Table Continuation variable in table title

2008-05-20 Thread Leah Smaller
Good day all, I want to update a table format to include the Table continuation variable in the table title, so it is always there when I insert this type of table. I cannot seem to discover how to do this. I know that someone out there has the answer TIA, Leah Smaller Technical

RE: Problems when exporting to PDF from FM8

2008-05-20 Thread Diane Gaskill
I am seeing the same errors, except that I print to PS using Adobe PDF and then distill to PDF. Headings, headers, and footers are sometimes munged, but only during the first few pages of the file. the errors show up on the screen as well as in print. First, I'm going to update FM to 8.03 and

Booklet function with Framemaker

2008-05-20 Thread Andersen, Verner Engell VEA
Hey Is there a plugin which enables to create a booklet with Framemaker. I am thinking of a function where for example page 1 and page 62 is printed on one side of the paper and page 2 and page 61 on the other side of the paper. Best regards, Verner

Fwd: Booklet function with Framemaker

2008-05-20 Thread Art Campbell
The usual way to do this is to paginate the file normally and print the file to PDF. Then use pre-press tools such as Quite Imposing (there are many others that do the same thing) to set up the imposition pattern. Note that it is a pre-press tool. Most FM users can get into trouble with this if

another table question

2008-05-20 Thread Leah Smaller
Is it possible to include text for heading rows in the table format? TIA again, Leah Smaller Technical Communicator Certified Feldenkrais Method practitioner [EMAIL PROTECTED] What you truly learn best will appear to you later as your own discovery. (Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais)

Re: another table question

2008-05-20 Thread Art Campbell
Not automatically generated words controlled directly by the table format, no. However, you can set up a series of paragraph tags, one for each column, and add text to each one's Autonumbering field. If the tag is in the correct Heading Cell, the text will be too. In most cases, if you create a

RE: Booklet function with Framemaker

2008-05-20 Thread Jacob Schäffer
Hello Verner, I'm not sure there is a Plug-in for Framemaker that does it, but Quite Imposing (Plus) is a simple-to-use tool that creates booklets with PDF documents, see http://www.quite.com/imposing/index.htm. Best regards / Med venlig hilsen Jacob Schäffer | Chief Developer Paradis Allé

Re: Table Continuation variable in table title

2008-05-20 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Leah, There is no way to do this automatically with FrameMaker. If you have FrameScript, you could automate this with a script. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com Good day all, I want to update a table format to include the Table continuation variable in

RE: Booklet function with Framemaker

2008-05-20 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, A simple solution would be to create a regular PDF file and then print a booklet to a PDF file via Acrobat. CutePDF is cheap and is able to do this: http://www.cutepdf.com/ Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: another table question

2008-05-20 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Leah, Not text per se, but since the paragraph formats for each cell are stored with the table format, you could use formats that have autonumbers to define the text you want. Here are the general steps you can use: 1) Insert a table with the desired format and the number of columns that

Re: another table question or automatic text in a heading row

2008-05-20 Thread Leah Smaller
I was hoping to avoid this solution, but if ya gotta, ya gotta. And guess what - there is a gotcha. One of the columns is narrow, so the 2 word text wraps around. When these 2 words are the autonumber value, they do not wrap around. They are squeezed onto one line and the second work overlays

Re: another table question

2008-05-20 Thread Rick Henkel
On 5/20/08, Leah Smaller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to include text for heading rows in the table format? We use AutoText (www.siliconprairiesoftware.com) to insert certain table formats with certain text already entered. We use it for a lot of other things, too. -- Rick Henkel

[Accordion] Booklet function with Framemaker

2008-05-20 Thread mathieu jacquet
Hello, Following the topic on issuing booklets from Frame (straight from Frame ou through Acrobat), here is an extra question: how do you (and do you have to, or is it the printer job?) prepare your document when the final format has been agreed to be an accordion booklet? I am facing the

Re: [Accordion] Booklet function with Framemaker

2008-05-20 Thread Art Campbell
I believe that it does, but again, if you're having this printed professionally and you receive specific instructions from the printer that they want something non-standard, it is usually better to give the printer a clean PDF file and let them do the pagination and imposition. That's part of

