Importing 3D PDF into FrameMaker

2008-09-24 Thread D L Reynolds
I'm trying to import a 3D file into FrameMaker and having no luck at all. According to everything I've read... - the file must be in U3D format - Acrobat 3D should be used to convert the original CAD file into U3D format I've used Acrobat 3D to convert the CAD file, and per instructions in

RE: ePublisher Pro vs. other generated online help

2008-09-24 Thread RJ Jacquez
Hi Kelly, please see my comments below. Sincerely, RJ Jácquez Senior Product Evangelist Adobe Technical Communication Suite Adobe eLearning Solutions http://blogs.adobe.com/rjacquez -Original Message- From: Kelly McDaniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008

Russian Frame-ePublisher problem

2008-09-24 Thread Alison Carrico
I am trying to convert a Russian Frame book to Dynamic HTML with ePublisher Pro and all I get are question marks in place of the Cyrillic characters. The same template has already converted Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, etc. with success, after changing the locale/input language on my

How to prevent Framemaker changing the Link

2008-09-24 Thread Michael Böhme
Hallo, I have a Problem which has hopefully an easy solution. I try to make Hyperlinks to open an other PDF on my harddisk. I write: message openfile W:\Schadstoffliteratur\Dioxine\Attempt to establish benchmarks for Dioxins.pdf Than Framemaker convert this to: message openfile

Element boundaries

2008-09-24 Thread Shuttleworth, Roger
Hello All I am working with XML files in FM 7.1. I prefer to work with Element Boundaries visible, so after opening a file I set this option on the View menu. However, when I close the file and open another one, I have to set it again. Is there any way to have this set as a permanent

RE: How to prevent Framemaker changing the Link

2008-09-24 Thread Phil Heron
Michael, If I remember correctly, typing a string such as \d in a Frame dialog box is a way of typing a special character, in this case the dagger character. I believe the way to put the directory separator in is to use the unix-style /, ie a forward slash like this: message openfile

Re: Element boundaries

2008-09-24 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Roger: The property is saved in each file. You can set the property for multiple files by selecting them in a book window and using View Show (or Hide) Element Boundaries, then perform Shift+File Save All Files In Book. HTH Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow

RE: How to prevent Framemaker changing the Link

2008-09-24 Thread Baruch Brodersen
Michael, Instead of using message openfile, try message URL. message URL W:/Schadstoffliteratur/Dioxine/Attempt to establish benchmarks for Dioxins.pdf You may need to add %20 html syntax for spaces in file names, but I'm not sure. If so, your marker would look like this: message URL

Re: How to prevent Framemaker changing the Link

2008-09-24 Thread Stuart Rogers
Michael Böhme wrote: Hallo, I have a Problem which has hopefully an easy solution. I try to make Hyperlinks to open an other PDF on my harddisk. I write: message openfile W:\Schadstoffliteratur\Dioxine\Attempt to establish benchmarks for Dioxins.pdf Than Framemaker convert this to:

Strange markers in text copied from Word

2008-09-24 Thread Klaus Daube
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Re: Strange markers in text copied from Word

2008-09-24 Thread Art Campbell
It's always a good idea to paste Word text into an empty FM file, then save it out to MIF to clean up hidden characters and non-supported odds and ends... When you reopen the MIF file in FM, the contents should be ready to go into an existing FM file. You can do the Word paste directly into the

Re: Element boundaries

2008-09-24 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Roger... For XML files, you need to set this property in the template associated with the structure application that you're using. Any document-based property set in the template will be passed on to the XML file when it's opened. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc.

RE: Importing 3D PDF into FrameMaker

2008-09-24 Thread RJ Jacquez
Hi D, There's actually a 3D product that comes with Acrobat 3D, called the 3D Toolkit, which is the one that allows you to convert virtually any 3D CAD file into a u3D and thus bring it into FrameMaker. I did a recording awhile back that people have found useful on this very topic and it

ePP is ignoring filename markers

2008-09-24 Thread Callie Bertsche
Help...please help I'm using FrameMaker 7.0 in conjunction with ePublisher Pro Version 9.2 (build 9054). *frustration deleted* I recently upgraded from version 9.1. I had my program completely working the way it did in 9.1 The other day, I added some filename markers to my FM files for some

Space!........ABOVE BELOW!!

