RE: TOCs at beginning of each chapter

[Gust, Dieter]

David Wollenberger wrote: 
... I am attempting to develop a template where there is a TOC at the 
beginning of each chapter...

Take a look at our FrameScript Script DocToc also. 
I believe it's the most comprehensive solution for managing FrameMaker Chapter 
TOCs automatically. By the way the script includes a formatting optimization 
for line breaks in TOCs
http://www.itl.de/html/englisch/consulting/fsl/solutions-2.html

Regards
Dieter Gust
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It's Here - the Brand New Adobe FrameMaker for Mac OS X Petition Web Site

[Paul Findon]

Dear Supporter,

Apple introduced its first Intel-based Macs in January and intends to 
transition the entire range from PowerPC to Intel by the end of the 
year. This is significant for Mac FrameMaker users because the new 
Intel Macs don't support the Classic environment and cannot run 
FrameMaker. To mark this critical phase in our campaign, I've set up a 
new domain for the FrameMaker for Mac OS X Web site (fm4osx.org), 
totally redesigned the site, and added PDF form letters to make writing 
to Adobe and Apple really easy. Please take a look at the new site and 
write to Adobe and Apple today.


http://www.fm4osx.org/

Apparently, after putting all of its efforts into Acrobat and Creative 
Suite for the last few years, Adobe has reevaluated its portfolio and 
is reinvesting in FrameMaker. The first evidence of this was the 
September release of FrameMaker 7.2 for Windows and Solaris. Adobe has 
also said that if the market for Mac FrameMaker changes and there's an 
opportunity, it will respond. In other words, if enough people let 
Adobe know that they want FrameMaker for Mac OS X, they'll make it.


If you haven't already written to Adobe, I urge you to do so now. Even 
if you have already written, please write again. The new PDF form 
letters on the Web site mean that it will only take a few minutes of 
your time. I've also provided address labels.


Apple is still using Classic (Mac OS 9) and FrameMaker 6.0 to produce 
its own user guides and I know that its technical writers want 
FrameMaker for Mac OS X just as much as we do. Even Adobe is still 
using it.


If you've not yet signed the petition, please do so now. If you've 
already signed, please don't sign again, as it diminishes the petition 
and I have to manually remove duplicates. I understand your 
frustration, but writing to Adobe would be more constructive.


http://www.petitiononline.com/fmforosx/petition.html

If you're not already a member, please join the FrameMaker for Mac OS X 
mailing list to keep up to date with the campaign's progress and 
discuss Mac FrameMaker-related issues.


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fmforosx/

The current petition count is 3,245 signatures.

Please forward this message to all concerned.

Thank you for your support!

Paul Findon
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(Apologies if you receive this message more than once. If you no longer 
wish to receive mail about this issue, let me know and I'll remove your 
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Re: Error installing FM 7.1p116

[Art Campbell]

Certainly not a problem if it works for you.

With any method except the PS-to-PDF, I get blocks of missing text, usually
beginning and ending where a font attribute changes. It'd be fatal if
I didn't have
the full Distiller version, but as long as I have a work-around
Also, although
I haven't checked lately, the two-step used to be the only method Dov
Isaacs, Adobe's
FM-to-PDF guru recommended.

Art


On 3/6/06, Jeremy H. Griffith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 17:10:41 -0500, Art Campbell
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I don't want to disillusion you prematurely, but Save As
 pdf and Distiller still don't work reliably with the patch.
 May not crash, but the only solidly reliable way to distill
 is still to print to a PS file and distill manually (I was
 on 7.1 for more than a year and just hopped to 7.2 .

 I'm a little puzzled.  I've always known that SaveAs PDF
 was a Bad Idea, but the method I use is not manual either.
 It's Print, to the Adobe PDF (or Distiller, pre-6.0) printer.
 This is a one-click process that always works for me.  I've
 never done it in two steps.  Is there some problem with this?



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RE: Page Numbering Properties

[Combs, Richard]

Joe Malin wrote:  
 
 Most of the time, I can come up with good reasons for a 
 decision, result, or process that seems stupid. I'm always 
 looking for better ways to do something, but I hesitate to 
 call other ways worse. 

First, don't misinterpret me. I think a good case can be made for: 

(a) numbering frontmatter separately with Roman numerals, and then
numbering the rest of the document with Arabic numerals, starting at the
first page of chap. 1 with page #1. 

(b) numbering frontmatter separately with Roman numerals, and then
folio-numbering (chapter-page) the rest of the document, starting at the
first page of chap. 1 with page #1-1. 

(c) numbering the entire document continuously with Arabic numerals,
starting wherever you choose to start (title page, inside cover, ...)
with no separately numbered frontmatter section. 

What I object to is (d) numbering the entire document continuously, but
changing the numbering format so as to _obscure_ that fact -- thus
making scheme (c), which would work just fine, into something confusing
and user-unfriendly. 

There is no good reason to _fool_ people into thinking the book uses
numbering scheme (a) when it doesn't. Period. 

Second, you may hesitate to call something worse, but you can't repeal
logic and reason. If one of two alternatives is in fact _better_, then
the other is in fact _worse_. That's how comparisons work. 

Sorry, I have no use for this politically correct bovine fertilizer.
Not all ideas are equally valid, and not all answers are equally
correct. When you pretend that they are, you're not doing those with
dumb ideas and wrong answers any favors. 