Re: another table question or automatic text in a heading row

2008-05-20 Thread Art Campbell
A \t adds a tab stop which isn't going to do anything unless you also set up a tab stop in the para tag. See if it'll take a \r to force a return after the first word. That should work, but it doesn't take on my system. However, em spaces do work. Try putting a \sm or two between your words to

Re: another table question or automatic text in a heading row

2008-05-20 Thread Art Campbell
Yup, that's a problem. Especially if you believe the doc, which says it is valid. Damn tech writers ;- ) Art On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Fred Ridder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Replying to Leah Smaller, Art Campbell wrote (in part): See if it'll take a \r to force a return after the

Ignore missing files on open not possible

2008-05-20 Thread Klaus Daube
Dear all, After finding a note from my first FM8 experience last fall about this issue, I'm sorry to present this issue again: FM 8.0.2 on XP SP2, 1GB RAM, plenty of disk space on both machines. A - on the workstation everything works as expected B - on the laptop when opening a file whose

Re: Ignore missing files on open not possible

2008-05-20 Thread Art Campbell
Klaus, With all respect, this looks and sounds as if it's a configuration problem on the laptop, not a FM bug or issue. Something isn't identical... Are the Windows user name and group memvership set up exactly the same on both machines? Exactly, letter / case matches? The FM setup is the same?

RE: Haven't we learnt anything about usability? [wasRe: defaultreply-to-all ]

2008-05-20 Thread Combs, Richard
Mike Bradley wrote: Actually, it doesn't give us the effect we want at all. Not that I'm religious about it, but with Reply to All, the sender of the message to which I reply gets two copies, one sent to him/her and one to the list. This doubles the Internet traffic needlessly, whereas

Re: Haven't we learnt anything about usability? [was Re: defaultreply-to-all ]

2008-05-20 Thread Paul Findon
On 19 May 2008, at 21:16, Mike Bradley wrote: Does this list have a moderator? Could you poll the list so that we can settle this the democratic way? I think Lisa Bronson took over as list mom in 2005. Before that it was Bradley Anderson. Neither have posted anything to this list for

RE: Booklet function with Framemaker

2008-05-20 Thread Dov Isaacs
I would most strongly endorse the Quite Imposing and Quite Imposing Plus plug-ins from Quite Software. I've been using them for a number of years as my imposition tool of choice when not having the luxury of going out for professional printing. The software is highly reliable and efficient with a

RE: Haven't we learnt anything about usability? [wasRe: defaultreply-to-all ]

2008-05-20 Thread Matt Sullivan
Lisa Bronson is now Lisa Gielczyk (like SpellCheck, as she says) Or so says the business card she handed me last summer. Which is the only way I would have been able to get the spelling right. I don't believe she still has a hand in moderation. Sent via reply to all with little effort, but

Ann: GlossBase Available for Download - A free application for generating glossaries

2008-05-20 Thread martin . smith
GolehTek, LLC is pleased to announce the release of GlossBase Personal Edition, a freely-available application that greatly enhances the glossary features of Adobe FrameMaker. GlossBase allows you to define glossary terms using an unlimited number of paragraphs, tables, graphics, and

TimeSavers

2008-05-20 Thread obair81
I am looking into asking our IT department to buy TimeSavers, the FrameMaker plugin. Does anyone on this list use this product? If so, could you email me through the list or directly and let me know how you are using it and your thoughts about the product? Our IT budget is, well, wee, and I

Re: RE turkish sortorder

2008-05-20 Thread Milan Davidovic
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Anneke von den Hoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ann, Thank you very much for the example. I have implemented your example in my document and it works fine! My inbox does not show the response to which you refer; I've got a similar problem with Danish. Can we

RE: TimeSavers

2008-05-20 Thread Linda G. Gallagher
I use it to do two main things, but I know it can do more: - Collapse bookmarks so only the chapter titles show - Make sure the file opens to the first page of the PDF I'll add that the TimeSavers menu in FM and GUI interface in the latest version make using it a breeze. I had an older version

Solution: Thai Docs/Font problem in FM8

2008-05-20 Thread Susan . Corcoran
I have found that the Thai fonts AngsanaNew and Angsana UPC, which were supported in FM7, are not supported in FM8. I was able to download a free Thai font, DBThai, which is supported by FM8. Replacing all Angsana fonts with DBThai fixed the problem. ~ Susan A. Corcoran Honeywell

