Re: Importing a Word Doc into Frame v9.0

2009-07-14 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 12:02 +1200 14/7/09, Alan T Litchfield wrote: The difference I have made though, from one especially large and difficult assignment, was to print the Word file to PDF then export the graphics. That enabled vector based illustrations to be retained and not converted to raster. Thank you so

Re: Importing a Word Doc into Frame v9.0

2009-07-14 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 15:00 -0700 13/7/09, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: Alison is absolutely right. I couldn't say it better. Don't even consider using Frame's Word or RTF import. Bring in the content as plain text by Copy in Word and Paste SpecialText in Frame. You will be very glad you did. Picking up on this,

Re: Importing a Word Doc into Frame v9.0

2009-07-14 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:03:13 +0100, Steve Rickaby srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk wrote: At 15:00 -0700 13/7/09, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: Alison is absolutely right. I couldn't say it better. Don't even consider using Frame's Word or RTF import. Bring in the content as plain text by Copy

Re: Framers Digest, Vol 45, Issue 11

2009-07-14 Thread Ron and Mary Jo Teplitz
Larry, Adjust spacing by changing the size of the frame on the reference page for each graphic and adjusting the location of the graphic inside its frame. Ron On Jul 14, 2009, at 12:00 AM, framers-requ...@lists.frameusers.com wrote: Message: 3 Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:01:25 -0700 (PDT)

Re: Adding graphics in a reference page

2009-07-14 Thread William Abernathy
Larry: I've used Art's approach of a graphic in the left cell of a 1-line, 2-cell table as well. If you need to sell it, mention that it offers a couple of advantages over a paragraph format-based approach, to wit: you carry a lot fewer tags in the p-tag menu, which is a plus for usability

Soliciting hardware recommendations

2009-07-14 Thread D L Reynolds
Penny wise and pound foolish... As a Mac diehard, I resisted buying a Windows machine for a very long time. And then I bought a machine cobbled together by a neighbor, a self-described computer expert. Bad idea. I have serious intermittent problems creating PDFs from within FrameMaker.

Re: Soliciting hardware recommendations

2009-07-14 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi D... I assume that you've tried running FM using Fusion on your Mac, and that wasn't sufficient? I just started messing with this on a Mac Mini using Fusion 2 .. I've got XP and Vista (and Ubuntu) running as virtualizations, with FM7.2, 8, and 9 (among other things), and all seems good to

RE: Soliciting hardware recommendations

2009-07-14 Thread Syed.Hosain
Keep in mind that it is not necessarily obvious that the home-brew system is at fault. It may simply be a matter of re-installing the OS and applications if it is not too old a machine. What is the system motherboard, how much memory does it have, what are the drives, how old is it, what OS ...

Re: Soliciting hardware recommendations

2009-07-14 Thread D L Reynolds
First of all, you folks are the best. Within minutes of posting, I was getting helpful responses. Some of you have suggested I run Windows on my beloved Mac. I've been hesitant to do that, fearful that it might be buggy or cranky in some way. From what I'm hearing, that isn't the case. So,

Re: Soliciting hardware recommendations

2009-07-14 Thread Jenny Greenleaf
I am running TCS in VMWare Fusion on a 2.8 GHz Mac. It works great. Rock solid. Crashes less than most pure Windows machines I've used. In fact, I don't think Windows has ever crashed. Frame has a few times, but the patches fixed that. You can try most of this before making a commitment.

NT: Updating the path

2009-07-14 Thread Susan Curtzwiler
Hi All Using FMKR 7.0 on Vista Enterprise with only Acrobat Distiller 5.0 I will study this on my own first, but I can't find the references I need to move a folder of images and a FMKR file to the same location as the rest of my book. Could someone pleas point me in the right

RE: Adding graphics in a reference page

2009-07-14 Thread Diane Gaskill
Larry, We use the 1-row, 2-celled table method that Art described and it works well in both unstructured and structured FM. See pages 1-8, 1-9, 1-17, and the reference page in the attached file. However, there is a gotcha when using the TCS to import files into RH. The graphics are missing

RE: Soliciting hardware recommendations

2009-07-14 Thread Kelly McDaniel
Lots o' marketing to wade through: http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/compatibility.html There are other ways to do this (Wine), but Parallels is plug-and-play: http://parallels-desktop.for-mac.com/ ...Kelly. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

ANN: Publishing Fundamentals print/PDF bundle: $24.99 for 24 hours

2009-07-14 Thread Sheila Loring
Our big sale on Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 8 http://store.scriptorium.com/items/books/publishing-fundamentals-unstructured-framemaker-8-all-detail.htm starts tomorrow morning, July 15th. From 8 a.m. tomorrow until 8 a.m. Thursday (Eastern time), you can purchase the print

