FM-9: some really hard things to digest

2009-03-27 Thread Klaus Daube
Dear all, Since I have noticed that Adobe _is_ watching this list and responding to user complaints much more than some years before, i take the courage to complain about some items in the new interface. I'm a Frame user since version 3 and have provided some useful things to the community.

FM9 UI bug: Para Catalog displays incorrect Tags

2009-03-27 Thread Yves Barbion
Hi I just found another bug in the FM9 UI. This is what I do: 1. Choose Format Paragraphs Catalog to display the Catalog. I see two tabs in the Catalog: Para Catalog and Structure View. 2. Click the Structure View tag and move the Para Catalog around on my screen. 3. Click the Para Catalog

RE: FM9 UI bug: Para Catalog displays incorrect Tags

2009-03-27 Thread Kelly McDaniel
Sounds like the paragraph tag catalog display is losing track of the top layer context. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Yves Barbion Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 6:09 AM To:

RE: FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen

2009-03-27 Thread Corcoran, Susan
So RJ, for those of us who are not new users and don't like the welcome screen, is there some way (say in the maker.ini) we can turn it off? Susan Corcoran Honeywell Scanning Mobility -- Message: 32 Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:55:54 -0700 From: RJ Jacquez

RE: FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen

2009-03-27 Thread RJ Jacquez
Hi Susan, I'm looking into this with our engineering team, but I'm also recommending that we include a toggle option in the General Preferences dialog box, which should make it much easier to handle this option. I will keep you posted on my findings. BTW, I can't find the actual email, but

Re: Thumbs down: FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen

2009-03-27 Thread Mike Wickham
I also do not like the fact that FM9 opens a book file on the left side of the FM window and its huge and docked. The last thing I need is to have a book file take up 1/3 of the screen. It's also VERY annoying to have to shrink it and move it every time I open it. Clicking on the double

RE: FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen

2009-03-27 Thread Corcoran, Susan
Hi RJ, That's funny. I was going to mention that the gray interface is rather dull. I have the brightness cranked up for visibility, but perhaps the team would consider the option to customize the UI colors (Interleaf used to offer this). For those of us whose eyesight is becoming more

RE: FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen

2009-03-27 Thread Kelly McDaniel
Please. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Corcoran, Susan Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 8:33 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen So RJ, for those of us who are

RE: FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen

2009-03-27 Thread RJ Jacquez
Hi Susan, so many things to do, so little time :) I'm working on this session and also one on working with Frame9 and RoboHelp 8 together in TCS2, which is also urgent, so I'm on it. BTW, yesterday I incorrectly posted a way to return a DITAmap to a Book view and I said that it could be done

Re: some really hard things to digest

2009-03-27 Thread Mike Wickham
4) The application window has no title at all. Hence the full path of an open document can not be displayed anywhere. It can not be determined whether I'm working on a local file or one a copy from the network. Frequenctly I must work on files which have the same file name on different

RE: Thumbs down: FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen

2009-03-27 Thread Kelly McDaniel
Window position and size is a property of the (Windows) operating system. These properties are exposed in the API, but Adobe has not coded to them. Lexmation offers RestoreWindows ini and dll. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

Re: some really hard things to digest

2009-03-27 Thread Whites
More mouse-driven Easter eggs. This is progress?? Will White On Mar 27, 2009, at 7:03 AM, Mike Wickham wrote: Klaus, when a file is open, if you hover your cursor over its filename tab, the full path will pop up. This doesn't work for book files, but the book file path is listed at

RE: Thumbs down: FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen

2009-03-27 Thread Diane Gaskill
That's strange, Mike. I happen to like the book file about 2 inches wide and just high enough to display the list of files, and placed in the upper right corner of my screen. Out of the way, but available. FM8 and previous version have always opened the book file exactly where I save it. But as

Re:FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen

2009-03-27 Thread Arnis Gubins
In the [Preferences] section of your maker.ini file add: DontShowWelcomeScreen=on So RJ, for those of us who are not new users and don't like the welcome screen, is there some way (say in the maker.ini) we can turn it off? Susan Corcoran Honeywell Scanning Mobility

