Default browser for 'message URL' hyperlinks
This is a *Mac-specific* question which we've bandied about on the FmforOSX group for a bit, with some interesting insights but as yet no solution. For some reason, my FrameMaker 7 installation has become obsessed with using Netscape when web hyperlinks are control-option-clicked in a FrameMaker document. I have some archive disks attached to this machine, and it managed to find a copy of Netscape 3 (don't ask!). When in desperation I killed Netscape 3, it then went off and ferreted out a copy of Netscape 4.7 that was sitting in backup disk copy of a friend's Mac that I'm made for them. In all cases the default browser setting for both Classic and OS X is Safari. Does anyone know how FrameMaker selects the browser to use for web hyperlinks, and how to configure it? I cannot find anything in the user guide or online help (which sometimes opens in Safari and sometimes in Netscape). With thanks in advance. -- Steve ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Creating interactive PDF forms from Structured FrameMaker
Art, You wrote: But if you want to do the entire job more quickly, use Acrobat's LifeCycle form too. It depends on what the 'entire job' is... If it is a separate form (single or multi page), Adobe LiveCycle Designer is indeed a very good choice (and many PDF producers have it already as it is bundled with Acrobat Professional). Form fields may also be inserted in PDFs using Acrobat Professional. But form fields of different types (including text fields and check boxes) -- not separate forms as such -- may be needed in longer/complex documents. Such multi-page documents (possibly with cross-refs, variables, tables, graphics, conditions etc.) are way beyond the scope of LiveCycle Designer (or other dedicated form design tools) and are better handled in FrameMaker (especially so if already in FrameMaker, regular or structured). In PDFs that are primarily intended for screen display, form fields -- in addition to data entry or selection -- can be used to enhance interactivity (buttons with tooltips or different states) or search actions (e.g. selecting a search phrase from a pre-defined list instead of typing it). Sample PDFs demonstrating a variety of form fields, inserted through hypertext markers in source FrameMaker files (distilled with FM-to-Acrobat TimeSavers + Form Asst) are available at http://www.microtype.com/ShowcaseFormAsst.html Shlomo Perets MicroType, http://www.microtype.com * ToolbarPlus Express for FrameMaker FrameMaker/Acrobat training consulting * FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers/Assistants ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Acrobat Options...
Is there any way to set options for printing the resulting PDF in what I create, either from FM or in Acrobat before I share the PDF with the reviewers and end users ? Acrobat 8 Pro has a setting in the document Properties dialog box, under the Advanced tab. You can change the default page scaling to None. (I don't remember if 7 has this feature.) David Creamer I.D.E.A.S. - Results-Oriented Training http://www.IDEAStraining.com Adobe Certified Trainer Expert (since 1995) Authorized Quark Training Provider (since 1988) Enfocus, Markzware, FileMaker Certified ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FM8 Unicode Font issues and suggestions
Yikes. There seem to be a number of spacing-around-accented-characters problems cropping up. This is at least the third such version of a similar problem that I've heard of recently. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of a solution at this point .. other than trying other fonts. Maybe someone else can suggest a solution. ...scott Martinek, Carla wrote: OK... weird things are happening. I've got some Spanish content where I changed the font family to Arial Unicode (from plain old Arial). Accented characters suddenly developed massive spacing around them - for example: s ó lo instead of sólo I need to specify a Unicode font set for our FM8 docs going forward... Our current template specifies Arial and Times New Roman. I'm not married to either of them, but I NEED Unicode fonts to work in the files I have going forward for some of my docs that have multiple languages in them. There's 28 other languages in this same doc (a safety sheet), and I was *so* excited that I'd be able to do them all in one Frame file instead of having to use CorelDraw. Any suggestions? Settings to change in FM8? Replacement Unicode fonts to use? And of COURSE we're on a deadline... -Carla - CONFIDENTIAL- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may also be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not review, use, copy, or distribute this message. If you receive this email in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply email and then delete this email. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sp%40leximation.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Acrobat Options...