It's my opinion, and it's very true. ;-) 

Richard


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Re: FrameMaker 6 and Distiller font embedding problem

[Stuart Rogers]

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Just a quick note to say thank you for your help.

Can I just ask one more question please? Do I have to use Adobe Type 
Manager to reinstall the font or can I just copy the font into the 
correct folder?



I don't know what OS you're using, but you should be able to simply use 
Windows commands:

Start  Settings  Control Panel  Fonts,
File  Install new font.

HTH,

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Re: FrameMaker 6 and Distiller font embedding problem

[Bodvar Bjorgvinsson]

...or in Explorer (on XP): C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\ where you will find the
option File  Install New Fonts instead of File  New.

For Windows XP and Win2K you should not use ATM for installing fonts.

In Windows XP you must have full rights (near-administrator rights) to
be able to install fonts -- same as for installing most software.
(Which is IMNSHO stopid(TM) ).


Bodvar


On 3/7/06, Stuart Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Just a quick note to say thank you for your help.
 
  Can I just ask one more question please? Do I have to use Adobe Type
  Manager to reinstall the font or can I just copy the font into the
  correct folder?


 I don't know what OS you're using, but you should be able to simply use
 Windows commands:
 Start  Settings  Control Panel  Fonts,
 File  Install new font.

 HTH,

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 Technical Communicator
 Phoenix Geophysics Limited
 Toronto, ON, Canada
 +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325

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Polish in FrameMaker

[Yves Barbion]

Hello Framers,

here we go again with the old FrameMaker does not support Unicode story.

A customer of mine has FrameMaker files which already contain Polish text.
He has now received some new Polish text in Word which he has to copy and
paste in the FrameMaker files. The known problem is that the characters are
okay in Word (because Word supports Unicode), but the special (Polish)
characters become question marks when you paste the text in FrameMaker.

The maker.ini file has been customized and Arial CE has been activated using
WGL Assistant.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Best regards


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Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor


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RE: Polish in FrameMaker

[Phil Heron]

Yves,

I've tried this out on my system. Here's what I did to copy Polish text
from Word to FrameMaker:

1. I defined a FrameMaker paragraph format to use the Arial CE font.
2. I typed some text using Polish characters in a Word document.
3. I selected the text in Word and used Ctrl+C to copy it to the
clipboard.
4. In FrameMaker, I put the insertion point into the paragraph formatted
with the Arial CE font.
5. I chose Paste Special from the Frame Edit menu and selected RTF as
the paste format.

Bingo - the Polish characters displayed as expected.

You could move RTF to the beginning of the ClipboardFormatsPriorities
line in maker.ini. This will allow you to use regular Paste to put the
Polish text in.

I can also switch to the Polish keyboard and type Polish text directly
into Frame.
I didn't need to customise maker.ini or use WGL Assistant to activate
Arial CE.

My environment:
Windows XP Professional (UK English default locale)
Word XP
FrameMaker 7.2 (144)
Acrobat 6 Professional

Phil Heron
Technical Writer - CODA
www.coda.com

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Subject: Polish in FrameMaker

Hello Framers,

here we go again with the old FrameMaker does not support Unicode
story.

A customer of mine has FrameMaker files which already contain Polish
text.
He has now received some new Polish text in Word which he has to copy
and paste in the FrameMaker files. The known problem is that the
characters are okay in Word (because Word supports Unicode), but the
special (Polish) characters become question marks when you paste the
text in FrameMaker.

The maker.ini file has been customized and Arial CE has been activated
using WGL Assistant.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Best regards


--
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Technical Writer
Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor


UI Learning NV (formerly ATeK NV)
Molenaarsstraat 111
B-9000 Gent
Belgium
Tel.: +32 9 265 74 72
Fax: +32 9 265 74 84
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No insertion point

[Gillian Flato]

I have a cover sheet with a graphic on the master template. This graphic
is causing weird problems. When I print text over it, I can't format it
with the paragraph designer, only the character designer. When I try to
use the paragraph designer, it says, No Insertion point even though I
have the text highlighted. 
 
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Typefi

[Steve Rickaby]

This appeared on the InDesign list today. The application sounds interesting. 
From the website, 'For authoring long and complex documents or books, Typefi 
Publish offers an ideal way for multiple authors, editors and contributors to 
collaborate.'

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Subject: Re: What's Typefi? (was Fit Frame to Content...)

Typefi is a _scriptless_ automated XML-based composition system built
on top of InDesign Server CS2. Part of the scriptless bit is the
Typefi InDesign plug-ins allow _designers_ (not programmers) to
quickly and easily create automated templates (WYSIWYG); no prior
knowledge of XML or scripting required--if you know ID, use master
pages, and use para/char styles then 1/2 day and you'd be up and
running.

Note, we're not leaving scripters out cold, our next release is
extensible via event-driven scripting at both the server and
pagination level (e.g., manipulate the XML stream before it's passed
to the Typefi Engine, rules-based page balancing on a section-by-
section basis, etc.). It's pretty cool... ;-)

We're presenting at the Henry Stewart DAM Symposium next week in NYC
and will also be at the InDesign + Creative Suitcase conference(s) in
Chicago in May. http://www.typefi.com/

ciao,
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Re: Error installing FM 7.1p116

[rebecca officer]

Hi Art

Have you dropped the Graphic Print Quality setting of your Distiller printer 
(in both places in the printer properties)? We had to drop ours to 300dpi to 
solve that problem, but it's been a permanent reliable fix.

