Re: Optimize preview of EPS files?

Thanks Rick, indeed, downloading Transverter Pro is still possible, but activating the product does not seem to work any longer. I'll follow Dov's and Fred's recommendation (as usual) and import PDFs instead. Thanks. Yves On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Rick Quatro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: Optimize preview of EPS files?

Hi Yves, You could also add a preview via GhostScript (eventually also with Epstool). On this web-site various methods are described: http://www.dfanning.com/tips/postscript_preview.html Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

I cannot get pdfmark to work

Hello I insert the following in a postscript frame on my forntpage of my manual: [/PageMode /UseOutlines /Page 2 /View [/XYZ null null null]/DOCVIEW pdfmark I want my pdf file to open on page 2 when opened. It does not seem to work. Is the syntax wrong or do you know of another way of

Re: I cannot get pdfmark to work

Hi Verner, have you tried Format Document PDF Setup Settings tab Open PDF Document on Page 2? Kind regards -- Yves Barbion Managing Director Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor Scripto bvba Asselsstraat 65 9031 Gent Belgium T: +32 494 12 01 89 F: +32

Re: I cannot get pdfmark to work

Verner, You wrote: I insert the following in a postscript frame on my forntpage of my manual: [/PageMode /UseOutlines /Page 2 /View [/XYZ null null null]/DOCVIEW pdfmark I want my pdf file to open on page 2 when opened. It does not seem to work. Is the syntax wrong or do you know of another

Text-related search question

How do I search for paragraphs that do not end with a period? I've played around with wildcards in the Find/change box, with no success. Thanks, Eli. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL

RE: Optimize preview of EPS files?

Framers, PSAlter from Quite can also add preview to most documents with PostScript level 1 and 2 content. I'm unaware whether or not you can define custom resolution of the generated preview, though. Anyway, be aware about a possible limitation with importing PDF documents into Windows

publishing problems for Kazakh

Hello Framers, I hope there is someone out there who can help me… I am publishing a document in Kazakh language in Structured FrameMaker7.2 in combination with a CMS. For Russian and sort-like languages I use Arial Cyr, with a unicode mapping table Kazakh uses some extended cyrillic

RE: Optimize preview of EPS files?

Creating previews with Ghostscript (which internally seem to use the EPSWrite device) will -- if I'm not mistaken -- convert a lot of graphic elements and text to bitmaps, and all colors will turn into plain RGB. Hence, the resulting EPS document may not be device independent anymore. I

IS THIS POSSIBLE AT ALL

Hello Framers, here I'm presenting an impossible task. :-). I have a 300 pages document which consists of 9 sections. I need to generate an index for it. Page number format should look like this: X-PP, where X is a section number and PP - page number. Had I separate files, that would not be a

Re: IS THIS POSSIBLE AT ALL

It's a clunky solution predicated by your keeping the book in one file, but just set up different master pages. The only difference between master pages or sets of master pages would be the differing Xs hard-coded into the footers: one set for Section 1, one set for Section 2, etc. Apply those

Re: publishing problems for Kazakh

It could be a font file error, but it sounds to me as if Acrobat may not have access to the same fonts that FM does. In your Acrobat set up, there's a font location item. Make sure that all font directories. Also, make sure that Acrobat is set as the system's default printer, to eliminate the

Re: Text-related search question

Eli, You wrote: How do I search for paragraphs that do not end with a period? I've played around with wildcards in the Find/change box, with no success. [^.]\p (with Use Wildcards selected). Shlomo Perets MicroType, http://www.microtype.com * ToolbarPlus Express for FrameMaker

Re: IS THIS POSSIBLE AT ALL

So Michael, what you're asking is if you can have one format of page numbers on the pages and a second, different format in the Index? Is that correct? *** Just in passing, almost all actions that can be applied to a file can also be applied to every file in a book -- that's the way most FM users

anchored frame alignment with insertion point

Hi All, i'm trying to find out a method to have the anchored frame which is inserted at insertion point to come aligned over the text. please see the attached image. As of now, i'm manually resizing the anchored frame to acheive this. As the anchored frame uses the paragraph tag, which is

RE: IS THIS POSSIBLE AT ALL

Hi Michael, It is possible - provided that your section numbers are generated using paragraph autonumbering. First, if you've not already generated an index for the doc, do so. Then, in the generated index file, view the references pages. There should be a page called IX (with a flow called

