These are readily available from Adobe. I got one and gave it to my
client in case I get hit by a truck. Since they don't have Frame 9
anywhere in the office (it comes in with me and my laptop), they'd be
in a jam if they needed to get something done quickly and I was
incapacitated. With
Hi Matt, Rick, and Everyone,
What the maximum number of user variables that can be created in FM 8? The FM
help says that the maximum number of characters in a variable definition is
255, but does not specify the maximum number of variables.
Thanks,
Diane
Hi Jenny,
Could you tell me how to get it from Adobe? I am in India. I visited
www.adobe.com and could not find any link for getting the 30-day trial.
__
Smile can help you in winning awards in beauty pageants
Regards,
NJ
Applying Keep with Next in this way is basically making exceptions to
the paragraph styles. It's not the type of thing they would make a
shortcut key for. If you want a shortcut key, you might consider adding
a style for the end of the page. You could call it EndOfPage, and define
it with 600
Login to Adobe go to http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=tcs
-Original Message-
From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Neeraj Jain
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 5:49 AM
To: Jenny Greenleaf;
Hi Diane,
I am not sure what the limit is, but I just used this little code snippet to
create 10,000 of them in a blank document, and it seemed to work fine.
Loop While(i = 1) LoopVar(i) Init(1) Incr(1)
New VariableFormat DocObject(ActiveDoc) Name('Variable'+i);
EndLoop
How many do
It's pretty easy, but I'd use an Anchor paragraph tag that doesn't contain
text. Its only purpose is to provide a spot outside text paragraphs to hang
an anchored frame or table.
Once these are in place, you can easily conditionalize the para tag and the
only effect is to hide the anchored frame
Jenny,
You wrote:
One of the things I do frequently is set paragraphs to keep with next.
Is there a key combination to perform this task?
I have looked through the Frame User Guide, which lists a lot of key
combinations, but didn't see this one.
-- adding to the fine suggestions made by Rick
You can look for keystroke commands in the *.cfg files in your
FrameMaker installation directory. There may be one for applying Keep
With Next Paragraph. You can learn about customizing these files here:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/framemaker/pdfs/Customizing_Frame_Products.pdf
If it's not
Jeff Coatsworth wrote:
Login to Adobe go to
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=tcs
-Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Neeraj
Jain Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 5:49 AM To:
Shmuel Wolfson wrote:
Applying Keep with Next in this way is basically making exceptions to
the paragraph styles. It's not the type of thing they would make a
shortcut key for.
Actually, it *is* the type of thing they would make a shortcut key for,
but apparently didn't.
There are
What I am looking for is not a download. The suite is very heavy, and I do not
have so much bandwidth.
I am looking for a TCS2 trial CD/DVD.
__
Smile can help you in winning awards in beauty pageants
Regards,
NJ
http://www.neerajjain8.com
As others have said, there isn't a key combination that will do this
directly. However, you can ease the pain a little.
- Type either CTRL+M (single key combination) or ESC o p d (four
separate characters) to open the paragraph designer.
- Select the Pagination tab. If you are doing a lot of
... and if you get into the paragraph designer, but you want to jump
back to your active document without making changes, press SHIFT+F7.
This will work from most FrameMaker dialogs.
I hope they haven't changed any of these for FM 9.
Ian
Ian Hawkins wrote:
Try it a few times; it's really not
You can order one on that page or they're now offering a virtual server install
so you don't have to wait for the DVD to arrive
-Original Message-
From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Neeraj Jain
Sent: Wednesday, October
This is a weird one -- any clues would be appreciated.
I'm generating HTML Help using Mif2GO and two conditionalized Frame 9
books. I don't want the LOT or LOF in the outputs, so I've set
UseFrameGenFiles=No.
Nevertheless, when I search for terms such as figure or table in the
Help, the
Jim,
Just remove the generated files from the book before setting up Mif2Go.
Mif2Go can create the generated files selected if you so choose in the setup
dialog.
The only caveat, if you are working with the sole set of source files, is
not to save the book when you are done. I always work with a
Hi Rick,
10,000? That's considerably more than I expected. Thanks lots for doing that.
I've just gotta make the time to learn FS. :-)
I'm not sure how many we need, maybe 100 or so. We're trying to come up with a
common set of variables that we can use across the department for all the
That's a useful workaround, but the LOT and LOF shouldn't show up in the
output, and usually they don't.
Whatever caused the problem, it may have gone away. The output folders
contain HTML files for the LOT or LOF, and these files are picked up by
the HHP project, but the LOT and LOF files
I suspect that while fumbling around in the new FM9 interface, I
accidentally generated Mif2Go output for the LOF and LOT instead of the
book.