2008-09-24 Thread Butler, Darren J CTR USAF AFMC 584 CBSS/GBHAC
Hello fellow FrameManiacs, I'd like to know your philosophy - if you have one - on using the Above Pfg: and Below Pgf: parameters when designing templates. I have recently set all my ParaTags to Below Pgf: = 0.0 to avoid any compounding of spaces. I'm using the Below setting only in special

Re: Space!........ABOVE BELOW!!

2008-09-24 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Darren: It's a good idea to avoid surprises caused by the addition of space below/above consecutive paragraphs. I'm not sure if you know that FrameMaker is nearly unique* in its method of inter-paragraph space settings. It's about size matters. FrameMaker honors the larger of space below and

RE: [wwp-users] ePP is ignoring filename markers

2008-09-24 Thread Callie Bertsche
Thanks, Franz. Replies inline. Callie: I understand your frustration but I don't understand why you upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2 *now*. Was it the EOL announcement for 9.1 or did you need some feature from 9.2 in your current project? Yes, I needed the increased usability in 9.2 of passing

Re: Space!........ABOVE BELOW!!

2008-09-24 Thread Stuart Rogers
Butler, Darren J CTR USAF AFMC 584 CBSS/GBHAC wrote: Hello fellow FrameManiacs, I'd like to know your philosophy - if you have one - on using the Above Pfg: and Below Pgf: parameters when designing templates. I have recently set all my ParaTags to Below Pgf: = 0.0 to avoid any

RE: Space!........ABOVE BELOW!!

2008-09-24 Thread Butler, Darren J CTR USAF AFMC 584 CBSS/GBHAC
['talk-about toys in the attic] Stuart, Great article - very informative! This will help me with some of my template customers who will *not like* the new paradigm. Thanx, DJ Darren J Butler NG Corp -Original Message- From: Stuart Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

RE: Space!........ABOVE BELOW!!

2008-09-24 Thread Butler, Darren J CTR USAF AFMC 584 CBSS/GBHAC
Thanx Peter, I actually *did* know that; maybe instead of saying compounding I should've said confounding of spaces — for just the reason you stated — when a below setting that is larger than a following tag’s above setting. I often fail to notice this when I'm in a tagging frenzy. It usually

conversion tables

2008-09-24 Thread Mollye Barrett
Hi All, I have a large group of docs (100's of docs with 100's of pages) to convert from unstructured to structured Frame and need some examples for syntax in the table. I get about 50% of the way but need to start promoting and nesting. I must use a modification of XDocBook.

Re: conversion tables

2008-09-24 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:27:27 -0500, Mollye Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a large group of docs (100's of docs with 100's of pages) to convert from unstructured to structured Frame and need some examples for syntax in the table. I get about 50% of the way but need to start

RE: [wwp-users] ePP is ignoring filename markers

2008-09-24 Thread John Pitt
Callie, Are any of your missing filename changes in the same topic? When eP scans each Frame/Word source page, it uses the filename marker to rename the page. But, if further down the same Topic page it finds another filename marker, it renames the html file to use that marker. The net result

Page numbering question

2008-09-24 Thread Keith Soltys
I've run into something that's stumped me. Our house style for our technical docs has the page numbering style Page x of y, where y is the total number of pages in the document. This is easy to do in Word. I don't like it, but I need to set up a template in Frame that matches the Word template

FW: Russian Frame-ePublisher problem

2008-09-24 Thread Alison Carrico
Thanks to everyone who responded. The answer seems to be upgrading to the most recent version because WW 9.2 doesn't officially support Frame 8 Frame 7 doesn't support Russian. From: Alison Carrico Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 4:06 PM Subject: Russian Frame-ePublisher problem I am

Re: Page numbering question

2008-09-24 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Keith: Search FM Help for last page in book, and choose the topic Including the total page count of a book in a header or footer, (or just search for total page count.) HTH Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Keith Soltys