Cheers, Rebecca

 Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/03/06 04:05 
Certainly not a problem if it works for you.

With any method except the PS-to-PDF, I get blocks of missing text, usually
beginning and ending where a font attribute changes. It'd be fatal if
I didn't have
the full Distiller version, but as long as I have a work-around
Also, although
I haven't checked lately, the two-step used to be the only method Dov
Isaacs, Adobe's
FM-to-PDF guru recommended.

Art


On 3/6/06, Jeremy H. Griffith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 17:10:41 -0500, Art Campbell
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I don't want to disillusion you prematurely, but Save As
 pdf and Distiller still don't work reliably with the patch.
 May not crash, but the only solidly reliable way to distill
 is still to print to a PS file and distill manually (I was
 on 7.1 for more than a year and just hopped to 7.2 .

 I'm a little puzzled.  I've always known that SaveAs PDF
 was a Bad Idea, but the method I use is not manual either.
 It's Print, to the Adobe PDF (or Distiller, pre-6.0) printer.
 This is a one-click process that always works for me.  I've
 never done it in two steps.  Is there some problem with this?



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Re: table sort order

[Peter Gold]

Hi, Carol:

At 11:30 AM -0700 3/7/06, Carol J. Elkins wrote:
Framers, in the past when I sorted table rows containing numerical 
data, I could put up with Frame sorting on specific digits rather 
than the entire number string. For example, in an ascending sort, 
Frame does this:

509
5104
5105
5115
512
5120


Have you considered creating and maintaining the table in a 
spreadsheet application like Excel, and importing it, either 
directly, or by exporting from the spreadsheet as delimited text and 
importing the text?

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Re: table sort order

[Carol J. Elkins]

Good idea, Shlomo. I didn't mention, however, that each of these numbers is 
a cross-reference to an actual document. Therefore, I can't edit the number 
manually unless I open each of the 624 files and change the variable that 
defines that file's document number.


But your idea is so spiffy (especially the part about creating a variable 
named 0) that I'm going to use it on a different project, so thanks!


Carol

At 12:52 PM 3/7/2006 -0800, you wrote:
To fix this manually, you may insert an invisible/non-printing leading 
zeroe/s as necessary in front of the shorter numeric strings.
To make insertion easier, create a NoPrint character format (where the 
color is set to an invisible one), then create a variable named 0, which 
has: NoPrint0


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RE: table sort order

[Combs, Richard]

Carol J. Elkins wrote: 

 Sorry, Ann, to keep my question simple, I didn't mention that 
 each number is preceded by an alpha character. The numbers 
 really look like this:
 
 M-509
 M-509
 M-5104
 M-5105
 M-5115
 M-512
 M-5120
 
 That sends a different message to Frame, signalling an alpha 
 sort instead of a numeric sort.

grasping target=straws
Is the prefix the same for all the numbers? (Or limited to a manageable
few?) Then maybe you could strip it off all the numbers and make it the
autonumber for the pgf tag you use. 
/grasping 

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Re: Error installing FM 7.1p116

[Art Campbell]

I've played with the setting a bit because one version of the bug was related to
the default setting of 600 dpi. Haven't tried 300 exactly though, no.
499, 450, 400 ...
450 was actually working for a while, until the last automatic Acrobat upgrade.

I'll give 300 a shot when I have a few minutes though.

Thanks,
Art


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 Have you dropped the Graphic Print Quality setting of your Distiller 
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 Cheers, Rebecca



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Figure numbering

[Gillian Flato]

How do you guys do figure numbering? 
 
1. Figure 1,2,3
2. Figure 1-1, 1-2, ...2-1, 2-2
3. Figure 1-1...3-10...5-30
 
Currently, the book I am updating does #3. It stops counting at figure
325 and then starts at 1 again. I want to do number 2, so I want the
Figure numbering to start over at the beginning of each chapter. How do
I do this?
 
If you guys know of a better method, tell me what you do.
 

Thanks,

Gillian Flato

Technical Writer (Software)

NANOmetrics, Inc.

1550 Buckeye Dr.

Milpitas, CA. 95035

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Re: Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in FM generated PDFs

[Peter Gold]

Hi, Yosuke:

At 9:52 AM +0900 3/8/06, Yosuke Ichikawa wrote:

Hi,

We're using Acrobat's preflight feature to check for lines thinner than
0.2 pts. The thinnest lines in our .eps graphics are exactly 0.2 pts,
but when we import these graphics in FM and check the PDFs created from
FM, Acrobat preflight says the graphics uses 0.199600pt lines.


I don't know if there's a tool dedicated to fixing this in FM, but 
you might try saving  the Illustrator graphics as PDF or .ai, and 
importing them into FM, to see if there's a difference. Success here 
might indicate that the problem is in the EPS file.



PDFs of these individual graphics, created from Illustrator, do not
have problems with Acrobat prefight, so it seems to be some sort of FM
conversion problem.

Why does this happen, and is there any way to prevent this on the FM
side? If there is no way to fix this, we'd have to tell our illustrator
to make the lines in the graphics slightly thicker.

Windows XP, Illustrator 10, FM 7.1, Acrobat 6.

By the way, is there no way to check the whole list archives any more? I
thought I'd search the archives first, but the one I found at the
frameusers site was just for the recent few months.


