RE: Selecting Colours for Conditions

2013-04-22 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, As far as I know magenta was applied to overlapping conditions in previous versions of FrameMaker (7?). Helen uses version 9. Its help says: This color is midway of all colors of the condition tags that you have already applied to the current text. Possibly Helen's FrameMaker book, which

Re: mass update of system variable

2013-04-22 Thread ETudsbery
Hi Lin, Thanks very much for this help. I created a MIF file with the system variable definitions I required and then imported that into different FM books. It worked a dream, as it didn't change the user variables defined in the document (which was my concern). thanks again, Edwin

ANN: 24April Adobe webinar: Ellis Pratt on The changing nature of content

2013-04-22 Thread Maxwell Hoffmann
Wed April 24 at 11 AM PDT Register at: http://adobe.ly/115cRj9 In recent years, technical communicators have focused on improving User Assistance through new technologies and systems, with the assumption that the nature of the content, the tone of voice, the writing style should remain the

RE: Framers: What good uses are Pods ?

2013-04-22 Thread Maxwell Hoffmann
Hassan, The biggest advantage of pods over the panels from *earlier* releases (pre FM V9) is that they allow persistent display of some information that was only available in modal dialogues that previously froze the screen and prevented editing of page content. For instance, pre V9, index

RE: Selecting Colours for Conditions

2013-04-22 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Alison We're dealing with something similar by using conditions with coloredtext for product variations and conditions wiith background shading for feature variations. You could give your short/advanced conditions background shading instead of colored text. Cheers Rebecca Alison

RE: mass update of system variable

2013-04-22 Thread Craig Ede
If I remember, you have to File Import File with MIF snippets. That means you have to import it one file at a time, doesn't it? (Unlike File Import Formats across a book). This is because you are actually importing the content into each file (even though it is invisible in a sense). Correct

RE: mass update of system variable

2013-04-22 Thread Harro de Jong
Lin Sims wrote: My concern with doing that sort of thing was that Edwin said there were hundreds of files to be updated. Opening that many either all at once or one by one, as Frame does when the files aren't already open, could tie up even the most robust system for a long time. One

Re: mass update of system variable

2013-04-22 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Hi Craig, According to Lin, you use File Import Formats and import variables. From Lin Sims: 1. Open a blank document and edit the variables you want to update. 2. Save as a MIF file. 3. Open the MIF file in a TEXT editor. 4. Delete everything but the code for the variables you want to

Re: Framers: What good uses are Pods ?

2013-04-22 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 10:35:44 -0700, Maxwell Hoffmann mhoff...@adobe.com wrote: For instance, pre V9, index markers could only be viewed one at a time in a modal marker dialogue that froze the screen. That's just not true. The marker dialog has always been modeless, not modal. You could only

Re: mass update of system variable

2013-04-22 Thread Lin Sims
Shmuel, Yes, you understood correctly. That's how Shlomo showed me how to do it. I took his two FrameMaker template courses a few years ago. Lin On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Shmuel Wolfson shmue...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Craig, According to Lin, you use File Import Formats and import

RE: Framers: What good uses are Pods ?

2013-04-22 Thread Combs, Richard
Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 10:35:44 -0700, Maxwell Hoffmann mhoff...@adobe.com wrote: For instance, pre V9, index markers could only be viewed one at a time in a modal marker dialogue that froze the screen. That's just not true. The marker dialog has always been

Imported text

2013-04-22 Thread meg miranda
Hi all, I just wanted to see how common it is to use imported text files in Frame books. Do you use this Frame feature? If so, do you use it to reuse or share text? Example---this tends to be my go to solution for copyright text in doc sets.  So we can have one file with the text from legal

Resize all table widths to new page size (was letter, now A4)?

2013-04-22 Thread Fausset, Marilyn
Anybody know how to autofit tables that were designed to fit letter size paper so they fit within the margins for A4 paper size/within the text frame? I'm looking for the most global solution possible. I have hundreds of tables (just a few table formats/styles) that are outside of the margins

Re: Resize all table widths to new page size (was letter, now A4)?

2013-04-22 Thread Lin Sims
Rick Quattro's TableCleaner plugin: http://www.frameexpert.com/plugins/index.htm $60, and worth every penny. On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Fausset, Marilyn marilyn.faus...@snia.orgwrote: Anybody know how to autofit tables that were designed to fit letter size paper so they fit within the

Selecting Colours for Conditions

2013-04-22 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
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mass update of system variable

2013-04-22 Thread etudsb...@cpaglobal.com
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Selecting Colours for Conditions

2013-04-22 Thread rebecca officer
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mass update of system variable

2013-04-22 Thread Harro de Jong
Lin Sims wrote: > My concern with doing that sort of thing was that Edwin said there were > hundreds of > files to be updated. Opening that many either all at once or one by one, as > Frame > does when the files aren't already open, could tie up even the most robust > system > for a long time.

mass update of system variable

2013-04-22 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Hi Craig, According to Lin, you use File > Import > Formats and import variables. From Lin Sims: 1. Open a blank document and edit the variables you want to update. 2. Save as a MIF file. 3. Open the MIF file in a TEXT editor. 4. Delete everything but the code for the variables you want to

Framers: What good uses are Pods ?

2013-04-22 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 10:35:44 -0700, Maxwell Hoffmann > wrote: >For instance, pre V9, index markers could only be viewed one >at a time in a modal marker dialogue that froze the screen. That's just not true. The marker dialog has always been modeless, not modal. You could only view one at a

mass update of system variable

2013-04-22 Thread Lin Sims
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Framers: What good uses are Pods ?

2013-04-22 Thread Combs, Richard
Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: > On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 10:35:44 -0700, Maxwell Hoffmann > > wrote: > > >For instance, pre V9, index markers could only be viewed one > >at a time in a modal marker dialogue that froze the screen. > > That's just not true. The marker dialog has always been > modeless,

Selecting Colours for Conditions

2013-04-22 Thread Alison Craig
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Resize all table widths to new page size (was letter, now A4)?

2013-04-22 Thread Fausset, Marilyn
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Resize all table widths to new page size (was letter, now A4)?

2013-04-22 Thread Lin Sims
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Selecting Colours for Conditions

2013-04-22 Thread Harro de Jong
Alison Craig wrote: > > Does anyone know if any kind of "guide" exists regarding the best colours to > choose > when creating Conditions? > > When I initially set up my Conditions, I spent a lot of time testing to see > how colours > blended when I had multiple Conditions applied to the same

Webworks: Problem with the order of pages when I convert a Frame file that has a mixture of landscape and portrait pages

2013-04-22 Thread Karen Carroll
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Framers: What good uses are Pods ?

2013-04-22 Thread Robert Lauriston
I've seen no functional difference between the old marker dialog and the new marker pod or panel. I don't understand your reference to sorting them. Maybe I've missed some new feature? The two UI elements I use regularly that pop up from the bottom are variables and conditions. I find them much

Imported text

2013-04-22 Thread John Sgammato
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Imported text

2013-04-22 Thread Robert Lauriston
I use insets (File > Import > File > Import By Reference) for copyright and other boilerplate. I generally use .fm files for that. I use .txt for the browser support boilerplate, though I can't remember why (it's a workaround for some problem I encountered). On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:04 AM, meg

Convert headings to destinations in PDF

2013-04-22 Thread Harvey, Peggy
t; appears as the named destination "1_1_Overview" in the PDF. Thanks for your help. Peggy -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130422/a76eda63/attachment.html>