Thought for the day

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED My local paper yesterday referred to a car being a right-off. And a brochure published by the Home Office (the UK ministry for domestic affairs) about the project I'm working on refers to vehicles being stationery. The mind boggles. Cynthia Milton - 0773

PDF weirdness

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Good afternoon all. One of my engineers came to me today having printed out a PDF I sent him (FM9p250, WinXP SP3). Not a dry seat in the house - the (A4) page was a tiny rectangle in the middle of the sheet. When I fired up the PDF in Reader on my

Boolean expressions in unstructured FM9

We have many brands in one document - each has a condition for the brand-specific information. There are also different versions for Canadian and domestic product. We have been maintaining separate sourcefiles for Canadian and for domestic versions. Now that we've jumped to FM9 (from

RE: PDF weirdness

Good luck, Cynthia. I've forgotten all of the details, but I've had this happen in FM 6 and FM 7, too, so we can't blame FM 9 for this one. I'm pretty sure the settings were on the Frame side. Sorry if a bit vague, but I'd suggest you double-check the Print Setup settings at the book level and

Re: PDF weirdness

If you used the File Print method, was the Scale value set to something other than 100%? Nadine --- On Thu, 5/27/10, Milton, Cynthia cynthia.mil...@serco.com wrote: From: Milton, Cynthia cynthia.mil...@serco.com Subject: PDF weirdness To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Date: Thursday, May

RE: PDF weirdness

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Yup, checked all that, and I'm printing to the Adobe PDF printer instance. Everything's set to A4 and 100%. Cynthia Milton - 0773 889 5991 Technical Documentation (Cyclamen - Rollestone) -Original Message- From: Pinkham, Jim

RE: PDF weirdness

Hi Cynthia, I remember to encounter this every some months (FrameMaker 8). What helped was just a restart FrameMaker and Acrobat and create the PDF file anew. Do you scale the PDF to window size when you open the PDF? If yes, this is the reason why you did not notice this yourself first. Best

Re: PDF weirdness

Check your Distiller joboptions if your source files are set for a normal page size. Sorry, no celery on hand. On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Milton, Cynthia cynthia.mil...@serco.com wrote: Not a dry seat in the house - the (A4) page was a tiny rectangle in the middle of the sheet. When I

Re: Thought for the day

It's all a ploy by Instapaper. Subliminal advertising is all the rage, and it's insidious. :-) On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Milton, Cynthia cynthia.mil...@serco.com wrote: My local paper yesterday referred to a car being a right-off. And a brochure published by the Home Office (the UK

RE: PDF weirdness

I have had this happen perhaps six times in ten years. If I restart FM and try again, no change in any settings, everything works fine. Clint Clint Owen | Sr. Technical Writer | Crane Aerospace Electronics | +1 425 743 8674 | Fax: +1 425 743 8113 -Original Message- From:

Re: PDF weirdness

On 27/05/2010 9:31 AM, Milton, Cynthia wrote: Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Yup, checked all that, and I'm printing to the Adobe PDF printer instance. Everything's set to A4 and 100%. Cynthia Milton - 0773 889 5991 Technical Documentation (Cyclamen - Rollestone) -Original

RE: Boolean expressions in unstructured FM9

Thank you!  That's the clue I needed.  Here's the final syntax:   Canadian OR Brand1 ANDNOT Domestic  and Domestic OR Brand1 ANDNOT Canadian    Thanks again, Mary --- On Thu, 5/27/10, Michael Pearson mt_pear...@hotmail.com wrote: From: Michael Pearson mt_pear...@hotmail.com Subject: RE:

RE: FM9, Mif2Go, and Cross-Refs

Hi Jeremy and fellow Frmaers As Jeremy suggested below,I tried manually importing the template and then updating the x-refs with the menu. The Figure and Table x-refs display correctly, with the single number. I then set out to create a one page test case to send to OmniSys, and guess what, when

Re: Thought for the day

My local paper yesterday referred to a car being a right-off. And a brochure published by the Home Office (the UK ministry for domestic affairs) about the project I'm working on refers to vehicles being stationery. The mind boggles. It could be worse. I remember seeing a newspaper display ad

RE: Thought for the day

Sign on door at local medical clinic: This is not a patient door. sharon Sharon Burton Content Consultant www.anthrobytes.com 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Twitter: sharonburton http://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonvburton ___ You are

