Dov wrote :
The AdobePiStd font is a substitution font for ITC Zapf
Dingbats used by the PDF Library and by Acrobat when
PDF files call for ITC Zapf Dingbats but do not have it
installed. In the case of FrameMaker, it may be necessary
when PDF files are imported into FrameMaker.
It should
Hi All,
In my FrameMaker book, I have cross-references within the book (using a
cross-reference format called A) as well as cross-references to an
external file that is not included in the book (using a cross-reference
format called B). When I create a PDF, I don't want the
cross-references to
Hi All,
I have a review problem. I have a user guide with hundreds and hundreds
of topics like this:
Topic a
Topic b
Topic c
Topic d
etc
Reviewer A should review topics a, c, etc.
Reviewer B should review topics a, b, d, etc.
Now I want to make it easier for the reviewers and I want to
Hi Henrik,
Are your documents structured or unstructured? Thanks.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com
Hi All,
I have a review problem. I have a user guide with hundreds and hundreds
of topics like this:
Topic a
Topic b
Topic c
Topic d
etc
Reviewer A should
Hi Rick,
The docs are unstructured.
Best Regards
/Henrik
-Original Message-
From: Rick Quatro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: måndag den 26 juni 2006 14:24
To: Evanth, Henrik; framers@FrameUsers.com
Subject: Re: Generating lists for review
Hi Henrik,
Are your documents structured
Hi Evanth,
The idea that comes to my mind is to use conditional markers to
activate/disactivate the cross-references. No need to recopy any
files and you keep your x-refs.
Hope this helps.
Cheers.
At 08:07 AM 6/26/2006, Evanth, Henrik wrote:
Hi All,
In my FrameMaker book, I have
Hi Stephen,
This is true. What I forgot to mention is that this external link is most often
a word in a sentence (most often this is a reference to an MMI), which means
that the cross-reference text needs to remain in the file.
But wait:
The idea that comes to my mind is to use conditional
Hi Joe,
If you have FrameScript 4.0R2 and MSXML 4, you can easily extract a single
element from an XML file. You could also avoid the XML step entirely with
FrameScript.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com
I am using Frame.
I discovered a neat feature of FM 7.1
Hi Henrik,
I would write a script that would
1) Save the book and components to a temporary location.
2) Remove the cross-references to the external files, but leave the
cross-reference text.
3) Save the book as PDF.
4) Restore the original book.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
Perhaps a generated alphabetic list of markers could be used. Place a
marker (choose a type) at the beginning of each topic containing the
reviewer's name.
Or rethink your production process. Perhaps you should produce files with
one topic per file and build custom books for each reviewer. Or
Does the visible result of the external cross-references (the word or
sentence) change frequently so that it needs to be updated whenever
you publish your book? If the text is relatively static (so that it does
not need to be automatically updated), I'd suggest implementing these
links as
Hello,
I am new to this list and relatively new to FM and have recently started
working for my current employer. They have some old FM documents that
originated years ago.
When we open some of these older documents, a warning message appears
about missing fonts and that FM will substitute
Missing fonts can lurk in lots of unexpected places that cannot be
found with a simple Find operation. For example, Find only searches
the current view--typically the body pages. To search the master
pages and the reference pages, you have to switch to each of
those views before initiating the
Caroline Tabach wrote:
I have another question.
I asked about sharing chapter between a number of books
2 of these common chapters are Appendix chapters in 2 books, and regular
chapters in another.
In order for the ToC to work the way we want (the words Appendix B will
appear before the chapter
In Book A, create an empty-of-content holding chapter for the content
file and import it. Specify Use Local Formatting and set the tag
that controls the Appendix/Chapter title/number to specify the
Appendix listing settings info.
In Book B, just include the content file as is, with it's own
Yeah, but I haven't saved up enough yet to buy FrameScript. We'll see
how things go this week; I may be able to get my company to buy it.