Re: Page numbering question

2008-09-24 Thread Keith Soltys
I'm embarrassed. I never even looked at the help. I've found the help in previous versions of Frame to be so useless that I've given up on using it. Guess I'll have to start looking at it again. Thank for pointing this out. Keith Peter Gold wrote: Hi, Keith: Search FM Help for last page

Re: FW: Russian Frame-ePublisher problem

2008-09-24 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:18:54 -0500, Alison Carrico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to everyone who responded. The answer seems to be upgrading to the most recent version because WW 9.2 doesn't officially support Frame 8 Frame 7 doesn't support Russian. Actually, we've been doing Russian for

FrameMaker vs. InDesign, round CS4

2008-09-24 Thread Paul Findon
Hi Sarah, Not sure how strong it will be, but ID CS4 certainly appears to offer the tools that will allow some unstructured FM users to make the switch. Incidentally, it looks like Apple may have finally switched to InDesign for its user guides, which until now have been made with Mac

Element boundaries

2008-09-24 Thread Shuttleworth, Roger
Hello All I am working with XML files in FM 7.1. I prefer to work with Element Boundaries visible, so after opening a file I set this option on the View menu. However, when I close the file and open another one, I have to set it again. Is there any way to have this set as a permanent

How to prevent Framemaker changing the Link

2008-09-24 Thread Phil Heron
Michael, If I remember correctly, typing a string such as \d in a Frame dialog box is a way of typing a special character, in this case the dagger character. I believe the way to put the directory separator in is to use the unix-style /, ie a forward slash like this: message openfile

Element boundaries

2008-09-24 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Roger: The property is saved in each file. You can set the property for multiple files by selecting them in a book window and using View > Show (or Hide) Element Boundaries, then perform Shift+File > Save All Files In Book. HTH Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow

How to prevent Framemaker changing the Link

2008-09-24 Thread Baruch Brodersen
Michael, Instead of using message openfile, try message URL. message URL W:/Schadstoffliteratur/Dioxine/Attempt to establish benchmarks for Dioxins.pdf You may need to add %20 html syntax for spaces in file names, but I'm not sure. If so, your marker would look like this: message URL

How to prevent Framemaker changing the Link

2008-09-24 Thread Stuart Rogers
Michael B?hme wrote: > Hallo, > I have a Problem which has hopefully an easy solution. I try to make > Hyperlinks to open an other PDF on my harddisk. > > I write: > message openfile "W:\Schadstoffliteratur\Dioxine\Attempt to establish > benchmarks for Dioxins.pdf" > > Than Framemaker

Strange markers in text copied from Word

2008-09-24 Thread Klaus Daube

Strange markers in text copied from Word

2008-09-24 Thread Art Campbell
It's always a good idea to paste Word text into an empty FM file, then save it out to MIF to clean up hidden characters and non-supported odds and ends... When you reopen the MIF file in FM, the contents should be ready to go into an existing FM file. You can do the Word paste directly into the

Element boundaries

2008-09-24 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Roger... For XML files, you need to set this property in the template associated with the structure application that you're using. Any document-based property set in the template will be passed on to the XML file when it's opened. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc.

Importing 3D PDF into FrameMaker

2008-09-24 Thread RJ Jacquez
Hi D, There's actually a 3D product that comes with Acrobat 3D, called the 3D Toolkit, which is the one that allows you to convert virtually any 3D CAD file into a u3D and thus bring it into FrameMaker. I did a recording awhile back that people have found useful on this very topic and it

ePP is ignoring filename markers

2008-09-24 Thread Callie Bertsche
Help...please help I'm using FrameMaker 7.0 in conjunction with ePublisher Pro Version 9.2 (build 9054). *frustration deleted* I recently upgraded from version 9.1. I had my program completely working the way it did in 9.1 The other day, I added some filename markers to my FM files for some

Space!........ABOVE & BELOW!!

2008-09-24 Thread Butler, Darren J CTR USAF AFMC 584 CBSS/GBHAC
Hello fellow FrameManiacs, I'd like to know your philosophy - if you have one - on using the "Above Pfg:" and "Below Pgf:" parameters when designing templates. I have recently set all my ParaTags to "Below Pgf: = 0.0" to avoid any compounding of spaces. I'm using the "Below " setting only in

Space!........ABOVE & BELOW!!

