RE: External Linking - Cross-ref or Hyperlink?

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Lisa,

 

As long as the cross-referenced manuals are on the same hard drive or
network volume, the links will be relative. You will see the absolute path
in FrameMaker and the PDF, but as long as the files remain in the same
relative positions, the links will work, even on different drives/volumes.
Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thank you very
much.

 

Rick

 

Rick Quatro

Carmen Publishing Inc.

585-283-5045

r...@frameexpert.com

 

 

 

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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Lisa Freeman
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 11:27 AM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: External Linking - Cross-ref or Hyperlink?

 

Hello All,

 

FrameMaker 10, Unstructured. A co-worker has a 3 volume set of manuals and
needs to create links between various files within the manual sets. I can
make the links work using a cross-reference easily but it creates an
absolute link path. These links will obviously not work when delivered to
her customer.

 

Is there a way to force Frame (and the resulting PDF file) to use a relative
path instead? I see where that's an option using a hyperlink but it seems
like it should be possible in a cross-ref. She has literally hundreds of
these links to do so I'm trying to find her the easiest way accomplish her
task.

 

Please note that we are not in a position to write a script at this time and
she will be maintaining these manuals for at least the short term anyway.

 

We appreciate any tips you can provide!

 

Sincerely,

Lisa Freeman

Publication Support Analyst

 

 


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RE: Unavailable fonts message - incorrect?

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Pascale,

 

The FrameMaker Console window will tell you which fonts are missing. The
missing fonts may be on Reference or Master pages, or inside of table
formats.

 

Rick

 

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pascale
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 6:17 AM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Unavailable fonts message - incorrect?

 

Hello

 

I am using FrameMaker 9 on Windows 7. When I open a particular book, I get
the classic 'unavailable fonts' error on many of the files (followed by
'unresolved cross-reference' errors, but for now I'm assuming the two are
related). When my colleague opens the same book, he doesn't get any errors.
Fair enough, our font setup might be a little bit different.

 

FM doesn't report which fonts are causing the problem in the message, so I
took two files, one with the error and one without, and generated a list of
fonts using Special > List Of > References. Both files contain exactly the
same fonts so I can't isolate it to any font in particular. Indeed, the fact
one has a problem with one of the fonts and the other doesn't makes me think
the error itself may be incorrect.

 

Has anyone else experienced this or have any idea what I can do next? It
seems to be one particular book causing the problem.

Checking the 'Remember Missing Font Names' option doesn't stop the problem
from re-occurring.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Pascale

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RE: Unavailable fonts message - incorrect?

[Fred Ridder]

You posting seems to reflect several small misconceptions about how FrameMaker 
works. Let me see if I can address them one at a time.

First, a single "unavailable fonts" message in one file can, in fact, also be 
the cause of subsequent "unresolved cross-references" messages in other files. 
When you open any file that contains cross-references, FrameMaker attempts to 
refresh all of those references by looking at each target location and grabbing 
the current text string and numbering properties (autonumbering and page 
numbering). If any of those cross-references point to locations that are in 
other files, FM has to silently open each of those files to refresh the 
references. But if a "target" file has an unavailable font condition, that 
error prevents FM from completing the "silent open" operation that is necessary 
to resolve the cross-reference. The result is an "unresolved cross-reference" 
message. But note that if the file with the unavailable font condition is 
already open when you open the file that refers to it, you will *not* get an 
"unresolved" message because FM doesn't need to do a silent open.

Second, FrameMaker *does* report which fonts are unavailable, but does not do 
it in the warning message itself. Instead, you have to look in the FrameMaker 
console window, which most of us are in the habit of ignoring or dismissing 
without bothering to read it.

Third, the unavailable font does not have to be applied to any content that 
appears in the body of the document to cause the warning message. It is enough 
for the font to be specified in the definition of some format that you don't 
actually use, and this font specification can be in any of your catalogs--a 
character format, a paragraph format, a cross-reference format, or a table 
format. Table formats are a particular problem because each format definition 
invisibly embeds the character and paragraph formatting for the table title, 
and for each cell in the heading row, the footing row, and the first body row 
of the table that was the prototype when the format was defined; you will never 
be able to find these using the FM GUI unless you create an instance of each 
table format that exists in your catalog. Unavailable fonts can also lurk on 
master pages and reference pages which are not examined when you do a "find 
font" operation (which only searches the context in the current view) or List 
of References operation (which only looks at body pages). They can even be 
hiding in certain types of graphic objects that contain font specifications 
(PDF, EPS, WMF, EMF).