Acrobat 8 / PDF 1.7 does indeed have a facility by which you may pre-populate the fields of the print dialog (you can't get to this via Distiller joboptions - sorry!). However, that facility does NOT prevent the end user from choosing any one of a number of printing options within Acrobat which may scale the page at print time. And as to Javascript options for controlling the print dialog, Javascript is easy to disable. And of course, the target printer and/or print driver may alter the scaling as well, totally independent of anything you, Reader, or Acrobat do to prevent same. It is nothing that Adobe can control. Having said that, if printing 1:1 is critical, my recommendation would be to have an area on the page(s) for which scaling must be performed where you explicitly state the requirement for no scaling AND in which you place an line of known length, let's say an inch or a centimeter with text that warns that if that line is not exactly at the size specified, to reprint without scaling. - Dov -Original Message- From: David Creamer Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 8:17 AM Is there any way to set options for printing the resulting PDF in what I create, either from FM or in Acrobat before I share the PDF with the reviewers and end users ? Acrobat 8 Pro has a setting in the document Properties dialog box, under the Advanced tab. You can change the default page scaling to None. (I don't remember if 7 has this feature.) David Creamer ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Acrobat Options...
On Dov Isaacs at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 3/28/08 2:00 PM: Acrobat 8 / PDF 1.7 does indeed have a facility by which you may pre-populate the fields of the print dialog (you can't get to this via Distiller joboptions - sorry!). However, that facility does NOT prevent the end user from choosing any one of a number of printing options within Acrobat which may scale the page at print time. I did not mean to imply that the None setting was locked in--just that it can be pre-set. As Dov stated, it can be changed by the user, but most don't notice it, let alone change it. David Creamer I.D.E.A.S. - Results-Oriented Training http://www.IDEAStraining.com Adobe Certified Trainer Expert (since 1995) Authorized Quark Training Provider (since 1988) Enfocus, Markzware, FileMaker Certified ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Master page dictionary divider tab design
I want to use tabs along the outside edge of each left and right pages in my chapter documents to indicate the name of the chapter. I want the tabs to appear the way alphabet letters appear along the outside edge of dictionary pages; i.e., where A appears higher on the outside edge than B; B is higher than C, etc. I remember reading in some Frame forum a method for setting up the master pages so that when the book is generated, the content in the tab for Chapter 1 is in the topmost tab of the Master page (and the other tabs do not display); Chapter 2 is in the tab just beneath Chapter 1(and the other tabs don't display), and so on. When all of the available tabs have been used once, the subsequent chapters repeat this cycle. The placement is generated dynamically when the book is updated so that if chapters move, or are deleted or added, there are enough tabs and each has the appropriate content for that chapter's location in the hierarchy . If anyone knows how to perform this technique, please explain it to me again. Thanks in advance, -- Valerie Lipow [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Acrobat Options...
Lester, You wrote: >... Is there any way to set options for printing the resulting PDF in what I >create, either from FM or in Acrobat before I share the PDF with the >reviewers and end users ? ... On a PDF document basis, you can set up a number of printing defaults, including Page Scaling (which can be Default or None). This, however, will not prevent an end user from changing the scaling options (i.e. no way to disable the Page Scaling field through this mechanism). Additionally, to draw attention to this issue when of high importance, you may set up a Will Print event message through Acrobat JavaScript (supported with Acrobat 5 or later), so that each time when the document is printed, a message will be displayed. In Acrobat 8 : Advanced > Document Processing > Set Document Actions. The "Will Print" message is displayed after the OK button is clicked in the Print dialog, so there will be no chance of cancelling the printing action, unless printing to a file. (File-specific event messages and PDF defaults can be automated with Acrobat extensions). Shlomo Perets MicroType, http://www.microtype.com Training, consulting & add-ons: FrameMaker, Structured FM and Acrobat
I seem to have found an interesting bug/limitation with Tables that stretch across multiple pages
