Re: Framers Digest, Vol 36, Issue 3

Charlene Glover typed I am making changes to a book in Framemaker, whenever I try to save the document I get the following error message: An internal error occurred while importing graphics in this document. The file has been saved but has lost some image data. Please report error to

Framemaker generates invalid XML from valid document

This error has been popping up occasionally when saving as XML since we moved to Framemaker 8 (note that saving the same document using Frame 7.2 does not generate an error): XML Parser Messages (Document Prolog) ... Message Invalid character (Unicode: 0x11) ... Message: Expected a literal entity

TOC

Hi all! FM 8.0, Windows XP. I'm generating an auto TOC, and it keeps using the format from my title page, which is different than the format for the rest of the book. The title page was the first file in the book, so I moved it down, but the autoTOC still picked it up. I imported formats from

Re: TOC

The easiest way to fix it would be to import formats from one of your working TOCs... Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded grl. -- Richard Thompson No

PDFs -- to tag or not

I've just been reading in the FM help file about why one would select Generate Tagged PDF -- but are there any circumstances under which we'd want to clear it? I.e. is tagging sometimes undesireable? Thanks... -- Milan Davidovic http://altmilan.blogspot.com

Re: TOC

Thank you so much Art! I've been going through by hand, trying one thing after another, and about 30 seconds ago, I thought, hum, why don't I try importing formats from one of my working TOCs? LOL Any insight into why the autoTOC was picking up the title page, even after I moved it out of first

RE: TOC

Deidre, When you moved the title page, did you delete the autoTOC? When you first create a toc, the formats are taken from the first file in the book (as you discovered). Once the toc has been created, the formats are taken from itself. In your case, since it already had the formats from the

Re: TOC

Hi Mike: I did delete the TOC but it kept pulling from the title page. And oddly enough, it appears to be pulling from an OLD title page -- there was a draft graphic on the second page that I removed 5 or 6 iterations ago. When I imported formats from a different file, the master pages changed,

RE: TOC

My experience is that generally the most foolproof approach is to copy an existing TOC - or tem[late of same (or LOF or LOT or Index etc) into the book folder where you are creating the new one. Then when you update the book, it will write into that file, replacing the old content (if present)

RE: TOC

A key to making what Michael said work is to rename the existing TOC to be the name the current book would give it, then in FM add a toc to the book. I guess that makes it two keys to making this work. ;) ~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC lindag at techcomplus dot

RE: TOC

Yes, exactly. We have templates for all the generated files, as well as the content chapter files, book cover etc. and they have saved us a lot of grief Regards, Micheal O'Laoghaire BSS Line of Product Documentation Comverse Inc. Cambridge, MA. Tel: (617) 273-5414 -Original Message-

RE: PDFs -- to tag or not

I've just been reading in the FM help file about why one would select Generate Tagged PDF -- but are there any circumstances under which we'd want to clear it? I.e. is tagging sometimes undesireable? My experience has been very weird with this. FrameMaker 8 (latest patches) and Acrobat 8 Pro

OT: PPTX

Hello Framers, Is anyone doing any conversions to PPTX, which is an XML representation of a presentation (for example, Powerpoint slides). I have some structured FrameMaker slides that I want to convert to Powerpoint. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc

truncated Framemaker

Hi all! FM 8.0 Windows XP My colleague's Paragraph Designer only has two tabs, and his menus are truncated. I've seen this before but I can't remember what the command is to make all of Framemaker's features come back. Any thoughts? Thanks, Deirdre

Re: PDFs -- to tag or not

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My experience has been very weird with this. FrameMaker 8 (latest patches) and Acrobat 8 Pro (latest patches) Interesting -- though in my case I'm on FM 7.2 and the issue I'm facing isn't in FM or Acrobat themselves, but with another

RE: PDFs -- to tag or not

Tags increase the PDF file size, if that's important. Clint Clinton Owen | Senior Technical Writer | Crane Aerospace Electronics | +1 425-743-8674 | F: +1 425-743-8113 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Milan Davidovic Sent: Friday,

Re: truncated Framemaker

View Menus Complete Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com - Original Message - From: Deirdre Reagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Framer's List framers@lists.frameusers.com Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 11:43 AM Subject: truncated Framemaker Hi all! FM 8.0

RE: PDFs -- to tag or not

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My experience has been very weird with this. FrameMaker 8 (latest patches) and Acrobat 8 Pro (latest patches) Interesting -- though in my case I'm on FM 7.2 and the issue I'm facing isn't in FM or Acrobat themselves, but with

Re: truncated Framemaker

That's it! Thanks all. Deirdre On 10/3/08, Rick Quatro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: View Menus Complete Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com - Original Message - From: Deirdre Reagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Framer's List framers@lists.frameusers.com