Re: IS THIS POSSIBLE AT ALL

Hi Rob, This type of building block: $paranumonly[Section] does not work in generated files. You will get the closest previous autonumber to the index marker instead of any that you specify in square brackets. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com Hi Michael, It

RE: IS THIS POSSIBLE AT ALL

Well, what I figured and is working... I added autonumbering to my Section paragraphs. Position of the numbers at the end of the paragraph so it doesn't throw the position off-center and tagged with a chartag that colors it white. $paranumonly[Section] does work fine in generated files

RE: Marketing a product: which language for the documentation

I used to do this kind of work and also hire it done in the specialty food trade. I can tell you without hesitancy that you will save money in the long run if you hire a consultant/broker engaged in this line of work to advise you on or handle all of the requirements. -Original Message-

Re: anchored frame alignment with insertion point

Aravindhan T S wrote: Hi All, i'm trying to find out a method to have the anchored frame which is inserted at insertion point to come aligned over the text. please see the attached image. As of now, i'm manually resizing the anchored frame to acheive this. As the anchored frame uses

Re: anchored frame alignment with insertion point

Aravind, No attachment came through, but I think I understand your goal: graphic alignment at the level of indentation of the surrounding text. We achieve this by having the graphic inserted At Insertion Point in a special formatting paragraph we call Spacer. The Spacer format has tabs at each

RE: Barcode font

Hi Will, There are lots and lots of different barcode fonts out there. Each will encode the barcode string (the information that the barcode represents) differently. So the barcode font you should use really depends on the scanner device that will interpret the barcode. The best analogy off the

RE: IS THIS POSSIBLE AT ALL

Well spotted Rick, Serves me right for trying it out on a simple file... I'd forgotten that behaviour (or lack of it) in generated files. I guess the other alternative is to not use any other autonumbering in the rest of the document (just like using Word...) Rob -Original Message-

Separating Color and BW pages for printing

Has anyone created a process in either standard or structured FM to automatically separate the color pages from the BW so they can be sent to separate printers? Due to the high cost and slower printing speed of the color printer, we need to separate these pages to minimize both the costs and

Basic question- Visio to Frame

Hi, I have about 10 figures in Visio that need to go into my Frame document. Would a simple cut and paste work or is there a preferred method of working with Visio files if they are to be incorporated into the Frame Doc? Windows XP/Frame 7.2 (unstructured) Thanks,Krishna

Help, cannot import objects from visio

Hi there, I am currently using Visio 2007 and FrameMaker 7.1. I used to be able to import objects (Fileà importàobjectàCreate from file) from visio (saved as drawings or vsd) into Frame. Recently, if I try to import an object it lets me, but when I save I get the following error message: An

Re: Basic question- Visio to Frame

The accepted way to do this was to import Visio files as OLE objects, however OLE didn't always work reliably, especially if you were doing several files. Just lately, after installing XP SP3, even that limited method quit working for me and several others who have reported problems. If I were

Re: Help, cannot import objects from visio

This was reported a couple weeks ago on this and several other FM sites, just after XP SP3 was released (it includes OLE fixes). Uninstalling SP3 re-enables OLE linking and makes the error messages go away; keeping it installed keeps it broken. I haven't heard of any work arounds or that the

Re: Basic question- Visio to Frame

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I were you, I'd print to a PDF from Visio or SaveAs a graphic format from Visio and import the resulting file as a referenced file. When I had to do this (a couple of years ago), I was advised to save the Visio diagram as

Re: Basic question- Visio to Frame

Milan, et al ... When I had to do this (a couple of years ago), I was advised to save the Visio diagram as a .wmf file, and then import that. I've had all kinds of text/font related problems trying to use *.wmf files created by Visio in the past. Perhaps things have improved since, but I

RE: Basic question- Visio to Frame

Commenting on how to import figures from Visio, Milan Davidovic wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I were you, I'd print to a PDF from Visio or SaveAs a graphic format from Visio and import the resulting file as a referenced file. When I had

Re: Basic question- Visio to Frame

I've been successfully exporting TIF files from Visio and just importing that into FM by reference. The OLE stuff for Visio if FM does work, but it's really quirky/flaky with our files...although, that might be due to still using Visio 2003!! Rene L. Stephenson - Original Message

RE: Basic question- Visio to Frame

Rene Stephenson wrote: I've been successfully exporting TIF files from Visio and just importing that into FM by reference. I'm afraid that's one of the raster file formats I suggested is an unwise choice for a vector drawing. If you're delivering only printed docs and use a sufficiently

OT: Attaching a graphic to a paragraph tag in Word (like we can do in FM) - is this possible?

