Re: Framemaker SDK and Framescript

2009-02-11 Thread Avraham Makeler
I have just started to use FM professionally, having started about 2 months ago, and I was soon going to post exactly this type of question. To avoid this being just a yup, me too type of response, I suppose I'd better add something of some intelligence. It is worth remembering that the Word VBA

RE: Framemaker SDK and Framescript

2009-02-11 Thread Combs, Richard
Brewster, Christopher C wrote: I'm a long-time Word user and have written countless large and small programs with Word VBA. Many are to add functionality to the program and many others are to perform such tasks as format conversion. I'm unclear if there's an equivalent for Framemaker. I'd

Re: S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

2009-02-11 Thread Mike Wickham
I am trying out FM 9, and also find the cursor is extremely slow to respond to the arrow keys. (XP on a 3GHz CPU, 1.5GB RAM, and no such problem in any other app. including FM 7.0, with any number of other apps running.) Stuart, I filed a bug report on the slow arrow keys problem and

Re: Hedaing2TOC not showing correct

2009-02-11 Thread Stuart Rogers
Nidhi Bansal wrote: Yes, you are right. Can you please suggest me how to resolve the issue? Whenever I update my book, problem of tab character emerges. I have to manually remove the tab character. Regards, Nidhi Original Message- From: Linda G. Gallagher

RE: Hedaing2TOC not showing correct

2009-02-11 Thread Linda G. Gallagher
Remove the tab character that is the heading2. That's the only solution I know of. ~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC lindag at techcomplus dot com www.techcomplus.com 303-450-9076 or 800-500-3144 User guides, online help, FrameMaker and WebWorks ePublisher templates

Re: Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

2009-02-11 Thread Avraham Makeler
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Avraham Makeler amake...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, end of mystery. Found the problem: I only just noticed that the Table Designer also has an Orphan Rows field. The TableCaption style was set to 99. Thanks again to all. - avi On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:37 AM,

Re: Another table jumping; have I found a bug/feature?

2009-02-11 Thread Avraham Makeler
Since this comes hot on the heels of the previous table jumping thread, I thought I would share this one, although I seem to have found some sort of 'solution', but maybe somebody could explain to me why this is happening. I have this small table, which certainly fits on one page, that prefers

RE: Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

2009-02-11 Thread Combs, Richard
Avraham Makeler quoted himself saying: Ok, end of mystery. Found the problem: I only just noticed that the Table Designer also has an Orphan Rows field. The TableCaption style was set to 99. Thanks again to all. IIRC, TableCaption is the paragraph in which the table anchor is located,

Re: Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

2009-02-11 Thread Avraham Makeler
IIRC, TableCaption is the paragraph in which the table anchor is located, right? Yes. It has nothing to do with what you see in the Table Designer dialog box. The Orphan Rows setting is a characteristic of the table format. Yes, I assumed that is the case. Thanks, avi On Wed, Feb 11,

RE: Another table jumping; have I found a bug/feature?

2009-02-11 Thread Combs, Richard
Avraham Makeler wrote: Tentative conclusion: it seems that the setting: Keep With Next = true of the table caption (or maybe of the table anchor on that line) is percolating down through all the table rows even though they themselves have that setting set to false. Comments,

RE: Another table jumping; have I found a bug/feature?

2009-02-11 Thread Fred Ridder
Avi Makeler wrote: I have this small table, which certainly fits on one page, that prefers jumping to the next page. I found no 'problem' with any of the table rows that should cause this. I put the table anchor on the table caption line. I see that the Keep With Next of the table caption

Re: Another table jumping; have I found a bug/feature?

2009-02-11 Thread Avraham Makeler
Thanks. It will take me a while to absorb that, though. avi On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Combs, Richard richard.co...@polycom.comwrote: Avraham Makeler wrote: Tentative conclusion: it seems that the setting: Keep With Next = true of the table caption (or maybe of the table

RE: Another table jumping; have I found a bug/feature?

