Re: Conditional Text in structured documents?

2006-01-12 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Jakob, I would take a look at Sourcerer from Advantica. This allows you to set conditions using attributes instead of conditional text directly. One of the tutorials shows how it can be used for comments. I don't have the URL, but if you Google Sourcerer, it should come up. I have been

Re: Conditional Text in structured documents?

2006-01-12 Thread Jakob Fix
Thanks Rick, On 12/01/06, Rick Quatro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jakob, I would take a look at Sourcerer from Advantica. This allows you to set conditions using attributes instead of conditional text directly. One of the tutorials shows how it can be used for comments. I don't have the URL,

RE: FrameMaker at Kinko's

2006-01-12 Thread Diane Gaskill
You can use Final Draft by Quadralay to convert FM docs to an xml format that anyone with their free reader can read and/or mark up. It's similar to the Acrobat 7 Pro setup. Lotsa bucks for the main program, but the reader is free. And I sure hope hat FM never merges with InDesign. The

OS X PDF creation

2006-01-12 Thread William Herr
I just discovered the Folder Actions capability. This lets you assign a canned script to a folder. One of those is convert Postscript to pdf. Does anyone use this routinely? If it is robust then for a basic author like me, why do I need acrobat? One can see why Adobe may be losing motivation to

manipulating headers / footers through API?

2006-01-12 Thread hedley.fin...@myob.com
Can you explain what the problem is and why you think it is necessary to write a plug-in to solve it? There are many ways to skin the FrameMaker rabbit and there might be solution which can be implemented with FM's many devious capabilities and existing plug-ins. -- Hedley Finger Technical

Answer: Re: Odd bug printing FM to PDF

2006-01-12 Thread hedley.fin...@myob.com
All: The hotspot behaviour in generated lists is user-unfriendly but works well for cross-references and index page numbers. A possible fix involving FrameScript follows: @ Create a new character format where all properties are set to null. @ Create a FrameScript event script

Whoops! Nll (As Is) char format WON'T fix hotspots in generated paras

2006-01-12 Thread hedley.fin...@myob.com
Sorry about previous email. The hotspot after a Hyperlink marker is read until the next CHANGE of formatting, whether applied anonymously or by a character format. So if you heading is bold but your page number is light, the hotspot ends with bold. -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications

IPEX 2006, UK, April 4-11

2006-01-12 Thread Steve Rickaby
Dear Mac FrameMaker users... if there are any other than me in the UK, you might like to know that IPEX, the major trade exhibition for the printing and publishing industries, is coming round again. IPEX is held at the NEC, Birmingham, every four years. Adobe will be there in force, so this

Conditional Text in structured documents?

2006-01-12 Thread Jakob Fix
Hello, I've read chapter 17 "Conditional Text" of the User Guide several times in order to find out how I can do the following, but without success: I want authors to be able to add comments that will not show up in the final printed document, but which can be exploited elsewhere, say, in the

Conditional Text in structured documents?

2006-01-12 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Jakob, I would take a look at Sourcerer from Advantica. This allows you to set conditions using attributes instead of conditional text directly. One of the tutorials shows how it can be used for comments. I don't have the URL, but if you Google Sourcerer, it should come up. I have been

Conditional Text in structured documents?

2006-01-12 Thread Jakob Fix
Thanks Rick, On 12/01/06, Rick Quatro wrote: > Hi Jakob, > > I would take a look at Sourcerer from Advantica. This allows you to set > conditions using attributes instead of conditional text directly. One of the > tutorials shows how it can be used for comments. I don't have the URL, but > if you

Conditional Text in structured documents?

2006-01-12 Thread Rick Quatro
Jakob, If you have a need for calling Sourcerer from another plugin or script, please let me know. Thanks. Rick Thanks Rick, On 12/01/06, Rick Quatro wrote: > Hi Jakob, > > I would take a look at Sourcerer from Advantica. This allows you to set > conditions using attributes instead of

FrameMaker at Kinko's

2006-01-12 Thread Diane Gaskill
You can use Final Draft by Quadralay to convert FM docs to an xml format that anyone with their free reader can read and/or mark up. It's similar to the Acrobat 7 Pro setup. Lotsa bucks for the main program, but the reader is free. And I sure hope hat FM never merges with InDesign. The

OT: IACOverview.pdf

2006-01-12 Thread Rick Quatro
Hello Framers, I am looking for the latest version of a PDF called "Interapplication Communication Overview", which should be at http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/docs/Interapplication_Communication/IACOverview.pdf This is an old URL that doesn't work. If you have a copy of this

OS X PDF creation

2006-01-12 Thread William Herr
I just discovered the Folder Actions capability. This lets you assign a canned script to a folder. One of those is convert Postscript to pdf. Does anyone use this routinely? If it is robust then for a basic author like me, why do I need acrobat? One can see why Adobe may be losing motivation to

SOLVED: Re: IACOverview.pdf

2006-01-12 Thread Rick Quatro
Thanks to David Spreadbury, who emailed me the file. Thanks to the others who responded. Rick

Automatically applying master pages

2006-01-12 Thread tammy.vanboen...@jeppesen.com
Windows XP, Framemaker 7.1. In an appendix, I have a tag named Head1. After Head1, I have some introductory text tagged as Body or ListBullet. After these tags, I insert a table identifed in the Table Designer as Symbology_Table. Because of the massive volume of information that is required

Automatically applying master pages

2006-01-12 Thread Combs, Richard
Tammy Van Boening wrote: > In an appendix, I have a tag named Head1. After Head1, I have > some introductory text tagged as Body or ListBullet. After > these tags, I insert a table identifed in the Table Designer > as Symbology_Table. Because of the massive volume of > information that is

Automatically applying master pages

2006-01-12 Thread tammy.vanboen...@jeppesen.com
Thanks all! Got it working! Tammy Van Boening Senior Technical Writer Aviation Courseware Development Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc. 303-328-4420 tammy.vanboening at jeppesen.com

OS X PDF creation

2006-01-12 Thread A
William Herr said: > I just discovered the Folder Actions capability. This lets you assign > a > canned script to a folder. One of those is convert Postscript to pdf. > > Does anyone use this routinely? > > If it is robust then for a basic author like me, why do I need > acrobat? The only

FrameMaker at Kinko's

2006-01-12 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:38:33 -0800 (GMT-08:00), Diane Gaskill wrote: >You can use Final Draft by Quadralay to convert FM docs >to an xml format that anyone with their free reader can >read and/or mark up. It's similar to the Acrobat 7 Pro >setup. Lotsa bucks for the main program, but the