Courier Std Problem

[Böðvar Björgvinsson]

Hi Joel,

Have you assured that Adobe PDF is your default printer?

Bodvar

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Joel  wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I recently received a new work PC with Windows 7 and upgraded to Frame 11.
> I have some text that uses Courier Std in its regular weight, but since my
> upgrade, whenever I export to PDF, the results is Courier Std bold, not
> regular, in the PDF.
>
> Any thoughts on how to fix this? Thanks,
>
> Joel
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Using PDF for context-sensitive help

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Jennifer,

TimeSavers has a setting where you can suppress the automatic insertion of
the M#.newlink prefix.

Rick

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From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Johnson, Jennifer
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 4:11 PM
To: Robert Lauriston; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Using PDF for context-sensitive help

Hi Robert,

We tried that and the named destination came through as M8.newlink.helpid.
We could find no good way to scrub the "M8.newlink."
out of the named destination without a 3rd party tool.

Jennifer 

RE: Using PDF for context-sensitive help

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Jennifer,

TimeSavers has a setting where you can suppress the automatic insertion of
the M#.newlink prefix.

Rick

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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Johnson, Jennifer
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 4:11 PM
To: Robert Lauriston; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Using PDF for context-sensitive help

Hi Robert,

We tried that and the named destination came through as M8.newlink.helpid.
We could find no good way to scrub the "M8.newlink."
out of the named destination without a 3rd party tool.

Jennifer 


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Re: Courier Std Problem

[Böðvar Björgvinsson]

Hi Joel,

Have you assured that Adobe PDF is your default printer?

Bodvar

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Joel  wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I recently received a new work PC with Windows 7 and upgraded to Frame 11.
> I have some text that uses Courier Std in its regular weight, but since my
> upgrade, whenever I export to PDF, the results is Courier Std bold, not
> regular, in the PDF.
>
> Any thoughts on how to fix this? Thanks,
>
> Joel
>
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Re: Using PDF for context-sensitive help

[obair]

The "way" is the Timesavers plugin.

It works.

We used it for years at my former job.

Paul

On Dé hAoine, 4 Eanáir, 2013, at 13:10, "Johnson, Jennifer" 
 wrote:

> Hi Robert,
> 
> We tried that and the named destination came through as
> M8.newlink.helpid. We could find no good way to scrub the "M8.newlink."
> out of the named destination without a 3rd party tool.
> 
> Jennifer 
> 
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: robert.lauris...@gmail.com [mailto:robert.lauris...@gmail.com] On
> Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 3:20 PM
> To: Johnson, Jennifer; framers@lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: Using PDF for context-sensitive help
> 
> I believe that pdfmark text frame approach was an old kludge to work
> around the lack of a direct way to specify a named destination in
> FrameMaker.
> 
> Current best practice is to insert a Hypertext marker with the Specify
> Named Destination (newlink ) option.
> 
> Jennifer's source was apparently generating named destinations in
> FrameMaker 7, so she should not have to do anything to make it work with
> FrameMaker 9 other than adjust her PDF settings.
> 
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Johnson, Jennifer
>  wrote:
>> We use the following pdfmark command to embed help IDs into Frame
> documents.
>> Placing the destinations into the PDF itself is not an option for us 
>> because the document is translated into 14 languages so we have to 
>> embed the named destinations into the source Framemaker document.
>> 
>> [/Dest/Help111/DEST pdfmark
>> 
>> Help111 is the dialog ID and named destination. There is no right
> bracket.
>> 
>> Create the line of code in a text frame within an anchored frame and 
>> position it on the page that you want the pdf to open to when the user
> 
>> presses the help button. ...
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Using PDF for context-sensitive help

[ob...@me.com]

The "way" is the Timesavers plugin.

It works.

We used it for years at my former job.