Book window position (was .. Re: Thumbs down: FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen)

2009-03-27 Thread Scott Prentice
Actually it *is* FM that saves the book window position and size. This info is stored in the book file itself, but isn't saved unless you actually make a change to the book file which requires that it be updated. Just moving and resizing the book won't require a save, but if you move and/or

RE: Linking Master Pages to A Pgf Tag in an Anchored Frame

2009-03-27 Thread Matt Sullivan
For cases like this I use a para tag to hold the anchored frame. If the paratag containing the anchored frame is called full-page graphic, you can map that para to the master page. I also use a single-cell table, using a title (above or below table) that maps as needed. The table title will pick

Export to Word in FM 8?

2009-03-27 Thread Stephen O'Brien
Hi all, In FM 6 this export was offered as part of the Save As command.. In FM 8 I cannot see how to do this.. Any ideas? Not looking for complete solns...its for test purposes...if I have the basics (where to look) I can go from there... Thanks Stephen O'Brien Rédacteur technique senior /

Re: Export to Word in FM 8?

2009-03-27 Thread Art Campbell
SaveAs RTF is on all my systems. It's possible that the filter wasn't installed, or is disabled, but that's unlikely MIF2Go by omsys.com does a much better job than the stock filters, especially if you want to preserve formatting, Art Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com ...

RE: Book window position (was .. Re: Thumbs down: FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen)

2009-03-27 Thread Diane Gaskill
Hi Scott, That makes sense. But oddly, even when I saved a book in FM9, it opened again in the default place. Unfortunately, I cannot try it again because by trial version just expired. I have ordered a trial version of TCS2. We'll be upgrading at work eventually, especailly if they ahve

Re: Linking Master Pages to A Pgf Tag in an Anchored Frame

2009-03-27 Thread Art Campbell
To explain a little more... because you've got the trigger paragraph buried within a text frame inside an anchored frame, it's outside the normal A text flow. And it needs to be in the main text flow in order to be recognized and to trigger the chosen master page. The easiest way to fix it is to

Autonumbering restarting at 1 with multiple text flows

2009-03-27 Thread Shuttleworth, Roger
Hello All I wonder if anyone has seen this. Using Frame 7.1p116 on XP SP3. Kevin Hunter posted a question yesterday: quote I have a document with two flows, A B, in parallel on a page. In flow A, my numbered lists sequence fine. It is set to AutoConnect. With flow B, which appears

Re: Linking Master Pages to A Pgf Tag in an Anchored Frame

2009-03-27 Thread Jona Steenbrink
Art and Matt, Thanks for the suggestions. The problem is that I want the graphic to float, in other words, if I add or remove text preceding the graphic I don't want to end up with a big empty space at the bottom of the page preceding the full page graphic. I'm starting to suspect that

RE: Linking Master Pages to A Pgf Tag in an Anchored Frame

2009-03-27 Thread Matt Sullivan
It sounds like a 1-cell table with title would solve your need to float, if the Title were the trigger in your mapping table. -Matt Matt Sullivan GRAFIX Training m...@roundpeg.com www.roundpeg.com Office 714 960-6840 Cell 714 585-2335 skype: mattatroundpeg LinkedIn:

Re: some really hard things to digest

2009-03-27 Thread Klaus Daube
On Mar 27, 2009, at 7:03 AM, Mike Wickham wrote: Klaus, when a file is open, if you hover your cursor over its filename tab, the full path will pop up. This doesn't work for book files, but the book file path is listed at the top of the tree within the book file. It would be a nice feature

FrameMaker 9: Dialogues sizes

2009-03-27 Thread Mike Wickham
> I haven't trialled FM9 yet, but if the various tiny dialogue windows are > now (a) bigger and (b) resizable, those would be immense improvements. Some are resizable, such as Add/Edit Condition Tag. They have enlarged many of the fields in the various panels. It's definitely an improvement.

