RE: Registration Marks and PDF generation

2007-04-10 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 16:42 -0400 9/4/07, Molly Keegan wrote: Thanks for the tips. They did work on a paper I authored in Frame that was a single document. They did not work for the multi-document book I'm working on. Is there perhaps a difference when adding registration marks to a book instead of a single

Re: Importing Mathtype equations to FM 7.2 - summary

2007-04-10 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 15:19 -0700 9/4/07, Gabrielle Burns wrote: Mike Wickham's suggestion below helped me to determine that the equation files created in Math Type 5 should be saved as file type Encapsulated Postscript/TIFF (*.eps). It's the TIFF that made the difference. I can understand your confusion: this is

RE: Can't print from Frame

2007-04-10 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 08:36 +1000 10/4/07, Tina Poole wrote: OK Dove, what does bubbamisa mean??? I'm guessin' something like crap! :) I did add sort of a disclaimer that the reason I gave was questionable! Let me save you the time of waiting for Dov to reply. It is - and I am sure he will correct me if wrong -

Re: From A4 to A5 with trim marks

2007-04-10 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Why does he/she want 2x A5 with print marks on an A3? If your client wants this printed (why else the print marks) just have the print shop do this. No problem for them, and probably no or little extra cost. If you really want to do this as your client suggests, just print to ps (file) from FM

Re: FrameMaker deals on eBay...

2007-04-10 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
When buying through such channels always check for the serial number. Scammers won't reply, as they fear they will be exposed. EBay gives you a certain security here if you do things the right way. Ask the seller the necessary questions before you buy and to that through the e-bay system, not by

RE: Registration Marks and PDF generation

2007-04-10 Thread Molly Keegan
Thank you all so much for your replies and help. With your help I have registration marks on my book! Again, thank you. Molly Keegan -Original Message- From: Steve Rickaby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 4:41 AM To: Molly Keegan; 'Linda G. Gallagher';

Re: Maddening problem with frame below

2007-04-10 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 14:10 -0400 30/3/07, Art Campbell wrote: It almost sounds like a display problem. Does it snap back into place when you do a Ctrl-L? ...and Fred wrote something similar. Well, it's just happened again, and no, it's not the screen redraw bug. The misplaced rule survived a ctrl-L, and I had

Re: Maddening problem with frame below

2007-04-10 Thread Art Campbell
Weird. There isn't a lot of white space in the container around the rule on the Ref Page, is there? No chance there's any other container there, maybe an empty/invisible one? If it looks clean, I'd try the Wash-to-MIF maneuver just to make sure that the file isn't corrupted (the original text

Re: Maddening problem with frame below

2007-04-10 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 11:50 -0400 10/4/07, Art Campbell wrote: There isn't a lot of white space in the container around the rule on the Ref Page, is there? No chance there's any other container there, maybe an empty/invisible one? I've just pulled it apart, and, sadly, no. 'Sadly' because it would have been a

Re: Maddening problem with frame below

2007-04-10 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Art: Is it possible that the character tag used in the bullet paragraph has a font-size attribute that varies sometimes, perhaps due to a rounding error? Similarly, have you looked at the line-space (leading) and font size of the paragraph format? Oh, and one more thing: in a narrow

Re: Condtional Text and X-Ref Scrubbers

2007-04-10 Thread Rene Stephenson
Hi Will, Syed, et al.: I've really enjoyed Rick Quatro's tool for mass changes of formats - rename, delete, remap - xref, condition tags, table / paragraph / character formats, etc. Please see: Plugin (no FrameScript required):

Re: FrameMaker deals on eBay...

2007-04-10 Thread Susan Modlin
Good advice, indeed. My experience with eBay has been ya pays yer money and ya takes yer chances (think John Wayne). Like Bruce, I got scammed something fierce on eBay purchases of Adobe software and received zero support from either eBay or PayPal (separate entities at the time). OTOH,

Re: Maddening problem with frame below

2007-04-10 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 11:50 -0500 10/4/07, Mike Wickham wrote: Grasping at straws, here, but I vaguely recall a problem I had with similar reference line. After testing it, I had decided that I wanted to move the line up closer to the text it followed. So I went to the reference page to tweak it. I can't

Conditional Text in Variables? (Or, how would you do this...?)

2007-04-10 Thread Lin Surasky
Hi all- I'm reasonably certain you can't set conditional text within a variable, which in essence is what I want to do so How would you do this? I'm on Windows XP, Unstructured FM 7.2, no FrameScript :( I need to generate release notes for a suite of applications; each application gets its

FrameMaker files and CHM

2007-04-10 Thread Gross, Karen
Dear Framers, Is it a requirement to assign one TopicAlias marker per FrameMaker file in order to generate a context-sensitive CHM file using WebWorks ePublisher Pro? I understand that the marker needs to be placed in a pgf tag that starts a new page, but I thought I could have more than one

RE: FrameMaker files and CHM

2007-04-10 Thread Gillian Flato
You can have as many as you want. It depends on your software. How many buttons do you have that point to different topics. If you have 10 help buttons that point to ten aliases, then you can have 10 topics. You need your software engineer to generate a resource.h file for you. That will tell

Re: Conditional Text in Variables? (Or, how would you do this...?)