Paul

On D? hAoine, 4 Ean?ir, 2013, at 13:10, "Johnson, Jennifer"  wrote:

> Hi Robert,
> 
> We tried that and the named destination came through as
> M8.newlink.helpid. We could find no good way to scrub the "M8.newlink."
> out of the named destination without a 3rd party tool.
> 
> Jennifer 
> 
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: robert.lauriston at gmail.com [mailto:robert.lauriston at gmail.com] On
> Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 3:20 PM
> To: Johnson, Jennifer; framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: Using PDF for context-sensitive help
> 
> I believe that pdfmark text frame approach was an old kludge to work
> around the lack of a direct way to specify a named destination in
> FrameMaker.
> 
> Current best practice is to insert a Hypertext marker with the Specify
> Named Destination (newlink ) option.
> 
> Jennifer's source was apparently generating named destinations in
> FrameMaker 7, so she should not have to do anything to make it work with
> FrameMaker 9 other than adjust her PDF settings.
> 
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Johnson, Jennifer
>  wrote:
>> We use the following pdfmark command to embed help IDs into Frame
> documents.
>> Placing the destinations into the PDF itself is not an option for us 
>> because the document is translated into 14 languages so we have to 
>> embed the named destinations into the source Framemaker document.
>> 
>> [/Dest/Help111/DEST pdfmark
>> 
>> Help111 is the dialog ID and named destination. There is no right
> bracket.
>> 
>> Create the line of code in a text frame within an anchored frame and 
>> position it on the page that you want the pdf to open to when the user
> 
>> presses the help button. ...
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Re: Using PDF for context-sensitive help

[Robert Lauriston]

Peggy, what do the help target markers look like in FrameMaker? I'm
thinking maybe your predecessor had TimeSavers installed. The marker
text syntax could indicate whether that's the case.

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Rick Quatro  wrote:
> This is one of the benefits of TimeSavers: you can use pdfmark commands in
> FrameMaker using markers instead of PostScript text frames. This avoids the
> anchored frames and text frames. I have used and supported TimeSavers for
> years and it is well worth the money.]
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RE: Using PDF for context-sensitive help

[Harvey, Peggy]

Thanks to everyone who responded to my request to solve this mystery. I figured 
it was probably done with named destinations somehow but I've searched the 
files and I can't find any evidence of the necessary links - no hypertext 
markers or pdfmark text boxes. I looked at the Destinations panel in a a PDF 
where this worked as Jennifer suggested (thanks for that tip!) and I see the 
auto-generated destinations but not any that look like they were manually 
created for help button links.

Ultimately, I plan to create an HTML-based online help system for the product 
that will be easier to maintain in the long run. In the meantime it looks like 
the PDF problem will remain a mystery for now.

Thanks again,

Peggy

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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Harvey, Peggy
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 12:38 PM
To: 'framers@lists.frameusers.com'
Subject: Using PDF for context-sensitive help

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could help me with this. I've come into a situation 
where I need to maintain an online help system that uses a PDF document as the 
target. When you click a Help button in a dialog box it's supposed to bring up 
a particular page (or go to a particular heading) in the PDF - not just open 
the PDF on page 1. Does anyone know how this might be done? The PDF is created 
from FrameMaker so I'm assuming there must be markers in the FrameMaker files 
somewhere but I can't find them, or I'm not sure what to look for. The person 
who created this system isn't here anymore so I'm trying to figure out what he 
did to make this work. When it worked the PDF was created from FrameMaker 7; 
I'm using FrameMaker 9. It appears all of the Help buttons in the product are 
broken now - they open up the PDF file I created in FM 9 but only to the first 
page, so they aren't context-sensitive anymore. I don't know if upgrading to FM 
9 made a difference here or not.

I know using PDF for context-sensitive help isn't ideal - that's a different 
story.

Thanks for your help -

Peggy
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Re: Making IETMs using Frame possible?

[Ben Allums]

On 12/22/2012 10:18 PM, Apurva Bahadur wrote:

Dear Framers,

Can Framemaker/Robohelp create Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals
(IETM - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETM)?