Thumbs down: FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen

2009-03-27 Thread Diane Gaskill
Ssme here. To me, it's not a welcome screen, it's a marketing ploy to advertise stuff, not far from SPAM (check the menu under Adobe), and it goes away only when I open an FM file. And when I close the file, the darn thing comes back again. Maybe it's okay for beginners who have no idea how to

FM-9: some really hard things to digest

2009-03-27 Thread Klaus Daube
Dear all, Since I have noticed that Adobe _is_ watching this list and responding to user complaints much more than some years before, i take the courage to complain about some items in the new interface. I'm a Frame user since version 3 and have provided some useful things to the community.

FM9 UI bug: Para Catalog displays incorrect Tags

2009-03-27 Thread Yves Barbion
Hi I just found another bug in the FM9 UI. This is what I do: 1. Choose Format > Paragraphs > Catalog to display the Catalog. I see two tabs in the Catalog: Para Catalog and Structure View. 2. Click the Structure View tag and move the Para Catalog around on my screen. 3. Click the Para

FM9 UI bug: Para Catalog displays incorrect Tags

2009-03-27 Thread Kelly McDaniel
Sounds like the paragraph tag catalog display is losing track of the top layer context. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Yves Barbion Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 6:09 AM To: TCS-Users at

FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen

2009-03-27 Thread Corcoran, Susan
So RJ, for those of us who are not new users and don't like the welcome screen, is there some way (say in the maker.ini) we can turn it off? Susan Corcoran Honeywell Scanning & Mobility > -- > > Message: 32 > Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:55:54 -0700 > From: RJ

FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen

2009-03-27 Thread RJ Jacquez
Hi Susan, I'm looking into this with our engineering team, but I'm also recommending that we include a toggle option in the General Preferences dialog box, which should make it much easier to handle this option. I will keep you posted on my findings. BTW, I can't find the actual email, but

Thumbs down: FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen

2009-03-27 Thread Mike Wickham
> I also do not like the fact that FM9 opens a book file on the left side of > the FM window and its huge and docked. The last thing I need is to have a > book file take up 1/3 of the screen. It's also VERY annoying to have to > shrink it and move it every time I open it. Clicking on the double

FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen

2009-03-27 Thread Corcoran, Susan
Hi RJ, That's funny. I was going to mention that the gray interface is rather dull. I have the brightness cranked up for visibility, but perhaps the team would consider the option to customize the UI colors (Interleaf used to offer this). For those of us whose eyesight is becoming more

FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen

2009-03-27 Thread Kelly McDaniel
Please. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Corcoran, Susan Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 8:33 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen So RJ, for those of us who

FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen

2009-03-27 Thread RJ Jacquez
Hi Susan, so many things to do, so little time :) I'm working on this session and also one on working with Frame9 and RoboHelp 8 together in TCS2, which is also urgent, so I'm on it. BTW, yesterday I incorrectly posted a way to return a DITAmap to a Book view and I said that it could be done

some really hard things to digest

2009-03-27 Thread Mike Wickham
> 4) The application window has no title at all. Hence the full path of > an open document can not be displayed anywhere. It can not be determined > whether I'm working on a local file or one a copy from the network. > Frequenctly I must work on files which have the same file name on >

Thumbs down: FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen

2009-03-27 Thread Kelly McDaniel
Window position and size is a property of the (Windows) operating system. These properties are exposed in the API, but Adobe has not coded to them. Lexmation offers RestoreWindows ini and dll. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at

some really hard things to digest

2009-03-27 Thread Whites
More mouse-driven Easter eggs. This is progress?? Will White On Mar 27, 2009, at 7:03 AM, Mike Wickham wrote: > Klaus, when a file is open, if you hover your cursor over its > filename tab, > the full path will pop up. This doesn't work for book files, but > the book > file path is listed