Joe Malin
Technical Writer
(408)625-1623
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.tuvox.com
The views expressed in this document are those of the sender, and do not
From: Dick Margulis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Find and replace?
I don't know whether you're in Word, Frame, or something else, but the
logic is the same in any case.
...
2. Search for everything that is NOT tagged with your special tag and
replace it with a single space character. If you
If the formatting of the chapter and appendix headings is identical
except
for the numbering, you can conditionalize just the pilcrows for the two
different paragraph tags and use the same text string for both. But I'll
admit that using two separate copies of the heading paragraph that
are
Hi.
I'm using FM 7.1 and am having some problems with long table rows.
FrameMaker does not seem to want to break a long row. Does anybody know a
trick to make long rows break across pages rather than push content into
the footer?
Thanks!
Laura Sponhour
Lead Technical Writer
CSC
It's known that FM does not split rows (like Word). That is by
design. You need to break the contents of the single row into smaller
rows, then play with how the lines display to make it appear like it
is one split row.
I'm using FM 7.1 and am having some problems with long table rows.
You can use LOM for condition tags. Another bene of using condition tags is
that if you have more than one reviewer for a topic, you can apply more than
one condition tag to the heading, which you can't do if you use paragraph
formats. And, as long as you set all the conditions to show without
Caroline Tabach wrote on 06/25/2006 06:28:43 AM:
In order for the ToC to work the way we want (the words Appendix B will
appear before the chapter name, instead of chapter 5), they have a
heading tag, called AppendixHeading, when they appear as a chapter, they
have a different heading style,
How do I set up sequential figure numbering in a book with
multiple chapter files. For ex, Figure 1 in the first chapter
file and Figure 20 in the last chapter file?
Thanks
Hal
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Hal Fichter wrote:
How do I set up sequential figure numbering in a book with
multiple chapter files. For ex, Figure 1 in the first chapter
file and Figure 20 in the last chapter file?
Thanks
Hal
In the book window, select your chapter files and choose Format
Document Numbering. On the
How do I set up sequential figure numbering in a book with
multiple chapter files. For ex, Figure 1 in the first chapter
file and Figure 20 in the last chapter file?
Format - Document - Numbering - Continue Numbering from Previous
Paragraph in Book.
Then, when you define the style for figure
Currently, one of my clients uses a translation vendor (English to Spanish)
who authors in PageMaker. They've asked me what it would entail to convert
the PageMaker book to FrameMaker and change to a translation vendor who can
work in Framemaker.
The book in question is 550 pages and is
Hi Mollye,
Thanks for your comments. Unfortunately, my client doesn't know what he
wants other than to reduce the twice yearly expense of printing the Spanish
version of this book. I maintain this manual in FrameMaker and the gal who
maintains the Spanish version works in PageMaker. I think
All:
> When you store binary files (like FM files), most source control systems
> can't compare/diff those, so they have to store a complete new copy of
> the file each time it changes. That's why a lot of source control system
> admins don't want you checking in your docs -- you eat up massive
>
Dov wrote :
> The AdobePiStd font is a substitution font for ITC Zapf
> Dingbats used by the PDF Library and by Acrobat when
> PDF files call for ITC Zapf Dingbats but do not have it
> installed. In the case of FrameMaker, it may be necessary
> when PDF files are imported into FrameMaker.
>
> It
Hi All,
In my FrameMaker book, I have cross-references within the book (using a
cross-reference format called "A") as well as cross-references to an
external file that is not included in the book (using a cross-reference
format called "B"). When I create a PDF, I don't want the
cross-references
Hi All,
I have a review problem. I have a user guide with hundreds and hundreds
of topics like this:
Topic a
Topic b
Topic c
Topic d
etc
Reviewer A should review topics a, c, etc.
Reviewer B should review topics a, b, d, etc.
Now I want to make it easier for the reviewers and I want to make
Hi Henrik,
Are your documents structured or unstructured? Thanks.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com
Hi All,
I have a review problem. I have a user guide with hundreds and hundreds
of topics like this:
Topic a
Topic b
Topic c
Topic d
etc
Reviewer A should
Hi Rick,
The docs are unstructured.
