ANN: Front Runner Training: FrameScript course and Advanced level FrameMaker and Acrobat seminars September schedule

2008-07-02 Thread Veronica
Front Runner's September course lineup is set to be Advanced level seminars and courses in FrameMaker and Acrobat. Have a look to see what we're offering... Framescript is a tool that allows you to automate many of the manual tasks in FrameMaker publishing that normally consumes hours every day.

weird symbols in front of my Chapter Titles

2008-07-02 Thread Deirdre Reagan
Hi all: I have nine Chapter Titles that feed the TOC. The format of the title is [Variable] [Chapter Title Name] and the whole thing is tagged Chapter Title. Two chapter titles have a bold T in front of the variable. Neither the variable nor the chapter title is cross-referenced in the rest of

Re: weird symbols in front of my Chapter Titles

2008-07-02 Thread Deirdre Reagan
And in my TOC, the Chapter Titles all have the outline box in front of them, and the second level headings all have the bold T in front of them. I thought the bold T meant cross-reference? I still don't know what the outlined box means. Thanks, Deirdre On 7/2/08, Deirdre Reagan [EMAIL

RE: weird symbols in front of my Chapter Titles

2008-07-02 Thread Owen, Clint
Were these templates imported from MS Word, by any chance? That can be the source of strange characters. As for the upside down T, that can be any one of several different kinds of marker. If you have ever cross-referenced something to that paragraph the marker will remain, even if the

Re: weird symbols in front of my Chapter Titles

2008-07-02 Thread Deirdre Reagan
Thanks, Clint. The outline box is a little box that is appearing before the first letter of the text. I tried to delete it and it moved to behind the text. Thank you for setting my mind at ease about these not affecting the text. I'm being asked to make changes to these documents and I'm

Sideheads that won't go away

2008-07-02 Thread Rene Stephenson
All, I'm running FM7.2 on WinXP doing unstructured docs with text insets, using condition tags to control which insets show in this particular file, in a single-sourced, multiple-author environment. All the graphics are imported by reference, and all have callout applied within the anchored

condition-specific paragraph tags idea

2008-07-02 Thread Ben Hechter
Dear FM Gurus, Any thoughts on the possibility of creating condition-specific paragraph tags (eg para_red, para_blue) that would somehow magically set an associated condition? Ben ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: condition-specific paragraph tags idea

2008-07-02 Thread Deirdre Reagan
In Paragraph Designer Default Font, set the color to Red and create a new tag. That worked for me. Deirdre On 7/2/08, Ben Hechter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FM Gurus, Any thoughts on the possibility of creating condition-specific paragraph tags (eg para_red, para_blue) that would

Re: condition-specific paragraph tags idea

2008-07-02 Thread Ben Hechter
OK, bad example. How about para_chocolate, para_strawberry, para_neapolitan? On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Deirdre Reagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Paragraph Designer Default Font, set the color to Red and create a new tag. That worked for me. Deirdre On 7/2/08, Ben Hechter [EMAIL

Re: condition-specific paragraph tags idea

2008-07-02 Thread Deirdre Reagan
Do you mean if chocolate, strawberry, or neapolitan were color choices? I know you can create your own color then add it to the color palette and it shows up in the Paragraph Designer. Deirdre On 7/2/08, Ben Hechter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, bad example. How about para_chocolate,

Re: Framers Digest, Vol 32, Issue 29

2008-07-02 Thread Tarlochan S. Nahal
Try LaserBengali font from Linguist's Software. I have personally not used the Bengali font, but I have used their Gurmukhi (for tyesetting Punjabi) and some other fonts with diacritical marks. It works pretty well. The support fonts for over 365 languages for Mac and Windows.   Linguist's

RE: Opening same-document links in a new window

2008-07-02 Thread Jo Watkiss
Shlomo, Art - thank you for your suggestions. The problem is that I'm linking to destinations in the same file - so unchecking Open cross-document links in same window doesn't work. I've had a quick look at TimeSavers, and it seems the same applies (only for cross-document links, not