RE: Regarding Internal Message

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I swear I have never knowingly imported any graphic into FM using OLE. But, somehow in my older FM files that have some copied into document graphics, once SP3 was installed these graphics became OLE and I got the error that you describe. Those graphics always

Re: Regarding Internal Message - Importing Visio Drawing

  Dear Framers,   I have taken the liberty to modify the subject line slighly.   I encountered the same problem over four weeks ago and posted a message about it. My original message is attached.   My problem started suddenly due to no fault of mine when I wanted to edit already imported

RANT: FrameMaker's help function

Is anyone else as annoyed by FrameMaker's useless help function as I am? I want to put a page break in my table. Here's what I get when I type table break into the Help search function: *** Controlling page breaks in tables If all the rows of a table don't fit in a text column, some of the

Re: RANT: FrameMaker's help function

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Deirdre Reagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone else as annoyed by FrameMaker's useless help function as I am? I don't actually get mad anymore until I can't find the answer *anywhere*. Is this what you're looking for?

RE: RANT: FrameMaker's help function

Deirdre Reagan wrote: I especially like this nugget of useful information: forcing a page break [is] not part of the format; they are custom settings, which you make on a case-by-case basis. Um, where? How? In case anyone here doesn't know, it's Table Row Format Start Row:. Yeah,

Re: RANT: FrameMaker's help function

Hi, Deirdre: In FM Help, it's common that information is present, but it is described in terms that aren't exactly the ones you expect or search for, or it is buried in the mass of found topics. Your search did find what you needed, about 12 lines down, in the topic, Breaking tables at a

Re: RANT: FrameMaker's help function

Look at that! Yes indeed. If only someone would invent a function that allows a link between text in one file and text in another file. Ah, a girl can dream. LOL Thanks, Deirdre On 10/3/08, Peter Gold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Deirdre: In FM Help, it's common that information is

Re: RANT: FrameMaker's help function

Hi, Dierdre: On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Deirdre Reagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look at that! Yes indeed. If only someone would invent a function that allows a link between text in one file and text in another file. Ah, a girl can dream. LOL Thanks, You're welcome. Please do file

Framers Digest, Vol 36, Issue 3

Charlene Glover typed >I am making changes to a book in Framemaker, whenever I try to > save the document I get the following error message: > > An internal error occurred while importing graphics in this document. > The file has been saved but has lost some image data. Please report >

Framemaker generates invalid XML from valid document

This error has been popping up occasionally when saving as XML since we moved to Framemaker 8 (note that saving the same document using Frame 7.2 does not generate an error): XML Parser Messages (Document Prolog) ... Message Invalid character (Unicode: 0x11) ... Message: Expected a literal entity

TOC

Hi all! FM 8.0, Windows XP. I'm generating an auto TOC, and it keeps using the format from my title page, which is different than the format for the rest of the book. The title page was the first file in the book, so I moved it down, but the autoTOC still picked it up. I imported formats from

TOC

The easiest way to fix it would be to import formats from one of your working TOCs... Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded grl." -- Richard Thompson No

PDFs -- to tag or not

I've just been reading in the FM help file about why one would select "Generate Tagged PDF" -- but are there any circumstances under which we'd want to clear it? I.e. is tagging sometimes undesireable? Thanks... -- Milan Davidovic http://altmilan.blogspot.com

TOC

Thank you so much Art! I've been going through by hand, trying one thing after another, and about 30 seconds ago, I thought, hum, why don't I try importing formats from one of my working TOCs? LOL Any insight into why the autoTOC was picking up the title page, even after I moved it out of first

PDFs -- to tag or not

If the PDF is tagged, it's easier to go to specific parts/paras of it from outside sources. Like if you were doing context sensitive help and wanted to map to a specific location within the PDF. Art Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world

TOC

Deidre, When you moved the title page, did you delete the autoTOC? When you first create a toc, the formats are taken from the first file in the book (as you discovered). Once the toc has been created, the formats are taken from itself. In your case, since it already had the formats from the

TOC

Hi Mike: I did delete the TOC but it kept pulling from the title page. And oddly enough, it appears to be pulling from an OLD title page -- there was a draft graphic on the second page that I removed 5 or 6 iterations ago. When I imported formats from a different file, the master pages changed,

TOC

My experience is that generally the most foolproof approach is to copy an existing TOC - or tem[late of same (or LOF or LOT or Index etc) into the book folder where you are creating the new one. Then when you update the book, it will write into that file, replacing the old content (if present)