Re: RE turkish sortorder

2008-05-20 Thread Milan Davidovic
Problem solved; the answer is in the User Guide, and it's fairly clear. I had to look up the Danish alphabet, then use it on the reference page to re-order the index group titles and to replace the $alphabetics building block. Of course, if someone knows an easier way I could have done this, or

Re: Booklet function with Framemaker

2008-05-20 Thread Stuart Rogers
Andersen, Verner Engell VEA wrote: Hey Is there a plugin which enables to create a booklet with Framemaker. I am thinking of a function where for example page 1 and page 62 is printed on one side of the paper and page 2 and page 61 on the other side of the paper. I use Clickbook from

Re: roundtrip documentation and help (Framemaker/Robohelp - chicken or egg?

2008-05-20 Thread Ben Hechter
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Table Continuation variable in table title

2008-05-20 Thread Leah Smaller
Good day all, I want to update a table format to include the Table continuation variable in the table title, so it is always there when I insert this type of table. I cannot seem to discover how to do this. I know that someone out there has the answer TIA, Leah Smaller Technical

Problems when exporting to PDF from FM8

2008-05-20 Thread Diane Gaskill
I am seeing the same errors, except that I print to PS using "Adobe PDF" and then distill to PDF. Headings, headers, and footers are sometimes munged, but only during the first few pages of the file. the errors show up on the screen as well as in print. First, I'm going to update FM to 8.03 and

Booklet function with Framemaker

2008-05-20 Thread Andersen, Verner Engell VEA
Hey Is there a plugin which enables to create a booklet with Framemaker. I am thinking of a function where for example page 1 and page 62 is printed on one side of the paper and page 2 and page 61 on the other side of the paper. Best regards, Verner

Fwd: Booklet function with Framemaker

2008-05-20 Thread Art Campbell
The usual way to do this is to paginate the file normally and print the file to PDF. Then use pre-press tools such as Quite Imposing (there are many others that do the same thing) to set up the imposition pattern. Note that it is a pre-press tool. Most FM users can get into trouble with this if

Booklet function with Framemaker

2008-05-20 Thread Jacob Schäffer
Hello Verner, I'm not sure there is a Plug-in for Framemaker that does it, but Quite Imposing (Plus) is a simple-to-use tool that creates booklets with PDF documents, see http://www.quite.com/imposing/index.htm. Best regards / Med venlig hilsen Jacob Sch?ffer | Chief Developer Paradis All?

another table question

2008-05-20 Thread Leah Smaller
Is it possible to include text for heading rows in the table format? TIA again, Leah Smaller Technical Communicator Certified Feldenkrais Method practitioner leah at compulite.com "What you truly learn best will appear to you later as your own discovery." (Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais)

Table Continuation variable in table title

2008-05-20 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Leah, There is no way to do this automatically with FrameMaker. If you have FrameScript, you could automate this with a script. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com > Good day all, > > I want to update a table format to include the Table continuation variable >

Booklet function with Framemaker

2008-05-20 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, A simple solution would be to create a regular PDF file and then print a booklet to a PDF file via Acrobat. CutePDF is cheap and is able to do this: http://www.cutepdf.com/ Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com >

another table question

2008-05-20 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Leah, Not "text" per se, but since the paragraph formats for each cell are stored with the table format, you could use formats that have autonumbers to define the text you want. Here are the general steps you can use: 1) Insert a table with the desired format and the number of columns that

another table question or automatic text in a heading row

2008-05-20 Thread Leah Smaller
I was hoping to avoid this solution, but if ya gotta, ya gotta. And guess what - there is a gotcha. One of the columns is narrow, so the 2 word text wraps around. When these 2 words are the autonumber value, they do not wrap around. They are squeezed onto one line and the second work overlays

another table question

2008-05-20 Thread Rick Henkel
On 5/20/08, Leah Smaller wrote: > Is it possible to include text for heading rows in the table format? We use AutoText (www.siliconprairiesoftware.com) to insert certain table formats with certain text already entered. We use it for a lot of other things, too. -- Rick Henkel