Fourth, to get rid of an unavailable fonts condition you need to *UN-check* the 
"Remember Missing Font Names" preference. Remembering the names means that FM 
will do a *temporary* substitution of an available font for an unavailable one, 
but will retain the original, unavailable font specification in the version of 
the file that it saves. What you need is for FM to *forget* the names of the 
unavailable fonts and save the file with the substituted font specifications. 
So the procedure would be:
Open the offending file, dismissing the "unavailable fonts" warning.Examine the 
FrameMaker console to determine whether all of the substitutions FM has made 
are appropriate (e.g., no sans-serif font subbed for a serif, no text font 
subbed for a symbol or wingding font).Close the file.Turn OFF "Remember Missing 
Font Names".Open the file. Notice that the warning message has changed, and 
that FrameMaker now warns you that it will be permanently *replacing* the fonts 
rather than substituting for them. 
Examine the file to make sure it looks OK.Save the file. Many people neglect to 
do this because they haven't made any explicit edits or format changes, but the 
font change will not "take" and be carried forward unless the file is saved 
after you let FM make the replacement.Turn "Remember Missing Font Names" back 
ON. (It is normally a very good idea not to reformat a file from a colleague or 
client to match your own less complete font library.)This *should* take care of 
the problem unless the bad font name is embedded in a graphic.



Another approach that some users swear by is to save the offending file as MIF 
and then use a text editor to search for the names of the unavailable fonts, as 
reported in the FM console. After making the substitution with the font editor, 
the file is saved as MIF, then opened from FrameMaker and saved back to .fm 
file format. This approach still will not look inside graphics objects, but I 
have personally seen cases where the source .fm file contained a *completely* 
spurious font specification (for a Chinese font in my case) that was removed 
simply by passing it through the FM->MIF filter (i.e., the bad font was not 
findable in the the MIF file and was gone when the file was restored to .fm 
format).


-Fred Ridder


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Subject: Unavailable fonts message - incorr

Unwanted items in the TOC

[Thomas Scalise]

Esteemed colleagues,

I am working in Frame 11.0.0.380 on WIN 7.

I have three unwanted items in my TOC. They appear on the TOC reference page 
and they are:


<$paratext> <$pagenum>

<$paratext> <$pagenum>

<$paratext> <$pagenum>

The first one is a ContentsTitleTOC.
The second one is a LOFTitleTOC.
The third is a LOTTitleTOC.

I don't want "Contents" as an entry in the TOC; nor do I want "Figures" and 
"Tables" in the TOC. They are separate lists of items that appear at the 
beginning of the book immediately after the TOC.

How do I get rid of the three entries in the TOC Reference page and make the 
deletion stick? I would appreciate your counsel. Thanks in advance.

Tom

Tom Scalise
Manager, Technical Documentation

Cross Match Technologies, Inc.
3950 RCA Boulevard, Suite 5001
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RE: Unwanted items in the TOC

[Combs, Richard]

Thomas Scalise wrote:
 
> I am working in Frame 11.0.0.380 on WIN 7.
> 
> I have three unwanted items in my TOC. They appear on the TOC reference page
> and they are:
> 
> <$paratext> <$pagenum>
> <$paratext> <$pagenum>
> <$paratext> <$pagenum>
> 
> The first one is a ContentsTitleTOC.
> The second one is a LOFTitleTOC.
> The third is a LOTTitleTOC.
 
> How do I get rid of the three entries in the TOC Reference page and make the
> deletion stick? I would appreciate your counsel. Thanks in advance.

Deleting those paragraphs from the reference page TOC flow doesn't stick 
because ContentsTitle, LOFTitle, and LOTTitle are still included in your TOC 
setup, so the corresponding *TOC pgfs are added back into the TOC flow when you 
regenerate the TOC. 