Searching the archives

2008-07-02 Thread Plueckhahn, Lutz
Dear Framers, It's been a long time since I've lurked into the Framers' list. Hence, I have no idea how to search inside the list archives. Can anyone help? Best regards, Lutz ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send

looking for frame 8/roobhelp 7 tech com suite guru

2008-07-02 Thread Greg Thompson
Hi All: I have developed a FrameMaker manual and an RoboHelp 7 online help system for the same product using the Tech Com Suite. I need to retroactively turn the manual and the help into a single source version, which I did not do on initial development because of time considerations and lack

Importing Ventura files

2008-07-02 Thread Plueckhahn, Lutz
Dear all, Does anyone know how to import files created with Ventura? I have loads of manual files here that come from various Ventura versions (pre and post Corel). I understand Framemaker only imports files from versions 3 and 4? Were these before Corel? Until now, I was only able to import

RE: Sort order of entries in an index

2008-07-02 Thread DeRosier, Edward
Reply to: Message: 20 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 15:34:38 -0600 From: Linda G. Gallagher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Sort order of entries in an index What do you mean by a complete index entry? It doesn't seem to have to match the complete second level portion of the index entry, so I'm not

RE: condition-specific paragraph tags idea

2008-07-02 Thread Lester C. Smalley
You can add this to the wish list for future releases, but FrameMaker does currently support automatically assigning a condition based on paragraph (character, table) tags, although it is fairly simple to automate this via an FDK client or FrameScript. So I'm a bit confused by Deirdre's

Re: condition-specific paragraph tags idea

2008-07-02 Thread Deirdre Reagan
Hi Lester and all. Ah yes, I misunderstood condition. He wants to apply a condition tag to a paragraph tag, is that right? I can change the color in a paragraph tag, and I can change the color in a condition tag, but to apply a condition tag to a paragraph tag, that I don't know how to do.

Re: condition-specific paragraph tags idea

2008-07-02 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Ben... If you're trying to make it so when you tag a paragraph with a particular style, it also applies a named condition to that paragraph, you'd have to do that with an FDK plugin or FrameScript. It can be done, but not out of the box. ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc.

RE: Sideheads that won't go away

2008-07-02 Thread Combs, Richard
Rene Stephenson wrote: Somehow, one of the container FM files got some setting changed that made all the text frames in that one file have sideheads. Now, our templates for the container file do have sideheads on the master pages for the body text frames, but if that were the source of the

RE: Searching the archives

2008-07-02 Thread Combs, Richard
Plueckhahn, Lutz wrote: It's been a long time since I've lurked into the Framers' list. Hence, I have no idea how to search inside the list archives. Can anyone help? In a Google search box, type searchstring site:frameusers.com (sans quotes). Richard Richard G. Combs Senior Technical

RE: Importing Ventura files

2008-07-02 Thread Combs, Richard
Plueckhahn, Lutz wrote: Does anyone know how to import files created with Ventura? I have loads of manual files here that come from various Ventura versions (pre and post Corel). I understand Framemaker only imports files from versions 3 and 4? Were these before Corel? Waaay before (and

Re: weird symbols in front of my Chapter Titles

2008-07-02 Thread Deirdre Reagan
Clint: Nope, no tab or space in the autonumber box. The boxes don't effect the printed output at all. As far as I've been able to determine, they are markers that point to the file I used to create these files. The first file, the one with the T, I renamed to a new name. The T marker points to

RE: condition-specific paragraph tags idea

2008-07-02 Thread Combs, Richard
Ben Hechter wrote: Any thoughts on the possibility of creating condition-specific paragraph tags (eg para_red, para_blue) that would somehow magically set an associated condition? Others have pointed out that such magic requires a script or plug-in. But unless you need to do this _a lot_,