Re: PDF weirdness

Not a dry seat in the house - the (A4) page was a tiny rectangle in the middle of the sheet. When I fired up the PDF in Reader on my laptop it reported being displayed at 779% of actual size. This sounds familiar. I seem to recall Dov Isaacs of Adobe describing a Windows GDI bug with certain

RE: Thought for the day

I saw a similar sign in a Glasgow restaurant that said, This door is alarmed. I thought, How can you tell? Because English is used (quite) a bit differently in the UK, I kept chuckling about the signs I saw while I was in Scotland. I knew what they meant, but the North American meaning was

RE: Thought for the day

My high school Spanish teacher used to tell the story of planning to dine one evening with her Brit friends. One guy said to her, I'll come by about 6 and knock you up. I think not!! she retorted, indignantly. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

RE: Thought for the day

And ... offering to give someone a ride in your car in the UK has quite a different connotation from the use in the US. :) Z -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Writer Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 9:54

Re: Thought for the day

As does rooting for your team, in Australia. Expect a few startled looks, then grins . . . In case anyone wonders about the tech-writing aspect of this discussion, it's the many tricky highways and byways of localization even within the English language. --Nancy On May 27, 2010, Syed Zaeem

RE: Thought for the day

And don't refer to your waist pouch as a fanny pack. More offended looks ... -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers- boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:03 AM To: syed.hos...@aeris.net Cc:

Re: FM9, Mif2Go, and Cross-Refs

On Thu, 27 May 2010 11:16:53 -0400, Martha Lee martha@coventor.com wrote: As Jeremy suggested below,I tried manually importing the template and then updating the x-refs with the menu. The Figure and Table x-refs display correctly, with the single number. I then set out to create a one page

RE: Thought for the day

If someone in the U.K. offers you a fag, they are offering you a cigarette. Thank you,   Gillian Flato Technical Writer (Software) nanometrics 1550 Buckeye Dr. Milpitas, CA. 95035 9408.545.6316   408.232.5911 4 gfl...@nanometrics.com Well Done is better than Well Said - Benjamin Franklin

Re: Thought for the day

Nor should you get offended if an Australian man offers to nurse your baby. That one really caught me off-guard the first time I heard it! Jenny On May 27, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Writer wrote: ...or trousers as pants. Nadine --- On Thu, 5/27/10, Lea Rush l...@astoria-pacific.com wrote:

Re: Thought for the day

Some time back, I saw a menu item named Chize Sandwitch :) __ Real travelers don't really require a reason to travel Regards, NJ http://www.neerajjain8.com From: Writer generic...@yahoo.ca To:

Re: Thought for the day

I found 'nice' to be most troubling after having married a Brit. In that US it's a bit of a limp compliment, but in the UK it carries stronger positiveness. Did you like the curry? It was nice, thanks has a totally different effect in the two dialects, especially to her who cooked the curry!

RE: Thought for the day

An American friend (male) studied for a year in London. Apparently he nearly spilled his beer when an attractive female used the phrase knock me up to mean stop by and knock on my door. Parallel construction to ring me up -- but drastically different than the American meaning! --- On Thu,

RE: Thought for the day

LOL ... obviously I should have read the whole thread before replying! --- On Thu, 5/27/10, Pinkham, Jim jim.pink...@voith.com wrote: From: Pinkham, Jim jim.pink...@voith.com Subject: RE: Thought for the day To: generic...@yahoo.ca, Mike Wickham i...@mikewickham.com,

Re: Thought for the day

But, they wear their thongs on their feet!! 8^0 Alan On 28/05/2010, at 6:33 AM, Lea Rush wrote: And don't refer to your waist pouch as a fanny pack. More offended looks ... -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers- boun...@lists.frameusers.com]

Re: Thought for the day

Ahh, but not if they're public school educated ;) Alan On 28/05/2010, at 6:52 AM, Flato, Gillian wrote: If someone in the U.K. offers you a fag, they are offering you a cigarette. Thank you, Gillian Flato Technical Writer (Software) nanometrics 1550 Buckeye Dr. Milpitas, CA.

