Re: Any advantage to upgrade-FM7.2 to FM9?

2009-09-29 Thread Alan Litchfield
Jim Duszynski wrote: > > Another way to ask the question is, does anyone have any experience with FM > 7.2 and compatibility with computer system utilities as time goes by? > Yes. -- Alan Litchfield MBus (Hons), MNZCS AlphaByte PO Box 1941, 1140, Auckland, New Zealand http://www.alphabyte.co.n

RE: Any advantage to upgrade-FM7.2 to FM9?

2009-09-29 Thread Flato, Gillian
Multiple undos, track changes. Thank you, Gillian Flato Technical Writer (Software) nanometrics 1550 Buckeye Dr. Milpitas, CA. 95035 (408.545.6316 7 408.232.5911 * gfl...@nanometrics.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.fra

Any advantage to upgrade-FM7.2 to FM9?

2009-09-29 Thread Flato, Gillian
Multiple undos, track changes. Thank you, Gillian Flato Technical Writer (Software) nanometrics 1550 Buckeye Dr. Milpitas, CA. 95035 (408.545.6316 7 408.232.5911 * gflato at nanometrics.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.

Any advantage to upgrade-FM7.2 to FM9?

2009-09-29 Thread Jim Duszynski
Is there any advantage to upgrade from FM 7.2 to FM 9? I am using FM9 trial now and not finding enough improvement in features to justify the c0st to my management. Another way to ask the question is, does anyone have any experience with FM 7.2 and compatibility with computer system utilities a

Centering text vertically on a page

2009-09-29 Thread Jim Duszynski
Hello All, First post! How do I center text vertically on a page? Thanks! Jim Duszynski ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email

Run-in head and All Properties option

2009-09-29 Thread suhas.mur...@tcs.com
Hi, Can anyone help me out with the following: - 1) What is the use of the All Properties option in Global Update options? 2) What are Run-in Heads and How to use the Run--in Head punctuation option in the paragraph designer? Regards, Suhas Murthy Technical Communicator Tata Consultancy Servic

Tab in multi-line TOC entry does not work

2009-09-29 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Nancy, Yes. As others already said, add more tabs between <$paratext> and <$chapnum>. However, you do not need 1 per line. You have to add as many tabs so that there will be at least the same number of tabs in the last line as in regular first lines. Examples: Figure 1.6:xtab1-8 Her

Any advantage to upgrade-FM7.2 to FM9?

2009-09-29 Thread Jim Duszynski
Is there any advantage to upgrade from FM 7.2 to FM 9? I am using FM9 trial now and not finding enough improvement in features to justify the c0st to my management. Another way to ask the question is, does anyone have any experience with FM 7.2 and compatibility with computer system utilities a

Centering text vertically on a page

2009-09-29 Thread Jim Duszynski
Hello All, First post! How do I center text vertically on a page? Thanks! Jim Duszynski

PDF Creator Issues with Frame9

2009-09-29 Thread Art Campbell
Scott, if you do a bit of Googling and/or check out old messages on the Adobe FM forum, you'll note that there have been issues with 9's SaveAsPDF option for some time, and for many people the problems have existed in earlier revs. The current advice of most people is not to use the SaveAsPDF optio

[framescript-users] OT: Backup software

2009-09-29 Thread Mike H
I have used Drivesnapshot (http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/index.htm) without a hitch for three years on XP and Vista. Very lean; if preferred, no installation is required, it'll just run off the command line. And it runs a complete verify on the backup, unlike most other programs. On any version of

PDF Creator Issues with Frame9

2009-09-29 Thread Scott White
Since I have upgraded our MACs running parallels from Frame 7.2 to 9.0 we have been encountering some issues in relation to colors and PDF creation. When I use the save as pdf option with a file that is using a color in the table column info, a square box appears around that particular colu

9.0.2 Upgrade problem

2009-09-29 Thread ri...@inficon.com
Win XP on a Dell workstation. FM9 (TCS2, actually). Since my FM9 Updater does not work, I'm trying to download the patches from Adobe.com. I've been trying off/on for the past few days. 9.0.1 downloaded and installed fine (9.0p230). 9.0.2 downloaded a corrupt 10.8 MB (should be 21.6 MB) file.