Re: weird symbols in front of my Chapter Titles

2008-07-02 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Dierdre: The T characters before your chapter headings are markers that are created if you check Create Hypertext Links in the Table of Contents dialog box. These markers enable the ability to jump from a TOC entry to its source by clicking it in a PDF. In FM, you can use the combination

Re: condition-specific paragraph tags idea

2008-07-02 Thread Peter Gold
Have you tried to copy an example of the condition to the clipboard with Edit Copy Special, then Find a paragraph format and Replace by Pasting, with Replace All enabled? HTH Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You

RE: Sideheads that won't go away

2008-07-02 Thread Matt Sullivan
If Richard's solution doesn't fix, try verifying your Master Page frames have Sideheads off as well (all of 'em) If that doesn't fix it, you might want to investigate your Text Inset files, though I doubt it's that deep. -Matt Sullivan GRAFIX Training, Inc. An Adobe Authorized Training

Re: Sideheads that won't go away

2008-07-02 Thread Rene Stephenson
Thanks for responding, Richard! Sorry about the rather circular description. It's definitely one of those 1 picture vs. 1000 words scenarios. You'd get it at a glance if you could see what I see. I thought about that, but the Flow Tag A is set to .5 sideheads, and the sideheads in these text

Re: condition-specific paragraph tags idea

2008-07-02 Thread Ben Hechter
Thanks, Peter, an interesting idea to check out. My main motivation is to make conditions more visible, to avoid later confusion/errors due to conditions being a hidden attribute. Ben ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Sort order of entries in an index - Solved

2008-07-02 Thread Linda G. Gallagher
OK, Steve solved it. The key was the length of the numeric strings that I wanted it sort on. I had to have the same number of digits in the [ ] for sorting, and I'd been inconsistent; some where three digits and some were four. My bad! So, my sort needed to be one of these: [0070 mm] [0090 mm]

Re: condition-specific paragraph tags idea

2008-07-02 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Ben: From your comment below, I'm not sure if you're aware of condition indicators. You can create them with text attributes like overline, underline, and strikethrough, plus a color - either one of the default FM colors, or a custom color you create. You can opt to show or hide these

master pages and multiple revisions

2008-07-02 Thread Alan Litchfield
This is what I would be inclined to do, what Martin suggested. It strikes me as pointless having more master pages than the final document page count, when instead you can simply type the date the page was edited. From your post I think you want any edits on the page to be reflected in

master pages and multiple revisions

2008-07-02 Thread Alan Litchfield
Deirdre, Just because the text is in the position of a footer on a page does not mean it therefore has to be on a master page. Cheers Alan On 2/07/2008, at 9:55 AM, Deirdre Reagan wrote: > Thanks all for these responses. > > The solution for my specific issue is to have multiple master

ANN: Front Runner Training: FrameScript course and Advanced level FrameMaker and Acrobat seminars September schedule

2008-07-02 Thread Veronica
Front Runner's September course lineup is set to be Advanced level seminars and courses in FrameMaker and Acrobat. Have a look to see what we're offering... Framescript is a tool that allows you to automate many of the manual tasks in FrameMaker publishing that normally consumes hours every day.

weird symbols in front of my Chapter Titles

2008-07-02 Thread Deirdre Reagan
Hi all: I have nine Chapter Titles that feed the TOC. The format of the title is [Variable] [Chapter Title Name] and the whole thing is tagged Chapter Title. Two chapter titles have a bold T in front of the variable. Neither the variable nor the chapter title is cross-referenced in the rest of

weird symbols in front of my Chapter Titles

2008-07-02 Thread Deirdre Reagan
And in my TOC, the Chapter Titles all have the outline box in front of them, and the second level headings all have the bold T in front of them. I thought the bold T meant cross-reference? I still don't know what the outlined box means. Thanks, Deirdre On 7/2/08, Deirdre Reagan wrote: > Hi

weird symbols in front of my Chapter Titles

2008-07-02 Thread Owen, Clint
Were these templates imported from MS Word, by any chance? That can be the source of strange characters. As for the upside down "T", that can be any one of several different kinds of marker. If you have ever cross-referenced something to that paragraph the marker will remain, even if the

weird symbols in front of my Chapter Titles

2008-07-02 Thread Deirdre Reagan
Thanks, Clint. The outline box is a little box that is appearing before the first letter of the text. I tried to delete it and it moved to behind the text. Thank you for setting my mind at ease about these not affecting the text. I'm being asked to make changes to these documents and I'm

