Can I control anchored frame below distance to text?
Hi I am running FrameMaker 11 (Which I am growing to like btw). I am inserting some anchored frames in my text with the option below current line. Is there a way to control how far below the current line the anchored frame is inserted? I have tried using object styles, but with little luck. Can I hack it in ini settings eventually? regards Bjørn ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Can I control anchored frame below distance to text?
You are on the right track with Object Styles. Look at the options that allow for offset from top. When left blank, the other options will be ignored ("as-is" setting)
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RE: Crop marks on PDF
Thanks, Harro. I'm using Acrobat XI, which is TOTALLY different than Acrobat X. However, I did locate the Set Page Boxes tool in Acrobat XI. I had to define a new custom Tool Set to get access to the tools in the Print Production Toolset; I could NOT figure out how to display the already defined tool set. Thanks, Acrobat, for making a simple task so very much harder. Setting the page size to 8.5 x 11 did nothing in my Acrobat application. That was my problem. However, Rick Quatro tested this on his system and it worked fine. (Thanks, Rick!) So I went back into the Framemaker 11 file to see if I could fix something there. My mistake was trying to control page size in the Job Options. That DOES work if all you want is a correctly sized PDF file. But you can't set crop marks on it or resize its page size. Here is what finally worked: 1) In Framemaker, select Print Setup. You MUST define a PDF paper size here that matches the paper size that you defined in Framemaker. (For me, this was 4x5.7.) You do this in two places in the Print Setup dialog box: a) Select Name-Adobe PDF and click Properties. Click the dropdown arrow next to PDF Page Size. If the desired page size isn't in this list, you must add a new custom page size. Click Add and define the new page size. Return to the Print Setup window. b) In the Print Setup window, click the dropdown arrow in the Paper|Size area. Select the paper size you defined in Step a. 2) Print to PDF. The result will be a correctly sized PDF file. 3) To add crop marks, in Acrobat, figure out how to get the Print Production Toolset visible. This will be easy in Acrobat X and very difficult in Acrobat XI. From the Print Production Toolset, a) Select the Set Page Boxes tool. Define an 8.5 x 11 page size and apply to ALL pages. b) Select the Add Printer Marks tool. Select which marks you want to apply, and apply to ALL pages. I hope this helps someone else out. It is virtually impossible to find this written anywhere in Acrobat's Help system for Acrobat XI or for Framemaker 11. Carol Carol At 01:09 AM 6/20/2013, Harro de Jong wrote: Carol J. Elkins wrote: HOWEVER, I don't want all of the registration marks; I want only trim marks. So I need to do this in Acrobat, not Frame. I cannot get Acrobat set up to do this correctly. I've located the Add Printer Marks toolbar, but I can't get it to work. I suspect that the printed page size needs to be bigger than the page size defined by the trim marks. However, I can't define a different page size in the PDF file; that needs to be done in Frame. But I don't want Frame to change the PDF output's page size. In Acrobat X, the tool you're looking for is in Tools Print ProductionSet page boxes Despite the name, this dialog also allows you to change the page size. Make sure to apply the new page size to all pages and not just the current one. Then you can add the registration marks. Harro de Jong Triview ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: framers Digest, Vol 92, Issue 18
Thanks, setting pure black did the trick! Any idea why this affects only .tif files? --Karen On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Mike Wickham wrote: See if changing this setting helps: Right-click on your printer, choose Printing Preferences, then Color Options tab, then Advanced Options button. Check Use Pure Black. (You can also set this via Printer Properties Advanced Printing Defaults Color Options Advanced Options, which might be the way to set it permanently. I don't remember.) ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FrameMaker to Confluence via WebWorks
The big problem is that WebWorks' Confluence feature was written for Confluence 3.x, so it exports wiki markup. This sometimes results in very messy code in Confluence 4.x and later, which use XHTML instead. If you're not planning to edit in Confluence, it might work fine, the pages generally look OK in read mode, it's only when you go to edit them that things get gnarly. https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/19789/converting-from-framemaker-to-confluence-4 Going through Word is problematic because Confluence's import has some serious bugs. http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/2012-July/026119.html On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Mary Jo Dockman mdock...@tmghealth.com wrote: Has anyone taken FrameMaker source files and used WebWorks ePublisher to import the content to a Confluence wiki? If so, besides the initial set up of stationary and page formats, is the process fairly effortless? If you make changes in the source FrameMaker files, and go through WebWorks ePublisher to Confluence again, do you need to clean-up the wiki each time? Currently, I’m using FM 11 for the source user guide files and we have Confluence 5.1.2. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: The Problem with Long Titles in Generated Lists