Disappearing commenting function

2009-09-29 Thread David Kuhn
Although this problem is not on the FrameMaker side of things, I'm sure it is common for Frame users to send out docs as PDFs for review. A major problem with the Commenting function has appeared in Adobe Reader. It seems like it MIGHT be related to some Adobe updates that were just pushed throug

Re: PDF Creator Issues with Frame9

2009-09-29 Thread Art Campbell
Scott, if you do a bit of Googling and/or check out old messages on the Adobe FM forum, you'll note that there have been issues with 9's SaveAsPDF option for some time, and for many people the problems have existed in earlier revs. The current advice of most people is not to use the SaveAsPDF optio

Tab in multi-line TOC entry does not work

2009-09-29 Thread Art Campbell
Add a few (three if it's always three lines) tab stops on the TOC Reference Page between and . Or if it's just that one caption, you can probably add a tab stop at the end of the caption; that may be picked up and solve it too. Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my

PDF Creator Issues with Frame9

2009-09-29 Thread Scott White
Since I have upgraded our MACs running parallels from Frame 7.2 to 9.0 we have been encountering some issues in relation to colors and PDF creation. When I use the save as pdf option with a file that is using a color in the table column info, a square box appears around that particular colu

Using Distiller 9 with Frame 9.0

2009-09-29 Thread Art Campbell
Just to clarify here, you're talking about the limited Distiller instance that's coat-tailed on to the Frame install, correct? Not the Distiller that's part of the full Acrobat install. Does the Acrobat printer instance show up in your Printers and Fax folder? Can you set it as your system default

Re: [framescript-users] OT: Backup software

2009-09-29 Thread Mike H
I have used Drivesnapshot (http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/index.htm) without a hitch for three years on XP and Vista. Very lean; if preferred, no installation is required, it'll just run off the command line. And it runs a complete verify on the backup, unlike most other programs. On any version of

Tab in multi-line TOC entry does not work

2009-09-29 Thread Nancy Allison
Beayootiful! (Adding the tabs back into the reference page worked. Adding them to the end of the captions did not.) You are my heroes! Thanks!

9.0.2 Upgrade problem

2009-09-29 Thread rinch
Win XP on a Dell workstation. FM9 (TCS2, actually). Since my FM9 Updater does not work, I'm trying to download the patches from Adobe.com. I've been trying off/on for the past few days. 9.0.1 downloaded and installed fine (9.0p230). 9.0.2 downloaded a corrupt 10.8 MB (should be 21.6 MB) file.

Tab in multi-line TOC entry does not work

2009-09-29 Thread Nancy Allison
Hi, everyone. My List of Figures includes a caption that is very long. (Engineers feel a need to write an entire encyclopedia entry in each caption, and I haven't been able to dissuade them.) I put soft returns in the actual caption in the text, so that is broken like this: Simplified Equiva

Using Distiller 9 with Frame 9.0

2009-09-29 Thread Scott White
I found all the updates I could for Frame and Acrobat and still the Distiller 9 will not open. I have one other client that is having this same issue. Any suggestions would be helpful. Windows XP Pro, Frame 9.0 with all available updates Scott White Media Production & EBC Manager Implement

Tab in multi-line TOC entry does not work

2009-09-29 Thread Combs, Richard
Nancy Allison wrote: > My List of Figures includes a caption that is very long. (Engineers feel a > need to write an entire encyclopedia entry in each caption, and I haven't > been able to dissuade them.) > > I put soft returns in the actual caption in the text, so that is broken > like this: >

FW: Requesting help with 40051-2, conditional text: SUMMARY

2009-09-29 Thread qui...@airmail.net
So does the DTD include anything for conditional text? An attribute setting that can be used? Scott Stamm, David-P45904 wrote: > 2009-09-29-02T12:25Z > > Thanks to all who responded, naming (only the first five in order of > receipt): Alan Houser, Sarah O'Keefe, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson, Nadine Mu

SV: FrameMaker Patch (9.0p250) is now available

2009-09-29 Thread Alan Litchfield
Jacob Sch?ffer wrote: > > Today, where almost everyone has broadband Internet connections and is able > to download huge data amounts, Because almost everyone *does not* have broadband internet connection. The outside Northern Europe, North America, and parts of Asia is very different. Alan --

RE: Tab in multi-line TOC entry does not work

2009-09-29 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Nancy, Yes. As others already said, add more tabs between <$paratext> and <$chapnum>. However, you do not need 1 per line. You have to add as many tabs so that there will be at least the same number of tabs in the last line as in regular first lines. Examples: Figure 1.6:xtab1-8 Her

Re: Re: Tab in multi-line TOC entry does not work

2009-09-29 Thread Nancy Allison
Beayootiful! (Adding the tabs back into the reference page worked. Adding them to the end of the captions did not.) You are my heroes! Thanks! ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@li

FW: Requesting help with 40051-2, conditional text: SUMMARY

2009-09-29 Thread Stamm, David-P45904
2009-09-29-02T12:25Z Thanks to all who responded, naming (only the first five in order of receipt): Alan Houser, Sarah O'Keefe, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson, Nadine Murray, "theboggette," et al. To help clarify: 1. We were provided the document type definition by a US Army major command, and (until

RE: Tab in multi-line TOC entry does not work

2009-09-29 Thread Combs, Richard
Nancy Allison wrote: > My List of Figures includes a caption that is very long. (Engineers feel a > need to write an entire encyclopedia entry in each caption, and I haven't > been able to dissuade them.) > > I put soft returns in the actual caption in the text, so that is broken > like this: >