[Accordion] Booklet function with Framemaker

2008-05-20 Thread mathieu jacquet
Hello, Following the topic on issuing booklets from Frame (straight from Frame ou through Acrobat), here is an extra question: how do you (and do you have to, or is it the printer job?) prepare your document when the final format has been agreed to be an accordion booklet? I am facing the

[Accordion] Booklet function with Framemaker

2008-05-20 Thread Art Campbell
I believe that it does, but again, if you're having this printed professionally and you receive specific instructions from the printer that they want something non-standard, it is usually better to give the printer a clean PDF file and let them do the pagination and imposition. That's part of

another table question or automatic text in a heading row

2008-05-20 Thread Art Campbell
A \t adds a tab stop which isn't going to do anything unless you also set up a tab stop in the para tag. See if it'll take a \r to force a return after the first word. That should work, but it doesn't take on my system. However, em spaces do work. Try putting a \sm or two between your words to

another table question or automatic text in a heading row

2008-05-20 Thread Fred Ridder
Replying to Leah Smaller, Art Campbell wrote (in part): > See if it'll take a \r to force a return after the first word. That > should work, but it doesn't take on my system. \r is not valid in autonumber strings. I would be nice if it were... -FR

another table question or automatic text in a heading row

2008-05-20 Thread Art Campbell
Yup, that's a problem. Especially if you believe the doc, which says it is valid. Damn tech writers ;- ) Art On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Fred Ridder wrote: > Replying to Leah Smaller, Art Campbell wrote (in part): > >> See if it'll take a \r to force a return after the first word. That

Ignore missing files on open not possible

2008-05-20 Thread Klaus Daube
Dear all, After finding a note from my first FM8 experience last fall about this issue, I'm sorry to present this issue again: FM 8.0.2 on XP SP2, 1GB RAM, plenty of disk space on both machines. A - on the workstation everything works as expected B - on the laptop when opening a file whose

Ignore missing files on open not possible

2008-05-20 Thread Art Campbell
Klaus, With all respect, this looks and sounds as if it's a configuration problem on the laptop, not a FM bug or issue. Something isn't identical... Are the Windows user name and group memvership set up exactly the same on both machines? Exactly, letter / case matches? The FM setup is the same?

Haven't we learnt anything about usability? [was"Re: default"reply-to-all" "]

2008-05-20 Thread Combs, Richard
Mike Bradley wrote: > Actually, it doesn't give us the effect we want at all. Not that I'm > religious > about it, but with Reply to All, the sender of the message to which I > reply gets > two copies, one sent to him/her and one to the list. This doubles the > Internet > traffic needlessly,

Haven't we learnt anything about usability? [was "Re: default"reply-to-all" "]

2008-05-20 Thread Paul Findon
On 19 May 2008, at 21:16, Mike Bradley wrote: >> Does this list have a moderator? Could you poll the list so that >> we can settle > this the democratic way? I think Lisa Bronson took over as list mom in 2005. Before that it was Bradley Anderson. Neither have posted anything to this list for

Booklet function with Framemaker

2008-05-20 Thread Dov Isaacs
I would most strongly endorse the Quite Imposing and Quite Imposing Plus plug-ins from Quite Software. I've been using them for a number of years as my imposition tool of choice when not having the luxury of going out for professional printing. The software is highly reliable and efficient with a

Haven't we learnt anything about usability? [was"Re: default"reply-to-all" "]

2008-05-20 Thread Matt Sullivan
Lisa Bronson is now Lisa Gielczyk (like "SpellCheck, as she says) Or so says the business card she handed me last summer. Which is the only way I would have been able to get the spelling right. I don't believe she still has a hand in moderation. Sent via "reply to all" with little effort, but

how to get list of variables and values

2008-05-20 Thread Karene Millar
Does anyone know of a way to get a complete list (text is fine) of all the variables in a FM file and their values? I'm using FM 7.1 Thank you! Karene

Conditional Text Just Won't Go Away

2008-05-20 Thread Jona Steenbrink
Disclaimer: I apologize if this message appears on the list twice. The first time I sent it, I did not use the email address that is registered with framers. Hi. FM 8.0p273 Windows XP (running on parallels on a Mac) I am fast approaching the end of my tether working with conditional