Thumbs down: FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen

2009-03-27 Thread Diane Gaskill
That's strange, Mike. I happen to like the book file about 2 inches wide and just high enough to display the list of files, and placed in the upper right corner of my screen. Out of the way, but available. FM8 and previous version have always opened the book file exactly where I save it. But as

FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen

2009-03-27 Thread Arnis Gubins
In the [Preferences] section of your maker.ini file add: DontShowWelcomeScreen=on >So RJ, for those of us who are not new users and don't like the welcome >screen, is there some way (say in the maker.ini) we can turn it off? > > >Susan Corcoran >Honeywell Scanning & Mobility >

Book window position (was .. Re: Thumbs down: FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen)

2009-03-27 Thread Scott Prentice
Actually it *is* FM that saves the book window position and size. This info is stored in the book file itself, but isn't saved unless you actually make a change to the book file which requires that it be updated. Just moving and resizing the book won't require a save, but if you move and/or

Linking Master Pages to A Pgf Tag in an Anchored Frame

2009-03-27 Thread Matt Sullivan
For cases like this I use a para tag to hold the anchored frame. If the paratag containing the anchored frame is called "full-page graphic, you can map that para to the master page. I also use a single-cell table, using a title (above or below table) that maps as needed. The table title will pick

Export to Word in FM 8?

2009-03-27 Thread Stephen O'Brien
Hi all, In FM 6 this export was offered as part of the Save As command.. In FM 8 I cannot see how to do this.. Any ideas? Not looking for complete solns...its for test purposes...if I have the basics (where to look) I can go from there... Thanks Stephen O'Brien R?dacteur technique senior /

Export to Word in FM 8?

2009-03-27 Thread Art Campbell
SaveAs RTF is on all my systems. It's possible that the filter wasn't installed, or is disabled, but that's unlikely MIF2Go by omsys.com does a much better job than the stock filters, especially if you want to preserve formatting, Art Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com

Book window position (was .. Re: Thumbs down: FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen)

2009-03-27 Thread Diane Gaskill
Hi Scott, That makes sense. But oddly, even when I saved a book in FM9, it opened again in the default place. Unfortunately, I cannot try it again because by trial version just expired. I have ordered a trial version of TCS2. We'll be upgrading at work eventually, especailly if they ahve

Linking Master Pages to A Pgf Tag in an Anchored Frame

2009-03-27 Thread Art Campbell
To explain a little more... because you've got the "trigger" paragraph buried within a text frame inside an anchored frame, it's outside the normal A text flow. And it needs to be in the main text flow in order to be recognized and to trigger the chosen master page. The easiest way to fix it is to

Autonumbering restarting at 1 with multiple text flows

2009-03-27 Thread Shuttleworth, Roger
Hello All I wonder if anyone has seen this. Using Frame 7.1p116 on XP SP3. Kevin Hunter posted a question yesterday: I have a document with two flows, A & B, in parallel on a page. In flow A, my numbered lists sequence fine. It is set to AutoConnect. With flow B, which appears to be

Linking Master Pages to A Pgf Tag in an Anchored Frame

2009-03-27 Thread Jona Steenbrink
Art and Matt, Thanks for the suggestions. The problem is that I want the graphic to "float", in other words, if I add or remove text preceding the graphic I don't want to end up with a big empty space at the bottom of the page preceding the full page graphic. I'm starting to suspect that

Linking Master Pages to A Pgf Tag in an Anchored Frame

2009-03-27 Thread Matt Sullivan
It sounds like a 1-cell table with title would solve your need to float, if the Title were the trigger in your mapping table. -Matt Matt Sullivan GRAFIX Training matt at roundpeg.com www.roundpeg.com Office 714 960-6840 Cell 714 585-2335 skype: mattatroundpeg LinkedIn:

some really hard things to digest

2009-03-27 Thread Klaus Daube
On Mar 27, 2009, at 7:03 AM, Mike Wickham wrote: > Klaus, when a file is open, if you hover your cursor over its filename tab, > the full path will pop up. This doesn't work for book files, but the book > file path is listed at the top of the tree within the book file. It would > be a nice