Hi Leah,
- scrolling: this used to work:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2060/freewheel.html
- Cannot Lock File: I guess you are using Vista? If so, this problem may
be caused by Vista's User Access Control (UAC), which does not allow you to
change and save files in
Sorry guys, didn't include vital information
I am on Windows XP.
Actually the Can't Lock File For Your Use problem is huger than appeared. FM
won't even let me do Save As. I tried the Save As strategy and get the same
Cannot Lock File dialog again. Help! Help!
Leah Smaller
Technical Writer
First, I notice that the doc isn't following it's own rules about
widows/orphans. Set for three lines, but it is only keeping two words
with the graphic on the next page.
This sounds like it might be a keep with next/keep with previous issue
in the para attached to the graphic or its previous
Leah,
Look in the directory where your FM files are stored for a bunch of
xxx.LCK files. FM creates one of these for each open file. If a second
user tries to open the same one, FM sees it and gives the Can't lock
the file for your use message. If your computer or FM crashes with
files open, the
I didn't take time to test this, but another place to look for a possible
cause to the file locking problem is File Preferences General
Cross-Platform File Naming. I'm not sure, but I think I once got your error
message when I had CPFN set to Macintosh on a Windows machine and tried to
save to
Hi Kristy,
When you toggle between hiding and showing conditionalized text,
FrameMaker may re-assign some paragraph formatting to a previously
hidden paragraph. If you have FrameScript, you'll be able to see that
FrameMaker has assigned the unique paragraph id from one paragraph to
another.
To
Framers,
My company is looking at hiring a new Technical Writer and I thought
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more information please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Job description from Human Resources:
Summary
The technical writer is responsible
Hi Leah,
Thanks for the OS information. Some of the previous thoughts still apply,
but I'll reiterate one which has tripped up the software my company creates.
How draconian is your IT department? Check the permissions on the C:\Program
Files\Adobe\FrameMaker7.0\ folder as well as the folder to
Graeme R Forbes wrote:
If you don't need to know where the overrides are or what they are,
and if there are a lot of them to be eliminated, it might be simpler
to import formats from a copy of your document. The Import Formats
dialog has a setting for removing overrides.
Correct, except that
Mollye,
I can be done on the template level.
Make all your master pages 17x11 and then put a postscript code textbox on each
master page you want trimmed to 8.5 x 11 at distill time. (You have to specify
the rectangle in points in the postscript text box.)
The code you want is:
[/CropBox [0
Hi Sam,
You should check the folowing:
- table placement and anchor position. Using the float setting in
combination with 'top of page' can move a table to a different location,
away from the anchor and change the order of appearance.
- especial in inherited documents: look for the 'end of flow'
Good morning all you mavens,
I just got a new computer a work. this is a good thing. However, the usual
niggly frustrations have reared their ugly little heads. So I need some
guidance.
I am using FrameMaker 7.0
After last computer changer and much hard work, I got the scroll wheel to
scroll in
Hi Leah,
- scrolling: this used to work:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2060/freewheel.html
- Cannot Lock File: I guess you are using Vista? If so, this problem may
be caused by Vista's User Access Control (UAC), which does not allow you to
change and save files in
Sorry guys, didn't include vital information
I am on Windows XP.
Actually the Can't Lock File For Your Use problem is huger than appeared. FM
won't even let me do Save As. I tried the Save As strategy and get the same
Cannot Lock File dialog again. Help! Help!
Leah Smaller
Technical Writer
* Scrolling -- freewheel is the answer
* Missing fonts -- There are some differences between your new and old
machines. The easiest way to fix it would be to install the font set
from the old machine. Failing that, uncheck the Remember box, open the
files, then SAVE THEM.
* The file locking, if it
> First, I notice that the doc isn't following it's own rules about
widows/orphans. Set for three lines, but it is only keeping two words
with the graphic on the next page.
This sounds like it might be a keep with next/keep with previous issue
in the para attached to the graphic or its previous
Leah,
Look in the directory where your FM files are stored for a bunch of
xxx.LCK files. FM creates one of these for each open file. If a second
user tries to open the same one, FM sees it and gives the "Can't lock
the file for your use" message. If your computer or FM crashes with
files open,
I didn't take time to test this, but another place to look for a possible
cause to the file locking problem is File> Preferences> General>
Cross-Platform File Naming. I'm not sure, but I think I once got your error
message when I had CPFN set to Macintosh on a Windows machine and tried to
save
Hi Kristy,
When you toggle between "hiding" and "showing" conditionalized text,
FrameMaker may re-assign some paragraph formatting to a previously
hidden paragraph. If you have FrameScript, you'll be able to see that
FrameMaker has assigned the unique paragraph id from one paragraph to
another.
Framers,
My company is looking at hiring a new Technical Writer and I thought
this would be a great place to start the search. If interested or for
more information please contact rberman at gleason.com.
Job description from Human Resources:
Summary
The technical writer is responsible
Hi Leah,
Thanks for the OS information. Some of the previous thoughts still apply,
but I'll reiterate one which has tripped up the software my company creates.
How draconian is your IT department? Check the permissions on the C:\Program
Files\Adobe\FrameMaker7.0\ folder as well as the folder to
>Is there any way to search for FrameMaker overrides?
Depends on what you want to do, but if your goal is just to find
para-level overrides and, say, override them with the default
paraformat, you could use F/C: check "use wildcards", put the string
"\p" in the find field, and then click
Graeme R Forbes wrote:
> If you don't need to know where the overrides are or what they are,
> and if there are a lot of them to be eliminated, it might be simpler
> to import formats from a copy of your document. The Import Formats
> dialog has a setting for removing overrides.
Correct, except
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