RE: Grayscale PDFs

2006-11-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 12:22 -0800 27/11/06, Dov Isaacs wrote: A more inclusive fix would be to not use the driver option but to use the color conversion features of Acrobat 7 Pro or Acrobat 8 Pro. This is topical, as I've just trialled 8 Pro for a very similar reason. It is my understanding that some 'advanced'

RE: Grayscale PDFs

2006-11-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
Steve, I think that you are confusing two separate facilities, the Ink Manager and the Convert Colors facility. The Ink Manager can be used to alias spot colors and/or to cause spot colors to be printed as process. Given that FrameMaker Windows has no ability to natively output spot colors :-(

RE: Grayscale PDFs

2006-11-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 06:18 -0800 28/11/06, Dov Isaacs wrote: Steve, I think that you are confusing two separate facilities, the Ink Manager and the Convert Colors facility. That is quite possible: I only had a short time to try out Acrobat 8 Pro. Another FrameUsers contributor had pointed me at the ink manager

Re: Imported graphics not exporting to XML: update

2006-11-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 19:22 + 27/11/06, someone called Steve Rickaby wrote: What can cause the message: 'Cannot export graphics or equation contents. Check the element mapping and description' and failure to export graphics with XML export? I am exporting to XML without a structured application in place, as

Creating x-refs to files using a relative path

2006-11-28 Thread Janice Cadel
We use Windows XP operating system, Frame 7.2 (some of us may still be on 7.0), and Acrobat 7.0. We organize our folders to have a main folder for the manual. That folder contains 2 sub-folders (fm_source and docs). fm_source contains all the Framemaker files that make up the book. In

RE: Creating x-refs to files using a relative path

2006-11-28 Thread Patterson, Jan
Janice, we used a similar file organization at my former employer, which was a couple of years and versions ago, and we had extensive cross-references throughout our library of manuals. If I remember right, to make the cross-references active in the PDFs, all of the FrameMaker books had to be

PDF Problems?

2006-11-28 Thread Ann Zdunczyk
I am posting this for Tammy, she is having problems posting. ** Ann Zdunczyk President a2z Publishing, Inc. Language Layout Translation Consulting Phone: (336)922-1271 Fax: (336)922-4980 Cell: (336)456-4493

PDF Problem

2006-11-28 Thread Tammy Van Boening
I am posting this on behalf of a colleague ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). If you respond to the list, please cc her as well or you can respond to her directly. Thanks all! Hi all, For a while now, I've had the most annoying PDF problem. About half the PDFs I try to open (these are all PDFs I did not create

Re: PDF Problem

2006-11-28 Thread Art Campbell
Because this seems to be an Acrobat problem, not a FM problem, I think a better source of info may be Adobe's User Forum for Acrobat. If I was going to dive in and trouble shoot the problem though, I'd confirm that the PC's video drivers were up to date and that all OS updates were applied. Then

DTD parse errors

2006-11-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
Struggling with a structured app here... I have tried to pare everything down to the minimum. The element definition; Element (Container): TableofContents General rule: ChapterNumber, TEXT Valid as the highest-level element. Automatic insertions Automatically insert child: ChapterNumber

RE: Creating x-refs to files using a relative path

2006-11-28 Thread Janice Cadel
The problem is when we move the PDFs from the directory in which they were created to a different directory, they still look for the PDFs in the original directory. Janice --- Janice Cadel Principal Technical Writer/Editor Hughes Network Systems, LLC

Re: DTD parse errors

2006-11-28 Thread Lynne A. Price
Steve, While other forms are permitted in SGML (and in a FrameMaker EDD), XML restricts the use of #PCDATA to content models of the form: (#PCDATA | elt1 | elt2 | ...)* or the simple form: (#PCDATA) Your expression: ChapterNumber, TEXT corresponds to: ChapterNumber,

bookmarks

2006-11-28 Thread Martinek, Carla
Here's a question: can I change what text shows in the bookmarks when the PDF generates? In our programming code documentation, they want the code on the first line, and the explanation/title on the second line. ^CM Change Memory Letter Designation Description... Format... It's

Re: bookmarks

2006-11-28 Thread Stuart Rogers
Martinek, Carla wrote: Here's a question: can I change what text shows in the bookmarks when the PDF generates? In our programming code documentation, they want the code on the first line, and the explanation/title on the second line. ^CM Change Memory Letter Designation

Re: Creating x-refs to files using a relative path - SOLUTION FOUND!!!