Frame x-refs that wrap and work fine do not work in PDF

2009-07-14 Thread obair
I am just after noticing that, in my PDFs, links that wrap and go to a second line are not active in the part of the link that is on the second line. The start of the link, on the first line, works fine. All x-refs that wrap in Frame work fine in Frame. I never saw this behavior before in a

Re: NT: Updating the path

2009-07-14 Thread Alan T Litchfield
Sue, On 15/07/2009, at 6:49 AM, Susan Curtzwiler wrote: I need to move a folder of images and a FMKR file to the same location as the rest of my book. Could someone pleas point me in the right direction for some self study of how to do this and not risk loosing my current path to the

RE: Soliciting hardware recommendations

2009-07-14 Thread tmuir
Lots o' marketing to wade through: http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/compatibility.html There are other ways to do this (Wine), but Parallels is plug-and-play: http://parallels-desktop.for-mac.com/ As a Parallels user, I'd say try VMware Fusion. Parallels works, and

Re: Adding graphics in a reference page

2009-07-14 Thread Mike Wickham
I am developing templates for a client. They asked me to create four tags named Notes, Caution, Warning, Tip. I don't recall if anyone else mentioned this, but another option is to set up these items and use the Auto-Text plugin to insert them into the document as needed. This method can be

Customer Support in Adobe is non-existent

2009-07-14 Thread Garnier Garnier
Hello Framers,   Indeed sad to note that Adobe does not bother to resolve customer issues. We have licensed version of Acrobat Pro 9.0 and our IT has filed a case ticket as per the vendor/customer policy. Its over 10 days now but Adobe has not responded yet. I am still not able to use FM 7.0’s

Automated way to import formats?

2009-07-14 Thread William Courington
I have some books that share most of their content. With variables and conditional text, I could probably make managing the files tolerable. But it would be more tolerable with scripts or other software that could do something like this: - Open the Settings file for one book variant.

AcroPro 9.0 FM 7.2 - Do they behave well ?

2009-07-14 Thread Ankur Srivastava
Hello Framers I have recently switched to Office 2007, which i believe, does not support Acrobat Professional 7.0. I downloaded an AcroPro v 9.0 trial version, which seems to mingle well with Office 2007. Apart from Office 2007, I am an exhaustive user of FM 7.2 also. Now, i have two queries:

RE: Automated way to import formats?

2009-07-14 Thread Fred Ridder
Assuming that you are using FrameMaker 6.0 or later, you can import the variables and conditional text settings (or any other set of formatting properties) from a template or settings file into all the component files in a book in a single operation. Just select all the files in the book

RE: AcroPro 9.0 FM 7.2 - Do they behave well ?

2009-07-14 Thread Fred Ridder
Our corporate IT people circulated the same rumor about some incompatibility between Acrobat 7.0 and Office 2007 when they were preparing to roll out the MS suite to the whole corporation (10K users). I was using Acrobat 7.0 at the time and I saw no incompatibility or other issues on my system

RE: Customer Support in Adobe is non-existent

2009-07-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
The problem is not with Acrobat 9. The problem is that the save as PDF function of FrameMaker 7.0 (since then Adobe has released 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, and 9.0) simply knows nothing about the registry settings and the Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance used by more recent versions of Acrobat

RE: AcroPro 9.0 FM 7.2 - Do they behave well ?

2009-07-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
It isn't a matter of whether Acrobat 9 behaves well with FrameMaker 7.2, but whether FrameMaker 7.2 is compatible with Acrobat 9. I believe that FrameMaker 7.2's interface with Acrobat is compatible with Acrobat 9. Adobe Support does not monitor these lists. Call Adobe Customer Support with

What is the optimum way to generate PDF?

2009-07-14 Thread Garnier Garnier
Hello Framers,   I would like to know as to what is the optimum way to generate PDF (300+ FM books with 700 pages (average) each? Many have pointed out that Save As PDF is not the ideal way of converting to pdf. I have automated the process using Framescript. Now I do not have the time to

RE: Customer Support in Adobe is non-existent

2009-07-14 Thread Garnier Garnier
  If that is the case, I would like to know how come FM 7.0p576 is working absolutely fine with Acrobat Pro 8.0? The Save As PDF works fine and so does the script that all writers use to convert to pdf. All works fine even without changing the locations of pdf printer instance or the

Re: AcroPro 9.0 FM 7.2 - Do they behave well ?