I don't know about the archives, but you can find lots of hits from 
many relevant lists with Google searches that include the problem or 
message and FrameMaker.

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Re: Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in FM generated PDFs

[Yosuke Ichikawa]

Thank you for the tip, Peter. 

We tried .ai, but it was the same; and since we have a lot of graphics,
we don't want to be saving them in .pdf. 

I'm still curious why this happens, but for the practical matter at hand,
we decided to use 0.21 pts for minimum line width in our graphics.

Yosuke


Peter Gold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 We're using Acrobat's preflight feature to check for lines thinner than
 0.2 pts. The thinnest lines in our .eps graphics are exactly 0.2 pts,
 but when we import these graphics in FM and check the PDFs created from
 FM, Acrobat preflight says the graphics uses 0.199600pt lines.
 
 I don't know if there's a tool dedicated to fixing this in FM, but 
 you might try saving  the Illustrator graphics as PDF or .ai, and 
 importing them into FM, to see if there's a difference. Success here 
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Index Professional Tool

[Shlomo Perets]

You wrote:

>  Can you all please throw some light on Index professional tool. Is it
>advisable to use this tool if so can i get some trial version for the same.

Links to reviews of Index Professional, IXGen and emDEX can be found at 
http://www.microtype.com/links.html


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TOCs at beginning of each chapter

[Gust, Dieter]

David Wollenberger wrote: 
>... I am attempting to develop a template where there is a TOC at the 
>beginning of each chapter...

Take a look at our FrameScript Script DocToc also. 
I believe it's the most comprehensive solution for managing FrameMaker Chapter 
TOCs automatically. By the way the script includes a formatting optimization 
for line breaks in TOCs
http://www.itl.de/html/englisch/consulting/fsl/solutions-2.html

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It's Here - the Brand New Adobe FrameMaker for Mac OS X Petition Web Site

[Paul Findon]

Dear Supporter,

Apple introduced its first Intel-based Macs in January and intends to 
transition the entire range from PowerPC to Intel by the end of the 
year. This is significant for Mac FrameMaker users because the new 
Intel Macs don't support the Classic environment and cannot run 
FrameMaker. To mark this critical phase in our campaign, I've set up a 
new domain for the FrameMaker for Mac OS X Web site (fm4osx.org), 
totally redesigned the site, and added PDF form letters to make writing 
to Adobe and Apple really easy. Please take a look at the new site and 
write to Adobe and Apple today.



Apparently, after putting all of its efforts into Acrobat and Creative 
Suite for the last few years, Adobe has reevaluated its portfolio and 
is reinvesting in FrameMaker. The first evidence of this was the 
September release of FrameMaker 7.2 for Windows and Solaris. Adobe has 
also said that if the market for Mac FrameMaker changes and there's an 
opportunity, it will respond. In other words, if enough people let 
Adobe know that they want FrameMaker for Mac OS X, they'll make it.

If you haven't already written to Adobe, I urge you to do so now. Even 
if you have already written, please write again. The new PDF form 
letters on the Web site mean that it will only take a few minutes of 
your time. I've also provided address labels.

Apple is still using Classic (Mac OS 9) and FrameMaker 6.0 to produce 
its own user guides and I know that its technical writers want 
FrameMaker for Mac OS X just as much as we do. Even Adobe is still 
using it.

If you've not yet signed the petition, please do so now. If you've 
already signed, please don't sign again, as it diminishes the petition 
and I have to manually remove duplicates. I understand your 
frustration, but writing to Adobe would be more constructive.



If you're not already a member, please join the FrameMaker for Mac OS X 
mailing list to keep up to date with the campaign's progress and 
discuss Mac FrameMaker-related issues.



The current petition count is 3,245 signatures.

Please forward this message to all concerned.

Thank you for your support!

Paul Findon
FrameMaker for Mac OS X Petition Organizer

(Apologies if you receive this message more than once. If you no longer 
wish to receive mail about this issue, let me know and I'll remove your 
address.)

Error installing FM 7.1p116

[Art Campbell]

Certainly not a problem if it works for you.

With any method except the PS-to-PDF, I get blocks of missing text, usually
beginning and ending where a font attribute changes. It'd be fatal if
I didn't have
the full Distiller version, but as long as I have a work-around
Also, although
I haven't checked lately, the two-step used to be the only method Dov
Isaacs, Adobe's
FM-to-PDF guru recommended.

Art


On 3/6/06, Jeremy H. Griffith  wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 17:10:41 -0500, "Art Campbell"
>  wrote:
>
> >I don't want to disillusion you prematurely, but Save As
> >pdf and Distiller still don't work reliably with the patch.
> >May not crash, but the only solidly reliable way to distill
> >is still to print to a PS file and distill manually (I was
> >on 7.1 for more than a year and just hopped to 7.2 .
>
> I'm a little puzzled.  I've always known that SaveAs PDF
> was a Bad Idea, but the method I use is not manual either.
> It's Print, to the Adobe PDF (or Distiller, pre-6.0) printer.
> This is a one-click process that always works for me.  I've
> never done it in two steps.  Is there some problem with this?



--
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   and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
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Page Numbering Properties

[Combs, Richard]

Joe Malin wrote:  

> Most of the time, I can come up with good reasons for a 
> decision, result, or process that seems "stupid". I'm always 
> looking for better ways to do something, but I hesitate to 
> call other ways "worse". 