In the book window, right-click the TOC file and click Set Up Table of 
Contents. In the dialog box, move ContentsTitle, LOFTitle, and LOTTitle from 
the Include Paragraphs Tagged list to the Don't Include list. Then click Set. 
That should fix it. 

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Polycom, Inc.
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Adobe Survey Now Working for Mac/Firefox

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OT: Font suggestions for book?

[VLM TechSubs]

Greetings everyone,

 

I'm working in FM 8, Win 7 x64 on a book that will be published this Fall. I've 
now been asked to do the book design, in addition to
most of the writing and basic template design. The subject matter is primarily 
financial . it's a book about the history of
taxation. It's not a scholarly work at all, but rather one designed to "wake 
up" American teens and young adults to some of the
issues involved. Footnotes are used here and there, but more for explanation of 
background/details than in a traditional sense as
references. The book will be published in a standard 6x9 format, paperback. 

 

All that having been said . What are people's favorite or recommended fonts for 
such a project. And since this is being published on
a shoestring budget with a nonprofit/educational bent, suggestions of free 
fonts would be most welcome. 

 

Well, thanks in advance!

 

Best regards,

Elchanan

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RE: Unavailable fonts message - incorrect?

[Craig Ede]

Fred presents a very cogent discussion of how fonts can hide out. 

 

I would add that one can dictate which font substitutes for another
(important when you turn off Remember Missing Fonts) by using the [Fonts]
area of the maker.ini file, although that area of the .ini file has gotten
rather complicated.

And one relatively recent improvements to the interface is the Fonts Pod
where you can track down and replace fonts that are actually in the
documents body, master and reference pages. It even tells you where the
substitution if taking place.

Mif washing can get rid of errant font information as well, especially
information that ends up being in the book file itself. The book file seems
to collect information from its components and can retain that information
after the components have been cleansed.

 

Craig

 

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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Fred Ridder
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 8:06 AM
To: STEPHENSON pascale; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Unavailable fonts message - incorrect?

 

You posting seems to reflect several small misconceptions about how
FrameMaker works. Let me see if I can address them one at a time.

First, a single "unavailable fonts" message in one file can, in fact, also
be the cause of subsequent "unresolved cross-references" messages in other
files. When you open any file that contains cross-references, FrameMaker
attempts to refresh all of those references by looking at each target
location and grabbing the current text string and numbering properties
(autonumbering and page numbering). If any of those cross-references point
to locations that are in other files, FM has to silently open each of those
files to refresh the references. But if a "target" file has an unavailable
font condition, that error prevents FM from completing the "silent open"
operation that is necessary to resolve the cross-reference. The result is an
"unresolved cross-reference" message. But note that if the file with the
unavailable font condition is already open when you open the file that
refers to it, you will *not* get an "unresolved" message because FM doesn't
need to do a silent open.

Second, FrameMaker *does* report which fonts are unavailable, but does not
do it in the warning message itself. Instead, you have to look in the
FrameMaker console window, which most of us are in the habit of ignoring or
dismissing without bothering to read it.

Third, the unavailable font does not have to be applied to any content that
appears in the body of the document to cause the warning message. It is
enough for the font to be specified in the definition of some format that
you don't actually use, and this font specification can be in any of your
catalogs--a character format, a paragraph format, a cross-reference format,
or a table format. Table formats are a particular problem because each
format definition invisibly embeds the character and paragraph formatting
for the table title, and for each cell in the heading row, the footing row,
and the first body row of the table that was the prototype when the format
was defined; you will never be able to find these using the FM GUI unless
you create an instance of each table format that exists in your catalog.
Unavailable fonts can also lurk on master pages and reference pages which
are not examined when you do a "find font" operation (which only searches
the context in the current view) or List of References operation (which only
looks at body pages). They can even be hiding in certain types of graphic
objects that contain font specifications (PDF, EPS, WMF, EMF).