2009-07-14 Thread Surbhi Singhal
Hello Fred One thing, which i encountered was that with Adobe Pro 7.0 and Office 2007, the Adobe PDF menu that was appearing in office applications, ceased to exist. The menu was available with Adobe Pro 7.0 and Office 2003. Could you please comment on the same. Regards Surbhi On Wed, Jul 15,

RE: Customer Support in Adobe is non-existent

2009-07-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
Garnier, I’m absolutely amazed that FrameMaker 7.0 “save as PDF” works at all with Acrobat 8. It is contrary to information that I had internally. I was under the strongest impression that FrameMaker 7.1 was the first version that recognized “Adobe PDF” as the Distiller’s printer as opposed to

RE: AcroPro 9.0 FM 7.2 - Do they behave well ?

2009-07-14 Thread Fred Ridder
I seldom (if ever) used that menu in Office apps, so if it went away I had no reason to miss it. -Fred Ridder Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:09:01 +0530 Subject: Re: AcroPro 9.0 FM 7.2 - Do they behave well ? From: surb...@gmail.com To: docu...@hotmail.com CC: ankur.1...@gmail.com;

ANN: USA Advanced FrameMaker Courses, Sept/Oct [ SF/LA/NYC ]

2009-07-14 Thread Shlomo Perets
Advanced FrameMaker for Skilled Users: * San Francisco, CA: September 21 * Anaheim, CA: September 30 * New York, NY: October 5 FrameMaker-to-Acrobat Advanced Techniques -- Essentials: * San Francisco, CA: September 22 * Anaheim, CA: October 1 * New York, NY: October 6 Single Sourcing with

Importing a Word Doc into Frame v9.0

2009-07-14 Thread Alan T Litchfield
Here too. The difference I have made though, from one especially large and difficult assignment, was to print the Word file to PDF then export the graphics. That enabled vector based illustrations to be retained and not converted to raster. It also meant that specific pages that contained

Importing a Word Doc into Frame v9.0

2009-07-14 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 12:02 +1200 14/7/09, Alan T Litchfield wrote: >The difference I have made though, from one especially large and difficult >assignment, was to print the Word file to PDF then export the graphics. That >enabled vector based illustrations to be retained and not converted to raster. Thank you

Importing a Word Doc into Frame v9.0

2009-07-14 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 15:00 -0700 13/7/09, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: >Alison is absolutely right. I couldn't say it better. Don't even >consider using Frame's Word or RTF import. Bring in the content as >plain text by Copy in Word and Paste Special>Text in Frame. You >will be very glad you did. Picking up on

Importing a Word Doc into Frame v9.0

2009-07-14 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:03:13 +0100, Steve Rickaby wrote: >At 15:00 -0700 13/7/09, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: > >>Alison is absolutely right. I couldn't say it better. Don't even >>consider using Frame's Word or RTF import. Bring in the content as >>plain text by Copy in Word and Paste

Framers Digest, Vol 45, Issue 11

2009-07-14 Thread Ron and Mary Jo Teplitz
Larry, Adjust spacing by changing the size of the frame on the reference page for each graphic and adjusting the location of the graphic inside its frame. Ron On Jul 14, 2009, at 12:00 AM, framers-request at lists.frameusers.com wrote: > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:01:25 -0700

Adding graphics in a reference page

2009-07-14 Thread William Abernathy
Larry: I've used Art's approach of a graphic in the left cell of a 1-line, 2-cell table as well. If you need to sell it, mention that it offers a couple of advantages over a paragraph format-based approach, to wit: you carry a lot fewer tags in the p-tag menu, which is a plus for usability

Soliciting hardware recommendations

2009-07-14 Thread D L Reynolds
Penny wise and pound foolish... As a Mac diehard, I resisted buying a Windows machine for a very long time. And then I bought a machine cobbled together by a neighbor, a self-described "computer expert." Bad idea. I have serious intermittent problems creating PDFs from within FrameMaker.

Soliciting hardware recommendations

2009-07-14 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi D... I assume that you've tried running FM using Fusion on your Mac, and that wasn't sufficient? I just started messing with this on a Mac Mini using Fusion 2 .. I've got XP and Vista (and Ubuntu) running as virtualizations, with FM7.2, 8, and 9 (among other things), and all seems good to

Soliciting hardware recommendations

2009-07-14 Thread syed.hos...@aeris.net
Keep in mind that it is not necessarily obvious that the home-brew system is at fault. It may simply be a matter of re-installing the OS and applications if it is not too old a machine. What is the system motherboard, how much memory does it have, what are the drives, how old is it, what OS ...

