Landscape Tab Pages and PDF Oddities

2008-02-01 Thread Pinkham, Jim
I'm running Frame 7.1p116 and Acrobat 6.0 Professional ver. 6.0.5.2006-03-01 and doing my first really foray into a book that includes extensive landscape tabloid-size pages. I'm noticing two oddities upon generating the PDF (we create a PostScript file first and then typically double-click to acti

Change bars that will not die and making RoboHelp for FrameMaker see

2008-02-01 Thread Thomas Scalise
Esteemed colleagues, Two questions, please. 1. I've got a book that I inherited from a contractor colleague that exhibits persistent change bars, even though I have repeatedly turned them off. Edits immediately bring change bars. Can anyone help me out on this? I'm defeated. 2. Also

XHTML or CALS tables?

2008-02-01 Thread Peter Ring
Apologies for cross-posting. I'm aware that this is a question that deserves ridicule, along the question 'Should I use attributes or elements to store data?' (according to the NOT the comp.text.sgml FAQ: 'Of course. What else would you use?'). Anyway, here we go: Should I use the XHTML or CAL

Working with Images

2008-02-01 Thread Pete Rourke
Here is another newbie question. FM8 - XP (importing into anchored frames) I am using Snagit (default image resolution 96dpi, and saving as .jpg) to capture screenshots for a end user manual which assumes the user needs visual walkthrough of using a desktop application and a pocket pc. There

HELP - Deleting Multiple Master Pages in FrameMaker

2008-02-01 Thread susan.mcdon...@teradyne.com
Using Frame 7.0 on Windows XP Pro. I am in the process of simplifying documents that are based on a template we did not develop. One way I'm trying to simplify is by reducing the number of master pages from the current 40+ to the 2-3 that we use. I have over 200 files to update, and would reall

XHTML or CALS tables?

2008-02-01 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:24:11 +0100, Peter Ring wrote: >Should I use the XHTML or CALS table model for structured documents >and XML storage format? I'd lean toward CALS. It's the one supported in DITA, which is the most buzzword-compliant XML format out there at present. ;-) CALS is also th

keep with next para

2008-02-01 Thread Graeme R Forbes
I have a proof consisting in a sequence of lines across a page, each a paragraph, and each line separated from the next by a shallow anchored frame that contains a separator line. Each line/para is set to keep with the next one since the whole proof must display on the same page. However, in o

HELP - Deleting Multiple Master Pages in FrameMaker

2008-02-01 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Susan: Have you tried saving files as MIF, opening in a text editor, then deleting the unwanted master page definitions C*A*R*E*F*U*L*L*Y, saving and reopening in FM? In addition to MIF2GO for converting FM files to MIF, DTP Tools has a free FM2MIF plug-in that can convert whole directories (

How to make a PDF from a Frame book using PDF Converter by Nuance

2008-02-01 Thread Emmy A.
Hello Everyone, Once again I am writing for assistance. We have been using Frame (currently 7.x on Windows XP) for more than 12 years but now we are faced with a problem for which we can't find the answer. Our purchasing department will no longer allow us to buy Acrobat. They purchased an enterpr

Working with Images

2008-02-01 Thread John Sgammato
... > During import I choose 150 DPI, am I insane? By choosing 150dpi you are reducing the print size of the image. In other words you are scaling the picture to make it smaller by increasing the resolution. ... Note that with SnagIt you can opt to capture the image at other resolutions, so yo

Working with Images

2008-02-01 Thread pete.rou...@reefpt.com

Working with Images

2008-02-01 Thread Dennis Brunnenmeyer
Pete... Several important rules of thumb here: 1. Never save screen shots as jpg files, especially highly-compressed ones! They will not look nearly as good as *.bmp files. JPEG compression will soften the images so that they don't look real, like they do on the screen when viewed directly. Si

FM8: Converting Asian FM7 files to Unicode

2008-02-01 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
I wanted to study FM8 Unicode capabilities, so I tried to convert three Asian non-Unicode FM7 files to FM8 Unicode. It hasn't worked out very well. First I tried simply opening the files in FM8. After accepting the "conversion", I saved the Chinese file as FM8 MIF and looked at the text. It was

[f2a] Variable on Master Pages.....getting them to talk

2008-02-01 Thread Alan Litchfield
Hi Eduardo, So, I am assuming you have a file in which all the pages are numbered 2H-2[letter] and that the book file has sequences 2H-[number]? If that is true then Baruch's suggestion is good. But is that the case or do you also have number sequences 2H-3, 2H-3A, ..., 2H-4, 2H-4A,... with