For all of us Frame users out there who must suffer through Word every now and then (and for all you Word gurus and guruesses, whom I admire heavily for keeping your sanity) - in Framemaker, we can permanently have a graphic placed on a page every time we use a particular paragraph style. For

OT: Attaching a graphic to a format in Word - part II

Further clarification: I actually want to use the same Heading1Line graphic in my Word document. Every time I enter a Heading1, I want the graphic to appear like it does in FM. How do I do that? It can't be in my Header or Footer as it needs to be in the body of the document, and I can't

RE: Attaching a graphic to a paragraph tag in Word (like we can do inFM) - is this possible?

Tammy Van Boening wrote: For all of us Frame users out there who must suffer through Word every now and then (and for all you Word gurus and guruesses, whom I admire heavily for keeping your sanity) - in Framemaker, we can permanently have a graphic placed on a page every time we use a

Re: OT: Attaching a graphic to a format in Word - part II

Tammy Van Boening wrote: Further clarification: I actually want to use the same Heading1Line graphic in my Word document. Every time I enter a Heading1, I want the graphic to appear like it does in FM. How do I do that? It can't be in my Header or Footer as it needs to be in the body of

Barcode font

What about the usual OCR fonts? I though that is the standard. Michael > From: dgcaller at earthlink.net> To: whitefamily at mac.com; william.white at > ViaLogy.com> Subject: RE: Barcode font> Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 13:13:11 > -0700> CC: framers at lists.frameusers.com> > Hi Will,> > We use

why is Frame 8 slower than Frame 6 to import eps files

Hi Folks A few weeks ago, while testing Frame 8 and how it handled one of our typical manuals, I noticed that some graphics imported by reference from a network server were very slow to display on the page (note that this slow display only occurs the first time the graphic is displayed;

Optimize preview of EPS files?

Thanks Rick, indeed, downloading Transverter Pro is still possible, but activating the product does not seem to work any longer. I'll follow Dov's and Fred's recommendation (as usual) and import PDFs instead. Thanks. Yves On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Rick Quatro wrote: > Hi Yves, > >

Optimize preview of EPS files?

Hi Yves, You could also add a preview via GhostScript (eventually also with Epstool). On this web-site various methods are described: http://www.dfanning.com/tips/postscript_preview.html Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com >

I cannot get pdfmark to work

Hello I insert the following in a postscript frame on my forntpage of my manual: [/PageMode /UseOutlines /Page 2 /View [/XYZ null null null]/DOCVIEW pdfmark I want my pdf file to open on page 2 when opened. It does not seem to work. Is the syntax wrong or do you know of another way of

I cannot get pdfmark to work

Hi Verner, have you tried Format > Document > PDF Setup > Settings tab > Open PDF Document on Page 2? Kind regards -- Yves Barbion Managing Director Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor Scripto bvba Asselsstraat 65 9031 Gent Belgium T: +32 494 12 01 89 F:

I cannot get pdfmark to work

Verner, You wrote: >I insert the following in a postscript frame on my forntpage of my >manual: > >[/PageMode /UseOutlines /Page 2 /View [/XYZ null null null]/DOCVIEW >pdfmark > >I want my pdf file to open on page 2 when opened. It does not seem to >work. Is the syntax wrong or do you know of

Text-related search question

How do I search for paragraphs that do not end with a period? I've played around with wildcards in the Find/change box, with no success. Thanks, Eli.

Optimize preview of EPS files?

Framers, PSAlter from Quite can also add preview to most documents with PostScript level 1 and 2 content. I'm unaware whether or not you can define custom resolution of the generated preview, though. Anyway, be aware about a possible limitation with importing PDF documents into Windows

publishing problems for Kazakh

Hello Framers, I hope there is someone out there who can help me? I am publishing a document in Kazakh language in Structured FrameMaker7.2 in combination with a CMS. For Russian and sort-like languages I use Arial Cyr, with a unicode mapping table Kazakh uses some extended cyrillic

Optimize preview of EPS files?