Fourth, to get rid of an unavailable fonts condition you need to *UN-check*
the "Remember Missing Font Names" preference. Remembering the names means
that FM will do a *temporary* substitution of an available font for an
unavailable one, but will retain the original, unavailable font
specification in the version of the file that it saves. What you need is for
FM to *forget* the names of the unavailable fonts and save the file with the
substituted font specifications. So the procedure would be:

1.  Open the offending file, dismissing the "unavailable fonts" warning.
2.  Examine the FrameMaker console to determine whether all of the
substitutions FM has made are appropriate (e.g., no sans-serif font subbed
for a serif, no text font subbed for a symbol or wingding font).
3.  Close the file.
4.  Turn OFF "Remember Missing Font Names".
5.  Open the file. Notice that the warning message has changed, and that
FrameMaker now warns you that it will be permanently *replacing* the fonts
rather than substituting for them. 
6.  Examine the file to make sure it looks OK.
7.  Save the file. Many people neglect to do this because they haven't
made any explicit edits or format changes, but the font change will not
"take" and be carried forward unless the file is saved after you let FM make
the replacement.
8. 

RE: Chapter numbers

[Alastair Dent]

Ok, I've found out why it was going wrong.

It seems that the first document in the book using chapnum has to have an 
override setting the chapnum to start at 1 (this document being the third in 
the book, after the cover and ToC).

-Original Message-
From: Harro de Jong [mailto:harro.dej...@triviewgroup.com] 
Sent: 13 August 2013 11:05
To: Alastair Dent; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Chapter numbers

Alastair Dent wrote:
 
> I have documents that start with a tag called 'ChapTitle' and some 
> that start with Heading1.
> 
> The reference pages are set up so that pages with 'ChapTitle' on them 
> will use the 'First' master page. This has a header with the chapter 
> number in it. Pages starting with Heading1 are Right/Left and don't 
> have a chapternumber
> 
> Every file in the book is set to 'Continue Numbering from Previous 
> Chapter in book'.
> 
> The chapter numbers increment correctly.
> 
> The document with a Heading1 tag should show the numbering '3.1'. It 
> doesn't, it shows '4.1'.  The chapter number has incremented.
> 
> Why is this?

It sounds like you've got two numbering systems going on. One uses <$Chapnum>, 
the other uses paragraph numbers instead.
You can influence the <$Chapnum> numbering with the Format-Document-Numbering 
dialog, tab 'Chapter'
You can influence the paragraph numbering with the Format-Document-Numbering 
dialog, tab 'Paragraph'.

Check the Numbering properties of the ChapTitle and the Heading1 paragraph 
tags. You should use the same numbering system in all para tags that have a 
paragraph number. 

Harro de Jong

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RE: Unavailable fonts message - incorrect?

[STEPHENSON pascale]

Hi all

Thanks for the replies. I now have a better understanding of the situation, if 
I haven't exactly solved it. However, I have enough information to be going on 
with.

Thanks all for your help.

Regards

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mac and Tech Comm Suite

[Craig Ede]

I'm considering replacing my current windows laptop with a Mac laptop. I
know that some framers are using Macs with the latest Adobe TCS software,
and I would appreciate any brief comments on the benefits/hassles of working
with TCS on a Mac and what contortions have worked best for you to make this
work.

 

You can send comments to me offlist if you'd like, or post to the list if
you think there is general value to the posting. 

 

Thank you.

 

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RE: Unwanted items in the TOC

[Craig Ede]

In your book, highlight the TOC file entry, right-click, and select Set Up
Table of Contents...

On the left side of the dialog that comes up, click on the items you don't
want and move them over to the right side.

 

Then go to your reference page, highlight these same items there and delete
them. You can leave them there if you think you might want to add them later
and use the same formatting.

 

Craig

 

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To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Unwanted items in the TOC

 

Esteemed colleagues,

 

I am working in Frame 11.0.0.380 on WIN 7.

 

I have three unwanted items in my TOC. They appear on the TOC reference page
and they are:

 

<$paratext> <$pagenum>

<$paratext> <$pagenum>

<$paratext> <$pagenum>

 

The first one is a ContentsTitleTOC. 

The second one is a LOFTitleTOC.

The third is a LOTTitleTOC.

 

I don't want "Contents" as an entry in the TOC; nor do I want "Figures" and
"Tables" in the TOC. They are separate lists of items that appear at the
beginning of the book immediately after the TOC. 

 

How do I get rid of the three entries in the TOC Reference page and make the
deletion stick? I would appreciate your counsel. Thanks in advance.