Re: Tab in multi-line TOC entry does not work

2009-09-29 Thread Art Campbell
Add a few (three if it's always three lines) tab stops on the TOC Reference Page between and . Or if it's just that one caption, you can probably add a tab stop at the end of the caption; that may be picked up and solve it too. Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com "... In my opi

Run-in head and All Properties option

2009-09-29 Thread Kelly McDaniel
-Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of suhas.murthy at tcs.com Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 7:42 AM To: Combs, Richard Cc: Alison Craig; framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com; framers at lists.fram

Re: Using Distiller 9 with Frame 9.0

2009-09-29 Thread Art Campbell
Just to clarify here, you're talking about the limited Distiller instance that's coat-tailed on to the Frame install, correct? Not the Distiller that's part of the full Acrobat install. Does the Acrobat printer instance show up in your Printers and Fax folder? Can you set it as your system default

Tab in multi-line TOC entry does not work

2009-09-29 Thread Nancy Allison
Hi, everyone. My List of Figures includes a caption that is very long. (Engineers feel a need to write an entire encyclopedia entry in each caption, and I haven't been able to dissuade them.) I put soft returns in the actual caption in the text, so that is broken like this: Simplified Equiva

Re: Using Distiller 9 with Frame 9.0

2009-09-29 Thread Scott White
I found all the updates I could for Frame and Acrobat and still the Distiller 9 will not open. I have one other client that is having this same issue. Any suggestions would be helpful. Windows XP Pro, Frame 9.0 with all available updates Scott White Media Production & EBC Manager Implemen

Re: FW: Requesting help with 40051-2, conditional text: SUMMARY

2009-09-29 Thread quills
So does the DTD include anything for conditional text? An attribute setting that can be used? Scott Stamm, David-P45904 wrote: > 2009-09-29-02T12:25Z > > Thanks to all who responded, naming (only the first five in order of > receipt): Alan Houser, Sarah O'Keefe, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson, Nadine Mu

RE: Using Subversion with Frame Files

2009-09-29 Thread Lea Galanter
Our software development department currently uses Subversion, and I create documentation using Frame. To me, Subversion is a version control system, and it ignores file types. So it's irrelevant if I'm saving .book or .fm files to a folder or directory in Subversion. I do maintain a separate docum

Re: FM9 - Table Placement

2009-09-29 Thread Gary Bankston
I've also had problems like you mention which I have discovered were the result of the paratag the table was attached to, and whether it was run in or under. gb On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Stuart Rogers < srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com> wrote: > Alison Craig wrote: > > Version: FM9 OS: XP P

RE: FrameMaker Patch (9.0p250) is now available

2009-09-29 Thread Tammy Van Boening
My TCS2 / FM9 installation did not catch the patch either. Had to download from the link that RJ sent for FM 9.0. TVB Tammy Van Boening Owner/Principal Spectrum Writing, LLC email: i...@spectrumwritingllc.com web: www.spectrumwritingllc.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@list

Re: Requesting help with 40051-2, conditional text

2009-09-29 Thread theboggette
I think there may be others besides me who'd be interested in hearing the responses.  Maybe? --- On Mon, 9/28/09, Stamm, David-P45904 wrote: From: Stamm, David-P45904 Subject: Requesting help with 40051-2, conditional text To: "FrameMaker user's list posting" Date: Monday, September 28, 2009

Reviews of FM 9.0?

2009-09-29 Thread Frank Oberc
Anyone aware of any good reviews of FM 9.0? Frank Oberc | Tech Writer | WorkForce Software | WorkForce Software - Mitigating Complexity - Ensuring Compliance - Enabling Strategic HR ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@

RE: Run-in head and All Properties option

2009-09-29 Thread Kelly McDaniel
-Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of suhas.mur...@tcs.com Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 7:42 AM To: Combs, Richard Cc: Alison Craig; framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com S

Run-in head and All Properties option

2009-09-29 Thread suhas . murthy
Hi, Can anyone help me out with the following: - 1) What is the use of the All Properties option in Global Update options? 2) What are Run-in Heads and How to use the Run--in Head punctuation option in the paragraph designer? Regards, Suhas Murthy Technical Communicator Tata Consultancy Servic

FW: Requesting help with 40051-2, conditional text: SUMMARY

2009-09-29 Thread Stamm, David-P45904
2009-09-29-02T12:25Z Thanks to all who responded, naming (only the first five in order of receipt): Alan Houser, Sarah O'Keefe, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson, Nadine Murray, "theboggette," et al. To help clarify: 1. We were provided the document type definition by a US Army major command, and (until

Disappearing commenting function

2009-09-29 Thread David Kuhn
Although this problem is not on the FrameMaker side of things, I'm sure it is common for Frame users to send out docs as PDFs for review. A major problem with the Commenting function has appeared in Adobe Reader. It seems like it MIGHT be related to some Adobe updates that were just pushed throug