Soliciting hardware recommendations

2009-07-14 Thread D L Reynolds
First of all, you folks are the best. Within minutes of posting, I was getting helpful responses. Some of you have suggested I run Windows on my beloved Mac. I've been hesitant to do that, fearful that it might be buggy or cranky in some way. From what I'm hearing, that isn't the case. So,

Soliciting hardware recommendations

2009-07-14 Thread Jenny Greenleaf
I am running TCS in VMWare Fusion on a 2.8 GHz Mac. It works great. Rock solid. Crashes less than most pure Windows machines I've used. In fact, I don't think Windows has ever crashed. Frame has a few times, but the patches fixed that. You can try most of this before making a commitment.

Soliciting hardware recommendations

2009-07-14 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Donna: You can postpone buying Windows by installing Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 public beta. I'm using this with Fusion 2 and TCS2 on a 2.4gHz MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5.7 (latest update to "Leopard") No significant problems in FM 9.x and Acrobat 9.x in the TCS2. Initially I had

Importing a Word Doc into Frame v9.0

2009-07-14 Thread Diane Gaskill
Hi Gillian, I've read all the replies to your message, and although I agree that importing text is the cleanest method, I recently imported 4 medium sized (250 - 300 pages) Word docs into FM8, and did not run into any of the problems described in the replies except unavailable fonts. Possibly

NT: Updating the path

2009-07-14 Thread Susan Curtzwiler
Hi All Using FMKR 7.0 on Vista Enterprise with only Acrobat Distiller 5.0 I will study this on my own first, but I can't find the references I need to move a folder of images and a FMKR file to the same location as the rest of my book. Could someone pleas point me in the right direction

Adding graphics in a reference page

2009-07-14 Thread Diane Gaskill
Larry, We use the 1-row, 2-celled table method that Art described and it works well in both unstructured and structured FM. See pages 1-8, 1-9, 1-17, and the reference page in the attached file. However, there is a gotcha when using the TCS to import files into RH. The graphics are missing

Soliciting hardware recommendations

2009-07-14 Thread Kelly McDaniel
Lots o' marketing to wade through: http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/compatibility.html There are other ways to do this (Wine), but Parallels is plug-and-play: http://parallels-desktop.for-mac.com/ ...Kelly. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

ANN: Publishing Fundamentals print/PDF bundle: $24.99 for 24 hours

2009-07-14 Thread Sheila Loring
Our big sale on Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 8 starts tomorrow morning, July 15th. >From 8 a.m. tomorrow until 8 a.m. Thursday (Eastern time), you can purchase the print

Frame x-refs that wrap and work fine do not work in PDF

2009-07-14 Thread obair
I am just after noticing that, in my PDFs, links that wrap and go to a second line are not active in the part of the link that is on the second line. The start of the link, on the first line, works fine. All x-refs that wrap in Frame work fine in Frame. I never saw this behavior before in a

Soliciting hardware recommendations

2009-07-14 Thread tm...@spot-on-creative.com
> Lots o' marketing to wade through: > http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/compatibility.html > > There are other ways to do this (Wine), but Parallels is plug-and-play: > http://parallels-desktop.for-mac.com/ As a Parallels user, I'd say try VMware Fusion. Parallels works, and

Adding graphics in a reference page

2009-07-14 Thread Mike Wickham
> I am developing templates for a client. They asked me to create four tags > named Notes, Caution, Warning, Tip. I don't recall if anyone else mentioned this, but another option is to set up these items and use the Auto-Text plugin to insert them into the document as needed. This method can

Automated way to import formats?

2009-07-14 Thread William Courington
I have some books that share most of their content. With variables and conditional text, I could probably make managing the files tolerable. But it would be more tolerable with scripts or other software that could do something like this: - Open the "Settings" file for one book variant.

Customer Support in Adobe is non-existent

2009-07-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
The problem is not with Acrobat 9. The problem is that the "save as PDF" function of FrameMaker 7.0 (since then Adobe has released 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, and 9.0) simply knows nothing about the registry settings and the "Adobe PDF" PostScript printer driver instance used by more recent versions of

AcroPro 9.0 & FM 7.2 - Do they behave well ?

2009-07-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
It isn't a matter of whether Acrobat 9 "behaves well" with FrameMaker 7.2, but whether FrameMaker 7.2 is compatible with Acrobat 9. I believe that FrameMaker 7.2's interface with Acrobat is compatible with Acrobat 9. "Adobe Support" does not monitor these lists. Call Adobe Customer Support with

Customer Support in Adobe is non-existent

2009-07-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
Garnier, I?m absolutely amazed that FrameMaker 7.0 ?save as PDF? works at all with Acrobat 8. It is contrary to information that I had internally. I was under the strongest impression that FrameMaker 7.1 was the first version that recognized ?Adobe PDF? as the Distiller?s printer as opposed to