Re: Hypertext links in Acrobat 8 documents generated from FrameMaker 8

2007-12-20 Thread Shlomo Perets
Austin Meredith wrote: Having recently upgraded on the XP PC from Adobe FrameMaker 7 and Acrobat Pro 7 to FM8.0p266 and Acrobat Pro 8.1.1 and Adobe Reader 8.1.1, we can't get our distilled hypertext buttons to function anymore. ... ... However, now, whenever one punches a hypertext button on a

Ann: Special X-mas Offer: Bundles = Packages

2007-12-20 Thread frameusers
SYSTEC - The ideal solution for technical documentation Special Price to december, 30th 2007 3D Communication Package® The integration of Flash and U3D into a documentation opens completely new possibilities, e.g. describing complex procedures and creating service documents with simulations.

Re: Hypertext links in Acrobat8 documents generated from FM8 don't work

2007-12-20 Thread Austin Meredith
I am not aware of any way to control this from within FrameMaker 8.0. We are feeling as if Adobe has just sabotaged our entire 15-year project. How could they have offered an upgrade that destroys hypertext? Who is going to lose their job here at our project, for having recommended that we

Re: Hypertext links in Acrobat8 documents generated from FM8 don't work

2007-12-20 Thread Austin Meredith
I am not aware of any way to control this from within FrameMaker 8.0. We are feeling as if Adobe has just sabotaged our entire 15-year project. How could they have offered an upgrade that destroys hypertext? Who here at our Kouroo project is going to lose their job, for having incautiously

OT: TOOL -- Xara Vector drawing photo editing

2007-12-20 Thread Stuart Rogers
If anyone needs a good vector art drawing program with photo editing capabilities, may I recommend Xara, which is on sale till tomorrow at 25% off. (That makes it US$59 to US$186 depending on version.) http://tinyurl.com/3bo74s This program is much like Adobe Illustrator, but reportedly faster

Frame 7.1 and vista

2007-12-20 Thread Denise Kadilak
I'm about to get a new work computer with Vista. Any chance my current version of FrameMaker (7.1) will work? Thanks! ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a

Re: Hypertext links in Acrobat 8 documents generated from FrameMaker 8

2007-12-20 Thread Austin Meredith
Could this be your problem, taken from the Microtype FM8 bug list (http://www.microtype.com/FM_bugs.html): Cross-file links in PDFs authored in FrameMaker 8.0 use Unicode-encoded file paths and file names, which are only supported in Windows Acrobat/Reader 8.x or MacOS Acrobat/Reader 7.x or

RE: Frame 7.1 and vista

2007-12-20 Thread Dov Isaacs
FrameMaker 7.1 will probably work OK (although Adobe does not officially support it) except that FrameMaker 7.1 doesn't coordinate with Acrobat 8.x and the only version of Acrobat that works dependably with Vista is Acrobat 8.1. The real question is WHY you would want Vista. It still isn't really

Re: FM8 crashing when book building: Update

2007-12-20 Thread Kanti . Mann
Hello all: Thanks for great input. Ran more tests yesterday in which I removed all char formatting with IXgen/FM6, then reopened/saved in FM8 and generated the book: all was well. Also, book that was crashing in FM8 definitely survived without our IX template. BUT: the generic index

RE: Text flow oddity

2007-12-20 Thread Grant Hogarth
Thanks Richard et al --- Yes, Text Symbols and Borders are displayed. Yes, Page 2 has a end of flow symbol at the top of the generated column. Paras are the same in both flows. Start anywhere, no frames, one widow, no KWN. Deleting the 2nd page and regenerating does not solve the problem

Validating all hypertext links in a FM book?

2007-12-20 Thread Grant Hogarth
I've looked in the help and queried the archives, but have been unable to find the answer to the following: Is there a way to validate all the hypertext links in a book? Not xrefs, but hyperlinks. I know that they can be validated on insertion, but I'm looking for something to run as a QA/QC

Re: Validating all hypertext links in a FM book?

2007-12-20 Thread ActionA
Interesting question. I'm looking for a tool that will validate HTML links as well. Nancy Adams **See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop000304) ___ You are

Unicode support of FrameMaker 8

2007-12-20 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hi all, I would never recommend using special chars in FM file or format names, but found the following issue with FrameMaker 8.0p266 (that worked in FM7): Clicking on the following hypertext marker results in an error: message system explorer C:/Program Files/Adobé (although the folder exists,

Unicode support of FrameMaker 8

2007-12-20 Thread Klaus Mueller
(sorry for double posting ...) Hi all, I would never recommend using special chars in FM file or format names, but found the following issue with FrameMaker 8.0p266 (that worked in FM7): Clicking on the following hypertext marker results in an error: message system explorer C:/Program

Whitespace in DITA XML

2007-12-20 Thread Rick Quatro
Hello Framers, I am using FrameMaker 8 with DITA. I have pretty-printed XML files that I am importing using the DITA-Topic-FM application. When the XML file is converted to FM, it is preserving the white space from the XML file. Is there any way to avoid this, short of removing the spaces from

Re: Validating all hypertext links in a FM book?