2008-09-24 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Darren: It's a good idea to avoid surprises caused by the addition of space below/above consecutive paragraphs. I'm not sure if you know that FrameMaker is nearly unique* in its method of inter-paragraph space settings. It's about "size matters." FrameMaker honors the larger of space below

[wwp-users] ePP is ignoring filename markers

2008-09-24 Thread Callie Bertsche
Thanks, Franz. Replies inline. >Callie: > >I understand your frustration but I don't understand why you upgraded from >9.1 to 9.2 *now*. Was it the EOL announcement for 9.1 or did you need some feature from 9.2 in your current >project? Yes, I needed the increased usability in 9.2 of passing

Space!........ABOVE & BELOW!!

2008-09-24 Thread Stuart Rogers
Butler, Darren J CTR USAF AFMC 584 CBSS/GBHAC wrote: > Hello fellow FrameManiacs, > > I'd like to know your philosophy - if you have one - on using the > "Above Pfg:" and "Below Pgf:" parameters when designing templates. > > I have recently set all my ParaTags to "Below Pgf: = 0.0" to avoid

conversion tables

2008-09-24 Thread Mollye Barrett
Hi All, I have a large group of docs (100's of docs with 100's of pages) to convert from unstructured to structured Frame and need some examples for syntax in the table. I get about 50% of the way but need to start promoting and nesting. I must use a modification of XDocBook.

Space!........ABOVE & BELOW!!

2008-09-24 Thread Butler, Darren J CTR USAF AFMC 584 CBSS/GBHAC
['talk-about "toys in the attic"] Stuart, Great article - very informative! This will help me with some of my template customers who will *not like* the new paradigm. Thanx, DJ Darren J Butler NG Corp -Original Message- From: Stuart Rogers [mailto:srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com]

Space!........ABOVE & BELOW!!

2008-09-24 Thread Butler, Darren J CTR USAF AFMC 584 CBSS/GBHAC
Thanx Peter, I actually *did* know that; maybe instead of saying "compounding" I should've said "confounding" of spaces ? for just the reason you stated ? when a "below" setting that is larger than a following tag?s "above" setting. I often fail to notice this when I'm in a tagging frenzy. It

conversion tables

2008-09-24 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:27:27 -0500, Mollye Barrett wrote: > I have a large group of docs (100's of docs with 100's of pages) to >convert from unstructured to structured Frame and need some examples >for syntax in the table. I get about 50% of the way but need to start >promoting and

Page numbering question

2008-09-24 Thread Keith Soltys
I've run into something that's stumped me. Our house style for our technical docs has the page numbering style Page x of y, where y is the total number of pages in the document. This is easy to do in Word. I don't like it, but I need to set up a template in Frame that matches the Word template

FW: Russian Frame->ePublisher problem

2008-09-24 Thread Alison Carrico
Thanks to everyone who responded. The answer seems to be upgrading to the most recent version because WW 9.2 doesn't officially support Frame 8 & Frame 7 doesn't support Russian. From: Alison Carrico Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 4:06 PM Subject: Russian Frame->ePublisher problem I am

Page numbering question

2008-09-24 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Keith: Search FM Help for last page in book, and choose the topic "Including the total page count of a book in a header or footer," (or just search for "total page count.") HTH Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Keith Soltys

Page numbering question

2008-09-24 Thread Keith Soltys
I'm embarrassed. I never even looked at the help. I've found the help in previous versions of Frame to be so useless that I've given up on using it. Guess I'll have to start looking at it again. Thank for pointing this out. Keith Peter Gold wrote: > Hi, Keith: > > Search FM Help for last

FW: Russian Frame->ePublisher problem

2008-09-24 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:18:54 -0500, "Alison Carrico" wrote: >Thanks to everyone who responded. The answer seems to be upgrading to >the most recent version because WW 9.2 doesn't officially support Frame >8 & Frame 7 doesn't support Russian. Actually, we've been doing Russian for years in FM7