framers Digest, Vol 60, Issue 16

2010-10-18 Thread Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp
Alan, You're right that 'The page shown onscreen in Framemaker (and different to page layout programs like InDesign that include the pasteboard) is the physical page that is enclosed by crop/trim marks' - but you're assumption that nothing outside these page borders can be printed is not correct.

off topic: e-drawings, eps files, frame and pdf

2010-10-18 Thread Jim Owens
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Re: Tip for testing S/W

2010-10-18 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 16/10/2010 6:54 PM, Jay Maechtlen wrote: I usually use Alt-PrtScn and paste it in Word or the equivalent. That catches "active window", which is usually the dialog box. Reason being: I get the dialog box caption/title also, which is often ambiguous or otherwise needing of improvement. Yes,

off topic: e-drawings, eps files, frame and pdf

2010-10-18 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
See if there is an option in Corel to flatten the layers. I think Visio gives you this option. That might increase the rendering speed in the PDF. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 On 18-Oct-10 11:27 AM, Jo Watkiss wrote: > Thanks everybody for lots of advice and suggestio

RE: framers Digest, Vol 60, Issue 16

2010-10-18 Thread Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp
Alan, You're right that 'The page shown onscreen in Framemaker (and different to page layout programs like InDesign that include the pasteboard) is the physical page that is enclosed by crop/trim marks' - but you're assumption that nothing outside these page borders can be printed is not correct.

Re: off topic: e-drawings, eps files, frame and pdf

2010-10-18 Thread Jim Owens
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Tip for testing S/W

2010-10-18 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 16/10/2010 6:54 PM, Jay Maechtlen wrote: > I usually use Alt-PrtScn > and paste it in Word or the equivalent. > > That catches "active window", which is usually the dialog box. > Reason being: I get the dialog box caption/title also, which is often > ambiguous or otherwise needing of improvement

RE: Preparing to Subversion FrameMaker Files

2010-10-18 Thread Galanter, Lea
I have been using SVN and Tortoise with FrameMaker for the last few years. It's "okay" but I am now making the switch to TFS and Visual Studio, because our development team is switching from SVN to TFS (and using Visual Studio for versioning). My biggest problem with SVN was actually creating new

off topic: e-drawings, eps files, frame and pdf

2010-10-18 Thread Jo Watkiss
Thanks everybody for lots of advice and suggestions. We don't have access to Solidworks itself, only the 3D e-drawing (.easm) that is supplied by the project engineer. We use the Solidworks eDrawings Viewer to manipulate the model to get the illustration that we need. Unfortunately, if we want to

RE: off topic: e-drawings, eps files, frame and pdf

2010-10-18 Thread Alison Craig
Jo: According to my mechanical designer (Alex has been great - teaching me about what I can do via AI with his SolidWorks stuff) there is pretty much *zero* work involved for the engineers to Save As an AI file (or a DWG file if your SoildWorks is older than the 2009 version) when they Save As

off topic: e-drawings, eps files, frame and pdf

2010-10-18 Thread Alison Craig
Jo: According to my mechanical designer (Alex has been great - teaching me about what I can do via AI with his SolidWorks stuff) there is pretty much *zero* work involved for the engineers to Save As an AI file (or a DWG file if your SoildWorks is older than the 2009 version) when they Save As

(FM 9) layout for die-cut side tabs with text?

2010-10-18 Thread Alan T Litchfield
On 18/10/2010, at 9:39 AM, Edmondson, Becky wrote: > HI Alan, > > I don't understand this--> "The page shown onscreen in Framemaker > (and different to page layout > programs like InDesign that include the pasteboard) is the physical > page that is enclosed by crop/trim marks. That means what y

Preparing to Subversion FrameMaker Files

2010-10-18 Thread Galanter, Lea
I have been using SVN and Tortoise with FrameMaker for the last few years. It's "okay" but I am now making the switch to TFS and Visual Studio, because our development team is switching from SVN to TFS (and using Visual Studio for versioning). My biggest problem with SVN was actually creating new

RE: On a deadline - dotted lines for table inside borders?

2010-10-18 Thread Lea Rush
Sweet - thanks, Richard! _ Lea Rush Software and Documentation Specialist Astoria-Pacific International www.astoria-pacific.com ph: 800-536-3111 fax:  503-655-7367 l...@astoria-pacific.com Please consider the environment before printing this email. `·.¸¸.·´¯

On a deadline - dotted lines for table inside borders?

2010-10-18 Thread Lea Rush
Sweet - thanks, Richard! _ Lea Rush Software and Documentation Specialist Astoria-Pacific International www.astoria-pacific.com ph: 800-536-3111 fax:? 503-655-7367 lea at astoria-pacific.com Please consider the environment before printing this email. `?.??.?

(FM 9) layout for die-cut side tabs with text?

2010-10-18 Thread Alan T Litchfield
Hi Becky, I am not certain how you are going to have this processed in pre-press but in my experience with pre-press operators is that they really hate it when they have to delete and rebuild crop marks on multi-page pdfs. Especially if they are reflecting left/right page layouts. The page

Re: off topic: e-drawings, eps files, frame and pdf

2010-10-18 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
See if there is an option in Corel to flatten the layers. I think Visio gives you this option. That might increase the rendering speed in the PDF. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 On 18-Oct-10 11:27 AM, Jo Watkiss wrote: Thanks everybody for lots of advice and suggestion

RE: off topic: e-drawings, eps files, frame and pdf

2010-10-18 Thread Jo Watkiss
Thanks everybody for lots of advice and suggestions. We don't have access to Solidworks itself, only the 3D e-drawing (.easm) that is supplied by the project engineer. We use the Solidworks eDrawings Viewer to manipulate the model to get the illustration that we need. Unfortunately, if we want to