2009-02-11 Thread Fred Ridder
I had one further though about Avi Makeler's questions regarding tables: Tentative conclusion: it seems that the setting: Keep With Next = true of the table caption (or maybe of the table anchor on that line) is percolating down through all the table rows even though they themselves have that

Quick Access Bar Not Responding

2009-02-11 Thread Hales-Crotchett, Nicole
Hi, I've got two writers with the same unique problem. They've both had FrameMaker 7.1 installed on Windows XP machines. Neither of them can rotate the quick access tool bar by hitting the blue up/down arrows or by choosing next/previous from the center button. Any ideas before I call our help

Re: Quick Access Bar Not Responding

2009-02-11 Thread Alan Litchfield
Actually that is interesting. While it has not happened on my machine I have experienced that with others who are using both 7.1, 7.2 and 8. When the bar is unlocked from the menu they rotate correctly. That is, as a floating palette. Alan Hales-Crotchett, Nicole wrote: Hi, I've got two

Re: Another table jumping; have I found a bug/feature?

2009-02-11 Thread Avraham Makeler
You should seriously consider changing this practice in favor of placing the table title inside the title box that is an optional part of the table object. You are right. Ok, did it. I see now that that also immediately correctly the jumping problem. Not exactly sure yet why it fixed it, but fix

Re: Another table jumping; have I found a bug/feature?

2009-02-11 Thread Avraham Makeler
Btw, I inherited these documents; I was not the original author. My assumption was that the original author knew FM and what I see is a proper mode of working... Well, now I understand that just as that is not true for a Word document, it is equally not true for an FM document. avi On Thu,

PDF Error: A number is out of range

2009-02-11 Thread ActionA
Hi all, We're using Frame 8 and Acrobat 9.0 Pro . When I save a book to PDF, Acrobat reports the following error: A number is out of range. Has anyone experienced this? How do I fix it? Thank you, Nancy Adams **Nothing says I love you like flowers! Find a florist near you now.

Framers Discount to DocTrain West, March 17-20, 2009 Palm Springs, CA

2009-02-11 Thread The Content Wrangler
A quick reminder, we've agreed to provide Framers with a $400 discount off the regular price of registration at Documentation and Training West: Moving from Unstructured to Structured Content, March 17-20 in beautiful (and sunny!) Palm Springs, CA. To claim your discount; contact Eileen

RE: Hedaing2TOC not showing correct

2009-02-11 Thread Nidhi Bansal
Thanks you so much Linda. My problem is solved now. -Original Message- From: Linda G. Gallagher [mailto:lin...@techcomplus.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 9:59 PM To: nban...@q3tech.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Hedaing2TOC not showing correct Remove the tab

RE: Hedaing2TOC not showing correct

2009-02-11 Thread Nidhi Bansal
Thanks Stuart. The problem is solved. -Original Message- From: Stuart Rogers [mailto:srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 9:04 PM To: nban...@q3tech.com Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Hedaing2TOC not showing correct Nidhi Bansal wrote:

Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

2009-02-11 Thread Avraham Makeler
Hi all, I have a table where the whole table jumps to start at the page that follows the table's insertion page, so leaving a blank page. So the table's anchor point is left at the top of the blank page, and the actual table itself starts at the top of the next page. What is going wrong?

Hedaing2TOC not showing correct

2009-02-11 Thread Nidhi Bansal
Yes, you are right. Can you please suggest me how to resolve the issue? Whenever I update my book, problem of tab character emerges. I have to manually remove the tab character. Regards, Nidhi Original Message- From: Linda G. Gallagher [mailto:lin...@techcomplus.com] Sent: Wednesday,

Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

2009-02-11 Thread Avraham Makeler
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Avraham Makeler wrote: > >> Is the table defined with too many rows for the page? > Yes, I should have mentioned, the table is just longer than will fit in a > single page. > > (I had already collapsed into bed when I remembered that I had forgotten to > say

Framemaker SDK and Framescript

2009-02-11 Thread Avraham Makeler
I have just started to use FM professionally, having started about 2 months ago, and I was soon going to post exactly this type of question. To avoid this being just a "yup, me too" type of response, I suppose I'd better add something of some intelligence. It is worth remembering that the Word

Framemaker SDK and Framescript

2009-02-11 Thread Combs, Richard
Brewster, Christopher C wrote: > I'm a long-time Word user and have written countless large and small > programs with Word VBA. Many are to add functionality to the program and > many others are to perform such tasks as format conversion. I'm unclear > if there's an equivalent for Framemaker.