Hi Syed, IIRC this is normal and is to do with how FM handles header rows on multiple page tables. I had the same problem with 5.5.1 and found that FM replicates the header row from the first page an so they are not actually text as such. It is for this reason that anything in them is not editable or clickable. That is, the header row content is only displayed on subsequent pages. Adding text frames on them may work but in the end I had to add links in Acrobat after the pdf had been generated. Cheers Alan On 28/03/2008, at 1:40 PM, wrote: > > I am seeing a bug, or certainly a limitation that is very irritating! > Can someone tell me if my assumptions/observations are incorrect here, > please! > > This is with FrameMaker 8.0 with the p273 (latest) patches. > 1. In one of my documents, I have a table with many rows that > stretches > across multiple pages. > > 2. The top header row is set to "repeat" (i.e., show) at the top of > the > table on all subsequent page, so the columns all have a "row header" > on > all subsequent pages. > > 3. As an aside, I also use the automatic feature to add the > "(Continued)" at the end of the table title (which is also repeated at > the top, of course). > > 4. The very first page header row has hypertext on the individual > words > in each column (that do a "gotolink ..." to the explanation and > definition of the word). Clearly, I cannot add this hypertext on the > subsequent table pages, since "header row" on the subsequent pages is > not selectable in any way. > > Now, here is the sumptom I am observing: > > > > 1. After I output the book as a PDF, the hypertext on the first page > header row of the table in the PDF output works perfectly! > > > > 2. It shows up as a clickable "link" (the mouse pointer changes > from an > arrow to a finger) and clicking on the word indeed takes me to the > other > part of the document. > > > > 3. But, in the header rows on subsequent pages in the PDF, that same > word is (a) not clickable - the mouse pointer does not change - and > (b) > clicking it has no effect, obviously! > > > > To me, this is a bug! > > > > But, I want to ask if I am doing something incorrect here! > > > > Or, is there a workaround to this problem? > > > > Z > > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as alan at alphabyte.co.nz. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/alan%40alphabyte.co.nz > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland, NZ. 1140 http://www.alphabyte.co.nz
Default browser for 'message URL' hyperlinks
This is a *Mac-specific* question which we've bandied about on the FmforOSX group for a bit, with some interesting insights but as yet no solution. For some reason, my FrameMaker 7 installation has become obsessed with using Netscape when web hyperlinks are control-option-clicked in a FrameMaker document. I have some archive disks attached to this machine, and it managed to find a copy of Netscape 3 (don't ask!). When in desperation I killed Netscape 3, it then went off and ferreted out a copy of Netscape 4.7 that was sitting in backup disk copy of a friend's Mac that I'm made for them. In all cases the default browser setting for both Classic and OS X is Safari. Does anyone know how FrameMaker selects the browser to use for web hyperlinks, and how to configure it? I cannot find anything in the user guide or online help (which sometimes opens in Safari and sometimes in Netscape). With thanks in advance. -- Steve
Creating interactive PDF forms from Structured FrameMaker
Art, You wrote: >But if you want to do the entire job more quickly, use Acrobat's LifeCycle >form too. It depends on what the 'entire job' is... If it is a separate form (single or multi page), Adobe LiveCycle Designer is indeed a very good choice (and many PDF producers have it already as it is bundled with Acrobat Professional). Form fields may also be inserted in PDFs using Acrobat Professional. But form fields of different types (including text fields and check boxes) -- not separate forms as such -- may be needed in longer/complex documents. Such multi-page documents (possibly with cross-refs, variables, tables, graphics, conditions etc.) are way beyond the scope of LiveCycle Designer (or other dedicated form design tools) and are better handled in FrameMaker (especially so if already in FrameMaker, regular or structured). In PDFs that are primarily intended for screen display, form fields -- in addition to data entry or selection -- can be used to enhance interactivity (buttons with tooltips or different states) or search actions (e.g. selecting a search phrase from a pre-defined list instead of typing it). Sample PDFs demonstrating a variety of form fields, inserted through hypertext markers in source FrameMaker files (distilled with FM-to-Acrobat TimeSavers + Form Asst) are available at http://www.microtype.com/ShowcaseFormAsst.html Shlomo Perets MicroType, http://www.microtype.com * ToolbarPlus Express for FrameMaker FrameMaker/Acrobat training & consulting * FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers/Assistants
FM8 Unicode Font issues and suggestions
OK... weird things are happening. I've got some Spanish content where I changed the font family to Arial Unicode (from plain old Arial). Accented characters suddenly developed massive spacing around them - for example: "s ? lo" instead of "s?lo" I need to specify a Unicode font set for our FM8 docs going forward... Our current template specifies Arial and Times New Roman. I'm not married to either of them, but I NEED Unicode fonts to work in the files I have going forward for some of my docs that have multiple languages in them. There's 28 other languages in this same doc (a safety sheet), and I was *so* excited that I'd be able to do them all in one Frame file instead of having to use CorelDraw. Any suggestions? Settings to change in FM8? Replacement Unicode fonts to use? And of COURSE we're on a deadline... -Carla - CONFIDENTIAL- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may also be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not review, use, copy, or distribute this message. If you receive this email in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply email and then delete this email.
Acrobat Options...