Creating previews with Ghostscript (which internally seem to use the EPSWrite device) will -- if I'm not mistaken -- convert a lot of graphic elements and text to bitmaps, and all colors will turn into plain RGB. Hence, the resulting EPS document may not be device independent anymore. I

IS THIS POSSIBLE AT ALL

Hello Framers, here I'm presenting an impossible task. :-). I have a 300 pages document which consists of 9 sections. I need to generate an index for it. Page number format should look like this: X-PP, where X is a section number and PP - page number. Had I separate files, that would not be a

IS THIS POSSIBLE AT ALL

It's a clunky solution predicated by your keeping the book in one file, but just set up different master pages. The only difference between master pages or sets of master pages would be the differing Xs hard-coded into the footers: one set for Section 1, one set for Section 2, etc. Apply those

publishing problems for Kazakh

It could be a font file error, but it sounds to me as if Acrobat may not have access to the same fonts that FM does. In your Acrobat set up, there's a font location item. Make sure that all font directories. Also, make sure that Acrobat is set as the system's default printer, to eliminate the

Text-related search question

Eli, You wrote: >How do I search for paragraphs that do not end with a period? >I've played around with wildcards in the Find/change box, with no success. [^.]\p (with Use Wildcards selected). Shlomo Perets MicroType, http://www.microtype.com * ToolbarPlus Express for FrameMaker

IS THIS POSSIBLE AT ALL

So Michael, what you're asking is if you can have one format of page numbers on the pages and a second, different format in the Index? Is that correct? *** Just in passing, almost all actions that can be applied to a file can also be applied to every file in a book -- that's the way most FM users

anchored frame alignment with insertion point

Hi All, i'm trying to find out a method to have the anchored frame which is inserted at insertion point to come aligned over the text. please see the attached image. As of now, i'm manually resizing the anchored frame to acheive this. As the anchored frame uses the paragraph tag, which is

IS THIS POSSIBLE AT ALL

Hi Michael, It is possible - provided that your section numbers are generated using paragraph autonumbering. First, if you've not already generated an index for the doc, do so. Then, in the generated index file, view the references pages. There should be a page called IX (with a flow called

IS THIS POSSIBLE AT ALL

Hi Rob, This type of building block: <$paranumonly[Section]> does not work in generated files. You will get the closest previous autonumber to the index marker instead of any that you specify in square brackets. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com Hi Michael, It

IS THIS POSSIBLE AT ALL

Well, what I figured and is working... I added autonumbering to my Section paragraphs. Position of the numbers at the end of the paragraph so it doesn't throw the position off-center and tagged with a chartag that colors it white. <$paranumonly[Section]> does work fine in generated files

Marketing a product: which language for the documentation

I used to do this kind of work and also hire it done in the specialty food trade. I can tell you without hesitancy that you will save money in the long run if you hire a consultant/broker engaged in this line of work to advise you on or handle all of the requirements. > -Original Message-

anchored frame alignment with insertion point

Aravindhan T S wrote: > Hi All, > > i'm trying to find out a method to have the anchored frame which is inserted > at insertion point to come aligned over the text. > > please see the attached image. > > As of now, i'm manually resizing the anchored frame to acheive this. > > As the anchored

anchored frame alignment with insertion point

Aravind, No attachment came through, but I think I understand your goal: graphic alignment at the level of indentation of the surrounding text. We achieve this by having the graphic inserted At Insertion Point in a special formatting paragraph we call Spacer. The Spacer format has tabs at each

Barcode font

Hi Will, There are lots and lots of different barcode fonts out there. Each will encode the barcode string (the information that the barcode represents) differently. So the barcode font you should use really depends on the scanner device that will interpret the barcode. The best analogy off the

IS THIS POSSIBLE AT ALL

Well spotted Rick, Serves me right for trying it out on a simple file... I'd forgotten that behaviour (or lack of it) in generated files. I guess the other alternative is to not use any other autonumbering in the rest of the document (just like using Word...) Rob -Original Message-