 

Tom

 

Tom Scalise

Manager, Technical Documentation

 

Cross Match Technologies, Inc.

3950 RCA Boulevard, Suite 5001

Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410

U.S.A.

 

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Autonumbering Puzzle for an Ordered List Numbering Scheme

[Alex . Lukes]

Greetings, fellow Framers.

Two of us in the office have tried many
ways to get autonumbering to work properly in a run-in head configuration,
but we're getting very strange results, no matter what we do.

As shown below, the autonumbering works
fine up to "9," but then goes to "01," "11,"
"21," and so forth. (As you can see, we also have centering issues
to eventually resolve.)



What you are looking at is a glyph in
"Bullet" Paragraph Tag (autonumber = B:●\t). "Bullet"
is a run-in paragraph.

The next tag is "Bullet Number"
(autonumber = N:\t\t) or (N:\t\t). This is a non-run-in
paragraph.

We've experimented with resets and changes
to series designations between the run-in and the non-run-in paragraphs,
but nothing we've tried so far has worked. The best we've managed is to
produce a "10," but the "10" appears at the beginning
of the list, followed by numbers 1 through 9, and then numbers that increment
in 10s, as before; that is,  "01," "11," "21,"
and so forth.

Does anyone happen to have a solution
for this?

I would really appreciate some help.

I suppose it doesn't make any difference,
but we are using FrameMaker 11.



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Re: mac and Tech Comm Suite

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4 years and counting…going back to a Win only machine is really not even a consideration.I'm nearly due for another laptop. With video becoming more common, I find my MacBook Air mid-2011 edition needs more graphics power (producing video from Adobe Presenter slows it to a crawl, mostly due to video processing) and I'm limited to 4Gb RAM, which is split across both Mac and Win OS.So, either a new Air (8Gb RAM, better video, better processor) or a MacBook Pro (likely) are a likely 2013 purchase.
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Re: OT: Acrobat Joboption Files

[David Creamer]

>Bookmarks, links, and TOC settings are in FrameMaker, an Acrobat expert
would likely know nothing about them.

One _could_ be an Acrobat expert and an FrameMaker expert at the same
time... 

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External Linking - Cross-ref or Hyperlink?

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Lisa,



As long as the cross-referenced manuals are on the same hard drive or
network volume, the links will be relative. You will see the absolute path
in FrameMaker and the PDF, but as long as the files remain in the same
relative positions, the links will work, even on different drives/volumes.
Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thank you very
much.



Rick



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Carmen Publishing Inc.

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To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: External Linking - Cross-ref or Hyperlink?



Hello All,



FrameMaker 10, Unstructured. A co-worker has a 3 volume set of manuals and
needs to create links between various files within the manual sets. I can
make the links work using a cross-reference easily but it creates an
absolute link path. These links will obviously not work when delivered to
her customer.



Is there a way to force Frame (and the resulting PDF file) to use a relative
path instead? I see where that's an option using a hyperlink but it seems
like it should be possible in a cross-ref. She has literally hundreds of
these links to do so I'm trying to find her the easiest way accomplish her
task.



Please note that we are not in a position to write a script at this time and
she will be maintaining these manuals for at least the short term anyway.



We appreciate any tips you can provide!



Sincerely,

Lisa Freeman

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Unavailable fonts message - incorrect?

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Pascale,



The FrameMaker Console window will tell you which fonts are missing. The
missing fonts may be on Reference or Master pages, or inside of table
formats.



Rick



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To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Unavailable fonts message - incorrect?



Hello



I am using FrameMaker 9 on Windows 7. When I open a particular book, I get
the classic 'unavailable fonts' error on many of the files (followed by
'unresolved cross-reference' errors, but for now I'm assuming the two are
related). When my colleague opens the same book, he doesn't get any errors.
Fair enough, our font setup might be a little bit different.



FM doesn't report which fonts are causing the problem in the message, so I
took two files, one with the error and one without, and generated a list of
fonts using Special > List Of > References. Both files contain exactly the
same fonts so I can't isolate it to any font in particular. Indeed, the fact
one has a problem with one of the fonts and the other doesn't makes me think
the error itself may be incorrect.



Has anyone else experienced this or have any idea what I can do next? It
seems to be one particular book causing the problem.