TOC

A key to making what Michael said work is to rename the existing TOC to be the name the current book would give it, then in FM add a toc to the book. I guess that makes it two keys to making this work. ;) ~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC lindag at techcomplus dot

TOC

Yes, exactly. We have templates for all the generated files, as well as the content chapter files, book cover etc. and they have saved us a lot of grief Regards, Micheal O'Laoghaire BSS Line of Product Documentation Comverse Inc. Cambridge, MA. Tel: (617) 273-5414 -Original Message-

PDFs -- to tag or not

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Art Campbell wrote: > If the PDF is tagged, it's easier to go to specific parts/paras of it > from outside sources. Like if you were doing context sensitive help > and wanted to map to a specific location within the PDF. Thanks -- can you think of any

truncated Framemaker

Hi all! FM 8.0 Windows XP My colleague's Paragraph Designer only has two tabs, and his menus are truncated. I've seen this before but I can't remember what the command is to make all of Framemaker's features come back. Any thoughts? Thanks, Deirdre

PDFs -- to tag or not

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:41 AM, wrote: > My experience has been very weird with this. FrameMaker 8 (latest > patches) and Acrobat 8 Pro (latest patches) Interesting -- though in my case I'm on FM 7.2 and the issue I'm facing isn't in FM or Acrobat themselves, but with another piece of software

PDFs -- to tag or not

Tags increase the PDF file size, if that's important. Clint Clinton Owen | Senior Technical Writer | Crane Aerospace & Electronics | +1 425-743-8674 | F: +1 425-743-8113 -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On

truncated Framemaker

View > Menus > Complete Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com - Original Message - From: "Deirdre Reagan" To: "Framer's List" Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 11:43 AM Subject: truncated Framemaker > Hi all! > > FM 8.0 Windows XP

PDFs -- to tag or not

> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:41 AM, wrote: > > My experience has been very weird with this. FrameMaker 8 (latest > > patches) and Acrobat 8 Pro (latest patches) > > Interesting -- though in my case I'm on FM 7.2 and the issue I'm > facing isn't in FM or Acrobat themselves, but with another piece

truncated Framemaker

That's it! Thanks all. Deirdre On 10/3/08, Rick Quatro wrote: > View > Menus > Complete > > Rick Quatro > Carmen Publishing Inc > 585-659-8267 > www.frameexpert.com > > - Original Message - From: "Deirdre Reagan" > > To: "Framer's List" > Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 11:43 AM >

Regarding Internal Message

rinch at Inficon.com wrote: > I swear I have never knowingly imported any graphic into FM using OLE. > > But, somehow in my older FM files that have some "copied into document" > graphics, once SP3 was installed these graphics became OLE and I got the > error that you describe. Those graphics

Regarding Internal Message - Importing Visio Drawing

? Dear Framers, ? I have taken the liberty?to modify the subject line slighly. ? I encountered the same problem over?four weeks ago and posted a message about it. My original message is attached. ? My problem started suddenly due to no fault of mine when?I wanted to edit already imported

RANT: FrameMaker's "help" function

Is anyone else as annoyed by FrameMaker's useless help function as I am? I want to put a page break in my table. Here's what I get when I type "table break" into the Help search function: *** Controlling page breaks in tables If all the rows of a table don't fit in a text column, some of the

RANT: FrameMaker's "help" function

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Deirdre Reagan wrote: > Is anyone else as annoyed by FrameMaker's useless help function as I am? I don't actually get mad anymore until I can't find the answer *anywhere*. Is this what you're looking for?

RANT: FrameMaker's "help" function

Deirdre Reagan wrote: > I especially like this nugget of useful information: "forcing a page > break [is] not part of the format; they are custom settings, which you > make on a case-by-case basis." > > Um, where? How? > > In case anyone here doesn't know, it's Table> Row Format > Start Row:.

RANT: FrameMaker's "help" function

Hi, Deirdre: In FM Help, it's common that information is present, but it is described in terms that aren't exactly the ones you expect or search for, or it is buried in the mass of found topics. Your search did find what you needed, about 12 lines down, in the topic, "Breaking tables at a

RANT: FrameMaker's "help" function

Look at that! Yes indeed. If only someone would invent a function that allows a link between text in one file and text in another file. Ah, a girl can dream. LOL Thanks, Deirdre On 10/3/08, Peter Gold wrote: > Hi, Deirdre: > > In FM Help, it's common that information is present, but it is

RANT: FrameMaker's "help" function

Hi, Dierdre: On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Deirdre Reagan wrote: > Look at that! Yes indeed. > > If only someone would invent a function that allows a link between > text in one file and text in another file. Ah, a girl can dream. > > LOL > > Thanks, You're welcome. Please do file your