FM8: Converting Asian FM7 files to Unicode

2008-02-01 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
I wanted to study FM8 Unicode capabilities, so I tried to convert three Asian non-Unicode FM7 files to FM8 Unicode. It hasn't worked out very well. First I tried simply opening the files in FM8. After accepting the "conversion", I saved the Chinese file as FM8 MIF and looked at the text. It was

Landscape Tab Pages and PDF Oddities

2008-02-01 Thread Pinkham, Jim
I'm running Frame 7.1p116 and Acrobat 6.0 Professional ver. 6.0.5.2006-03-01 and doing my first really foray into a book that includes extensive landscape tabloid-size pages. I'm noticing two oddities upon generating the PDF (we create a PostScript file first and then typically double-click to acti

Change bars that will not die and making RoboHelp for FrameMaker see

2008-02-01 Thread Thomas Scalise
Esteemed colleagues, Two questions, please. 1. I've got a book that I inherited from a contractor colleague that exhibits persistent change bars, even though I have repeatedly turned them off. Edits immediately bring change bars. Can anyone help me out on this? I'm defeated. 2. Al

XHTML or CALS tables?

2008-02-01 Thread Peter Ring
Apologies for cross-posting. I'm aware that this is a question that deserves ridicule, along the question 'Should I use attributes or elements to store data?' (according to the NOT the comp.text.sgml FAQ: 'Of course. What else would you use?'). Anyway, here we go: Should I use the XHTML or CAL

Working with Images

2008-02-01 Thread Pete Rourke
Here is another newbie question. FM8 - XP (importing into anchored frames) I am using Snagit (default image resolution 96dpi, and saving as .jpg) to capture screenshots for a end user manual which assumes the user needs visual walkthrough of using a desktop application and a pocket pc. The

keep with next para

2008-02-01 Thread Graeme R Forbes
I have a proof consisting in a sequence of lines across a page, each a paragraph, and each line separated from the next by a shallow anchored frame that contains a separator line. Each line/para is set to keep with the next one since the whole proof must display on the same page. However, in o

HELP - Deleting Multiple Master Pages in FrameMaker

2008-02-01 Thread susan . mcdonald
Using Frame 7.0 on Windows XP Pro. I am in the process of simplifying documents that are based on a template we did not develop. One way I'm trying to simplify is by reducing the number of master pages from the current 40+ to the 2-3 that we use. I have over 200 files to update, and would reall

Re: XHTML or CALS tables?

2008-02-01 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:24:11 +0100, Peter Ring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Should I use the XHTML or CALS table model for structured documents >and XML storage format? I'd lean toward CALS. It's the one supported in DITA, which is the most buzzword-compliant XML format out there at present. ;

Re: HELP - Deleting Multiple Master Pages in FrameMaker

2008-02-01 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Susan: Have you tried saving files as MIF, opening in a text editor, then deleting the unwanted master page definitions C*A*R*E*F*U*L*L*Y, saving and reopening in FM? In addition to MIF2GO for converting FM files to MIF, DTP Tools has a free FM2MIF plug-in that can convert whole directories (

How to make a PDF from a Frame book using PDF Converter by Nuance

2008-02-01 Thread Emmy A.
Hello Everyone, Once again I am writing for assistance. We have been using Frame (currently 7.x on Windows XP) for more than 12 years but now we are faced with a problem for which we can't find the answer. Our purchasing department will no longer allow us to buy Acrobat. They purchased an enterpr

Re: keep with next para

2008-02-01 Thread Alan Litchfield
Hi Graeme, I'm not certain why you are using an anchored frame to separate your paragraphs. Why not just add space between them, then you can specify which paragraphs need to a "keep with next" setting. This does away with the extra paragraph between each text paragraph. These setting are i

Re: Working with Images

2008-02-01 Thread Alan Litchfield
Hi Pete, On 2/02/2008, at 10:53 AM, Pete Rourke wrote: > Here is another newbie question. > > FM8 - XP (importing into anchored frames) > > I am using Snagit (default image resolution 96dpi, and saving > as .jpg) to > capture screenshots for a end user manual which assumes the user needs > vis

RE: Working with Images

2008-02-01 Thread John Sgammato
... > During import I choose 150 DPI, am I insane? By choosing 150dpi you are reducing the print size of the image. In other words you are scaling the picture to make it smaller by increasing the resolution. ... Note that with SnagIt you can opt to capture the image at other resolutions, so y

RE: Working with Images

2008-02-01 Thread pete . rourke
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