I can never tell what's selected in this interface. Am I the only one?
Jim Owens wrote:
I'll put it down to a user error of some sort, delete them,
Your variables will export out. One way is to address them in the Structured
Application (the Read/Write Rules) to configure them the way your DTD wants
them. (as either internal entities or as external entities defined in a/the
DTD.
That'll make them transfer in and out of FM properly.
-Matt
Hi, Diane.
I have over 700 variables in one of my documents ... no problem at all!
In case anyone wonders why I have so many: has to do with a set of
numeric values in one of my specs that are refered to in multiple places
- fwiw, it is better to be consistent everywhere, than wrong in even one
Everyone,
Our processes include importing FM 9.0 files into MadCap Flare to create
online help. Many of these docs we develop in FrameMaker include URLs to
Web pages that we would like to have open in their own browser window
(not in the online help window). The problem is that each time we
At 11:14 AM 10/28/2009, Diane Gaskill wrote:
Even more challenging, to put it nicely, because profile attribute
settings (the DocBook XML equivalent of conditional text) cannot be
imported across the book from one chapter like conditional text can. I'm
told that there is no function in the FDK
Is there a group like this just for Captivate?
Like so many tech writers, I am asked at times to create tutorials and
training materials.
I have learned so much just monitoring this list, a captivate list would
be the bees knees.
Regards,
Barry Kieffer
Technical Writer
Internet, Military,
There seems to be one on Yahoo groups, but it doesn't look very active:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/captivateusergroup/
There is also the Denver Metro E-learners Developers group:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmeld/
And finally, the Captivate forum on the Adobe site:
Hi Lynne,
If I read your message correctly, FM9 has a function in the FDK that can
import filter-by-attribute settings. Please confirm. This will solve a
major problem for us.
Thanks lots,
Diane
-Original Message-
From: Lynne A. Price [mailto:lpr...@txstruct.com]
Sent: Wednesday,
Hi Jenny,
Could you tell me how to get it from Adobe? I am in India. I?visited
www.adobe.com and could not find any link for getting the 30-day trial.
?
__
Smile can help you in winning awards in beauty pageants
Regards,
NJ
Applying Keep with Next in this way is basically making exceptions to
the paragraph styles. It's not the type of thing they would make a
shortcut key for. If you want a shortcut key, you might consider adding
a style for the end of the page. You could call it EndOfPage, and define
it with 600
Login to Adobe & go to http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=tcs
-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Neeraj Jain
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 5:49 AM
To: Jenny Greenleaf; framers at
Hi Diane,
I am not sure what the limit is, but I just used this little code snippet to
create 10,000 of them in a blank document, and it seemed to work fine.
Loop While(i <= 1) LoopVar(i) Init(1) Incr(1)
New VariableFormat DocObject(ActiveDoc) Name('Variable'+i);
EndLoop
How many do you
It's pretty easy, but I'd use an Anchor paragraph tag that doesn't contain
text. Its only purpose is to provide a spot outside text paragraphs to hang
an anchored frame or table.
Once these are in place, you can easily conditionalize the para tag and the
only effect is to hide the anchored frame
Jenny,
You wrote:
>One of the things I do frequently is set paragraphs to keep with next.
>Is there a key combination to perform this task?
>
>I have looked through the Frame User Guide, which lists a lot of key
>combinations, but didn't see this one.
-- adding to the fine suggestions made by
You can look for keystroke commands in the *.cfg files in your
FrameMaker installation directory. There may be one for applying Keep
With Next Paragraph. You can learn about customizing these files here:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/framemaker/pdfs/Customizing_Frame_Products.pdf
If it's not
Jeff Coatsworth wrote:
> Login to Adobe & go to
> http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=tcs
>
> -Original Message- From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Neeraj
> Jain Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Shmuel Wolfson wrote:
> Applying Keep with Next in this way is basically making exceptions to
> the paragraph styles. It's not the type of thing they would make a
> shortcut key for.
Actually, it *is* the type of thing they would make a shortcut key for,
but apparently didn't.
There are
What I am looking for?is not a download.?The suite is very heavy, and I do not
have so much bandwidth.
I am looking for a TCS2 trial CD/DVD.
?
__
Smile can help you in winning awards in beauty pageants
Regards,
NJ
http://www.neerajjain8.com
?
As others have said, there isn't a key combination that will do this
directly. However, you can ease the pain a little.
- Type either CTRL+M (single key combination) or ESC o p d (four
separate characters) to open the paragraph designer.