Checking the 'Remember Missing Font Names' option doesn't stop the problem
from re-occurring.



Thanks in advance.



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Unavailable fonts message - incorrect?

[Fred Ridder]

 to .fm 
format).


-Fred Ridder


From: pascale.stephen...@upu.int
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Unavailable fonts message - incorrect?
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:17:25 +









Hello

I am using FrameMaker 9 on Windows 7. When I open a particular book, I get the 
classic ?unavailable fonts? error on many of the files (followed by ?unresolved 
cross-reference? errors, but for now I?m assuming the two are related). When
 my colleague opens the same book, he doesn?t get any errors. Fair enough, our 
font setup might be a little bit different.

FM doesn?t report which fonts are causing the problem in the message, so I took 
two files, one with the error and one without, and generated a list of fonts 
using Special > List Of > References. Both files contain exactly the same fonts
 so I can?t isolate it to any font in particular. Indeed, the fact one has a 
problem with one of the fonts and the other doesn?t makes me think the error 
itself may be incorrect.

Has anyone else experienced this or have any idea what I can do next? It seems 
to be one particular book causing the problem.
Checking the ?Remember Missing Font Names? option doesn?t stop the problem from 
re-occurring.

Thanks in advance.

Pascale




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Unavailable fonts message - incorrect?

[Alison Craig]

 file is saved after you let FM make the 
replacement.
8.   Turn "Remember Missing Font Names" back ON. (It is normally a very 
good idea not to reformat a file from a colleague or client to match your own 
less complete font library.)
This *should* take care of the problem unless the bad font name is embedded in 
a graphic.



Another approach that some users swear by is to save the offending file as MIF 
and then use a text editor to search for the names of the unavailable fonts, as 
reported in the FM console. After making the substitution with the font editor, 
the file is saved as MIF, then opened from FrameMaker and saved back to .fm 
file format. This approach still will not look inside graphics objects, but I 
have personally seen cases where the source .fm file contained a *completely* 
spurious font specification (for a Chinese font in my case) that was removed 
simply by passing it through the FM->MIF filter (i.e., the bad font was not 
findable in the the MIF file and was gone when the file was restored to .fm 
format).


-Fred Ridder


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To: framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Subject: Unavailable fonts message - incorrect?
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:17:25 +
Hello

I am using FrameMaker 9 on Windows 7. When I open a particular book, I get the 
classic 'unavailable fonts' error on many of the files (followed by 'unresolved 
cross-reference' errors, but for now I'm assuming the two are related). When my 
colleague opens the same book, he doesn't get any errors. Fair enough, our font 
setup might be a little bit different.

FM doesn't report which fonts are causing the problem in the message, so I took 
two files, one with the error and one without, and generated a list of fonts 
using Special > List Of > References. Both files contain exactly the same fonts 
so I can't isolate it to any font in particular. Indeed, the fact one has a 
problem with one of the fonts and the other doesn't makes me think the error 
itself may be incorrect.

Has anyone else experienced this or have any idea what I can do next? It seems 
to be one particular book causing the problem.
Checking the 'Remember Missing Font Names' option doesn't stop the problem from 
re-occurring.

Thanks in advance.

Pascale

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Unwanted items in the TOC

[Thomas Scalise]

Esteemed colleagues,

I am working in Frame 11.0.0.380 on WIN 7.

I have three unwanted items in my TOC. They appear on the TOC reference page 
and they are:


<$paratext> <$pagenum>

<$paratext> <$pagenum>

<$paratext> <$pagenum>

The first one is a ContentsTitleTOC.
The second one is a LOFTitleTOC.
The third is a LOTTitleTOC.

I don't want "Contents" as an entry in the TOC; nor do I want "Figures" and 
"Tables" in the TOC. They are separate lists of items that appear at the 
beginning of the book immediately after the TOC.

How do I get rid of the three entries in the TOC Reference page and make the 
deletion stick? I would appreciate your counsel. Thanks in advance.