First, don't misinterpret me. I think a good case can be made for: 

(a) numbering frontmatter separately with Roman numerals, and then
numbering the rest of the document with Arabic numerals, starting at the
first page of chap. 1 with page #1. 

(b) numbering frontmatter separately with Roman numerals, and then
folio-numbering (chapter-page) the rest of the document, starting at the
first page of chap. 1 with page #1-1. 

(c) numbering the entire document continuously with Arabic numerals,
starting wherever you choose to start (title page, inside cover, ...)
with no separately numbered frontmatter section. 

What I object to is (d) numbering the entire document continuously, but
changing the numbering format so as to _obscure_ that fact -- thus
making scheme (c), which would work just fine, into something confusing
and user-unfriendly. 

There is no good reason to _fool_ people into thinking the book uses
numbering scheme (a) when it doesn't. Period. 

Second, you may "hesitate to call" something worse, but you can't repeal
logic and reason. If one of two alternatives is in fact _better_, then
the other is in fact _worse_. That's how comparisons work. 

Sorry, I have no use for this "politically correct" bovine fertilizer.
Not all ideas are equally valid, and not all answers are equally
correct. When you pretend that they are, you're not doing those with
dumb ideas and wrong answers any favors. 

"It's my opinion, and it's very true." ;-) 

Richard


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FrameMaker 6 and Distiller font embedding problem

[Stuart Rogers]

Cherie.Ellis at trendcomms.com wrote:

> Just a quick note to say thank you for your help.
> 
> Can I just ask one more question please? Do I have to use Adobe Type 
> Manager to reinstall the font or can I just copy the font into the 
> correct folder?


I don't know what OS you're using, but you should be able to simply use 
Windows commands:
Start > Settings > Control Panel > Fonts,
File > Install new font.

HTH,

-- 
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Technical Communicator
Phoenix Geophysics Limited
Toronto, ON, Canada
+1 (416) 491-7340 x 325

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FrameMaker 6 and Distiller font embedding problem

[Bodvar Bjorgvinsson]

...or in Explorer (on XP): C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\ where you will find the
option "File > Install New Fonts" instead of "File > New".

For Windows XP and Win2K you should not use ATM for installing fonts.

In Windows XP you must have full rights (near-administrator rights) to
be able to install fonts -- same as for installing most software.
(Which is IMNSHO stopid(TM) ).


Bodvar


On 3/7/06, Stuart Rogers  wrote:
> Cherie.Ellis at trendcomms.com wrote:
>
> > Just a quick note to say thank you for your help.
> >
> > Can I just ask one more question please? Do I have to use Adobe Type
> > Manager to reinstall the font or can I just copy the font into the
> > correct folder?
>
>
> I don't know what OS you're using, but you should be able to simply use
> Windows commands:
> Start > Settings > Control Panel > Fonts,
> File > Install new font.
>
> HTH,
>
> --
> Stuart Rogers
> Technical Communicator
> Phoenix Geophysics Limited
> Toronto, ON, Canada
> +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325
>
> srogers phoenix-geophysics com
>
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> - Mark Twain
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Polish in FrameMaker

[Yves Barbion]

Hello Framers,

here we go again with the old "FrameMaker does not support Unicode" story.

A customer of mine has FrameMaker files which already contain Polish text.
He has now received some new Polish text in Word which he has to copy and
paste in the FrameMaker files. The known problem is that the characters are
okay in Word (because Word supports Unicode), but the special (Polish)
characters become question marks when you paste the text in FrameMaker.

The maker.ini file has been customized and Arial CE has been activated using
WGL Assistant.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Best regards


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Belgium
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Polish in FrameMaker

[Phil Heron]

Yves,

I've tried this out on my system. Here's what I did to copy Polish text
from Word to FrameMaker:

1. I defined a FrameMaker paragraph format to use the Arial CE font.
2. I typed some text using Polish characters in a Word document.
3. I selected the text in Word and used Ctrl+C to copy it to the
clipboard.
4. In FrameMaker, I put the insertion point into the paragraph formatted
with the Arial CE font.
5. I chose Paste Special from the Frame Edit menu and selected RTF as
the paste format.

Bingo - the Polish characters displayed as expected.

You could move RTF to the beginning of the ClipboardFormatsPriorities
line in maker.ini. This will allow you to use regular Paste to put the
Polish text in.

I can also switch to the Polish keyboard and type Polish text directly
into Frame.
I didn't need to customise maker.ini or use WGL Assistant to activate
Arial CE.

My environment:
Windows XP Professional (UK English default locale)
Word XP
FrameMaker 7.2 (144)
Acrobat 6 Professional

Phil Heron
Technical Writer - CODA
www.coda.com

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From: framers-bounces+phil.heron=coda@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+phil.heron=coda.com at lists.frameusers.com] On
Behalf Of Yves Barbion
Sent: 07 March 2006 15:56
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Polish in FrameMaker

Hello Framers,

here we go again with the old "FrameMaker does not support Unicode"
story.

A customer of mine has FrameMaker files which already contain Polish
text.
He has now received some new Polish text in Word which he has to copy
and paste in the FrameMaker files. The known problem is that the
characters are okay in Word (because Word supports Unicode), but the
special (Polish) characters become question marks when you paste the
text in FrameMaker.