- Select the Pagination tab. If you are doing a lot of
... and if you get into the paragraph designer, but you want to jump
back to your active document without making changes, press SHIFT+F7.
This will work from most FrameMaker dialogs.
I hope they haven't changed any of these for FM 9.
Ian
Ian Hawkins wrote:
> Try it a few times; it's really
You can order one on that page or they're now offering a virtual server install
so you don't have to wait for the DVD to arrive
-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Neeraj Jain
Sent: Wednesday,
This is a weird one -- any clues would be appreciated.
I'm generating HTML Help using Mif2GO and two conditionalized Frame 9
books. I don't want the LOT or LOF in the outputs, so I've set
UseFrameGenFiles=No.
Nevertheless, when I search for terms such as "figure" or "table" in the
Help, the
Jim,
Just remove the generated files from the book before setting up Mif2Go.
Mif2Go can create the generated files selected if you so choose in the setup
dialog.
The only caveat, if you are working with the sole set of source files, is
not to save the book when you are done. I always work with a
Hi Rick,
10,000? That's considerably more than I expected. Thanks lots for doing that.
I've just gotta make the time to learn FS. :-)
I'm not sure how many we need, maybe 100 or so. We're trying to come up with a
common set of variables that we can use across the department for all the
That's a useful workaround, but the LOT and LOF shouldn't show up in the
output, and usually they don't.
Whatever caused the problem, it may have gone away. The output folders
contain HTML files for the LOT or LOF, and these files are picked up by
the HHP project, but the LOT and LOF files
I suspect that while fumbling around in the new FM9 interface, I
accidentally generated Mif2Go output for the LOF and LOT instead of the
book.
I can never tell what's selected in this interface. Am I the only one?
Jim Owens wrote:
>
> I'll put it down to a user error of some sort, delete
Your variables will export out. One way is to address them in the Structured
Application (the Read/Write Rules) to configure them the way your DTD wants
them. (as either internal entities or as external entities defined in a/the
DTD.
That'll make them transfer in and out of FM properly.
-Matt
Hi, Diane.
I have over 700 variables in one of my documents ... no problem at all!
In case anyone wonders why I have so many: has to do with a set of
numeric values in one of my specs that are refered to in multiple places
- fwiw, it is better to be consistent everywhere, than wrong in even one
Everyone,
Our processes include importing FM 9.0 files into MadCap Flare to create
online help. Many of these docs we develop in FrameMaker include URLs to
Web pages that we would like to have open in their own browser window
(not in the online help window). The problem is that each time we
At 11:14 AM 10/28/2009, Diane Gaskill wrote:
>Even more challenging, to put it nicely, because profile attribute
>settings (the DocBook XML equivalent of conditional text) cannot be
>imported across the book from one chapter like conditional text can. I'm
>told that there is no function in the
Is there a group like this just for Captivate?
Like so many tech writers, I am asked at times to create tutorials and
training materials.
I have learned so much just monitoring this list, a captivate list would
be the bees knees.
Regards,
Barry Kieffer
Technical Writer
Internet, Military,
There seems to be one on Yahoo groups, but it doesn't look very active:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/captivateusergroup/
There is also the Denver Metro E-learners Developers group:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dmeld/
And finally, the Captivate forum on the Adobe site:
Hi Lynne,
If I read your message correctly, FM9 has a function in the FDK that can
import filter-by-attribute settings. Please confirm. This will solve a
major problem for us.
Thanks lots,
Diane
-Original Message-
From: Lynne A. Price [mailto:lpr...@txstruct.com]
Sent: Wednesday,
Hi
I'm working with several ATA iSpec 2200 DTDs and trying to save my .fm
files to SGML and receiving the following error:
"End tag (para) implied by the start tag (revst); not declared
minimizable"
This is my sgml output:
Installations of the APU Generator
Is there a way to preserve crossreferences in text frames in anchored
frames, which FM converts to raster images in converted HTML?
I have a bunch of legacy FM source files that contain crossreferences in
anchored frames, and they're lost when I use the FM's built-in
FM-to-HTML conversion tool
Three writers on my team reported too-frequent crashes in FrameMaker
8, especially notable because it crashed disproportionately during
idle time. (As opposed to crashes during one of our extremely complex
FrameScripts that run 20 minutes or more... those usually completed
fine.) We do
I just moved a series of books to a new template and for some reason, some of
the TOC entries in one of the books appear red. They should all be blue. The
hyperlink works.
Any ideas what's wrong or how to fix it?
Thanks.
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