Looking at the Wikipedia document, the Type 1, class 1, 2 and 3 should
certainly be possible with Frame/Robohelp.

Anyone with experience in authoring IETMs? Any other tools that you
suggest for IETM authoring?


DISCLAIMER: I work for WebWorks.

Apurva,

As you point out, Frame+RoboHelp can get you to class 1, 2, and 3.  You 
can also get their via other tools, such as WebWorks ePublisher.  One 
example is our own documentation set:


  

This is created from FrameMaker source files.

There are other products available, so perhaps you should evaluate each 
one in turn and find the best fit tool for your needs.



Ben Allums
all...@webworks.com
512-381-8885

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Re: Using PDF for context-sensitive help

[Robert Lauriston]

D'oh! I forgot I had the same issue:

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/316277

Are the help targets defined in FrameMaker using named destinations?

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Johnson, Jennifer
 wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> We tried that and the named destination came through as
> M8.newlink.helpid. We could find no good way to scrub the "M8.newlink."
> out of the named destination without a 3rd party tool.
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RE: Using PDF for context-sensitive help

[Johnson, Jennifer]

Hi Robert,

We tried that and the named destination came through as
M8.newlink.helpid. We could find no good way to scrub the "M8.newlink."
out of the named destination without a 3rd party tool.

Jennifer 



-Original Message-
From: robert.lauris...@gmail.com [mailto:robert.lauris...@gmail.com] On
Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 3:20 PM
To: Johnson, Jennifer; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Using PDF for context-sensitive help

I believe that pdfmark text frame approach was an old kludge to work
around the lack of a direct way to specify a named destination in
FrameMaker.

Current best practice is to insert a Hypertext marker with the Specify
Named Destination (newlink ) option.

Jennifer's source was apparently generating named destinations in
FrameMaker 7, so she should not have to do anything to make it work with
FrameMaker 9 other than adjust her PDF settings.

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Johnson, Jennifer
 wrote:
> We use the following pdfmark command to embed help IDs into Frame
documents.
> Placing the destinations into the PDF itself is not an option for us 
> because the document is translated into 14 languages so we have to 
> embed the named destinations into the source Framemaker document.
>
> [/Dest/Help111/DEST pdfmark
>
> Help111 is the dialog ID and named destination. There is no right
bracket.
>
> Create the line of code in a text frame within an anchored frame and 
> position it on the page that you want the pdf to open to when the user

> presses the help button. ...
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Re: converting giant tables to running text

[Robert Lauriston]

I guess I didn't provide enough detail. I'm working in a scratch file
because while the left column is all headings, some of the cells in
the right column include multiple paragraphs with different tags.

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Stuart Rogers
 wrote:
> I'm not sure why you would do all that cutting and pasting.
>
> You can select the left column and apply your heading pgf tag to all the
> cells; select the right column and apply the body pgf tag to all the cells.
> Then select the table and Table > Convert to Text, Row by Row.
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Re: Using PDF for context-sensitive help

[Robert Lauriston]

I believe that pdfmark text frame approach was an old kludge to work
around the lack of a direct way to specify a named destination in
FrameMaker.

Current best practice is to insert a Hypertext marker with the Specify
Named Destination (newlink ) option.

Jennifer's source was apparently generating named destinations in
FrameMaker 7, so she should not have to do anything to make it work
with FrameMaker 9 other than adjust her PDF settings.

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Johnson, Jennifer
 wrote:
> We use the following pdfmark command to embed help IDs into Frame documents.
> Placing the destinations into the PDF itself is not an option for us because
> the document is translated into 14 languages so we have to embed the named
> destinations into the source Framemaker document.
>
> [/Dest/Help111/DEST pdfmark
>
> Help111 is the dialog ID and named destination. There is no right bracket.
>
> Create the line of code in a text frame within an anchored frame and
> position it on the page that you want the pdf to open to when the user
> presses the help button. ...
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