Thought for the day

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED My local paper yesterday referred to a car being a right-off. And a brochure published by the Home Office (the UK ministry for domestic affairs) about the project I'm working on refers to vehicles being stationery. The mind boggles. Cynthia Milton - 0773

PDF weirdness

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Good afternoon all. One of my engineers came to me today having printed out a PDF I sent him (FM9p250, WinXP SP3). Not a dry seat in the house - the (A4) page was a tiny rectangle in the middle of the sheet. When I fired up the PDF in Reader on my laptop

Boolean expressions in unstructured FM9

We have many brands in one document - each has a condition for the brand-specific information. There are also different versions for Canadian and domestic product. We have been maintaining separate sourcefiles for Canadian and for domestic versions. Now that we've jumped to FM9 (from

PDF weirdness

Good luck, Cynthia. I've forgotten all of the details, but I've had this happen in FM 6 and FM 7, too, so we can't blame FM 9 for this one. I'm pretty sure the settings were on the Frame side. Sorry if a bit vague, but I'd suggest you double-check the Print Setup settings at the book level and

PDF weirdness

If you used the File > Print method, was the Scale value set to something other than 100%? Nadine --- On Thu, 5/27/10, Milton, Cynthia wrote: > From: Milton, Cynthia > Subject: PDF weirdness > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Date: Thursday, May 27, 2010, 9:02 AM > > Classification:

PDF weirdness

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Yup, checked all that, and I'm printing to the Adobe PDF printer instance. Everything's set to A4 and 100%. Cynthia Milton - 0773 889 5991 Technical Documentation (Cyclamen - Rollestone) -Original Message- From: Pinkham, Jim

PDF weirdness

Hi Cynthia, I remember to encounter this every some months (FrameMaker 8). What helped was just a restart FrameMaker and Acrobat and create the PDF file anew. Do you scale the PDF to window size when you open the PDF? If yes, this is the reason why you did not notice this yourself first. Best

PDF weirdness

Check your Distiller joboptions if your source files are set for a normal page size. Sorry, no celery on hand. On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Milton, Cynthia wrote: > > Not a dry seat in the house - the (A4) page was a tiny rectangle in the > middle of the sheet. When I fired up the PDF in

Thought for the day

It's all a ploy by Instapaper. Subliminal advertising is all the rage, and it's insidious. :-) On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Milton, Cynthia wrote: > > My local paper yesterday referred to a car being a right-off. And a > brochure published by the Home Office (the UK ministry for domestic >

PDF weirdness

I have had this happen perhaps six times in ten years. If I restart FM and try again, no change in any settings, everything works fine. Clint Clint Owen | Sr. Technical Writer | Crane Aerospace & Electronics | +1 425 743 8674 | Fax: +1 425 743 8113 -Original Message- From:

PDF weirdness

On 27/05/2010 9:31 AM, Milton, Cynthia wrote: > > Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED > > Yup, checked all that, and I'm printing to the Adobe PDF printer > instance. Everything's set to A4 and 100%. > > Cynthia Milton - 0773 889 5991 > Technical Documentation (Cyclamen - Rollestone) > >

Boolean expressions in unstructured FM9

Thank you!? That's the clue I needed.? Here's the final syntax: ? "Canadian" OR "Brand1" ANDNOT "Domestic"? and "Domestic" OR "Brand1" ANDNOT "Canadian"? ? Thanks again, Mary --- On Thu, 5/27/10, Michael Pearson wrote: From: Michael Pearson Subject: RE: Boolean

FM9, Mif2Go, and Cross-Refs

Hi Jeremy and fellow Frmaers As Jeremy suggested below,I tried manually importing the template and then updating the x-refs with the menu. The Figure and Table x-refs display correctly, with the single number. I then set out to create a one page test case to send to OmniSys, and guess what, when

Thought for the day

> My local paper yesterday referred to a car being a right-off. And a > brochure published by the Home Office (the UK ministry for domestic > affairs) about the project I'm working on refers to vehicles being > stationery. The mind boggles. It could be worse. I remember seeing a newspaper display

Thought for the day

Sign on door at local medical clinic: This is not a patient door. sharon Sharon Burton Content Consultant www.anthrobytes.com 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvburton at yahoo.com Twitter: sharonburton http://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonvburton

PDF weirdness

> Not a dry seat in the house - the (A4) page was a tiny rectangle in the > middle of the sheet. When I fired up the PDF in Reader on my laptop it > reported being displayed at 779% of actual size. This sounds familiar. I seem to recall Dov Isaacs of Adobe describing a Windows GDI bug with