S-L-O-W cursor movement in FrameMaker 9

2009-02-11 Thread Mike Wickham
> I am trying out FM 9, and also find the cursor is extremely slow to > respond to the arrow keys. (XP on a 3GHz CPU, 1.5GB RAM, and no such > problem in any other app. including FM 7.0, with any number of other apps > running.) Stuart, I filed a bug report on the slow arrow keys problem and

Hedaing2TOC not showing correct

2009-02-11 Thread Stuart Rogers
Nidhi Bansal wrote: > Yes, you are right. Can you please suggest me how to resolve the issue? > Whenever I update my book, problem of tab character emerges. I have to > manually remove the tab character. > > Regards, > Nidhi > > Original Message- > From: Linda G. Gallagher [mailto:lindag

Hedaing2TOC not showing correct

2009-02-11 Thread Linda G. Gallagher
Remove the tab character that is the heading2. That's the only solution I know of. ~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC lindag at techcomplus dot com www.techcomplus.com 303-450-9076 or 800-500-3144 User guides, online help, FrameMaker and WebWorks ePublisher templates

Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

2009-02-11 Thread Avraham Makeler
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Avraham Makeler wrote: > Ok, end of mystery. Found the problem: I only just noticed that the Table > Designer also has an Orphan Rows field. The TableCaption style was set to > 99. > Thanks again to all. > > - avi > > > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Combs,

Another table jumping; have I found a bug/feature?

2009-02-11 Thread Avraham Makeler
Since this comes hot on the heels of the previous table jumping thread, I thought I would share this one, although I seem to have found some sort of 'solution', but maybe somebody could explain to me why this is happening. I have this small table, which certainly fits on one page, that prefers

Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

2009-02-11 Thread Combs, Richard
Avraham Makeler quoted himself saying: > > > Ok, end of mystery. Found the problem: I only just noticed that the Table > > Designer also has an Orphan Rows field. The TableCaption style was set to > > 99. > > Thanks again to all. IIRC, TableCaption is the paragraph in which the table anchor is

Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

2009-02-11 Thread Avraham Makeler
>> IIRC, TableCaption is the paragraph in which the table anchor is located, right? Yes. >> It has nothing to do with what you see in the Table Designer dialog box. The Orphan Rows setting is a characteristic of the table format. Yes, I assumed that is the case. Thanks, avi On Wed, Feb 11,

Another table jumping; have I found a bug/feature?

2009-02-11 Thread Combs, Richard
Avraham Makeler wrote: > Tentative conclusion: it seems that the setting: > > "Keep With Next" = true > > of the table caption (or maybe of the table anchor on that line) is > percolating down through all the table rows even though they themselves > have > that setting set to false. > >

Another table jumping; have I found a bug/feature?

2009-02-11 Thread Fred Ridder
Avi Makeler wrote: > I have this small table, which certainly fits on one page, that prefers > jumping to the next page. I found no 'problem' with any of the table rows > that should cause this. I put the table anchor on the table caption line. I > see that the "Keep With Next" of the table

Another table jumping; have I found a bug/feature?

2009-02-11 Thread Avraham Makeler
Thanks. It will take me a while to absorb that, though. avi On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Combs, Richard wrote: > Avraham Makeler wrote: > > > Tentative conclusion: it seems that the setting: > > > > "Keep With Next" = true > > > > of the table caption (or maybe of the table anchor on that

Another table jumping; have I found a bug/feature?

2009-02-11 Thread Fred Ridder
I had one further though about Avi Makeler's questions regarding tables:> Tentative conclusion: it seems that the setting: > "Keep With Next" = true > of the table caption (or maybe of the table anchor on that line) is > percolating down through all the table rows even though they themselves have

Quick Access Bar Not Responding

2009-02-11 Thread Hales-Crotchett, Nicole
Hi, I've got two writers with the same unique problem. They've both had FrameMaker 7.1 installed on Windows XP machines. Neither of them can rotate the quick access tool bar by hitting the blue up/down arrows or by choosing next/previous from the center button. Any ideas before I call our help

PDF Error: "A number is out of range"

2009-02-11 Thread acti...@aol.com
Hi all, We're using Frame 8 and Acrobat 9.0 Pro . When I save a book to PDF, Acrobat reports the following error: "A number is out of range." Has anyone experienced this? How do I fix it? Thank you, Nancy Adams **Nothing says I love you like flowers! Find a florist near you now.

Framers Discount to DocTrain West, March 17-20, 2009 Palm Springs, CA

2009-02-11 Thread The Content Wrangler
A quick reminder, we've agreed to provide Framers with a $400 discount off the regular price of registration at Documentation and Training West: Moving from Unstructured to Structured Content, March 17-20 in beautiful (and sunny!) Palm Springs, CA. To claim your discount; contact Eileen