2007-04-10 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Lin... You may want to take a look at a plugin we offer called BookVars. http://www.leximation.com/tools/info/bookvars.php This lets you maintain multiple variable definitions that can be swapped in for each other as needed. It sounds like it would do what you're looking for. Use the

Re: FrameMaker files and CHM

2007-04-10 Thread Bill Swallow
Is it a requirement to assign one TopicAlias marker per FrameMaker file in order to generate a context-sensitive CHM file using WebWorks ePublisher Pro? I understand that the marker needs to be placed in a pgf tag that starts a new page, but I thought I could have more than one marker per file.

RE: FrameMaker files and CHM

2007-04-10 Thread Gross, Karen
I've assigned my markers, one per heading that starts a new page, and mapped the headings in WWP. Our software, which resides on a machine control, seems to require that we break up the FM file into smaller files, one topic per file. That doesn't sit right with me. It seemed to me that I could

Re: FrameMaker files and CHM

2007-04-10 Thread Bill Swallow
Which software are you talking about? WWP? You most certainly don't have to have one topic per FM file. That defeats the whole point of single-sourcing with FM and the point of using WWP in the first place. Can you provide details? On 4/10/07, Gross, Karen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've

RE: Can't print from Frame

2007-04-10 Thread Dov Isaacs
Grandmother's tale is best and most literal translation from the Yiddish. - Dov PS: Dove is a bird; Dov is a bear. -Original Message- From: Steve Rickaby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 1:46 AM To: Tina Poole; Dov Isaacs; Gillian Flato;

Can't print from Frame

2007-04-10 Thread Tina Poole
OK Dove, what does bubbamisa mean??? I'm guessin' something like crap! :) I did add sort of a disclaimer that the reason I gave was questionable! Many years ago I used to do lots of contracting mainly in Frame support and training. And a lot of the time when I used this trick is was as you said,

Registration Marks and PDF generation

2007-04-10 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 16:42 -0400 9/4/07, Molly Keegan wrote: >Thanks for the tips. They did work on a paper I authored in Frame that was >a single document. They did not work for the multi-document book I'm >working on. Is there perhaps a difference when adding registration marks to >a book instead of a single

Importing Mathtype equations to FM 7.2 - summary

2007-04-10 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 15:19 -0700 9/4/07, Gabrielle Burns wrote: >Mike Wickham's suggestion below helped me to determine that the equation >files created in Math Type 5 should be saved as file type Encapsulated >Postscript/TIFF (*.eps). It's the "TIFF" that made the difference. I can understand your confusion:

Can't print from Frame

2007-04-10 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 08:36 +1000 10/4/07, Tina Poole wrote: >OK Dove, what does bubbamisa mean??? I'm guessin' something like crap! :) I >did add sort of a disclaimer that the reason I gave was questionable! Let me save you the time of waiting for Dov to reply. It is - and I am sure he will correct me if wrong

From A4 to A5 with trim marks

2007-04-10 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Why does he/she want 2x A5 with print marks on an A3? If your client wants this printed (why else the print marks) just have the print shop do this. No problem for them, and probably no or little extra cost. If you really want to do this as your client suggests, just print to ps (file) from FM

FrameMaker deals on eBay...

2007-04-10 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
When buying through such channels always check for the serial number. Scammers won't reply, as they fear they will be exposed. EBay gives you a certain security here if you do things the right way. Ask the seller the necessary questions before you buy and to that through the e-bay system, not by

FrameMaker deals on eBay...

2007-04-10 Thread Bruce Wolf
Good advice. My experience happened several years ago and Ebay backed the scammer. As I remember my conversation with the Adobe representatives, Ebay wasn't very cooperative with them, either. Subsequently, a substantial amount of evidence of fraud and a lack of oversight by Ebay emerged in the

Registration Marks and PDF generation

2007-04-10 Thread Molly Keegan
Thank you all so much for your replies and help. With your help I have registration marks on my book! Again, thank you. Molly Keegan -Original Message- From: Steve Rickaby [mailto:srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 4:41 AM To: Molly Keegan; 'Linda G.