Tom

Tom Scalise
Manager, Technical Documentation

Cross Match Technologies, Inc.
3950 RCA Boulevard, Suite 5001
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410
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Unwanted items in the TOC

[Combs, Richard]

Thomas Scalise wrote:

> I am working in Frame 11.0.0.380 on WIN 7.
> 
> I have three unwanted items in my TOC. They appear on the TOC reference page
> and they are:
> 
> <$paratext> <$pagenum>
> <$paratext> <$pagenum>
> <$paratext> <$pagenum>
> 
> The first one is a ContentsTitleTOC.
> The second one is a LOFTitleTOC.
> The third is a LOTTitleTOC.
 
> How do I get rid of the three entries in the TOC Reference page and make the
> deletion stick? I would appreciate your counsel. Thanks in advance.

Deleting those paragraphs from the reference page TOC flow doesn't stick 
because ContentsTitle, LOFTitle, and LOTTitle are still included in your TOC 
setup, so the corresponding *TOC pgfs are added back into the TOC flow when you 
regenerate the TOC. 

In the book window, right-click the TOC file and click Set Up Table of 
Contents. In the dialog box, move ContentsTitle, LOFTitle, and LOTTitle from 
the Include Paragraphs Tagged list to the Don't Include list. Then click Set. 
That should fix it. 

Richard G. Combs
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Polycom, Inc.
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Adobe Survey Now Working for Mac/Firefox

[Karen Robbins]

Hi Listers,

After communication with Adobe and its survey developer, the Adobe Tech
Comm survey at http://survey.douwriteright.com/
worked for me today using Mac OSX Mountain Lion and Firefox 22.

Those who've had trouble with the survey before should give it a go again!

Thanks,
Karen
<http://survey.douwriteright.com/>
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OT: Font suggestions for book?

[VLM TechSubs]

Greetings everyone,



I'm working in FM 8, Win 7 x64 on a book that will be published this Fall. I've 
now been asked to do the book design, in addition to
most of the writing and basic template design. The subject matter is primarily 
financial . it's a book about the history of
taxation. It's not a scholarly work at all, but rather one designed to "wake 
up" American teens and young adults to some of the
issues involved. Footnotes are used here and there, but more for explanation of 
background/details than in a traditional sense as
references. The book will be published in a standard 6x9 format, paperback. 



All that having been said . What are people's favorite or recommended fonts for 
such a project. And since this is being published on
a shoestring budget with a nonprofit/educational bent, suggestions of free 
fonts would be most welcome. 



Well, thanks in advance!



Best regards,

Elchanan

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Unavailable fonts message - incorrect?

[Craig Ede]

e font change will not
"take" and be carried forward unless the file is saved after you let FM make
the replacement.
8.  Turn "Remember Missing Font Names" back ON. (It is normally a very
good idea not to reformat a file from a colleague or client to match your
own less complete font library.)

This *should* take care of the problem unless the bad font name is embedded
in a graphic.



Another approach that some users swear by is to save the offending file as
MIF and then use a text editor to search for the names of the unavailable
fonts, as reported in the FM console. After making the substitution with the
font editor, the file is saved as MIF, then opened from FrameMaker and saved
back to .fm file format. This approach still will not look inside graphics
objects, but I have personally seen cases where the source .fm file
contained a *completely* spurious font specification (for a Chinese font in
my case) that was removed simply by passing it through the FM->MIF filter
(i.e., the bad font was not findable in the the MIF file and was gone when
the file was restored to .fm format).


-Fred Ridder



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Chapter numbers

[Alastair Dent]

Ok, I've found out why it was going wrong.

It seems that the first document in the book using chapnum has to have an 
override setting the chapnum to start at 1 (this document being the third in 
the book, after the cover and ToC).

-Original Message-
From: Harro de Jong [mailto:harro.dej...@triviewgroup.com] 
Sent: 13 August 2013 11:05
To: Alastair Dent; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Chapter numbers

Alastair Dent wrote:

> I have documents that start with a tag called 'ChapTitle' and some 
> that start with Heading1.
> 
> The reference pages are set up so that pages with 'ChapTitle' on them 
> will use the 'First' master page. This has a header with the chapter 
> number in it. Pages starting with Heading1 are Right/Left and don't 
> have a chapternumber
> 
> Every file in the book is set to 'Continue Numbering from Previous 
> Chapter in book'.
> 
> The chapter numbers increment correctly.
> 
> The document with a Heading1 tag should show the numbering '3.1'. It 
> doesn't, it shows '4.1'.? The chapter number has incremented.
> 
> Why is this?