That's my workaround. On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Jay Mahler j...@mahler.com wrote: ... On some titles, adding non-breaking space(s) to bring one or more words to the second line improves readability. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: The Problem with Long Titles in Generated Lists
We had never been able to solve the problem with bad TOC line wrapping until Shlomo Perets posted the solution here last year: Message: 1 Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:47:09 +0200 From: Shlomo Perets shlo...@microtype.com To: Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: trick for wrapping headings in TOC? Message-ID: 4.3.2.7.2.20120312092458.058bb...@mail.bezeqint.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Robert, You wrote: TOC paragraph tags in this project have a single Right tab stop at the right margin. If a heading is just the wrong length, only the page number is bumped the next line and appears at the left margin. If it's enough longer that a word wraps to the next line, the page number is at the right place. Is there a fix for this other than the kludge of putting a non-breaking space between the last two words of the heading? foo . . . . . . . . . . 1 bar bar bar bar bar 2 bar bar bar bar bar bar . . . . . . . . . 3 For the TOC paragraph tags: Specify a value such as 200% for Minimum Word Spacing (Pgf Designer, Advanced tab); make it higher or lower to adjust the wrap region as needed. In the TOC reference page, TOC flow: Specify an additional tab between $paratext and $pagenum, eg $paratext\t\t$pagenum (note: I prefer using \t instead of the Tab character as it is always visible; the tab itself is used on the body page and may not be interpreted properly in the Ref page anyway because of the different column width) Shlomo Perets MicroType, http://www.microtype.com FrameMaker/TCS training consulting * FM-to-Acrobat TimeSavers/Assistants # [You wrote:] Message: 3 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:44:02 -0400 From: Jay Mahler j...@mahler.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: The Problem with Long Titles in Generated Lists Message-ID: 773bbfff-3dc1-479c-a18c-3238780f0...@mahler.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I'm not sure what you mean by isn't this just as simple as changing the paragraph setting of your second and subsequent lines to start at the point of the end of the leader dot's of the first line? If I understand what you are saying, wouldn't we end up with a long indent on those lines? On Jerilynne's comment, Another way I've done this is to insert at least 3 tab characters (not tab stops) before the page number. Maybe that will give you a bit of automation for those long entries. ... Jerilynne means, on the reference page for the TOC or other generated file. this is something that I tried long ago, and it never worked for me. As a matter of fact these LOT and LOF reference page entries already had three tab characters in them. Adding more didn't help. Again, the problem arises when the title is just long enough to break the line before the chapter-page number without bringing any text to the second line. The only solution that appears to work reliably is to put a variable with several em spaces as its definition. On some titles, adding non-breaking space(s) to bring one or more words to the second line improves readability. Jay Mahler Sent from my iPad On Jun 18, 2013, at 1:01 PM, framers-requ...@lists.frameusers.com framers-requ...@lists.frameusers.com wrote: RE: The Problem with Long Titles in Generated Lists -- Message: 4 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:52:58 + From: Mary Jo Dockman mdock...@tmghealth.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: FrameMaker to Confluence via WebWorks Message-ID: dbde693309c1ea47907066c41729e45719474...@exchangembw1.tmghealth.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Has anyone taken FrameMaker source files and used WebWorks ePublisher to import the content to a Confluence wiki? If so, besides the initial set up of stationary and page formats, is the process fairly effortless? If you make changes in the source FrameMaker files, and go through WebWorks ePublisher to Confluence again, do you need to clean-up the wiki each time? Currently, I'm using FM 11 for the source user guide files and we have Confluence 5.1.2. I tried to convert the FM files to RTF and then import them to Confluence, but there's a lot of clean up and the numbered steps turn into bullets. It's not worth the pain. I also have the Tech Comm Suite 4, so I do have RoboHelp and am going to try converting the FM files to a Word printout via RoboHelp and then importing the Word document into Confluence. Just trying to find the cleanest and least painful avenue for getting FM source files into Confluence, since we'll be maintaining the source files in FM for each release. Thanks for any help or feedback, Mary Jo -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:
Can I control anchored frame below distance to text?
Hi I am running FrameMaker 11 (Which I am growing to like btw). I am inserting some anchored frames in my text with the option "below current line". Is there a way to control how far below the current line the anchored frame is inserted? I have tried using object styles, but with little luck. Can I hack it in ini settings eventually? regards Bj?rn
Can I control anchored frame below distance to text?