The maker.ini file has been customized and Arial CE has been activated
using WGL Assistant.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Best regards


--
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Technical Writer
Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor


U Learning NV (formerly ATeK NV)
Molenaarsstraat 111
B-9000 Gent
Belgium
Tel.: +32 9 265 74 72
Fax: +32 9 265 74 84
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"Learning Korean: Martial Arts Terminology"

[Scott Abel]

Just a quick email to the list to say if you have an interest in Korean 
or martial arts language learning, you might check out the latest 
project from Adobe FrameMaker guru Kay Ethier. Kay was unable to locate 
Korean language learning materials for  her children who were enrolled 
in Tang Soo Do classes. Frustrated, Kay hired some Korean martial arts 
and language learning experts, cranked up Adobe FrameMaker and went to 
work creating her first product, "Learning Korean: Martial Arts 
Terminology".

Available here: www.aboveandbeyondlearning.com

This is truly an example of practicing what you preach! Kay was able to 
produce a multi-lingual, multi-media product (a CD and book) from a 
single source -- using Adobe FrameMaker as the both the authoring tool 
and publishing engine.

Kudos to Kay! I'm sure there are many other parents out there looking 
for quality language learning materials. Now they have Above and Beyond 
Learning to help them.


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No insertion point

[Gillian Flato]

I have a cover sheet with a graphic on the master template. This graphic
is causing weird problems. When I print text over it, I can't format it
with the paragraph designer, only the character designer. When I try to
use the paragraph designer, it says, "No Insertion point" even though I
have the text highlighted. 

Any ideas? 


Thanks,

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No insertion point

[Stuart Rogers]

Gillian Flato wrote:
> I have a cover sheet with a graphic on the master template. This graphic
> is causing weird problems. When I print text over it, I can't format it
> with the paragraph designer, only the character designer. When I try to
> use the paragraph designer, it says, "No Insertion point" even though I
> have the text highlighted. 
>  
> Any ideas? 

I don't think the problem has anything to do with the graphic. It sounds 
like you are using the "A" tool to "print text" over the graphic. That 
tool does not permit use of paragraph tags. If you want to use pgf tags, 
insert a text frame.

HTH,

-- 
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Technical Communicator
Phoenix Geophysics Limited
Toronto, ON, Canada
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No insertion point

[Peter Gold]

Hi, Gillian:

There's likely no text frame on the body page. The text is probably 
created with the Text Line tool, the "A" tool in the graphics tools 
palette.

You can select this hybrid text/graphics object by:

* Dragging a selection marquee around it; take care not to drag 
background graphics and objects.

* Ctrl+Click on it to select it.

You can select the text by:

* Click an insertion point in it and drag

* Double or triple click in it

Read more about Text Lines in FM online help.

Your options are:

* Format this text directly or by creating a character format and 
applying it to the text

* Create a text frame with the text frame tool ("mini page icon") in 
the graphics tools palette

* Double click inside the frame and type to create paragraph-based text.

* Select the frame with Ctrl+Click, and drag a side or corner to 
adjust the size and position of the text frame

* Apply a paragraph format to each paragraph in the text frame.



At 9:59 AM -0800 3/7/06, Gillian Flato wrote:
>I have a cover sheet with a graphic on the master template. This graphic
>is causing weird problems. When I print text over it, I can't format it
>with the paragraph designer, only the character designer. When I try to
>use the paragraph designer, it says, "No Insertion point" even though I
>have the text highlighted.


-- 
Regards,

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table sort order

[Carol J. Elkins]

Framers, in the past when I sorted table rows containing numerical data, I 
could put up with Frame sorting on specific digits rather than the entire 
number string. For example, in an ascending sort, Frame does this:
509
5104
5105
5115
512
5120

However, I'm now working with a 41-page table containing hundreds of these 
document numbers. I need them to sort correctly without post-production 
fixing because I'll be resorting on a regular basis.

Does anyone know of a fix for this?
Rick, is there a script that would work?
Is there a 3rd party add-on available?

Carol
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OT: RSI, Carpal Tunnel solution

[Stuart Rogers]

I thought I should share my recent solution to an incipient wrist problem...

I had not ever had problems with repetitive strain or carpal tunnel 
injuries until December of last year, when I did quite a bit of work on 
other people's computers in poor ergonomic positions. I ended up with an 
aching forearm, aggravated every time I reached for the mouse.

Co-incidentally, I'd been doing more illustration in my work, and knew 
that I really needed a graphics tablet to be effective in that. I did 
some research, and purchased a 6x8 Wacom Intuos3 tablet. I've used it 
for a couple of months now, and it is FABULOUS -- not just for 
illustrating, but for all the things I used to use a mouse for. I highly 
recommend it to anyone who is having RSI problems with a mouse. You hold 
the pen tool just like you would hold a ballpoint pen, and your wrist 
and hand stay perfectly relaxed and comfortable.

In fact, I liked it so much, I bought a 4x5 Wacom Graphire tablet for 
home. (Graphire is the less featured, less expensive model.) That turned 
out to be a mistake: it's not nearly as easy to use, the pen is not as 
comfortable, and the pad is much less sensitive. If you are considering 
a tablet, go for the Intuos; it's well worth the extra money.

(No commercial interest in Wacom, just love my tablet!)

best regards,

-- 
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Technical Communicator
Phoenix Geophysics Limited
Toronto, ON, Canada
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Typefi

[Steve Rickaby]

This appeared on the InDesign list today. The application sounds interesting. 
From the website, 'For authoring long and complex documents or books, Typefi 
Publish offers an ideal way for multiple authors, editors and contributors to 
collaborate.'