It sounds like you've got two numbering systems going on. One uses <$Chapnum>, 
the other uses paragraph numbers instead.
You can influence the <$Chapnum> numbering with the Format-Document-Numbering 
dialog, tab 'Chapter'
You can influence the paragraph numbering with the Format-Document-Numbering 
dialog, tab 'Paragraph'.

Check the Numbering properties of the ChapTitle and the Heading1 paragraph 
tags. You should use the same numbering system in all para tags that have a 
paragraph number. 

Harro de Jong

Unavailable fonts message - incorrect?

[STEPHENSON pascale]

Hi all

Thanks for the replies. I now have a better understanding of the situation, if 
I haven't exactly solved it. However, I have enough information to be going on 
with.

Thanks all for your help.

Regards

Pascale
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mac and Tech Comm Suite

[Craig Ede]

I'm considering replacing my current windows laptop with a Mac laptop. I
know that some framers are using Macs with the latest Adobe TCS software,
and I would appreciate any brief comments on the benefits/hassles of working
with TCS on a Mac and what contortions have worked best for you to make this
work.



You can send comments to me offlist if you'd like, or post to the list if
you think there is general value to the posting. 



Thank you.



Craig 

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Unwanted items in the TOC

[Craig Ede]

In your book, highlight the TOC file entry, right-click, and select Set Up
Table of Contents...

On the left side of the dialog that comes up, click on the items you don't
want and move them over to the right side.



Then go to your reference page, highlight these same items there and delete
them. You can leave them there if you think you might want to add them later
and use the same formatting.



Craig



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[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Thomas Scalise
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 12:54 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Unwanted items in the TOC



Esteemed colleagues,



I am working in Frame 11.0.0.380 on WIN 7.



I have three unwanted items in my TOC. They appear on the TOC reference page
and they are:



<$paratext> <$pagenum>

<$paratext> <$pagenum>

<$paratext> <$pagenum>



The first one is a ContentsTitleTOC. 

The second one is a LOFTitleTOC.

The third is a LOTTitleTOC.



I don't want "Contents" as an entry in the TOC; nor do I want "Figures" and
"Tables" in the TOC. They are separate lists of items that appear at the
beginning of the book immediately after the TOC. 



How do I get rid of the three entries in the TOC Reference page and make the
deletion stick? I would appreciate your counsel. Thanks in advance.



Tom



Tom Scalise

Manager, Technical Documentation



Cross Match Technologies, Inc.

3950 RCA Boulevard, Suite 5001

Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410

U.S.A.



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mac and Tech Comm Suite

[Matt Sullivan]

4 years and counting?going back to a Win only machine is really not even a 
consideration.

I'm nearly due for another laptop. With video becoming more common, I find my 
MacBook Air mid-2011 edition needs more graphics power (producing video from 
Adobe Presenter slows it to a crawl, mostly due to video processing) and I'm 
limited to 4Gb RAM, which is split across both Mac and Win OS.

So, either a new Air (8Gb RAM, better video, better processor) or a MacBook Pro 
(likely) are a likely 2013 purchase.

-Matt

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co-author Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 11 
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@mattrsullivan LinkedIn facebook mattrsullivan.com 

On Aug 15, 2013, at 10:08 AM, Craig Ede  wrote:

> I'm considering replacing my current windows laptop with a Mac laptop. I know 
> that some framers are using Macs with the latest Adobe TCS software, and I 
> would appreciate any brief comments on the benefits/hassles of working with 
> TCS on a Mac and what contortions have worked best for you to make this work.
>  
> You can send comments to me offlist if you'd like, or post to the list if you 
> think there is general value to the posting.
>  
> Thank you.
>  
> Craig
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OT: Acrobat Joboption Files

[David Creamer]

>Bookmarks, links, and TOC settings are in FrameMaker, an Acrobat expert
would likely know nothing about them.

One _could_ be an Acrobat expert and an FrameMaker expert at the same
time... 

Dave Creamer
IDEAS Training
http://www.ideastraining.com