You are on the right track with Object Styles. Look at the options that allow
for offset from top. When left blank, the other options will be ignored
("as-is" setting)
-Matt
Matt R. Sullivan
co-author Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 11
P: 714.798.7596 | C: 714.585.2335 | matt at mattrsullivan.com
@mattrsullivan LinkedIn facebook mattrsullivan.com
On Jun 20, 2013, at 1:03 AM, Studio Smalbro wrote:
> Hi
> I am running FrameMaker 11 (Which I am growing to like btw). I am inserting
> some anchored frames in my text with the option "below current line". Is
> there a way to control how far below the current line the anchored frame is
> inserted? I have tried using object styles, but with little luck. Can I hack
> it in ini settings eventually?
>
> regards
> Bj?rn
> ___
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Crop marks on PDF
Thanks, Harro. I'm using Acrobat XI, which is TOTALLY different than Acrobat X. However, I did locate the Set Page Boxes tool in Acrobat XI. I had to define a new custom Tool Set to get access to the tools in the Print Production Toolset; I could NOT figure out how to display the already defined tool set. Thanks, Acrobat, for making a simple task so very much harder. Setting the page size to 8.5 x 11 did nothing in my Acrobat application. That was my problem. However, Rick Quatro tested this on his system and it worked fine. (Thanks, Rick!) So I went back into the Framemaker 11 file to see if I could fix something there. My mistake was trying to control page size in the Job Options. That DOES work if all you want is a correctly sized PDF file. But you can't set crop marks on it or resize its page size. Here is what finally worked: 1) In Framemaker, select Print Setup. You MUST define a PDF paper size here that matches the paper size that you defined in Framemaker. (For me, this was 4x5.7.) You do this in two places in the Print Setup dialog box: a) Select Name-Adobe PDF and click Properties. Click the dropdown arrow next to PDF Page Size. If the desired page size isn't in this list, you must add a new custom page size. Click Add and define the new page size. Return to the Print Setup window. b) In the Print Setup window, click the dropdown arrow in the Paper|Size area. Select the paper size you defined in Step a. 2) Print to PDF. The result will be a correctly sized PDF file. 3) To add crop marks, in Acrobat, figure out how to get the Print Production Toolset visible. This will be easy in Acrobat X and very difficult in Acrobat XI. From the Print Production Toolset, a) Select the Set Page Boxes tool. Define an 8.5 x 11 page size and apply to ALL pages. b) Select the Add Printer Marks tool. Select which marks you want to apply, and apply to ALL pages. I hope this helps someone else out. It is virtually impossible to find this written anywhere in Acrobat's Help system for Acrobat XI or for Framemaker 11. Carol Carol At 01:09 AM 6/20/2013, Harro de Jong wrote: >Carol J. Elkins wrote: > > > > HOWEVER, I don't want all of the registration marks; I want only trim > > marks. So I need to do this in Acrobat, not Frame. I cannot get > > Acrobat set up to do this correctly. I've located the Add Printer > > Marks toolbar, but I can't get it to work. I suspect that the printed > > page size needs to be bigger than the page size defined by the trim > > marks. However, I can't define a different page size in the PDF file; > > that needs to be done in Frame. But I don't want Frame to change the > > PDF output's page size. > >In Acrobat X, the tool you're looking for is in >Tools> Print Production>Set page boxes >Despite the name, this dialog also allows you to change the page size. >Make sure to apply the new page size to all pages and not just the >current one. >Then you can add the registration marks. > >Harro de Jong >Triview
framers Digest, Vol 92, Issue 18
Thanks, setting "pure black" did the trick! Any idea why this affects only .tif files? --Karen On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Mike Wickham wrote: See if changing this setting helps: Right-click on your printer, choose Printing Preferences, then Color Options tab, then Advanced Options button. Check "Use Pure Black." (You can also set this via Printer Properties> Advanced> Printing Defaults> Color Options> Advanced Options, which might be the way to set it permanently. I don't remember.) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130620/05505ff0/attachment.html>
Crop marks on PDF
Carol J. Elkins wrote: > HOWEVER, I don't want all of the registration marks; I want only trim > marks. So I need to do this in Acrobat, not Frame. I cannot get > Acrobat set up to do this correctly. I've located the Add Printer > Marks toolbar, but I can't get it to work. I suspect that the printed > page size needs to be bigger than the page size defined by the trim > marks. However, I can't define a different page size in the PDF file; > that needs to be done in Frame. But I don't want Frame to change the > PDF output's page size. In Acrobat X, the tool you're looking for is in Tools> Print Production>Set page boxes Despite the name, this dialog also allows you to change the page size. Make sure to apply the new page size to all pages and not just the current one. Then you can add the registration marks. Harro de Jong Triview
Question about these frameusers lists
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