Sideheads that won't go away

2008-07-02 Thread Rene Stephenson
All, I'm running FM7.2 on WinXP doing unstructured docs with text insets, using condition tags to control which insets show in this particular file, in a single-sourced, multiple-author environment. All the graphics are imported by reference, and all have callout applied within the anchored

condition-specific paragraph tags idea

2008-07-02 Thread Ben Hechter
Dear FM Gurus, Any thoughts on the possibility of creating condition-specific paragraph tags (eg para_red, para_blue) that would somehow magically set an associated condition? Ben

condition-specific paragraph tags idea

2008-07-02 Thread Deirdre Reagan
In Paragraph Designer > Default Font, set the color to Red and create a new tag. That worked for me. Deirdre On 7/2/08, Ben Hechter wrote: > Dear FM Gurus, > > Any thoughts on the possibility of creating condition-specific paragraph tags > (eg para_red, para_blue) that would somehow magically

condition-specific paragraph tags idea

2008-07-02 Thread Ben Hechter
OK, bad example. How about para_chocolate, para_strawberry, para_neapolitan? On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Deirdre Reagan wrote: In Paragraph Designer > Default Font, set the color to Red and create a new tag. That worked for me. Deirdre On 7/2/08, Ben Hechter wrote: > Dear FM

condition-specific paragraph tags idea

2008-07-02 Thread Deirdre Reagan
Do you mean if chocolate, strawberry, or neapolitan were color choices? I know you can create your own color then add it to the color palette and it shows up in the Paragraph Designer. Deirdre On 7/2/08, Ben Hechter wrote: > > OK, bad example. How about para_chocolate, para_strawberry,

Importing Ventura files

2008-07-02 Thread Plueckhahn, Lutz
Dear all, Does anyone know how to import files created with Ventura? I have loads of manual files here that come from various Ventura versions (pre and post Corel). I understand Framemaker only imports files from versions 3 and 4? Were these before Corel? Until now, I was only able to import

Sort order of entries in an index

2008-07-02 Thread DeRosier, Edward
Reply to: Message: 20 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 15:34:38 -0600 From: "Linda G. Gallagher" Subject: RE: Sort order of entries in an index What do you mean by a complete index entry? It doesn't seem to have to match the complete second level portion of the index entry, so I'm

condition-specific paragraph tags idea

2008-07-02 Thread Lester C. Smalley
You can add this to the "wish list" for future releases, but FrameMaker does currently support automatically assigning a condition based on paragraph (character, table) tags, although it is fairly simple to automate this via an FDK client or FrameScript. So I'm a bit confused by Deirdre's

condition-specific paragraph tags idea

2008-07-02 Thread Deirdre Reagan
Hi Lester and all. Ah yes, I misunderstood condition. He wants to apply a condition tag to a paragraph tag, is that right? I can change the color in a paragraph tag, and I can change the color in a condition tag, but to apply a condition tag to a paragraph tag, that I don't know how to do.

condition-specific paragraph tags idea

2008-07-02 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Ben... If you're trying to make it so when you tag a paragraph with a particular style, it also applies a named condition to that paragraph, you'd have to do that with an FDK plugin or FrameScript. It can be done, but not out of the box. ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc.

