Some questions about reference pages, index specifications and font size

2007-06-23 Thread Rob Shell
Hi Framers: I have generated several independent indexes. However the page number font size is not constant for the same level. Thus I will have for example: Cape 1657-1750 54 1680-1730 36 The page number 36 is oversize (actually it is the paragraph number). I seem to think that the answer

Slightly OT: Style checker?

2007-06-23 Thread beth.tripp
Hi, I have used John Smart's MaxIt. The company works with your organization to build your dictionaries. You then can add to those dictionaries. It took a little getting use to, but I thought it was a very useful tool. I'm not sure about checking for a specific style guides. MaxIt has it's

DITA, DOCBOOK and Structured FrameMaker

2007-06-23 Thread Purificacion Romero Gomez
Hello Framers, I work for software designer company in Spain. We're looking a trainer for Structured FrameMaker: building EDD, structured applications, etc. I'would like know if you know a trainer, speaking spanish, who can help us or if you recommended a online course of this.

Re: Some questions about reference pages, index specifications and font size

2007-06-23 Thread Peter Gold
ps! I forgot to suggest that the most likely specification that's in use is on the Reference page named Index. However, without knowing the complete setup of your book, I may be overlooking something. I also forgot to include this test procedure, which is an alternate approach to isolating

RE: Some questions about reference pages, index specifications and font size

2007-06-23 Thread Sharon Burton
I've considered this a bug in Frame for years. Here's what happening: The paragraph format that formats the page number doesn't exist yet. The name appears in the list, but you see an asterisk. Frame automatically creates the format but for some reason doesn't actually save it to the catalog.

Re: Some questions about reference pages, index specifications and font size

2007-06-23 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Rob: I know a lot about FrameMaker, but I tremble when trying to engage with statistics in any specific way. I am quite comfortable with sweeping generalities and fuzzy logic. Rather than treat your number differences as problems, I'd take the statistical approach of determining what factor

SOS - CORRUPT FILES

2007-06-23 Thread Michael Zaichenko
Hello Framers,recently I had a machine with a bunch of FM files being backed up in progress - crash! It crashed so bad that about half of all of my FM files went corrupt and I can't open them anymore.Is there any means to fix them or recover or whatever. The files appear all fine - I can open

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2007-06-23 Thread Graeme R Forbes
Dear Mr. Davidson: Please accept my sympathy, and also my thanks for taking the time to inform us during this exceptionally difficult time for you. In 1995 the Framers List lost another frequent contributor, Carol Odlum, to brain cancer. Carol had been particularly helpful to me with a number

Some questions about reference pages, index specifications and font size

2007-06-23 Thread Rob Shell
Hi Framers: I have generated several independent indexes. However the page number font size is not constant for the same level. Thus I will have for example: Cape 1657-1750 54 1680-1730 36 The page number "36" is oversize (actually it is the paragraph number). I seem to think that the answer

SV: Acrobat 8/8.1 Dropping Text in PDF

2007-06-23 Thread Jacob Schäffer
Dov, You wrote: > (2) So far we haven't seen the NUMBER of fonts as the key > variable as to what causes corruption or too large a font > cache file. As I have indicated in early communications, my > systems routinely run with about 1400 to 1600 active > typefaces, all concurrently installed.

Some questions about reference pages, index specifications and font size

2007-06-23 Thread Art Campbell
Have you checked the para tag that controls the entry to make sure that no character tags are invoked? And/or, highlight the entire entry Ctrl-8 and specify Default Format Art On 6/23/07, Rob Shell wrote: > Hi Framers: > I have generated several independent indexes. However the page number

SOS - CORRUPT FILES

2007-06-23 Thread Michael Zaichenko
Thanks Lesley,I tried it. Unfortunately it didn't work. I googled a bit and there are couple guys that can do this (recovering) for money. Do you think it's worthwhile to send them the files?Michael> Subject: RE: SOS - CORRUPT FILES> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:00:57 -0400> From: lsmalley at

SOS - CORRUPT FILES

2007-06-23 Thread Art Campbell
Lester omitted one part of the instructions... you need to already have a FM file open before you attempt the "Esc,o,H" sequence... Art On 6/22/07, Lester C. Smalley wrote: > You can try the "heroic open" command: ESC o H > > (three key presses: Escape, lowercase OH, capital H) > > If it

Some questions about reference pages, index specifications and font size

2007-06-23 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Rob: I know a lot about FrameMaker, but I tremble when trying to engage with statistics in any specific way. I am quite comfortable with sweeping generalities and fuzzy logic. Rather than treat your number differences as problems, I'd take the statistical approach of determining what factor

Some questions about reference pages, index specifications and font size

2007-06-23 Thread Sharon Burton
I've considered this a bug in Frame for years. Here's what happening: The paragraph format that formats the page number doesn't exist yet. The name appears in the list, but you see an asterisk. Frame automatically creates the format but for some reason doesn't actually save it to the catalog.

Some questions about reference pages, index specifications and font size

2007-06-23 Thread Peter Gold
ps! I forgot to suggest that the most likely specification that's in use is on the Reference page named Index. However, without knowing the complete setup of your book, I may be overlooking something. I also forgot to include this test procedure, which is an alternate approach to isolating