Best Regards
/Henrik
-Original Message-
From: Rick Quatro [mailto:frameexp...@truevine.net]
Sent: m?ndag den 26 juni 2006 14:24
To: Evanth, Henrik; framers at FrameUsers.com
Subject: Re: Generating lists for review
Hi Henrik,
Are your documents
Hi Evanth,
The idea that comes to my mind is to use conditional markers to
activate/disactivate the cross-references. No need to recopy any
files and you keep your x-refs.
Hope this helps.
Cheers.
At 08:07 AM 6/26/2006, Evanth, Henrik wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>In my FrameMaker book, I have
Hi Stephen,
This is true. What I forgot to mention is that this external link is most often
a word in a sentence (most often this is a reference to an MMI), which means
that the cross-reference text needs to remain in the file.
But wait:
>> "The idea that comes to my mind is to use
Hi Joe,
If you have FrameScript 4.0R2 and MSXML 4, you can easily extract a single
element from an XML file. You could also avoid the XML step entirely with
FrameScript.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com
I am using Frame.
I discovered a neat feature of FM 7.1
Hi Henrik,
I would write a script that would
1) Save the book and components to a temporary location.
2) Remove the cross-references to the external files, but leave the
cross-reference text.
3) Save the book as PDF.
4) Restore the original book.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
Hi Henrik,
You could apply a condition format for each reviewer to the topic head. Then
you would have a FrameScript script that would go through the topics and
compile a list of topics for each reviewer. I can't think of a way to do
this with FrameMaker's own features.
Rick Quatro
Carmen
Henrik,
You wrote:
>In my FrameMaker book, I have cross-references within the book (using a
>cross-reference format called "A") as well as cross-references to an
>external file that is not included in the book (using a cross-reference
>format called "B"). When I create a PDF, I don't want the
Perhaps a generated alphabetic list of markers could be used. Place a
marker (choose a type) at the beginning of each topic containing the
reviewer's name.
Or rethink your production process. Perhaps you should produce files with
one topic per file and build custom books for each reviewer. Or
Does the visible result of the external cross-references (the word or
sentence) change frequently so that it needs to be updated whenever
you publish your book? If the text is relatively static (so that it does
not need to be automatically updated), I'd suggest implementing these
links as
Hello,
I am new to this list and relatively new to FM and have recently started
working for my current employer. They have some old FM documents that
originated years ago.
When we open some of these older documents, a warning message appears
about missing fonts and that FM will substitute fonts.
Roger Bell wrote :
> Hello,
>
> I am new to this list and relatively new to FM and have
> recently started
> working for my current employer. They have some old FM documents that
> originated years ago.
>
> When we open some of these older documents, a warning message appears
> about missing
Missing fonts can lurk in lots of unexpected places that cannot be
found with a simple Find operation. For example, Find only searches
the current view--typically the body pages. To search the master
pages and the reference pages, you have to switch to each of
those views before initiating the
Evanth, Henrik wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have a review problem. I have a user guide with hundreds and hundreds
> of topics like this:
>
> Topic a
> Topic b
> Topic c
> Topic d
> etc
>
> Reviewer A should review topics a, c, etc.
> Reviewer B should review topics a, b, d, etc.
>
> Now I want to
To expand on this.. I generate 2 books... One that is "What the Customer
Sees", and one that has individual chapters for:
* Author's Notes (things I need to check/fix/do)
* Integrator Notes (things that my downstream writers need to check
(such as paths, UI, etc.)
* Changed
Caroline Tabach wrote:
> I have another question.
> I asked about sharing chapter between a number of books
> 2 of these common chapters are Appendix chapters in 2 books, and regular
> chapters in another.
>
> In order for the ToC to work the way we want (the words Appendix B will
> appear before
In Book A, create an empty-of-content holding chapter for the content
file and import it. Specify "Use Local Formatting" and set the tag
that controls the Appendix/Chapter title/number to specify the
Appendix listing settings info.