Thought for the day

I saw a similar sign in a Glasgow restaurant that said, "This door is alarmed". I thought, "How can you tell?" Because English is used (quite) a bit differently in the UK, I kept chuckling about the signs I saw while I was in Scotland. I knew what they meant, but the North American meaning was

Thought for the day

My high school Spanish teacher used to tell the story of planning to dine one evening with her Brit friends. One guy said to her, "I'll come by about 6 and knock you up." "I think not!!" she retorted, indignantly. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

Thought for the day

And ... offering to give someone a ride in your car in the UK has quite a different connotation from the use in the US. :) Z -Original Message- From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Writer Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010

Thought for the day

As does rooting for your team, in Australia. Expect a few startled looks, then grins . . . In case anyone wonders about the tech-writing aspect of this discussion, it's the many tricky highways and byways of localization even within the English language. --Nancy On May 27, 2010, Syed Zaeem

Thought for the day

And don't refer to your waist pouch as a fanny pack. More offended looks ... > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers- > bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison > Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:03 AM > To: Syed.Hosain at

FM9, Mif2Go, and Cross-Refs

On Thu, 27 May 2010 11:16:53 -0400, "Martha Lee" wrote: >As Jeremy suggested below,I tried manually importing the template and then >updating the x-refs with the menu. The Figure and Table x-refs display >correctly, with the single number. I then set out to create a one page test >case to send

Thought for the day

...or trousers as pants. Nadine --- On Thu, 5/27/10, Lea Rush wrote: > From: Lea Rush > Subject: RE: Thought for the day > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Date: Thursday, May 27, 2010, 2:33 PM > And don't refer to your waist pouch > as a fanny pack. More offended looks ... > > >

Thought for the day

If someone in the U.K. offers you a fag, they are offering you a cigarette. Thank you, ? Gillian Flato Technical Writer (Software) nanometrics 1550 Buckeye Dr. Milpitas, CA. 95035 9408.545.6316 ?? 408.232.5911 4 gflato at nanometrics.com "Well Done is better than Well Said" - Benjamin Franklin

Thought for the day

Nor should you get offended if an Australian man offers to nurse your baby. That one really caught me off-guard the first time I heard it! Jenny On May 27, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Writer wrote: > ...or trousers as pants. > > Nadine > > --- On Thu, 5/27/10, Lea Rush wrote: > >> From: Lea Rush

Thought for the day

Some time back, I saw a menu item named "Chize Sandwitch" :) __ Real travelers don't really require a reason to travel Regards, NJ http://www.neerajjain8.com From: Writer To: framers at

Thought for the day

I found 'nice' to be most troubling after having married a Brit. In that US it's a bit of a limp compliment, but in the UK it carries stronger positiveness. "Did you like the curry?" "It was nice, thanks" has a totally different effect in the two dialects, especially to her who cooked the

Thought for the day

An American friend (male) studied for a year in London. Apparently he nearly spilled his beer when an attractive female used the phrase "knock me up" to mean "stop by and knock on my door". Parallel construction to "ring me up" -- but drastically different than the American meaning! --- On

Thought for the day

LOL ... obviously I should have read the whole thread before replying! --- On Thu, 5/27/10, Pinkham, Jim wrote: > From: Pinkham, Jim > Subject: RE: Thought for the day > To: generic668 at yahoo.ca, "Mike Wickham" , framers > at lists.frameusers.com, sharon at anthrobytes.com > Date:

Boolean expressions in unstructured FM9

Hi Mary, Try something like this: "Canada" AND "Brand1" ANDNOT "Brand2" ANDNOT "Brand3" ANDNOT "Brand4"... ANDNOT "Domestic" HTH, Mike > Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 06:22:11 -0700 > From: mhs_tw at yahoo.com > Subject: Boolean expressions in unstructured FM9 > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com

Thought for the day

Been hearing a radio ad for debt relief (through Chapter 7 bankruptcy!) that begins: This is an important announcement to the American public who owe more than $1 or more in credit card debt. ... --Guy K. Haas Software Exegete in Silicon Valley

Can the spelling checker be trusted?

I've seen this error and do not use Franklin Gothic Demi, so I don't think it's specific to that font. I've also encountered it in paragraphs that have no overrides or character styles applied at all. It seems like the spell checker makes the assumption that your most likely error is omitted