> Is there any way to set options for printing the resulting PDF in what I > create, either from FM or in Acrobat before I share the PDF with the > reviewers and end users ? > Acrobat 8 Pro has a setting in the document Properties dialog box, under the Advanced tab. You can change the default page scaling to None. (I don't remember if 7 has this feature.) David Creamer I.D.E.A.S. - Results-Oriented Training http://www.IDEAStraining.com Adobe Certified Trainer & Expert (since 1995) Authorized Quark Training Provider (since 1988) Enfocus, Markzware, FileMaker Certified
FM8 Unicode Font issues and suggestions
Yikes. There seem to be a number of spacing-around-accented-characters problems cropping up. This is at least the third such version of a similar problem that I've heard of recently. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of a solution at this point .. other than trying other fonts. Maybe someone else can suggest a solution. ...scott Martinek, Carla wrote: > OK... weird things are happening. > > I've got some Spanish content where I changed the font family to Arial > Unicode (from plain old Arial). Accented characters suddenly developed > massive spacing around them - for example: > > "s ? lo" instead of > "s?lo" > > I need to specify a Unicode font set for our FM8 docs going forward... Our > current template specifies Arial and Times New Roman. I'm not married to > either of them, but I NEED Unicode fonts to work in the files I have going > forward for some of my docs that have multiple languages in them. There's 28 > other languages in this same doc (a safety sheet), and I was *so* excited > that I'd be able to do them all in one Frame file instead of having to use > CorelDraw. > > Any suggestions? Settings to change in FM8? Replacement Unicode fonts to > use? > > And of COURSE we're on a deadline... > > -Carla > > - CONFIDENTIAL- > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may also > be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not > review, use, copy, or distribute this message. If you receive this email in > error, please notify the sender immediately by reply email and then delete > this email. > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as sp at leximation.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sp%40leximation.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > >
Acrobat Options...
Acrobat 8 / PDF 1.7 does indeed have a facility by which you may "pre-populate" the fields of the print dialog (you can't get to this via Distiller joboptions - sorry!). However, that facility does NOT prevent the end user from choosing any one of a number of printing options within Acrobat which may scale the page at print time. And as to Javascript options for controlling the print dialog, Javascript is easy to disable. And of course, the target printer and/or print driver may alter the scaling as well, totally independent of anything you, Reader, or Acrobat do to prevent same. It is nothing that Adobe can control. Having said that, if printing 1:1 is critical, my recommendation would be to have an area on the page(s) for which scaling must be performed where you explicitly state the requirement for no scaling AND in which you place an line of known length, let's say an inch or a centimeter with text that warns that if that line is not exactly at the size specified, to reprint without scaling. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: David Creamer > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 8:17 AM > > > Is there any way to set options for printing the resulting PDF in what I > > create, either from FM or in Acrobat before I share the PDF with the > > reviewers and end users ? > > > Acrobat 8 Pro has a setting in the document Properties dialog box, under the > Advanced tab. You can change the default page scaling to None. > (I don't remember if 7 has this feature.) > > David Creamer
Acrobat Options...
On Dov Isaacs at isaacs at adobe.com wrote on 3/28/08 2:00 PM: > Acrobat 8 / PDF 1.7 does indeed have a facility by which you may > "pre-populate" the fields of the print dialog (you can't get to this > via Distiller joboptions - sorry!). However, that facility does NOT > prevent the end user from choosing any one of a number of printing > options within Acrobat which may scale the page at print time. I did not mean to imply that the None setting was locked in--just that it can be pre-set. As Dov stated, it can be changed by the user, but most don't notice it, let alone change it. David Creamer I.D.E.A.S. - Results-Oriented Training http://www.IDEAStraining.com Adobe Certified Trainer & Expert (since 1995) Authorized Quark Training Provider (since 1988) Enfocus, Markzware, FileMaker Certified
Master page "dictionary divider tab" design
I want to use "tabs" along the outside edge of each left and right pages in my chapter documents to indicate the name of the chapter. I want the tabs to appear the way alphabet letters appear along the outside edge of dictionary pages; i.e., where A appears higher on the outside edge than B; B is higher than C, etc. I remember reading in some Frame forum a method for setting up the master pages so that when the book is generated, the content in the tab for Chapter 1 is in the topmost tab of the Master page (and the other tabs do not display); Chapter 2 is in the tab just beneath Chapter 1(and the other tabs don't display), and so on. When all of the available tabs have been used once, the subsequent chapters repeat this cycle. The placement is generated dynamically when the book is updated so that if chapters move, or are deleted or added, there are enough tabs and each has the appropriate content for that chapter's location in the hierarchy . If anyone knows how to perform this technique, please explain it to me again. Thanks in advance, -- Valerie Lipow vallipow at gmail.com
