store the table format.
I'm using this rule:
attribute "otherprops" is fm property table format;
I set this
Wolfgang,
I don't know the answer but I ran your message through
http://babelfish.altavista.com/, so I could understand the question.
kennt jemand von Euch einen Trick bzw
someone knows a trick from you and/or
ein Tool/PlugIn/Script mit welchen ich die generierten Verzeichnisse
Hi Susan,
In the field of classified documentation the phrase "This page is
intentionally blank" is used to denote that there is no content on that
page and it is not a printing mitake. The strange thing is that the
blank page also carried the classification so you ended up with a page
Sorry to chime in late.
Here's how I've done it when I needed a documents page count elsewhere. A
paragraph with a format called PageCount placed on A REFERENCE PAGE!
Then you just put the page count variable as the only text. You then Xref
to the last document in a book. No need for blank
Hello. I have a document that spontaneously generates a border around the
first page only when I make the PDF. The book is made up of several files
and set at 5.5 x 8.5. I use Frame 6.0p405 on Win XP, and this occurs with
using either Adobe PDF 6 or 7 printers (I print to PS and use
Hi Pat,
If you open the PDF with Acrobat and choose View > Navigation Tabs >
Destinations, you will see a list of named destinations in the file.
FrameMaker usually creates a named desination for each page in the form P.#,
where # is the page number. So, to open the PDF at page 3, you can use
It's really based on whatever your company Style Guide says. So discuss
it with the people who write the Style Guide and come to a consensus.
Thanks,
Gillian
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> To: framers at omsys.com
>
This page unintentionally left blank
Hi Frame gurus... I may have known this but forgotten. I checked the
archives and the online help and didn't see anything there, so I'm
coming to the folks who know.
I have numbered lists that I need to convert to tables. Is there a way
to specify that the numbered lists show up in the cells
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:05:23 +0200, Wolfgang K?hn wrote:
>kennt jemand von Euch einen Trick bzw. ein Tool/PlugIn/Script mit
>welchen ich die generierten Verzeichnisse (ToC/LoF/LoT/etc.) aus meiner
>Suche ?ber ein Buch ausklammern kann?
Babelfish says:
Subject: Ignore generated listings with
Hi all,
I'm running Frame 7.1 on a Win XP box and it keeps crashing today when I
do book builds. The error output:
Internal Error: 7104, 4440200, 4439404, 6561597
FrameMaker 7.1.0 for Intel
Build: 7.1p114
Window System: MSWindows
Operating System: Windows NT 5.1 (major.minor.build:
Sorry- just found the answer:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2715
Should've googled first...(blush)
Cheers,
Neil
From: Neil Tubb
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:21 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Frame 7.1
BOULDER, CO - OCTOBER 19, 2006 - ENLASO Corporation, a provider of
translation and localization solutions, today announced that
localization publishing expert Maxwell Hoffmann will be making a
presentation at the FrameMaker 2006 Chautauqua on November 9 in Austin,
Texas.
Hoffmann, who manages
Noah,
In your position, given one case that works and one that doesn't, I
would simplify the test document, EDD, DTD, template, and read/write rules
in stages until I found the significant difference between them.
--Lynne
At 07:41 PM 10/18/2006, Noah Evans wrote:
>Well, I'm inching
Hallo WoK,
Diese Liste is normalerweise nur in Englisch gehalten...
Other than that, I'm not aware of any plugin that leaves out generated lists. U
got FrameScript?
-Niels
-> -Original Message-
-> From: framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com
->
For those who don't understand German, here is an English translation of the
question:
Hallo,
Hello,
kennt jemand von Euch einen Trick bzw. ein Tool/PlugIn/Script mit
Does anyone know of a trick or a Tool/PlugIn/Script with
welchen ich die generierten Verzeichnisse (ToC/LoF/LoT/etc.) aus meiner
Thanks Rick. That's exactly the sort of thing I needed.
Pat
On Oct 19, 2006, at 4:19 AM, Rick Quatro wrote:
> Hi Pat,
>
> If you open the PDF with Acrobat and choose View > Navigation Tabs >
> Destinations, you will see a list of named destinations in the file.
> FrameMaker usually creates a
I always felt that "This Page Intentionally Left Blank" sounds a bit
weird. Why would you intentionally leave a page blank? I vote to change
it to "This Page Left Blank for Double-sided Printing."
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
Whites wrote:
> Isn't there also a matter of aethetics? An
Hi Kai,
You can do it with fcodes, as in:
static IntT fcodes[] = {KBD_STRIP_FLOWSTRUCTURE};
F_ApiFcodes(sizeof(fcodes)/sizeof(IntT), fcodes);
This will invoke it just as if you selected the menu path, so you'll need to
set the insertion point in the correct flow ahead of time. You also
Oops. I violated the "RE: Framers Digest" etiquette rule with that last post.
Here's a quick post so the topics list will show a response to the original
thread. Sorry about that.
Daniel Emory wrote:
> --- Charles Beck wrote:
> > Maybe I'm missing something, and then again, maybe I'm not.
> I too have
> > always considered it a strange paradox when I see the words
> "This page
> > intentionally left blank." But there is no need to use it.
>
Structured FrameMaker 7.0, Mac, OS X 10.4.8.
I am going nuts here.
I made a change to the height of the text frame on left/right master pages. I
reapplied the master pages: the body pages did not change.
Now get this: if I draw a small measuring line on a master page that is the
length of the
Wolfgang K?hn wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> kennt jemand von Euch einen Trick bzw. ein Tool/PlugIn/Script mit
> welchen ich die generierten Verzeichnisse (ToC/LoF/LoT/etc.) aus meiner
> Suche ?ber ein Buch ausklammern kann?
>
> Danke
> WoK
Translated by Babelfish:
someone knows a trick from you and/or a
I have a client who is building his index from a book of files and when he
goes to add the index file and hit update, he gets an error that states:
can't finsh creating the index there are duplicate filenameIX.fm file names.
He only sees the one that Frame is creating in the book. MAC OS10, Frame
Hi, Oleg.
Oleg A. Paraschenko wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:54:00 -0700
> Syed Zaeem Hosain wrote:
>
> ...
>> 1. When I am working on a particular FM file with these file imports,
>> I'd like to "highlight" them (like with a gray background or something
>> like that) during my
All,
My SCM guy is swearing that Framemaker and Clear Quest/Case don't play
nicely together. I am not even remotely knowledgeable enough about Clear
Quest/Case to refute any of his concerns. At previous gigs, we used
either CMVC and therefore, just checked in/out the PDFs (never had to
deal w/
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