>-- Forwarded Message
>From: Caleb Clauset 
>Reply-To: 
>Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 11:09:46 -0500
>To: 
>Subject: Re: What's Typefi? (was Fit Frame to Content...)
>
>Typefi is a _scriptless_ automated XML-based composition system built
>on top of InDesign Server CS2. Part of the scriptless bit is the
>Typefi InDesign plug-ins allow _designers_ (not programmers) to
>quickly and easily create automated templates (WYSIWYG); no prior
>knowledge of XML or scripting required--if you know ID, use master
>pages, and use para/char styles then 1/2 day and you'd be up and
>running.
>
>Note, we're not leaving scripters out cold, our next release is
>extensible via event-driven scripting at both the server and
>pagination level (e.g., manipulate the XML stream before it's passed
>to the Typefi Engine, rules-based page balancing on a section-by-
>section basis, etc.). It's pretty cool... ;-)
>
>We're presenting at the Henry Stewart DAM Symposium next week in NYC
>and will also be at the InDesign + Creative Suitcase conference(s) in
>Chicago in May. http://www.typefi.com/
>
>ciao,
>   Caleb
>
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table sort order

[Shlomo Perets]

Carol,

You wrote:

>Framers, in the past when I sorted table rows containing numerical data, I
>could put up with Frame sorting on specific digits rather than the entire
>number string. For example, in an ascending sort, Frame does this:
>509
>5104
>5105
>5115
>512
>5120
>
>However, I'm now working with a 41-page table containing hundreds of these
>document numbers. I need them to sort correctly without post-production
>fixing because I'll be resorting on a regular basis.
>
>Does anyone know of a fix for this?
>Rick, is there a script that would work?
>Is there a 3rd party add-on available?

To fix this manually, you may insert an invisible/non-printing leading 
zeroe/s as necessary in front of the shorter numeric strings.
To make insertion easier, create a "NoPrint" character format (where the 
color is set to an invisible one), then create a variable named "0", which 
has: 0


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table sort order

[Peter Gold]

Hi, Carol:

At 11:30 AM -0700 3/7/06, Carol J. Elkins wrote:
>Framers, in the past when I sorted table rows containing numerical 
>data, I could put up with Frame sorting on specific digits rather 
>than the entire number string. For example, in an ascending sort, 
>Frame does this:
>509
>5104
>5105
>5115
>512
>5120

Have you considered creating and maintaining the table in a 
spreadsheet application like Excel, and importing it, either 
directly, or by exporting from the spreadsheet as delimited text and 
importing the text?
-- 
Regards,

Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices

table sort order

[Bernard Aschwanden]

Using this approach you could even export to text and then import the file by 
reference. That way each update to the XLS results in updated output and FM 
automagically shows you the most current numbers.

I've done that with a few financial clients and things seem to be working well 
with it.

Bernard



Bernard Aschwanden
Publishing Technologies Expert
Publishing Smarter

bernard at publishingsmarter.com 

www.publishingsmarter.com 


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From: framers-bounces+bernard=publishingsmarter.com at lists.frameusers.com 
[mailto:framers-bounces+bernard=publishingsmarter@lists.frameusers.com] On 
Behalf Of Peter Gold
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 3:57 PM
To: Carol J. Elkins; framers at lists.FrameUsers.com
Subject: Re: table sort order

Hi, Carol:

At 11:30 AM -0700 3/7/06, Carol J. Elkins wrote:
>Framers, in the past when I sorted table rows containing numerical 
>data, I could put up with Frame sorting on specific digits rather than 
>the entire number string. For example, in an ascending sort, Frame does 
>this:
>509
>5104
>5105
>5115
>512
>5120

Have you considered creating and maintaining the table in a spreadsheet 
application like Excel, and importing it, either directly, or by exporting from 
the spreadsheet as delimited text and importing the text?
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table sort order

[Carol J. Elkins]

Good idea, Shlomo. I didn't mention, however, that each of these numbers is 
a cross-reference to an actual document. Therefore, I can't edit the number 
manually unless I open each of the 624 files and change the variable that 
defines that file's document number.

But your idea is so spiffy (especially the part about creating a variable 
named "0") that I'm going to use it on a different project, so thanks!

Carol

At 12:52 PM 3/7/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>To fix this manually, you may insert an invisible/non-printing leading 
>zeroe/s as necessary in front of the shorter numeric strings.
>To make insertion easier, create a "NoPrint" character format (where the 
>color is set to an invisible one), then create a variable named "0", which 
>has: 0

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table sort order

[Carol J. Elkins]

Sorry, Ann, to keep my question simple, I didn't mention that each number 
is preceded by an alpha character. The numbers really look like this:

M-509
M-509
M-5104
M-5105
M-5115
M-512
M-5120

That sends a different message to Frame, signalling an alpha sort instead 
of a numeric sort.

Sorry for the confusion.

Carol

At 04:11 PM 3/7/2006 -0500, you wrote:
 >this behavior isn't reproducible in my
 >tables. The numbers are sorted appropriately.
 >Is it possible that this is a setting somewhere?

table sort order

[Combs, Richard]

Carol J. Elkins wrote: 

> Sorry, Ann, to keep my question simple, I didn't mention that 
> each number is preceded by an alpha character. The numbers 
> really look like this:
> 
> M-509
> M-509
> M-5104
> M-5105
> M-5115
> M-512
> M-5120
> 
> That sends a different message to Frame, signalling an alpha 
> sort instead of a numeric sort.