2007-12-20 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Grant, What exactly do you mean by validate? Do you want to make sure that URLs are valid? Or are you trying to make sure that gotolinks have a matching newlink? Thanks. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com I've looked in the help and queried the archives, but

Re: Whitespace in DITA XML

2007-12-20 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Rick... This is a standard Frame feature .. you'll need to strip the non-content whitespace from the files before opening them. :( ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Rick Quatro wrote: Hello Framers, I am using FrameMaker 8 with DITA. I have

Re: More than one API client in a structured application

2007-12-20 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Rick... The short answer is .. No. I've often wondered about the possibility of making a wrapper client that would allow references to multiple clients .. but this would be problematic, since it would be possible for each client to mess with what the previous one did. It might make sense

Hypertext links in Acrobat 8 documents generated from FrameMaker 8

2007-12-20 Thread Shlomo Perets
Austin Meredith wrote: >Having recently upgraded on the XP PC from Adobe FrameMaker 7 and >Acrobat Pro 7 to FM8.0p266 and Acrobat Pro 8.1.1 and Adobe Reader >8.1.1, we can't get our distilled hypertext buttons to function >anymore. ... ... >However, now, whenever one punches a hypertext button on

Ann: Special X-mas Offer: Bundles = Packages

2007-12-20 Thread frameus...@systec-gmbh.com
SYSTEC - The ideal solution for technical documentation Special Price to december, 30th 2007 3D Communication Package? The integration of Flash and U3D into a documentation opens completely new possibilities, e.g. describing complex procedures and creating service documents with simulations.

Hypertext links in Acrobat8 documents generated from FM8 don't work

2007-12-20 Thread Austin Meredith
>I am not aware of any way to control this from within FrameMaker 8.0. We are feeling as if Adobe has just sabotaged our entire 15-year project. How could they have offered an "upgrade" that destroys hypertext? Who is going to lose their job here at our project, for having recommended that we

Hypertext links in Acrobat8 documents generated from FM8 don't work

2007-12-20 Thread Austin Meredith
>I am not aware of any way to control this from within FrameMaker 8.0. We are feeling as if Adobe has just sabotaged our entire 15-year project. How could they have offered an "upgrade" that destroys hypertext? Who here at our Kouroo project is going to lose their job, for having incautiously

OT: TOOL -- Xara Vector drawing & photo editing

2007-12-20 Thread Stuart Rogers
If anyone needs a good vector art drawing program with photo editing capabilities, may I recommend Xara, which is on sale till tomorrow at 25% off. (That makes it US$59 to US$186 depending on version.) http://tinyurl.com/3bo74s This program is much like Adobe Illustrator, but reportedly faster

Frame 7.1 and vista

2007-12-20 Thread Denise Kadilak
I'm about to get a new work computer with Vista. Any chance my current version of FrameMaker (7.1) will work? Thanks!

Hypertext links in Acrobat 8 documents generated from FrameMaker 8

2007-12-20 Thread Austin Meredith
>Could this be your problem, taken from the Microtype FM8 bug list >(http://www.microtype.com/FM_bugs.html): >Cross-file links in PDFs authored in FrameMaker 8.0 use >Unicode-encoded file paths and file names, which are only supported >in Windows Acrobat/Reader 8.x or MacOS Acrobat/Reader 7.x

Frame 7.1 and vista

2007-12-20 Thread Dov Isaacs
FrameMaker 7.1 will probably work OK (although Adobe does not officially support it) except that FrameMaker 7.1 doesn't coordinate with Acrobat 8.x and the only version of Acrobat that works dependably with Vista is Acrobat 8.1. The real question is WHY you would want Vista. It still isn't really

Validating all hypertext links in a FM book?

2007-12-20 Thread Grant Hogarth
I've looked in the help and queried the archives, but have been unable to find the answer to the following: Is there a way to validate all the hypertext links in a book? Not xrefs, but hyperlinks. I know that they can be validated on insertion, but I'm looking for something to run as a QA/QC

Hypertext links in Acrobat 8 documents generated from FrameMaker 8

2007-12-20 Thread kanti.m...@schange.com
Hello Austin: Could this be your problem, taken from the Microtype FM8 bug list ( http://www.microtype.com/FM_bugs.html): Cross-file links in PDFs authored in FrameMaker 8.0 use Unicode-encoded file paths and file names, which are only supported in Windows Acrobat/Reader 8.x or MacOS

Validating all hypertext links in a FM book?

2007-12-20 Thread acti...@aol.com
Interesting question. I'm looking for a tool that will validate HTML links as well. Nancy Adams **See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop000304)

Whitespace in DITA XML

2007-12-20 Thread Rick Quatro
Hello Framers, I am using FrameMaker 8 with DITA. I have "pretty-printed" XML files that I am importing using the DITA-Topic-FM application. When the XML file is converted to FM, it is preserving the white space from the XML file. Is there any way to avoid this, short of removing the spaces

Validating all hypertext links in a FM book?

2007-12-20 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Grant, What exactly do you mean by validate? Do you want to make sure that URLs are valid? Or are you trying to make sure that gotolinks have a matching newlink? Thanks. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com > I've looked in the help and queried the archives, but

More than one API client in a structured application

2007-12-20 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Structured Framers, Is it possible to use more than one API client with a structured application? In the structapps.fm document, you can only specify one UseAPIClient element. If you are using DITA, then the ditafm_app client is specified. Is there any way to use a second API client? Thanks

Whitespace in DITA XML

2007-12-20 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Rick... This is a standard Frame "feature" .. you'll need to strip the non-content whitespace from the files before opening them. :( ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Rick Quatro wrote: > Hello Framers, > > I am using FrameMaker 8 with DITA. I

More than one API client in a structured application

2007-12-20 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Rick... The short answer is .. No. I've often wondered about the possibility of making a "wrapper" client that would allow references to multiple clients .. but this would be problematic, since it would be possible for each client to mess with what the previous one did. It might make sense