In Book B, just include the content file as is, with it's own
Yeah, but I haven't saved up enough yet to buy FrameScript. We'll see
how things go this week; I may be able to get my company to buy it.
Joe Malin
Technical Writer
(408)625-1623
jmalin at tuvox.com
www.tuvox.com
The views expressed in this document are those of the sender, and do not
> From: Dick Margulis [mailto:margulisd at comcast.net]
> Find and replace?
>
> I don't know whether you're in Word, Frame, or something else, but the
> logic is the same in any case.
...
> 2. Search for everything that is NOT tagged with your special tag and
> replace it with a single space
If the formatting of the chapter and appendix headings is identical
except
for the numbering, you can conditionalize just the pilcrows for the two
different paragraph tags and use the same text string for both. But I'll
admit that using two separate copies of the heading paragraph that
are
Hi.
I'm using FM 7.1 and am having some problems with long table rows.
FrameMaker does not seem to want to break a long row. Does anybody know a
trick to make long rows break across pages rather than push content into
the footer?
Thanks!
Laura Sponhour
Lead Technical Writer
CSC
Caroline,
We have a similar setup with our hardware manuals: 2 manuals for each of 4
products, plus a system description, all of which share files. We have
achieved single sourcing with a combination of conditional text and
variables.
We use variables in the headers and footers for the book
It's known that FM does not split rows (like Word). That is by
design. You need to break the contents of the single row into smaller
rows, then play with how the lines display to make it appear like it
is one split row.
> I'm using FM 7.1 and am having some problems with long table rows.
>
You can use LOM for condition tags. Another bene of using condition tags is
that if you have more than one reviewer for a topic, you can apply more than
one condition tag to the heading, which you can't do if you use paragraph
formats. And, as long as you set all the conditions to show without
Joe,
Here is another technique (somewhat manual) to segregate and alphabetize
your desired terms into a glossary.
Use the FIND command to find "character tag" (put character tag name in
field.) When you find first instance, open up the Special=>Marker window
and choose "glossary". The selected
Hi Roger,
I found some missing fonts in an imported graphic recently. The graphic
was a PDF file that had been cropped prior to import. The missing font
was in the cropped out portion. I was able to open the PDF in
Illustrator and delete al the stuff that wasn't supposed to be there
anyway.
"Caroline Tabach" wrote on 06/25/2006 06:28:43 AM:
> In order for the ToC to work the way we want (the words Appendix B will
> appear before the chapter name, instead of chapter 5), they have a
> heading tag, called AppendixHeading, when they appear as a chapter, they
> have a different heading
How do I set up sequential figure numbering in a book with
multiple chapter files. For ex, Figure 1 in the first chapter
file and Figure 20 in the last chapter file?
Thanks
Hal
Hal Fichter wrote:
> How do I set up sequential figure numbering in a book with
> multiple chapter files. For ex, Figure 1 in the first chapter
> file and Figure 20 in the last chapter file?
>
> Thanks
> Hal
In the book window, select your chapter files and choose Format >
Document >
> How do I set up sequential figure numbering in a book with
> multiple chapter files. For ex, Figure 1 in the first chapter
> file and Figure 20 in the last chapter file?
Format -> Document -> Numbering -> Continue Numbering from Previous
Paragraph in Book.
Then, when you define the style for
Currently, one of my clients uses a translation vendor (English to Spanish)
who authors in PageMaker. They've asked me what it would entail to convert
the PageMaker book to FrameMaker and change to a translation vendor who can
work in Framemaker.
The book in question is 550 pages and is
Hi Mollye,
Thanks for your comments. Unfortunately, my client doesn't know what he
wants other than to reduce the twice yearly expense of printing the Spanish
version of this book. I maintain this manual in FrameMaker and the gal who
maintains the Spanish version works in PageMaker. I think my
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