Strange PDF Problem -- Solution

2007-04-10 Thread acti...@aol.com
Hi all, Sorry I didn't give this update sooner--we're in the middle of a software release. The solution was a simple one: we rebuilt our books from scratch. That was the only thing that worked. We tried saving the book as mif and that didn't work. Once we rebuilt our books from scratch,

Maddening problem with frame below

2007-04-10 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 14:10 -0400 30/3/07, Art Campbell wrote: >It almost sounds like a display problem. Does it snap back into place >when you do a Ctrl-L? ...and Fred wrote something similar. Well, it's just happened again, and no, it's not the screen redraw bug. The misplaced rule survived a -L, and I had to

Maddening problem with frame below

2007-04-10 Thread Art Campbell
Weird. There isn't a lot of white space in the container around the rule on the Ref Page, is there? No chance there's any other container there, maybe an empty/invisible one? If it looks clean, I'd try the Wash-to-MIF maneuver just to make sure that the file isn't corrupted (the original text is

Maddening problem with frame below

2007-04-10 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 11:50 -0400 10/4/07, Art Campbell wrote: >There isn't a lot of white space in the container around the rule on >the Ref Page, is there? >No chance there's any other container there, maybe an empty/invisible one? I've just pulled it apart, and, sadly, no. 'Sadly' because it would have been a

Maddening problem with frame below

2007-04-10 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Art: Is it possible that the character tag used in the bullet paragraph has a font-size attribute that varies sometimes, perhaps due to a rounding error? Similarly, have you looked at the line-space (leading) and font size of the paragraph format? Oh, and one more thing: in a narrow

Condtional Text and X-Ref Scrubbers

2007-04-10 Thread Rene Stephenson
Hi Will, Syed, et al.: I've really enjoyed Rick Quatro's tool for mass changes of formats - rename, delete, remap - xref, condition tags, table / paragraph / character formats, etc. Please see: Plugin (no FrameScript required):

Maddening problem with frame below

2007-04-10 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 11:50 -0500 10/4/07, Mike Wickham wrote: >Grasping at straws, here, but I vaguely recall a problem I had with similar >reference line. After testing it, I had decided that I wanted to move the line >up closer to the text it followed. So I went to the reference page to tweak >it. I can't

Conditional Text in Variables? (Or, how would you do this...?)

2007-04-10 Thread Lin Surasky
Hi all- I'm reasonably certain you can't set conditional text within a variable, which in essence is what I want to do so How would you do this? I'm on Windows XP, Unstructured FM 7.2, no FrameScript :( I need to generate release notes for a suite of applications; each application gets its

FrameMaker files and CHM

2007-04-10 Thread Gross, Karen
Dear Framers, Is it a requirement to assign one TopicAlias marker per FrameMaker file in order to generate a context-sensitive CHM file using WebWorks ePublisher Pro? I understand that the marker needs to be placed in a pgf tag that starts a new page, but I thought I could have more than one

FrameMaker files and CHM

2007-04-10 Thread Gillian Flato
You can have as many as you want. It depends on your software. How many buttons do you have that point to different topics. If you have 10 help buttons that point to ten aliases, then you can have 10 topics. You need your software engineer to generate a resource.h file for you. That will tell

Conditional Text in Variables? (Or, how would you do this...?)

2007-04-10 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Lin... You may want to take a look at a plugin we offer called BookVars. http://www.leximation.com/tools/info/bookvars.php This lets you maintain multiple variable definitions that can be swapped in for each other as needed. It sounds like it would do what you're looking for. Use the

FrameMaker files and CHM

2007-04-10 Thread Bill Swallow
> Is it a requirement to assign one TopicAlias marker per FrameMaker file > in order to generate a context-sensitive CHM file using WebWorks > ePublisher Pro? I understand that the marker needs to be placed in a pgf > tag that starts a new page, but I thought I could have more than one > marker

FrameMaker files and CHM

2007-04-10 Thread Gross, Karen
I've assigned my markers, one per heading that starts a new page, and mapped the headings in WWP. Our software, which resides on a machine control, seems to require that we break up the FM file into smaller files, one topic per file. That doesn't sit right with me. It seemed to me that I could

FrameMaker files and CHM

2007-04-10 Thread Bill Swallow
Which software are you talking about? WWP? You most certainly don't have to have one topic per FM file. That defeats the whole point of single-sourcing with FM and the point of using WWP in the first place. Can you provide details? On 4/10/07, Gross, Karen wrote: > I've assigned my markers,

Conditional Text in Variables? (Or, how would you do this...?)

2007-04-10 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain
Hi, Lin. I use the Leximation BookVars plugin all the time and like it a lot - really saves me a lot of time in my book level documentation work. Consider this an unsolicited recommendation from a satisfied user! :) Z Scott Prentice wrote: > Hi Lin... > > You may want to take a look at a

FrameMaker files and CHM

2007-04-10 Thread Gross, Karen
Sorry, the software to which I was referring is the application for which we're providing context-sensitive help. I haven't found any documentation stating anything about needing to break up the FM files per topic. Our software developer claims it's necessary, and our tests on the machine control

Can't print from Frame

2007-04-10 Thread Dov Isaacs
Grandmother's tale is best and most literal translation from the Yiddish. - Dov PS: "Dove" is a bird; "Dov" is a bear. > -Original Message- > From: Steve Rickaby [mailto:srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 1:46 AM > To: Tina Poole; Dov