Separating Color and B pages for printing

Has anyone created a process in either standard or structured FM to automatically separate the color pages from the B so they can be sent to separate printers? Due to the high cost and slower printing speed of the color printer, we need to separate these pages to minimize both the costs and

Basic question- Visio to Frame

Hi, I have about 10 figures in Visio that need to go into my Frame document. Would a simple cut and paste work or is there a preferred method of working with Visio files if they are to be incorporated into the Frame Doc? Windows XP/Frame 7.2 (unstructured) Thanks,Krishna

Help, cannot import objects from visio

Hi there, I am currently using Visio 2007 and FrameMaker 7.1. I used to be able to import objects (File? import?object?Create from file) from visio (saved as drawings or vsd) into Frame. Recently, if I try to import an object it lets me, but when I save I get the following error message: "An

Basic question- Visio to Frame

The accepted way to do this was to import Visio files as OLE objects, however OLE didn't always work reliably, especially if you were doing several files. Just lately, after installing XP SP3, even that limited method quit working for me and several others who have reported problems. If I were

Help, cannot import objects from visio

This was reported a couple weeks ago on this and several other FM sites, just after XP SP3 was released (it includes OLE "fixes)." Uninstalling SP3 re-enables OLE linking and makes the error messages go away; keeping it installed keeps it broken. I haven't heard of any work arounds or that the

Basic question- Visio to Frame

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Art Campbell wrote: > If I were you, I'd print to a PDF from Visio or SaveAs a graphic > format from Visio and import the resulting file as a referenced file. When I had to do this (a couple of years ago), I was advised to save the Visio diagram as a .wmf file,

Basic question- Visio to Frame

Milan, et al ... >>When I had to do this (a couple of years ago), I was advised to save the Visio diagram as a .wmf file, and then import that.<< I've had all kinds of text/font related problems trying to use *.wmf files created by Visio in the past. Perhaps things have improved since, but I

Basic question- Visio to Frame

Commenting on how to import figures from Visio, Milan Davidovic wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Art Campbell > wrote: > > If I were you, I'd print to a PDF from Visio or SaveAs a graphic > > format from Visio and import the resulting file as a referenced file. > > When I had to do

Basic question- Visio to Frame

I've been successfully exporting TIF files from Visio and just importing that into FM by reference. The OLE stuff for Visio if FM does work, but it's really quirky/flaky with our files...although, that might be due to still using Visio 2003!! Rene L. Stephenson - Original Message

Basic question- Visio to Frame

Art Campbell wrote: > The accepted way to do this was to import Visio files as OLE objects, > however OLE didn't always work reliably, especially if you were doing > several files. Just lately, after installing XP SP3, even that limited > method quit working for me and several others who have

Basic question- Visio to Frame

Rene Stephenson wrote: > I've been successfully exporting TIF files from Visio and just importing > that into FM by reference. I'm afraid that's one of the raster file formats I suggested is an unwise choice for a vector drawing. If you're delivering only printed docs and use a sufficiently

OT: Attaching a graphic to a paragraph tag in Word (like we can do in FM) - is this possible?

For all of us Frame users out there who must suffer through Word every now and then (and for all you Word gurus and guruesses, whom I admire heavily for keeping your sanity) - in Framemaker, we can permanently have a graphic placed on a page every time we use a particular paragraph style. For

OT: Attaching a graphic to a format in Word - part II

Further clarification: I actually want to use the same Heading1Line graphic in my Word document. Every time I enter a Heading1, I want the graphic to appear like it does in FM. How do I do that? It can't be in my Header or Footer as it needs to be in the body of the document, and I can't

Attaching a graphic to a paragraph tag in Word (like we can do inFM) - is this possible?

Tammy Van Boening wrote: > For all of us Frame users out there who must suffer through Word every > now and then (and for all you Word gurus and guruesses, whom I admire > heavily for keeping your sanity) - in Framemaker, we can permanently > have a graphic placed on a page every time we use a

OT: Attaching a graphic to a format in Word - part II

Tammy Van Boening wrote: > Further clarification: > > I actually want to use the same Heading1Line graphic in my Word > document. Every time I enter a Heading1, I want the graphic to appear > like it does in FM. How do I do that? It can't be in my Header or Footer > as it needs to be in the body