Is the prefix the same for all the numbers? (Or limited to a manageable
few?) Then maybe you could strip it off all the numbers and make it the
autonumber for the pgf tag you use. 
 

Richard


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Error installing FM 7.1p116

[Art Campbell]

I've played with the setting a bit because one version of the bug was related to
the default setting of 600 dpi. Haven't tried 300 exactly though, no.
499, 450, 400 ...
450 was actually working for a while, until the last automatic Acrobat upgrade.

I'll give 300 a shot when I have a few minutes though.

Thanks,
Art


On 3/7/06, rebecca officer  wrote:
> Hi Art
>
> Have you dropped the Graphic "Print Quality" setting of your Distiller 
> printer (in both places in the printer properties)? We had to drop ours to 
> 300dpi to solve that problem, but it's been a permanent reliable fix.
>
> Cheers, Rebecca
>


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Figure numbering

[Gillian Flato]

How do you guys do figure numbering? 

1. Figure 1,2,3
2. Figure 1-1, 1-2, ...2-1, 2-2
3. Figure 1-1...3-10...5-30

Currently, the book I am updating does #3. It stops counting at figure
325 and then starts at 1 again. I want to do number 2, so I want the
Figure numbering to start over at the beginning of each chapter. How do
I do this?

If you guys know of a better method, tell me what you do.


Thanks,

Gillian Flato

Technical Writer (Software)

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Figure numbering

[Joe Malin]

I do option 1, although I have used option 2 in the past. I don't
particularly like option 3.

You can do option 2 quite easily. Assuming unstructured FM, you develop
a paragraph format for figure titles. The autonumber pattern is

F:Figure <$chapnum>-.\sm

Once you have that set, ensure that Format > Document > Numbering
Paragraph tab is set to restart paragraph numbering with each chapter.

Joe

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Subject: Figure numbering

How do you guys do figure numbering? 

1. Figure 1,2,3
2. Figure 1-1, 1-2, ...2-1, 2-2
3. Figure 1-1...3-10...5-30

Currently, the book I am updating does #3. It stops counting at figure
325 and then starts at 1 again. I want to do number 2, so I want the
Figure numbering to start over at the beginning of each chapter. How do
I do this?

If you guys know of a better method, tell me what you do.


Thanks,

Gillian Flato

Technical Writer (Software)

NANOmetrics, Inc.

1550 Buckeye Dr.

Milpitas, CA. 95035

(408.435.9600 x 316

7  408.232.5911

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importing a word table to a frame table

[Gillian Flato]

Thanks to everyone who responded to my figure numbering question.

Now on to more fun things 

An engineer gave me a 200 row 4 column table in a Word doc that needs to
be added to a Frame table in a Frame doc. How can I do this without
having to cut and paste each cell, or buy a piece of software which will
take months to get approved, time which I don't have?

Thanks in advance,




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Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in FM generated PDFs

[Peter Gold]

Hi, Yosuke:

At 9:52 AM +0900 3/8/06, Yosuke Ichikawa wrote:
>Hi,
>
>We're using Acrobat's preflight feature to check for lines thinner than
>0.2 pts. The thinnest lines in our .eps graphics are exactly 0.2 pts,
>but when we import these graphics in FM and check the PDFs created from
>FM, Acrobat preflight says the graphics uses "0.199600pt" lines.

I don't know if there's a tool dedicated to fixing this in FM, but 
you might try saving  the Illustrator graphics as PDF or .ai, and 
importing them into FM, to see if there's a difference. Success here 
might indicate that the problem is in the EPS file.

>PDFs of these individual graphics, created from Illustrator, do not
>have problems with Acrobat prefight, so it seems to be some sort of FM
>conversion problem.
>
>Why does this happen, and is there any way to prevent this on the FM
>side? If there is no way to fix this, we'd have to tell our illustrator
>to make the lines in the graphics slightly thicker.
>
>Windows XP, Illustrator 10, FM 7.1, Acrobat 6.
>
>By the way, is there no way to check the whole list archives any more? I
>thought I'd search the archives first, but the one I found at the
>frameusers site was just for the recent few months.

I don't know about the archives, but you can find lots of hits from 
many relevant lists with Google searches that include the problem or 
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importing a word table to a frame table

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:35:20 -0800, "Gillian Flato"  
wrote:

>An engineer gave me a 200 row 4 column table in a Word doc that needs to
>be added to a Frame table in a Frame doc. How can I do this without
>having to cut and paste each cell, or buy a piece of software which will
>take months to get approved, time which I don't have?

1. Select the rows you want to add in Word, Copy (ctrl-C).

2. In Frame, Paste Special as text right *after* the table
want to add them to.  You'll get one para per row, with a
tab in between cells, which will look awful in Frame.  But...

3. Select the material you just pasted, and Table | Convert
from text.  In the dialog, indicate a tab is the column 
delimiter, and specify the table format used for the one you
want to add it to.  You now have a set of table rows.

4. Cut the table rows, click in the first cell of the row
before or after where you want them, and Paste.  All done.

You might try this out with a few rows first, but then you
should be able to do the whole thing in one swell foop.  ;-)

HTH!

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
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