Sideheads that won't go away

2008-07-02 Thread Combs, Richard
Rene Stephenson wrote: > Somehow, one of the container FM files got some setting changed that made > all the text frames in that one file have sideheads. Now, our templates for > the container file do have sideheads on the master pages for the body text > frames, but if that were the source of

Searching the archives

2008-07-02 Thread Deirdre Reagan
Hi Lutz: Weird, this message just appeared in my mail box, but it says it was sent three days ago. I search the Framer's list by googling "search term site:lists.framusers.com" For instance, if I google "deirdre site:lists.frameusers.com I get an embarrasingly large number of hits. HTH

Searching the archives

2008-07-02 Thread Combs, Richard
Plueckhahn, Lutz wrote: > It's been a long time since I've lurked into the Framers' list. Hence, I > have no idea > how to search inside the list archives. Can anyone help? In a Google search box, type " site:frameusers.com" (sans quotes). Richard Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer

Importing Ventura files

2008-07-02 Thread Combs, Richard
Plueckhahn, Lutz wrote: > Does anyone know how to import files created with Ventura? I have loads of > manual files > here that come from various Ventura versions (pre and post Corel). I > understand Framemaker > only imports files from versions 3 and 4? Were these before Corel? Waaay before

weird symbols in front of my Chapter Titles

2008-07-02 Thread Deirdre Reagan
Clint: Nope, no tab or space in the autonumber box. The boxes don't effect the printed output at all. As far as I've been able to determine, they are markers that point to the file I used to create these files. The first file, the one with the T, I renamed to a new name. The T marker points to

condition-specific paragraph tags idea

2008-07-02 Thread Combs, Richard
Ben Hechter wrote: > Any thoughts on the possibility of creating condition-specific paragraph > tags (eg para_red, para_blue) that would somehow magically set an > associated condition? Others have pointed out that such "magic" requires a script or plug-in. But unless you need to do this _a

weird symbols in front of my Chapter Titles

2008-07-02 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Dierdre: The "T" characters before your chapter headings are markers that are created if you check "Create Hypertext Links" in the Table of Contents dialog box. These markers enable the ability to jump from a TOC entry to its source by clicking it in a PDF. In FM, you can use the combination

condition-specific paragraph tags idea

2008-07-02 Thread Peter Gold
Have you tried to copy an example of the condition to the clipboard with Edit > Copy Special, then Find a paragraph format and Replace by Pasting, with Replace All enabled? HTH Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices

Sideheads that won't go away

2008-07-02 Thread Matt Sullivan
If Richard's solution doesn't fix, try verifying your Master Page frames have Sideheads off as well (all of 'em) If that doesn't fix it, you might want to investigate your Text Inset files, though I doubt it's that deep. -Matt Sullivan GRAFIX Training, Inc. An Adobe Authorized Training

Sideheads that won't go away

2008-07-02 Thread Rene Stephenson
Thanks for responding, Richard! Sorry about the rather circular description. It's definitely one of those 1 picture vs. 1000 words scenarios. You'd get it at a glance if you could see what I see. I thought about that, but the Flow Tag A is set to .5" sideheads, and the sideheads in these text

condition-specific paragraph tags idea

2008-07-02 Thread Ben Hechter
Thanks, Peter, an interesting idea to check out. My main motivation is to make conditions more "visible", to avoid later confusion/errors due to conditions being a "hidden" attribute. Ben

Sort order of entries in an index - Solved

2008-07-02 Thread Linda G. Gallagher
OK, Steve solved it. The key was the length of the numeric strings that I wanted it sort on. I had to have the same number of digits in the [ ] for sorting, and I'd been inconsistent; some where three digits and some were four. My bad! So, my sort needed to be one of these: [0070 mm] [0090 mm]

condition-specific paragraph tags idea

2008-07-02 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Ben: >From your comment below, I'm not sure if you're aware of condition indicators. You can create them with text attributes like overline, underline, and strikethrough, plus a color - either one of the default FM colors, or a custom color you create. You can opt to show or hide these