2006-11-28 Thread Janice Cadel
First I want to thank Rick Quattro, Fred Ridder, and Jan Patterson for helping me out. The solution provided by Rick Quattro was successful. In a nutshell, here is what we needed to do: Because the files needed to remain in the relative path in which the PDFs were created, we saved each book

Technical writer wanted for White Plains, NY...needs to be filled fast

2006-11-28 Thread John Posada
My department at EMC in White Plains NY is looking for a perm technical writer to add to our group of about 15 writers. This is the lowest of three levels of writer, so appropriate for someone with maybe 2-3 years experience. However, solid FrameMaker experience is a must. We are about 35 minutes

Grayscale PDFs

2006-11-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 12:22 -0800 27/11/06, Dov Isaacs wrote: >A more inclusive "fix" would be to not use the driver option but to use the >color conversion features of Acrobat 7 Pro or Acrobat 8 Pro. This is topical, as I've just trialled 8 Pro for a very similar reason. It is my understanding that some

Grayscale PDFs

2006-11-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
Steve, I think that you are confusing two separate facilities, the "Ink Manager" and the "Convert Colors" facility. The "Ink Manager" can be used to alias spot colors and/or to cause spot colors to be printed as process. Given that FrameMaker Windows has no ability to natively output spot colors

Grayscale PDFs

2006-11-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 06:18 -0800 28/11/06, Dov Isaacs wrote: >Steve, > >I think that you are confusing two separate facilities, the "Ink Manager" and >the "Convert Colors" facility. That is quite possible: I only had a short time to try out Acrobat 8 Pro. Another FrameUsers contributor had pointed me at the ink

Creating x-refs to files using a relative path

2006-11-28 Thread Janice Cadel
We use Windows XP operating system, Frame 7.2 (some of us may still be on 7.0), and Acrobat 7.0. We organize our folders to have a main folder for the manual. That folder contains 2 sub-folders (fm_source and docs). fm_source contains all the Framemaker files that make up the book. In

PDF Problems?

2006-11-28 Thread Ann Zdunczyk
I am posting this for Tammy, she is having problems posting. ** Ann Zdunczyk President a2z Publishing, Inc. Language Layout & Translation Consulting Phone: (336)922-1271 Fax: (336)922-4980 Cell: (336)456-4493

PDF Problem

2006-11-28 Thread Tammy Van Boening
I am posting this on behalf of a colleague (pearsontechcomm at comcast.net). If you respond to the list, please cc her as well or you can respond to her directly. Thanks all! >Hi all, >For a while now, I've had the most annoying PDF problem. About half the >PDFs I try to open (these are all PDFs

PDF Problem

2006-11-28 Thread Art Campbell
Because this seems to be an Acrobat problem, not a FM problem, I think a better source of info may be Adobe's User Forum for Acrobat. If I was going to dive in and trouble shoot the problem though, I'd confirm that the PC's video drivers were up to date and that all OS updates were applied. Then

DTD parse errors

2006-11-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
Struggling with a structured app here... I have tried to pare everything down to the minimum. The element definition; Element (Container): TableofContents General rule: ChapterNumber, Valid as the highest-level element. Automatic insertions Automatically insert child: ChapterNumber in

Creating x-refs to files using a relative path

2006-11-28 Thread Janice Cadel
The problem is when we move the PDFs from the directory in which they were created to a different directory, they still look for the PDFs in the original directory. Janice --- Janice Cadel Principal Technical Writer/Editor Hughes Network Systems, LLC

DTD parse errors

2006-11-28 Thread Lynne A. Price
Steve, While other forms are permitted in SGML (and in a FrameMaker EDD), XML restricts the use of #PCDATA to content models of the form: (#PCDATA | elt1 | elt2 | ...)* or the simple form: (#PCDATA) Your expression: ChapterNumber, corresponds to: ChapterNumber,

bookmarks

2006-11-28 Thread Martinek, Carla
Here's a question: can I change what text shows in the bookmarks when the PDF generates? In our programming code documentation, they want the code on the first line, and the explanation/title on the second line. ^CM Change Memory Letter Designation Description... Format... It's no

bookmarks

2006-11-28 Thread Stuart Rogers
Martinek, Carla wrote: > Here's a question: can I change what text shows in the bookmarks when > the PDF generates? > > In our programming code documentation, they want the code on the first > line, and the explanation/title on the second line. > > ^CM > Change Memory Letter Designation >

Creating x-refs to files using a relative path - SOLUTION FOUND!!!

2006-11-28 Thread Janice Cadel
First I want to thank Rick Quattro, Fred Ridder, and Jan Patterson for helping me out. The solution provided by Rick Quattro was successful. In a nutshell, here is what we needed to do: Because the files needed to remain in the relative path in which the PDFs were created, we saved each book